It's really frustrating to have to take time away from reading exciting science to comment on the proposed OMB regulations, but here we are. I strongly recommend anyone who cares about the future of science in the US to do the same. www.regulations.gov/commenton/OM...

I had the chance to highlight some amazing #DevBio from @gcharras.bsky.social and @herveturlier.bsky.social for @natcellbio.nature.com this month! Check out my Research Highlight www.nature.com/articles/s41... and the original article in @cp-devcell.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Two weeks until #2026SDB kicks off! Super excited to be headed to Las Vegas for another @socdevbio.bsky.social meeting. DMs are open if you want to set up a time to discuss a potential @natcomms.nature.com submission on #DevBio or #stemcells, editorial careers, or anything else!

Annual killifish continue to surprise us: they make neutrophils before almost every other cell type, even before gastrulation. Neutrophils usually arise from the lateral plate mesoderm (forming in cyan), but in killifish they are already patrolling around the embryo in gold. tinyurl.com/killiphil

Statement by @sciamunion.bsky.social on Springer Nature's sale of Scientific American and massive editorial layoffs right before a successful union vote is counted. www.wgaeast.org/wgae-scienti...

WGAE-Scientific American Union Statement on Springer Nature’s Sale and Layoffs | Press Room

The following is a statement from Writers Guild of America East members at Scientific American on today’s decision to sell Springer Nature and lay off staff: “Earlier today in an all-staff meeting we ...

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Enroute to #EESMechanobiology! proud to represent both @natcellbio.nature.com as senior editor and npj Biological Physics & Mechanics as advisory editor. Let's discuss your interesting work, science publishing, & more! Find me around &at the #MeetTheEditor lunch On Wed. Note, I'm only here Tues+Wed

🚨UPDATE: We will launch our action center on this issue tomorrow. 📣JOIN US: Emergency Science Meeting (Virtual) June 2nd at 4pm et. Details to come. Our Policy Team has read through the entire 400 page hot mess express from Russ Vought...here are the high level details. A Thread🧵 1/x

Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · 2mo ago

BREAKING: New proposed OMB regulation, applying to all federal grants, requiring grant reviews by senior political appointees and re-emphasizes that "peer review remains advisory and does not replace agency discretion". #standupforscience public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-10817.pdf

TL;DR: We've identified more than 100 cases of apparent manipulation in Thermo Fisher Scientific's antibody verification data. @sholtodavid.bsky.social @johanduchene.bsky.social reeserichardson.blog/2026/05/28/h...

How much of Thermo Fisher’s antibody data has been manipulated?

We’ve documented more than 100 instances of apparent data manipulation in Thermo’s catalog

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So... I got more information about this plan. The most important points follow on the next posts. 1/3

Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I heard from several sources yesterday that NIH is planning to release a Request for Information (RFI) that apparently will include this: Scores and percentiles for NIH grant applications will not be shared with applicants although they will be provided to NIH program officers and staff. 1/3

Headed to the #WeinsteinCVD2026 this week? Our #DevBio and #regeneration editors @ebardot.bsky.social and @keatonschuster.bsky.social will be there! Find them to learn more about publishing with Nature Communications.

Evan Bardot (he/him)@ebardot.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Excited to be able to go to the #WeinsteinCVD2026 meeting this week! I attended this meeting during my PhD and loved the community. DM me if you want to discuss a potential submission or just say hi. I’ll make time Wednesday for 1:1s. Looking forward to seeing what’s new in heart development🫀

Excited to be able to go to the #WeinsteinCVD2026 meeting this week! I attended this meeting during my PhD and loved the community. DM me if you want to discuss a potential submission or just say hi. I’ll make time Wednesday for 1:1s. Looking forward to seeing what’s new in heart development🫀

Screaming to the abyss: #ColossalBio did not resurrect the dire wolf and they're probably just going to make an antelope with methemoglobinemia to give it a bluish color. Their #DeExtinction #DisInformation campaign is just a pyramid scheme because #ExtinctionIsForever 🧪

The SciAm Union is disappointed that @springernature.com dragged our colleagues into a last minute meeting this morning with the notorious union-busting law firm Littler Mendelson (the same one Starbucks and Amazon hire 👀)

Congratulations to Nick Newkirk, an amazing graduate student from the lab, on the latest story that supports a model in which helicase-domain methylation and Dicer phosphorylation act together to regulate Dicer conformation and effector recruitment. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In August, Jay Bhattacharya said “Training future biomedical scientists” was the 1st priority for his version of NIH. But talk is cheap. Let’s see how JB’s doing. 🤔 NIH supports trainees mostly via fellowship (F), training (T), and career development (K) awards. Here are funding curves for each.🧵

This is more broadly generalizable: If you don't do the research yourself, you have no idea if AI is making stuff up. And if you do the research yourself, then AI isn't saving you much labor, if any.

