SCIENCE UNDER THREAT Politicians have reduced public funding for science and dismantled scientific institutions in Argentina and the US. In @elife.bsky.social, @humbertodebat.bsky.social discusses how the scientific community should respond to such crises. elifesciences.org/articles/111...

Point of View: Science under threat around the world

Politicians have reduced public funding for science and dismantled scientific institutions for ideological reasons in Argentina and the United States; how should the scientific community respond to su...

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Curvature of membranes influences transfer of lipids in bilayers: Research article in @elife.bsky.social by @meineckelab.bsky.social: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... Insight article: elifesciences.org/articles/111...

Feature Article in @elife.bsky.social about #PeerReview. Article describes course module that teaches early-career researchers how to respond to reports from peer reviewers. elifesciences.org/articles/102...

Point of View: Teaching early-career researchers how to respond to peer reviewers

Responding to reports from peer reviewers is a crucial part of scientific publishing, but early-career researchers are rarely taught about this process.

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Does the brain really know what word is coming next? Insight article by @rjantonello.bsky.social about fascinating research article in @elife.bsky.social by @ines-schoenmann.bsky.social, @mheilbron.bsky.social and others. elifesciences.org/articles/111... elifesciences.org/articles/106...

Language Models: Does the brain really know what word is coming next?

Apparent neural encoding of future words may arise from the statistical structure of language itself, rather than from predictive computations in the brain.

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New Feature Article in @elife.bsky.social describes a module to teach postgrad students about responding to comments from referees during the peer review process. #ResearchPublishing #PeerReview elifesciences.org/articles/102... (1/2)

Point of View: Teaching early-career researchers how to respond to peer reviewers

Responding to reports from peer reviewers is a crucial part of scientific publishing, but early-career researchers are rarely taught about this process.

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New article in @elife.bsky.social describes an EASY WAY TO IMPROVE LAB MEETINGS @monteirotiago.bsky.social #researchculture elifesciences.org/articles/111...

Point of View: An easy way to improve lab meetings

Sharing positive and negative experiences at lab meetings can make a career in science a little less hard, a little more pleasant, and a little more human.

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Point of View: An easy way to improve lab meetings doi.org/10.7554/eLif... I'm really happy to see this one out @elife.bsky.social. Awesome Cara Glynn and I describe and reflect on a year-long, low-cost practice that transformed our group meetings. #researchculture #ECR #labmeetings

Point of View: An easy way to improve lab meetings

Sharing positive and negative experiences at lab meetings can make a career in science a little less hard, a little more pleasant, and a little more human.

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Making surrogates for microglia Articles in @elife.bsky.social explain how progenitor cells isolated from bone marrow can be converted into microglia-like cells. (1/2)

Microglia: Replacing the immune system of the brain

A new method enables engineered immune progenitor cells to replace microglia in mice and reveals how a genetic mutation can lead to inflammation in the brain.

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For International Women’s day: a recent Feature Article in @elife.bsky.social highlights four women whose pioneering contributions to science have been largely overlooked. Ethel Browne Harvey; Hilde Mangold; Ida Henrietta Hyde; Marthe Gautier #WomenInScience elifesciences.org/articles/110...

There’s more to light than meets the eye in Drosophila!!! Articles in @elife.bsky.social explain how an ancient photoreceptor that senses light outside of the retina can regulate how flies respond to a range of visual cues. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... elifesciences.org/articles/110...

How can moths navigate for THOUSANDS of kilometres in the dark? Read more in this research article and related Insight article about moths called fall armyworms in @elife.bsky.social: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... elifesciences.org/articles/110... Image credit: David Hobern CC BY 2.0

Thanks @berniefolan.bsky.social and @dacrotty.bsky.social In the first instance authors could decide that publication as a preprint is enough for thier purposes

Bernie Folan@berniefolan.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Thanks David. Glad I asked. Be good to hear if Peter has anything to add @drpeterrodgers.bsky.social ...

eLife’s Global South Committee is hosting a free webinar exploring Diamond Open Access, featuring a range of industry perspectives and highlighting successful implementations from around the world. Register free: elifesciences.org/events/94216...

📣 We are looking for others to replicate our work! 🔗 More information: nanobubbles.hypotheses.org/replication-...

Latest Feature Article in @elife.bsky.social e.bsky.social highlights four women whose pioneering contributions to science have been largely overlooked. Ethel Browne Harvey; Hilde Mangold; Ida Henrietta Hyde; Marthe Gautier #WomenInScience elifesciences.org/articles/110...

More articles on lab handbooks from @elife.bsky.social The SAFE Labs handbook: elifesciences.org/articles/108... Welcome to the lab: elifesciences.org/articles/79627 Why every lab needs a handbook: elifesciences.org/articles/88853

Dorsal Vagal Complex: A cell atlas to guide research into appetite control

An atlas of all the cell types in the dorsal vagal complex of rodents will help neuroscientists seeking to understand appetite and researchers working to design better drugs for the treatment of obesity and related disorders.

