GC-MS in lab today and got to teach students more about it :) bit.ly/gcmstest #365DaysOfScience #chemsky
March 25, 2025 at 3:11 AM
GC-MS in lab today and got to teach students more about it :) bit.ly/gcmstest #365DaysOfScience #chemsky
Quick lab tips for de-stressing your experiments: checklists, play-by-plays, color coding, etc. Strategies for staying calm and pipetting productively on! youtu.be/jzu0u4gqKaA #365DaysOfScience #chemsky #biochemsky
Quick lab tips for de-stressing your experiments: checkboxes, play-by-plays, color coding, etc.
YouTube video by the bumbling biochemist
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March 28, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Quick lab tips for de-stressing your experiments: checklists, play-by-plays, color coding, etc. Strategies for staying calm and pipetting productively on! youtu.be/jzu0u4gqKaA #365DaysOfScience #chemsky #biochemsky
International Women and Girls in Science Day is February 11, so I like to remind people February 12 that they can (and should) still celebrate them year-round! Here's a whole page of links to posts highlighting female scientists to get you started: bit.ly/femalescient... #365DaysOfScience
Some phenomenal female scientists
Katalin Karikó
Ilona Banga
Rosalind Franklin
Hildegard Lamfrom
Martha Chase
Flossie Wong-Staal
Daria Hazuda
Namandjé N. Bumpus
Theodora ...
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February 12, 2025 at 11:18 PM
International Women and Girls in Science Day is February 11, so I like to remind people February 12 that they can (and should) still celebrate them year-round! Here's a whole page of links to posts highlighting female scientists to get you started: bit.ly/femalescient... #365DaysOfScience
My strategy for excel-ing at experimental planning . . I usually plan experiments out in spreadsheets with a number of tabs... (& put date & experiment type in file name) bit.ly/experimentin... #365DaysOfScience 🧪 #realtimechem #chemsky
February 20, 2025 at 12:25 AM
My strategy for excel-ing at experimental planning . . I usually plan experiments out in spreadsheets with a number of tabs... (& put date & experiment type in file name) bit.ly/experimentin... #365DaysOfScience 🧪 #realtimechem #chemsky
Had a great (but super exhausting) first day at #ASBMB25. I’m so impressed by the upcoming generation of biochemists and proud of Nicholas and Clarice for rocking their presentations at the undergraduate poster session. It was also fabulous to meet up with community More fun ahead! #365DaysOfScience
April 13, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Had a great (but super exhausting) first day at #ASBMB25. I’m so impressed by the upcoming generation of biochemists and proud of Nicholas and Clarice for rocking their presentations at the undergraduate poster session. It was also fabulous to meet up with community More fun ahead! #365DaysOfScience
A practical guide to FASTA format for protein & nucleic acid sequences & UniProt FASTA headers youtu.be/zuS36HLaZg4 #365DaysOfScience
A practical guide to FASTA format for protein & nucleic acid sequences & UniProt FASTA headers
YouTube video by the bumbling biochemist
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May 27, 2025 at 11:32 PM
A practical guide to FASTA format for protein & nucleic acid sequences & UniProt FASTA headers youtu.be/zuS36HLaZg4 #365DaysOfScience
I added some behind-the-scenes content from yesterday’s lyophilization (freeze-drying) of our samples for gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). . . youtu.be/ZmvjQK1ThDQ #365DaysOfScience #chemsky
March 2, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I added some behind-the-scenes content from yesterday’s lyophilization (freeze-drying) of our samples for gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). . . youtu.be/ZmvjQK1ThDQ #365DaysOfScience #chemsky
Another sign you lab a lot… #365DaysOfScience #labtips
March 29, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Another sign you lab a lot… #365DaysOfScience #labtips
