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David Broadhurst
@davidbroadhurst.bsky.social
Professor of Metabolomic Epidemiology & Biosystems Data Science @ Edith Cowan University, Perth Western Australia. Honorary Fellow of the Metabolomics Society. Also …Road cyclist 🚴 Coffee Snob ☕️ Sound Designer 🎹 Reader of books 📚
Version 2.1 of the QC:MXP repeat-injection derived batch correction app is now available to download at qcmxp.org.
I thought it would be fun to revisit an old data set from Craig Wheelock's lab - doi.org/10.1183/1399....
16 batch, 880 subjects, 224 pooled QC injections, 100+ curated metabolites.
August 14, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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For the love of god put the sample size in the abstract
July 15, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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I am very proud to announce the 2nd Philippine Metabolomics Network Annual Conference.

This is a free 1-day conference in Manila to boost metabolomics in the country.

Includes workshops on Metabolomics QC by @davidbroadhurst.bsky.social and GNPS by Wout Bittremieux

UGent Global Minds Fund
The 𝐏𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 (𝐏𝐌𝐍) invites researchers, scientists, and students to submit abstracts for the 2𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐌𝐍 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞—a platform to advance metabolomics in the Philippines and foster inter-institutional and interdisciplinary collaboration.
PMN Annual Conference - Abstracts Submission
📢 Call for Abstracts 2nd Philippine Metabolomics Network Annual Conference
tinyurl.com
May 14, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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🚨 📢 I’m #hiring!!! I am looking for an experienced #metabolomics scientist with a particular focus on LC-MS. Please follow the link below for more details and how to apply! 📢 🚨
Applications close at 23:59 on May 23rd!!!

www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Senior/Principal Laboratory Research Scientist: Metabolomics & Lipidomics Specialist
www.crick.ac.uk
May 7, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Happy to share our recent opinon piece on how the cross section of ageing, metabolism and palaeoanthropolgy research areas hold promise is uncovering novel routes in human evolution.

authors.elsevier.com/a/1k%7E4KArD...
authors.elsevier.com
April 23, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Save the date: the 5th anniversary of the Glasgow Computational Biology Conference. 15th and 16th of September at University of Glasgow Advanced Research Centre. Details to follow soon!
glasgow-compbio.github.io/conference/2...
Glasgow University Computational Biology Conference 2025 – Glasgow CompBio Community
Take part in talks, networking and learning about everything computational biology!
glasgow-compbio.github.io
April 23, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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QC:MXP version 2.0 is now available to download for free from my GitHub page: www.qcmxp.org
Repeat-injection-based Quality Control, Batch Correction, Exploration & Data Cleaning. #Metabolomics #AnalyticalChemistry #Matlab
April 17, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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Updates in 🦕 #xcms #rstats #metabolomics package:

👉 retention time alignment against external data set
👉 chromatographic peak quality metrics
👉 performance improvements

Available in @bioconductor.bsky.social release 3.21 🚀

Up next: memory-saving analysis of very large data sets 😎

#TeamMassSpec
April 18, 2025 at 6:59 AM
QC:MXP version 2.0 is now available to download for free from my GitHub page: www.qcmxp.org
Repeat-injection-based Quality Control, Batch Correction, Exploration & Data Cleaning. #Metabolomics #AnalyticalChemistry #Matlab
April 17, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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And big thanks also to the @eubic-ms.org hackathon team contributing to our #SpectriPy package github.com/RforMassSpec... !

Next on the list submission of the package to 👉 @bioconductor.bsky.social
April 11, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Wonderful to see this Nature Communications perspective paper from Dr. Kevin Mendez's PhD finally out. Part of great collaboration between metabolomic epidemiology researchers at Edith Cowan University & Harvard Medical School. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A roadmap to precision medicine through post-genomic electronic medical records - Nature Communications
The authors outline a framework uniting electronic medical records with post-genomic data to capture real-time physiological changes via periodic molecular snapshots, enabling a shift from reactive tr...
www.nature.com
February 20, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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🚨 Abstract deadline alert! 🚨

Friendly reminder to submit your oral abstract before March 6 – don’t miss the chance to showcase your work at hashtag#MetSoc2025!

