It's been a while... dusted off some old code to see what the current publication lag times are at cell bio journals. At the end of the post there's the poor paper with the longest delay in the dataset... Hold On Hope: publication lag times at cell biology journals quantixed.org/2026/04/09/h...

academic.oup.com/genetics/adv... Also thanks to Lyndall & @psarkies.bsky.social, @ahocher.bsky.social, and members of the lab for their comments and Francis Barr @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social for encouraging me to write down my thoughts. 2/2

Happy to share our latest paper. Our findings uncover a unique chromatin architecture and spatial chromosome arrangement in gonadal germ cells and document that alongside global DNA demethylation, the germline epigenetic reprogramming involves reorganisation of the 3D genome.

5/ Marthe Gautier played a crucial role in identifying trisomy 21 as the cause of Down syndrome. Working with minimal institutional support, she built a cytogenetics laboratory from scratch and produced the preparations that revealed an extra chromosome in affected children.

Nature has retracted a paper after an investigation at a U.K. institution found the first author — then a doctoral student — manipulated data.

Here is a copy of last year's Twitter thread explaining our preprint - jump to (21) for the new stuff 👀 Synergy between cis-regulatory elements can render cohesin dispensable for distal enhancer function now revised and journal accepted at www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵👇

Happy to share our latest preprint. We uncover a previously uncharacterised and evolutionarily conserved chromatin architecture in premeiotic gonadal germ cells, revealed through integrated cytological and high-resolution Hi-C approaches. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Thread🧵🔽

[3] Navigating the pitfalls of mapping DNA and RNA modifications www.nature.com/articles/s41... [*] Please note the detection of exogeneous DNA mods is different from mapping natural endogenous DNA mods , because abundant exogeneous DNA mods are introduced (e.g. Fiber-seq, DiMeLo-seq, etc) n/n [END]

I believe that over the past ~ two decades, since the breakthrough papers on UHRF1, this is the first reported DNA methylation phenotype of its close paralog, UHRF2 (and not for lack of trying). Congrats to Ambre Bender and Michael Weber on this fantastic study! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Reading published results is like looking at the distant star-everything you see happened in the deep past. Light years between a truly novel discovery and its communication within the scientific community.

Finally out! 🥳 Our paper showing how a transposable element (TE) insertion can cause developmental phenotypes is now published @natgenet.nature.com 🧬🦠🐁 Below is a brief description of the major findings. Check the full version of the paper for more details: www.nature.com/articles/s41588-025-02248-5

It was nice to hear this story in the GRC conference. Glad it’s out.

🚨 Preprint alert 🚨 Excited to share our work on "Ab-trapping," an antibody artifact causing misleading peripheral ("rim") staining in imaging & genomics (IF, CUT&Tag, CUT&RUN). Antibodies fail to penetrate structures, accumulating at the periphery. A 🧵👇 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Paper out !!🥳big thanks to all authors @marliesoomen.bsky.social @diego-rt.bsky.social @kaessmannlab.bsky.social @jonathangoeke.bsky.social @lorenzamottes.bsky.social & 'bluesky-less' Lots of interesting new TE (& genes) biology Data fully browsable💻 👉 embryo.helmholtz-munich.de/shiny_embryo/

There has been a couple of manuscripts released regarding transcription factor footprinting - or digital genomic footprinting (DGF) as we call it. I would like to put some of the claims, results and conclusions in context, since I have worked and published on this for ~15 years. 1/n

Microscopy Nodes is now up on bioRxiv! 🚀 This is a Blender extension that seamlessly integrates and visualizes 3D microscopy data (TIF & @zarr.dev). High-quality volume rendering for anyone, in both EM and fluorescence, regardless of computational expertise! 🔬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...