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Paul Guinnessy@paulguinnessy.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Lab handbooks, which lay out a research group’s ethos and practical guidelines, can head off confusion and conflicts before they begin and there's one you can download to get you started. It's also so important if you want to get your research replicated. #academia #labs

6/ These four scientists made foundational contributions to developmental biology and human genetics, yet their work has often been minimised or attributed elsewhere. The Feature explores why, and what it means for how we tell the history of science. 🔗 buff.ly/eVipb6d

5/ Marthe Gautier played a crucial role in identifying trisomy 21 as the cause of Down syndrome. Working with minimal institutional support, she built a cytogenetics laboratory from scratch and produced the preparations that revealed an extra chromosome in affected children.

4/ Ida Henrietta Hyde developed one of the first intracellular microelectrodes for stimulating and recording single cells. She opened new ways of studying nervous and circulatory systems, and became the first woman to receive a PhD in physiology from the University of Heidelberg.

3/ As a PhD student, Hilde Pröscholdt Mangold carried out the embryo transplantation experiments that demonstrated the organiser effect in newts. She performed more than 250 transplants, with only a handful surviving to provide the results that shaped the field.

2/ Ethel Browne Harvey’s experiments on hydra helped establish a key idea in developmental biology: that certain tissues can organise the development of an entire body plan. In 1909, she showed that grafting tissue from the mouth region could induce a second body axis.

1/ Today is UNESCO’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science #IDWGIS To mark the occasion, Lisa Thomann and Julie Batut highlight four pioneering biologists whose work shaped developmental biology, electrophysiology, and genetics. 🔗 buff.ly/eVipb6d

Feature Article in @elife.bsky.social about four women whose pioneering contributions to science have been largely overlooked. elifesciences.org/articles/110... (1/6)

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: Four women whose pioneering contributions to science have been largely overlooked

Ethel Browne Harvey, Hilde Pröscholdt Mangold, Ida Henrietta Hyde and Marthe Gautier all made important contributions to developmental biology, but their names are largely absent from histories of sci...

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Today is International Day of Girls and Women in Science. UNESCO show that women represent only 35% of STEM graduates around the world. We must stop losing so much talent that could improve the world for all www.unesco.org/en/articles/...

Advancing gender equality in STEM education: Inspiring girls to pursue

Women and girls remain underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), often due to persistent stereotypes and limited access to opportunities. Through education

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Feature Article in @elife.bsky.social about efforts to improve #ResearchCulture in the UK. The Researcher Development Concordat has led to improvements, but there is still more to do. (1/2) elifesciences.org/articles/110...

Research Culture: Going beyond compliance to build on the Researcher Development Concordat

An agreement between universities, research institutes and funders to support the career development of researchers in the UK has led to improvements in research culture since 2019, but there is still...

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Feature article in @elife.bsky.social about the safelabs.info project

Home - SAFE Labs

SAFE Labs Starting Aware Fair & Equitable Labs Welcome to SAFE Labs! SAFE Labs “Starting Aware Fair & Equitable Labs” is an initiative that started in 2024 by four new group leaders with a strong comm...

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eLife@elife.bsky.social · 8mo ago

A new community-driven lab handbook for reducing conflict and creating more positive and equitable work environments gets strong support from a survey of 200 researchers. buff.ly/K7CGFLV

HARSH!!! One day you are the editor-in-chief of @nature.com Next, according to @science.org, you are an “Unaffiliated scholar, London, UK”

AI leads to surge in the number of letters being sent to scientific journals or, as one editor-in-chief puts it - “the mass production of junk”

Jeffrey Brainard@jeffreybrainard.bsky.social · 9mo ago

A rapidly growing share of letters to journals may be drafted by machines, undetected by editors. Study quantifies recently ‘prolific debutante authors’ who had published no letters before 2022, when ChatGPT debuted. #academicjournals #peerreview @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

Replication studies meet #metaresarch!! @vtraag.bsky.social and colleagues at @rorinstitute.bsky.social and elsewhere attempted to replicate two phenomena of interest to ECRs and funders: the Matthew effect and the early-career setback effect. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...; @elife.bsky.social

Webinar about the Brazilian Reproducibility Initiative next Friday. And you you cannot wait until then . . . . elifesciences.org/interviews/3...

Reproducibility: How replicable is biomedical science in Brazil?

The results of a project to estimate the reproducibility of research in Brazil have just been published.

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Center for Open Science@cos.io · last yr.

📊🔬 What does replicability look like across a national sample of biomedical research? Learn about the Brazilian Reproducibility Initiative's findings, lessons learned, and implications for metascience and research reform in our upcoming webinar! 💻 Register: cos-io.zoom.us/webinar/regi...