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Diamond Light Source

@DiamondLightSou

4 years

55 new binding targets for #COVID19 have been identified using Diamond Light Source's #LifeSciences capabilities. Learn more about the latest #WorldChangingScience here:

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4 years

Diamond's Lab 30 is set up for volunteer #3Dprinting of protective visors to help with #COVID19 PPE requirements. Thanks to all Diamond staff & #engineers for your contributions

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Diamond Light Source

@DiamondLightSou

6 years

Happy 16th Birthday to Diamond! Over the past 16 years we have designed, built and commissioned 31 beamlines, scheduled 47,232 hours of user beamtime, published 6,786 peer-reviewed papers and solved 6,190 protein structures! Looking forward to the next 16

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4 years

A fresh batch of #3dprinted visor PPE parts, ready to be finished and decontaminated before being sent to @NHS - thanks to the amazing volunteer efforts from Diamond #Engineers , staff and printers! @NHSuk @DHSCgovuk

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Diamond Light Source

@DiamondLightSou

6 years

Somebody accidentally left the roof off Diamond! #IDL2018

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@DiamondLightSou

4 years

Congratulations to our CEO Prof Andrew Harrison who has been named on the Queen's Birthday Honours list & will receive an OBE for services to science during the Covid-19 response. It’s an accolade to all those involved with Diamond! #QueensBirthdayHonours

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@DiamondLightSou

3 years

The @covid_moonshot consortium, of which Diamond is a member, has received key funding of £8 million from @wellcometrust . The funding will help contribute to developing a safe, globally accessible and affordable antiviral medication. #COVID19 Read more:

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@DiamondLightSou

6 years

Welcome back to Alice Roberts, pictured here on top of our storage ring! Alice and the team will be filming at Diamond for the day 📽️

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Diamond Light Source

@DiamondLightSou

4 years

Follow David as he takes the path of an electron travelling around the synchrotron. He even gains energy like an electron does - although he’s nowhere near as fast! #synchrotronscience

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@DiamondLightSou

3 years

In 2019, an international team brought the complete skull of the 3.67-million-year-old #LittleFoot skeleton, from South Africa to the UK, and achieved unprecedented imaging resolution of its bony structures and dentition in an X-ray synchrotron-based investigation at Diamond.

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@DiamondLightSou

3 years

Today is the International day of #womenandgirlsinscience . At Diamond we strive to continue the discussion about equality & promote awareness of the issues facing #WomenInSTEM . We are also committed to driving changes in policy and practice to address them. #WomenInScienceDay

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@DiamondLightSou

4 years

Today marks 13 years since her Majesty The Queen and His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh officially opened Diamond.

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@DiamondLightSou

3 years

Happy New Year from everyone at Diamond!

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@DiamondLightSou

6 years

Happy International Day of Light 2018! To date, Diamond has generated 130000000000000000000000000000 photons (packets of light energy). #IDL2018

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Diamond Light Source

@DiamondLightSou

3 years

Congratulations to our Life Sciences' Director Prof Sir Dave Stuart on his knighthood in recognition of his contribution to structural biology and work on SARS-CoV-2 – much deserved!🎖️ Find out more:

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@DiamondLightSou

3 years

This film brilliantly captures the excitement of doing an experiment at Diamond! Watch the excellent Dr Anna Regoutz ( @bluebananna ) as she takes us through her beamtime at the synchrotron. Watch the full film by @Merck_lifesci here: .

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Diamond Light Source

@DiamondLightSou

4 years

Teams at Diamond have reached an important milestone today - producing our 3000th #3Dprinted visor! This week's supply are heading to care homes, where PPE is desperately needed. Thanks to all our volunteers, engineers & scientists who make this happen! @CovidPrintOx #COVID19

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Diamond Light Source

@DiamondLightSou

5 years

On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we celebrate revolutionary #SoftwareEngineer , Margaret Hamilton - namesake for our newest #ScientificComputing cluster. Learn more about it & how her work helped bring humans to the moon! #WomeninScience

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@DiamondLightSou

8 months

It's a wrap 🥲 Thank you #Melbourne for having @DiamondLightSou and @lightsources at the @IUCr2023 . We hosted workshops, attended tons of talks & presented our research daily. We met hundreds of fellow scientists and felt truly proud to be part of the 🌍Union of Crystallography!

