As you can see, R is great for nice images and graphics

Our July issue is here! Love this cover art from the lab of Moshe Oren.

Great digest of, and reflection on, the rankings by qed.

From the survey you did yourself! c'mon...

Very cool work on limbs and fins!

Go chat with Guangshou!

It's interesting being an editor of a journal and yet finding myself targeted by these offers from our *much* more aggressive competitor @frontiersin.bsky.social

Our first ever (to our shame) collection of articles on genomics/epigenomics and genetics! We are super proud of our contributions to these fields. Check out this wonderful selection here: www.life-science-alliance.org/content/gene...

Unambiguous benefit accruing to @biologyopen.bsky.social and their authors. Impressed! As noted in the abstract and expanded on in the text, "While financial sustainability remains to be tested at scale..." The experimenting should continue, but this is not the time to further inflate APCs.

Reviewer 1 tapping the sign:

chef's kiss

OMB just published 412 pages in the Federal Register (Docket OMB-2026-0034) giving political appointees authority to terminate any NIH grant, override peer review scores, and block you from publishing with federal funds. Comment period closes ~July 13. Thread 🧵

Helpful writer of the catastrophic charges proposed at OMB here. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n

Was a very fun week at the @embl.org symposium on phase separation! A nice emerging theme was pH and electrostatic charge. Not much grappling with terms/naming conventions, but it was a safe space for just calling things as you wanted. Here was a nice view towards my colleagues @embopress.org

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 👇

🎉🎉🎉

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...