To put it bluntly: I don't care why you care. Why should I care?

Chronically infected hosts transmit sleeping sickness at parasite loads too low for quorum sensing. How? Glycerol from skin adipocytes primes T.brucei slender forms for tsetse infection. Congrats & thank you for working with @lifescienceeditors.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Kudos to @science.org for this self-analysis of the peer review process. These kind of data are never shared and don't have to be. Wildly refreshing to see it out in the open. Editorial and peer review dynamics at elite general science journals | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Editorial and peer review dynamics at elite general science journals

Analyses of deidentified data reveal complex interactions that quantify success at elite general science journals.

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To those of you who claim "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger", I'd like to counter with "...or weaker, or not meaningfully different, depending on the context", despite it making the conclusions more suitable for a specialized journal.

@angelaandersen.bsky.social - Watch out for our blog today. It answers some of your questions.👀

Peer review or wealth review—hard to tell these days.

57,455 @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social preprints in a year. The question is - 'which do I read?' Scores like @qedscience.bsky.social the 1% are one answer. That being said, when the top 1% still skews to big, well-funded teams the model never saw, are we ranking quality or resources?

Pixar make this buddy movie

Stephen West@stephenwest.bsky.social · last mo.

spotted in the wild - artifacts of three dying communication systems

My husband said "imagine if they'd put that much energy into a real job" Beetle grows ‘termite’ on back to steal food | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Beetle grows ‘termite’ on back to steal food

Puppet helps insect trick real termites into feeding it

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Celebrating our partnership with @huntsmancancer.bsky.social, which we hope inspires others. 🎉 10 scientists. Expert editorial support. $16.8k invested in science communication. Is your department next? @lifescienceeditors.bsky.social

An extraordinary example of the kind of original, technically powerful science The 1% was created to surface by @angelaandersen.bsky.social & her team, Congratulations! 🎉

Angela Andersen@angelaandersen.bsky.social · last mo.

For the first time, we can see individual mRNAs in 3D inside cells at nm precision. Their shapes vary by gene and subcellular location. Congrats @fbzt.bsky.social & team @impvienna.bsky.social Top 1% @qedscience.bsky.social Edited by @lifescienceeditors.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Brenner, Crick, Jacob and Monod (and Meselson and Watson and and…) would be amazed.

Angela Andersen@angelaandersen.bsky.social · last mo.

For the first time, we can see individual mRNAs in 3D inside cells at nm precision. Their shapes vary by gene and subcellular location. Congrats @fbzt.bsky.social & team @impvienna.bsky.social Top 1% @qedscience.bsky.social Edited by @lifescienceeditors.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Poised chromatin is a latent vulnerability exploited by noncoding variants & can be used to predict where new variants will have an effect. @evgenykvon.bsky.social @ucirvine.bsky.social Top 1% @qedscience.bsky.social Edited by @lifescienceeditors.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Enhancer Poising Enables Pathogenic Gene Activation by Noncoding Variants

Single nucleotide variants within enhancers—non-coding DNA elements that regulate transcription—often lead to aberrant gene activation and contribute to a wide range of genetic disorders ([Claussnitze...

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For the first time, we can see individual mRNAs in 3D inside cells at nm precision. Their shapes vary by gene and subcellular location. Congrats @fbzt.bsky.social & team @impvienna.bsky.social Top 1% @qedscience.bsky.social Edited by @lifescienceeditors.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Super-resolved imaging of mRNA ultrastructure in cells

Messenger RNA (mRNA) is a central polymer of gene expression, whose ultrastructure and defining regulatory rules remain unclear. To visualize the ultrastructure of mRNA, we here develop Combi-PAINT, a...

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One more day left to vote - please help us see what tools you use! Thx!

Angela Andersen@angelaandersen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hello Scientists! What's your go-to tool for writing scientific manuscripts? Please answer on this poll, and please share! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Hello Scientists! What's your go-to tool for writing scientific manuscripts? Please answer on this poll, and please share! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

We work with scientists across every discipline, and we're curious: what does your writing workflow actually look like? Cast your vote and tell us in the comments if you mix tools or have a strong...

We work with scientists across every discipline, and we're curious: what does your writing workflow actually look like? Cast your vote and tell us in the comments if you mix tools or have a strong opi...

