IMSC 2026 abstract submission server seems to be down... Anyone else having issues at the moment?

Great initiative by ACS - but Switzerland is not in the Balkans last time I checked... 😀

Great and very productive workshop on trustworthiness in proteomics in Leiden last week (www.lorentzcenter.nl/trustworthin...). 🥇 to whomever first gets what the photo in the background has to do with the topic. No cheating allowed!

A Minneapolis knitting shop has resurrected the design of a Norwegian cap worn to protest Nazi occupation. Its owner says the money raised from hat pattern sales will support the local immigrant community. n.pr/4thWiUr

𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 “𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗿𝗲𝘂𝘀𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗲”: 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝟱𝟬% 𝗼𝗳𝗳! To remove road blocks and to stimulate open and reproducible code development, we now reduce the costs for this workshop on 4 February. (People that already registered will get a 50% refund). buff.ly/OcbtjJC

TIL about a new #chemistry flagship journal, but the German Chemical Society, full #openaccess, kind of up-lifting from Angewandte Chemie (their words: "up-transfer"): Angewandte Chemie Novit https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202503680 From the citations of the first articles, it does not seem to […]

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Gävlebocken summarizes 2025: youtube.com/shorts/hjd6Z...

Finally a direct train from Amsterdam to Hamburg: nos.nl/artikel/2593.... Hamburg is the "gateway to Scandinavia", with regular direct connections to Copenhagen and soon both day- and night trains to Stockholm. Now all we need is a train bridge over Ems for a more direct route to Bremen and Hamburg.

New blog! ✍️ The DReaMS community is committed to advancing research software management (RSM) through training, and emphasising the importance of sustainability, version control, and FAIR and Open Science. Read the account of the community meetup: blog.esciencecenter.nl/strengthenin...

British insults are fantastic. Just heard someone (else) being referred to as being "wetter than a Wednesday in Whitstable".

HypoVax Global is building a comprehensive knowledge hub of AI-ready immunological data to better understand why populations respond differently to vaccines and inform immunization strategies to overcome vaccine hyporesponsiveness: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Adjective of the day: softwareengineeringy.

Stuck in Gare de Lyon, as the TGV that was supposed to leave over an hour ago, is still on the platform. However, the station's restaurant did not disappoint!

Brief observations: ASMS Meeting: 🍺→ 👩‍👩‍👦‍👦👨‍👩‍👦‍👦👨‍👨‍👧‍👧👩‍👩‍👦‍👦, always questions/proposals. HUPO General Assembly of Members: No 🍺→ 🪑🪑🙍🪑, no questions.

"Biomarker studies are the greatest reproducibility crisis in science" (M. Uhlén, 2025).

HUPO-PSI AI-Readiness Working Group launching into orbit from the Bioinformatics Hub @hupo-org.bsky.social! 10... 9... 8...

Final days of hacking at @elixir-europe.org #BioHackEU25! Project #5: Bidirectional bridge: GitHub ⇄ bio.tools making slow but steady progress on translating research software metadata between these two platforms. Always a great opportunity to learn new things and get to know new people as well.

To my metabolomics friends: what is the closest to a FASTA file for small molecules? Something with PubChem or perhaps ChEBI identifiers in a metadata header followed by a SMILES or some other structural representation?

This may be AI generated, but I think the idea is brilliant. If you had trouble to stay awake in history class, this is guaranteed to help you fall asleep: youtu.be/v3vj74019H0?.... Unfortunately, I am too interested in history for this to work on me. Maybe quantum mechanics would work? 🤔

Shot twice today - once in the left arm (covid) and once in the right (flu). Probably best to bike home while my arms still work...

Setting the benchmark for a good morning: back-to-back @ausbiocommons.bsky.social webinars by Veit Schwämmle and @tineclaeys.bsky.social with 07:00 coffee!

ELIXIR-NL's @magnuspalmblad.bsky.social co-organized the Computational Proteomics Dagstuhl Seminar 2025, uniting experts in ML/AI for proteomics. Breakouts sparked collaborations, manuscripts, and proposals, making this the most productive seminar yet. #Proteomics #Dagstuhl #Collaboration

First results from Olink Reveal: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/.... Ground-truth data in PRIDE (www.ebi.ac.uk/pride/archiv...) and analysis code on OSF (osf.io/as4gv).

