ProteomicsNews (Ben Orsburn)
@proteomicsnews.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. What?? Previous industry CSO. Proteomics researcher with time consuming hobbies in scientific outreach. Opinions are often loud and exclusively my own. www.proteomics.rocks (he/him/his/dude)
That was a conversation on my commute today. Who knows! Nobody!
December 18, 2025 at 11:51 PM
That was a conversation on my commute today. Who knows! Nobody!
I just saw a quote with a $150,000 USD tariff charge on it.
December 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I just saw a quote with a $150,000 USD tariff charge on it.
Sorta related, a director of a spatial RNASeq core told me that - for her - each slide costs $7,000 USD. She's got all the equipment and expertise. That's the reagents. Yikes.
December 11, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Sorta related, a director of a spatial RNASeq core told me that - for her - each slide costs $7,000 USD. She's got all the equipment and expertise. That's the reagents. Yikes.
Whoa....
December 11, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Whoa....
As an apps scientist I could come in Monday and say “check out this magic” and fly home Friday. Found out later people had their Orbis out on benchtop being cleaned.
December 3, 2025 at 12:58 PM
As an apps scientist I could come in Monday and say “check out this magic” and fly home Friday. Found out later people had their Orbis out on benchtop being cleaned.
Oh. I should re-read your stuff.
December 2, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Oh. I should re-read your stuff.
I feel like the instruments I screwed up with DMSO were before there was mass spec grade available. I still avoid it because some people were bigtime mad.
December 2, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I feel like the instruments I screwed up with DMSO were before there was mass spec grade available. I still avoid it because some people were bigtime mad.
Except the AppleTV show is legit good.
November 30, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Except the AppleTV show is legit good.
Caves of Steel and Robots of Dawn might translate well some day? Not sure it’ll ever happen because they seem less amazing because so much of the SciFi he wrote about is real tech now.
November 30, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Caves of Steel and Robots of Dawn might translate well some day? Not sure it’ll ever happen because they seem less amazing because so much of the SciFi he wrote about is real tech now.
The books are all “maybe if 1% of a population is scientists they could save the universe a bunch” and AppleTV is like “space psychics!!!!”
November 30, 2025 at 8:28 PM
The books are all “maybe if 1% of a population is scientists they could save the universe a bunch” and AppleTV is like “space psychics!!!!”
Thanks!
November 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Thanks!
Even better, I probably don’t even know if we have one. After I typed it I thought “is that purple? they make purple ones?”
November 29, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Even better, I probably don’t even know if we have one. After I typed it I thought “is that purple? they make purple ones?”