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Devin Schweppe @dschweppe.bsky.social · Sep 8

Real-time API control of mass specs has been hard to get started (C#, VS, etc). Mike Hoopmann's recent work makes dev easier & more open!:

Nova - lightweight dev library
schweppelab.github.io/Nova/ pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

Helios - a unified instrument API now @ JPR
github.com/SchweppeLab/...

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George Burslem @gburslem.bsky.social · Sep 5

Congratulations to my great friend and colleague @bradylabupenn.bsky.social for this well deserved award!
@pennmedcso.bsky.social @penncancer.bsky.social

American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology @asbmb.bsky.social · Sep 5

Congratulations to the 2026 ASBMB Award Winners!

Through their pioneering work, these scientists are advancing discovery, driving innovation, and shaping the future of molecular life sciences.

Read more about their work: ow.ly/x05f50WSbax. #ASBMB26 #MakeItPossible

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Dmitry Eremin @dmeremin.bsky.social · Aug 10

🚨 Save the date! 🚨
2nd LA Mass Spec Day:
Oct 17, 2025 @ UCLA South Bay 🎉
Talks, posters, networking + plenaries by Jennifer Van Eyk & Melissa Hoffman!

Register 👉 forms.gle/e6A9XWxiRF6K...

Submit abstracts 👉 forms.gle/RCf5v3Gab5V8...

More info to follow soon

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Keri Backus @keribackus.bsky.social · Aug 4

Daily Bruin article about the ~800 frozen grants at UCLA including some from my lab dailybruin.com/2025/08/02/a...

About 800 NIH, NSF research grants suspended following UCLA federal funding cuts - Daily Bruin

About 800 research grants have been suspended at UCLA, according to a Friday email from Vice Chancellor for Research and Creative Activities Roger Wakimoto. Wakimoto said in the email, which was sent ...

dailybruin.com

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Alicia Izquierdo @aliciaizquierdo.bsky.social · Aug 1

Suspension of all grants to UCLA www.latimes.com/california/s...

Trump freezes $200 million in UCLA science and medical research funding, citing antisemitism

The Trump administration has frozen roughly $200 million in National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health and other federal agency-funded research at UCLA, citing allegations the school d...

www.latimes.com

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Joe Loo @joelooucla.bsky.social · Jun 9

Consider signing the letter to support NIH and the "Bethesda Declaration" (www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...) #ASMS2025 @asms.org

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · May 31

ASSIGNMENT: COMMENT ON SCHEDULE F

1 week left to comment about Schedule F, potentially making NIH institute and center director essentially political appointees.

www.regulations.gov/commenton/OP...

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Keri Backus @keribackus.bsky.social · May 31

Join @lindsaykpino.com, me, and our amazing panelists for the #ASMS2025 #Chemoproteomics workshop on Monday!

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Keri Backus @keribackus.bsky.social · May 30

And after a brief interlude of recommending CSY1 and all the MIRA study sections, now ART recommendations are back to normal

Keri Backus @keribackus.bsky.social · May 30

Anyone else notice that ART is now giving different study section assignments compared to earlier in the week? Same title and abstract last night and today, different strong and possible matches...?

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ONO PHARMA FOUNDATION @onoinitiative.bsky.social · May 27

We will be hosting the 2025 ONO Pharma Foundation Annual Symposium on June 23 at the Royal Sonesta Boston. This event offers an opportunity to explore the latest breakthroughs presented by ONO INITIATIVE awardees and to discuss groundbreaking science in chemical biology. (1/2)

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Keri Backus @keribackus.bsky.social · May 24

New paper from our lab joint with Val Arboleda @val-arboleda.bsky.social

The American Journal of Human Genetics @ajhgnews.bsky.social · May 23

📣New from Palafox et al!
📄Prioritizing disease-associated missense variants with chemoproteomic-detected amino acids

Prioritizing disease-associated missense variants with chemoproteomic-detected amino acids

Mass spectrometry-based chemoproteomics can provide a high-throughput assessment of the likely functionality of specific sites on proteins. Here, we show that chemoproteomic measures of protein-based ...

www.cell.com

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Laura Edgington-Mitchell @lauraem-lab.bsky.social · May 22

The 13th General Meeting of the International Proteolysis Society will be held in Búsios, Brazil Oct 26-30, 2025. Training workshops will be held at the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz Oct 23-23. Register now! Links below.

