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Magnus Palmblad

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Scientist studying molecules using mass spectrometry. Also coding sometimes. ORCID: 0000-0002-5865-8994

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Magnus Palmblad @magnuspalmblad.bsky.social · Jul 9

The Workflomics Project on AI-driven workflow bake-off aimed for the stars to reach the treetops. In the end, we even made it into outer space! Great collaboration with co-PI Anna-Lena Lamprecht, @pratikomics.bsky.social and many others. Here our #spaceselfie: space.crunchlabs.com/selfie/RvYBRmg.

Space selfie, a photo taken of a screen displaying the Workflomics team at a stakeholders' meeting in Dresden 2024 from a satellite in orbit around the Earth, with the planet in the background.

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Magnus Palmblad @magnuspalmblad.bsky.social · 2d

Shot twice today - once in the left arm (covid) and once in the right (flu). Probably best to bike home while my arms still work...

Magnus Palmblad @magnuspalmblad.bsky.social · 2d

Do you see long tails in the LC peaks from the abundant (e.g. albumin) peptides?

Magnus Palmblad @magnuspalmblad.bsky.social · 7d

If it's only every four years, it maybe even more special indeed. I hope the Hochzeit dishes were more enjoyable than our raw herring and white bread.

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Magnus Palmblad @magnuspalmblad.bsky.social · 15d

Good luck, regardless of which adventure you embark on! We are excited to see how things unfold.

Magnus Palmblad @magnuspalmblad.bsky.social · 20d

I wonder what fractions of "journalists" are actually doing journalism, by this definition? 10%? 5%?

Magnus Palmblad @magnuspalmblad.bsky.social · 22d

Is the Oklahoma City bombing included or excluded? It would also be interesting to see stats on political violence in general (hypothesis being far-right violence is more often committed with guns and therefore more lethal).

Magnus Palmblad @magnuspalmblad.bsky.social · 22d

Setting the benchmark for a good morning: back-to-back @ausbiocommons.bsky.social webinars by Veit Schwämmle and @tineclaeys.bsky.social with 07:00 coffee!

Magnus Palmblad @magnuspalmblad.bsky.social · 23d

ChatGPT suggests responding to that post by playfully leaning into the “veneer” metaphor with: “Don’t worry, mine come in solid oak. No veneer, just heavy and impossible to move.” I don't think comedians need to worry about being replaced by AI any time soon.

Magnus Palmblad @magnuspalmblad.bsky.social · 26d

You can make a multi-course meal with NIST standards. Quenelles de SRM 1946 anyone? Mousse au SRM 2384? Finishing with an SRM 1196, if you're so inclined. @benneely.com can probably tell you how to best prepare the SRM 1945.

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Magnus Palmblad @magnuspalmblad.bsky.social · 26d

The Netherlands is moving fairly rapidly in the opposite direction though. Grant proposals will be rejected if you mention IFs or brag about publishing in "top journals". Utrecht University will stop their WoS subscription at the end of the year, so they won't even be able to look up IFs.

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Magnus Palmblad @magnuspalmblad.bsky.social · 26d

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Magnus Palmblad @magnuspalmblad.bsky.social · 26d

Beyond the hilarity of needing to cite ten different versions of the Bible, I was surprised so many of them are copyrighted. Are they not all claimed to be translations of 1900+ year old texts true to the originals? Shouldn't the texts be for all humanity, e.g. in the public domain?

Magnus Palmblad @magnuspalmblad.bsky.social · 27d

But I agree the dates give a first impression they were sitting on this manuscript for four years (from 2017 to 2020), where in fact it was "only" two years and one month. Still, unacceptable IMHO.

Magnus Palmblad @magnuspalmblad.bsky.social · 27d

Their excuse - and I think it is a pretty poor one - was that the manuscript was assigned to an editor who basically stopped doing his job (but "forgot" to resign from the editorial board). It is of course the EiC's responsibility to monitor these things, and reassign manuscripts to another editor.

Magnus Palmblad @magnuspalmblad.bsky.social · 27d

There was no PhD student who needed this out, and after a year and a number of emails, we just wanted to see how long they would sit on a manuscript. We've seen similar work published more recently (in Nature family journals), so the idea was probably good.

Magnus Palmblad @magnuspalmblad.bsky.social · 28d

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Magnus Palmblad @magnuspalmblad.bsky.social · 28d

There is sometimes a local optimum near the measurement uncertainty in MS1 (i.e. a couple of ppms), but usually better to have a window that covers the isotopes (and the isolation window, to identify co-isolated peptides), like @michaellazear.bsky.social said.

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Magnus Palmblad @magnuspalmblad.bsky.social · 29d

Great collaboration at @dagstuhl.de with wonderful colleagues from @denbi.bsky.social and @sib.swiss!

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ELIXIR-Netherlands @elixir-nl.bsky.social · 29d

ELIXIR-NL's @magnuspalmblad.bsky.social co-organized the Computational Proteomics Dagstuhl Seminar 2025, uniting experts in ML/AI for proteomics. Breakouts sparked collaborations, manuscripts, and proposals, making this the most productive seminar yet. #Proteomics #Dagstuhl #Collaboration

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Magnus Palmblad @magnuspalmblad.bsky.social · 29d

If (and that is a big IF), SVT would ask difficult questions and challenge the ambassador's lies, it would be OK. But based on their abysmal track record, I won't expect SVT to be informed enough, or to have the guts, or will, to do this.

Magnus Palmblad @magnuspalmblad.bsky.social · 29d

I hope the photoshopping at least reduced the amount of radioactive waste (even though 35S is pretty short-lived)!

Magnus Palmblad @magnuspalmblad.bsky.social · 29d

I didn't know you were on this platform, but I am following you now! (That sounds more intimidating than intended! 🤣)

Magnus Palmblad @magnuspalmblad.bsky.social · 29d

The rest are left as an exercise for the reader! 😄

Magnus Palmblad @magnuspalmblad.bsky.social · Sep 9

First results from Olink Reveal: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/.... Ground-truth data in PRIDE (www.ebi.ac.uk/pride/archiv...) and analysis code on OSF (osf.io/as4gv).

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Marnix Medema @marnixmedema.bsky.social · Sep 8

We are looking for a 3-year postdoc to work with Daniel Probst, Justin van der Hooft and myself on an exciting project involving federated learning and integrative omics for discovery of new antibiotics from natural products.
Apply here: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...
Please share!

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