Andy Purkiss

@andypurk

X-ray crystallographer and structural biologist at the Francis Crick Institute. Cats not dogs. Also interested in railways, Sci-Fi and Star Trek (amongst other things). Type 1 Diabetic

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Andy Purkiss@andypurk· Mar 7

When you've been making good use of Diamond before end of the run. #DLSMX #DLS

Screenshot showing a range of beamlines at Diamond with 'active' connections available.

Andy Purkiss@andypurk· Nov 25

And forgot the added free cute frog sticker.

Sticker with different coloured frogs in a plant.

Andy Purkiss@andypurk· Nov 25

Love my pair of frogs which arrived on Friday. The purchased Aromantic one on the right and a free mirror universe "Imperfect" one on the left.

Two frog pins, one "imperfect one" on the left and one in the colours of the Aromantic flag on the right.

Andy Purkiss@andypurk· Nov 22

Not a good sign when you have beamtime starting at 12:00! #DLS

Diamond Light Source Beamline status window, showing no beam and "Investigation in Progress"

Andy Purkiss@andypurk· Sep 2

Coolant for our X-ray generator which should be transparent but looks "Milky, milky". Advice has been sought, but hopefully Hugh Denis won't be involved (call back to the Mary Whitehouse experience's Mr Strange).

Tank (blue colour) of coolant from our X-ray generator. The liquid should be transparent not white!

Andy Purkiss@andypurk· Aug 15

AI will take over the world... Auto-corrupt's "help" today.

Screenshot showing dubious grammar correction from Outlook.

Andy Purkiss@andypurk· Jun 17

Count Abdulla cdn.comedy.co.uk/images/libra...

Characters Kathy (on the left played by Jaime Winstone) in fur coat and holding a cigarette with Abdulla Khan (on the right played by Arian Nik) in vampire costume, sit at a bus stop.
Still from Count Abdulla.

Andy Purkiss@andypurk· Apr 9

Quote with a movie poster from the year you turned eighteen. 👀

Andy Purkiss@andypurk· Apr 9

Had a nearly 'live' dry shipper failure this afternoon. Managed to rescue the samples (still very cold) and transfer to another dry shipper for shipment to Diamond Light Source. Hint: These shippers should never be covered in frost/snow and this is a sign that the vacuum has failed.

A Dry Shipper covered in frost after the vacuum has failed.

Side on view of the Dry Shipper covered in frost.

The dry shipper is definitely not well as it has now wet itself and the floor.
A note has been added to tell people not to use it.

Andy Purkiss@andypurk· Feb 24

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Still from the film Candleshoe. Helen Hayes and Jodie Foster sit on a bench at a railway station (Arley on the Severn Valley Railway)

Andy Purkiss@andypurk· Dec 16

What should my fee to Bruker be for extracting the circular mount, where a sensor sits, during this week's overdue service visit for our #MetalJet X-ray generator

Circular disk, with central hole flanked by screw holes, inside sensor mount point from Excillum #MetalJet. Six more boltholes surrounding.

Andy Purkiss@andypurk· Nov 23

Released in the UK in the correct year, but a year earlier in the US. m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5...