"I still love what I do,” she said. “But it’s time to step aside and make resources available for the up-and-coming junior people who want to do what I do, especially right now" news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Award-winning biologist Connie Cepko set to retire  — Harvard Gazette

After decades of advancing work on vision-threatening disease, she passes the torch to scientific successors.

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“move from preprint to peer-reviewed publication leaves the central claims of most abstracts intact, indicating preprints are a reliable source…papers that were never posted as preprints were retracted at roughly twice the rate of those that were…” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Tracking claim changes from preprint to publication across 72,644 biomedical studies using large language models

Preprints now disseminate a large share of biomedical research before peer review. Because they have not yet passed peer review, some scientists regard preprint claims as unverified or potentially unr...

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❌ Myth: Posting a preprint leads to my work being scooped. ✅️ Truth: Preprints establish your priority with a timestamped, citable record, reducing the risk of scooping by proving you were the first to share your findings.

Preprint myth busting: If I post a preprint I might get scooped

In this ASAPbio Myth-Busting video, we address a common fear in research publishing: “Will posting a preprint lead to my work being scooped?” The reality may surprise you! Preprints establish your…

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The Amamoto Lab at Massachusetts Eye and Ear, in the heart of Boston, is hiring a lab technician! If you recently graduated (or are about to) with your Bachelor's degree and are interested in retinal degeneration or development, please reach out! Our website: www.amamotolab.com

Amamoto Lab at MEE/HMS

Amamoto Lab, led by Ryoji Amamoto, PhD, at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Harvard Medical School, studies the molecular mechanisms of retinal degeneration, photoreceptor outer segment development, and ...

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Funders and organizations worldwide are uniting around a shared commitment to open science, and you can be part of it! By using, aligning with, and endorsing the Preprint Policy Framework, your organization can join a global movement advancing early research sharing and open preprint practices.

I’m hiring a research tech to join my lab! Anyone interested can reach out to me for more information. This is a good opportunity for someone looking to expand their research skills prior to graduate school. mcw.wd503.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

I'm excited to share our PNAS paper from 1st author Kasia Hussey. We study how the foveola, the high acuity region of the retina, is patterned by RA and TH. We were surprised to find that cone subtypes appear to convert fates. Our studies are important for AMD sufferers. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A cell fate specification and transition mechanism for human foveolar cone subtype patterning | PNAS

In the central region of the human retina, the high-acuity foveola is notable for its dense packing of green (M) and red (L) cones and absence of b...

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📣Calling on all researchers interested in meta-research (practices, policies & infrastructure on open science and scholarship, e.g., preprints, open access, open education, research impact). Join ASAPbio Crowd Preprint Review and contribute to collaborative preprint review. buff.ly/ebvab9l

Crowd Preprint Review – ASAPbio

Join ASAPbio's community of preprint reviewers to provide valuable feedback on life science research and help advance open science.

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Cholinergic signaling modulates intestinal pathophysiology in a drosophila model of cystic fibrosis. Lane EA, Petsakou A, Liu Y, Chen W, Qadiri M, Hu Y, Perrimon N. PLoS Genet. 2026 Feb 17;22(2):e1012048. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1012048. Online ahead of print. PMID: 41701793

📣 Join us on March 5th for the Community Call, where we'll discuss the ins and outs of doing open peer review as part of a team. 🤝 ASAPbio and @prereview.bsky.social staff will discuss peer review crowds and clubs, PREreview platform & more. Register 👇️ buff.ly/5I0wC4l

Crowd Preprint Review activities are about to start, but you can still join! We invite cell biologists and meta-researchers to sign up as Crowd Preprint Reviewers. The program will help you to: ✴️develop your reviewing skills ✴️support trust in preprints Learn more and sign up:

Crowd Preprint Review – ASAPbio

Join ASAPbio's community of preprint reviewers to provide valuable feedback on life science research and help advance open science.

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Good news from NIH! Michael Chiang has apparently been reappointed as Director of the National Eye Institute www.nei.nih.gov/about/our-mi...

Looking forward to promoting preprinting!

ASAPbio@asapbio.bsky.social · 7mo ago

We would like to extend a warm welcome to the six new members of the ASAPbio Board of Directors! Let's welcome @amamotoryoji.bsky.social, @jeremymberg.bsky.social, Stefano Bertozzi, @nataschachtena.bsky.social, @rnls.bsky.social, and @csmarcum.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy!

We are hiring! The Wattrus lab at MGH is seeking talented postdoc applicants to join our group and study differences in regeneration and wound healing across species using fish models. We are a fun group - come and join us! Fishy friends, please spread the word! #zebrafish #medaka #zebrafishjobs