I found a folder of pretty protein #crystal pictures so... here you go. 💎🧵

This account will be left here for posterity but will no longer be used actively, unless there is a significant change in the direction of the community/ management of the site. You can find me where the skies are blue under the same username. Have a parting crystal picture

Love it when an @OxfordBusCo bus leaves early instead of waiting until the scheduled departure time so your left waiting for 30 minutes for the next bus. This is where the bus was at 19:22 when it should have been where I am.

Excuse me sir... The scritches appear to have stopped. This must be a mistake.

$540 worth of bases recovered from the pin graveyard.

Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. Reanimating bases from the broken pin graveyard today.

Before seeding | After Seeding

Litterally just absent mindedly did this to a plug and suddenly all the vacuum pumps for the X-ray generator sprang to life.

That feeling when you get to the bottom of a paper you're reviewing, see your name in the acknowledgements and know you've just wasted 2 hours of your life.

Double conformation anyone?

Do I know anyone out there who works at Astex in Cambridge? I have a question for you.

No more Christmas only Spooky Season

I was gutted when I found out about this talk by Rodney Mullen at the @royalsociety too late to get tickets. But now it's up on youtube and definitely worth a watch, if you're a fan of skateboarding or not. Absolutley fascinating. youtube.com/watch?v=2c3aXbwM…

Successfully entered the world of Science Comedy last week. This better not awaken anything in me (it definitely has).

Protein crystals? Oh yes, protein crystals.

The first time a teacher told me to justify my text I wrote an additional conclusion on my report. What she really meant...