Weekend reading: this back and forth about a p16 reporter mouse for senescence and aging research. Read here in @emboreports.org and many more comments PubPeer. It seems to me that many journals are quite reluctant to publish these correspondences, to their great detriment.

I’ll try 🫡

"7 days after the medical team infused trillions of viruses carrying the recipe for the base editor into her spinal fluid, she died of a severe immune reaction" www.science.org/content/arti...

Exclusive: Death of girl in Chinese gene-editing trial was never made public

Parents want accountability after study went disastrously wrong, Science and Retraction Watch investigation reveals

science.org

Dear microbiome enthusiasts: I'm excited to be moving my lab to New York University this fall (& the NYU Institute for Engineering Health); with joint-appointment @isbscience.org I'm hiring a postdoc @ NYU to look at diet-driven evolution in the gut: apply.interfolio.com/189980 Please share! 🦠🤓

They've been playing us for absolute fools. 8 basic sounds?? Completely derivative, no creativity whatsoever.

Quentin Bacquelé@quentinbacquele.bsky.social · 2w ago

1/ The world's songbirds sing in just 8 basic sounds. And where a bird lives decides which ones it uses. My first PhD paper is out now in @science.org (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aee6239) Here is what we found:

Nice benchmarking resource for publication integrity guardrails with AI They prompted agents to generate false data or other forms of misconduct. Prompts were overt or covert attempts at misconduct, compared against a benign request. Strong showing for Claude, quite poor for DeepSeek

"Please address all comments by Reviewer 21"

People say scientists are serious but marine biologists will spend hours quietly sitting around tables drawing on styrofoam cups and then tying said cups to deep sea submarines Because ocean pressure will squeeze the air from the cups And we are but human & we want tiny cup

Congrats on this important babysitting adventure!

Peiwei Chen@peiwei-chen.bsky.social · 3w ago

How do transposons jump when they’re released from host control? I babysat two chromosomes for 2 years, making sure they are ok without most piRNAs. Here’s what we found & excited to share my 1st postdoc paper: “piRNA loss unleashes episodic transposition bursts” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

This collection explores emergent phenomena in #CellBiology incl. how cellular events are rapidly coordinated by waves of chemical & electrical signals, how tissue patterning is governed at the cellular level & how cellular interfaces guide cellular migration & morphology rupress.org/jcb/collecti...

gonna start talking like this to my boss

It puts the journal decision letter in the basket

As absolutely bat shit, crazy as this sounds, we should ask ourselves why an author might make this assumption. If you are an editor, could an author make this assumption about your journal? If you are an author, does the editor give any signal that they read the reviews?

Andrew Bissette@andrewbissette.bsky.social · 3w ago

Not long ago in a call to discuss reviewer comments with an author, they said they didn't realise editors read reviewers' reports. I was pretty stunned. That's the fun part of the job!

Was chatting with a PI at a birthday party this weekend and I realized *again* what an awful state journal and editor practice is in: This was the ~1000th PI who had ***NEVER*** seen a decision letter from a journal that provided guidance on how to approach reviewer comments.

As you can see, R is great for nice images and graphics

coolbutuseless@coolbutuseless.bsky.social · 4w ago

Introducing {rdoom} - Play Doom in #RStats (in time for #UseR2026 !) github.com/coolbutusele... This is a demonstration that {tigerfb} + {nara} can do realtime interactivity in R! Includes: keyboard & mouse control, audio, cheat modes!

Our July issue is here! Love this cover art from the lab of Moshe Oren.

Life Science Alliance@lsajournal.org · last mo.

In our July issue: How the thyroid copes with high oxidation in fish and mice, how germline cells suppress transposable elements, and a microRNA generated in lysosomes. Check out these and more 👇️ www.life-science-alliance.org/content/9/7

Great digest of, and reflection on, the rankings by qed.

Richard Sever@richardsever.bsky.social · last mo.

“the academic community is enormously heterogeneous and it’s almost impossible to keep everyone happy” Never a truer word said in this analysis of downstream consequences of openness by @jacoates.bsky.social ripplingideas.org/2026/06/26/t...

From the survey you did yourself! c'mon...

Oded Rechavi@odedrechavi.bsky.social · last mo.

Gloves are off! TODAY WE RELEASE THE 1% A list of the year’s very best papers 👇 (see thread)

Very cool work on limbs and fins!

M. Brent Hawkins@homeobox.bsky.social · last mo.

Excited to share the final published version of our work on the evolution of dorsal-ventral patterning in fins and limbs, now up on @currentbiology.bsky.social In review we added new single LARM element deletions to assess their impact on dorsality. Take a look! 🔬🧪🐟🐁 www.cell.com/current-biol...

Go chat with Guangshou!

Journal of Cell Science@jcellsci.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Our Academic Editor Guangshuo Ou will be attending the @embo.org @embl.org #EESMicrotubules symposium, which starts today. Guangshuo handles articles across the field of #cellbiology so reach out if you'd like to discuss a submission, or visit: journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/re... #freetopublish

It's interesting being an editor of a journal and yet finding myself targeted by these offers from our *much* more aggressive competitor @frontiersin.bsky.social

Our first ever (to our shame) collection of articles on genomics/epigenomics and genetics! We are super proud of our contributions to these fields. Check out this wonderful selection here: www.life-science-alliance.org/content/gene...

Unambiguous benefit accruing to @biologyopen.bsky.social and their authors. Impressed! As noted in the abstract and expanded on in the text, "While financial sustainability remains to be tested at scale..." The experimenting should continue, but this is not the time to further inflate APCs.

Daniel Gorelick@danielgorelick.bsky.social · 2mo 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...

Reviewer 1 tapping the sign:

chef's kiss

austin@aparker.io · 2mo ago

gonna use this just to code up monad impls github.com/cyberpapiii/...

OMB just published 412 pages in the Federal Register (Docket OMB-2026-0034) giving political appointees authority to terminate any NIH grant, override peer review scores, and block you from publishing with federal funds. Comment period closes ~July 13. Thread 🧵

Helpful writer of the catastrophic charges proposed at OMB here. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n

Was a very fun week at the @embl.org symposium on phase separation! A nice emerging theme was pH and electrostatic charge. Not much grappling with terms/naming conventions, but it was a safe space for just calling things as you wanted. Here was a nice view towards my colleagues @embopress.org

Safe to say that Day 1 of 'Cellular mechanisms driven by phase separation' has been a success so far, with lots of great talks, including a keynote by Karla Neugebauer, and plenty of opportunities to socialise and get to know each other 🙌🏼 #EESPhaseSeparation @embo.org @embl.org