Dr. Alice Seywright

When you have the album launch at 5pm but a crime scene to attend at 6pm

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Might not be long for this place (Twitter, not life). I'm also @aliceseywright.bsky.social if you're there.

Unfortunately our primary analytical tool, UPLC-QToF, is currently undergoing repair work. This is unplanned downtime for the system. We are working to get this issue resolved as quickly as possible.

The potential for degradation of nitazenes in unpreserved blood. Should we be testing in preserved? doi.org/10.1093/jat/bk…

@dpasin117 @christophestove Thanks!

@ASeywright @christophestove and I are currently there plus a few others. I'm sure as time goes on more will join

Toxicology people who are still on here and also on Bluesky: who is good to follow there?

Using qualitative (positive/negative, above/below threshold) methods? Join the upcoming #SOFT webinar on the topic! I will be discussing the consequential upcoming changes to the ASB 036. Validating qualitative methods will look quite different when this 2nd Edition is out!

Other scientists working in the drug-related death field might have some feelings on this (especially from UK countries that aren't England). bigissue.com/news/social-ju…

Mushrooms of Arran, October 2024.

@PSOS_Ayrshire Is the road closure still in place?

What kind of childhood makes a top scientist? Is it enough to have all the right traits (brilliance, grit, etc) or do you need the right family too? And why should we care? A 🧵 on our paper on the Nobel Laureates. A teaser: the income distribution of the laureates' fathers.1/N

@foetalgod @EdinburghUni @DoorsOpenDays Not enough Doors Open Day at King's Buildings when they were wee.

@ASeywright @EdinburghUni @DoorsOpenDays Well it failed for me. 2 scientists parents. Kids now doing nothing science related.

A great day at @EdinburghUni King's Buildings for @DoorsOpenDays. Getting the little ones into Science 🔬

The proteins that drive drug addiction: chemistryworld.com/features/the-p…

💥NEW RESEARCH PAPER💥 Our collaborative work w/ @UniofBath, led by Sam Craft (@Bath_AIM), on the detection and quantification of synthetic cannabinoids in vapes submitted to a UK drug/alcohol service has been published (open access) in @AddictionJrnl 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ad…

4 countries, 5 days, dozens of social media posts, too many coffees, and not enough sleep. That's #TIAFT2024 over. It was great. Now I'm going home to sleep 😵‍💫

I find myself in the enviable position of encouraging everyone to attend my #TIAFT2024 talk about *maths* at 17h18 on the penultimate conference day. 😅 What can I say. It's going to make your method of standard addition (#MSA) much better (1/2)