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ProteomicsNews (Ben Orsburn)
@proteomicsnews.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. What?? Previous industry CSO. Proteomics researcher with time consuming hobbies in scientific outreach. Opinions are often loud and exclusively my own. www.proteomics.rocks (he/him/his/dude)
As an apps scientist I could come in Monday and say “check out this magic” and fly home Friday. Found out later people had their Orbis out on benchtop being cleaned.
December 3, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Oh. I should re-read your stuff.
December 2, 2025 at 10:47 PM
I feel like the instruments I screwed up with DMSO were before there was mass spec grade available. I still avoid it because some people were bigtime mad.
December 2, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Except the AppleTV show is legit good.
November 30, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Caves of Steel and Robots of Dawn might translate well some day? Not sure it’ll ever happen because they seem less amazing because so much of the SciFi he wrote about is real tech now.
November 30, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The books are all “maybe if 1% of a population is scientists they could save the universe a bunch” and AppleTV is like “space psychics!!!!”
November 30, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Thanks!
November 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Even better, I probably don’t even know if we have one. After I typed it I thought “is that purple? they make purple ones?”
November 29, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Noooo!!! Want me to overnight you one?
November 29, 2025 at 10:38 PM