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Denmark, 2009, 35mm black and white film. https://pixelfed.social/p/drheaddamage/802541014233292031

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The MOUSE 🐭 lab X-ray scattering instrument statistics for 2024 are available, and we are once more comparing them to previous years. This year... we did not manage to improve our efficiency, slipping to 3rd place of the 7 years of operation. Read all about it in my latest blog post (and check […]

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At a brazilian festival in Tokyo, 2012. https://pixelfed.social/p/drheaddamage/802071805967473078

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Street seller, Copenhagen, 2010. https://pixelfed.social/p/drheaddamage/801814688648741814

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Going through some old photos... Copenhagen, ca. 2009

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Let's see what this pixelfed is all about.. https://pixelfed.social/p/drheaddamage/799958090278453653

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Worth a read! https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2025/feb/24/the-dawn-of-a-new-world-order-finally-no-wait-not-like-that

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French bicycling lane advocate appears to have been murdered, deliberately, by a driver. BBC: He dreamed of a cycling revolution. Then an SUV crushed him "...According to witnesses and CCTV, the driver of the SUV began driving in the bike lane. Prosecutors say the driver ran over Paul's foot […]

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“As of my last update in July 2024, there isn't a widely recognized public figure named Brian Pauw in global contexts such as entertainment, politics, or science.” 🥺🥺🥺

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Geht wählen! #btw25

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Now that I've drawn out what I'm trying to implement in our Holistic Experimentation with X-rays (HExX-)lab, I kind of understand why I feel so exhausted. There's a lot of bits and pieces comprising this puzzle! 🧪 #science #scilife #holisticexperimentation

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Here's an initial look at our experiments on #crystallisation of #fat (saturated triglycerides) to different polymorphs using crash-cooling inside the Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung MOUSE 🐭 instrument. It took some work to set this up, but worth the effort! 🧪⚛️ […]

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#GoodWords

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Morning. The past week has been super busy with our in-situ temperature cycling experiments, but we have gained some very useful knowledge. Not just on the crystallization of fats upon crash cooling, but also on our equipment. 🧪

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Blood is red Bruises are blue Change lanes to pass cyclists It's the least you can do #ValentinesDay

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Happy Valentines' day everyone!

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Brilliant!

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Super Godzilla (SNES), 1993

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Insanity: I want to buy electronics from a shop in Germany, and they have it just lying there in the shelves. But I get the best conditions if I order from that shop online and arrange pick up in the shop instead. That way I get the EU online purchases warranty, and don’t have to deal with DHL […]

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Someone saw me writing this and asked if they could come draw a heart next to it. Solidarity isn’t just being an ally, it’s being an accomplice. - Gravuti

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Need to switch temperatures in your experiment fast? We've put together a prototype liquid coolant cross-over switch to help with that: https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/4292

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I've linked to the International Slide Rule Museum site before, but I just noticed that they vastly expanded their collection of simulated slide rules you can manipulate in your web browser, including re-hosting the collection I'd linked to elsewhere of simulations created by Robert Wolf, who […]

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Getting a lot of data from automated systems is not too hard, but what do you do then? How do you go from raw data to quality data? I wrote a bit on how we are getting along with our new MOUSE automated data processing pipeline, and some of the challenges we are facing in that at the moment […]

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Getting a lot of data from automated systems is not too hard, but what do you do then? How do you go from raw data to quality data? I wrote a bit on how we are getting along with our new MOUSE automated data processing pipeline, and some of the challenges we are facing in that at the moment […]

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As I am writing the next lookingatnothing.com blogpost about current issues with the new data pipeline, it lets me look at the problem from a different perspective and identify potential causes. I find blog writing to have been very useful for my science. 🧪 (Blog post coming in a few days).

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Shit’s about to get real dumb.

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Ever since I got an angle grinder, cleaning burnt pans has become super easy, barely an inconvenience!

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Found two little gems in the stockrooms (so far), which will be of good use in the labs: two DC power supplies, 0-35V, 0-45A. Just a toasty 1600W power output per supply, this’ll be very useful for some modest heating applications.

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Berlin R/N.

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Happy new year everyone!

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"We don't abandon projects because they are hard, we abandon them cause they were 90% done and we lost interest!"

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@Dtl hey. I got one of these from my dad. Worked for a while but I suspect the eeprom is fried. I know you like fixing stuff like this so if you’re interested I can send it your way? Not sure if fixable though.

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The current and upcoming German political shitshow is a good moment to remember that Merz wants to tear wind turbines down because "they don't look pretty". OTOH we have Habeck of the Greens who, time and time again, has demonstrated compassion and deep understanding of #climate science. #GERPol

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Using the free fitness facilities provided at my workplace...

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And we're back in operation measuring sample series, now with the entire instrument asynchronously controllable using python! The new Eiger IOC works nicely and allows us to address and read the state of the detector from anywhere as well.

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Made a small dashboard for our X-ray scattering instrument to track what's happening and what its current state is. Things seem to be working well so far!

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🍌 Artist: #MarshalArts / #MarshalArtsStreetart - somewhere 🤫 in #Hamburg Germany 🇩🇪 12/2024 - Title: untitled - (📷 via Artist) - #Art #Mural #Streetart #Pasteup #Artist #SciFiArt #FutureVision #HybridArt #HiddenArt #GoodMorning ! ☕

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We've finally moved away from the last vestiges of our old control software on the MOUSE X-ray scattering instrument. Here's how... https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/4208

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Allow me to reintroduce myself: I’m a “full-stack” X-ray scattering scientist in Berlin, developing holistic methodologies (i.e. from sample prep to analysis interpretations). I also talk about problems in science, and have a personal life with occasional cycling, skating, diving and sailing.

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Today's task: get the X-ray sources / shutter control, Arduino valve control and the pressure readout gauge under EPICS control. for the first and the last, we have some IOCs already that might work. The middle one will need some more effort, but the caproto python package makes that easier..

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Day 2 of radically changing the MOUSE instrument - again. We’re switching to full EPICS controls, and putting a few extra changes in. One is having the vacuum valve and compressed air valve controlled by an Arduino Pro Machine Control (PMC). So we spent a day wiring up an SSR and the valves.

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I always recommend "how to win every argument" by Madsen Pirie to all my Dark Side of Science audiences. It's been out of print for a long time but a google search will get you a PDF. Once I read the examples, I could easily recognise the same logical fallacies in many academic papers.

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GE, approx. 1955: “one must realize …] that the truly great discoveries of science — the fundamental breakthroughs — have most often resulted from scientific research that had no specific or practical goal. The scientist who is left free to pursue the truths of nature, no matter where his […]

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Remember when TVs were repairable?

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