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · May 20

The fantastically successful NIGMS MIRA R35 "expired" on May 17, after the most recent deadline--these removals are the most aggressive attack on American science in the current series of devastating actions 🧪

Gabi Serrato Marks @gserratomarks.bsky.social · May 20

NIH moved up the expiration date for some funding opportunities, effectively *canceling* the next application date without removing it from the standard table. I can't even imagine how many people are still prepping these grants.

👀 List of impacted opportunities:
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Screenshot of NIMH BRAINS funding opportunity. The expiration date is now before the next application due date.

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George Burslem @gburslem.bsky.social · May 1

Excited to see this out in @science.org today!! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Jordan Meier @doc-jlmeier.bsky.social · Apr 10

Great news: NIH postbac program is recruiting again! If your grad school plans were affected by program cutbacks or admissions freezes this year I highly encourage you to apply, this could be a perfect opportunity. Please repost.

www.training.nih.gov/research-tra...

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Keri Backus @keribackus.bsky.social · Apr 10

Congrats to all the award winners and especially to Backus Lab PhD student Flowreen Shikwana and undergrad Joelle Darrouj!

ASMS @asms.org · Apr 10

2025 asms.org Awards! Join us in congratulating the 2025 recipients. We look forward to recognizing them all at #ASMS2025 in Baltimore.

Learn more: www.asms.org/about-asms-a...

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Kalev Freeman @uvmtraumalab.bsky.social · Mar 14

U of Michigan @umich.edu set aside funds from central to support researchers with unexpected disruption in federal funding for up to 6 months.

Are any other institutions doing this? Seems like a good move.

#Medsky #NIH #federalfunding #researchfunding 🧪

record.umich.edu/articles/uni...

University launches new research support program | The University Record

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Mar 9

Bluetorial: Women, courage, and leadership

What follows will include some generalizations based on population averages of what I have experienced over the course of my career. There are, of course, exceptions in every group who are substantially more to one extreme or the other.

a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on

ALT: a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on

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Alexey Nesvizhskii @nesvilab.bsky.social · Mar 4

One of the most significant and challenging projects of my career so far. PepCentric: a scalable computational platform utilizing novel 2-D fragment indexing for rapid peptide-centric searches, enabling proteogenomics searches against billions of spectra in seconds. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Mar 1

Extending my grant update this morning. Here are data limited to new and competitive renewal applications.

The Pause is dead, Long live the Pause...

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Blake Wilde @brwilde.bsky.social · Feb 28

📢 Postdoc Opening – Metabolism & Cancer! 📢
Looking for a motivated postdoc to explore how metabolism regulates tumor initiation at Roswell Park in Buffalo, NY! Join us to tackle big questions with cool science in a collaborative environment.
Interested? DM me! #PostdocJobs #CancerMetabolism

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Keri Backus @keribackus.bsky.social · Feb 28

@standupforscience.bsky.social Los Angeles 3/7 noon at the Federal building docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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ChemKritzer @chemkritzer.bsky.social · Feb 19

🚨 Chemical Biology & Probes study section (formerly SBCB, one of two NIH panels that reviews chemistry #chemsky 🧪) was abruptly POSTPONED w/no specific plans for rescheduling, less than 24h before start.

If this affects you call your reps & senators, talk to local news, make your voice heard 📢 👩‍🔬

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Brian Liau @brianliau.bsky.social · Feb 12

Today in @nature.com we share our back-to-back stories with Ning Zheng’s lab revealing chemical-genetic convergence between a molecular glue degrader & E3 ligase cancer mutations. 1/5

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