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Hey #postdocs - great opportunity to learn manuscript evaluation skills from former journal editors Heather Van Epps (PLOS Medicine, The Lancet journals) and Carol Featherstone (Trends in Cell Biology). To review or not to review, that is the question! www.lifescienceeditors.com/workshop-sig...

Congratulations to Yasushi Hirota & all the authors on this fascinating discovery! A beautiful reminder that oxygen tension is a powerful and underappreciated regulator of normal physiology. My colleague Carol Featherstone was delighted to work on this manuscript. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

HIF2α-induced lysyl oxidase safeguards successful pregnancy by remodelling collagens at the feto-maternal interface - Cell Death & Disease

Cell Death & Disease - HIF2α-induced lysyl oxidase safeguards successful pregnancy by remodelling collagens at the feto-maternal interface

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Coming this Friday!

Life Science Editors@lifescienceeditors.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Please repost! There's a few spots left on our Journal Editor Training Workshop (March 20) for PhD students and Post-docs wondering what the next step in their scientific career might be. 👇 Taught by our former journal editors. www.lifescienceeditors.com/workshop3-si...

Happening FRIDAY! Meet Natascha Bushati & Heather Van Epps to talk about the job of a journal editor and how to position yourself as a strong candidate. They have decades of experience at journals like Nat Comm, NCB, and The Lancet. Secure your spot! www.lifescienceeditors.com/workshop3-si...

My first ever podcast interview 😉 Thank you @oliverbogler.bsky.social for supporting the Life Science Editors Foundation and our mission to achieve equity in the scientific community. It was fun to chat with you and Brandi Mattson about the JEDI awards. tinyurl.com/3nffv6dx

Standard Deviation S2 EP1: Gatekeepers of the Ivory Tower

Science likes to call itself a meritocracy. Angela Anderson and Brandi Mattson know better. Both served as editors at elite journals (Cell and Neuron), where a sing…

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We've extended the deadline to MARCH 15! If you have a manuscript, short grant proposal, or job application & want a fresh, unbiased, and informed perspective & belong to an underrepresented group - PLEASE APPLY! We want to support you! Please share far & wide 😊https://lifescienceeditors.org/apply/

Please repost! There's a few spots left on our Journal Editor Training Workshop (March 20) for PhD students and Post-docs wondering what the next step in their scientific career might be. 👇 Taught by our former journal editors. www.lifescienceeditors.com/workshop3-si...

Works for manuscripts and grants too. Have word read aloud. You'll catch every typo and clunky phrase.

The Author, Séamas O'Reilly@seamas.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Have said this before in other forms, but will reiterate it here: if you're doing long-form writing of any sort, reading the words aloud into a microphone is a completely unparalleled cheat code. It's free, easy, and so effective it feels like it shouldn't be allowed. I do it in a few stages...

Please check out our new preprint! Using single cell analysis paired with HCR to visualize transcript localization we have identified cell and tissue-specific expression of various genes encoding tubulins, kifs, and dyneins during neural crest development!

bioRxiv Developmental Biology@biorxiv-devbio.bsky.social · 5mo ago

A spatial and temporal atlas of tubulin isotype expression during neural crest EMT https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.04.709627v1

Well this is freaking cool!

Karim Majzoub@karimaj.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We found a viral Trojan Horse: a virus can hide inside another virus.This one surprised us: deltaviruses don’t just borrow a helper virus. They can travel inside it. A literal Trojan Horse “virus-in-a-virus” route into cells. 🤯 Kudos to 1st author @viroscope.bsky.social and co-authors !

Spring ice melt #flowing in a Swiss mountain valley #blueskyartshow #photography

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26 NO - 41% YES - 38% UNSURE - 21%

We found a viral Trojan Horse: a virus can hide inside another virus.This one surprised us: deltaviruses don’t just borrow a helper virus. They can travel inside it. A literal Trojan Horse “virus-in-a-virus” route into cells. 🤯 Kudos to 1st author @viroscope.bsky.social and co-authors !

Deltaviruses spread through a viral Trojan Horse

Hepatitis D-like satellite viruses, known as deltaviruses, have been recently discovered in a wide range of animals. These viruses are thought to expr…

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