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Adam Crawshaw @adamcrawshaw.bsky.social · 7d

Nice logo!

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CCP4 @ccp4mx.bsky.social · 15d

Registration for the #CCP4SW 2026 is now open! Being held as hybrid event with in-person at EMCC, Nottingham, UK between 7-9 January 2026. This year's topic is Ligands in Focus: Decoding Ligand Binding in Modern Structural Biology. Find out more at studyweekend.ccp4.ac.uk

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Adam Crawshaw @adamcrawshaw.bsky.social · 23d

VMXm has postcards! Available from the beamline or a member of the VMXm team if you see us at conferences. Do reach out to us for your microcrystal X-ray diffraction experiments.

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Adam Crawshaw @adamcrawshaw.bsky.social · Sep 1

Great to see HeXI starting to appear on the experimental hall at @diamondlightsource.bsky.social. HeXI will be a 1 MeV electron diffraction instrument that will complement complement the capabilities of VMXm.

The HeXI hutch being assembled on the experimental hall at Diamond.

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Adam Crawshaw @adamcrawshaw.bsky.social · Aug 27

The first @diamondlightsource.bsky.social MX Newsletter is here! Including the latest news from the MX beamlines, helpful info about shutdowns, runs and training opportunities as well as useful tips and tricks for making the most of the MX beamlines at Diamond. www.diamond.ac.uk/Instruments/...

MX-Newsletter - - Diamond Light Source

This is a periodical newsletter which covers news, updates, and announcements from the MX village. MX-village constitutes of seven macromolecular crystallography beamlines and other associated facilit...

www.diamond.ac.uk

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Adam Crawshaw @adamcrawshaw.bsky.social · Aug 7

Registration is open for the September on-site MX user training. If you are an MX user of @diamondlightsource.bsky.social then please to apply to attend - spaces are limited. You'll have the opportunity to visit and learn about all the MX beamlines, data analysis as well as all things logistics.

On-site MX User Training: September - - Diamond Light Source

Training sessions for users of the Macromolecular Crystallography (MX) beamlines

www.diamond.ac.uk

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Adam Crawshaw @adamcrawshaw.bsky.social · Jul 29

Happy 10th birthday to eBIC at @diamondlightsource.bsky.social Keeping the MX group looking over their shoulders!

Titan Krios 1 in the experimental hall at Diamond with party hat.

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Adam Crawshaw @adamcrawshaw.bsky.social · Jul 23

A great end to the #ACA2025 meeting in Chicago! Great to meet so many colleagues in both the X-ray and electron diffraction worlds and present some of our latest research work from VMXm and eBIC at DLS, and the RFI. Many thanks to the organisers!

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Adam Crawshaw @adamcrawshaw.bsky.social · Jul 21

Another synchrotron ticked off the list with a visit to the Advanced Photon Source, Illinois #ACA2025

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Sam "The Mug Guy" Horrell @drhorrell.bsky.social · Jun 13

Taking bets on if this is crystalline or not. We'll find out next week on @diamondlightsource.bsky.social's VMXm next week with the help of @adamcrawshaw.bsky.social.

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Amy Thompson @amyjayyyne.bsky.social · May 30

Thrilled to have this work published! Thanks to some awesome teamwork, we've demonstrated improvements in multi-crystal data clustering by automatically separating 🐮🐷🧑‍🔬 #multicrystal #clustering #crystallography doi.org/10.1107/S205...

Enhanced intensity-based clustering of isomorphous multi-crystal data sets in the presence of subtle variations

Bovine, porcine and human insulin data sets are isomorphous in terms of unit cell and symmetry. Through enhancements to the multi-crystal clustering methods in DIALS, species-pure data sets are automa...

doi.org

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Martin Walsh @walshdls.bsky.social · Apr 4

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

legobox set of I24 which accordi g to google is the worlds best tuneable microfocus mx beamline in the world

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Adam Crawshaw @adamcrawshaw.bsky.social · Mar 5

300 mg is a chonky amount of protein - nice work!

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Adam Crawshaw @adamcrawshaw.bsky.social · Feb 12

The abstract deadline for the BCA Spring Meeting at the University of Leeds in April has been extended. Abstract are encouraged from all ready of structural biology - not just crystallography! hg3.co.uk/bca/

BCA Spring Meeting

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Adam Crawshaw @adamcrawshaw.bsky.social · Feb 12

registrations.hg3conferences.co.uk/hg3/frontend...

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Adam Crawshaw @adamcrawshaw.bsky.social · Feb 12

The abstract deadline for the BCA Spring Meeting at the University of Leeds in April has been extended. Abstract are encouraged from all ready of structural biology - not just crystallography! hg3.co.uk/bca/

BCA Spring Meeting

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Eleanor @elamanor.bsky.social · Nov 12

Okay I've whipped up a preliminary starter pack for crystals and crystallography. Still in the process of searching and adding, please repost and let me know who else in the world of crystals is on bsky!
go.bsky.app/Cpx2Ppu

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Adam Crawshaw @adamcrawshaw.bsky.social · Nov 5

I refute the claim over engineered! See my colleagues round the ring at I23 ;-) But thanks for the plug!

Adam Crawshaw @adamcrawshaw.bsky.social · Oct 31

Our manuscript describing the VMXm beamline at Diamond Light Source is out! The manuscript describes how we coupled a nano focus X-ray beam with an innovative in vacuum sample position to measure micron sized crystals and build a unique MX beamline. journals.iucr.org/s/issues/202...

VMXm – A sub-micron focus macromolecular crystallography beamline at Diamond Light Source

The VMXm beamline at Diamond Light Source enables macromolecular micro-crystallography near the physical limits achievable using synchrotron radiation.

journals.iucr.org

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Adam Crawshaw @adamcrawshaw.bsky.social · Apr 18

Diamond MX is coming to you! Our MX workshop showcasing the tools available at DiamondLightSource for protein crystallography will take place in Manchester on 14th May. Sign up below. More of these workshops will take place around the UK! www.diamond.ac.uk/Home/Events/...

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Adam Crawshaw @adamcrawshaw.bsky.social · Mar 15

A little over a week left to apply for this unique post-doc opportunity!

Adam Crawshaw @adamcrawshaw.bsky.social · Mar 10

An exciting time to join the VMXm and HeXI teams to develop X-ray and electron crystallography methods to determine proteins structures from micro/nano-crystals. vacancies.diamond.ac.uk/vacancy/pdra...

PDRA: Electron and X-ray crystallography of protein nanocrystals (11311)

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Adam Crawshaw @adamcrawshaw.bsky.social · Mar 10

An exciting time to join the VMXm and HeXI teams to develop X-ray and electron crystallography methods to determine proteins structures from micro/nano-crystals. vacancies.diamond.ac.uk/vacancy/pdra...

PDRA: Electron and X-ray crystallography of protein nanocrystals (11311)

vacancies.diamond.ac.uk

Adam Crawshaw @adamcrawshaw.bsky.social · Feb 6

This is fun! shiny.rcg.sfu.ca/u/rdmorin/sc...
The subject of my PhD still dominates my Google Scholar profile but VMXm and methods development is creeping up.

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Real Professor Moody @petermoody.bsky.social · Jan 22

BCA British Crystallographic Association Spring meeting- abstract deadline extended to THIS FRIDAY
hg3.co.uk/bca/

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