Congratulations to Joe El-Khoury (Joe M. El-Khoury, PhD, DABCC) for receiving the IFCC&LM Young Investigator award!

Anyone see the IFCC presentation by M Vogeser supporting the Roche cobas i 601 launch? Insane numbers! Expected to be available by end of 2024.

would be interested to read a novel/article outlining possible scenarios on how AI could achieve complete biological annihilation. Maybe call it "The Omega Algorithm: A Chronicle of Digital Extinction". time.com/6266923/ai-eli… *faux title courtesy of ChatGPT.

If you have been considering submitting to J of Mass Spec & Advances in the Clinical Lab you might want to do it soon. Still fully Open Access and authors Pay-What-You-Can. But as submissions increase, now that we have an Impact Factor (2.2), the latter may change.

Last Call - Proposals due Sep 29. Would you like to teach a 1-2 day short course relevant to the development or implementation of mass spectrometry based clinical diagnostics? Learn more and submit your proposal here: msacl.org/index.php?head…

We are pleased to announce that SCIEX is a Platinum Sponsor of MSACL 2024, continuing their dedicated support of the clinical analysis community. SCIEX is additionally supporting the MSACL Educational Grant program! Grant applications due November 8: msacl.org/index.php?head…

Comparison of liquid chromatography-high-resolution tandem mass spectrometry (MS²) and multi-stage mass spectrometry (MS³) for screening toxic natural products sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

It’s a great honor that MSACL is joining us for the symposium, represented by Chris Herold. Welcome on board! #ctosymposium

Mass Spec Short Course: MSACL LC-MSMS 101 is available November 2-5 virtually. Continuing education credit for 16 contact hours with a focus on diagnostic laboratory LC-MSMS topics. Register by Early Bird deadlines of Oct 4 and Oct 18 for discounts: msacl.org/?header=Connec…

Quantitative methodologies showdown! Join US HUPO for the Battle Royale: DDA (Dr. Ling Hao), DIA (Dr. Lindsay Pino), and TMT (Dr. Devin Schweppe) will go head-to-head on October 18th. This event will be hosted by Ben Orsburn & Ben Neely. Register today: bit.ly/3Ei9Si8

📢 Hiring now! Happy to announce that I will be opening a new mass spectrometry laboratory at the 🇨🇭University of Geneva🇨🇭 in January '24, and I am recruiting several PhD candidates and 1 post-doc. Please #RT, forward to potential candidates, or apply ⏬

Hmm, along with million pixel per second scanning from Ron M.A. Heeren's lab. Seems like Revolution On. theanalyticalscientist.com/techniques-too… Check out a presentation on million pixel per sec scanning on MSACL Connect from Ian Anthony (M4I). msacl.org/?header=Connec…

Stoked (!!) that MSACL will offer CME for the 2024 conference & short courses in Monterey,CA Mar 17-22. Getting clinicians involved will increase depth and accelerate growth and use. Thanks to University of Nebraska Medical Center for supporting us in this effort and Dr. Rod Markin for facilitating.

Not confirmed yet but all MDPI, Frontiers & Hindawi journals planned to be erased (level 0) from Finnish academic assessment by end of 2024. Should be clear that if you're a researcher here, a high time to stop submitting/reviewing for those journals.

Vitamin D appears to promote the immune response to cancer and the success of immunotherapy; now a mechanism is identified involving the gut microbiome interactions science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Science Magazine Dr. Kathy McCoy Caetano Reis e Sousa The Francis Crick Institute

Are Data-Dependent Analysis (DDA) and/or Data-Independent Analysis (DIA) exclusive to studies run on mass spectrometers?

how can you not love this guy. I mean. youtube.com/clip/UgkxEnmhP…

What happens on January 19, 2038? The Unix Time Stamp will cease to work due to a 32-bit overflow. Before this moment millions of applications will need to either adopt a new convention for time stamps or be migrated to 64-bit systems which will buy a "bit" more time.