Sometimes you need a place to log your thought experiments. (A digital home for decades’ worth of scientific communications and internet lurking!)
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(…I have always appreciated Thursday talks as a reasonable justification to stay through to closing, but also ASMS is also science-vacation, even if I occasionally have to use one ear to call into other meetings.)
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Everything works out eventually.
Lessons Codified by History,
(or at least by the History Posters) c/o Jean Futrell #ASMS2023
Kinda delighted that the produce matrices most prone to pesticide retention are referred to as “The Dirty Dozen”.
(i.e.
¹strawberry
²spinach
³kale
⁴nectarines
⁵apples
⁶grapes
⁷cherries
⁸peaches
⁹pears
¹°tomatoes
¹¹celery
¹²potatoes)
Who’s the Borgnine?
#ASMS2023 Learnings
Visiting Fred McLafferty’s ‘Giants of MS poster’ with @yingge2121 in the History section by registration!
(Here at #ASMS2023 all week!)
Watching her introduce her students and postdocs to their academic grandfather was charming.
My feeling that not enough people use Thompsons as the units for m/z ratios, I wonder if being more commonly used would steal some of its delight induction power.
(I’m sure there’s a balance.)
In an auspicious harbinger of #ASMS2023, on my way outta a customer site this afternoon to go to the airport I saw a copy of “Interpretation of Mass Spectra” on a free book pile (…consequently I have ANOTHER one).
(Maybe I’ll fix up the binding and leave it by history posters!)
