When you realize there's a large subject area that you don't want to include in your review

Web of Science no longer links or exports to Endnote Web even though they are both owned by Clarivate. Before I could at see at a glance if a paper was already in my library. Now there's *really* no reason to use Web of Science while Scholar remains the only Google product resisting enshittification

LLMs are obviously garbage for writing scientific results (unless it's a turn-the-crank report, in which case I'm not bothering to read anyway). But I strongly suspect an LLM could believably reproduce the cliches of popular science writing and press releases.

Now that I'm back in office the annual ASMS pin gets added to the map. But there are a couple more keepsakes from #ASMS2026

After the post #ASMS2026 @asms.org Board meeting, we're still smiling. Thanks all who came to SD to make it a great conference! We'll miss Elyssia Gallagher, Heather Desaire, @iondoctor.bsky.social and @lablaskin.bsky.social on the Board. Give us your feedback on the post-conf survey - more 🍦?

Almost time for the Monday workshop Art, Museums, and Archaeology at #ASMS2026!

Does anyone else think that young Klaus Biemann had kind if a David Bowie look #ASMS2026

Like every single history poster ever is printed for #ASMS2026

When I'm rehearsing a talk I want to sound dynamic and fascinating so I just pretend I'm @lars-konermann.bsky.social #ASMS2026

Is your analyte bigger than the palm of your hand? Come to the #ASMS2026 Forensics session at 8:30 am Wednesday to hear me talk about my PhotoGoose ambient sampling system: not my recent JASMS cover article, but the next step in its evolution. Now with a sweet laser!

At the beginning of the week I almost wrote about pre-conference lethargy, when you've got all the #ASMS2026 data and only need to leisurely put together the PowerPoint. But co-workers abhor a calendar vacuum

@benneely.com I've planted my dad's peas for the first time in a couple years, as my stock was getting low because my daughter is a fan. And as of this weekend the tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants are in the ground

Check out the new editorial in JASMS for commentary on the current moment for science and the US government, the services ASMS provides for its members, and what actions members can take: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

Hey, #TeamMassSpec! The #ASMS2026 Online Planner is live! Browse the conference program, bookmark talks, save sessions, and build your personalized schedule ahead of the conference. Your saved schedule will transfer to the mobile app when it launches in mid-May. See you SOON!

Hey, #TeamMassSpec! The May edition of @jasms.bsky.social#TeamMassSpecis here. Read up on the latest: https://bit.ly/3KRQ4J8 #ASMS #JASMS

The May JASMS is out, and my work is on the cover. "A handheld thermal desorption probe with a flexible, passivated transfer line is able to sample from difficult-to-access surfaces in real time with a minimum amount of invasiveness, moving neutral analyte meters..." pubs.acs.org/toc/jamsef/3...

I have officially achieved proof of concept results for my ASMS talk and it's not *quite* May. Maybe I can get some prettier data in the next month

Come on man, don't call it PESI. That acronym has existed for pribe electrospray for almost 20 years. No one considered "pyESI" in keeping with every pyrolysis paper ever written?

Interesting, someone put my writing through AI slop for the first time. They scraped the abstract from my Pittcon symposium and added some citations that are sure to be irrelevant. I guess the tell is that the authorship says "reviewed by". Should I link it? Eh why not www.azom.com/article.aspx...

What if I'm just three grad students in a giant overcoat? Wait, that's not being fair to myself. Three postdocs

What's the most toxic thing you did today? I sanded down some PTFE tubing, but at least I wore an N95

I succesfully squeezed a big print onto a dwindling PLA roll, but if I can cut it that close, I might as well eke out a small print after that

It seems like more and more old IonSense people are leaving Bruker. I wonder what this means for the future of DART. I mean obviously Bruker is ready to stop supporting DART on other MS platforms, but I wonder where this is going

I've been asking people with GC-Orbitrap systems for years if they do chemical ionization (because what's the point of an Orbitrap for EI) but not until today has someone said yes

Did you ever have a reviewer ask why you didn't try someone else's method, which you hadn't heard of, but then that method's results as-published actually look pretty poor? And you know there's a better than even chance that the reviewer was an author of that method

We ordered 6 helium cylinders today to try to beat the run

Now that I've built my controller I'm shopping for a protective case with custom foam, and holy cow is this market driven by gun collectors. You thought Pelican cases were for instruments? Nah, their major market is for handguns. Like how compressed gas suppliers sell way more to hospitals than labs

Anyway bought helium since the war started? Has the price jumped already?

New theme song for repurposed circuit boards: You down with OPPCB? yeah you know me

There's a vendor booth at Pittcon for Parafilm, and I can't believe these guys have to advertise. It's like seeing a booth for Kleenex

Pittcon has a mariachi band playing in the foyer, which is cool in the abstract but means every time the door opens in a session you can hear a trumpet tooting

I see Pittcon favors the double-clip, nunchuk style of lanyard

It's nice to fly out of DC in March when the fash have no specific reason to clog the airport

Headed to Pittcon. Never been before, so if you're there say hey

You mean there are people who actually turn their test circuits into PCBs instead of just leaving them on a breadboard forever?

Sometimes when I give lab tours to kids or just laymen I refer to DART as "the little leaf blower" and DESI as "the little pressure washer"

The Delaware Valley Mass Spec Discussion Group is BACK!! Join us at Villanova University on 3/17 for networking and a presentation by John Kellie with AstraZeneca. #MassSpectrometry #Philadelphia #ACS

I put through a purchase request to my admin team with an "estimated $300 tariff tax" on the quote a few days ago, but it hasn't been paid out yet. I wonder how much this will cost.

Happy Asher Wednesday to all who celebrate

If you're at Pittcon in March, check out my symposium with Ralf Zimmermann: "100 Years of Photoionization Mass Spectrometry: History, Principles and Current Applications", Tuesday morning March 10. 4 speakers talk history and their original research labscievents.pittcon.org/event/pittco...

Sure you can teach your child to be interested in books, but then she'll get you sick and demand you read aloud all weekend with a sore throat instead of silently watching the Olympics

ASMS already has at least 3,584 abstract submissions. I was one of the earliest to submit at the end of December, and my collaborator's abstract just went through, so I subtracted our tracking numbers. And there's still ~8 hours to go!

Thanks to the Triangle Area MSDG for hosting me this week! Also thanks for the awesome tour at NC State.

Did you ever get annoyed that someone failed to cite your old work, only to remember that you never actually published it in a journal?

With fancy jewelry

I watched the Brad Pitt move F1 on the plane (as the artists intended, no doubt). There's a blink-and-you'll miss it shot of GC vials in the round carousel of an Agilent autosampler. Fuel analysis, I guess, which doesn't exactly work in the context of the scene but is plausible

I have a couple ASMS shoulder bags, they are my standard laptop bag for travel. This morning a kid on the metro asked if my bag said mass spectroscopy, because they just learned about that in AP chemistry. I told him you say "spectrometry" or you'll sound like a 70-year-old organic chemist

Every time I fly in January I travel with the fascist contingent who have been touring the city all week. Last year it was the weekend after the inauguration; today it's right after the anti-choice March for Life

Sometimes you read an older paper that is pretty uncomplicated and you think, "well, someone had to do it first". Other times you read an older paper and think, "like 5 other groups proved the same incremental thing in this 5-year span".