Good news! The #USHUPO2026 abstract submission deadline has been extended through November 19. Take advantage of this extra time to share your latest proteomics discoveries. Submit now: www.ushupoconference.org

⚛️ “You can’t plan discoveries – but you can plan work that’s likely to lead to discoveries.” In this article, Scott A. McLuckey shares his lifelong passion for curiosity-driven science and the thrill of turning over stones in mass spectrometry. 🔗 https://ow.ly/Yr6K50XbMFB #MassSpec

Hey @asms.org peeps. I’m running for VP for programs and I’d like your vote. Check out the asms web site for details and you will see an email with voting instructions in the near future. I approach this position with lots of experience organizing scientific conferences & I ❤️ asms. Please re-sky.

Yu Gao @gao_lab are hosting the 3rd International Single-cell Mass Spectrometry meeting in Chicago Sep 25-27, singlecellms.org, co-hosting the meeting with @LingjunLi2 . Keynote speakers: @JesperOlsenLab @LabLaskin and @jbsweedler There will be a hackathon as well, register today!

The unintended consequence of….. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

Here’s what we have going on at #ASMS2025

Anybody ever had success by going on the offensive after getting disrespectful and denigrating reviews for a paper? And this was the third round of reviews. I’m guessing the reviewer hasn’t liked that the editor is keeping the paper alive. The other reviewers have signed off.

This, by @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social, is very informative

Just checking. This special issue of software issue is dedicated to Margaret Dayhoff on her 100th birthday. She was a bioinformatics pioneer. There is a great "perspective" written by her son-in-law on his recollections of Margaret.

Someone got $38 billion in government funding.

What could be better than Hawaii in December? Dive into some exciting discussions on top-down proteomics and proteoform analysis at Pacifichem 2025 for the session #ANA016. Abstract submissions are still open until April 2! @proteoforms.bsky.social @nlkproteomics.bsky.social @jyates.bsky.social

#USHUPO2025. Tick tock. If you’re in early on Sunday there is a future of proteomics workshop 2-4pm. We have a great panel. Will anyone predict the proteoform jetpack is right around the corner!?! Come see.

USHUPO Attendees! On Sunday 2-4 pm we will present the lalapalooza of panel discussions on the Future of Proteomics. Several speakers will present visions of the future followed by a discussion with a distinguished panel. The session will be in the Regency AB room.

If building a fall out shelter for a large number of people (say 10K) is a silo the most efficient structure?

I'm all for Canada joining the USA. Let's do the math: if each province is a state so that's 10 provinces times 2 Senators each so that's 20 new senators. If Canada is just one state with a population of 40.1 million that would be more representatives than CA. Bring on the healthcare, baby!

The Kansas City refs are calling a beautiful game.

The board of USHUPO has set up a GoFundMe site to support USHUPO members in the LA area. In particular these kinds of tragedies can impact graduate students and postdoctoral fellows hard. Here's the link. gofund.me/d73ac63a

The Georgia refs are doing a great job! @theathletic.bsky.social

Thanks Bruker! Cookie making today.

David Baker et al got Nobel Prizes today at the Banquet.

The next season of #THEProteomicsShow has started! For The Philly Express, @proteomicsnews.bsky.social and I will feature speakers at #USHUPO2024 (weekly, hopefully). This first episode was the agenda, cause it was a bad idea the last two times. Enjoy!

Looking for exciting opportunities? 🎓 Apply for PhD positions in my lab and others in this fantastic program! 🚀 If you're seeking a postdoc or senior lab scientist role, feel free to DM or email me. Let's connect! @imprs-cbp.bsky.social #PhDPositions #PostdocJobs

🎉 Huge congratulations to the four incredible winners of the 2025 US HUPO Association Awards! 🏆 We're so excited to celebrate your achievements at US HUPO 2025 in Philadelphia! #USHUPO2025 #USHUPO

Did you know @us-hupo.bsky.social has awesome short courses before #USHUPO2025? Also, did you know you can register separately for them (but come for the full conference too)?! These are some of the best teachers I know talking about some of the coolest #proteomics topics out there. Get registered!

if you are new to blue sky and you're following people I will follow you back if you have something describing your scientific interests. I want to avoid wholesale follow backs as I then get DMs about crypto scams.

My Twitter account is now deactivated. I’m all in. (I went with this gif because I find this show endearing).

Is basic science undervalued? David Glanzman (UCLA) talks about the decline of 'middle class' labs and that "there is no empirical evidence that the translational approach accomplishes this [cures] any better than the traditional one. Claims to the contrary at this point are mere propaganda."

Awesome piece by Zeynep Tufekci. The motto of the new administration may well be "Let's Make People Sick Again" www.nytimes.com/2024/11/16/o...

We are looking for a Research Technician II to join our team, apply if interested! jobs.utsouthwestern.edu/job/21274508...

We are sad to share news of Jean Futrell's passing. A GIANT of mass spectrometry and MIGHTY advocate & supporter of ASMS. About Jean: www.asms.org/publications/journal-of-the-american-society-for-mass-spectrometry-group/faces-of-mass-spectrometry www.asms.org/about/history/oral-history-project

@emgaiz.bsky.social gave a beautiful talk at the recent HUPO conference in Dresden. She had a done a lot of work and made some nice insights.

USHUPO winners of the Omenn, Hunt, Costello, and Cotter awards. Match the names to the awards: Van Eyck, Mallick, Kelleher, and Zhu. Or just come to the 2024 meeting and see who got what, listen to insightful talks and drink microbrew beer.

Check out @ErinBakerIMS in the news @cenmag. She discovered some new PFAS for us to worry about using one of those super expensive ion mobility mass specs (according to @cenmag ). I sent this originally as an Xorcist.

Gen Z scientists - when checking out a “person of interest”: google or google scholar??

Hey BlueSky I read Threads has 100 million active users. Any proteomic/MS people over there?

I’m looking to blue sky to solve this. I started seeing metal strips on dog walks. I’ve now found them all over the USA & even saw one in Paris. In keeping with the times (during the pandemic) I dubbed them Q-drops with secret instructions and information digitally encoded on the surface. Source?

And we will be having pea soup for breakfast again today.

Pea soup.

PS. We want to continue the dialog and I’m thinking the USHUPO meeting in Portland, Oregon that is. We will also want to come up with arguments for a PCAT.

The NIA single cell proteomics workshop has been awesome. I did learn the planet of the apes movies are not documentaries, but that was at dinner.

Excellent first meeting of the iSCMS cellulites. Nicely done Ryan and Ying and on a shoestring budget as most inaugural meetings have no cash for the start up. They had some pretty awesome cookies at one of the breaks. And now I have to diet again.

Alright #TeamMassSpec, it's time to apply or nominate for the @asms.org 2024 awards. November 30 deadline for applications & nominations! Details: www.asms.org/about-asms-a...

Off to the USADA conference in Paris. It’s in the Olympic host city the year before the games.

US post-docs, don’t forget about the ASMS career development awards. Applications are due November 30. I strongly encourage anyone interested to apply, gotta be in it to win it. DM me if you want a copy of the application I submitted.

Checking in. It’s a blue sky in Lajolla. I saw a musical last night about Hunter S Thompson. Audience really liked it but mostly old people go to plays and so they remembered him and Nixon. Raucous.

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