> Oh that's a rough Friday problem!

I see what you did there 🤣

What part of your MS is that? If it makes you feel any better, I was working on a sensitivity issue for a customers MS on Friday, and mid-way through troubleshooting the rough pump decides to die. Guess I have two problems to fix now!

In my first post-doc paper years ago we ended up changing Qtrap to "tandem linear ion trap" in the title. I can't recall if that was our call or a request from the editor now though. Keeps it more general rather than brand specific.

Unfortunately not; I have a couple of PMs scheduled to do on the days the conference is running. Someone's got to keep the instruments humming 😉

OmniTIMS I mean

Thanks for the summary! Unfortunately not getting out to conferences in my current role :(

Will be very interesting to see the OmniTOF

Cheers Sarah! Done as much preparation as we can around the house. All the brew gear is now full of drinking water just in case! 😳

I'm doing my part, I never had a trampoline! 😆 Everything else is secured or brought inside though.

I have the same reaction when a fat possum jumps on our roof at 2am. The walking gait of a brush tail possum is surprisingly similar to that of a human.

Good on you mate!

Congratulations Michael, great news!

I need to figure out the best way to recycle dead and non-recoverable turbo pumps.

It sort of fits the naming of the Dionex ion chromatography systems: Easion, Acquion, Integrion, Inuvion

Just do what I do. Take 4 circular biscuits and arrange them so they look like a quad 😀. Vendor agnostic, unless McVities have seriously diversified....

It is amazing how well most of those instruments have lasted though. Particularly the ion trap part. One of my former labs is running an original LTQ still; I first used that in 2009 and it wasn't new then, has to be pushing nearly 20 years!