David Aragão 🔶
@aragaod.bsky.social
Structural Biologist ⚛, Instrument Scientist 🥼. Share personal views. ADD 🎧 🧠, Equality 🟰, empowering others 💪🏽, making world 🌞 are my lifeblood 🩸.
Registration for Diamond's annual Serial Crystallography Workshop is now open! The workshop will cover the basics of serial crystallography and training on how to run experiments at Diamond. 📅 22-23 September 📍 Diamond 🎟️ Free ⏳ Apply by 17:00, Sunday 16 August Apply here 👉 https://bit.ly/44W0Lkw
It was a pleasure to host Julia Lopez MP, the Shadow Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, at Diamond earlier today.
It was wonderful to welcome Didcot and Wantage MP Olly Glover to Diamond earlier today and showcase how AI is supporting innovation in science and the research sector.
Congratulations to Diamond's Mark Warren part of the winning team behind the @rsc.org Dalton Horizon Prize, recognised for their transformative approach to the synthesis, stabilisation and catalytic application of highly reactive transition metal complexes 👏 Read more 👉 https://bit.ly/4pyppkB
“Máquinas maiores que campos de futebol para observar máquinas moleculares mil milhões de vezes mais pequenas.” Com Carlos Fiolhais e @davidmarcal.bsky.social: proteínas, sincrotrões e IA. www.publico.pt/2026/07/27/c...
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“We use machines larger than football fields to observe molecular machines a billion times smaller than a metre.” With Carlos Fiolhais and @davidmarcal.bsky.social on the Público-backed Mais Lento do que a Luz to talk proteins, synchrotrons, & collaborative science: www.publico.pt/2026/07/27/c...
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⏰ 2 weeks left to apply for the 2026 CCP4-BCA Protein Crystallography Summer School (6–11 Sep, Norwich, UK). Invaluable lectures, hands-on tutorials and networking is waiting for you ☺️ 📅 Applications close 19 June www.jic.ac.uk/event/ccp4-b... #Crystallography #CCP4
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Congratulations to Senior Beamline Scientist at I04, David Aragao for receiving a Fellowship from @rsb.org.uk!👏 He has been recognised for his contribution to the biological sciences throughout his career and at Diamond. Find out more 👉 https://bit.ly/4tzmaKv
Watching butterflies slows time - so why not take a break and notice their beauty 🦋 You can also let us know when you’ve seen a butterfly on the #SignsOfSpring survey: www.field-studies-council.org/signs-of-spr... In partnership with @fieldstudiesc.bsky.social #CitizenScienceMonth
David Aragão (@aragaod.bsky.social), ITQB NOVA alumnus, has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (@rsb.org.uk). 🗣️ "ITQB NOVA gave me the rigour and scientific mindset that allowed me to evolve towards instrumentation science on a global scale." Congrats! Read more: shorturl.at/RpU7P
Thirty-one years ago today the original APS saw its first light. From one beam in 1995, the APS has grown into one of the world's premier X-ray light sources. We're grateful for the support of the APS users for all of these years, and we look forward to the discoveries that are still to come.
BCA BSG Winter Meeting 2025! Theme: "New Advances and Future Directions in Structural Biology" 🗓️ 12th Dec 2025, University of Oxford Poster session + prizes! (Talk deadline: 28th Nov) Register: www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/product-cata... #StructuralBiology #bsgwinter2025 #Crystallography
Structural Biology Meeting 2025 - Oxford | University of Oxford
Registration fee to attend the Structural Biology Meeting 2025, to be held at the Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building in Oxford, on Friday 12th December 2025
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(can ne triggering) When I was married at 13 I was told refusal would end in my death. Now girls in Iraq as young as nine face the same fate www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
When I was married at 13 I was told refusal would end in my death. Now girls in Iraq as young as nine face the same fate
A new law legitimises violence and entrenches control over the bodies of millions of women and girls like me
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An absolute blast from the past at the LOAD ZX Spectrum Museum in #Cantanhede! A must-see for 80s computing fans. They even repair old Spectrums and are looking for new models for their display! Info: loadzx.com/en/ #zxspectrum #loadmuseum #portugal #spectrum #1980s #oldcomputers #retrogaming
Our @diamondlightsource.bsky.social Amy Thompson teaching scaling, merging and multi crystal data reduction at the #ccp4 #workshop #york #summerschool #crystallography
Dublin, you were once mine, and I've never forgotten. Just a fleeting hello from the clouds today, but I promise to return. Always, a little bit yours. #dublin
GOL DO BENFICA ⚽️ Andreas Schjelderup 🅰️ Fredrik Aursnes 🇵🇹 Benfica 1x0 Bayern München 🇩🇪 🏆 #FIFAClubWorldCup
In a recent speech on the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, I spoke about the crucial role local councillors played in improving plans for over 4,000 homes at Valley Park in Didcot — securing better healthcare provision and active travel links. This is exactly why local voices matter.
Cracking start to the day! After the daily 45 min beamline tango, our fastest 500Hz test run with whisper-thin transmission (1.5 MGy) and tight 20µm vertical beam just spat out ISa~40 and inner shell Rmeas of 2.7%. Fingers crossed the samples play nice too! 🙏 #MX #Crystallography #Science"
Andy Purkiss@andypurk.bsky.social · last yr.Off to #DiamondLight Source, with a couple of students, for an in person #MX experiment on beamline I04. Local contact is @aragaod.bsky.social.
This is how my views compare with the election candidates in the upcoming Australian election according to @VoteCompass. Try it for yourself! #AusPol #AusVotes share.votecompass.com/XI5RLFnO8rGQ...
My Vote Compass Results - 2025 Australian Election
Vote Compass calculated my alignment with the candidates running in the 2025 Australian election. Try it for yourself!
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George #Sheldrick (1942-2025) took the natural sciences courses in maths, physics and chemistry. He specialized in the latter, attracted by #structuralchemistry and the cutting-edge methods being developed in #Cambridge. @crystallography.org.uk #crystallography journals.iucr.org/a/issues/202...
George M. Sheldrick (1942–2025)
In memory of George Sheldrick.
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This is truly wonderful... The gems of science history, ethical and intellectual depths surrounding the incredible character of Kathleen Lonsdale, so beautifully condensed in just above 10'. Absolutely worth watching for anyone, and a must if her name sounds new to any chemist. #womeninScience
Mike Glazer@glazer1.bsky.social · last yr.
Congratulations to Wojtek Stawski, winner of the 2025 CCDC CCG prize.
Struggling with #Chemical #Crystallography refinement including anisotropy and other challenges? Check the videos by winner of the early career prize at the #BCASpring meeting @crystallography.org.uk on his YouTube youtube.com/@wojtekstaws... Well done Wojtek !
Wojtek Stawski
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Participants in the annual serial crystallography workshop for graduates student some funded by our @wellcometrust.bsky.social PhD program have got homework to do in the evening time …. @diamondlightsource.bsky.social @instruct-eric.bsky.social
Our own @amyjayyyne.bsky.social from @diamondlightsource.bsky.social presenting VMXi at @crystallography.org.uk . Great talk!
This year's Lonsdale prize lecture opens #BCA25 and is delivered by Emma McCabe on Strategies and consequences of breaking inversion symmetry. See crystallography.org.uk/prizes for the history of this lecture
