rfwebster
@rfwebster.net
Research Fellow in the Electron Microscope Unit 🔬 at UNSW, Bell Ringer 🔔 & Geordie living in Australia 🇦🇺
https://rfwebster.net
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What if your TEM could run #microED and solve structures on its own?
Just insert your sample—watch the structure appear.
No human picks. No manual tweaks.
Meet REyes!
doi.org/10.26434/che...
@caltechcce.bsky.social @caltech.edu @uclacb.bsky.social
Just insert your sample—watch the structure appear.
No human picks. No manual tweaks.
Meet REyes!
doi.org/10.26434/che...
@caltechcce.bsky.social @caltech.edu @uclacb.bsky.social
May 15, 2025 at 12:13 AM
What if your TEM could run #microED and solve structures on its own?
Just insert your sample—watch the structure appear.
No human picks. No manual tweaks.
Meet REyes!
doi.org/10.26434/che...
@caltechcce.bsky.social @caltech.edu @uclacb.bsky.social
Just insert your sample—watch the structure appear.
No human picks. No manual tweaks.
Meet REyes!
doi.org/10.26434/che...
@caltechcce.bsky.social @caltech.edu @uclacb.bsky.social
March 16, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Not the eels I was looking for google!!
March 13, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Not the eels I was looking for google!!
I've definitely been guilty of a bit of vegetative electron microscopy, those late night elemental maps on an old LaB6 'scope definitely warranted a few naps between drift correction stage bumps. Not sure if I'd brag about them in the method section though. retractionwatch.com/2025/02/10/v...
As a nonsense phrase of shady provenance makes the rounds, Elsevier defends its use
The origin of the phrase? The phrase was so strange it would have stood out even to a non-scientist. Yet “vegetative electron microscopy” had already made it past reviewers and editors at several j…
retractionwatch.com
February 12, 2025 at 8:56 AM
I've definitely been guilty of a bit of vegetative electron microscopy, those late night elemental maps on an old LaB6 'scope definitely warranted a few naps between drift correction stage bumps. Not sure if I'd brag about them in the method section though. retractionwatch.com/2025/02/10/v...
My favourite view of the microscope 🔬, with it's pants off!! This is a JEOL F200 transmission electron microscope (TEM) and under the table you can see the CMOS camera made by Gatan which we use for imaging and 4D STEM!
February 6, 2025 at 3:08 AM
My favourite view of the microscope 🔬, with it's pants off!! This is a JEOL F200 transmission electron microscope (TEM) and under the table you can see the CMOS camera made by Gatan which we use for imaging and 4D STEM!
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Having a color-blind colleague is a good reminder that we need to be more careful when designing figures for scientific publication 🧪
My lab has found this page especially useful for selecting color palettes, used in combination with different symbols: thenode.biologists.com/data-visuali...
My lab has found this page especially useful for selecting color palettes, used in combination with different symbols: thenode.biologists.com/data-visuali...
Color blind friendly palettes for data visualizations with categories
A discussion of color blind friendly palettes for labeling unique catergories in data visualization.
thenode.biologists.com
December 8, 2024 at 9:48 PM
Having a color-blind colleague is a good reminder that we need to be more careful when designing figures for scientific publication 🧪
My lab has found this page especially useful for selecting color palettes, used in combination with different symbols: thenode.biologists.com/data-visuali...
My lab has found this page especially useful for selecting color palettes, used in combination with different symbols: thenode.biologists.com/data-visuali...
Reposted by rfwebster
📣 JOB ALERT📣 Our UNSW Sydney facility is looking for a Technical Officer (to Jan 2026) to support bio/cryo sample prep and SEM/TEM user training. Join a lovely team in a busy core facility that specialises in electron microscopy!
external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/52...
external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/52...
January 7, 2025 at 10:21 PM
📣 JOB ALERT📣 Our UNSW Sydney facility is looking for a Technical Officer (to Jan 2026) to support bio/cryo sample prep and SEM/TEM user training. Join a lovely team in a busy core facility that specialises in electron microscopy!
external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/52...
external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/52...
