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Lorna Milne @lornamilne.bsky.social · 22h

part 3728293 of how is this my life

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Lorna Milne @lornamilne.bsky.social · 3d

Learnt to run a mass spec and now somehow it takes me around the world 🥲

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 7d

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

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Lorna Milne @lornamilne.bsky.social · 7d

Which could only truly be topped off by my suitcase being left in Sydney...whilst I'm in Brisbane 🫠🫠🫠

Lorna Milne @lornamilne.bsky.social · 8d

Turns out nobody is exaggerating when they say how brutal the UK > Aus flight is 🥲

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Lorna Milne @lornamilne.bsky.social · 8d

Turns out nobody is exaggerating when they say how brutal the UK > Aus flight is 🥲

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Lorna Milne @lornamilne.bsky.social · 12d

This paper was a huge team effort and I could not be more grateful to have worked on such a supportive team for this work. Hopefully this paper serves as an exciting primer for ones that cover the main outcomes of my PhD! (in-situ coming soon!) 4/🧵

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Lorna Milne @lornamilne.bsky.social · 12d

Importantly, we assess specificity, precision, robustness and quantification limits to really highlight the power of SIMS as a tool for heparin screening in comparison to existing methods 3/🧵

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Lorna Milne @lornamilne.bsky.social · 12d

Building on previous work from the lab (tinyurl.com/mr2u695k), we've expanded the number of GAGs that SIMS can discriminate, including heparin contamination up to a sensitivity of 0.001% weight in picograms of material, in spectra acquired in as little as 60 seconds 2/🧵

High sensitivity analysis of nanogram quantities of glycosaminoglycans using ToF-SIMS - Communications Chemistry

Glycosaminoglycans are an important class of carbohydrates, but pose substantial analytical challenges. Here ToF-SIMS combined with multivariate analysis distinguishes six classes of glycosaminoglycans, including distinguishing heparin samples from different animal sources at a sensitivity as low as 0.001 wt%

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Lorna Milne @lornamilne.bsky.social · 12d

My first, first author paper (and first paper from the @nottsglycohub.bsky.social ) 'Validation of the use of ToF-SIMS for analysis of glycosaminoglycans' is now available in Carbohydrate Polymers! ➡️ tinyurl.com/xh9vr229
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Lorna Milne @lornamilne.bsky.social · 12d

Thank you as always to @kidneyresearchuk.org for putting on a great Driving Discoveries meeting (& continued support of our research!) 🤰🏼 Now time to pack before heading to Australia on Monday for some proteomics!

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UK Kidney Association @ukkidney.org · 13d

🔔 Deadline: 10 Oct 🔔

We’re close to 10,000 signatures on the open letter urging the PM to make kidney disease a national health priority.

Millions are affected – yet it was left out of the NHS 10-Year Plan.

✍️ Add your name today: bit.ly/4nC3BDr

#KidneyHealth

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Lorna Milne @lornamilne.bsky.social · 13d

Someone just asked me if I work with Lorna Milne and I have never felt so cool in my life

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Lorna Milne @lornamilne.bsky.social · 13d

She did infact not finish my grant but the first fellowship application is officially submitted! 🤞🏼🇯🇵

Lorna Milne @lornamilne.bsky.social · 23d

Please finish this grant for me...

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Megan Priestley @megtriesscience.bsky.social · 14d

REGISTRATION FOR THE 2026 PROTEOGLYCANS GRS + GRC IS NOW OPEN! 🦠 (….and there’s a discount 😍)

Join us next summer for the GRS on Proteoglycans! We’re so excited to welcome our early career researchers that we’re giving the first 20 sign-ups a bursary towards their travel 🧵⬇️

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Doug Dyer @douglaspdyer.bsky.social · 16d

We now have a very exciting technician post advertised as part of our long term Wellcome Trust funded team investigating the role of the glycocalyx during CNS inflammation. Supporint the lab, developing glycan analysis and research experience www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Research Technician in the Glyco-immunology (Dyer) Lab:Oxford Road

Include: background, duties, essential skills and experience, length of contract, full or part-time. Keep to 150 words.

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk

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Lorna Milne @lornamilne.bsky.social · 20d

Glad it lived up to the hype 🤪 thanks for a great day!! (& fun samples!)

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Lorna Milne @lornamilne.bsky.social · 20d

days like today remind me why science is so fun!!

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Lorna Milne @lornamilne.bsky.social · 22d

My first, first author paper has been accepted!! 🥹🍾

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Lorna Milne @lornamilne.bsky.social · 23d

Please finish this grant for me...

Lorna Milne @lornamilne.bsky.social · 23d

this is awesome!! congrats!! 🤩

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dsmb-dk.bsky.social @dsmb-dk.bsky.social · 26d

✨ Thank you to everyone who joined us for the DSMB Annual Meeting 2025 & Heparan Sulfate Workshop at the University of Copenhagen!

#MatrixBiology #DSMB #HeparanSulfate #ScientificCommunity

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Lorna Milne @lornamilne.bsky.social · 29d

Huge thank you to the Danish Society for Matrix Biology for the invitation to present at their annual meeting & HS workshop as part of the new tools & techniques session 🇩🇰 Now for a couple of weeks hiding out in the lab before Australia! 🇦🇺

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Lorna Milne @lornamilne.bsky.social · Sep 7

Back in my favourite place for my first international invited talk 🥹🇩🇰

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Lorna Milne @lornamilne.bsky.social · Sep 3

Very grateful (& surprised!!) to have won both a poster and talk prize 🤩

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Lorna Milne @lornamilne.bsky.social · Sep 3

Unfortunately no Beijing for me this week 💔Withdrawing from an event to put my brain first is something I never thought I'd have to do. If anyone can learn from this, it's a sign to protect your health/well-being over work events always!!

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