Safe to say that Day 1 of 'Cellular mechanisms driven by phase separation' has been a success so far, with lots of great talks, including a keynote by Karla Neugebauer, and plenty of opportunities to socialise and get to know each other 🙌🏼 #EESPhaseSeparation @embo.org @embl.org

Here for the week with my cherished colleagues @embopress.org (and some phase separation thanks to the EMBL symposium)

Time of day dosing for immunotherapies have had some controversy lately, but still one of the coolest phenomena! More of this please!

Core facilities are at the center of research integrity and reproducibility efforts: they are the experts helping researchers get their stuff done! Now out in @jofmicroscopy.bsky.social is this perspective coauthored by my colleague @rockefeller.edu Alison North. doi.org/10.1111/jmi....

Another fantastic meeting at CSHL!! The Genome Biology meeting was probably the most scientifically diverse small meeting I’ve ever been to. Curious, generous folks happy to share and learn from one another. Huge thanks to the organizers especially Matthew Meyerson!

In our Immunology Collection 2026: Upon FcgammaR-phagocytosis Syk is palmitoylated by DHHC5 and desulfenylated on nearby Cys residues, and both modifications are important for Syk phosphorylation and phagocytosis. @irim-life.bsky.social www.life-science-alliance.org/content/lsa-...

Delighted to be back at @cshlmeetings.bsky.social for Biology of Genomes, a historically important meeting w a really diverse and exciting lineup!

Small fry journals like ours 🥺 are on the front lines of this crisis. Definitely attending this!

Our May issue is here! Read about maternal behavior impact on offspring neurogenesis, nanoscale structure and energetics in mitochondria, actin flow regulating cytokinesis, plus much more: www.life-science-alliance.org/content/9/5

From the ongoing and I must emphasize *super valuable* series on Reproducibility from my colleagues at @jcb.org doi.org/10.1083/jcb....

I think we, at CSH Protocols, should do more to cover areas within the fields of #ecology and #evolution. What areas do you think would benefit from a curated, high-quality collection of methods-centered reviews and step-by-step protocols? I'd be happy to explore and discuss!

Here is the announcement of a Symposium @college-de-france.fr on 26 June on Information Flow and Computation in Biological systems. A great line of speakers on a variety of topics from embryogenesis to neuroscience, immunology and microbiology. Free entrance, come if you are in Paris end of June 🤩

Love getting predatory solicitations to submit to a journal (Cancers) with a higher impact factor than our own at @lsajournal.org . The only way MDPI got my email address is: Attendance at a recent immunology conference (AAI Immunology) OR My authorship on editorials for LSA.

📣 New blog-post: box plots for low n is a bad idea. Here's why and a nice fix in R/ggplot2 when you have mixed numbers of observations: thenode.biologists.com/unboxing-dat...

Congrats Greg!!

🚨Hear, hear, fellow microbial cell biologists!🚨 🦠 Bacterial and Archaeal Cell Biology will be represented again at this year’s CELL BIO (ASCB-EMBO) meeting! The deadline to be considered for a talk in our Minisymposium is June 9. Help us spread the word! www.ascb.org/cellbio2026/

What if you got to work with some of your best friends on a science project? I can't publish how fun this was, but I can show you the data (🧵)! Last week, we posted our second neutrophil swarming paper to bioRxiv and I wanted to post my favorite videos here~ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Coming to the annual @aai.org meeting in Boston?? Find me looking around for amazing new science. Check out the excellent immunology we publish at @lsajournal.org in our Special Collection just out!! www.life-science-alliance.org/content/lsa-...

Another delightful visit to my alma mater @ucscscience.bsky.social Thanks to @needhibhalla.bsky.social and many others for exciting + important convo. Most of all thanks to students who came to my talk w SO MANY good questions about careers + publishing. Until next time!

Check out the largest collection of C elegans missense variants to date: - 12k unique & viable strains sequenced - 20 million variants - 21k genes - integrated database with ClinVar for translation to humans Out now at @lsajournal.org www.life-science-alliance.org/content/9/6/...

When do PIs, especially with teaching commitments, ever find time to read papers to keep up with the field? Do you set aside specific times of the week, use the daily commute on bus/train, or have come up with some other approach? Asking for a friend...

I got to see a former trainee defend her thesis @rockefeller.edu! Marwa Saad worked with me at MIT during my postdoc and gave me this fabulous mug (still have it!) Then we both ended up at Rockefeller! She was a grad student w with @danmucida.bsky.social and I’m here at @rupress.org Congrats!!

