ASBMB announces a new journal for biochemistry and molecular biology: do we need another journal or is it a chance to indirectly support a scientific society? www.asbmb.org/journals/asb...

My student's paper on enzymatic remodelling to generate anionic glycan arrays has just been published online in @jbiolchem! Various recombinant glycosyl- or sulphotransferases were employed to prepare glycan motifs tested with various lectins. #glycotime www.jbc.org/article/S002...

Today visited Fudan University, Shanghai, and gave a talk as a guest of Prof. Cao (known, e.g., for pGlyco3). Nice interactions, discussion and lunch! Also viewed the campus MS facility.

Impressions of #Nara, Japan 🇯🇵 I’m not sending deer 🦌 photos!

Excellent dinner tonight in Tachikawa, Tokyo - 8 different courses and very good beer from the Tachihi brewery. tamagawa-sumiyaki.com/en_us/

It’s a pleasure again to visit @kiyokof‘s lab - to input more into Glytoucan - and to go to an all-you-can-eat/drink (within 2 hours) dinner!

Dinner and breakfast at the Isana resort, Jogasaki coast, Japan

Shimoda, Japan - good food and seaside

Much of my working time yesterday was spent „chunking“ worms. First managing to pour 39 plates from 1L NGM-agar (on Wednesday), plating a bit of E. coli OP50 (on Thursday) and finding worms on old plates, cutting the relevant pieces of agar out & transferring to a new plate (Friday). #Caenorhabditis

Is craft beer losing its way? „Today’s overwhelmed consumer doesn’t have time to decode a beer called Sour Me Unicorn Farts (a glittered sour), Purple Monkey Dishwasher (a chocolate peanut butter porter), or Hopportunity Knocks (a perfumed, piney I.P.A.).“ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/o...

A New Organ Is Shaking the Pews at Trinity Church in NYC: Trinity’s organ was severely damaged in the Sept. 11 attacks. At last, its replacement has been unveiled. Hear the sound of its 8,041 pipes. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/a...

Congratulations to the four ACS CARB division awardees: Stacy Malaker, Matt Macauley aka @siglecdude.bsky.social, Anthony Serianini and Steve Sucheck #glycotime

End of the visit to Türkiye: Efes followed by raki.

International Glycoimmunology Online Symposium 2025 1 December 2025 Online via Zoom www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/f...

Göreme, Uçhisar and area, Türkiye.

Das „Schwarzbuch der Denkmalpflege – ein Verzeichnis verlorener Geschichte 2023/2024“ schildert rund 40 solcher Einzelbeispiele für folgenschweren Umgang mit Denkmalen. Pull it down rather than restore? How Germany deals with historic buildings. www.denkmalschutz.de/pressemeldun...

Aspendos, Selge, Perge, Termessos Roman/Greek ruins near Antalya, Türkiye

Glycoengineering of nematode antigens using insect cells: a promising approach for producing bioactive vaccine antigens of the barber’s pole worm Haemonchus contortu#glycotimem#Glycobiologygy

Today at the Salzburger Festspiele The Wiener Philharmoniker under Andris Nelsons: Mahler #10 Adagio and Shostakovich #10 - great performance spoiled slightly by someone’s alarm at 12:00 and 12:05!!

Today Salzburg Festival Premiere of Eötvös‘ Three Sisters (Три сeстры́) with three countertenors in the main roles. Two hours of sometimes dramatic and unusually orchestrated music to accompany the drama on the stage.

Using #Caenorhabditis genes to reengineer insect cells to better mimic nematode glycosylation academic.oup.com/glycob/advan...

ASBMB members are invited to propose mini-symposia for the 2026 @asbmb.bsky.social Annual Meeting — an opportunity to curate compelling scientific conversations, spotlight emerging areas of research and build new collaborations across the molecular life sciences. www.asbmb.org/annual-meeti...

My university can take part in the new OeAW call *APART-USA*. The university can therefore appoint *one scholarship holder* as well as nominate *a reserve candidate*. Deadline to send a letter of interest is 5th August! Candidates must be postdocs in the US. stipendien.oeaw.ac.at/stipendien/a...

Tonight‘s Croatian 🇭🇷 craft beer 🍺 Baltazar from Pivovara Medvedgrad

Croatian 🇭🇷 IPA 🍺 Varionica Deep Dive IPA

An example of #badglycans Yellow glucose! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Finally, some 10 years after bringing this wild honeysuckle plant in a bucket from Denmark and planting it on my balcony trough, a flower has been produced.

