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asher newsome @iondoctor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

70 supporting figures, a new record. I better be building a lot of good karma reviewing this

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asher newsome @iondoctor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'm bringing a bottle of brown sauce home from Leeds, because who can resist a condiment name that attractive

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asher newsome @iondoctor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I'm in Leeds for BMSS. It's 13 C, and I apologize for saying France was hot

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asher newsome @iondoctor.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Let's hope this doesn't affect the karma for my own submission, but I hope my reviewers are as honest as I just tried to be

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asher newsome @iondoctor.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Oh, I dressed for air-conditioned American conferences

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asher newsome @iondoctor.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Straight from the airport to an ultimate frisbee game in Paris, and now I'm on the train to Lyon for IMSC. I had dry clothes to change into, but one of the other players said I would still be fun to sit next to on the train. I said "it's France isn't it?"

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asher newsome @iondoctor.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

wow so IMSC made no effort to group posters at all, huh

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asher newsome @iondoctor.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

You knew ACS Journal webpages look absolutely awful now, but have you seen Analyst?

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asher newsome @iondoctor.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Dyed fabric swatches were standard for books on the subject. A swatch could also transfer color to the opposite page, one of my earliest projects at the Smithsonian research.si.edu/publication-...

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asher newsome @iondoctor.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

My building's safety shower get inspected every couple years whether they need it or not

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asher newsome @iondoctor.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Thermo had no choice but to declare the Orbitrap Elite obsolete. They were and are too stable, too readily available on the used equipment market, and too cheap to service. At least my Q Exactive Plus is still under contract, not that it particularly needs it

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asher newsome @iondoctor.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

A new review request after 5 pm on Friday with a reminder email just before midnight Sunday...I ought to refuse on principle

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asher newsome @iondoctor.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

IMSC website still blocks my IP address. French airport workers going on strike. No program planner app. Joint Q&A at the end of each oral session instead of between talks. Well, at least it's in Lyon?

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asher newsome @iondoctor.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

They made @acs.org journals so horrible to look at on a desktop screen that they are now using the pop-up to obscure the mobile view with the x cut off so you can't close it

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asher newsome @iondoctor.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

My grandfather read Popular Science all his life, and he's as responsible as anyone for me being a scientist. He would have flipped out to see me featured in this article. www.popsci.com/science/geor...

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George Washington's famous 'golden suit' was actually purple

The president partied in the dapper overcoat at his 1789 inauguration.

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asher newsome @iondoctor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Folks I am still locked out and my emails have gone unanswered. Hilariously, the lock-out message includes instructions for admins who have accidentally blocked themselves. I doubt the new organizers are logging in to @imsc2024.bsky.social but you never know

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asher newsome @iondoctor.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I couldn't find my password for the IMSC website, the reset email never arrived, and there was no option to create a new account. So I entered three incorrect passwords, and now the entire Smithsonian network is blocked for suspicious activity

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asher newsome @iondoctor.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

IMSC 2026, apparently recognizing that most conference apps are terrible (except ASMS of course), seems to have decided to forgo any presentation scheduling mechanism whatsoever

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asher newsome @iondoctor.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

You know it's going to be a good day when you crack open a new gas cylinder and it's over 2900 psi

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Kermit Murray @kkmurray.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

(J Mass Spectrom) Derivatization‐Enabled Detection of Formalin From Preserved Tissues Using Coated Blade Spray Mass Spectrometry: Journal of Mass Spectrometry, Volume 61, Issue 8, August 2026. #JMassSpectrom #MassSpecRSS

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Derivatization‐Enabled Detection of Formalin From Preserved Tissues Using Coated Blade Spray Mass Spectrometry

Journal of Mass Spectrometry, Volume 61, Issue 8, August 2026.

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asher newsome @iondoctor.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

New paper from my lab, written by Jess Deng from her time here as a predoctoral fellow. This was my first time using coated blade spray and the first of many 3D prints for me (so old it's from before I printed everything gold color) analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Derivatization‐Enabled Detection of Formalin From Preserved Tissues Using Coated Blade Spray Mass Spectrometry

Formalin-fixed, fluid-preserved specimens in natural history collections offer invaluable scientific and cultural insight but pose genomic challenges due to molecular degradation and persistent chemi...

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asher newsome @iondoctor.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

My article is published but I have to ask a co-author for the pdf because Wiley decided it was too expensive for them to email an author's copy

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asher newsome @iondoctor.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I opened up a PDF of my own first-author paper that I typed on this very keyboard, and Adobe Acrobat Reader told me, "This appears to be a long document. Try saving time by reading a summary using AI Assistant."

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asher newsome @iondoctor.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Europe is sensible enough to use the metric system, so why are they silly enough to use portrait layouts for conference posters?

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asher newsome @iondoctor.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Neat! I was wondering a humidity effects when I rented a SICRIT two years ago.

