Dr Laura Clark

Has anyone yet written a package so I can listen to 4D-STEM? (Maybe @cophus.bsky.social would know?)

Some of the datasets must be delightfully polyphonic

This is your regular reminder that EVERYONE who speaks has an accent.

I've had to flag to some colleagues that on leave I will not have email access and so they do actually need to get paperwork to me in advance.

It can be tricky crossing the e-cultural barrier.

ruse = 🥸

rues = 😭

roos = 🦘🦘

🤓 hummingbird hawk moth, in Yorkshire!

On the one hand, I'm sad to be missing M&M this year and I hope you're all having a blast 💜

On the other, this is the traffic I'm currently dealing with 🥰

My mother has saffron in her cupboards that saw the fall of the Berlin wall.
No occasion has yet been deemed fancy enough.

There was a year where I was regularly commuting between 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 and 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. I have dozens of photos from the east coast mainline between Newcastle and Edinburgh- every single week, blazing sun in the toon, and gloomy grey as soon as you hit the border.

I took it as a sign to move a little to the south 😅

Green Corridors Scythe Fest - St Nicks Get Scything with Green Corridors York this summer! Join our team for a series of drop in 'have-a-go' sessions to learn the heritage skill of scything this August.

Uh oh. I fear I'm increasingly close to acquiring a scythe
www.stnicks.org.uk/events/green...

I am not someone in need of another distinct hobby..

It's not that person 🙂

But I do think genuinely having no hobbies or interests outside of work is sad (not in the haha-loser sense, but in that it's a huge shame)

This brought to you by my recent thoughts on taking up scything, (there's a course near Whernside)

I've chosen against it for now, as the patch of ground I look after is next to a graveyard and I think (on balance), that a loud strimmer is less upsetting than strolling along with a scythe 😅

In a previous job, the lab-head welcomed us with "you have no time for hobbies now, science is your hobby"

I laughed, at what I thought was obvs a joke

Please, have hobbies and passions beyond work. It doesn't mean you're lazy or profligate, it means you experience more of what it is to be human.

Found it 😊 (on the key hook, of all places, where *I* definitely didn't put it 😅)

Okay, for ten points, where have I put my bike key?

It's somewhere in my house (bike locked in shed, key only comes out if locked), not in usual place (raincoat pocket), bike panniers, with house or work keys, or on the handy corner of the worktop.

I need to find it by 6.30pm!

Then I really hope step three is introducing the Democracy Sausage to the UK 🙏😅

www.moadoph.gov.au/explore/demo...

Maybe I'm slightly cynical this week, but a risk they end up being a how-to-guide to bully someone most effectively?

The world's best beach 💚

Electron Ptychography Electron ptychography describes a family of algorithms which are used to enable the reconstruction of complex specimen transmission functions of a sample in order to obtain both phase and amplitude in...

Did I go on a whole diversion just for the joy of the pronunciation and etymology?
Yes, of course, yes 💚💚

arxiv.org/abs/2503.10917

Haha, yes, my phone tries to autocorrect el- anything to electron microscopy 💚

I can never spell "physics" correctly at the first go.

And yet, "ptychography" is just fine? 🤯

Science: it's a girl thing! A viral fiasco | Curt Rice Curt Rice: The European Commission's teaser to persuade young women to become scientists is risible. Surely we can do better?

This gives me terrible flashbacks:
www.theguardian.com/science/blog...

You can get tick removal tools that are credit card sized. One lives in my handbag (I walk through woodland most days), as earlier removal helps.
They cost pennies.

😭😭 why do I have to be called out like that?

EPSRC fellowships These opportunities will be closed from 12 December 2024.

Not sure if that's better or worse than the EPSRC approach which was just to close fellowships..
www.ukri.org/what-we-do/d...

A soft crocheted geode made of yarn and pink beads on the inside to imitate crystals

A soft crocheted geode made of yarn and pink beads on the inside to imitate crystals. It is shown from the side to show the outside “rock”

A soft crocheted geode made of yarn and pink beads on the inside to imitate crystals. It is sitting on a marble counter

Crocheted a geode, like you do 🧶 #crochet

Phase Imaging Methods in the Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope Scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) has become an essential tool for investigating materials, providing detailed characterization at nano and atomic scales. By combining subangstrom resol...

Very pleased to be able to share a recently published mini-review on phase related applications of 4D-STEM methods:
Phase Imaging Methods in the Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope, with Gabriel Sanchez-Santolino, Satoko Toyama, Tekehito Seki and Naoya Shibata
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

I may have spoken too soon, and angered the flight delay gods 😭

Have managed to walk 15k steps around the airport while waiting, aiming to find the longest route without self intersecting (just shy of 1km)

Woohoo! Congratulations 🎊