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Richard Beanland

@richbean0.bsky.social
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Likes mucking about with atoms, crystals and diffraction, using electrons mainly

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Richard Beanland @richbean0.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I used a reference from 1568 on polishing of diamonds: ‘The Treatises of Benvenuto Cellini on Goldsmithing and Sculpture’, in doi.org/10.1016/j.di.... Amazingly, you can get it online!
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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 03/09/2026
We remember biochemist and chemistry laureate Ada Yonath who passed away this week at the age of 87. In 2009, Yonath shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas Steitz for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome. Learn more: bit.ly/4kJscDU
Ada Yonath pointing at a screen, surrounded by X-ray diffraction equipment.
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Weizmann Institute of Science @weizmann.ac.il · 31/08/2026
We, the Weizmann Institute of Science community, deeply mourn the passing of Prof. Ada Yonath - Nobel Laureate and a Model of Scientific Perseverance. May her memory be a blessing. bit.ly/ada-yonath-eng
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Nobel Prize winner Ada Yonath sadly passed away today. She was a legend for her pioneering work on the structure of ribosomes.
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Richard Beanland @richbean0.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Someone, or some algorithm, at Nature thinks that lithium and graphite are heavy rare earth elements.
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Dr Michele V @micheleveldsman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
“I have done all of the things that one is supposed to do to earn a tenure-track position. And I have done approximately 85% of them by typing prompts into a large language model and then moderately editing the output.” 🤣🤣🤣 brilliant 👌🏽 open.substack.com/pub/inprepar...
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Opinion: I Was Not Allowed To Type Prompts Into ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk And This Is Discrimination
By Dr. Rachel Simmons, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The US government is arresting scientists on pretextual grounds to consolidate their grip on authoritarian power. This should scare the hell out of every single one of us. open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...
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Virology Research is Not a Crime
Free Vincent Munster and Claude Kwe
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 14/05/2026
Q: Does my thesis adviser pick the snake? A: No. Your adviser just tells the guy who picks the snakes how good your thesis was.
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FAQ: The “Snake Fight” Portion of Your Thesis Defense
March 13 2022 4/24/23 5/8/24 5/13/26 CALENDAR 2027
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Richard Beanland @richbean0.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Soo.. what is a CFT???
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Richard Beanland @richbean0.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
One problem with getting rid of (useful) terminology is - what do you replace it with? What could I use instead of ‘reflection’ ? Spot? Peak? Secondary beam? Reciprocal lattice vector (oh no, can’t say lattice either)… I quite like ‘reflexion’ but most see that as archaic
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The Journal of Immaterial Science @immaterialscience.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
How Big Can The Periodic Table Get Before Students Call Bullshit? PDF: www.immaterialscience.org/s/Longest-Pe...
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Richard Beanland @richbean0.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
The motto of the French Navy, I understand
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Richard Beanland @richbean0.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
And the bear has now been released from the ragged staff (symbol of Warwick for centuries en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_an...) and takes up a POWER stance
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Universal-Sci @universal-sci.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Space without the space... (Credit: xkcd)
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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 09/07/2025
A small flaw in an online proof system can have catastrophic consequences.
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Computer Scientists Figure Out How To Prove Lies | Quanta Magazine
An attack on a fundamental proof technique reveals a glaring security issue for blockchains and other digital encryption schemes.
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Structural Chemistry @actacrystc.iucr.org · 08/07/2025
July issue @actacrystc.iucr.org The cover article outlines lessons that can be learned from the the profiles and quality of refined MicroED structures #MicroED #electrondiffraction #ED #qualityindicator #bestpractice #cryoEM #Goldstandard #openaccess #IUCr journals.iucr.org/c/issues/202...
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Prof Ben Britton @bmatb.expmicromech.com · 02/07/2025
Here is a really nice contribution from Haroon Qaiser a grad student in @expmicromech.com, and a wide team, from Aachen, Oxford & Brno - where we systematically explore how best to form electron channeling contrast patterns (ECPs) and images (ECCI) in the scanning electron microscope 1/ 🔬🧪
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Richard Beanland @richbean0.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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Experimental Micromechanical Characterisation Research Group @expmicromech.com · 02/07/2025
🚨 New Preprint: "AstroECP: towards more practical Electron Channeling Contrast Imaging" M. Haroon Qaiser, Lukas Berners, Robin J. Scales, @tbizh95.bsky.social, Martin Heller, Jiri Dluhos, Sandra Korte-Kerzel, @bmatb.expmicromech.com arxiv.org/abs/2507.00354
Figure 1 from the paper which shows the electron column and microscope layout required to collect and understand and electron channelling pattern
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 24/06/2025
"When you outsource the thinking, you outsource the learning." deplet.ing/the-copilot-...
