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Mass Spectrometry | Coffee | Dog Training | Chemistry Education | Nature Photography Undergrad at NCSU, PhD at UF (NSF GRFP), Postdoc at AFRL NM (NRC RAP), Assoc. Prof. at MS State Uni. ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4525-0970 (personal account)

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Amanda Patrick @patricklabms.bsky.social · Feb 6

Enjoyed chatting with LCGC International for this interview. #TeamMassSpec 🧪 #WomenInSTEM

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Reaching for the Stars with Mass Spectrometry

LCGC International spoke to Amanda Patrick associate professor at Mississippi State University about her research exploring mass spectrometry (MS) applications in ionic liquid analysis.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 14h

The amount of AI generated art in slides at this conference, primarily used by older scientists, is killing me. Scientists please. Don’t use these ai platforms to make your figures or slides. They look bad and I have yet to see them meaningfully improve the message of talks.

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Amanda Patrick @patricklabms.bsky.social · 3d

Still at the top of my NCSU trivia game! #HowlBack #NCStateRedWhite

Amanda Patrick @patricklabms.bsky.social · 5d

Rain has brought out the mushrooms!

A blue heeler dog lays at the center of a fairy ring of white mushrooms.

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 6d

For over a century, chemists have made flavor molecules to evoke particular tastes. How do they know which compounds create a particular flavor, and how do they make these molecules? cen.acs.org/food/food-sc...

#NationalChemistryWeek #ACS_NCW #SpiceChemistry #chemsky

A three-column infographic, titled “Faking Flavors with Chemistry,” explaining how artificial flavors are formulated and produced. The first column highlights three early artificial flavors: vanillin (vanilla, 1870s), methyl anthranilate (grape, early 1900s), and diacetyl (butter, 1920s).  The second column points out that it’s more common for flavors to have several chemical contributors. Chemists determine these using analytical methods. The primary method used is gas chromatography, which separates compounds in a sample according to their boiling points and solubilities. The output tells us how much of each compound is present, and the chromatograph can be connected to a mass spectrometer and a sniff port for further identifying information. The third column discusses how flavor molecules are made once they’ve been identified. Usually, they’re extracted from plants or made in the lab. However, chemists are turning to biotechnological methods, which allow them to market produced flavor molecules as natural. One method is biosynthesis, in which microbes metabolize simple chemical building blocks to make flavor compounds over multiple reaction steps. Another method is biotransformation, which uses microbes or their isolated enzymes to make flavor compounds from a similar starting substance in simple reactions.

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Amanda Patrick @patricklabms.bsky.social · 5d

*tailgate

Amanda Patrick @patricklabms.bsky.social · 5d

National Chemistry Week x Mississippi State Homecoming tailg hosted by the Department of Chemistry, College of Arts & Sciences, and Student Affiliates of the ACS. 🧪 🥽 #NationalChemistryWeek

Students in lab coats demonstrate liquid nitrogen boiling to kids on the other side of a table.

Kids watch as a chemistry student explains carbon dioxide sublimation, visualized using soapy water.

Two lab-coat-clad chemistry students pose triumphantly after a successful elephant toothpaste demo.

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Amanda Patrick @patricklabms.bsky.social · 12d

Back at the shelter after a hiatus. Leash walks only today. walked a love lab and a cute little pit! #DogsOfuesky #RescueDogs #ShelterPups

Black lab sitting with tongue out. She has an orange rope lead and there is grass and bushes in the background.

Little blue pit with big wonky ears standing outside.

Amanda Patrick @patricklabms.bsky.social · 13d

“When women stepped outside their prescribed roles, they became targets. Too much wealth might reflect sinful gains. Too little money demonstrated bad character. Too many children could indicate a deal with a devil. Having too few children was suspicious, too.”

The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 13d

Too rich. Too poor. Too many kids. Childless. There were many reasons a woman might find herself accused of being a witch in early America. #Halloween

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Most witches are women, because witch hunts were all about persecuting the powerless

Powerful men often proclaim baseless accusations to be a ‘witch hunt.’ But American witch trials have always targeted a persecuted minority: women.

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Amanda Patrick @patricklabms.bsky.social · 18d

Always exciting to get to share student successes! Taofiq is a PhD student planning to graduate Spring/Summer 2026. He had a chance to complete an internship at Biogen this past summer, solidifying his interest in industry positions.

#TeamMassSpec

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MSU chemistry doctoral student gains biotech experience at Biogen | College of Arts and Sciences

STARKVILLE, Miss.— Mississippi State University doctoral student Taofiq Abdulraheem deepened his understanding of chemistry’s real-world impact this summer through an internship at Biogen in Research ...