Today we’re generating calibration curves relating OD600 to dry bacterial mass. Why? In order to "normalize" data from different bacterial samples by the "amount" of bacteria, we need a better way than just measuring OD600, which is a measure of bacterial growth, but w/limitations #365DaysOfScience
April 25, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Today we’re generating calibration curves relating OD600 to dry bacterial mass. Why? In order to "normalize" data from different bacterial samples by the "amount" of bacteria, we need a better way than just measuring OD600, which is a measure of bacterial growth, but w/limitations #365DaysOfScience
If you want to find proteins that are similar in sequence, turn to BLAST (specifically blasts). If you want to find proteins that are similar in structure, turn to Foldseek! More: bit.ly/uniprotprotp... #365DaysOfScience
April 28, 2025 at 12:57 AM
If you want to find proteins that are similar in sequence, turn to BLAST (specifically blasts). If you want to find proteins that are similar in structure, turn to Foldseek! More: bit.ly/uniprotprotp... #365DaysOfScience
Exciting day!!!! I can tell this GC-MS data analysis can quickly become a time-suck… But for now it’s so fun! (Though I should get my grading finished first…) www.instagram.com/p/DG7AFLPxuY... #365DaysOfScience #chemsky
March 8, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Exciting day!!!! I can tell this GC-MS data analysis can quickly become a time-suck… But for now it’s so fun! (Though I should get my grading finished first…) www.instagram.com/p/DG7AFLPxuY... #365DaysOfScience #chemsky
I had little laminated mini posters made for my students to have a keepsake of their hard work and for me to start a mini poster wall that I plan to build up over the years with lots of students’ work! #365DaysOfScience
April 9, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I had little laminated mini posters made for my students to have a keepsake of their hard work and for me to start a mini poster wall that I plan to build up over the years with lots of students’ work! #365DaysOfScience
If you’re looking to create and/or visualize (interactively or for figures) protein alignments, here are a few free resources I recommend... youtu.be/BesY9nHribI #365DaysOfScience #chemsky
Tools for generating & working w/protein alignments (Clustal, BLAST, JalView, EPSpript, & ENDscript)
YouTube video by the bumbling biochemist
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April 21, 2025 at 11:39 PM
If you’re looking to create and/or visualize (interactively or for figures) protein alignments, here are a few free resources I recommend... youtu.be/BesY9nHribI #365DaysOfScience #chemsky
Snoopy got a graduated cylinder to match his lab coat :) Snoopy's been with me and there for me all throughout my scientific journey, so glad he's now gearing up for the next step! I think he'll look great in my LMU office :) #365DaysOfScience #SnoopyTheScientist
March 3, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Snoopy got a graduated cylinder to match his lab coat :) Snoopy's been with me and there for me all throughout my scientific journey, so glad he's now gearing up for the next step! I think he'll look great in my LMU office :) #365DaysOfScience #SnoopyTheScientist
A call to life scientists participating in #365daysofscience: please tweet funny shaped fluorescent micrscopy pictures of your #CellLines
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January 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
A call to life scientists participating in #365daysofscience: please tweet funny shaped fluorescent micrscopy pictures of your #CellLines
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Mass spectrometry has sooooo many terms. But here's a bumbling biochemist guide to some of what's inside . . . #365DaysOfScience thebumblingbiochemist.com/365-days-of-...
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July 7, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Mass spectrometry has sooooo many terms. But here's a bumbling biochemist guide to some of what's inside . . . #365DaysOfScience thebumblingbiochemist.com/365-days-of-...
