Peter Blattmann

A personal message from 2022 chemistry laureate Carolyn Bertozzi to all young researchers on why to aspire to a career in science: ”I would want to share with them how a life in science is incredibly rewarding. It is rewarding because it is creative. You are discovering knowledge and gifting that to humanity for all of posterity. Once you learn something no one can take that away. It is not an object. It is an intellectual currency that will be shared throughout the generations. And you created that. It has a permanence that ironically a physical object doesn’t have. You can paint a painting, but eventually it will fade. But knowledge doesn’t fade. Knowledge stays with us forever and it becomes the foundation for the next generations.”

A motivating quote from @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social:
“…You are discovering knowledge and gifting that to humanity for all of posterity. Once you learn something no one can take that away. It is not an object. It is an intellectual currency that will be shared throughout the generations…”

15.07.2025 23:58 — 👍 69    🔁 25    💬 0    📌 2

Atul Butte died yesterday.
The world lost a giant.
A big bear of a man.
With a huge smile.
With love for everyone.
With energy that could power a room.
I loved everything about Atul.
I loved how he was always happy.
I loved how excited he was about science and helping people.

14.06.2025 18:35 — 👍 194    🔁 57    💬 14    📌 14

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16.06.2025 10:20 — 👍 32    🔁 31    💬 0    📌 6

Assessment of false discovery rate control in tandem mass spectrometry analysis using entrapment - Nature Methods A theoretical foundation for entrapment methods is presented, along with a method that enables more accurate evaluation of false discovery rate (FDR) control in proteomics mass spectrometry analysis p...

Error control in proteomics mass spectrometry analysis is hard. We came up with a way to evaluate error control. Upshot: for old-school DDA data, not so bad. For DIA data, no existing tool successfully controls the false discovery rate!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

16.06.2025 20:57 — 👍 28    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 1

At this year's #EuPA2025 in St-Malo there will be a special one-day parallel session for people using proteomics in industry.
Early bird is March 14 and abstract submission deadline is March 28!
eupa2025-stmalo.fr/en/

11.03.2025 21:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Bluesky's CEO on the Future of Social Media | SXSW LIVE YouTube video by SXSW

Great interview with @jay.bsky.team on the history and how bluesky is different than the other commercial social media Apps:
www.youtube.com/live/B7OwcXC...

11.03.2025 06:50 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Fakten statt Falschinformationen: Für einen starken Wissenschaftsjournalismus! - Online-Petition Offener Brief aus der Wissenschaft an SRF Sehr geehrte Direktion der SRG, sehr geehrte Geschäftsleitung von SRF, sehr geehrte Medien- und Wissenschaftspolitiker:innen Mit grosser Besorgnis haben wir z...

📺 📻 🗞️ Petition: SRF Wissensjournalismus stärken!

Innovation, KI, Medizin, Klima, Energie... In einer immer komplexeren Welt mit mehr Fakenews ist eine starke SRF Wissenschaftsredaktion unverzichtbar.

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10.02.2025 12:31 — 👍 133    🔁 80    💬 0    📌 9

It is far easier to rattle of a list of things wrong with the current system than to replace it with something better. I'm old enough to have sat in a room > 20 years ago, listening to @mbeisen.bsky.social explaining, after his scientific seminar, how open access was THE thing that was going to 1/n

20.12.2024 10:28 — 👍 31    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 8