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Amanda Patrick @patricklabms.bsky.social · 19d

Spiders on the morning ramble.

Yellow and black striped spider on a web. Side view.

Yellow and black striped spider working on lunch on its web.

Amanda Patrick @patricklabms.bsky.social · 23d

Excited for this! If you’re an ECR considering the “academic path”, I encourage you to check it out! #TeamMassSpec 🥽 #Proteomics #Chemistry #ChemSky

HUPO @hupo-org.bsky.social · 23d

Register Now!
✨ How to Get Started with Teaching
📅 October 14th | 🕓 16:00 CEST

Fredrik Edfors – Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Amanda Patrick – Mississippi State University, USA
David Tabb – Universitair Medisch Centrum Groningen, Netherlands
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Chemistry World @chemistryworld.com · 23d

Congratulations to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi! For more reaction, follow our live blog.

The 2025 Nobel prize in chemistry as it happens – live

Join us as we provide analysis and commentary in the run up to the announcement of the biggest prize in chemistry

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Amanda Patrick @patricklabms.bsky.social · 25d

Having taken many shelter pup pics, they’re definitely so much better at the dog’s level. But, depending on personality some dogs immediately come to you (and lick your face) when you kneel down! posing them can be an art form lol.

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Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social · 26d

Blue jays are not truly blue, they just look that way. 🪶🧪

Most colors in nature come from pigments that absorb and reflect light, but a blue jay creates its color through structural tricks: microscopic layers and air pockets that scatter blue light back to our eyes.

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Amanda Patrick @patricklabms.bsky.social · 26d

My understanding (which may be incorrect and is likely naive) is that SOTL is moreso a scholarly approach to the practice of education (evaluating activities, techniques, etc in context) whereas DBER is generalizable research on how folks learn and other more fundamental aspects of education.

Amanda Patrick @patricklabms.bsky.social · 27d

#DogsOfBluesky

Amanda Patrick @patricklabms.bsky.social · 27d

Percy catching treats like a pro! #RescueDog #AustralianCattleDog #DogTraining

Amanda Patrick @patricklabms.bsky.social · 27d

Percy catching treats like a pro! #RescueDog #AustralianCattleDog #DogTraining

Amanda Patrick @patricklabms.bsky.social · 29d

PS—the position can be hosted in Chemistry, Biology, or both depending on the candidate’s background and preference!

Amanda Patrick @patricklabms.bsky.social · 29d

We are searching for a tenure track assistant professor with research interest in mass spectrometry-based proteomics!

#ChemJobs #TeamMassSpec @femalesinms.bsky.social @asms.org 🧪

More information or apply here: explore.msujobs.msstate.edu/en-us/job/50...

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Amanda Patrick @patricklabms.bsky.social · Sep 27

Happy birthday! Cake sounds lovely; lemon is a great flavor!

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Amanda Patrick @patricklabms.bsky.social · Sep 27

Some wildflowers up close. #BloomScrolling #MississippiWildflowers

Small, pale purple flower with yellow center. An ant crawls across the petals.

Small, pale purple flower with yellow center. Surrounded by blurred foliage and another flower.

Amanda Patrick @patricklabms.bsky.social · Sep 20

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Porch Swing In Tupelo

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Amanda Patrick @patricklabms.bsky.social · Sep 20

Had some free time before an appointment today in Tupelo, so we explored the Natchez Trace and the birthplace of Elvis.

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Cattle dog in the background on a mossy trail with a bridge section visible; package containing a Natchez Trace Parkway “bark ranger” dog tag in the foreground

Dog sits in front of small white house, the birthplace of Elvis.

Amanda Patrick @patricklabms.bsky.social · Sep 14

Finished this book on the flight home. Great read!

Hand holding a book with pretty artistic pink and gold flowers with the words “Inciting Joy” written over in purple. A plane seat back is in the background.

A photo of text from the book: “My hunch is that joy is an ember for or precursor to wild and unpredictable and transgressive and unboundaried solidarity. And that that solidarity might incite further joy. Which might in turn incite further solidarity. And on and on. My hunch is that joy, emerging from our common sorrow—which does not necessarily mean we have the same sorrows, but that we , in common, sorrow—might draw us together. It might depolarize us and de-atomize us enough that we can consider what, in common, we love. And though…”

Quote continues: “attending to what we hate in common is too often all the rage (and it happens also to be very big business), noticing what we love in common, and studying that, might help us survive. It’s why I think of joy, which gets us to love, as being a practice of survival.

And it’s why I’ve written this book.”