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The Copilot Delusion
Disclaimer: This post was written May 2025, and the arguments apply to AI code capabilities at this time. The arguments around lack of competence are certainly likely to become less prevalent-while th...
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Lautaro Vergara-Cofré @vergaralautaro.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
their theory would then lose touch with real life and turn into pure speculation devoid of any scientific value. And if an experimenter works without theory, he would merely perform useless experiments, which are numerous as it is and which, of course, 10/
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Nikolay Tumanov @ntumanovxray.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Two phosphine oxide structures in a week, one was intentional, one not really or rather really not. #crystallography #RealTimeChem Ones again traditional soundtrack for these structures: www.youtube.com/watch?v=C446... 1/2
A phosphine oxide fragment of a crystal structure.
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Stefano Canossa @stecanossa.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
While diving into this beautiful topic is important to remember that ADPs are neither 'thermal parameters' nor 'thermal ellipsoids' (as implied in the acronym ORTEP): they model displacements in the averaged structure without discriminating between thermal and static contributions #crystallography
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Richard Beanland @richbean0.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
It was visible from the other side of the Atlantic spittingimage.fandom.com/wiki/The_Pre...
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The President's Brain is Missing
The President's Brain is Missing is a storyline featured in Series 1, centring around President Ronald Reagan's brain escaping the White House. As his advisor Ed Meese struggles to prevent the brainle...
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Stefano Canossa @stecanossa.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
#MEDPore2025 #tiling nr. 7 (Bahia palace, Marrakech): they knew the truth on octahedral tilting in perovskites all along... #crystallography #BraggYourPattern #perovskites
Tiling of tilted squares in black, yellow, blue and grey. The empty spaces, with shape of horizontally and vertically oriented rhombuses, are reminiscent of the orthorhombic structure of CsPbBr3 perovskite.
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Daniel Lambert @daniellambertwines.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Since Brexit became a reality & the transition started (which still hasn’t finished) every stage has been a shit show. Government has been under prepared at each change & more barriers to trade imposed on imports and exports. The right wing press doesn’t write about it because it doesn’t suit them.
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Robert Palgrave @robertpalgrave.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
...but them being hard to make means they will have to be even better at their job to make manufacture worthwhile. A difficult conundrum to solve. To me computation seems much better as a focused tool for understanding a material of interest, rather than a discovery method.
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Robert Palgrave @robertpalgrave.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Pocket guide to materials discovery calculation methods (repost from the other place)
A table comparing the computational power of HPC and a furnace
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Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉 @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/04/2025
Holy sh*t. This is a real xkcd, not funny, disturbing, and also one that must be shared xkcd.com/3081
US PhD program timeline:
 1. Meet adbisor
 2. Research proposal
 3. Qualifying exams
 4. Propose dissertation
 5. Reseaech and write
 6. Submit
 7. Defend
The last two steps in the timeline are crossed out and replaced -- in red --  by:
 6. Get grabbed of the sidewalk by masked governnent agents
 7. Be whisked out of the state before a judge has time to intervene
 8.  ????
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Science Magazine @science.org · 18/04/2025
After freezing all grants to Columbia University last week, the National Institutes of Health is now stopping grant and contract payments to Harvard University and four other universities. scim.ag/4ikYp2T
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NIH freezes funds to Harvard and four other universities, but can’t tell them
Move follows broader White House attack on Harvard funding and stop-work orders to contractors
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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
There is no good time for bad news and today is no different than any day in our recent time. Nevertheless, I write this thread to chemistry faculty job seekers in the United States. #chemjobs #facultychemjobs #chemsky 🧪⚗️
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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 12/04/2025
Canada for the win—share it: www.wallawallademocrats.com/other-voices...
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Carney’s Checkmate: How Canada's Quiet Bond Play Forced Trump to Drop Tariffs — Walla Walla Democrats
Let’s talk about the moment Donald Trump blinked. It wasn’t loud. It wasn’t a tweetstorm or a rally rant. When the tariff threats that had the world on edge—125% on China, 25% on Canada’s autos, a glo...
