6/ These four scientists made foundational contributions to developmental biology and human genetics, yet their work has often been minimised or attributed elsewhere. The Feature explores why, and what it means for how we tell the history of science. 🔗 buff.ly/eVipb6d

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.

4/ Ida Henrietta Hyde developed one of the first intracellular microelectrodes for stimulating and recording single cells. She opened new ways of studying nervous and circulatory systems, and became the first woman to receive a PhD in physiology from the University of Heidelberg.

3/ As a PhD student, Hilde Pröscholdt Mangold carried out the embryo transplantation experiments that demonstrated the organiser effect in newts. She performed more than 250 transplants, with only a handful surviving to provide the results that shaped the field.

2/ Ethel Browne Harvey’s experiments on hydra helped establish a key idea in developmental biology: that certain tissues can organise the development of an entire body plan. In 1909, she showed that grafting tissue from the mouth region could induce a second body axis.

1/ Today is UNESCO’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science #IDWGIS To mark the occasion, Lisa Thomann and Julie Batut highlight four pioneering biologists whose work shaped developmental biology, electrophysiology, and genetics. 🔗 buff.ly/eVipb6d

Feature Article in @elife.bsky.social about four women whose pioneering contributions to science have been largely overlooked. elifesciences.org/articles/110... (1/6)

Today is International Day of Girls and Women in Science. UNESCO show that women represent only 35% of STEM graduates around the world. We must stop losing so much talent that could improve the world for all www.unesco.org/en/articles/...

Feature Article in @elife.bsky.social about efforts to improve #ResearchCulture in the UK. The Researcher Development Concordat has led to improvements, but there is still more to do. (1/2) elifesciences.org/articles/110...

Feature article in @elife.bsky.social about the safelabs.info project

HARSH!!! One day you are the editor-in-chief of @nature.com Next, according to @science.org, you are an “Unaffiliated scholar, London, UK”

AI leads to surge in the number of letters being sent to scientific journals or, as one editor-in-chief puts it - “the mass production of junk”

Replication studies meet #metaresarch!! @vtraag.bsky.social and colleagues at @rorinstitute.bsky.social and elsewhere attempted to replicate two phenomena of interest to ECRs and funders: the Matthew effect and the early-career setback effect. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...; @elife.bsky.social

Webinar about the Brazilian Reproducibility Initiative next Friday. And you you cannot wait until then . . . . elifesciences.org/interviews/3...

How can we fix gender #inequality in #academia in 3 steps? Suggestions from our article in @elife.bsky.social with Gabriella Damasceno, @danielahoss.bsky.social, Alexandra Weyrich, a product of the iDiv Female Scientists initiative www.idiv.de/striving-for... elifesciences.org/articles/105...

Heading to #ASBMB25? Find us at stand 333 to talk about our publishing model and what we're doing for #OpenScience! At the stand, you'll find friendly faces Shane Alsop and Matthew Perkins, plus some exclusive eLife goodies. We hope to see you there!

Congratulations to the Brazilian Reproducibility Initiative on publishing “Estimating the replicability of Brazilian biomedical science”. Bottom line: replication rates varied between 15 and 45%

The results from the Brazilian Reproducibility Initiative have been published: Preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... In brief, 56 lab performed 143 replications of 56 experiments.

JUST SAY NO!! “Member states and the science community will feel that they are being locked into something like a 70-year mortgage, if they agree to go ahead,” says John Womersley [who is a former UK delegate to the CERN Council]. “Almost no one that I have spoken to thinks this is a good idea.”

Since the second world war, US economic prosperity and major technological developments have hinged upon the government’s commitment to funding scientific research. The Trump administration is ending that

Science Under Threat in the United States Science is under attack in the US. The new administration is terminating grants, preventing the review of new applications, and firing staff at funding agencies. How should the scientific community respond? elifesciences.org/collections/...