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Today marks 22 year since Diamond Light Source was officially established! To celebrate Diamond's 22nd birthday we looked into our photography archive to uncover some of the memories over that period. 📸👇 @wellcometrust

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@DiamondLightSou

4 years

Congratulations to our PhD student alum @HayleySimon1 for winning the prestigious @RoySocChem Ronald Belcher Award for her outstanding and innovative research on the conservation of @MaryRoseMuseum 's iron cannonballs - what an achievement! #RSCAwards

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@DiamondLightSou

9 months

Our very own @DrHorrell in action at the @IUCr2023 Crystal-A-Con! Introducing crystallography to a new generation of science lovers🧬

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Diamond Light Source

@DiamondLightSou

4 years

Together with our scientific users, this week we deposited our 10,000th #MX structure into the global #ProteinDataBank , a vital resource for students and researchers working to understand the molecules of life. Find out more here:

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@DiamondLightSou

2 years

Three of the scientists behind COVID Moonshot, including Diamond’s @FrankvonDelft , explain why they are developing a patent-free #COVID19 antiviral therapy, in a quest for #openscience drug discovery

Why we are developing a patent-free COVID antiviral therapy

The founders of the COVID Moonshot write, ��We believe open-science drug discovery… is an essential public service.”

www.asbmb.org

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@DiamondLightSou

2 years

We are pleased to announce that we have today received funding confirmation from @UKRI_News For the first phase of the #DiamondII upgrade programme @wellcometrust

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@DiamondLightSou

3 years

Today marks 14 years since Her Majesty The Queen and His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh officially opened Diamond.

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@DiamondLightSou

3 years

Well that's a view of the synchrotron we've never seen before!

Dr Anna Regoutz

@bluebananna

3 years

For all the @DiamondLightSou users out there who need a familiar sized object to compare the Ever Given to 😂 The app below let’s you park the boat to scale wherever you like - definitely puts things in perspective #BoatvsSynchrotron #Giants

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5 years

Some of Diamond's inspiring scientists, #engineers , technicians & support staff braved today's weather to stand together for International Day of Women & Girls in Science. These are the true champions of #WomenInScience #WomeninSTEM , & they help drive #SynchrotronResearch forward

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@DiamondLightSou

6 years

Diamond is delighted to welcome BBC Breakfast! Tune in at 6.45 am to learn about the plastic-eating enzyme illuminated by our unique beamline, I23. #togethersciencecan @portsmouthuni @NREL @BBSRC @BBCBreakfast

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Diamond Light Source

@DiamondLightSou

3 years

We've hit a major milestone - 10,000 publications! Our 10,000th paper presents insights into chiral polymer films, which emit and absorb circularly polarised light, and offers the promise of achieving technological advances such as quantum computing.

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Diamond Light Source

@DiamondLightSou

3 years

Follow David as he takes the path of an electron travelling around the synchrotron. He even gains energy like an electron does - although he’s nowhere near as fast! #synchrotronscience

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Diamond Light Source

@DiamondLightSou

8 years

Happy #AdaLovelaceDay ! Meet the computing pioneer & gifted mathematician who helped blaze a trail for women in STEM:

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@DiamondLightSou

6 years

BBC Breakfast broadcasting live from Diamond! #togethersciencecan @portsmouthuni @NREL @BBSRC @BBCBreakfast

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@DiamondLightSou

8 months

Our Synchrotron Radiation School is back! We are ready for a week of lectures and practical sessions to train the new generation of synchrotron scientists🔬 @B18Diamond @VeronicaCelorr1

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@DiamondLightSou

1 year

Our Optics and #Metrology group have even built demonstration protoypes with @LEGO_Group bricks to showcase new #ScientificTechniques and measurement equipment! #InternationalLegoDay

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@DiamondLightSou

3 years

The Membrane Protein Laboratory at Diamond, which is located within @RCatHarwell , has been awarded £1.5m of @wellcometrust funding to support their research into understanding the structure of membrane proteins for a further five years. Read more:

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@DiamondLightSou

8 months

And another edition of our Synchrotron Radiation School is over. We had a week full of lectures and experiments between @UniofOxford and @DiamondLightSou . Thank you to all our speakers and to the delegates who joined us from all over the🌍What a fantastic week in #science !

