Hiren Joshi
@glyco.me
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Glycobioinfonaut, Associate Professor at the Copenhagen Center for Glycomics, University of Copenhagen. @hirenj.11 on Signal
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Hi all! We’re hiring at our brand new Center for Glycocalyx Research, across all areas - but I am also looking for postdocs to join my group specifically!
Postdoc at the Copenhagen Center for Glycocalyx Research at the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
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It’s cool to see more stuff being built on top of Joshua Klein’s mzdata libraries. I’ve been playing around with a version that compiles down to WASM, which has been great to work with.
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Our universal peptide spectrum Annotator (and codebase rustyms) is now published in Analytical Chemistry, check it out!
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A Universal Spectrum Annotator for Complex Peptidoforms in Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteomics
Accurate and comprehensive peptide spectrum annotation is a crucial step to interpreting mass spectrometry-based proteomics data. While peak assignment in peptide fragmentation spectra is central to a broad range of proteomics applications, current tools tend to be specialized to a specific task. Here, we present a more comprehensive interactive graphical tool (Annotator), along with the underlying codebase written in Rust (rustyms). Annotator enables unified spectrum annotation for bottom-up, middle-down, top-down, cross-linked, and glycopeptide fragmentation mass spectra from all fragmentation methods, including all ion types: a/b/c, x/y/z, d/v/w, and immonium ions. The Annotator integrates all known post-translational modifications from common databases and additionally allows for the definition of custom fragmentation models and modifications. Modifications allow for diagnostic fragment ions, site-specific neutral losses, and multiple breakage sites for cross-linkers. The underlying library used for the theoretical fragmentation and matching is based on the unified peptidoform notation ProForma 2.0 and is made available as a Rust library with Python bindings. This enables spectrum annotation in an interactive, graphical interface of diverse and complex peptidoforms across the broad range of mass spectrometry-based proteomics applications.
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Great that symmetry was an initial consideration in this, but what a shame that this fell by the wayside - GlcN/GlcA are especially bad because they are basically the same symbol. I guess once angled linkages came into the picture, it was game over for rotational invariance. Tradeoffs I guess!
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I disagree, and consider it was also robust before the pandemic, but I can agree that post pandemic it certainly headed downhill fast. Big fan of conferences, but the problem is you can’t engage in discussions with everyone, and not everyone can attend, so a lot of important things are missed.
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Peak Twitter was absolutely amazing, it is a tragedy that we lost that.
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I’ve read posts from people who say that there are discussions, and I genuinely would like to see that. I don’t even know what to do on LinkedIn apart from accept requests from people I don’t know, hoping that somehow that will help the visibility of the positions we have open.
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We all agree that LinkedIn is absolutely awful, right? Every other click on there is some highly optimised funnel to extract money from you. Hard to believe that people think it’s a good network for “science” discussions.
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Finding that niche is hard, but it helps to draw on a great pool of experience in your local ecosystem to have many conversations over coffee/lunch/beer to iterate until it crystallises. Which is a good reason for you to come work with us!
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But defining the niche is equally important because it helps you explain what you do to gatekeepers (journals, funders) but also is important in defining your “mission” and helping to maintain focus.
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One of the best bits of advice I received was to develop a niche and explore it fully. The trick is to find niche that is not obvious or difficult for others to participate in. The latter is important to handle the hypercompetitive space. You need a bit of breathing room to try crazy ideas.
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Career development is a pretty important part of the research environment at the centre, and you will get meetings dedicated to your career development, where we work out how to make sure you have what you need, but are equipped for your future career.
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Also, on top of the postdoc and PhD positions open, you should also get in touch if you would like to try your hand at an EMBO or Marie Curie fellowship with us to get a headstart on your independent career.
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employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho...

Hi all! We’re hiring at our brand new Center for Glycocalyx Research, across all areas - but I am also looking for postdocs to join my group specifically!
Postdoc at the Copenhagen Center for Glycocalyx Research at the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
employment.ku.dk
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I guess I an wondering if we have left any “easy wins” standing in mzML I/O, or whether the effort to speed it up is comparable to establishing a new format (and driving adoption of it).
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I was going to make a sarky comment about how this is the classical pathway to standards inflation, but the argument about inefficiency of reading mzML feels pretty true. However, I do have to wonder how much more speed we kan eke out of current standards.
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Come work with @galn.ac and @manno.se every day, and the @glyco.me as a whole!
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We’re working on a lot of different problems - but you can look forward to working out how to transform rich datasets (protein sequence, transcriptomics, and genomic data) into insights about how the third, hidden language of life is formed. Also, we’ve got PhD positions open!
PhD fellowship at the Copenhagen Center for Glycocalyx Research at the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
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employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho...

Hi all! We’re hiring at our brand new Center for Glycocalyx Research, across all areas - but I am also looking for postdocs to join my group specifically!
Postdoc at the Copenhagen Center for Glycocalyx Research at the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
employment.ku.dk
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Multi-domain O-GlcNAcase structures reveal allosteric regulatory mechanisms pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41044083/ #cryoem
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It is awesome that this work keeps going on. No idea where it’s going, but it looks fun!
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Absolute hand determination of glycofibrils from natural sources in cryo-EM www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.30.679555v1 #cryoem
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This is a cool trick you found! Do you have a library of CCD templates for the common monosaccharides? I would love to be able to use my AFstudio to generate the AF3 jobs with glycans defined this way as an option.
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Vaguely remember differences in glycosylation for spike alone vs native virus, and another paper that implicated N in slowing Golgi transit. Anyone with a better memory than me remember the refs? No doubt that viral protein effects on endomembranes are complex and overlapping.
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Coronavirus M proteins disperse the trans-Golgi network and inhibit anterograde protein trafficking in the secretory pathway https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.05.674545v1
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This represents a major cost arising from the erosion of our peer review system - all papers are equally expensive to incorporate some new data from. Instead of established scientists paying their experience forward to remove bullshit, the system has collapsed, and review at all levels is tepid.
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… as well as intuition for the shape of data. Any of: astronomically small p-values, glam journals, fancy addresses, and expensive experiments aren’t enough.

For those without this experience already, you end up stuck with investing in, as quoted “us[ing] the data”.
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What I think is especially difficult is that nowadays you need to be possessed with a Neo level ability to see through the bullshit Matrix, and understand what data is real in a paper. In practicality this means experience with using a bunch of techniques …
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I think you mean depicting existential angst about life and death in an increasingly technologically advanced world.
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Hard agree.

I’ve recently come back to Fat of the Land from the Prodigy (1997). Hard to believe there is so much sampling! On a similar note, Since I left you, by the Avalanches was another sampling tour de force, but it was just on the wrong side of the millennium (2000).