Simon Wall

We have a position for a PhD and postdoc in our group in Denmark. Come and do some research in the happiest country in the world🧪. Phd: phd.nat.au.dk/for-applican...

Postdoc: phys.au.dk/aktuelt/ledi...

Ultrafast surface melting of orbital order in La0.5Sr1.5MnO4 Nature Materials - Time-resolved surface X-ray scattering is used to probe how light manipulates orbital order at the surface of a manganite. Femtosecond light is found to generate incoherent...

Happy to announce that our latest work on measuring light induced phase transitions at a surface has been published in Nature Materials. rdcu.be/eKKBL

I can highly recommend this book

I finally got round to deleting my Facebook and Twitter accounts. I stopped using them a while ago, but it's good to have them gone!

Thanks! I didn't know this existed!

The problem with pubpeer is you have to go to the website to find it. You don't see it when downloading the original paper

Today I found out that Science Advances doesn't publish comments on papers. Therefore there is no formal way to raise objections to papers. Shouldn't journals be forced to accept comments on papers they have published?

Some light reading at my hotel in Berlin. I think I'll just about get through it's 1000+ pages before I check out tomorrow

Mapping the Textures of Thicker Magnets A soft x-ray magnetic imaging technique makes possible the study of a wide range of magnetic materials.

A new x-ray imaging technique exploits phase information in circularly polarized light. According to its inventors, the capability opens the door to characterizing magnetic materials with applications in energy harvesting and spintronics.

There is a cat bus!

At Oxford lots of people got unpaid internships at newspapers and in TV which helped a lot in getting a career in that field. Of course they were also the people who could afford to live in London for 2 months without pay