Ultraprocessed foods: way more complex than portrayed👇 UPFs & obesity: Interpreting the evidence www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... "...available randomized controlled trials provide weak support for an ultraprocessing-specific effect of UPFs on body weight regulation & cardiometabolic function..."

I have often been critical of the leadership @aaas.org but they just took action on the new OMB rules that will politicize science, speaking out and notifying members. I hope all take the time to follow their advice, contact Congress, and most important, post a comment www.aaas.org/news/aaas-st...

Correction: We have replaced the 14 May cover illustration, which was originally created using AI tools, a policy violation that we did not detect. The new illustration, based on the author’s concept, was created in-house without the use of AI. Learn more: scim.ag/4uyK6Ph

A U.S. federal mandate to make scholarly papers free to read could triple the government’s bill for publishing fees to $937 million by 2030—an increase most research agencies aren’t prepared for, says a report released by Congress’s spending-watchdog agency. https://scim.ag/3Q3y29F

"Science is not simply a sequence of tasks that can be optimized....The scientific system thrives on inefficiency: redundant efforts, failed attempts, and divergent paths. These are not costs to be eliminated but sources of discovery." Excellent essay! ⬇️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I am so excited to share our new findings with you! We provide the structural evidence for a direct protein-to-DNA information pathway, showing how a bacterial enzyme 'reads' its own structure to 'write' DNA. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We provided recommendations in advance of this week’s House Science hearing on research integrity concerns in scientific publishing. Read our letter to learn how we propose expanding research access while reinforcing research integrity: www.aaas.org/news/aaas-le...

Congratulations to @meredithwadman.bsky.social and @cohenjon.bsky.social, who were named finalists for the 2026 @nihcm.bsky.social’s Trade Journalism Award. 🏆 Check out the nominated stories here: bit.ly/NIHCM2026TJA... #NIHCMAwardsJournalism

Appreciate the shout out to my @science.org essay in @axios.com The Trump admin is not engaged in AI deregulation. Heavy-handed regulation is occurring—just not the kind that addresses growing public concern about AI harms or has been subject to open democratic debate www.axios.com/2026/03/13/a...

Editors-in-Chief address tough questions facing scientific journals www.aaas.org/news/editors...

One reason for loving science is how graciously we sometimes deal with errors. www.science.org/doi/full/10....

🎉 Congratulations to Meha Jain, winner of the inaugural ASU–Science Prize for Transformational Impact, for pioneering work that uses satellite data and artificial intelligence to help smallholder farmers adapt to climate change while protecting the environment. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3McGb9K

We have a new paper in Science today on how malicious AI swarms can threaten democracy. AI systems can already coordinate autonomously, infiltrate communities, and fabricate social consensus. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Led by @kunstjonas.bsky.social & @daniel-thilo.bsky.social!

How are journals responding to new pressures on the scientific enterprise? Join the SciPak team at the AAAS Annual Meeting for a briefing with the Editors-in-Chief of 3 journals to discuss how they're refining editorial practices to strengthen rigor & transparency. meetings.aaas.org/attend-phx/r...

The rarest of sights - a big glossy journal publishing negative replications! Yes, we had to bundle 4 replications into one article AND we had to wait 2 (!!) years in peer review, but here we are: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

What should we focus on in the next chapter of public access history? In this two-part story out this week on @aaas.org's site, I argue that what’s crucial now is building channels of meaning in open scientific literature (and in all scientific literature). www.aaas.org/news/next-fr...

Man, I love the sciences and Science Magazine (@science.org). If you can, give to the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Science needs funding. Science needs the advocacy and scholarship that AAAS provides. You can help. www.aaas.org/membership/w...

📢Our new paper is out in @science.org #ScienceTranslationalMedicine 📢 Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a leading cause of blindness. Patients show vascular changes in their retinas long before vision starts to deteriorate. What triggers these early defects? Could targeting them prevent vision loss? 🧵

The team is already working to expand the platform’s abilities, including testing in clinically relevant immune and stem cells, and engineering future versions of the system that can rearrange sequences beyond one megabase. Learn more in the full paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🌉 Patrick Hsu’s Lab reports the discovery and engineering of the bridge recombinase ortholog ISCro4 for universal rearrangements of the human genome. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

@heatherstaines.bsky.social and @meagan-g-phelan.bsky.social checking in on Meagna's keynote at @scholarlypub.bsky.social's New Directions Seminar focused on the critical intersection of science, politics, and public trust. #Trust #Evidence #Scholarship #Science #ScholComm

Can ChatGPT help science writers? | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/blog...