May not be beautiful data quality-wise, but I think it's beautiful for a first attempt. And It's just so cool that you can actually detect these little metabolites from inside of bacteria! And that our derivatization worked. Now, we just need to optimize #365DaysOfScience #chemsky
March 9, 2025 at 2:17 AM
May not be beautiful data quality-wise, but I think it's beautiful for a first attempt. And It's just so cool that you can actually detect these little metabolites from inside of bacteria! And that our derivatization worked. Now, we just need to optimize #365DaysOfScience #chemsky
The water’s gone! Successful lyophilization (freeze-drying) of our samples for gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS)! #365DaysOfScience #chemsky #biochemsky
March 4, 2025 at 2:28 AM
The water’s gone! Successful lyophilization (freeze-drying) of our samples for gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS)! #365DaysOfScience #chemsky #biochemsky
Happy Valine-tines day everyone! bit.ly/valinevalue #365DaysOfScience
Valine, branched-chain amino acid breakdown
I know it’s not tis *that* season, but would you be my Valine-tine? Today in #20DaysOfAminoAcids, another protein letter to fall in love with! And with 3 times the carbon as Ala’s chain, there’s 3 tim...
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February 15, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Happy Valine-tines day everyone! bit.ly/valinevalue #365DaysOfScience
If anyone has some leftover Peeps this Easter, might I suggest demonstrating ideal gas laws? bit.ly/peepsidealga... #365DaysOfScience #chemsky
Peeps demonstrating the ideal gas laws
Happy Easter peeps! Did you know Peeps are ideal for demonstrating ideal gas laws?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkQXTQiu5a8&ab_channel=thebumblingbiochemist
note: this is adapted from a pa...
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April 21, 2025 at 1:30 AM
If anyone has some leftover Peeps this Easter, might I suggest demonstrating ideal gas laws? bit.ly/peepsidealga... #365DaysOfScience #chemsky
Since I started burning out in grad school, I’ve made a real effort to be sure to take “me” time when I have days off! It’s way too easy to give in to guilt, but self-care is an important part of being a scientist (one I struggle with but tempting cryoEM legos definitely help with) #365DaysOfScience
April 18, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Since I started burning out in grad school, I’ve made a real effort to be sure to take “me” time when I have days off! It’s way too easy to give in to guilt, but self-care is an important part of being a scientist (one I struggle with but tempting cryoEM legos definitely help with) #365DaysOfScience
Just some GC-MS slides from my lab lecture in case they’re helpful to anyone…
link to PDFs: drive.google.com/file/d/1Eo19...
#365DaysOfScience
link to PDFs: drive.google.com/file/d/1Eo19...
#365DaysOfScience
gcmslides_shared.pdf
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March 26, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Just some GC-MS slides from my lab lecture in case they’re helpful to anyone…
link to PDFs: drive.google.com/file/d/1Eo19...
#365DaysOfScience
link to PDFs: drive.google.com/file/d/1Eo19...
#365DaysOfScience
It's always fun getting to teach students lab tricks: today, how you can hold a large magnetic stir bar on the outside of your magnetic stir bar containing beaker to prevent the stir bar from falling in #365DaysOfScience #labtips #biochemsky #chemsky
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Quick lab tips: Stir bars and solution pouring (without stir bar pouring)
YouTube video by the bumbling biochemist
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February 25, 2025 at 1:59 AM
It's always fun getting to teach students lab tricks: today, how you can hold a large magnetic stir bar on the outside of your magnetic stir bar containing beaker to prevent the stir bar from falling in #365DaysOfScience #labtips #biochemsky #chemsky
youtube.com/shorts/oQ9p4...
youtube.com/shorts/oQ9p4...
Work in progress, but I'm finally going to have some custom GC-MS graphics, just in time to supplement tomorrow's lab lesson... So stay tuned :) #365DaysOfScience
March 24, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Work in progress, but I'm finally going to have some custom GC-MS graphics, just in time to supplement tomorrow's lab lesson... So stay tuned :) #365DaysOfScience
A mostly free day at CSHL Metabolomics – time to try to organize, consolidate, and cement all this new knowledge before it’s lost (and while I still have time to ask questions!) #365DaysofScience
June 14, 2025 at 9:13 PM
A mostly free day at CSHL Metabolomics – time to try to organize, consolidate, and cement all this new knowledge before it’s lost (and while I still have time to ask questions!) #365DaysofScience