Sam "The Mug Guy" Horrell

I'm currently at LCLS in Stanford, anyone got a lead on where I might find a #SynchrotonMug to add to my collection? I know they exist. I've seen pictures!

All three are adorable thanks 🙂

Finally, a detector suitable for the new SynchroGnome beamlines. A giant leap forward in tiny science.

#ROD10atECM #ECM

I don't have a Crystallography themed hat, so I guess I need to get one made out of something edible.

Why would we bother guessing anything else?

It's actually in P 21 21 21, but we can still meet up for that beer if you spot me at the conference.

Who are you wagering? Becuase I know the answer already 😉

Disappointingly it was P21 21 21.

Made it to Poznan for the European Crystallography Meeting. Looking forward to presenting at the Science Slam on Thursday with the help of my cat Rosalind.

#Crystallography #ECM35 #StructuralBiology #ScienceCommunication #SciComm #ScienceSlam

a man with a beard is wearing a crown and saying you bow to no one . ALT: a man with a beard is wearing a crown and saying you bow to no one .

Top notch pun work. Truly immaculate.

I don't want to alarm anyone, but I think my electron density might be haunted.

💎👻💀

2 people, a woman wearing glasses and a man with a beard, taking a picture in the reflective surface of a photon counting detector.

Said goodbye to the @dectris.bsky.social Pilatus 6M the other day with one last #DetectorSelfie featuring beamline scientist Sofia.

Collected some data to 0.87 A to give it a proper send off.

Not sure how many images it has taken on I24 but it is very deserving of a rest.

Protein structure or #Minecraft Creeper?

Taking bets on if this is crystalline or not. We'll find out next week on @diamondlightsource.bsky.social's VMXm next week with the help of @adamcrawshaw.bsky.social.

The electron microscope can't believe you just said that.

A light yellow and grey cockateil and a dark grey peid cockateil put their heads together. One has their beak wide open. Both have very orange cheeks.

After 2 weeks of antibiotics twice a day Nori (left) now has a clean bill of health.

Kili (right) is clearly pleased about this too.

A regular repeating pattern of Ale, Pau, and Danny from the rock band The Warning. Effectively forming a 2D crystal of the band members.

The reulsting diffraction pattern of the crystallised members of the warning. A Grey background with white spots in a regular repeating pattern.

I was minding my own business watching a music video when suddenly I see @thewarningarmy.bsky.social have managed to crystallise themselves. So I thought I'd see if they diffract, and they do!

#Crystallography #TheWarning #Crystal #Diffraction

Naturally

If this #crystal space group isn't P3 or P6 I'll eat my #crystallography hat.

It also reminds me of a tiny allen key.

I don't see a major and a minor groove, and there are fewer that 4 bases per turn.

Him: Structures in PDB format Her: Do you mean mmCIF and not deprecated format, right? Him: Her: RIGHT?

Changes in PDB IDs are coming that will require use of PDBx/mmCIF file format... will you be ready? #MayThe4th
Resources are available to help: www.wwpdb.org/docume...

Happy #StarWars day from Nori and Kili. May the fourth be with you.

Pretty successful draft at the local game store. Won the event and got a chonky dragon.

#MTG #MagicTheGathering

A black silicon chip with regular etched square holes covered in blue/purple crystals.

Blue copper crystals on a silicon chip.

Macrocyclic Peptide Probes for Immunomodulatory Protein CD59: Potent Modulators of Bacterial Toxin Activity and Antibody‐Dependent Cytotoxicity CD59 is an immunomodulatory cell surface receptor associated with human disease. Despite its importance in complement regulation and bacterial pathogenesis, CD59 remains a challenging therapeutic tar....

New paper out today on a cyclic peptide which interacts with CD59, a protein that inhibits the complement mediated membrane attack complex.

Some cool structural work went into this, modelling the cyclic peptide was an interesting challenge.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

I made Ojer Axonil spell slinger group slug and it has quickly become one of my favourites. First mono deck was Gisa Glorious Resurrector.

¡Olé! ¡Olé! ¡Olé! WARNING!

Had a great time watching #TheWarning at Brixton last night.

It's a protein called Isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 (IDH1). No salt crystals here.

Did someone say protein crystals?

Someone probably said protein crystals.

Also a good shout

#PandemicFlashBacks