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@DiamondLightSou

6 years

We are delighted to share the news that @DLSProjectM has been awarded the 2018 RSC Inspiration & Industry Award! Congrats to all involved🏆

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Diamond Light Source

@DiamondLightSou

3 years

An unusually snowy April morning at Diamond!

Chris Orr

@DrChristianOrr1

3 years

Snow at Diamond this morning! #diamondlightsource

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@DiamondLightSou

4 years

Thanks to our B21 PBS Nathan Cowieson for sharing this pic his pilot friend, Scott Farmery, took of the @RutherfordApLab site as he flew over at the weekend! ✈️ Can you spot Diamond?! 👀 #hardtomiss #viewfromabove #synchrotron

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@DiamondLightSou

4 years

Today's the day we open our *virtual* doors and welcome you for a tour of Diamond! Join us on Zoom to explore the UK’s national synchrotron...

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@DiamondLightSou

6 years

Overnight, our XChem facility on beamline I04-1 diffracted its 100,000th crystal dataset since 2014 - just 1yr for the 2nd 50k! Suitably decorated cake with this week’s users from @sheffielduni , industry (SARomics Biostructures) & collaborators #XChem

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@DiamondLightSou

9 months

We are delighted to announce the appointment of a new CEO Diamond - Professor Gianluigi Botton will join in October from @CanLightSource & @McMasterU : @wellcometrust @STFC_Matters

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@DiamondLightSou

3 years

Over the last six months, Diamond has been focusing on unmasking the virus behind #COVID19 and for the first time we can now show how the virus infection mechanism works at the cellular level. #WorldScienceDay2020

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@DiamondLightSou

5 years

Today is #InternationalMicroorganismDay , so we’re celebrating with some of the amazing work our scientists do in #LifeSciences , biology, #CryoEm & more!

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Diamond Light Source

@DiamondLightSou

6 years

Engineering a plastic-eating enzyme! Diamond’s unique long-wavelength MX beamline (I23) has been key in the determination of this pollution-changing enzyme. #togethersciencecan @portsmouthuni @NREL @BBSRC

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@DiamondLightSou

4 years

Fantastic piece in @FT on "How to launch a moonshot against #COVID19 " - another fantastic collaboration with @DiamondLightSou @PostEra_AI @EnamineLtd & scientists, #pharmaceutical researchers, chemists, around the world:

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@DiamondLightSou

5 years

Researchers from @universityofky have used Diamond to “unwrap” the secrets of 2,000 year old Herculaneum Scrolls from @InstitutFrance

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Diamond Light Source

@DiamondLightSou

3 years

Want to know exactly how Diamond works? Check out our handy animation!

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@DiamondLightSou

4 years

#TBT to the construction of Diamond in 2004. The building's iconic shape allows the stored electron beam to be bent repeatedly, so that it produces a bright light that can be siphoned off and reach a number of different experimental stations simultaneously #SynchrotronScience

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@DiamondLightSou

3 years

Today we are celebrating the International Day of Light! A global initiative focusing on the role light plays in science, culture and art, education, sustainable development, medicine, communications, and energy. #LightDay2021

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Diamond Light Source

@DiamondLightSou

9 months

Are you attending @IUCr2023 ? Come and visit the Diamond Light Source & @lightsources exhibition booth, we have a #lightforscience t-shirt waiting for you!

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Diamond Light Source

@DiamondLightSou

2 years

Today marks the first milestone in a special DiamondDoubleAnniversary year. We're celebrating 15 years of delivering #WorldChangingScience & innovation to the science community, since we first opened our doors to users #OnThisDay in 2007!

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Diamond Light Source

@DiamondLightSou

2 years

This week we welcomed our 2022 undergraduate Summer Placement students. For the next 12 weeks they will be working on projects across a range of science and engineering fields. We're proud to play a part in #STEMeducation !

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Diamond Light Source

@DiamondLightSou

1 year

We have a new #ScienceHighlight ! See how researchers from @JohnInnesCentre used our I03 beamline to help better understand disease resistance in crops @Diamond_MX

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@DiamondLightSou

6 years

It is International Women’s Day and by perfect coincidence we are hosting an event with an entirely female panel! #IWD2018

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@DiamondLightSou

4 years

Happy #WorldPhotoDay ! To mark the day we'll be sharing a few of our favourite shots from in and around Diamond. We'd love to see your favourite photos of Diamond too - reply with yours below! (Microfocus MX beamine, I24)

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Diamond Light Source

@DiamondLightSou

4 years

Great clip of the Dual Imaging And Diffraction (DIAD) #robot in action! This dual beam #X -ray instrument is used for imaging, diffraction and scattering, and operates at energies of 7-38 keV. Find out more about DIAD...

