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Amanda Patrick
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Mass Spectrometry | Coffee | Dog Training | Chemistry Education | Nature Photography

Undergrad at NCSU, PhD at UF (NSF GRFP), Postdoc at AFRL NM (NRC RAP), Assoc. Prof. at MS State Uni.

ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4525-0970

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Amanda Patrick @patricklabms.bsky.social · Feb 6
Enjoyed chatting with LCGC International for this interview. #TeamMassSpec 🧪 #WomenInSTEM

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Reaching for the Stars with Mass Spectrometry
LCGC International spoke to Amanda Patrick associate professor at Mississippi State University about her research exploring mass spectrometry (MS) applications in ionic liquid analysis.
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After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats have broken the Republican Party’s supermajority in the Mississippi Senate.

Democrats flipped two GOP-held Senate seats and one House seat in the special elections.
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Mississippi Democrats Break Republican Senate Supermajority, Flipping 3 Legislative Seats
After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats broke the Republican Party's supermajority in the Mississippi Senate, flipping 3 legislative seats.
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November 5, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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Spent a couple hours today giving shelter pups time out of their kennels! #DogsOfBluesky #ShelterDogs
Blue heeler play bowing with green canvas toy in her mouth. Red Lab (pit mix, maybe) puppy sitting for a pic. Peach and white big block headed pitbull standing in grass. Sweet shepherd sitting and “giving paw” to person taking photo.
November 1, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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The amount of AI generated art in slides at this conference, primarily used by older scientists, is killing me. Scientists please. Don’t use these ai platforms to make your figures or slides. They look bad and I have yet to see them meaningfully improve the message of talks.
October 31, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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Still at the top of my NCSU trivia game! #HowlBack #NCStateRedWhite
Kahoot! Podium, with my avatar in first place.
October 27, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Rain has brought out the mushrooms!
A blue heeler dog lays at the center of a fairy ring of white mushrooms.
October 26, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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For over a century, chemists have made flavor molecules to evoke particular tastes. How do they know which compounds create a particular flavor, and how do they make these molecules? cen.acs.org/food/food-sc...

#NationalChemistryWeek #ACS_NCW #SpiceChemistry #chemsky
A three-column infographic, titled “Faking Flavors with Chemistry,” explaining how artificial flavors are formulated and produced.
The first column highlights three early artificial flavors: vanillin (vanilla, 1870s), methyl anthranilate (grape, early 1900s), and diacetyl (butter, 1920s). 
The second column points out that it’s more common for flavors to have several chemical contributors. Chemists determine these using analytical methods. The primary method used is gas chromatography, which separates compounds in a sample according to their boiling points and solubilities. The output tells us how much of each compound is present, and the chromatograph can be connected to a mass spectrometer and a sniff port for further identifying information.
The third column discusses how flavor molecules are made once they’ve been identified. Usually, they’re extracted from plants or made in the lab. However, chemists are turning to biotechnological methods, which allow them to market produced flavor molecules as natural. One method is biosynthesis, in which microbes metabolize simple chemical building blocks to make flavor compounds over multiple reaction steps. Another method is biotransformation, which uses microbes or their isolated enzymes to make flavor compounds from a similar starting substance in simple reactions.

October 25, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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National Chemistry Week x Mississippi State Homecoming tailg hosted by the Department of Chemistry, College of Arts & Sciences, and Student Affiliates of the ACS. 🧪 🥽 #NationalChemistryWeek
Students in lab coats demonstrate liquid nitrogen boiling to kids on the other side of a table. Kids watch as a chemistry student explains carbon dioxide sublimation, visualized using soapy water. Two lab-coat-clad chemistry students pose triumphantly after a successful elephant toothpaste demo.
October 25, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Back at the shelter after a hiatus. Leash walks only today. walked a love lab and a cute little pit! #DogsOfuesky #RescueDogs #ShelterPups
Black lab sitting with tongue out. She has an orange rope lead and there is grass and bushes in the background. Little blue pit with big wonky ears standing outside.
October 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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“When women stepped outside their prescribed roles, they became targets. Too much wealth might reflect sinful gains. Too little money demonstrated bad character. Too many children could indicate a deal with a devil. Having too few children was suspicious, too.”
October 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Always exciting to get to share student successes! Taofiq is a PhD student planning to graduate Spring/Summer 2026. He had a chance to complete an internship at Biogen this past summer, solidifying his interest in industry positions.

