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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 23d

Striatal spinophilin enhances D2R interaction with cytosolic proteins to mediate persistent D2R agonist-induced locomotor suppression. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.09.675136v1

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Emma Doud @fireinlab.bsky.social · 22d

Great science happening at IUSM!

baucumlab.bsky.social @baucumlab.bsky.social · 23d

Excited to share our new preprint led by Basant Hens. Great thanks to co-authors @fireinlab.bsky.social and Whitney Smith-Kinnaman.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 25d

@aaup.org has prepared materials for faculty who face these threats and harassment. 6/ www.aaup.org/issues-highe...

Targeted Harassment of Faculty

The AAUP has developed a toolkit to address the threat of targeted harassment of faculty.

www.aaup.org

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Emma Doud @fireinlab.bsky.social · 28d

Still working ok here at Indiana University one state South.

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Vanessa Linke @massspecvanili.bsky.social · Jul 31

🤩 JOB ALERT 🤩 Come work with me and two cutting-edge LC-MS/MS systems at our brand new Mass Spectrometry Facility @iimcb.bsky.social in Warsaw! Apply here tinyurl.com/y47mzafa or send any questions my way. #TeamMassSpec please share widely!

Mass Spectrometry Technology Specialist, Międzynarodowy Instytut Biologii Molekularnej i Komórkowej w Warszawie, Warszawa

Job offer Mass Spectrometry Technology Specialist, Międzynarodowy Instytut Biologii Molekularnej i Komórkowej w Warszawie, Warszawa

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Emma Doud @fireinlab.bsky.social · Jul 31

Great collaboration with my Bloomington colleague @cris-s.bsky.social out now in #mbio #teammassspec journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Disulfide bonds are critical for stabilizing cell division, cell envelope biogenesis, and antibiotic resistance proteins in mycobacteria | mBio

This work addresses a major deficiency in understanding mycobacterial cell envelope processes and highlights the biological and clinical implications of oxidative protein folding in mycobacteria. This...

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Jen Heemstra @jenheemstra.bsky.social · Jul 26

First copies of my book are here!! As a new faculty member, I realized that in addition to my research job, I also had a leadership job…and I wasn’t prepared for that.

This book is the guide I wish I’d had then, with the goal of helping others now.

jenheemstra.com/book

Picture of a smiling person holding up a copy of a book.

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Emma Doud @fireinlab.bsky.social · Jul 25

Success! We've now run almost 2000 mouse cortex and plasma samples through this assay so expect more publications referencing it very soon. Much thanks to the Skyline team and @maccoss.bsky.social #modelad #teammassspec #proteomics www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Analytical development and application of a targeted liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry assay for chimeric aducanumab

A sensitive and specific liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry assay was developed for the quantification of chimeric aducanumab (chAdu), a therapeutic antibody targeting pathological amyl...

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William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · Jul 13

The most recent streetview of the site has a nature preserve boundary sign still displayed more than two years after the transfer of the property.

Nature Preserve Boundary sign photo from CILT website

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Emma Doud @fireinlab.bsky.social · Jul 1

I love my neighborhood and the people fighting for the good stuff in it.

William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · Jul 1

Looking at the People for Bikes BNA you can clearly see where @jesseforindy.bsky.social district is. Cool to have a councilor that cares about this stuff.

A blueish downtown with a blue blob around the Near Eastside of Indianapolis

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Chemistry World @chemistryworld.com · Jun 26

New research shows that simply changing how a reaction vessel is positioned on a magnetic stirrer can significantly change a reaction's speed and product quality, influencing the reproducibility of results. #ChemSky #ScienceSky #EduSky

Position of flask on magnetic stirrers can drastically affect reproducibility of experiments

Comprehensive examination reveals improper siting of reaction vessels can affect catalyst formation, alter nanoparticle formation and change yields

www.chemistryworld.com

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · Jun 19

I did my own research ahead of next week's ACIP meeting
rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/meet-the-a...

Meet the Anti-Vax ACIP First Round Draft Picks of 2025!

It's MAHA fantasy season, so let's take a look at this year's rookie class. Which preventable disease will start killing children first?

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Yasset Perez-Riverol @ypriverol.bsky.social · Jun 18

🚨 Has PRIDE helped your research?

Take 15 mins to tell funders why open data matters!
📊 Fill out the EMBL-EBI 2025 survey 👉
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Your feedback helps keep PRIDE open, FAIR & impactful.
🙏 Please share!
#FAIR #OpenData #Proteomics #MassSpectrometry #PRIDE

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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Vincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · Jun 6

Quick PSA: If you are planning a trip to Fairbanks this upcoming aurora season, the extra hours of darkness in Dec-Jan likely won't help you. In Fairbanks under quiet conditions, auroras usually don't start to appear until 9-10 pm.