Important pivot underway by my colleagues @embopress.org to embrace evolutionary biology, diverse species, and non-reductionist approaches to biological systems. Bravo!

Why did Nature expand? It is unacceptable that an author might find a non-Nature journal as a fit for their work: "Awe noticed that there is growth in some fields that we don’t think we can support effectively within the range of journals that we currently have." -Executive VP, Journals

Writing my recent editorial was secretly just an excuse to read a bunch of Stephen Jay Gould. I was led there by Howard Browman in his editorial. Browman frames question of negative data as a deeply philosophical issue of what motivates scientists to communicate their findings.

the most annoying shift in my academic career

Really cool work here!! Congrats @emery-lab.bsky.social

Editorial by me, in our March issue! Negative results are a thorny issue in essentially all fields of scientific research, and deserve a renewed look by authors and editors 👇

It’s finally out! Together with @embopress.org and @reviewcommons.org, we conducted a structured side-by-side comparison of human peer review and our AI scientific review (see thread 👇👇👇🔥).

Required reading, folks 👇

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Sooo happy to share our new paper in @nature.com “CLCC1 promotes hepatic neutral lipid flux and nuclear pore complex assembly.” A terrific collaboration with @arrudalab.bsky.social, led by co–first authors Alyssa Mathiowetz and Emily Maymand. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congrats @sudha-kumari.bsky.social on this nice paper out in @emboreports.org 🥳

This is also something that NIH Director Bhattacharya loves to trumpet (as if no other NIH officials before him recognized this problem...)

!!! www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Nature group: "DO YOU WANT MORE JOURNALS???" Researchers: "um... not... really? no there are alread-" Nature: "YESSS HERE YOU GO MORE JOURNALSSSS!!" group.springernature.com/gp/group/med... @springernature.com

We are pleased to be a media partner for the @embo.org @embl.org Symposium - Microtubules: from atoms to complex systems Abstract submission: 11 Mar 2026 Registration (On-site): 6 May 2026 Registration (Virtual): 10 Jun 2026 bit.ly/4jDTuMH #EESMicrotubules

Minor point: Not defending the publisher and certainly not the authors here, but it is common for the journal to convey the authors’ assertions about the paper, if any.

Thanks Prof Baumelle for the summary of this really exhaustive look at a new post-translational modification of Syk and how it affects phagocytosis!

Super nice work covering stops, starts, and reversals in axonal traffic. Congrats!

🔬Join our #ReproductionMS seminar with Dr. @maikbischoff.bsky.social on "Coiling a Duct: How Mesenchymal Cells Sculpt Male Reproductive Organ Architecture" this Wednesday, 11 February 12pm CET. DM for Zoom details.

Hello epithelial mechanics fans!! I’m Juanma @juanmagararc.bsky.social 👋 I work on cell mechanics (see celldynamicslab.com) and use Flipper-TR FLIM to probe membrane biophysics in cells. Join me on this tour about Flipper: what it measures, strengths, advice, cool case studies, and cute drawings!

One of the spammy things you see repeatedly as a journal editor are invitations to publish conference proceedings. They get to have a paper and the targeted journal collects an APC. Like this one. Is this real? Who knows

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Sir Francis Bacon griping about publication bias in 1605 😍 From Steven Jay Gould’s collection of essays Dinosaur in a Haystack

Wiley: "We’re supporting responsible research assessment practices" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1520... Also Wiley: "Prove that your article is a good fit for this journal 😉😉😉😉😉 by citing at least two of our articles in your manuscript before we will even consider reviewing it" 🤡

You can submit proposals for scientific sessions at CellBio aka ASCB until Feb 22nd. This includes minisymposa, special interest sessions workshops. If you thought CellBio should improve, now is your chance to make that happen 👇 www.ascb.org/cellbio2026-...

keeping up (barely 🥴) with my fave immunologists!! First: Sometimes macrophages nibble (trogocytosis) and sometimes they chomp (phagocytosis). @fletcherlabucb.bsky.social nicely show how target cell mechanical properties bias macrophage behavior. Beautiful work! doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Updating a 56 year-old JCB paper with digitized videos from 16 mm film 😍. Well done first author Tom Pollard!!

A pleasure to work with these authors on this study! Check out very nice imaging showing ER-microtubule interactions in regenerating axons.