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Graham Bruce

@grahamdbruce.bsky.social

Optical physicist at University of St Andrews | father | rugby enthusiast.

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Premier Sports app (but not website) showing both Fiji and Samoa matches as being on there

02.07.2025 12:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Richly deserved. Along similar lines, who would @romanmars.bsky.social put on the Mount Rushmore of podcasting?

26.06.2025 18:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a man with long hair and a beard is being called a wizard ALT: a man with long hair and a beard is being called a wizard

Not a label I would ever have expected...

12.06.2025 09:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The real deal: our fascination with fakes – and how to sp... With talented counterfeiters at the top of their game, how on earth do you spot a fake? And does it really matter anyway?

Grateful to have been included in a Feature in β€ͺ@theobserveruk.bsky.social‬ focussing on "fake spotters", available online today. This gives an overview of our work to tackle counterfeit spirits using laser spectroscopy, which we hope to see in use very soon!

observer.co.uk/style/featur...

12.06.2025 08:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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Estimating full-field displacement in biological images using deep learning - npj Artificial Intelligence npj Artificial Intelligence - Estimating full-field displacement in biological images using deep learning

DEFORM-Net out in npj Artificial Intelligence β€” an #open-source, unsupervised deep learning tool for full-field displacement estimation in microscopy videos with #ImageJ #FIJI plugin.
Led by Philip Wijesinghe & Soloman Warsop β€” huge congratulations to the whole team!
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

11.06.2025 13:09 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Poisonous books – Dangers from the past – University Collections blog

More context for our work on detecting poisonous 19th century books, via the University Collections blog:

university-collections.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/02/24/p...

25.02.2025 09:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Recent work by Graham Bruce and University Libraries and Museums on finding poisonous 19th Century books is now featured in the exhibition β€˜Poisonous Books – dangers from the past’, at the Wardlaw Museum until 23rd March. Entry is free for all. @grahamdbruce.bsky.social

24.02.2025 09:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A Toast to Authenticity The proof is in the lightingA single bottle of The Macallan 1926 recently fetched Β£2.1 million at auction, but even the world's most valuable whiskies are not immune to counterfeiters. As rare Scotch ...

It was a pleasure to speak to The Saint student newspaper recently about our work in whisky authentication: www.thesaint.scot/post/a-toast...

For research articles, see doi.org/10.1039/D0AY..., doi.org/10.1364/OE.4... and doi.org/10.1016/j.cr...

23.02.2025 22:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Its Calcutta Cup week, so time to dust off this old classic

youtu.be/WIpu1Kmhq94?...

18.02.2025 07:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Microrheology of the cumulus-oocyte matrix using optical tweezers - IOPscienceSearch Microrheology of the cumulus-oocyte matrix using optical tweezers, Campugan, Carl, Perrella, Christopher, Lim, Megan, Tan, Tiffany C.Y., Schartner, Erik, Arita, Yoshi, Bruce, Graham David, Mendonca, T...

New paper, with colleagues in Adelaide and Nottingham: doi.org/10.1088/2515...

The developmental potential of a mammalian oocyte can be inferred from the motion of a particle optically trapped in the extracellular matrix!

This has important potential implications for fertility research.

10.02.2025 20:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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If you are in the St Andrews area, our current project on detecting arsenical pigments in Victorian books features in this fantastic exhibition at the Wardlaw Museum!

04.02.2025 20:44 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, please!

07.01.2025 08:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Delighted to have received funding from this Accelerator. Our team @uniofstandrews.bsky.social will be delivering impact in the heritage sector: deploying a new tool to detect arsenical pigments in 19th Century books in collections across Scotland.

11.12.2024 20:08 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Non-equilibrium Dynamics of Open Quantum Systems

Here we go! I'm advertising two PhD projects in the School of Physics & Astronomy!

One is all about developing new ways to model open quantum systems: www.ph.ed.ac.uk/phd-projects...

The other is about disorder and many-body localisation: www.ph.ed.ac.uk/phd-projects...

Just ask for more info!

22.11.2024 15:53 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

#WritingTip:
You can always fix bad pages. You can’t fix no pages.

Write. Just write.

16.11.2024 17:06 β€” πŸ‘ 17999    πŸ” 1489    πŸ’¬ 228    πŸ“Œ 134

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