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Giving the gift of negative data 🥰 Since I joined @lsajournal.org I have handled several stellar manuscripts that report null results. These papers do very well and reviewers almost always appreciate them! Thanks @rockefeller.edu news team for the article! www.rockefeller.edu/news/38829-t...

Vote for JCB’s cover of the year! Explore 12 breathtaking images submitted by our talented authors and pick a favorite. Voting closes on Wednesday, December 31! 👉 www.surveymonkey.com/r/JCB2025Cov... #ScienceArt

I just finished my 28th yr of teaching grad compbio. Following the inevitable trend, a 3rd of the course is now Deep Learning (DL). One activity we did was a deep dive into the AlphaGenome pre-print (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...). Question is, how do we evaluate it as a science paper? 1/n

With a smaller, somewhat fraught #cellbio2025 behind us I am nevertheless still inspired and amazed at this community. Curious to hear others’ impressions!!

Don't miss out on the last "Meet the Editors" session at #CellBio2025! Join us at booth 825 from 14:00–15:00 EST to chat with editors Poonam (Molecular Systems Biology), Sara Monaco (Review Commons) and Tim (Life Science Alliance) to talk about #publishing, life as an editor and more! 🧪 EMBO Press#CellBio2025

Lovely work on the origins of vascular pathologies in progeria. Check out the nice video made by the authors describing their findings 👇

Flyers for @lsajournal.org with our cell bio collection: Collect all 4 to recreate the full artwork by our fantastic collaborator Laurène! And come get a tshirt with this work today 1-3pm at @embo.org booth 🎊

G&D Executive Editor, Dr. Eric Sawey is at #cellbio2025! If you’d like to share your work with us or learn about the journal, drop by the CSHL Press booth or reach out at [email protected] #genesdev Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

Join us at booth 825 from 14–15:00 EST on Sun, Mon and Tues to chat with editors Poonam (Molecular Systems Biology), Sara Monaco (Review Commons) and Tim (Life Science Alliance), whether that is to discuss a paper you are writing, talk about publishing or life as an editor. See you! 🧪 #CellBio2025

Attending the ASCB/EMBO Cell Bio #cellbio2025 in Philadelphia? Check out the posters from our lab on nuclear mechanobiology, lamins, and mechanotransduction today and on Tuesday. I will be there too and look forward to catching up!

Today and every day at #cellbio2025 💥 find me and chat about @lsajournal.org 💥 take a gorgeous flyer 💥 get a free t-shirt 🥳

If you're at #cellbio2025, @atmolines.bsky.social Hernan Garcia and I invite you to attend our Minisymposium “Physical Cell Biology from Molecules to Organisms” for incredible talks on epigenetic mechanical memory, viscoelasticity, cortical flows, morphogenesis, tissue wetting, size scaling, et al!

openRxiv is heading to Cell Bio 2025 in Philadelphia 🔬 See us at Booth 1134 with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press from December 6-10. We’re excited to meet the community, share what we’re building, and talk about the future of open science. We hope to see you there.

📣 Help choose @jcb.org's cover of the year! Explore 12 breathtaking images submitted by our talented authors and vote for your favorite. Voting closes on Wednesday, December 31 👉 www.surveymonkey.com/r/JCB2025Cov... #CellBio2025 #ScienceArt

I recall the first time you did this!! A fabulous demonstration of biology’s beauty.

Although the original thread from @andrea-musacchio.bsky.social was deleted, he was correct to bring his concerns to editors who are key players in how/where/when controversial papers are published. Appreciate Richard's points on the larger issue (not, as he notes, the specifics of LLPS).

I imagine a triage mechanism that accelerates decisions on obviously low quality applications. More involvement than that seems dicey. Interested to learn the outcome of this testing either way though.

Has anyone seen this executive order establishing "Genesis Mission" at the DOE? In particular the provision that this initiative will be provided with "scientific datasets" and "experimental and production tools" to further its mission. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Read our top papers in cell bio from the past year, then come find me at #CellBio2025 and tell me what you thought!

Beautiful!