During #PeerReviewWeek, @science.org heard from individual authors who talked about how peer review strengthened their work, making it functionally richer, more accessible, more pointed regarding limitations--sometimes in collaboration with preprint review. See author posts in thread below. 🧵

Increasing the breadth of researchers trained as peer reviewers is crucial to upholding quality in academic publishing. Last year, the Science journals began a pilot in which invited peer reviewers could add trainees as co-reviewers, with more than 2200 scientists participating. #PeerReviewWeek

yep - and in some ways Science did this with the technical comments. but none of this is evident in the citation, PubMed record, search result, PDF, etc. unless the paper is formally retracted

The 2010 paper claiming arsenic-based life has been retracted by Science today. 🧪

We won the #Frontiersplanetprize in the national category of Germany for breakthrough in sustainability with our gravel pit study in #science www.igb-berlin.de/news/robert-...

National Champion #Frontiersplanetprize for our gravel pit lake study in @science.org. So proud to be part of this amazing team and huge congrats to you Robert for your encouraging lead of this project. The original paper: doi.org/10.1126/scie... @leibnizigb.bsky.social @svenmatern.bsky.social

If you love #viruses, #ribosomes, and genomic #darkmatter, this thread is for you!! 💫 We're excited to share our new publication developing Massively Parallel Ribosome Profiling (MPRP), which uncovered ~4,000 hidden proteins in ~700 viral genomes. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Healthy people have an intrinsic tendency to form antibodies against a peanut allergen, Ara h 2, despite having different genetic backgrounds, according to a new study. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Downs et al. have developed a data-assimilation technique to simulate the Sun's corona. Satellite observations are incorporated on the fly and model predictions update hourly, akin to weather forecasting. They applied the method to the 2024 total solar eclipse. 🔭🧪☀️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The faces of people behind a real breakthrough in the prevention of HIV infection. Congratulations! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Congratulations to Wes Sundquist, chair of the @utah.edu Department of Biochemistry, and collaborators for receiving the @aaas.org Mani L. Bhaumik Breakthrough of the Year Award for their work on lenacapavir. www.aaas.org/news/road-le...

The #EPICawards from the Society for Scholarly Publishing recognize and celebrate remarkable teams and individuals in the publishing, information technology, and communications sectors. This year at #SSP2025, Science took home three awards. 🏆 (THREAD 🧵)

“We are global leaders [in science],” France Córdova said. “We should be proud of that. But we didn’t get here by accident. It has taken nearly a century of effort — and it can be undone much faster than we think.” www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

Is it "good" or "bad" when skilled people leave low-income countries? We summarized the evidence in favor of "brain gain" vs. "brain drain": www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.... Ungated PDF: johanneshaushofer.com/research

“The clinical trials would never have been as successful as they were had it not been for Yvette Raphael,” said @holdenthorp.bsky.social. www.aaas.org/news/road-le...

Did you hear? You can now listen to audio narrations of our #NewsfromScience stories. 🎧 Check out this new tool on a story about the oldest ant fossil ever found: scim.ag/44PK0IY

Yvette Raphael, Gilead Sciences—with special recognition of Moupali Das—and Wesley Sundquist have been awarded the Mani L. Bhaumik Breakthrough of the Year Award for their work on HIV drug lenacapavir. www.aaas.org/news/road-le...

“These individuals represent the three arms of what is necessary to create new science and then translate it for the world...to make a difference,” said @meganranney.bsky.social, part of the committee — convened by @holdenthorp.bsky.social — that selected the winners. www.aaas.org/news/road-le...

🎉 Science is excited to be a finalist in three categories for @scholarlypub.bsky.social’s 2025 #EPICawards: Short Form Content for #ScienceAdviser, Social Presence for #ScienceMagazine Instagram, and Podcast for the #SciencePodcast🎙️.

Today @science.org's Science Magazine print edition has a new look! It's been 11 years since our last print redesign, & we're thrilled to launch this latest iteration. You can see aspects of the redesigned print version starting w/ the cover, highlighted at the end of the animation below:

This week in Science, researchers delve into the #mathematics that shapes growing rose petals. 🌹 Explore our latest issue—featuring a new print design: scim.ag/42DasUT

"It’s time to stop using this shorthand and make clear what [scientific consensus] really means," said @holdenthorp.bsky.social. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Hot off the Science press - soil multifunctionality under both organic and conventional farming is enhanced by less intensive management. With colleagues at @niooknaw.bsky.social and @soilsclusterwur.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....

So, you remember that dress that no one could agree on what color it was (it was white and gold)? We got a new one for these. This study argues there is now a new color (olo) that apparently no human has seen before, and it might not be possible for everyone to see. 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This paper is the result of >20 yrs of hard work by talented students, postdocs and collaborators, but none more than my co-author Ren Ng and his team in EECS. 1/n Novel color via stimulation of individual photoreceptors at population scale | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Another great piece from Danielle Allen. We’re not going to win back hearts and minds by saying just trust us. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...