Gutted not to be up in Warwick for #HumanDev26 - having been at every one of @dev-journal.bsky.social's human development meetings so far, this is a real wrench. But it was great to help initiate the collaboration with HDBI on this event, and I'm excited to hear all about it over the next few days!

Development@dev-journal.bsky.social · 2w ago

@dev-journal.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social, Editors Liz Robertson and Peter Rugg-Gunn, and Executive Editor @amjeve.uk will be at @warwickuni.bsky.social for #HumanDev26 from 7-9 September 2026. If you’re also there, do chat with them about your next paper.

New on @the-node.bsky.social - an important post on the practical challenges faced by researchers with disabilities and chronic illnesses, and on how the #disabledinSTEM network supports this community to help overcome these. Thanks Alyssa for writing this. @disabledinstem.bsky.social

@jcellsci.bsky.social is looking to recruit an enthusiastic & motivated Reviews Editor. This is an exciting opportunity for a talented scientific editor to make a significant contribution to an important journal in the field of cell biology. Apply by 3 September. www.biologists.com/about-us/wor...

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At the end of October, we will be launching the PRC Alliance to bring together like-minded organizations, share knowledge, and accelerate the adoption of the PRC model.🤝 Follow us to learn more! More about the PRC model and the PRC Alliance👇 publish-review-curate.org/what-is-publ...

What is PRC?

The Publish, Review, Curate (PRC) model re-imagines scholarly publishing by breaking the traditional publishing process into three distinct, independently executable stages: publish, review, and cu…

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How are you using AI tools in manuscript preparation, peer review and literature search/summarisation? Help shape our future policies in this area by filling in this survey - your feedback is much appreciated!

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We are gathering feedback from our readers, authors and reviewers about the use of AI tools in scholarly publishing. Have your say at: www.surveymonkey.com/r/ZBFC663

Planning to attend the upcoming Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting at @ucsantacruz.bsky.social from 24-28 August? Editor @kenposs.bsky.social and Reviews Editor @ingridtsang.bsky.social will be there and would love to chat about your next @dev-journal.bsky.social paper.

This is the end of the era for the Company and for me personally. I'm probably quite unusual in having had the same manager for almost 15 years, but I've never stopped learning from her. I'll miss her guidance and support hugely.

The Company of Biologists@biologists.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Our CEO, Claire Moulton, is retiring this week. We will miss Claire’s leadership – her enthusiasm and innovative approach have supported the Company through many major projects – but we wish her all the best for her well-deserved retirement. www.biologists.com/stories/a-bi...

And thanks to all the great @biologists.bsky.social Directors, who give their time and expertise so generously to make The Company of Biologists the great #NotForProfit #Publisher that it is

Mark Peifer (He, him)@peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 3mo ago

At Heathrow hopefully heading home. Great @biologists.bsky.social Board meeting. Fun to be a small part of the team that makes @jcellsci.bsky.social , @jexpbiol.bsky.social , @dev-journal.bsky.social, @dmmjournal.bsky.social & @biologyopen.bsky.social happen. Choose society &non-profit journals!

If you are attending BaCell3D (@bacell3d.bsky.social) from 22-24 June in Basel, Switzerland, Reviews Editor @ingridtsang.bsky.social will also be there. Don't forget to chat to Ingrid about @dev-journal.bsky.social and @the-node.bsky.social.

As Editor of @dev-journal.bsky.social I get asked "What are you doing about your impact factor?" In our new editorial we say: Ask not what Dev can do for the impact factor. Ask what you can do for Dev's IF The IF is about how we all cite, review & assess each other's work doi.org/10.1242/dev....

The elephant in the room: impact factor

Summary: This Editorial offers an honest look at impact factor trends in developmental biology, explains how Development serves its community, and makes the case that sustaining developmental biology ...

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Alex and James have done a great job here in articulating the conflicting issues we face with the dreaded Impact Factor. We all know it’s a highly flawed metric for so many reasons, but its influence is so pervasive across the research ecosystem that it’s hard to completely ignore it.

