Sam "The Mug Guy" Horrell

@drhorrell.bsky.social

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Scientist 🧑‍🔬, structural biologist 🧬, X-ray Crystallographer 💎, Synchrotron Mug Enthusiast ☕, D&D 🎲 and MTG player 🧙, bird dad to Nori and Kili 🦜🦜 He/Him

2 people, a woman wearing glasses and a man with a beard, taking a picture in the reflective surface of a photon counting detector.
A light yellow and grey cockateil and a dark grey peid cockateil put their heads together. One has their beak wide open. Both have very orange cheeks.
A regular repeating pattern of Ale, Pau, and Danny from the rock band The Warning. Effectively forming a 2D crystal of the band members.
A black silicon chip with regular etched square holes covered in blue/purple crystals.
A small grey peid cockateil with red cheeks and a yellow crest strands on a bridge in which most of the rungs have been chewed and broken. They look pleased with their destructive work.
A stuffed tabby cat with white paws sits on a laptop with a word document on the screen.
Kili, a dark grey spotted cockateil with outrage cheeks, hangs upside down so Nori, a yellow and light grey cockateil, can preen them.
A shower of hexagonal protein crystals going from small to large with the biggest crystals in the middle.
A small clear singular protein crystal in a drop of liquid under a microscope. Three blurred crystals float in the background.
Microscopic hexagonal shaped protein crystals.
A dark blue and white mug with a white ALBA logo and a graphic of the ALBA synchrotron with text reading "Light to solve challenges of science" sits on a black slate coaster with an old school picture of atoms and electron density.
Text reading "University of Westminster" and "Welcome to Fame lab". Below this a blonde woman in a pink dress stands next to a bowl on a stool with colourful balls flying about the place. A blue sign behind her reads "fame lab talking science".
A small yellow cockateil with red cheeks looks up at a black stick.
A small clear cube shaped protein crystal.
The back of a black cats head looking at s laptop screen with a scientific paper on it.
A yellow and light grey cockateil and a dark grey peid cockateil putting their heads together.
An e-mail with the title "Inspiration for your day: A quote just for you" The quote reads "Hurry, time is run"
A grey and yellow peid cockateil sitting on a perch pecks at a piece of paper.
A perfect clear rectangular protein crystal surrounded by swirls of brown precipitate.
A cute dog with polite little paws sitting under a table.
Small clear hexagonal protein crystals under a microscope.
Protein Crystals under polarised light.
Green protein crystals
Protein Crystals with a yellow tinge
Thermolysin crystals under polarised light making them pink and green.