Mike Glazer

Prof Michael Johnston has won the IRMMW-THz Kenneth J Button Award 2027 for his pioneering work on THz nanodevices and non-contact semiconductor probes. Learn more: https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/news/professor-johnston-receives-kenneth-j-button-award

Giving AI a “crystal clear” view of the materials world. #science #chemistry #news #AI www.lifescience.net/news/7923/gi...

Discover how Oxford turned into a global physics powerhouse. Join author Timothy Baker for a talk on his new book, 'Oxford Physics and the modern world'. Includes a drinks reception and book signing. Free, advance booking required: https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/events/oxford-physics-and-modern-world

Im deeply confused. They claim discovery of crystal structures but dont actually make crystals or show they exist? Like...wtf? You dont have a crystal if you dont have a crystal. We predict shit all day everyday, but I dont claim it is real and publish in Science without way more evidence.

Maybe someone wondered why I did not put a tool to highlight the Bragg's law when it emerges, or maybe not... Anyway, it's there now ("Bragg condition finder" button), plus an "Explain mode" that describes what the options are for and how to use them. Cheers! 🫸🫷 stecanossa.com/cosplayapp/

This is fantastic. Don't start if you have something to do, you'll be late.

The latest issue of the @IUCr Newsletter is now available at www.iucr.org/news/newslet.... Anyone wanting to know what is happening in #crystallography should find this interesting. #crystallography rocks!

I still remember the eye-opening moment when I realized that Bragg and diffuse scattering are both just a sum of waves... I can finally share an applet where anyone can put it into action. No equations, just a play of cosines: CosPlay 👉 stecanossa.com/cosplayapp/ #Crystallography #TotalScattering

Ever wondered how X-ray diffraction works? Now you are able to visualise it in 3D in your web browser for any crystal structure of your choice. Run it: dubajicmilos.github.io/assets/diffr... The full tutorial video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYKH... The source code: github.com/dubajicmilos...

A lot of excitement on here about the article in Science summarising the discoveries of @alistairsponsel.bsky.social and Brian Sutton, just published in the Journal of the History of Biology. Some people have asked, so here is what I think they show, and what are the implications:

In the 1950s, Lipscomb & colleagues unpicked the structures of several boranes using low-temperature x-ray crystallography, determining they shared two electrons across three atoms. This accounted for boranes’ unusual geometry & unexpected dipole moment. www.chemistryworld.com/news/fifty-y...

As many of you know I have often written about misuse of crystallographic terminology in the literature. Probably the most prevalent failure is in distinguishing between lattice and structure. But it gets worse: see doi.org/10.1107/S205.... Enjoy!

♨️ Warming up Fourier Tiler with a new release, including Temperature param. in the crystal builder! Also: my fancy friends using macOS will not be left alone in this one 🫶 Have fun! ...and let's hope this new version makes the Reviewers happy 😏🤞 Get your copy here: github.com/stecanossa/F...

For those interested in cryocrystallography I have written an article for the @IUCr newsletter on the history of the Cryostream. See www.iucr.org/news/newslet....

The @crystallography.org.uk Chemical Crystallography Group Autumn Meeting is being held online on October 27th, registration is open. The theme is Crystallography Under Non-Ambient Conditions. Abstracts for presentation welcome, including from Early Stage Crystallographers. @escg-bca.bsky.social

On the 15th October I will be taking part in an Electric Voice Theatre event "The Peaceful Crystallographer and Other Songs". This is a celebration of Professor Dame Kathleen Lonsdale as part of the Bloomsbury Festival. @ucllifesciences.bsky.social www.electricvoicetheatre.co.uk/events/the-p...

Do you have a painting or drawing by Lawrence Bragg? The Nobel Prize-winning scientist appears in the 1927 Solvay photo alongside Einstein and Marie Curie; he was also a keen painter. I’m planning an exhibition about his life and times in 2027, the centenary of this picture.

I have two

🔬 PLATON/checkCIF enables proper #validation of a structure report while also preserving the opportunity for future re-evaluation or reuse of the data in unrelated studies. 👍 doi.org/10.1107/S205... @actacrystc.iucr.org #IUCr #crystallography #education 📊

🔬 Pharmaceutical crystal structures from synchrotron powder diffraction: challenges in indexing, symmetry, and chemically reasonable models, with solutions, raw data, and GSAS-II files. 😀😀 doi.org/10.1107/S205... @actacryste.iucr.org @iucrjournals.bsky.social #crystallography #education

Dick Van Dyke was 34 years old, and this was live television in 1960 CBS special The Fabulous Fifties, broadcast. Van Dyke is dancing with Maria Karnilova, and the whole routine was basically a joke about how fast the dance crazes of the 1950s kept changing.

Chemistry Nobel laureate Ada Yonath has passed away aged 87. The structural biologist & x-ray crystallographer who contributed pioneering work on the structure & function of the ribosome maintained an active laboratory until the very last days of her life. www.chemistryworld.com/news/ada-yon...

The latest issue of the @IUCr #crystallography Newsletter is now available at www.iucr.org/news/newslet... Note nice new style format.