Also very pleased to have published this article by @stuartbuck.bsky.social on how to make science more efficient #standupforscience

Very pleased to have published this article by @abankston.bsky.social on the current situation in the United States #standupforscience

Science Under Threat in the United States A new series of articles in @elife.bsky.social Two more articles published today – seven articles in total elifesciences.org/collections/... #standupforscience

Very pleased to have published this article by Nick Gilpin on why the NIH is a sound investment for the US taxpayer #standupforscience

Very pleased to have published this article by @mayankchugh.bsky.social and his students #standupforscience

Very pleased to have published this article by @annagreene.bsky.social and @casey.greenelab.com #standupforscience

Science Under Threat in the United States A new series of articles in @elife.bsky.social Five articles published so far elifesciences.org/collections/... More articles coming tomorrow #standupforscience

1/ Today, we publish the first of seven articles in a series exploring ‘Science Under Threat in the United States’. The authors discuss what they describe as the Trump administration's "assault" on science and scientists, and what the response should be. #StandUpForScience

Science Under Threat in the United States A new series of articles in @elife.bsky.social First three articles published today More articles coming tomorrow and Thursday #standupforscience

Also very pleased to have published this article by @blekhman.bsky.social in the Science Under Threat in the United States series of articles in @elife.bsky.social

Nice to see the NIH funding crisis finally getting real news coverage. Stories from the last couple of days: PBS (3/22): www.pbs.org/newshour/sho... ABC News (3/23): abcnews.go.com/Health/scien... Wired (3/24): www.wired.com/story/the-ch... NY Times (3/24): www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/h...

The third of today's articles about "Science Under Threat in the United States" in eLife - this time by Nick Gilpin. There will be another two articles tomorrow and another two on Thursday

Another article in @elife.bsky.social about "Science Under Threat in the United States" - this time by @blekhman.bsky.social

Very pleased to have published this article by @vscooper.micropopbio.org in @elife.bsky.social

Very good article on @cern.bsky.social's plans for a Future Circular Collider. Curious to know how much the US and Japan might contribute to the massive cost of such a massive machine.

Lots of exciting content in the pipeline so please sign up now. And to see what we have published recently, just go to elifesciences.org/magazine

Good luck to everyone taking part in March Mammal Madness this year #2025MMM I have happy memories of working with @mammalssuck.bsky.social on this epic @elife.bsky.social article about MMM back in 2021 elifesciences.org/articles/65066

"Take me home, country toads" is my headline of the month Also, in case you were wondering how to compromise the magnetic-sensory system of a toad: "others had their magnetic-homing abilities temporarily scrambled by magnets glued to their heads"

I agree - well worth reading @alisongopnik.bsky.social on the parallels between AI and the classic children's story about stone soup

An excellent thread from @mammalssuck.bsky.social outlining the many benefits of National Science Foundation funding to individual researchers and to the wider world.

Was pleasantly surprised to see myself mentioned (though not by name) on page 12 of Steven Weinberg’s new memoir. He was referring to a news story I wrote for @physicsworld.bsky.social back in 2001 about the most-cited theorists in particle physics

The campaign by @scurry.bsky.social (aka the “Ballymena professor”) to get Elon Musk kicked out of the Royal Society has made it into the @belfasttelegraph.co.uk (sadly $) www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/norther...

In elifesciences.org/articles/106..., @englishse.bsky.social and colleagues discuss the advantages of working part-time, and outline what individuals, employers and funders can do to promote and support part-time working in academia. @elife.bsky.social

Thread from @behrenstimb.bsky.social, the new editor-in-chief of @elife.bsky.social

Lots of interesting material in this mega-thread by @jeremymberg.bsky.social, who was Editor-in-Chief of @science.org between 2016 and 2019. (1/4)

Congratulations to Tim Behrens (@behrenstimb.bsky.social) on being appointed as the new Editor-in-Chief of @elife.bsky.social. And best wishes to Detlef Weigel (@plantevolution.bsky.social) as he steps down after being Co-Editor-in-Chief with Tim.

Monica Bertagnolli, who is about to step down as director of the National Institutes of Health in the US, wrote quite a few op-eds in her relatively short tenure (1/2). www.nih.gov/about-nih/wh...

Very interesting article in which @ryanreedhill.bsky.social and Carolyn Stein use the Protein Databank to explore scooping. h/t @katiecorker.bsky.social and @mauriciolopes.bsky.social (1/4)

Unbelievable: "[. . .] in the preceding 2 months, three authors from one university in India had published “an astonishing 69 comments” in the journal. Nearly all of them appeared to be machine written" Excellent reporting by @science.org and @retractionwatch.com