Australian in-laws will tease you forever if you call them a red belly black spider....
January 3, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Australian in-laws will tease you forever if you call them a red belly black spider....
I have just realised that the nursery rhyme about 5 little pigs that went to market is more about making sausages than it is about having little adventures.
December 12, 2024 at 4:01 AM
I have just realised that the nursery rhyme about 5 little pigs that went to market is more about making sausages than it is about having little adventures.
Wife: 39 weeks pregnant
2 x Cats: decided at 5:30 am they can't stand each other and can't be in the same room without serious fighting
Stress levels: 🔺📈⏫⤴️💹🔝
2 x Cats: decided at 5:30 am they can't stand each other and can't be in the same room without serious fighting
Stress levels: 🔺📈⏫⤴️💹🔝
December 5, 2024 at 9:44 PM
Wife: 39 weeks pregnant
2 x Cats: decided at 5:30 am they can't stand each other and can't be in the same room without serious fighting
Stress levels: 🔺📈⏫⤴️💹🔝
2 x Cats: decided at 5:30 am they can't stand each other and can't be in the same room without serious fighting
Stress levels: 🔺📈⏫⤴️💹🔝
I've started the roll out of some interactive tools for electron microscopy on my website, the first of these to be released is an interactive Contrast Transfer Function plotter: rfwebster.net/tools/CTF useful for understanding the resolution and contrast in your HRTEM images!
rfwebster.net
December 4, 2024 at 6:26 AM
I've started the roll out of some interactive tools for electron microscopy on my website, the first of these to be released is an interactive Contrast Transfer Function plotter: rfwebster.net/tools/CTF useful for understanding the resolution and contrast in your HRTEM images!
Making a new website with react... Watch this space for something simple but hopefully useful to the microanalyst...
November 29, 2024 at 7:18 AM
Making a new website with react... Watch this space for something simple but hopefully useful to the microanalyst...
Got to ride a different light rail line to work today!
November 25, 2024 at 6:06 AM
Got to ride a different light rail line to work today!
Today I learnt that an Australian (cape) gooseberry is different to an English one.
November 22, 2024 at 10:34 AM
Today I learnt that an Australian (cape) gooseberry is different to an English one.
Love it when the atoms line up for me
November 18, 2024 at 4:06 AM
Love it when the atoms line up for me
Getting ready for baby, I'm using my #raspberrypi pico w as a #micropython nursery monitor with air quality and tog recommendations for the Australian summer!
November 12, 2024 at 12:34 AM
Getting ready for baby, I'm using my #raspberrypi pico w as a #micropython nursery monitor with air quality and tog recommendations for the Australian summer!
Benefits of having an Australian wife and not personally being allowed to vote in the country I live: democracy sausage!
September 13, 2024 at 10:12 PM
Benefits of having an Australian wife and not personally being allowed to vote in the country I live: democracy sausage!
Just going to throw this around - what if any company making over $1b/yr had to pay 50%. How would Coles and Woolies survive?
August 28, 2024 at 6:49 AM
Just going to throw this around - what if any company making over $1b/yr had to pay 50%. How would Coles and Woolies survive?
It was nice of Dell to include this free hand warmer, but I wish there was also one for my right (mouse wielding) hand!
June 13, 2024 at 6:06 AM
It was nice of Dell to include this free hand warmer, but I wish there was also one for my right (mouse wielding) hand!
Beginning to like this AI drawing thing!
June 1, 2024 at 7:13 AM
Beginning to like this AI drawing thing!
I'm struggling to read this any other way than: Quantas profits drop because they stopped overcharging.
February 21, 2024 at 10:02 PM
I'm struggling to read this any other way than: Quantas profits drop because they stopped overcharging.
My unintentional hobby breeding bright orange mystery snails in my fish tank 🐌
January 27, 2024 at 3:17 AM
My unintentional hobby breeding bright orange mystery snails in my fish tank 🐌
Time to wake up 3 cold FEGs!
January 7, 2024 at 10:59 PM
Time to wake up 3 cold FEGs!