Colin Murray@colinmurray.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Worse, if Law Schools don't continue to train students to understand legal issues in depth, then they will not have the capacity to even do the "check AI is right" function he suggests will predominate. We're being sold cost cutting for law firms, with an airy wave about what will actually change:

My quote of the day We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over. Ambrose Bierce

Please do not use AI to review a scholarly manuscript. I absolutely do not care what Claude or whoever thinks about the rise of emu farming in Omaha 1850-1864. I asked you because I care what you think about it.

One hard thing about being an editor is that because of confidentiality, we can't respond to The Discourse about our work. It's fun (and justified!) to take shots at the big bad publishing houses. But pile-ons about specific papers from those not involved are tough to watch silently.

57 of my fellow students were arrested, academically disciplined, and barred from campus 2 weeks before finals. And then the visas of some of those students were quietly revoked. And then the DEI office was killed. And then we watched our mentors’ grants evaporate over “woke”.

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Honestly, fuck off.

Shameless plug, but I’m excited to see work in model organisms submitted to @natcomms.nature.com. Model organisms, non-model organisms, stem cell models. There’s room for all of it.

Science Magazine@science.org · 5mo ago

An analysis of published papers on eight widely studied “model” organisms suggests work on them is fading, but not everyone is worried. https://scim.ag/3PaOvIs

Thank you for submitting your Joke "Asphalt-guided Directional Locomotion of Gallus gallus" for consideration in Advances in Jokes. We have now received comments from three reviewers with appropriate senses of humor. Considering their advice I regret to inform you that we cannot publish your Joke.

Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️@napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I have a scientist joke, but with an n of 1, it's not that significant.

I have a conference joke - actually it’s really more of a comment?

Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️@napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I have a scientist joke, but with an n of 1, it's not that significant.

Once again shouting into the void to say that there is no excuse for using red/green for immunofluorescence images. Obviously 4+ color imaging is difficult to present, but any reason someone gives for using red/green in 2-3 color images is trash.

Just full-on outing myself as a chaotic good professor here. I do have deadlines, but otherwise slowing down, doing things by hand, and focusing on critical thinking skills (observation, curiosity, connection) has been more fun for me and my students have had better learning outcomes.

Jeffrey Perkel (he/him)@jperkel.bsky.social · 5mo ago

“My first thought when I saw Einstein was ‘game over’.” How a short-lived #AI tool for students is causing a reckoning over the use of technology in the classroom. By @scattercushion.bsky.social in @nature.com, feat @jacquelyngill.bsky.social 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

NIH leadership wants to strip worker's rights from the majority of scientists on its campuses. But, the NIH does not get to say whether we are a union or not. We do, and we are no strangers to having to fight for our union. Time for a short history lesson. 1/n Disclaimer: all views are my own.

NIH Says It Will No Longer Recognize the Research Fellows’ Union

NIH leadership said the union “should never have been certified,” in an email to the union’s leadership.

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This is a really cool approach to both evaluating AI scientific reviews and determining how authors think and feel about having AI tools in the loop. Props to @reviewcommons.org and @qedscience.bsky.social for making this effort! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

How do authors want to use AI for review? - EMBO Reports

EMBO Reports - A survey of researchers who compared AI-generated scientific reviews with journal-agnostic human peer review reveals that they overwhelmingly prefer using AI as a self-checking tool...

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As an alumni of Mount Sinai, I am horrified by this reporting. Sadly, the culture of prioritizing money and prestige above all else was strong at Sinai. I’m less surprised than I would like to be. These doctors and CEO Kenneth Davis need to go. Now.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 5mo ago

A small group of doctors who were compensated lavishly by Jeffrey Epstein gave VIP medical services to the sex offender and the young women around him. Some of them bent or broke the ethical rules of their profession, The New York Times found.

The fundamental flaw with @holdenthorp.bsky.social’s argument is thinking that organizations and people can only do one thing at a time (even though he is really close to acknowledging it!) Let’s break it down, bc I’m tired of this. 🧵 (cred: @ianlmorgan.bsky.social)