I am all excited about the IUCr's Grand Gathering of Crystallographers in Australia! IUCr2023

Bill Bryson on atoms and ions

It’s on! #iucr2023 IUCr2023

I keep bumping into people, because movements have the opposite chirality in Australia. #iucr2023

Just some crystallographers with the best CrysAlis color scheme in the background #hotmetal @stecanossa Lorraine Malaspina Rigaku Oxford Diffraction #iucr2023

I am absolutely in love with these crystals I grew over the weekend 😍

Hitting the road with Bern people! Survived an organised cockatoo attack trying to steal our fish and chips. #iucr2023 Lorraine Malaspina

Morning everyone, I just wanted to update everyone on the BCA Chem Cryst (BCA) autumn meeting - registration is now live - full details here: bit.ly/CCGAutumn2023 and you can also scan the QR code in the graphic please RT and share 😀and feel free to ask any questions

Our recent preprint explores the application of neural networks to address the crystallographic phase problem, with great results! Anders Larsen , Dr Toms Rekis , Anders Østergaard Madsen

Imagine solving crystal structures from low-resolution SC- and PXRD data with a single click!? Our pilot study was designed for small unit cells and P21/c (+supergroups) only, but the results are striking! Preprint: doi.org/10.26434/chemr… Anders Larsen Anders Østergaard Madsen

Crystallography is science of linear transformation.

Hodgkin made huge contributions to #Xray #crystallography, determining the structures of #cholesterol iodide in 1943, #penicillin in 1945 (finding the least expected beta-lactam structure), and #vitamin B12 in 1955—result described by L. Bragg as "breaking the sound barrier".

Born #OnThisDay in 1903 was crystallographer Kathleen Lonsdale FRS. She was one of the first two female scientists to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, along with Marjory Stephenson. She discovered the structure of benzene, and was a committed pacifist.

Kathleen Lonsdale (neé Yardley), a pioneer in #Xray #crystallography, was born in 1903 #OTD. Famous for proving #benzene core structure; structure factor calculation formulas; serving as editor of Int. Tables for #Xray #crystallography (1952) & first woman IUCr president (1966).

Today we've launched our book "Atlas of Fourier Transforms". It has been a two year passion project led by Miti Shah, a student in our lab. It is uniquely comprehensive and suitable as a coffee table book or advanced research reference. The full pitch is on Kickstarter.

Really happy that our paper on solving the crystallographic phase problem using neural networks is out in Science Magazine. Thanks to Dr Toms Rekis and Anders Østergaard Madsen for a great collaboration. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

PhAI can solve the so-called ‘phase problem’ with lower-quality data than is needed for other methods and quickly arrives at high quality solutions. chemistryworld.com/news/ai-tool-o…

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