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Data-driven materials design - 22 April 2023
March 2023
Overleaf, meet my friend Zotero - 5 March 2023
January 2023
Apple Silicon for Computational Materials Science - 14 January 2023
#EditorLife - 8 January 2023
sudo shutdown -r now - 2 January 2023
2021
April 2021
macOS Big Sur for Computational Materials Science in 2021 - 15 April 2021
2020
November 2020
Look at me, I'm on TV! - 3 November 2020
August 2020
One-pot recipe for small polaron localisation - 4 August 2020
2019
May 2019
MacOS Mojave for Computational Materials Science in 2019 - 3 May 2019
2018
January 2018
Anharmonic phonons are heating up - 14 January 2018
2017
September 2017
MacOS Sierra for Computational Materials Science in 2017 - 3 September 2017
2016
March 2016
Lost in Seoul - 1 March 2016
January 2016
El Capitan for Computational Materials Science in 2016 - 3 January 2016
2015
December 2015
2015: From quasiparticles to monoamine oxidase B - 19 December 2015
October 2015
My data is your data - 4 October 2015
September 2015
Too early to retire? - 27 September 2015
May 2015
Beginner's guide to hybrid organic-inorganic halide perovskite (MAPI) solar cells - 28 May 2015
Beginner's guide to kesterite (CZTS) solar cells - 28 May 2015
They are all naked (how to survive scientific presentations) - 15 May 2015
March 2015
Hybrid perovskites go bananas? - 3 March 2015
January 2015
One chain does not make a crystal - 6 January 2015
2014
December 2014
31557600 seconds of work - 16 December 2014
November 2014
Too many papers, too little time - 1 November 2014
October 2014
Help I can't swim - 11 October 2014
June 2014
Crystal structures of hybrid perovskites are not 0K - 21 June 2014
April 2014
Installing ASE on Mac OSX - 3 April 2014
February 2014
Too many authors spoil the manuscript? - 22 February 2014
2013
December 2013
"Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat" - 25 December 2013
November 2013
Bad metrics - 15 November 2013
Beyond the time-independent approximation (the infinite sadness of moving pictures) - 2 November 2013
September 2013
The Grätzel cell is dead, long live the Grätzel cell - 12 September 2013
July 2013
Installing Phonopy on Mac OSX - 20 July 2013
June 2013
Born 1943 "Alas, you may be wrong" - 30 June 2013
8970 km from Bath to Seoul - 17 June 2013
Why have one form when you can have three? - 2 June 2013
May 2013
"I email you to ask how you write papers" - 26 May 2013
April 2013
What remains to be said about defects in crystals? - 21 April 2013
February 2013
Adams 1991: "(Everything I do) I do it for you" - 23 February 2013
Mountain Lions like OpenMPI - 13 February 2013
January 2013
"Particularly suspect... are calculations tinged by chemical and physical unrealism" - 1 January 2013
2012
December 2012
2012 (Part Three) - 10 December 2012
Materials overload in Boston - 1 December 2012
November 2012
The tall man in the room next door - 11 November 2012
October 2012
Gangnam* science - 27 October 2012
September 2012
2012 (Part Two) - 16 September 2012
August 2012
Thread carefully with 2012 PAW potentials for VASP - 3 August 2012
July 2012
Mountain lions like Fortran - 28 July 2012
High-throughput computational chemistry - 21 July 2012
June 2012
From Simonstine to the Godless Institution of Gower Street - 23 June 2012
Rent for life - 23 June 2012
May 2012
2012 (Part One) - 4 May 2012
April 2012
Academic roots - 29 April 2012
Apple for science - 22 April 2012
Life as a proton - 21 April 2012
2011
June 2011
Pop science - 27 June 2011
March 2011
Man of science - 20 March 2011
February 2011
Living legend of the local density approximation - 13 February 2011
January 2011
Modeller’s Toolkit 2011 - 23 January 2011
2010
December 2010
Publication popularity contest? - 17 December 2010
Throw bibimbap, not bombs... - 12 December 2010
Indium oxide nanoclusters - 3 December 2010
November 2010
Le dîner de cons (with Thomas Young) - 13 November 2010
September 2010
Kataoka 2010: “The word ‘scientist’ means an artist for the future” - 6 September 2010
July 2010
Intermediate band-gap solar cells: A depressing state of affairs - 10 July 2010
Power to the People - 5 July 2010
June 2010
Pre-apocalypse: Glass half full for energy materials? - 18 June 2010
May 2010
Eat, sleep, discover, die - 22 May 2010
April 2010
April's Fool - 1 April 2010
January 2010
Mao 1972: "I voted for you during your last election" - 16 January 2010
Re-Render this… - 1 January 2010
2009
November 2009
Vitamin C, Weather Control and Nuclear Fission: The Story of Physical Chemistry - 7 November 2009
October 2009
Wilde 1875: “It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.” - 21 October 2009
A sunny holiday in Darmstadt - 18 October 2009
September 2009
Lewis 1900: “It was not a grand success, one German told me that he understood my German perfectly but not my physical chemistry” - 26 September 2009
(One more) Summer in Dublin - 12 September 2009
August 2009
Beckett 1954: “I arrived therefore at three totally different figures, without ever knowing which of them was right” - 30 August 2009
July 2009
Swimming pool - 22 July 2009
Stoneham 1989: “Accuracy is easier to state than to prove” - 19 July 2009
June 2009
Civil war V2.0 - 20 June 2009
May 2009
Adiga 2008: “I was looking for the key for years but the door was always open” - 31 May 2009
Slán abhaile - 3 May 2009
April 2009
O’Brien 1967: “The first beginnings of wisdom is to always ask questions and never to answer any” - 4 April 2009
March 2009
Warhol 1980: "Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.” - 22 March 2009
The fifth law of thermodynamics - 1 March 2009
February 2009
Agoraphobic science - 16 February 2009
Modeller’s toolkit 2009 - 1 February 2009
January 2009
Alleluia! The saviour of pdf management - 10 January 2009
2008
November 2008
He says, she says... - 28 November 2008
October 2008
The art of falling apart - 15 October 2008
August 2008
Poincaré 1901: “une accumulation de faits n'est pas plus une science qu'un tas de pierres n'est une maison” - 31 August 2008
Hoffmann 1990: “In me are hidden constellations” - 2 August 2008
July 2008
1004 = 2008 ÷ 2 - 4 July 2008
April 2008
Visible yet invisible - 26 April 2008
March 2008
Peer pressure - 30 March 2008
Punchcards and abacuses - 1 March 2008
January 2008
Ab initio in two thousand and eight - 14 January 2008
2007
December 2007
Snow, presents and airplanes - 15 December 2007
September 2007
Double or quits? - 30 September 2007
August 2007
Can it help me? Can it hurt me? - 1 August 2007
June 2007
Sunrise in Pennsylvania - 17 June 2007
May 2007
Re-animator - 6 May 2007
April 2007
Lone pairs in the solid state (Part Two) - 24 April 2007
Render this... - 3 April 2007
March 2007
Physics vs Chemistry - 28 March 2007
Lone pairs in the solid state (Part One) - 18 March 2007
APS Spring meeting - 10 March 2007
February 2007
Water splitting - 21 February 2007
Optical properties in VASP - 10 February 2007
Emigration (Life on a coffin ship) - 5 February 2007