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asher newsome @iondoctor.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Going through email to add acknowledgements and holy cow I started mapping papers for this in review prior to February 2023

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asher newsome @iondoctor.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I was never going to pay Wiley to make an article open access, but now that any ASMS member will be able to see it the next calendar year I'm *really* not going to pay

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asher newsome @iondoctor.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I am drafting the part of my review where I write about researchers being deliberately misleading from the jump or poisoning the well with wrong conjecture that persists for years. I want to conclude with "the PIs are probably too successful now to read this but they know what they did"

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asher newsome @iondoctor.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

When you realize there's a large subject area that you don't want to include in your review

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asher newsome @iondoctor.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Web of Science no longer links or exports to Endnote Web even though they are both owned by Clarivate. Before I could at see at a glance if a paper was already in my library. Now there's *really* no reason to use Web of Science while Scholar remains the only Google product resisting enshittification

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asher newsome @iondoctor.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

LLMs are obviously garbage for writing scientific results (unless it's a turn-the-crank report, in which case I'm not bothering to read anyway). But I strongly suspect an LLM could believably reproduce the cliches of popular science writing and press releases.

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asher newsome @iondoctor.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Now that I'm back in office the annual ASMS pin gets added to the map. But there are a couple more keepsakes from #ASMS2026

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Joe Loo @joelooucla.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

After the post #ASMS2026 @asms.org Board meeting, we're still smiling. Thanks all who came to SD to make it a great conference! We'll miss Elyssia Gallagher, Heather Desaire, @iondoctor.bsky.social and @lablaskin.bsky.social on the Board. Give us your feedback on the post-conf survey - more 🍦?

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asher newsome @iondoctor.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Almost time for the Monday workshop Art, Museums, and Archaeology at #ASMS2026!

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asher newsome @iondoctor.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Does anyone else think that young Klaus Biemann had kind if a David Bowie look #ASMS2026

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asher newsome @iondoctor.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Like every single history poster ever is printed for #ASMS2026

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asher newsome @iondoctor.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

When I'm rehearsing a talk I want to sound dynamic and fascinating so I just pretend I'm @lars-konermann.bsky.social #ASMS2026

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asher newsome @iondoctor.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Is your analyte bigger than the palm of your hand? Come to the #ASMS2026 Forensics session at 8:30 am Wednesday to hear me talk about my PhotoGoose ambient sampling system: not my recent JASMS cover article, but the next step in its evolution. Now with a sweet laser!

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asher newsome @iondoctor.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

At the beginning of the week I almost wrote about pre-conference lethargy, when you've got all the #ASMS2026 data and only need to leisurely put together the PowerPoint. But co-workers abhor a calendar vacuum

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asher newsome @iondoctor.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

@benneely.com I've planted my dad's peas for the first time in a couple years, as my stock was getting low because my daughter is a fan. And as of this weekend the tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants are in the ground

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asher newsome @iondoctor.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Check out the new editorial in JASMS for commentary on the current moment for science and the US government, the services ASMS provides for its members, and what actions members can take: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

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Science for the Masses

This publication is free to access through this site. Learn More

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ASMS @asms.org · 07/05/2026

Hey, #TeamMassSpec! The #ASMS2026 Online Planner is live! Browse the conference program, bookmark talks, save sessions, and build your personalized schedule ahead of the conference. Your saved schedule will transfer to the mobile app when it launches in mid-May. See you SOON!

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ASMS @asms.org · 06/05/2026

Hey, #TeamMassSpec! The May edition of @jasms.bsky.social is here. Read up on the latest: bit.ly/3KRQ4J8 #ASMS #JASMS

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asher newsome @iondoctor.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

The May JASMS is out, and my work is on the cover. "A handheld thermal desorption probe with a flexible, passivated transfer line is able to sample from difficult-to-access surfaces in real time with a minimum amount of invasiveness, moving neutral analyte meters..." pubs.acs.org/toc/jamsef/3...

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Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry

A handheld thermal desorption probe with a flexible, passivated transfer line is able to sample from difficult-to-access surfaces in real time with a minimum amount of invasiveness, moving neutral ana...

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asher newsome @iondoctor.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I have officially achieved proof of concept results for my ASMS talk and it's not *quite* May. Maybe I can get some prettier data in the next month

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asher newsome @iondoctor.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Come on man, don't call it PESI. That acronym has existed for pribe electrospray for almost 20 years. No one considered "pyESI" in keeping with every pyrolysis paper ever written?

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asher newsome @iondoctor.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Interesting, someone put my writing through AI slop for the first time. They scraped the abstract from my Pittcon symposium and added some citations that are sure to be irrelevant. I guess the tell is that the authorship says "reviewed by". Should I link it? Eh why not www.azom.com/article.aspx...

azom.com

Celebrating 100 Years of Progress in Photoionization Mass Spectrometry

Photoionization mass spectrometry has transformed analytical chemistry, enabling complex chemical analysis and celebrating a century of scientific progress.

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asher newsome @iondoctor.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

What if I'm just three grad students in a giant overcoat? Wait, that's not being fair to myself. Three postdocs

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asher newsome @iondoctor.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

What's the most toxic thing you did today? I sanded down some PTFE tubing, but at least I wore an N95

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