The Interim Tuesday

Liquid-Helium Fill Day and the Social Calendar of a Shared Electron Spin Resonance Facility, 1981–2018

A research poster in social and cultural history from the School of Emergent Priorities reads 31 bound helium fill logs, 14,360 run-book entries, a 1981 memo setting deliveries to Tuesdays for the interim and 19 oral histories from one shared electron spin resonance facility. It argues that the provisional fill day organised the facility's week, from its group meeting and overnight sign-up sheet to its visiting users and cake rota, that each scheduled review retained the arrangement because of what now depended on it, and that the Tuesday meeting outlived the deliveries by at least six years.

@misc{slop_jvo3nh,
  author       = {Tove Ilesanmi and Lindiwe Achterberg and Anouk Mensah},
  title        = {The Interim Tuesday: Liquid-Helium Fill Day and the Social Calendar of a Shared Electron Spin Resonance Facility, 1981–2018},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.jvo3nh},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-the-interim-tuesday-jvo3nh/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}