Glycoproteomics of a lobster: My explanation would be that a Man2GlcNAc2Fuc2 is on the Asn, not that there's some adventurous O-glycan. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Latest nematode glycomic research: Excretory-secretory products of the fish-borne parasite Anisakis simplex L3 larvae possess allergens and unusual N-glycan modifications www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

My last opera visit of the season @WrStaatsoper Tchaikovsky‘s Pique Dame (Пиковая дама, Queen of Spades) with Anna Netrebko and (separated husband) Yusif Eyvazov in the main two roles. Whatever one thinks of some aspects of the production, an exciting performance! The conductor was a „stand-in“!

Long „Corpus Christi“ weekend in Croatia. I am starting to read Aucoin‘s book about opera.

The 34th edition of JGM takes place in Lille, France, co-organized by the French Institute of Structural and Functional Glycobiology (UGSF, University of Lille – CNRS) and the Belgian Center for Medical Biotechnology (University of Gent – VIB). 12-14/10/2025 jointglycomeeting.univ-lille.fr

Fine new recording of Glass‘ Violin Concerto #1 music.apple.com/at/album/phi...

RSC Carbohydrate Group Winter Meeting 2025 The RSC Carbohydrate Group is organising its annual winter meeting in York this September (22nd – 23rd). This one and half day symposium will showcase the state-of-the-art research in carbohydrate chemistry. www.rsc.org/events/detai...

With Russia announcing its digital ID law, digital ID under consideration in Austria to implement age-restrictions on social media use plus the Britcard, I guess that by 2030 I’ll no longer post to social media … as I don’t want a digital ID. interfax.com/newsroom/top... orf.at/stories/3397...

Alfred Brendel, one of the greatest pianists of his generation, lauded for his Beethoven sonatas www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/fe9fc94...

Program | SERMACS/SWRM - Chemistry In The Sunshine October 26-29th in DoubleTree by Hilton Orlando at SeaWorld, in Orlando. Featuring one symposium in the field of Carbohydrate Chemistry: Glycomaterials for a Sustainable Future www.sermacs2025.org/program.html

Out of 66 Springer-Nature "Discover" Journals, 25 have *identical* identical* names to existing MDPI journals (Viruses - Viruses); 11 differ by one letter (Food – Foods) and 22 more are pretty similar (Computing – Computers). That’s 58 copycat journal titles out of 66 for you.

We experienced the end of the world at the Wiener Staatsoper tonight - Wagner‘s Götterdämmerung! Andreas Schager is perhaps almost the best Siegfried I’ve ever heard!

People are having very strange conversations with ChatGPT, in which they discover secret cabals or conspiracies or that we are all in fact living in The Matrix. It sends these people into delusional spirals. Then ChatGPT tells them to email me about it. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...

Final scientific event of my time in Canada/USA: brief visit and Glycobiology Interest Group seminar at Johns Hopkins. Thanks to Natasha Zachara & Ron Schnaar! Now waiting for Amtrak to Newark airport.

Post #ASMS - I wasn’t at the aquarium, but at the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra concert & the world premiere of Composer in Residence James Lee III’s Concerto for Orchestra - a homage to the city!

My lunchtime stroll through downtown Baltimore!

Curious about unusual N-glycans in insect express systems? Come to this afternoon‘s #glycotime session at #ASMS2025 - including my own talk on caterpillars and worms!

Nick Riley @nmriley.bsky.social at #ASMS2025 Varying ETD and EThcD parameters (q and Tau values) for increase O-glycopeptide identifications.

Two #glycotime talks during this afternoon’s informatics session at #ASMS2025 - featuring work from the Mechref and Lebrilla labs. Annotation/quantification, fingerprint fragments, fucose rearrangements in CID, retention time patterns …

At today's #ASMS2025 Glycopeptides & Glycoproteins session: N-glycoproteomics in cancer; enriching glycopeptides, use of pGlyco3+MSFragger+pGlycompare to evaluate turnover; O-GalNAcylation in diabetes; whether Tyr can be O-GlcNAcylated; metabolic labelling to identify O-GlcNAc-peptides.

My #ASMS2025 Tuesday lunch at the ale house across the street from the convention centre! IPA and a pulled pork sandwich.

My list of primarily #glycotime #ASMS2025 posters that I was especially aiming to look at yesterday.

My list of posters for closer inspection today at #ASMS2025