Alex Eve@amjeve.uk · 3mo ago

Journal impact factors were released yesterday. In our latest @dev-journal.bsky.social Editorial, @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social and I discuss how we are all architects of impact, highlighting that measuring the influence and support journals provide goes beyond a single number. doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Over the past year, @biologyopen.bsky.social has expanded its Fast & Fair initiative to accelerate peer review. The results are impressive - take a look at their latest preprint to find out more: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Daniel Gorelick@danielgorelick.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Paying peer reviewers works. Expanded Fast & Fair experiment @biologyopen.bsky.social: • 5.5 vs 37.7 working days to decision with reviews • ~3 vs ~9 reviewer invitations per manuscript • no reduction in editor-assessed review quality • similar acceptance rates www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Enjoyed a very convincing talk by @seemagrewal.bsky.social explaining why choosing a non-profit publishers benefits the community; revenues are used to support researchers, rather than filling the pockets of the publisher. Find more reasons here: journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/re...

Seema Grewal@seemagrewal.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Heading off to Amsterdam for the Dutch Society for Cell Biology conference. Happy to chat about @jcellsci.bsky.social and our not-for-profit status and charitable activities! dutch-society-cell-biology.nl

Do you have a manuscript with reviews from another journal? We can use them to fast track a decision on your submission. Read more journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/jo...

We are pleased to welcome 8 new fellows to our Pathway to Independence programme. Welcome Maëlle Bellec, @iamzico.bsky.social, @evhealy.bsky.social, @josepmercadal.bsky.social, @nikhil-mishra.bsky.social, Jessica Perochon, Yamini Ravichandran & Margherita Zamboni. Read more⤵️ tinyurl.com/4bk4wrk7

"Why is publishing so expensive?" It's a question I hear all the time, so we at @biologists.bsky.social thought we'd try to dispel some of the myths around publishing economics & provide transparency around our costs. Today, we publish editorials in all 5 of our journals - links in the thread below.

It’s FREE to publish in Journal of Cell Science – there are no page charges, colour charges or hidden fees. And if your institution has a Read & Publish agreement, you can publish immediate OA free of charge. Find out more: journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/re... #forscientists #notforprofit

Registration is OPEN for the 2026 Santa Cruz Meeting on Developmental Biology!!! #scdb26 @flybase.bsky.social @zfinmod.bsky.social @alliancegenome.bsky.social @insdb.bsky.social @isdb.bsky.social @geneticssociety.bsky.social @bsdb.bsky.social @ascbiology.bsky.social scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu

Looking forward to #R2Rconf in a couple of weeks, where I’ll be taking part in a panel discussion on journal-independent peer review. Want to hear more about @reviewcommons.org, @prelights.bsky.social and other initiatives? You can still register and the rest of the programme looks great too!

Researcher to Reader Conference@r2rconf.bsky.social · 8mo ago

What's on the Agenda at #R2RConf on 24-25 February in London? r2rconf.com/r2r-conferen... @katherine-brown.bsky.social

Congrats to the 2026 SDB Award Winners! Conklin Medal: Lee Niswander SDB Lifetime Achievement Award: Alexandra Joyner Hamburger Outstanding Educator Prize: Roberto Mayor Hay New Investigator Award: Jeffrey Farrell SDB Trainee SciComm Award: Nicholas Desnoyer bit.ly/4afnjiC

Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social is recruiting an enthusiastic and motivated Reviews Editor. An exciting opportunity for a talented scientific editor to make a contribution to an important journal in the field of #cellbiology. Deadline 2 Feb. More at: www.biologists.com/about-us/wor...

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An organisation is only ever as good as the people who work in it. I've now been at @biologists.bsky.social for 14 years, and there's no way I'd have stayed so long were it not for the friendly, talented and dedicated people I get to work with every day. #biologists100

The Company of Biologists@biologists.bsky.social · 10mo ago

As we reflect on the past 100 years, one thing becomes clear: the impact we have had on the communities we serve is only possible because of our inspiring and motivated staff. Read more about the people behind the Company here: bit.ly/44nyx2r

A deep dive into the backstory of @dev-journal.bsky.social and why it changed its name (spoiler - it's not *just* because Journal of Embryology and Experimental Morphology was such a mouthful!). Many thanks to Nick Hopwood for researching and writing this. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Identities of an embryology journal in a molecular age; or, How Development got its name

ABSTRACT. Journals build identities to attract authors and subscribers. Name changes make the stakes explicit. This article explains how the plain Journal of Embryology and Experimental Morphology (JE...

