Alex Björling

Changed jobs and completely forgot to advertise this preprint! In it, we raise some (big) problems with applying nanobeams to chemical systems. chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi…

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@MAXIVLaboratory @ComixTeam

What is possible with the #Xray brilliance of 4th generation #lightsources? A new study w #NanoMAX beamline demonstrates exceptional #data quality beyond experimental limits. maxiv.lu.se/news/4th-gener… #physics #crystallography

@sci_photos Cool! Long exposure, or could they be spurs from the same cosmic ray?

This is where two #cosmic rays crossed yesterday at 5:17 pm UTC. #background #radiation #xray #detector #singlephotoncounting #hybrid #pixelated #guesswhichone #ithasgaps #usersalwayswantsmallerpixels #andhighercountrates #smileylaughing #hashtagstorm #stillfourcharactersleft

@DrHorrell @KarolisLive @MAXIVLaboratory Told you it was bleak!

@KarolisLive @a_bjorling @MAXIVLaboratory As long as it's in by Friday (here or a DM) I can add it!

After receiving many #Mugshots from people, synchrotrons, and even an XFEL, I am excited to announce the first ever #SynchrotronMugMadness! Where light sources will compete to determine, once and for all, who has the best mug! Now let's meet the contestants.

@DrHorrell @AfSynchrotron @ausynchrotron @CHESS_user @esrfsynchrotron @synchroSOLEIL @SESAME_Jordan @BSP_en @desy @EuropeanXFEL @advlightsource @MAXIVLaboratory There's a pretty fly @SOLARIS_science mug in a cupboard at @MAXIVLaboratory, but our native mugs are bleak.

Synchrotron user community I need your help! Do you have pictures of the different synchrotron mugs? I need them for... reasons. @AfSynchrotron @ausynchrotron @CHESS_user @esrfsynchrotron @synchroSOLEIL @SESAME_Jordan @BSP_en @desy @EuropeanXFEL @advlightsource @MAXIVLaboratory

D​ina Carbone et al.: Design and performance of a dedicated coherent X-ray scanning diffraction instrument at beamline NanoMAX of MAX IV #ScanningXRayDiffraction ... #IUCr scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?…

@mringridrichard @IRIG_Grenoble @esrfsynchrotron @ERC_Research Yes! See you later, looking forward to it.

Interested in the use of in situ CDI to investigate (electro-)catalytic reactions, and how machine learning can help in the data analysis @IRIG_Grenoble @esrfsynchrotron @ERC_Research: linxs.se/events/2022/3/…

@jcesar_dasilva @id16a @PierreXThibault @bjdaurer 7000 iterations?!

Ptypy running @id16a Thanks @PierreXThibault @bjdaurer Björn Enders and all Ptypy collaborators

The work is calling again. Time to perform some near-field ptychographic-tomography imaging. I won’t tell you what it is, but it is happening right now at @id16a @esrfsynchrotron 👨🏻‍💻 Also, a way to fill my mind after all.

To EU leaders I’m 🇸🇪 To stand with🇺🇦I’m willing to suffer great inconvenience & economic costs if it hurts Putin’s Russia. Willing to stay cold, eat less, drive 90% less and much more if needed to cut addiction of Russian energy. If you agree, let our leaders know!

@synchrofish @BioXASImg_CLS @CanLightSource Cool Gosia! So important to be able to rely on data acquisition just working.

@nattyover We do this routinely to align our nanofocusing mirrors @MAXIVLaboratory and at other synchrotrons, using piezos to achieve better than 10 nm. But I imagine it's more difficult in space!

All I could find out about these secret actuators capable of moving JWST's 18 mirror segments by 10s of nanometers(!!) is that they work by "flexing," or "converting a big motion into a tiny motion." Can anyone say what that might mean? quantamagazine.org/why-nasas-jame…

@WKCosmo @skdh @Quasilocal But aren't there lots of practical situations where truth is too much to ask for? The perfect gas law, for example, is empirically useful but no truth about the world.

@skdh @Quasilocal No matter what statement one makes, it's possible to stroke one's chin wisely and say. "Well, it depends what you mean by <X>!" The fact that one can undermine any statement about the wold with a tautology is boring, and exactly the trap science frees us from.

It is a short step from "science doesn't need to be empirically tested" to "science doesn't need to be true".

@PKoppenburg Ouch, my alma mater. Shared a lab space with this person 15 years ago, at that time he was working on something called Rydberg matter which I think nobody else believed in.

A new cold fusion saga? "The first steps forming the antibaryons are not described here since they do not influence the energetics". I have questions

Sebastian Kalbfleisch et al.: X-ray in-line holography and holotomography at the NanoMAX beamline #Holotomography #Holography ... #IUCr scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?…

@DDzhigaev @desy @MAXIVLaboratory We know you can handle it, Dmitry

Six accepted beamtime proposals for Spring 2022, hm... @desy @MAXIVLaboratory

Don't forget to tune in to the Joint ESS-MAX IV Science Colloquium webcast with Prof. Ian Robinson today 15 December at 15:15 CET Importance of Nanostructure in Ferroelectric Devices linxs.se/related-events…

@WKCosmo I am not, and I still get nothing done!

It's a good thing scientists are not properly trained in the philosophy of science, because if they were they would get nothing done.

@GuizarSicairos I am also sympathetic, but tend to assume that for society journals, the question "where does that money go" probably has good answers.

I get where this sentiment comes from. But note there is an important distinction between journals that are for-profit and those from scientific non-profit societies. Both have publishing costs but only in the former this public money goes to line the pockets of publishers