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Here is a simulated spherical Nickel electron channelling pattern (EMSoft) made into a football shape so I can hold it and pretend I am an electron diving into atoms. I like electrons and shapes and matlab and this has all 3 😍😍😍😍 @aunt_daisy doi.org/10.1111/j.1365…

@de_isja Thanks for the suggestion, I will do some research about it!

@hexallography I hear from people that an improv comedy course really helps with this. It's also fun to attend!

Ahhhh - I had not realised before that about half my spoken words consists of 'um'😮. How can I get better at talking?

@ja_pascoe Thanks! Perhaps I should intentionally speak slowly - i.e. leave silence between each word, and test how long it takes to sound awkward. I noticed it in a recording of myself giving a talk. Almost every word is punctuated by 'um'.

@hexallography It might help to practice being more comfortable with silence, rather than feeling the need to fill it up. If you have someone to practice on, say some sentences, then leave a silence and have them raise hand when they feel it's awkward. You'll be surprised how long that takes.

@TEMguru Thanks - that sounds like a good idea, even reading out loud to myself to start with. I read really fast in my head by my reading out loud ability is worse than the average 12-year old

@hexallography Do you have a partner or friend who you could read to? Read story books together, eg alternate chapters, to gain confidence. Harry Potter or Rivers of London (Ben Aaronovitch) are good places to start.

There is always time for #ScienceCake when preparing slides: meet this very hungry fatigue crack in a cake-jelly composite 🐊🍰 Do these cake crystals have an easy-crack plane? What about WC crystals in WC-Co hardmetals? Find out at #EUROMAT2023

Hexagons are the Bestagons!

"Just add water" pancake mix under SEM. Looks like blobs of buttermilk/oil and crystals of baking soda in a sticky gluten substrate

Super exciting news about Smith, Meyers, @cs_kaplan, Goodman-Strauss's discovery of an "einstein"—a single shape that tiles the plane aperiodically! I decided to create a 3D-printable version of it. You can find it here: thingiverse.com/thing:5923307 Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2303.10798

I'm not great at managing travel admin, and get *very* tired from new places & people - this can be chaotic/stressful! Virtual meeting options help a lot. This time, attending in-person was definitely worthwhile as it's easier to actively participate.

Ngl - my workload in the run-up to the workshop was rough! (If I tried to keep it up for much longer it would have broken me.) But I am grateful for awesome colleagues at NPL who took on a lot of my 'normal' work so that I could join in #MTEX 2023.

Just wrote some notes from #MTEX 2023 workshop - ended up with >1700 words! Super grateful to have 8 days to focus 100% on #EBSD #MATLAB #crystallography. I learnt so much, & so many exciting things I want to do / help with / contribute to now!

Would any Berlin-based folk here be up for meeting on Friday afternoon? :) Alternatively, any recommendations for interesting things to do?

@BMatB 👀

I am running out of time to prepare slides for a talk and therefore procrastinating with powerpoint stick figures... meet the 5 main EBSD users in our lab👍

stop-motion microscopy 📷

@DrStuartR Cool - that looks incredibly clean for an organic nonconductive sample! How do you get the sample surface flat? Do you need a cryostage to keep it from melting?

More 3d prep powered by the finest chocolate chips ... What is life 😂

@zebra_ballerina Thank you! 😄

@hexallography Happy New Year 💕 🥟🐟🍊

@atomicbits That misfit is startling! 😲

#coherent #precipitate with negative misfit on plate #materialsscience

An MP4 file (first draft - feedback is welcome!)

@BMatB 2nd* best kind of trouble *Baking (cake or metal) probably comes first