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Diamond Light Source

@DiamondLightSou

1 year

A very fun day filming with @sixtysymbols ! Philip Moriarty of @UniofNottingham and his team on our @DLS_I09 beamline will be running through how they bring their #WorldChangingScience to life Subscribe here so you don't miss this Diamond special feature:

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@DiamondLightSou

1 year

This week we hosted our first PtyPy Software Workshop! Delighted to bring together the international community of scientist working on ptychography.

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Diamond Light Source

@DiamondLightSou

3 years

Applications are now open to attend our #XASWorkshop2021 - ideal for new or nearly new users of our #spectroscopy beamlines! Deadline to apply is 17:00 (BST) on 5th May. Find out more:

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@DiamondLightSou

3 years

Discover Diamond virtually with our new interactive map! Start exploring here...

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Diamond Light Source

@DiamondLightSou

4 years

Fantastic news! And welcome back @esrfsynchrotron

European Synchrotron

@esrfsynchrotron

4 years

#NEWS OPEN!✅ An Extremely new Bright Light shines in Grenoble. @esrfsynchrotron is back to User Mode, with the opening of a brand-new 4th-generation high-energy synchrotron. Welcome back users for new science! #health #environment ▶️ #EUscience

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@DiamondLightSou

6 years

Richard Henderson is joining us at Diamond today to help celebrate the eBIC launch! with our #ebic2018 cake!

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@DiamondLightSou

6 years

How to preserve the 1,248 cannonballs found on the Mary Rose warship - Diamond is delighted to have worked as part of a collaboration to shed light on the effectiveness of different conservation techniques.

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@DiamondLightSou

8 months

A great✈️view of some of the newest developments for Diamond! #SolarPanels

David Allan

@DavidAllan704

8 months

Diamond looks very different with all of those new solar panels on the roof.

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@DiamondLightSou

8 years

Today is 10 years since Diamond 'switched on' synchrotron light to the beamlines. A decade later & that light has led to countless advances.

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@DiamondLightSou

7 years

One step closer to #polio eradication - groundbreaking work on a new plant produced vaccine #cryoEM

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@DiamondLightSou

1 year

Today we are celebrating the grand opening of our Active Materials Laboratory (AML) – to enable the preparation of radioactive samples, enhancing support for our nuclear user community & advancing #ActiveMaterialsResearch in the UK

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Diamond Light Source

@DiamondLightSou

2 years

Embracing #automation in science has allowed Diamond to adapt to new challenges - such as enabling #RemoteAccess during the #Covid19 pandemic with robots like this on beamline I04

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Diamond Light Source

@DiamondLightSou

9 months

Exciting developments ahead for @Diamond_MX ! Our #HeXI instrument - combining the power of electron diffraction with X-ray beamline expertise - has completed its #ConceptualDesignReview and commences final Technical Design Learn more about HeXI here:

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@DiamondLightSou

3 years

Discover Diamond virtually with our new interactive map! Start exploring here...

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@DiamondLightSou

3 years

This year Diamond hit 10,000 structures in the Protein Data Bank! Find out more...

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@DiamondLightSou

3 years

We'd like to share with you our Diamond Advent Calendar. Each day you can open a window to reveal a fun fact about Diamond! What's behind window one?

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@DiamondLightSou

3 years

In celebration of reaching 10,000 publications we are highlighting one of Diamond’s facets each week for 10 weeks. This is week seven and we’re focussing on Crystallography ( @DLSXtallography )

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@DiamondLightSou

2 years

Today, we celebrated the amazing contributions that our #YearInIndustry Students have made to Diamond with a poster session and competition - Congratulations to our winners Charlotte Meller, Ishika Kumar, Jemima Poynton & Zaeem Najeeb!

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2 years

Today, Diamond welcomes Dr Adrian Mancuso as our new #PhysicalScience Diretor, joining from @EuropeanXFEL - helping to drive forward our next generation of #WorldChangingScience

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Diamond Light Source

@DiamondLightSou

3 years

Last week saw the decommissioning of the I04-1 beamline main area detector. The Dectris P6M collected its last dataset from a SARS-CoV-2 MPro sample, seen here.