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 08/04/2025
Tariffs xkcd.com/3073
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Stefano Canossa @stecanossa.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
This is truly wonderful... The gems of science history, ethical and intellectual depths surrounding the incredible character of Kathleen Lonsdale, so beautifully condensed in just above 10'. Absolutely worth watching for anyone, and a must if her name sounds new to any chemist. #womeninScience
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Nikolay Tumanov @ntumanovxray.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
One should not put memes to a reply to reviewers, right? #crystallography
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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
University administrations are largely a scam and should be sized down.
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On the responsibilities of intellectuals and the rise of bullshit jobs in universities
You may never have considered yourself to be one. Why would you? But if you’re reading this, there is more than a likelihood that you are one. If you’re a
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Shao-Liang Zheng @shaoliangzheng.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
George Sheldrick will be missed🕯️🕯️🕯️#SHELX #crystallography #education
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Richard Beanland @richbean0.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Roses are red Electrons are green Unlike photons and neutrons They have half-integral speen
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Stefano Canossa @stecanossa.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
What a start of 2025 in #MOF #TEM analysis! I just saw a second stunning work... take-home keywords: 'riCOM' and 'Ptychography' 🌟 Check them out: really fantastic 4D-STEM stuff that would have been sci-fi just a few years ago. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... ; www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Atomically resolved imaging of radiation-sensitive metal-organic frameworks via electron ptychography - Nature Communications
This study investigates optimal 4D-STEM data acquisition parameters for low-dose electron ptychography, achieving near-atomic-resolution ( ~ 2 Å) reconstruction at electron doses of ~100 e−/Å2 on high...
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Dennis Meier @demeier.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
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Stefano Canossa @stecanossa.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
(although as a parent I'd be the happiest I've been in a long while)
A comic strip shows an analyst performing a psychology test on a child. "Lily, I'm going to hold up a series of cards and I want you to tell me what they depict.“ - he says. He raises a yellow card showing the number "2", the child replies "C2". He raises an "8", she says "Cm". A triangle, she says "3m"; a square, she says "4m“. He concludes with the number “13”, she responds “P2/c”. Visibly worried, the analyst closes his briefcase and concludes: “Thank you, Lily, that’s all.” The strips ends with him going to visit her parents in the waiting room and telling them “I’m afraid she’s a crystallographer”. The parents are visibly troubled by the news.
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Kasper Tolborg @kaspertolborg.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Still 1 week left to apply for a postdoc position in computational design of disordered crystalline materials in my group at Aalborg University, Denmark! See more in the link below #compchem #chemsky
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Rod Rahimi @rodrahimi.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Great interview of Sydney Brenner. One of my favorite stories of Crick and Brenner is their reaction to being scooped by Marshall Nirenberg in deciphering the genetic code. They were thrilled 🧪
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The Thrill of Defeat
What Francis Crick and Sydney Brenner taught me about being scooped.
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Nikolay Tumanov @ntumanovxray.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
@natureportfolio.bsky.social, "magnetized water", seriously? www.nature.com/articles/s41... #pseudoscience
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Effect of magnetized water on the fundamental grouting properties of cement grout under varying magnetization conditions - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Effect of magnetized water on the fundamental grouting properties of cement grout under varying magnetization conditions
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Richard Beanland @richbean0.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
So, in the end I couldn’t resist reading the rest of the paper. The next figure had a data point at a temperature they didn’t measure, and the interpretation/modelling didn’t hang together at all.. So at least it was a quick review, and I learnt something from the papers they cited
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Richard Beanland @richbean0.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Now here’s a question. Reviewing a paper for a good Physics/Materials journal and find obvious duplication of micrographs of ‘different’ samples in Fig.1. Do I a) reject straight away and save my time, or b) do a full review anyway?
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 18/12/2024
going to keep posting about this piece because I really think that everyone online should read it: www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv...
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Dennis Meier @demeier.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Ferroics for unconventional computing - check it out: rdcu.be/dLRZo @NTNU @NTNUNaturalSci
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Falk Schneider @faldalf.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
‼️3 postdoc positions open‼️ We are building a quantitative imaging team at Warwick! Join an interdisciplinary endeavor with Mishima, Balasubramanian, and Mayor labs on a @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded project to push probe and microscopy development! warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
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a logo that says let 's do this in blue and yellow
ALT: a logo that says let 's do this in blue and yellow
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