#BigBucky has come out from hibernation again for today’s #MonashOpenDay. #BraggYourPattern

Who's going to #IUCr2026 in Calgary? As the world's crystallographers 'assemble' in Canada - can we post some #BraggYourPattern pictures that we find on our journeys?

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Department of Physics at the University of Oxford@oxfordphysics.bsky.social · last wk.

The 1951 Festival Pattern Group transformed X-ray crystallography—including Dorothy Hodgkin’s insulin diagrams—into modern manufacturing designs, blending post-war science and art into innovative national progress.

Our very last #BraggYourPattern Crystal Explorer kit has been ordered! After 3 years of working on this project, we have finished with 775 sets going to 697 primary schools across Australia and NZ, including some of the most remote schools in the world! A great legacy of #IUCr2023. #ozchem #IUCr

🎉740 Crystal explorer kits sent to primary schools all over Australia and New Zealand - the last 10 will get sent out this week! Thanks to everyone who signed up for one. #BraggYourPattern

Join us for the FIRST combined meeting of the Society of Crystallographers in Australia and New Zealand + the Australian X-ray Analytical Association: Crystal36-AXAA 2026 29th Nov-2nd Dec 2026 - in the beautiful Adelaide Hills town of Hahndorf. 🍻 Register & submit abstracts for early bird savings!

Had a great visit to my old high school, Wangaratta High School, a few weeks ago, to talk about #MOFs, #Nobels, and assorted study and career tips. Always a privilege to talk to kids about the joys of chemistry, particularly country kids who have few scientific role models. #outreach #ozchem

So here’s why my flight to #MOF2026 got diverted to Tahiti (not my video). Not shown is the hour of abusive screaming as he was sat on by passengers at the back of the plane until we landed. Fun times.

Dorothy Hodgkin, Nobel Prize winner and crystallography pioneer, was born #OTD in 1910. Using X-ray crystallography she determined the structures of complex molecules including vitamin B10 and insulin: www.compoundchem.com/2019/05/12/h... #ChemSky 🧪

‼️Don't miss our latest Editorial – The crystal engineering foundations of the MOF Nobel Prize Nathaniel Rosi, @furukawas.bsky.social & @sbattenresearch.bsky.social all share their experiences of working on MOFs in future Nobel-winning laboratories👏⬇️ 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5CE... #Chemsky🧪

Ever wonder what it was like to help create a new field of chemistry? Wonder no more... #ozchem #MOFs #BraggYourPattern The crystal engineering foundations of the MOF Nobel Prize - now published in CrystEngComm pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

The crystal engineering foundations of the MOF Nobel Prize

Nathaniel Rosi, Shuhei Furukawa and Stuart Batten share their experiences of working on MOFs in future Nobel-winning laboratories.

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Perfect name for something you use for your science and not give any credit

Colin Carlson@colincarlson.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Naming your biology LLM after Rosalind Franklin is… hell is not hot enough

Come and work with me! The Austron is hiring a chemistry focused beamline scientist on the MX beamlines! Get in touch if you are interested 💎🧪👩‍🔬 #ozchem careers.ansto.gov.au/job/Melbourn...

Congratulations to Helen Maynard-Casely and Team for the winning project Crystal-a-con in a Box 🙌 @crystallised-cricket.com

Great day yesterday talking to the kids of the LabRats Science Club (labratclub.com) about all things MOFs and Nobels. These weekend science clubs are so rare and wonderful - true diamonds in the rough. Still not convinced about the cardboard cutouts though... #OzChem

Here's the latest distribution map. 53 more schools have signed up since the post below! The most recent order is from a remote school in the Pilburra (NW part of WA), somewhere down the track in the photo. The Satellite view reinforces how remote it is. They also have an #elementsets on its way!

Bragg Your Pattern@braggyourpattern.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We just crossed the milestone of the 500th school to sign up for their crystal explorer kit!! #BraggYourPattern

We just crossed the milestone of the 500th school to sign up for their crystal explorer kit!! #BraggYourPattern

Bragg Your Pattern@braggyourpattern.bsky.social · last yr.

There are now boxes of #CrystalExplorer kits ready to go, a FREE resource for Primary Schools in Australia and NZ. We're targeting regional and remote schools (so far reaching from Tom Price to the Chatham Islands), head to BraggYourPattern.com to sign up for one

Attention crystallographers and X-ray Analysts of Australia and New Zealand!! The SCANZ/AXXA conference this year will be in my beautiful home state of South Aus (I'm not biased at all 😉). Save the date! 💎 #BraggYourPattern #Ozchem

No, you’re easily distracted! #crystallography #curling #winterolympics

That's a wrap from #Supramol26. #Supramol27 will be in Brisbane - see you there! #ozchem

All the award winners from #Supramol26. #ozchem

Congratulations to Man Him Chak and Lara Holburn on receiving Poster Prizes at #Supramol26. #ozchem

Congratulations to Jess Algar on receiving the @chemcomm.rsc.org Poster Prize at #Supramol26. #ozchem

Congratulations to Svenja Buescher on receiving the @chemicalscience.rsc.org Poster Prize at #Supramol26. #ozchem

Congratulations to Nina Lawson and Sem Boulanger on receiving Best Talk Prizes at #Supramol26. #ozchem

Congratulations to Simona Capomolla on on receiving the Merck Best Talk Prize at #Supramol26. #ozchem

Our paper on the instrument, beautifully named Wombat, is now published doi.org/10.1107/S160... @japplcryst.iucr.org - We're currently also open for experiment submissions - deadline 16th March neutron.ansto.gov.au

Wombat, the high-intensity diffractometer in operation at the Australian Centre for Neutron Scattering

We describe the Wombat neutron diffraction instrument, which has been operational for the past 17 years at the Australian Centre for Neutron Scattering.

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Congratulations to Witold Bloch on the awarding to him of the Fay and Len Lindoy Medal at #Supramol26. #ozchem