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Diamond Light Source

@DiamondLightSou

6 years

VMXm, Diamond's 32nd #beamline , has obtained its first #diffraction data from a protein crystal in vacuum this week! Congrats to all involved! @Diamond_MX #commissioning #invacuum #lysozyme

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@DiamondLightSou

3 years

The first joint PhD student with Diamond’s I14 beamlline and @warwickuni publishes research into a potential new cancer treatment

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@DiamondLightSou

5 years

Congratulations to Diamond technician Jonathan Potter, who last night won the @theIET Technician of The Year award for his work in advancing beamline innovations @IETawards

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Diamond Light Source

@DiamondLightSou

4 years

In need of a new board game for a rainy August weekend? Want to become a researcher at Diamond? To take part in experiments? And be remembered as a world famous scientist? If the answer is yes, then we have the game for you...

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@DiamondLightSou

7 years

A small flag, but an important gesture. #comeoutforlgbt

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Diamond Light Source

@DiamondLightSou

10 years

💎 is a big 🍩 🏠 in 🇬🇧 that works like a giant 🔬. We produce 💡brighter than the 🔆, helping 👩👨 🔎 many things incl. ⭐️🚀🌳💊📱✈️♻️🌎 #emojiresearch

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@DiamondLightSou

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📅 Event: X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (XAS) Data Analysis Workshop. The workshop is intended for new users of Diamond spectroscopy beamlines will mainly focus on how to process and analyse EXAFS data from a "starting from scratch" level. Apply here. 👇

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Diamond Light Source

@DiamondLightSou

3 years

Did you know? Diamond has an estimated monetised impact of at least £1.8 billion! As revealed in a recent Socio-Economic study looking at the benefits of Diamond to the UK. Watch the webinar where the report findings are discussed:

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@DiamondLightSou

3 years

The MPL @DiamondLightSou has been enabling membrane protein structural biology for over 15 years supporting over 20 membrane proteins structures such as the recently published dark (1.3Å) and light (1.1Å) adapted structures of archaerhodopsin-3 ()

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@DiamondLightSou

3 years

Look what has arrived! The festive season has officially started at Diamond.

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@DiamondLightSou

3 years

Are you interested in doing a #PhD ? Diamond have a number of fully funded opportunities starting this October. Take a look at the projects available and register your interest to hear when applications open...

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@DiamondLightSou

5 years

A team of researchers from @UniofOxford used @DiamondLightSou to discover the molecular structure & function of an important #influenza protein, paving the way for new #DrugDevelopments and treatments:

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@DiamondLightSou

1 year

We are ready for our first Diamond Open Day of 2023! Today our doors are open to the public and we are excited to show around our facilities and talk about Diamond #worldchangingscience ⭐

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Diamond Light Source

@DiamondLightSou

4 years

Want to know exactly how Diamond works? Check out our handy animation!

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Diamond Light Source

@DiamondLightSou

4 months

The Synchrotron Electrochemistry Workshop is now open for registration. Discuss the prospects and challenges offered by X-ray based in-situ and operando techniques for the characterization of electrochemical systems. Read more and register below. ⬇

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Diamond Light Source

@DiamondLightSou

4 years

Join us Wed 15th April at 1:30pm for a Live Family Webinar (7+) on Viruses – aimed at anyone who wants to learn more about how viruses work from real #WorldChangingScientists #COVID19 More details can be found on our website:

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@DiamondLightSou

4 years

Happy #AugustBankHoliday weekend from all of us at Diamond!

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@DiamondLightSou

3 years

Crystal structure of bleach recorded for the first time in its 200-year history! Diamond Principal Beamline Scientist, Christine Beavers, comments on this discovery in @ChemistryWorld ...

First crystal structure of bleach in its 200-year history

X-ray structure of chemistry staples hypochlorite and hypobromite recorded for the first time

www.chemistryworld.com

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@DiamondLightSou

4 years

Congratulations to Diamond, Director of Life Sciences, Professor David Stuart, who has been awarded the prestigious Gabor Medal by @royalsociety @UniofOxford @instructhub @HarwellCampus

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@DiamondLightSou

6 years

The unique curved detector on Diamond's I23 beamline was key to determine the properties of a plastic-degrading enzyme! #togethersciencecan @portsmouthuni @NREL @BBSRC

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