Kicking off the Community for Rigor's C4R25 Conference -the only conference focused on scientific rigor! Join me on Monday, September 8 at the UPenn campus. REGISTER Today at c4r.io/conference<http://c4r.io/conference>

Have you wondered why mice don't have an impact factor? Here is a paper that explores how such a thing could be built! Do organisms need an impact factor? Citations of key biological resources including model organisms reveal usage patterns and impact August 13, 2025 doi.org/10.1371/jour...

...and the companion paper is actually out at the same time... Ten simple rules for leading a many-author non-empirical paper Tracey L. Weissgerber ,Natascha Drude,Rima-Maria Rahal,Friederike E. Kohrs Published: August 14, 2025 doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Paper just out! Ten simple rules for being a co-author on a many-author non-empirical paper Friederike E. Kohrs ,Natascha Drude,Anita Bandrowski,Tracey L. Weissgerber Published: August 14, 2025 doi.org/10.1371/jour...

This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered

A huge thanks to Anita Bandrowski of #SciCrunch & @rrids.bsky.social for the fantastic Deep Dive into Research Resource IDentifiers - #RRIDs. An increasing number of journals are requesting that researchers use RRIDs - particularly in #biomedicine. 📺 youtu.be/oAAvrFiDMoM #AcademicSky #opensource

We can easily solve the problem of LLM-generated nonsense papers by requiring them to be typeset on a typewriter, with hand-written equations, and submitted to journals by mail.

#FossilFuelsMachineryTurboChargingExtremeWeatherEvents #TexasFloods

This lovely paper argues that authors should adopt #RRIDs and other standard Persistent Identifiers for all life sciences studies, thank you! We could not have said it better! doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

@bioxcell.bsky.social are you notified when we post from @rridrobot.bsky.social about your antibodies?

#MedicaidCutsKillUs Medicaid is not just for those in poverty, which is so important. It funds most nursing home care, 40% of births, and 38% of children's health care. Tell the Republicans in Congress not to cut Medicaid to fund billionaire tax breaks!

The videos for the presentations given at our "Cell lines in the 21st century symposium" are now available on YouTube, They are listed on our educational resource page: https://www.cellosaurus.org/educational_resources.html

Bernie Sanders made a surprise appearance at Coachella 2025 last night. So he went from the LA rally to Coachella. He's 83 and fighting like this. This should be an inspiration to all of us. If he can do this, we can all do a little more.

The April (and #AACR25) issue of Cancer Discovery is now online! The cover features work by Ling Cai, Nia Hammond, @faubert.bsky.social, @rjdlab.bsky.social & colleagues showing high glucose contribution to the TCA cycle is a feature of aggressive NSCLC - more here: aacrjournals.org/cancerdiscov...

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The former ambassador to Denmark for the United States, Rufus Gifford, posted this video on his Facebook account: Ht: @hpsc24.bsky.social

Daily Reminder: Social Security is OUR money, an EARNED benefit!

Have you ever wondered why information in tables is so difficult to pull out of PDF files? Our paper on this topic was just released by the journal of BigDataMining, which may have editors who do not pass the Turning test, but at the reviewers were great. Thank You! doi.org/10.1186/s130...

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Dear Prime Minister Trudeau, Many 🇺🇸 living in border states with 🇨🇦 wish us to become your southernmost province. This sentiment reflects our admiration for the values and stability that Canada represents, in contrast to the dictatorial tendencies of our current government. Sincerely, Dr. Len

This is the way. Write your pension fund, school, city comptroller and demand divestment from Tesla.

If Russia wants peace, they should end the invasion.

eLife and SciScore Partner to Enhance Rigor and Reproducibility in Scientific Publishing Together, we will leverage our advanced AI-driven tool to assess scientific manuscripts against strict research standards. #SciScore #eLife #ResearchReproducibility world.einnews.com/article/7908...

#LoveMethods25 is coming in two weeks. 🔬 Love Methods Week 2025 – Putting Methods like #RRID in the Spotlight! ❤️ ✅ Document your methods with precision – to maximize reusability, transparency, and visibility ➡ Choose from 17 different session and register here: www.bihealth.org/de/aktuell/l...

