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Research time! Let me just start by saying the work I'll be talking about today is published and if you'd like to read it, here's the link!https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003267019308219 I've outlined

Time for desorption electrospray ionization (DESI)! This ambient ionization was created in 2004 by Zoltan Takáts, who was in Graham Cooks' (Purdue Uni. and also in my research family tree)

Okay, let's so quadrupoles! There's a cool video I can link you too! Remember earlier how I said you can manipulate ion motion with electric fields? That's exactly how a

Let's talk mass analyzers! Okay, so back to our ions we created this morning. We have them and they're entering into our MS, but now we need to be able

So you might be wondering what copper has to do with antibiotic resistance? In agriculture, it's actually fairly common to treat livestock with copper compounds as an alternative to traditional

Today I’ll only share one thread with you. I had an online lecture earlier and spent some time preparing other activities for my course All my lectures have been online

By day, I’m an ecologist, but by night I’m a comedian! I’ve written and performed stand-up comedy for a few years now, but recently I’ve been incorporating science into my

It's what you have all been waiting for - a thread on Animal farts. Just want to highlight some of my favourite entries from the book! 1. Sea cucumbers don't

I'm going to talk a bit about how I ended up becoming an author on top of being a scientist. It's a bit of an unorthodox route to becoming an

The Kenya Rangelands project has been monitoring African wild dogs in the field for 18 years now! I'm going to talk a bit about how African wild dog populations are

Cheetahs are my favourite big cats! They are amazingly well camouflaged and usually super hard to spot (hehe). Did you know cheetahs make a chirping sound?#NatureEscapes #EarthDay I was

Onto African wild dog ecology!African wild dogs are an obligate co-operative breeder. That means they rely on living in social groups to reproduce! Wild dog packs consist of an alpha