Sometimes you need a place to log your thought experiments. (A digital home for decades’ worth of scientific communications and internet lurking!)
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8 Jun 2023
Lessons Codified by History,
(or at least by the History Posters) c/o Jean Futrell #ASMS2023
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8 Jun 2023
(…I have always appreciated Thursday talks as a reasonable justification to stay through to closing, but also ASMS is also science-vacation, even if I occasionally have to use one ear to call into other meetings.)
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Everything works out eventually.
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8 Jun 2023
Kinda delighted that the produce matrices most prone to pesticide retention are referred to as “The Dirty Dozen”.
(i.e.
¹strawberry
²spinach
³kale
⁴nectarines
⁵apples
⁶grapes
⁷cherries
⁸peaches
⁹pears
¹°tomatoes
¹¹celery
¹²potatoes)
Who’s the Borgnine?
#ASMS2023 Learnings
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5 Jun 2023
Visiting Fred McLafferty’s ‘Giants of MS poster’ with @yingge2121 in the History section by registration!
(Here at #ASMS2023 all week!)
Watching her introduce her students and postdocs to their academic grandfather was charming.
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3 Jun 2023
My feeling that not enough people use Thompsons as the units for m/z ratios, I wonder if being more commonly used would steal some of its delight induction power.
(I’m sure there’s a balance.)
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2 Jun 2023
In an auspicious harbinger of #ASMS2023, on my way outta a customer site this afternoon to go to the airport I saw a copy of “Interpretation of Mass Spectra” on a free book pile (…consequently I have ANOTHER one).
(Maybe I’ll fix up the binding and leave it by history posters!)
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7 May 2023
(Repost)
A post poster posting post.
🦬🦬 🦬🦬🦬🦬🦬 🦬.
(¹³⁷City, ²⁴⁸🦬, ⁵⁶verb)
7 May 2023
It didn’t make it to the shared draft, but I almost just sent out a poster titled “I Hᴇᴀʀᴅ Yᴏᴜ Lɪᴋᴇᴅ Pᴏsᴛᴇʀs Sᴏ I Mᴀᴅᴇ ᴀ Pᴏsᴛᴇʀ ᴏғ Yᴏᴜʀ Pᴏsᴛᴇʀs”.
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18 Mar 2023
When the two dogs inside you work together to yield a goofy delight, is that not truly the best case scenario?
(I appreciate the planning involved with a certain kind of practical prestidigitation.)
11 Mar 2023
A few months back I got into the habit of hiding bags of nuts around the office area of a colleague who I peer manage toward facilitating rapid positive reinforcement in a hilarious and magical way and particularly before I am out of town this is tricky because they gotta be hid!
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18 Mar 2023
(Every-time it is like a Gene Parmesan reveal in its being unnecessary but perfect in deployment.)
youtu.be/1ZMNujDjGD4
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14 Jan 2023
the only thing better than being in ones home lab after midnight is being in an away lab after midnight.
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27 Dec 2022
Processing some metadata on an old boss for a poster and he had a publication rate of ~1/month the year I was born.
Just...hoo.
He had an anecdote about Djerassi abandoning him during a visit to go write because “he wrote a paper every Thursday” and I thought “Maybe hyperbole.”
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18 Dec 2022
I was so excited to have thought I troubleshot a problem I thought I caused through a boneheaded mistake of calling 2 minutes 200 seconds in a script.
Alas: I had indeed written 120.
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22 Dec 2022
My little hallway victory dance in solitary celebration of my tremendously quick troubleshooting of a very silly issue was as delightful as you might imagine.
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7 Dec 2022
Though I can see that maybe it is unduly adversarial, the part of me that has begun understanding that each meeting is a battle recognizes the low notice early morning meeting popping onto my calendar kind of out of the blue as the sneak attack that it is.
4 Dec 2022
“The only enzymatic digests I like starting on the weekend usually happen in my tummy,” is a thing I just heard someone say aloud.
19 Nov 2022
As part of software product ownership, I just had to write a help section for a module of the software I was technically also on the hook for overhauling after some customer insight feedback; which meant step zero was the overhaul.
SURPRISE: BONUS WORK!
7 Nov 2022
There is a picture of Nobel Laureate Ahmed Zewail at Strada [it was for a time the nicest coffee near but not too near the chemistry department, so useful for meetings] in his autobiography and I had borrowed it from my dad while on a boat on the Nile and I was suddenly like:
19 Oct 2022
I believe the descriptor for the face my colleague made watching me casually but quickly root around barehanded in a box full of classy dry ice pellets for an incoming sample would be “horrified”.
(Ya’ gotta get in and get out, it’s not like I was grasping anything too tightly.)
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10 Sep 2022
I had an old boss who used to say, “you can fall in love with your hypotheses, but never marry them”.
I don’t think he meant marry them like “marrying ketchup bottles” so much as “don’t get too attached”.
It comes to mind.
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24 Sep 2022
Same boss (very quotable though often neglected in discussions of pedigree despite being a superstar) used to say, “You can maintain backup plans, but always proceed with the assumption that things are gonna work out.”
(I think it came out trying to correct for my uncertainty.)
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24 Sep 2022
Apropos of a little weekend what-if that may be saving me 30 hours of redundant sample prep.