#TeamMassSpec

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MSU chemistry doctoral student gains biotech experience at Biogen | College of Arts and Sciences
STARKVILLE, Miss.— Mississippi State University doctoral student Taofiq Abdulraheem deepened his understanding of chemistry’s real-world impact this summer through an internship at Biogen in Research ...
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October 13, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Spiders on the morning ramble.
Yellow and black striped spider on a web. Side view. Yellow and black striped spider working on lunch on its web.
October 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Excited for this! If you’re an ECR considering the “academic path”, I encourage you to check it out! #TeamMassSpec 🥽 #Proteomics #Chemistry #ChemSky
hupo-org.bsky.social HUPO @hupo-org.bsky.social · Oct 8
Register Now!
✨ How to Get Started with Teaching
📅 October 14th | 🕓 16:00 CEST

Fredrik Edfors – Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Amanda Patrick – Mississippi State University, USA
David Tabb – Universitair Medisch Centrum Groningen, Netherlands
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October 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Congratulations to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi! For more reaction, follow our live blog.
The 2025 Nobel prize in chemistry as it happens – live
Join us as we provide analysis and commentary in the run up to the announcement of the biggest prize in chemistry
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October 8, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Blue jays are not truly blue, they just look that way. 🪶🧪

Most colors in nature come from pigments that absorb and reflect light, but a blue jay creates its color through structural tricks: microscopic layers and air pockets that scatter blue light back to our eyes.
October 5, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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#DogsOfBluesky
October 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Percy catching treats like a pro! #RescueDog #AustralianCattleDog #DogTraining
October 4, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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We are searching for a tenure track assistant professor with research interest in mass spectrometry-based proteomics!

#ChemJobs #TeamMassSpec @femalesinms.bsky.social @asms.org 🧪

More information or apply here: explore.msujobs.msstate.edu/en-us/job/50...
Careers | MSU Jobs
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October 2, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Some wildflowers up close. #BloomScrolling #MississippiWildflowers
Small, pale purple flower with yellow center. An ant crawls across the petals. Small, pale purple flower with yellow center. Surrounded by blurred foliage and another flower.
September 27, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Had some free time before an appointment today in Tupelo, so we explored the Natchez Trace and the birthplace of Elvis.

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Cattle dog in the background on a mossy trail with a bridge section visible; package containing a Natchez Trace Parkway “bark ranger” dog tag in the foreground Dog sits in front of small white house, the birthplace of Elvis.
September 20, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Finished this book on the flight home. Great read!
Hand holding a book with pretty artistic pink and gold flowers with the words “Inciting Joy” written over in purple. A plane seat back is in the background. A photo of text from the book: “My hunch is that joy is an ember for or precursor to wild and unpredictable and transgressive and unboundaried solidarity. And that that solidarity might incite further joy. Which might in turn incite further solidarity. And on and on. My hunch is that joy, emerging from our common sorrow—which does not necessarily mean we have the same sorrows, but that we , in common, sorrow—might draw us together. It might depolarize us and de-atomize us enough that we can consider what, in common, we love. And though…” Quote continues: “attending to what we hate in common is too often all the rage (and it happens also to be very big business), noticing what we love in common, and studying that, might help us survive. It’s why I think of joy, which gets us to love, as being a practice of survival. And it’s why I’ve written this book.”
September 14, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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sararah.bsky.social Heavily Into The World Of Magnets @sararah.bsky.social · Sep 14
For many years, I’ve found the best way to take my mind off The Horrors is to act locally and be a positive influence in my community. Making art, volunteering, picking up trash, attending a community concert or festival, etc all make it feel worthwhile to keep going.
September 14, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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‘From combustion engines to tobacco, universities have been used in the past to whitewash now-controversial products. For a long time, the tobacco industry pointed to research it subsidized at universities to claim its products were healthy.’
olivia.science Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Sep 12
"We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically." www.ru.nl/en/research/...
September 13, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Our Department is searching for an instructor of Chemistry, focusing on undergraduate education.

For more information or to apply click here: explore.msujobs.msstate.edu/en-us/job/50...

#Chemistry #iTeachChemistry #Academia #TeamMassSpec #ChemJobs
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September 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Some new wildflowers appearing on the prairie! #Mississippi #BloomScrolling
Delicate white flowers with pink accents. Purple thistle-y flowers. Small pink flower Maypop flower
September 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM