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Research Fellow in the Electron Microscope Unit 🔬 at UNSW, Bell Ringer 🔔 & Geordie living in Australia 🇦🇺 rfwebster.net

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rfwebster @rfwebster.net · 07/09/2026
Adding this to my list of "largest in Southern hemisphere" www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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Largest solar farm in any CBD in the Southern Hemisphere coming to Sydney
The rooftops of the International Convention Centre Sydney will be home to a solar farm that is being heralded as the largest in any city centre in the Southern Hemisphere.
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rfwebster @rfwebster.net · 28/03/2026
Maybe I'm being too cynical but if the the government halve the fuel excise would this be passed onto consumers at the bowser? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
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PM announces new powers to boost fuel supply amid Middle East tensions
The Albanese government will use public money to underwrite the delivery of extra cargoes of fuel in a bid to shore up supply during the Middle East conflict.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Cartoon by Mike Luckovich
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rfwebster @rfwebster.net · 02/03/2026
Do you see what I see? #emu
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Microscopy Australia @micro-au.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Clean hydrogen made from seawater and sunlight could help power Australia’s net‑zero future. Discover research led by Prof. Zongyou Yin @scienceanu.bsky.social, supported by expert microscopist @rfwebster.net from our UNSW facility – enabled by NSW govt & #NCRIS. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAv3...
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NCRIS Case Study: Splitting Seawater to Power the Hydrogen Economy
YouTube video by NSW Premier's Department
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Dmitry Eremin @dmeremin.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
What if your TEM could run #microED and solve structures on its own? Just insert your sample—watch the structure appear. No human picks. No manual tweaks. Meet REyes! doi.org/10.26434/che... @caltechcce.bsky.social @caltech.edu @uclacb.bsky.social
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rfwebster @rfwebster.net · 03/05/2025
🗳️🌭 time! #notacitizenyet
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rfwebster @rfwebster.net · 16/03/2025
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rfwebster @rfwebster.net · 13/03/2025
Not the eels I was looking for google!!
Screenshot of a google search result with the AI Overview opining on how eels can use magnetite for directional sensing.
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rfwebster @rfwebster.net · 12/02/2025
I've definitely been guilty of a bit of vegetative electron microscopy, those late night elemental maps on an old LaB6 'scope definitely warranted a few naps between drift correction stage bumps. Not sure if I'd brag about them in the method section though. retractionwatch.com/2025/02/10/v...
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As a nonsense phrase of shady provenance makes the rounds, Elsevier defends its use
The origin of the phrase? The phrase was so strange it would have stood out even to a non-scientist. Yet “vegetative electron microscopy” had already made it past reviewers and editors at several j…
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rfwebster @rfwebster.net · 06/02/2025
My favourite view of the microscope 🔬, with it's pants off!! This is a JEOL F200 transmission electron microscope (TEM) and under the table you can see the CMOS camera made by Gatan which we use for imaging and 4D STEM!
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Christine Beeton @christinebeeton.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Having a color-blind colleague is a good reminder that we need to be more careful when designing figures for scientific publication 🧪 My lab has found this page especially useful for selecting color palettes, used in combination with different symbols: thenode.biologists.com/data-visuali...
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Color blind friendly palettes for data visualizations with categories
A discussion of color blind friendly palettes for labeling unique catergories in data visualization.
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Microscopy Australia @micro-au.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
📣 JOB ALERT📣 Our UNSW Sydney facility is looking for a Technical Officer (to Jan 2026) to support bio/cryo sample prep and SEM/TEM user training. Join a lovely team in a busy core facility that specialises in electron microscopy! external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/52...
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rfwebster @rfwebster.net · 03/01/2025
Australian in-laws will tease you forever if you call them a red belly black spider....
Image of a Redback Spider (not called a red belly black spider) image from https://australian.museum/learn/animals/spiders/redback-spider/
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rfwebster @rfwebster.net · 12/12/2024
I have just realised that the nursery rhyme about 5 little pigs that went to market is more about making sausages than it is about having little adventures.
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rfwebster @rfwebster.net · 05/12/2024
Wife: 39 weeks pregnant 2 x Cats: decided at 5:30 am they can't stand each other and can't be in the same room without serious fighting Stress levels: 🔺📈⏫⤴️💹🔝
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rfwebster @rfwebster.net · 04/12/2024
I've started the roll out of some interactive tools for electron microscopy on my website, the first of these to be released is an interactive Contrast Transfer Function plotter: rfwebster.net/tools/CTF useful for understanding the resolution and contrast in your HRTEM images!
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rfwebster @rfwebster.net · 29/11/2024
Making a new website with react... Watch this space for something simple but hopefully useful to the microanalyst...
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rfwebster @rfwebster.net · 25/11/2024
Got to ride a different light rail line to work today!
Image of the L1 light rail tram at Central station Sydney.
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rfwebster @rfwebster.net · 22/11/2024
Today I learnt that an Australian (cape) gooseberry is different to an English one.
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rfwebster @rfwebster.net · 18/11/2024
Love it when the atoms line up for me
A high angle annular dark field image of Gold nanoparticles directly after aligning the aberration corrected TEM
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rfwebster @rfwebster.net · 12/11/2024
Getting ready for baby, I'm using my #raspberrypi pico w as a #micropython nursery monitor with air quality and tog recommendations for the Australian summer!
Screenshot of micropython code showing the data acquisition
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rfwebster @rfwebster.net · 13/09/2024
Benefits of having an Australian wife and not personally being allowed to vote in the country I live: democracy sausage!
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rfwebster @rfwebster.net · 28/08/2024
Just going to throw this around - what if any company making over $1b/yr had to pay 50%. How would Coles and Woolies survive?
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rfwebster @rfwebster.net · 13/06/2024
It was nice of Dell to include this free hand warmer, but I wish there was also one for my right (mouse wielding) hand!
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rfwebster @rfwebster.net · 01/06/2024
Beginning to like this AI drawing thing!
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rfwebster @rfwebster.net · 21/03/2024
Lol!
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rfwebster @rfwebster.net · 21/02/2024
I'm struggling to read this any other way than: Quantas profits drop because they stopped overcharging.
Screenshot of a news article entitled "Qantas half-yearly profit falls by 13 per cent to $873 million"
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rfwebster @rfwebster.net · 27/01/2024
My unintentional hobby breeding bright orange mystery snails in my fish tank 🐌
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rfwebster @rfwebster.net · 07/01/2024
Time to wake up 3 cold FEGs!
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rfwebster @rfwebster.net · 06/01/2024
No context cats
Picture of a cat taken without context
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rfwebster @rfwebster.net · 31/12/2023
Last night at Reids Flat
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rfwebster @rfwebster.net · 25/12/2023
Merry Christmas everyone! Some proper Aussie hail 🎄
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rfwebster @rfwebster.net · 24/12/2023
Aussie Christmas Eve with the in-laws: "Do we get funnel webs here?" "No, it's probably a trapdoor!"
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rfwebster @rfwebster.net · 05/12/2023
Early Christmas present - 4D STEM on our JEOL F200!
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 05/12/2023
Space Typography xkcd.com/2863
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rfwebster @rfwebster.net · 23/11/2023
Small angle cleavage technique for TEM sample prep - attempt #1 Not sure I'd classify it as a complete success.
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rfwebster @rfwebster.net · 23/11/2023
moving to the blue side
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