We are looking for a 3-year postdoc to work with Daniel Probst, Justin van der Hooft and myself on an exciting project involving federated learning and integrative omics for discovery of new antibiotics from natural products. Apply here: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p... Please share!

The timsOmni is one massive Swiss Army knife for top-down proteomics of protein complexes and complex PTMs. Impressive new data presented this morning at the Nordic Conference in Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics in Odense. Ion activation network allows (in theory) 125 types of MS^4 experiments.

Looking forward to a week of productive discussions on Computational Proteomics at Schloss Dagstuhl! Has been a fun meeting to plan with @magnuspalmblad.bsky.social and Mathias Wilhelm

Just reheated some lemon-ricotta ravioli in the microwave (😮, I know), and the lemon flavor is so much more pronounced that when first boiling them. Is this a known phenomenon, or have I discovered an entirely new field of chemistry?

Who said Wikipedia editors lack a sense of humor? How about this little gem: "However, the rocket activity in Sweden did not gain thrust until after ESRO established Esrange in 1964." (from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esrange).

Does anyone have experience with a sensitive (LLOQ ~1 pg/mL) and quantitative assay for (human) IL-10?

🍺🎉 Happy International Beer Day! 🎉🍺 Did you know that beer isn't just foam and fun — it's also packed with fascinating lipids that play a surprising role in flavour, and even your health? 🤯 👉 Read about one of these lipids in our Lipid of the Month - lipidmaps.org/updates/lipi... #BeerScience

The Workflomics Project on AI-driven workflow bake-off aimed for the stars to reach the treetops. In the end, we even made it into outer space! Great collaboration with co-PI Anna-Lena Lamprecht, @pratikomics.bsky.social and many others. Here our #spaceselfie: space.crunchlabs.com/selfie/RvYBRmg.

If you're working on cool chromatin biology, gene regulation, or nuclear regulome science, I want to work with you!! Our "Early Access Program" is officially open. Everything we generate together will be open-sourced with the community. --> Apply here: forms.gle/cJqtTkRRZU5m... <-- 11/?

Much appreciated guilt tripping/roasting for being a no-show at a meeting I forgot that I registered for. Mea culpa! But glad to see the sandwiches got eaten in any case:

📣 ELIXIR has published a position paper on the importance of #OpenData infrastructure for 🌍 European competitiveness in life sciences. Read the news 👉 https://loom.ly/22XW72k #ResearchInfrastructure #Science4EU

In his reply on this post on Xitter, Dr. El-Deiry did not provide answers to his 75 @pubpeer.com concerns, or his disturbing amplifications of a conspiracy account, but instead pulled a “Don’t you know how I am?!”

Evaluation of Olink Reveal Proximity Extension Assay for High-Throughput Proteomics: A Case Study Using NIST SRM 1950 and Spike-In Protein Standards | ChemRxiv - doi.org/10.26434/che...

So many acronyms. AI, AAI, AAAI, AAAAI. Aaaaai!

Outlining some future steps in closer integration of bio.tools and literature resources such as @europepmc.org: index.biohackrxiv.org/2025/05/04/8...

@mathmatize.bsky.social posted this on twitter. It won the internet if you ask me because it is so clever

Small but dedicated @elixir-nl.bsky.social contingent braving 33°C and sunny weather while climbing the ten towers of the Heptapyrgion, hiking down to the Atatürk Museum and the Roman Forum of Thessaloniki (both closed). Still, a very nice way to spend an afternoon [email protected] All Hands.

Mathias Wilhelm, @martinfrejno.bsky.social from MSAID as well as Marie Locard-Paulet, @magnuspalmblad.bsky.social and myself are organising a workshop on FDR control & trustworthiness of proteomics, hosted by Lorentz Center in Leiden, February 2-6, 2026. Stay tuned :)

Is acronym fatigue a thing? Maybe something for DSM-6? Coming down with a bad case.

@magnuspalmblad.bsky.social taking accession number 9 for the PRIDE affinity proteomics archive. Early adopter of #OpenData in Affinity Proteomics; leading by example. www.ebi.ac.uk/pride/archiv...

We thank Reviewer 2 for their helpful feedback which has greatly improved the paper

Today's XKCD comic receives douze points from the mass spec jury (and popular vote, I am sure):

For its size, Ireland certainly has an impressively active and professional national mass spectrometry society! ☘️