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Fun day at the UNSW MWAC Elemental analysis workshop learning (and talking) about EDX, EELS, XAF, XRF, ICP and a whole lot more!

Adding this to my list of "largest in Southern hemisphere" www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...

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...

Cartoon by Mike Luckovich

Do you see what I see? #emu

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...

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

🗳️🌭 time! #notacitizenyet

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Not the eels I was looking for google!!

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...

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!

📣 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...

Australian in-laws will tease you forever if you call them a red belly black spider....

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.

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: 🔺📈⏫⤴️💹🔝

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!

Making a new website with react... Watch this space for something simple but hopefully useful to the microanalyst...

Got to ride a different light rail line to work today!

Today I learnt that an Australian (cape) gooseberry is different to an English one.

Love it when the atoms line up for me

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!

Benefits of having an Australian wife and not personally being allowed to vote in the country I live: democracy sausage!

Just going to throw this around - what if any company making over $1b/yr had to pay 50%. How would Coles and Woolies survive?

It was nice of Dell to include this free hand warmer, but I wish there was also one for my right (mouse wielding) hand!

Beginning to like this AI drawing thing!

Lol!

I'm struggling to read this any other way than: Quantas profits drop because they stopped overcharging.

My unintentional hobby breeding bright orange mystery snails in my fish tank 🐌

Time to wake up 3 cold FEGs!

No context cats

Last night at Reids Flat

Merry Christmas everyone! Some proper Aussie hail 🎄

Aussie Christmas Eve with the in-laws: "Do we get funnel webs here?" "No, it's probably a trapdoor!"

Early Christmas present - 4D STEM on our JEOL F200!

Space Typography xkcd.com/2863

moving to the blue side