📚 Crystallography needs to be taught, not just used: “The crystallographic community must now seize the opportunity to redefine its educational strategy and ensure that crystallography continues to be taught with the depth and rigor it deserves.” iucr.org/news/newslet... #crystallography #education

The ACA joins the scientific community in mourning Professor Ada Yonath, #Nobellaureate and pioneering #structuralbiologist. Her groundbreaking ribosome research transformed #science and inspired generations of crystallographers. Read our tribute: www.amercrystalassn.org/index.php?op...

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

Introducing the American Union of Crystallography - Its objective is to become the independent, enduring voice for crystallographic science in the United States - Learn more about the AUC and how you can support it zurl.co/TbmHF

Throwback to 2015, when Dr. Prabhakaran Dharmalingam made a lab-grown replica of the British Crown Jewels created using everyday household chemicals.  Learn more about #crystalography https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/our-people/dharmalingam

📚💎 Introducing #crystallography at the #kindergarten level! 🔬✨ A center-based activity framework and a children's book to introduce crystallography to young learners 👧👦🌈 doi.org/10.1107/S205... @actacryste.iucr.org #IUCr #Crystallography #STEM #ScienceOutreach

We're celebrating 20 years of Acta Crystallographica Section F!🎉🥳 Join us by contributing to our celebratory collection of articles, which is now open for submissions! Find out more at journals.iucr.org/special_issu...

British chemist Dr. Dorothy Hodgkin won the 1964 #Nobel Prize in #Chemistry for using X-ray crystallography to "see" the 3D structures of complex molecules. After 35 years of work, she solved the incredibly complex structure of insulin, 1969. She died #OTD in 1994. #WomenInSTEM

The 1951 Festival Pattern Group transformed X-ray crystallography—including Dorothy Hodgkin’s insulin diagrams—into modern manufacturing designs, blending post-war science and art into innovative national progress.

Chemist & X-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin's meticulous research was instrumental in uncovering DNA's molecular structure. Most famous for her role in the DNA double helix discovery, her work also revolutionized our understanding of viruses & coal. She was born #OTD in 1920. #WomenInSTEM 🧵

I wasn’t expecting to see a presidential boy band today… 😂🎤 Four presidents. One song. One reminder that democracy is bigger than any one person! 🇺🇸🎶 AI can be funny & controversial but voting is serious! 🗳️ #SheShed #ViVaHerAlliance #Vote2026

Someone, or some algorithm, at Nature thinks that lithium and graphite are heavy rare earth elements.

New @iucrjournals.bsky.social publication highlights how many crystal structures remain unpublished and shows how simple database deposition can bring them into the public domain, improving research visibility, reducing duplication, and supporting #OpenScience. 🔗 journals.iucr.org/c/issues/202...

We are saddened by the passing of longtime ACA member Dr. Ian David Brown, known to friends and colleagues as David. A pioneer of the bond valence model, he will continue to inspire #structualscientists for generations. Read more on the ACA website: www.amercrystalassn.org/index.php?op...

🧪🔬 Accessible, beginner-friendly dry-lab exercises introduce #undergraduates to crystallographic databases @ccdc.cam.ac.uk and small-molecule structure analysis! 📚✨ doi.org/10.1107/S205... @actacryste.iucr.org #Crystallography #Undergraduate #ChemEd #Education

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Neil Kinnock has a message for our next Prime Minister, "We after 10 years after loss and cost and decline, must make the argument, incessantly and continually, to rejoin the European Union" "It. Is. Our. Imperative."

Happy Birthday Stephen! Welcome to the octogenarian community. best wishes Mike Glazer

The latest issue of the @IUCr Newsletter is now available at www.iucr.org/news/newslet... for everyine interested in the wonderful science of #crystallography.

I will continue to be excited by graphs like this one. It shows UK electricity demand over the past 24 hours (white line) and the amount that is supplied by renewables (green). It reached 90% in the middle of the night & was 80% for much of the day. 🎉🎉🎉. Still lots more to do, but we’re on the way.

Oh, and here’s the price during that time.

I really like this new website that visualises the various space groups. spacegroups.symotter.org/group

The IUCr2026 Speaker & Award Schedule is out! Check out who's taking the stage in Calgary this August! Register now & plan your sessions, workshops, & tours before they fill up! 👉 Schedule: event.fourwaves.com/... 👉 Register: event.fourwaves.com/... #IUCr2026 #Crystallography

Visualizing and teaching crystallographic symmetry using Jmol doi.org/10.1107/S205... #OtterbeinStem #StOlaf #Jmol #SpaceGroup #Symmetry #Visualizer #symmetry #visualization #openaccess #IUCr #crystallography

🥳🥳 Excited to see our #crystallography #education & #outreach paper ranked as #TopViewedArticle in 2025 @wiley.com! Grateful for the support from #IUCr and the community. 🙌🔬✨ doi.org/10.1107/S160... @japplcryst.iucr.org #STEM #StructureScience #graduates #undergrads #K12 #Teaching @harvard.edu

@actacrysta Coming soon:-

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