Registration is now open: lnkd.in/eFZGi4CK

#Metabolomics #EMN
February 17, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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We will be hosting the first @mzmine.bsky.social Community Meeting at @iocbprague.bsky.social. Please register if you wish to learn about the latest developments in mzmine. More info: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
February 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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🚨 Call for abstracts! 🚨
Submit your abstract for #MetSoc2025 in Prague - submissions close March 6! Don't miss the chance to showcase your work at the biggest event in #metabolomics.

www.metabolomics2025.org
Home - Metabolomics 2025
www.metabolomics2025.org
February 18, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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I'm really looking forward to running this "Git and GitHub for R Users" workshop for @r-ladies-stl.bsky.social!

📅 April 23rd 2025
⏰ 11am CST / 5pm BST
📍 Online

Register: www.meetup.com/rladies-st-l...

#RStats #Git #GitHub #RLadies
February 16, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Applications are open for the #FeMS+ 2025 Q2 Empowerment Awards! Thanks @brukercorporation.bsky.social for sponsoring!
Apply here: airtable.com/appyGufCIumj...
#TeamMAssSpec #WomenEmpowerment
February 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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🏆EMN Travel Awards are back for #MetSoc2025 in Prague!

EMN Travel Award – Up to 4 grants for graduate (Master’s/PhD) & postdocs.

📍More info: metabolomics2025.org/awards

#Metabolomics #EMN
February 7, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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@tomgauld.bsky.social - I thought this was terrific!
February 4, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Pleased to say that the follow-up paper w @resiapretorius on the proteomics of amyloidogenesis in microclot formation preprinted at www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... has just been accepted. #TeamClots
The proteome content of blood clots observed under different conditions: successful role in predicting clot amyloid(ogenicity)
A recent analysis compared the proteome of (i) blood clots seen in two diseases – sepsis and long COVID – when blood was known to have clotted into an amyloid microclot form (as judged by staining wit...
www.biorxiv.org
January 31, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Come work at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in the beautiful science & university city Heidelberg as a Research Software Engineer on R/Bioconductor tools for biological data science and AI !

embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Hei...
January 31, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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I did a list of #WomeinSTEM working in #metabolomics & #lipidomics and #datascience please join or share with others, use it for conferences, media & networking, mentoring, supporting, anything that helps, 300+ women have joined
docs.google.com/document/u/0...
LIST “WOMEN IN METABOLOMICS, LIPIDOMICS, PROTEOMICS AND RELATED DATA SCIENCE”
NAME INSTITUTION COUNTRY Dr. Maria Eugenia Monge CIBION-CONICET Argentina Prof. Elaine Holmes Murdoch University- Imperial College London Australia- UK Dr Ruey-Leng Loo Murdoch University, Au...
docs.google.com
January 31, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Ready to take your metabolite annotation to the next level?

Join our first FREE webinar on Best Practices for Metabolite Annotation in Imaging MS with METASPACE!

🔗 Register now: eventbrite.com/e/best-pract...

#Metabolomics #MassSpec #Imaging #METASPACE
Best Practices for Metabolite Annotation in Imaging MS with METASPACE
Learn the top tips and tricks for identifying metabolites in Imaging MS using METASPACE - the ultimate guide for metabolite annotation!
eventbrite.com
January 30, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Hi all, our lab will soon recruit a PhD student working within a very exciting MSCA Horizon Doctoral network working on ageing, UNION, which gathers some fantastic scientists. Please apply if your profile fits our project (see attached advert).
Looking forward to working with you!
January 23, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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“Two researchers, one with bipolar disorder and ADHD, the other with autism, discuss supportive workplaces, building networks, and how and when to disclose diagnoses.”
How to be a brilliant ally to your neurodivergent lab mate
Two researchers, one with bipolar disorder and ADHD, the other with autism, discuss supportive workplaces, building networks, and how and when to disclose diagnoses.
www.nature.com
January 22, 2025 at 1:45 AM
So happy to see (listen) to Phil Liggett commentating on the Tour Down Under (Channel 7). I started watching TdF under his guidance back in the 1980’s on C4 UK. He is a legend. Great stuff!
January 21, 2025 at 1:42 PM