Richard Cooper

Over the past week, highwaymen have fixed 1,179 potholes across the county, Oxfordshire County Council said.

Highwaymen working to restore reputation after all that 17C robbery stuff.

Public backs ‘super ID card’ which could be used to report potholes Ministers have recently said they are considering introducing a form of digital ID for adults in Britain

Cannot stress enough how it is already possible to report potholes www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

The first day of the #Crystallography in School workshop at #ECM35 was dedicated to presentations and demo sessions. It was special to see a large attendance of high school teachers at a site of historical significance, as Max von Laue, a Nobel laureate, studied there in the late 19th century.

An automated framework for exploring and learning potential-energy surfaces Machine learning has become ubiquitous in materials modelling and now routinely enables large-scale atomistic simulations with quantum-mechanical accuracy. However, developing machine-learned interato...

Meet autoplex – our approach to automated ML potential fitting, built jointly with @molecularxtal.bsky.social & team in Berlin! In this preprint, we focus on exploring structures and training potential models "from scratch" with the help of automated workflows: arxiv.org/abs/2412.16736

Wooden advent calendar: fictional terrorist Hans Gruber off of Die Hard falls from the Nakatomi Tower, his left hand indicating today's date.

I'm very pleased with this calorie-free, reusable advent calendar. #diehard

Save the date: I'm happy to announce that the 2025 RDKit UGM will take place in Prague, Czechia from 10-12 September.
The organizers are Martin Šícho and Daniel Svozil from the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague.

Registration details will follow early next year.

A good dog on a path scattered with fallen autumn leaves

A good dog in the woods

Made it to Bluesky. Meet the dog.