Get pumped!! My first CellBio as executive editor at LSA! 💪💪💪🥳🥳🥳

The assumed link between conceptual advance and journal impact factor is alive and well 😔

The latest AI slop published by @springernature.com (great work!) has me wondering if, unlike the rat testicle one, this could be explained by English illiteracy? The graphics are not obviously wrong. Does anyone know?

spicy! genesdev.cshlp.org/content/33/2...

Today!! Freshly jetlagged from #sfn25 in San Diego, I will discuss publishing negative data at the fantastic R^3 series (Scientific Rigor, Reproducibility, and Reporting) @rockefeller.edu Check out their website for other topics they cover: www.rockefeller.edu/research/r3/

SAVE THE DATE! Stoked to organize the 2026 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting with @rashmi-priya.bsky.social, @lowelab.bsky.social, and Shelbi Russell. Come learn about Biomedicine, Biomechanics, and the Biosphere, August 24-28, 2026. Registration dates, etc., coming soon! Please RT

Currently sitting in by far the best session at #sfn25 [room is a comfortable temperature]

Obsessed w this work we just published @lsajournal.org : This acetyltransferase mediates metabolic adaptation to starvation… but can be replaced by a 2 degree temperature shift!! This is why fruit flies you guys!

Attending #SfN25 in San Diego? Stop by @rupress.org booth #3719 to discuss your research and our journal! Don't forget to pick up our #Neuroscience Collection magazine 📚 We look forward to meeting you! 💬 💡

Two days left here at #sfn2025! If you’re casting about for a place to send your cool neuroscience paper, check out what we publish at LSA 👇

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Weather update here in San Diego 🥰

Today at #sfn2025 I’ll be at @rupress.org booth 3719! Come say hi and chat about the many routes to publishing your neuroscience work!

Won’t be enjoying my nice patio much during a soggy few days in San Diego. But still excited for dry/indoor science here at #sfn2025

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Excellent reporting and interviews in this episode, from Season 2 of The Harvard Project @wnyc.org @bostonglobe.com Highly recommend this podcast for everyone in life sciences in the US (and beyond) www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

Congratulations @dacrotty.bsky.social on the new role @cshlpress.bsky.social !!! www.cshl.edu/cshl-press-n...

🧪This is a must watch. Please watch tonight's episode @60minutes.bsky.social. Joan Brugge is an eminent scientist that was one of the first pioneers of 3D culture in breast cancer. She had two of her grants canceled last spring. We used her protocols to develop our own for our research.

Cool structure/function of luciferase variants!!! We know and love this tool for intravital imaging, but in nature luciferase comes in a few flavors w different emission spectra. This HDX-MS study builds on prior structural work & shows how spectra are shifted by flexibility of key subdomains!

Sounds about right...

Publishers being very naughty with retractions... I found this purely by chance. Elsevier states in a retraction notice from Oct 2025 that the authors requested retraction in 2019!!! And they posted a preprint ~disproving~ their prior paper in 2021 (in the link) What on earth took so long??

Very interested to see how this goes!

Catch me speaking as part of @rockefeller.edu R3 program: Scientific Rigor, Reproducibility, and Reporting www.rockefeller.edu/research/r3/ I'll provide the perspective of a journal editor @lsajournal.org on the value of publishing negative data. If you're in the Tri-I come check it out!

Just tried q.e.d. by @odedrechavi.bsky.social et al. with a few papers including by myself & others where I knew a claim within was flawed based on a misunderstanding of the signal. 1) it was impressive. I see what the hype is about. 2) it hallucinated. www.qedscience.com Overly long #SciPub🧵 1/n

Putting numbers to what we have all experienced: out of 1,800 academics polled, most have reduced use of X. Bsky has not replaced it.

Spooky!!

So pleased to see this out at JCB. Beautiful calcium imaging here… yet again demonstrating the power of zebrafish for exquisite imaging in vivo.

This week @rupress.org introduces our team to the broader research community at @rockefeller.edu 🥳 Researchers at Rockefeller benefit enormously from a world-class academic press right on their campus! Come say hi 👋

Today @anthropic.com released PubMed integration for Claude. No hallucinations. Just real science, real data. As a beta tester, this has been game changing— a supercharged research tool. Here are 6 prompts that will transform how you search the literature. A 🧵 www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...