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Emma Doud @fireinlab.bsky.social · Jun 4

We have had olink up and running in our center for about 6 months- I'll be encouraging all researchers who generate data with us to upload!

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · Jun 3

I'm working on a quickstart guide for people who want to plant native plants, but don't know all the things to consider when choosing plants.

I think this is inherently challenging due to the absolute mountain of caveats that goes into doing this properly.

However.

Here's where we're at.

An infographic labeled "Should I buy this plant? a bug-approved guide"

It takes you through the following line of questioning "1. Is it native: Look at the name of the plant here and see if it's native to your region. If no, Is it good at feeding bugs? Some non-native make lots of nectar. You can google if unsure. If yes, Are there better options available? if yes, don't buy it. If no, buy it. Ok, let's go back to the top. If it IS native, is it a cultivar? Does it have a goofy name like "Daisies jubilee" or "Pink Flamingo Hibiscus" It's a cultivar. If it's a cultivar, it'll send you to are there better options available? If it's not, on to question 3, which is "Was it grown with pesticides? This can be hard to tell. Check with the origin nursery. If yes, are there better options. If no, "Hell yeah".

There are little flowers on a bunch of the boxes. The Hell Yeah box has a swallowtail butterfly with sunglasses giving a thumbs up. The no has a sassy bee looking over its sunglasses at you judgementally with its hand on its hips.

On the bottom is says "Need help? Text questions to 9-RUNG-SQUID

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Yasset Perez-Riverol @ypriverol.bsky.social · Jun 2

🚀 We're launching quantms.org — new hub for all #quantms related projects. Explore its components #pmultiqc & #ibaqpy, and check all reanalysis we're sharing with the community: quantms.org/datasets

Meet the Team and Labs behind the project
👉 quantms.org/about

#OpenSource #Proteomics #ASMS2025

quantms - Quantitative Mass Spectrometry Analysis

A bioinformatics best-practice analysis pipeline for Quantitative Mass Spectrometry (MS)

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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · May 19

Genuinely delighted that @unbreaking.org is now doing our work in public. I cannot tell you what it means to be a part of it, or how much its already helped me. If my Meeting the Moment newsletter has helped you, Unbreaking is going to bowl you over. So much more ambitious and helpful. Join us!

Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · May 19

👋 Hi, we’re Unbreaking, a volunteer-run collective working to document our current moment of institutional collapse and its human costs—as well as the pushback and resilience work already underway. We believe this is critical work for building and retaining political agency.

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Emma Doud @fireinlab.bsky.social · May 30

Haven't seen my other #teammassspec folks share this xkcd enough

Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · May 29

Mass Spec

xkcd.com/3094/

[Person with ponytail wearing lab coat hands balloon to another person in front of a springboard, a magnet hanging from above, and then a target] PERSON WITH PONYTAIL to Person 2: Rub this balloon against your head, then go jump past that magnet toward the target on the wall. [caption] Before the bathroom scale was invented, the only way to weigh people was mass spectrometry.

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ProteomicsNews (Ben Orsburn) @proteomicsnews.bsky.social · May 20

Bionalysis Rising Stars Final Candidates are now live! You might recognize at least one. You can vote here! www.bioanalysis-zone.com/bioanalysis-...

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Emma Doud @fireinlab.bsky.social · May 8

Thank you! I noticed some of these going public and it is appreciated- it's really hard when the person uploading is not an author and so I don't always know when the paper is finally published 😀

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Emma Doud @fireinlab.bsky.social · May 6

I will have to assume it was a Dan Flash special.

a man laying on a red couch with the words " i want that one " on the bottom

ALT: a man laying on a red couch with the words " i want that one " on the bottom

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Emma Doud @fireinlab.bsky.social · Apr 30

Do this!

ProteomicsNews (Ben Orsburn) @proteomicsnews.bsky.social · Apr 30

New to proteomics?? We have like one rule! Make your data available!! proteomicsnews.blogspot.com/2025/04/subm...

Submitting your first proteomics paper? Do this or don't bother submitting it!

We are SO SO SO very excited that you are moving past the GENotype and are intertested in actually measuring PHENOtypic data (or close to it...

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social · Apr 29

This is a new image from #JWST.

The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way.

Everything else is a galaxy.

Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.

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Ying Ge @yingge2121.bsky.social · Apr 22

Interested in learning #TopDownProteomics, join us for a @asms.org Short Course on Top-Down Proteomics! Had a very successful course over the past 3 years, and excited to offer it again this year. Don’t miss out – register early! Early registration ends April 30. www.asms.org/conferences/...

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