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asher newsome
@iondoctor.bsky.social
mass spectrometrist and instrumentation rascal, representing myself and not my institution
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From earlier this year in Forensic Science International: we showed that DART ionization on an Orbitrap can identify wood species using the AccuTOF-DART ForeST database of US Fish & Wildlife. Such databases can be compatible with traps or other instruments www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Interlaboratory and cross-platform accessibility of time-of-flight wood identification database
The mass spectral database of tree species built by US Fish and Wildlife Service has thousands of entries and has been a valuable resource to combat i…
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Science is better together! Join your local #ASMS Discussion Group to connect face-to-face, share research ideas, and build community within the world of mass spectrometry.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:10 PM
A major new @asms.org member benefit is now live - expanded access to all the Wiley MS journals! ASMS members can now see RCMS, JMS, and MS Reviews issues one year old on a rolling basis. (Members also get new issues of JASMS and IJMS.) Your dues at work! Access through asms.org/publications...
November 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I got asked by a reviewer to add absolute values or normalization levels to my Relative Abundance mass spectra, and that's fine.
But it does make me think of certain papers I *know* published low signal, whose abundance could only be gauged by squinting at baselines (or even cut the y axis entirely)
November 19, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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We wrapped up #THEProteomicsShow Alt Proteomics season with Tim Cleland @paleoproteomicist.bsky.social talking paleoproteomics with me and Ben @proteomicsnews.bsky.social. Won't lie, this season was a blast talking about less typical "proteomics". Find it wherever you find fine podcasts or here.
Ep 94 - Alt Proteomics - Dr. Timothy Cleland by The Proteomics Show
For the final episode of the US HUPO sponsored "Alt Proteomics" series highlighting alternative proteomics things, Ben and Ben sit down to talk with Dr. Timothy Cleland, Smithsonian Institution.Keywor...
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November 18, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I love culturally specific applications
November 7, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Have any bird lovers on this site made a joke about new tariffs on unpatriotic white-throated sparrows
November 3, 2025 at 9:57 PM
If the government ever opens back up and I have to start leaving every morning again, the baby is going to be very angry at me
October 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM
First international flight with baby successfully completed
October 2, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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🚨 3 weeks to go! 🚨
Join us for the 2nd LA Mass Spec Day 🧪✨
📅 Oct 17, 10am–5pm
📍 UCLA South Bay Campus
Plenary talks • Contributed talks • Posters • Networking
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👉 Abstracts: lnkd.in/gb-Qq7d5
September 27, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Great feature on Yan here pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Faces of Mass Spectrometry/Yan Wang
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September 27, 2025 at 8:14 PM
When you take advantage of oil-change time to replace a slightly leaky pump with a brand new pump that an engineer ordered by mistake and left for free, but the new pump turns out to be a lemon
September 24, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Virginia Beach gets its own spot on the mass spec meeting map, courtesy of last week's Harsh-Environment Mass Spectrometry Workshop
September 22, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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I have a new paper with @iondoctor.bsky.social and other MCI, Carnegie Science, and Calvert Marine Museum colleagues where we analyzed 8 and 10 million year old Ecphora shell membranes. We found chitin and various gastropod specific peptides. www.app.pan.pl/article/item...
Protein and chitin preservation in polymeric sheets in Miocene <em>Ecphora gardnerae</em> shells from Maryland, USA - Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
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September 18, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Publishers don't want you to use AI to generate your manuscript (neither do I, to ne clear) but it's okay for *them* to do it. They want subscription access but they'll give you a free slop summary. You can make Elsevier's AI "reading assistant" smaller on the page but it never goes away
August 29, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Now online: the latest application for my non-proximate desorption photoionization system. I stuck a dang pyrolysis heater on the front, and it's so fast and clean I can do 4 runs in 8 minutes. The MS alternates polarity so no doubling-up experiments www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Pyrolysis and Thermal Extraction of Polymeric Materials with Suction-driven, Real-time Ionization Sources and Rapid Polarity Switching, High Resolution Mass Spectrometry
Real-time sampling systems are assembled for analysis of pyrolyzed material using in-line ionization and high resolution mass spectrometry. Two commer…
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August 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Wow, I'm about to have a minimum of seven publications in a calendar year - that will beat my personal best in 2023 when all the covid-delayed stuff came out at once
August 26, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I thought the mass spec people here were quiet lately, but I just logged onto Twitter for the first time in months and it's a real ghost town there (so be it)
August 23, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Fun to have visitors from Los Alamos Natl Lab and NC State out after ACS!
August 22, 2025 at 9:13 PM
My second paper with former fellow Tjasa is out now. The focus is about swabbing large plastic art objects to study their surfaces (so that anyone can do it for GCMS) but we also do NPDPI for real-time high-res MS www.nature.com/articles/s40...
Non-destructive mass spectrometry of historical poly(vinyl chloride) object surfaces with swab analysis - npj Heritage Science
npj Heritage Science - Non-destructive mass spectrometry of historical poly(vinyl chloride) object surfaces with swab analysis
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August 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
When the 737 touched down, the panel that covers the strip of lights over the window seats fell off, onto my head
August 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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🚨 Save the date! 🚨
2nd LA Mass Spec Day:
Oct 17, 2025 @ UCLA South Bay 🎉
Talks, posters, networking + plenaries by Jennifer Van Eyk & Melissa Hoffman!

Register 👉 forms.gle/e6A9XWxiRF6K...

Submit abstracts 👉 forms.gle/RCf5v3Gab5V8...

More info to follow soon
August 10, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Since journals pay so little attention to Supplemental, what if we just start putting the full manuscript text in there for secret open access? Some journals already put half the text in Supplemental anyway
August 5, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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🎓 ✈️ Student Travel Award – Deadline Extended!

Grad students working in Harsh Environment Mass Spectrometry (HEMS): apply now for a $1500 travel award to attend the 2025 HEMS Workshop!

New deadline: August 8, 2025

Open to M.S., M.A., and Ph.D. students.
Student Travel Award Harsh Environment Mass Spectrometry Workshop
The HEMS-workshop focuses on the development of mass spectrometers for field applications. Presentations are ranging from remotely controlled mass spectrometers deployed on t...
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August 4, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Classic book: Francis William Aston (1922), Isotopes www.msterms.org/wiki/index.p...
Aston 1922 - Mass Spec Terms
I have undertaken the preparation of this book on isotopes in response to many requests made to me by teachers of physics and chemistry and others working in these subjects that I should publish the results obtained by means of the mass spectrograph in a form more convenient to the public than that in which they first appeared. This is one of the reasons why the space allotted to the inactive isotopes may appear, in the light of the general title of the book, somewhat disproportion- ately large. Another is that the subject of radioactive isotopes really requires a book to itself, and I am in the hope that the inadequacy of my account may stimulate the production of such a volume by hands more competent than mine to deal with this very special and remarkable field of modern science. The logical order of exposition of a scientific subject is to start with the simple and from that build up the more complex. Unfortunately the sequence of events in experimental research is the exact opposite of this so that a compromise must be effected, unless one is content to sacrifice historical treatment altogether. The latter seems very undesirable in a new subject. I have endeavoured in Chapters I, II and IV, and elsewhere when possible, to adhere strictly to the historical order of events even at the cost of some reiteration.
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August 2, 2025 at 7:54 PM
@proteomicsnews.bsky.social do you now have the proportional strength and speed of a spider? I assume the infestation was in your home and you got bit
Backyard Proteomics: A Case Study with the Black Widow Spider #JProteomeRes #MassSpec pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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July 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM