In case you still thought Frontiers journals were reputable places to publish, read this. In my field there are a lot of solid non-profit and scientific society journals with appropriate standards, so why would I choose Frontiers?

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

Sitting around waiting for MCMC chains to converge must be the 21st century equivalent of watching paint dry.

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✅ Yes, more articles like this, PLEASE. Not (only) the specific take (which I like), but the honest attempt to clarify a disastrously dubious concept, using history, technical details, clear writing, rhetoric. 'Actually, what is a gain-of-function mutation?' academic.oup.com/genetics/art...

Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our "No AI" search page have tripled…and they’re still rising! Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox? Grab our No-AI extensions and banish AI-assisted answers, chat, and AI images. (1/3)

Did you know that parts of Europe hit 40°C this May? That's nearly 16°C above the typical spring average in places like London! These shocking satellite images reveal just how intense this heatwave has been. What does this mean for our climate? 🌍

Researchers have identified superparamagnetic macrophages in the livers of rock pigeons to be crucial for magnetic sensing. The finding uncovers an unexpected role for immune cells in sensory perception and may fundamentally change our understanding of animal navigation. https://scim.ag/4nTQ3nq

Wrote a short piece on Transposable Elements as catalysts of evolutionary innovation for a forthcoming special issue of @naturerevgenet.bsky.social on, duh, Evolutionary Innovation! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The @systbiol.bsky.social Mentorship Program is back for 2026-2027! The program pairs off mentees with mentors based on shared interests in systematics and biodiversity research. Low effort, high reward! 12 virtual monthly meetings. More info: www.systbio.org/mentorship-p... Apply by June 12th!

Excited to share the published version of MIC-Drop-seq @natcomms.nature.com! Shoutout to co-lead authors @claycarey.bsky.social @sparvez.bsky.social for driving this work. Excited to see where this new scale of single-cell perturbation screening goes next. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our paper on recurrent independent duplications in the primate amylase locus is now out in Cell Reports! Huge thanks to @petarpajic, @spit-lab.bsky.social and @gokcumenlab.bsky.social for their support. More about the work in the thread below from when we first shared the preprint last August.

Wong et al. present IQ-TREE version 3, with new features including mixture models, gene and site concordance factors, integration with phylogenomic divergence time estimation, and a fully featured sequence simulator. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag117 #evobio #molbio #compbio

🐭 Female mice develop male genitals when researchers modified both copies of non-coding Enh13, which controls Sox9 gene responsible for testes development in male mice. This suggests Enh13 acts as an enhancer and a silencer of Sox9, per Nature Communications study. #SciSky #MedSky 🧪

My new paper with @gdarlim.bsky.social and @hoehna.bsky.social is now out in Proceedings B! We set out to compare two different approaches to time-calibrate a molecular phylogeny: traditional node calibrations, and unresolved FBD... @royalsocietypublishing.org doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

The world’s largest sand battery got through Finland’s harshest winter in years. 2,000 tonnes of sand, heated to 500-600°C by cheap power, feeding district heating in Pornainen. And it worked. Result from one install: oil down 100%, emissions down 70%. Industrial process heat is the real prize.

🚨 Webinar tomorrow! The SEB OED Webinar on best practice in life sciences education is happening in less than 24h ⏳ 🎓 Dr Laura McCaughey 🎓 Dr Itumeleng Moroenyane 🆓 FREE & online 📅 20 May 2026 | 14:00–15:00 (UK) Last hours to register! www.sebiology.org/events/ems-e...

#Arctic air temperature rank by month over the satellite era - now updated through April 2026... + Ranks: 1=warmest (red), 47/48=coldest (blue) + Download higher resolution: zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe... + Data: doi.org/10.24381/cds...

DATA CENTERS "Data centers can increase surrounding surface temperatures by an average of 3.6°F, with extreme cases up to 16.4°F." Climate Disaster draining our aquifers THEY ARE GOING TO KILL US

In case you haven't been keeping track, a quick update. Nino 3.4 is now predicted to peak at roughly 3.6°C over the 1991-2020 baseline in late October or early November. Climate change is not good for children and other living things.

I love and respect this scientist. Carl Sagan answers a question about creation vs evolution.

One of the strongest El Niño's ever is building in the Pacific, it is where heat stored in the ocean is brought to the surface 2027 will be the warmest year ever because of it, and AVERAGE temperature records will be broken by 0.5c or more. It will be like 2037.

May is Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes (EDS) Awareness Month, which are heritable connective tissues disorders mainly characterized by unusually flexible joints, stretchy skin, & easy bruising 🦓 Due to their high genetic similarities with humans, #zebrafish are prime models to study the etiology of EDS. 1/3

Congratulations to Colin Brauner for the Fry Medal at #CSZ at #Carleton! www.csz2026.ca

@biologists.bsky.social's Sustainability Conferencing Officer Teo shares insights on 'Innovative ideas for the future of sustainable events', an essay competition which reveals a global perspective on how we can redesign academic events to minimise their environmental impact. doi.org/10.1242/bio....

A reminder that this is why we make fun of The Odyssey. The book would not exist if Odysseus was not such a complete chaos goblin who was busy causing problems for himself by arguing with Gods and being a shit navigator. There is no way to make an extremely serious movie out of this material.

This doesn't just apply to research, but also *leadership* at our universities. There are generations of young/midcareer and capable leaders still not getting a shot because of senior folks holding on in that context too...

Don’t reach for ChatGPT Images or Nano Banana as your first option when creating scientific images There are multiple free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations. #plantscience @stephenturner.us blog.stephenturner.us/p/free-open-...

...and we're on day two, and the trend continues. Including talks from #zebrafish labs. 6-8% of your audience - and of your reviewers - cannot see all the details you want to show in your data when you present pics with red-green LUTs. #ColorVision #WeTheColorBlind #WeinsteinConf2026🫀

JEB is proud to sponsor the @csz_sczCSZ 2026 meeting #cszscz2026 in Ottawa, 11-15 May, and has sponsored the CSZ Travel Grants, helping more than 60 ECRs attend the meeting csz2026.ca csz2026.ca/travel-and-c...

English may be the language of science, but scientists often speak other languages, so you are now welcome to include a translation of your submitted abstract in an additional language to make your research accessible to as many readers as possible journals.biologists.com/jeb/pages/jo...

Our latest stomach acid knockout paper is out! #stomach #omeprazole #fish Check it out at journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-...

If you're interested in the integrative biology of the gut, don't miss our fantastic special issue dedicated to the topic, edited by Carol Bucking, John Terblanche and Matthew Regan journals.biologists.com/jeb/issue/22... Read their introductory Commentary journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

🚨 Call for Nominations: @csz-sczofficial.bsky.social PDF Chair 🚨 Interested in standing for election? Send me a short blurb (~200 words) about yourself and why you'd like to be elected! Deadline is Sept 30. Don’t miss the chance to get involved!

At @patferreira.bsky.social's request, a box to incubate slides during immunostaining. Might be useful to other folks out there :)

In their Commentary, Ferreira & co explore the repeated evolutionary loss of the stomach in fishes, describe how this affects their digestion, discuss our current understanding of how the stomach helps digest proteins and highlight unresolved questions journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

I am very happy and grateful!!! 😊🐟🐡 Thank you so much for the opportunity to present this work and for the award! @sebiology.bsky.social @jexpbiol.bsky.social

SEB 2025 Young Scientist Award Session Finalist in Antwerp. LEFT-RIGHT President Gudrun De Boeck, Garfield Kwan, Patrícia Ferreira, Chandler Tsang and Animal Chair Felix Mark. Three excellent talks!

#seb2025 Here we go!

Patrícia Ferreira @patferreira.bsky.social in the Journal of Experimental Biology (@biologists.bsky.social) Early Career Research Spotlight. Check it out. journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Our stomach commentary is now out as part of the "Integrative Biology of the Gut’ special issue guest edited by Carol Bucking, Matt Regan and John Terblanche! Congratulations @patferreira.bsky.social ! A second look at the stomach – a fishy perspective url: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-...

Come meet the JEB Editors from 1-2pm 8 July in Marble Hall at the @sebiology.bsky.social 2025 conference & learn about all we do for our authors. It's also your first chance to pick up a FREE limited edition 2025 JEB T-shirt. #SEBconference

Winner of the best student oral presentation Hoar Award #PatríciaFerreira at CSZ! Congratulations!

64th Canadian Society of Zoologist annual meeting #CSZ in #Waterloo in one week's time. May 12-15 at #WilfridLaurierUniversity co-hosted with the #UniversityofWaterloo. More information at sites.google.com/view/csz-scz... 🐢🦅🦈🐿️🐸🐝🐙

1/ Hey y'all, I'm excited to share my latest paper, which is out now in PNAS! We introduce FAVA, a statistical framework to measure compositional variability across microbiome samples. If you want to measure variability across a stacked bar plot, FAVA is for you! Paper: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Great editorial from the editors-in-chief of all five CoB journals, including @dmmjournal.bsky.social

Goosebump producing news this week out of Oregon Health and Science University in the diagnosis of pancreatic CA. They developed a groundbreaking blood test, called PAC-MANN. This new test can find pancreatic cancer in just 45 minutes, even in its earliest stages.

Exiting the microscopy room

Early-career researchers going to the CSZ-SCZ meeting in Waterloo 12-15 May, make sure you register for this fantastic JEB sponsored SciComm Workshop, run by @this_is_brit & co, to learn how to communicate your research to a wider audience bit.ly/4gR2N94