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At #CellBio2025 and want to find out more about how you can get your paper peer reviewed in 7 working days? This is what @biologyopen.bsky.social's Fast & Fair initiative is doing. @danielgorelick.bsky.social has all the details at the @biologists.bsky.social booth!

Biology Open@biologyopen.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Attending #CellBio2025? Have questions about publishing with Biology Open @biologyopen.bsky.social or our Fast & Fair peer review initiative? Meet Editor-in-Chief @danielgorelick.bsky.social on Tuesday, 9 December, 12:00 -13:00 pm at booth 1232.

Are you a #devbio postdoc planning to go on the job market in 2026? Then this is the initiative for you! Offering training, networking, mentoring and profile-raising components, Development's PI Programme can give you that extra support you might need while navigating this challenging time...

Development@dev-journal.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Apply for our Pathway to Independence (PI) programme, supporting postdocs in #devbio and #stemcell research during the transition to their first group leader position: www.biologists.com/grants/devel... Application deadline: 2 February 2026.

If you’re not aware of BiO’s Fast & Fair initiative, do listen to this podcast or find out more on the website (journals.biologists.com/bio/pages/fa...). We’re trying to tackle two big issues with the peer review process - how to make it quicker & how to recognise the crucial work of peer reviewers

Biology Open@biologyopen.bsky.social · 10mo ago

@biologyopen.bsky.social is compensating peer reviewers as part of the Fast & Fair peer review initiative. BiO’s Managing Editor Alejandra Clark recently joined reporter Geoff Marsh in a podcast that reviews the concept of paying peer reviewers more closely qspace.fqxi.org/podcasts/125....

Publication integrity has always been a big part of what we do @biologists.bsky.social but it’s more challenging than ever these days. Lots of people contribute to this work, but a special shout-out today to our awesome in-house integrity team. Thanks for all you do! #PublicationIntegrityWeek

The Company of Biologists@biologists.bsky.social · 10mo ago

It’s #PublicationIntegrityWeek, and we’d like to take this opportunity to thank all those who support us in our integrity work on the journals – helping to ensure the papers we publish can be trusted. 1/10

One month left for early-career researchers to apply for a funded place at our Workshop 'Novelty, Co-option and Divergence During Gene Network Evolution' organised by James Hombría & Antónia Monteiro Deadline 5 Dec. biologists.com/workshops/ju... @isabelalmudi.bsky.social @jlopezrios.bsky.social

Novelty, Co-option and Divergence During Gene Network Evolution

Novelty, Co-option and Divergence During Gene Network Evolution Recent studies on the evolution of novel traits provide a window of opportunity to understand how existing gene-regulatory networks (GRN...

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Delighted to see other journals joining @dev-journal.bsky.social and @jcellsci.bsky.social in supporting Review Commons with handling of submissions to the platform.

Review Commons@reviewcommons.org · 11mo ago

Big New! @elife.bsky.social @genetics-gsa.bsky.social #G3journal are joining editorial forces with @reviewcommons.org - bringing not just field-specific expertise to the process but also making #PreprintPeerReview a truly collaborative effort!🎉👏 Read more to find out👇 www.embo.org/features/pub...

Compared to other publishers, The Company of Biologists is small fry with fewer than 70 staff supporting 5 journals from a single office. But, for over 100 years now, it’s punched above its weight in innovation, prestige and community support.

The Company of Biologists@biologists.bsky.social · 11mo ago

This week has been special for us, marking 100 years of supporting biologists and inspiring biology. We celebrated our achievements at @zoologymuseum.bsky.social last night. We want to thank all our staff, whose continual inspiration and daily support for one another make our work possible.