thank you so much to everyone who took part and helped to make this happen! expression of interest for next editions: bit.ly/exp_interest

congrats @evakaulich.bsky.social, great work! and cool to see we have more overlapping research interests now :)

oh yes, combining with an EBI visit should be even easier - I still live in Cambridge, next to the train station now, in London a couple of times a week :)

are you in Liverpool then? good luck for the talk, and let me know if you happen to pass via London and have a spare hour for a coffee :)

Using your TMT analysis example is essentially how I (and essentially our lab at @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social ) got into proteomics analysis in 2019-2020, which has kind of now become my main career since 2023, so I'm really looking forward to reading this. Thank you so much!

(Picnic lunch at Jardin du Luxembourg that was meant to say)

Having picnic lunch before my train to Toulouse was cool, wasting hours on communicating with insurance (never use Aviva!) was less so

Cool! Last time I went to @intp-science.bsky.social which is close to Perpignan/Barcelona I was supposed to fly from STN (£20 vs £200 train when I looked in advance) but Stansted had an IT failure when I arrived, so instead of q'ing I turned around and went to London to catch a Eurostar :)

I've also got an unofficial "best question of the day" (on multiomics hype) award from @jamesmacraedonkey.bsky.social, which I said I'd put on my CV - but maybe a bluesky account that barely has any followers is good enough? 😅

love your jacket! congatulations again 🎉

I was also really in a "preaching to the choir" situation when Ben talked about what Crick meant by central dogma, and why we shouldn't just do RNA-seq or even chase protein numbers in omics. So far this seems to be a pretty solid unifying theme of my scientific career...

Curious what is the distribution of downloads/user? I imagine there are people whose projects are based on existing datasets, who may download 1 in 4 or 1 in 10, and many who go looking for something specific and download one ever. Per dataset not sure, would be happy to hear if it's >1 in 100 :)

Thanks so much for the tips! Unfortunately motivating myself and prioritising watching something online is much harder than attending an exciting event with cool people in a new place, but still good to keep in mind. An alternative is just following you here I guess! 😀

(the latter gives you 15EUR off for the next time!)
Also I wrote a more personal post on why this all is important for me - complexbroadcast.com/2025/05/17/c...