A few seats remain open for the 2025 NEURON Spring Course (registration deadline is 2/28; 3/9-3/15 at Arizona State) Course: introduction to computational modeling of neurons and networks with NEURON. For more information and the on-line application form, see www.neuron.yale.edu/phpBB/viewto...

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SciScore and @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social Launch New Key Resource Tables for Preprints, Pioneering a New Era of Reproducibility and Transparency in Life Science Research world.einnews.com/article/7829... cc @chanzuckerberg.bsky.social

SciCodes (scicodes.net) is holding a half-day symposium on April 9, 2025 & you're invited! scicodes.github.io/workshop-202... We invite the research software engineering (RSEng), funder, & science communities to reflect on long term visions & aspirations for research s/w & computational science.

@oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy we are getting @rridrobot.bsky.social up and running again. please let us know which hashtags you will amplify. #openaccess?

Come work with us @cmulibraries.bsky.social - we’re hiring for a postdoc in evidence synthesis. www.linkedin.com/posts/cmu-li...

"If you find yourself thinking globally, developing a passion for persistent identifiers because they allow deeper interoperability [...] then research infrastructure is for you."

@addgene.bsky.social, the RRID thank you robot is back

A paper using RRID:Addgene_113689 was just published in Journal of Neuroinflammation see "Therapeutic reduction of neurocan in murine intracerebral hemorrhage lesions promotes oligodendrogenesis and functional recover…". Thank you for making your methods matter! #methodsmatter #reproducibility

RRID:SCR_022491 was used by the authors of the eLife paper "Impairment of lipid homeostasis causes lysosomal accumulation of endogenous protein aggregates through ESCRT disruption". Thank you for making your methods matter! #RRID #OpenScience

RRID:CVCL_0045 was used by the authors of the Nature Communications paper "Enhanced motivated behavior mediated by pharmacological targeting of the FGF14/Nav1.6 complex in nucleus accumbens neurons". We appreciate the author's support of reproducibility. #methodsmatter #STMpublishing

RRID:IMSR_JAX:001803, was just reported to be used in "A surrogate ELISA to select high titer human convalescent plasma for treating immunocompromised patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 variants of concer…". We appreciate the author's support of reproducibility. #methodsmatter #STMpublishing

Let’s never forget who came to our aid…and who has done nothing but spew lies and threats.

@SciScore is mentioned in the scholarly kitchen today! Thank you for the shout out, @philjones.bsky.social, and yes indeed the publishers have indeed now got various options for checking manuscript integrity and while confusing, it is indeed a good problem to have. #researchintegrity #openscience

Exciting #RRID news! We are now part of the #DataCite metadata schema. Yes you can use RRIDs to start tracking the datasets (#DOI) associated with your database (#RRID).

Announcing DataCite Metadata Schema 4.6 - DataCite https://datacite.org/blog/announcing-datacite-metadata-schema-4-6/

Have to wonder if the media has seen any of this? 🤔

SERVICE UPDATE We normally don't ask you to "share like and subscribe" but please distribute this. You are now able to delete the link after it embeds on your post so you can get those precious extra characters, and we will catch your post mentioning research. #AcademicSky #Medsky #HigherEd

Behavior-Anotomy Correlation Maps. These fly brains throw a few curve balls... @CellPressNews #RRID sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Great blog post by Anita Bandrowski and @amandafrench.net about persistent identifiers (PIDs) for research facilities, and when to use an RRID or ROR identifier. This is critical for giving core facilities credit for the important work they do. @abrf.bsky.social ror.org/blog/2024-11...

@rrids.bsky.social just posted a new blog clarifying how to use RRIDs and RORs for facilities. If you wonder how each of these persistent identifiers can help you, please see www.rrids.org/news/2024/11...

BICCN: 🧪 The first complete cell census and atlas of a mammalian brain www.nature.com/immersive/d4... Generating a complete multimodal cell census and atlas of the mouse brain through collaborative data collection, tool development and analysis.