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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 5d

In which my critical commentary of @itiscolossal.bsky.social's #DeExtinction #DisInformation campaign sadly merits a subsection; debate is essential for scientific discourse, it should be heated, never be personal; I'm grateful for @embopress.org coverage; sunlight is the best disinfectant. 🧪 🌱🐋

Yehu Moran @yehumoran.bsky.social · 6d

My first ever non-peer reviewed science-related piece. Together with Howard Wolinsky and Holger Breithaupt @embopress.org

It's about how scientists critical of de-extinction are targeted by dark PR tactics: www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Scientists targeted by dark PR tactics: Several academic scientists critical of de-extinction projects have become the targets of anonymous smear articles and weaponized copyright infringement claims:...

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Yehu Moran @yehumoran.bsky.social · 6d

My first ever non-peer reviewed science-related piece. Together with Howard Wolinsky and Holger Breithaupt @embopress.org

It's about how scientists critical of de-extinction are targeted by dark PR tactics: www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Scientists targeted by dark PR tactics: Several academic scientists critical of de-extinction projects have become the targets of anonymous smear articles and weaponized copyright infringement claims:...

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EMBO @embo.org · 8d

EMBO is a co-author and founding signatory of @dorassessment.bsky.social.

We are pleased to announce that Sandra Bendiscioli will succeed Bernd Pulverer as EMBO’s representative on the DORA Executive Board. #ResponsibleResearchAssessment #research 🧪

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EMBO Reports @emboreports.org · 16d

The second September issue is online.

-> www.embopress.org/toc/14693178...

The cover features work by Tomoya Kitajima and co-workers @riken-bdr.bsky.social and @crick.ac.uk showing spatially different requirements for the KIF11 #motor in the #oocyte #spindle.

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EMBO Molecular Medicine @embomolmed.org · 28d

Our September issue is online! www.embopress.org/toc/17574684...

On the cover: AAV-mediated delivery of Clic5 restores inner ear structure & function in a model of hereditary hearing and balance loss 👉 doi.org/10.1038/s443...

Scientific image: R. Hahn & K. Avraham, at Tel Aviv University

EMBO Molecular Medicine: Vol 17, No 9

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Marco Trizzino @marcotrizzino.bsky.social · Aug 20

This preprint is now a published peer-reviewed paper! Thanks to all the co-authors involved, to the funders and to @reviewcommons.org and @embopress.org @emboreports.org for a smooth editorial process! Excited to see this in press! www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

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Total Internal Reflection🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @tirscienceblog.bsky.social · Aug 26

Powerful, typically eloquent, and deeply troubling editorial from @berndpulverer.bsky.social ( @embopress.org ) on the ongoing attacks on #academics and #academia itself in the USA. 👇
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Student hostages in culture war | EMBO reports

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EMBO Press @embopress.org · Aug 4

Deadlines are approaching for @keystonesymposia.bsky.social Predicting & Responding to Emerging #Virus Infections, this October in Geneva! Our @embomolmed.org editor Zeljko Durdevic will attend.

Poster abstract and registration dates => keysym.us/KSEmergingVirus26 #KSEmergingVirus26

Predicting and Responding to Emerging Viral Infections | Keystone Symposia

Join us at the Keystone Symposia on Predicting and Responding to Emerging Viral Infections, October 2025, in Geneva, with field leaders!

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EMBO @embo.org · Aug 4

Supporting the #LifeSciences community through different programmes and schemes, scientific #publishing, #policy as well as #innovation, EMBO champions scientific excellence throughout #Europe and worldwide.

This week’s feature: #Germany

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🧪 #research #opportunities

EMBO communities in EMBC Member States – Focus on Germany

Germany’s research and innovation ecosystem is the largest in Europe, and the country regularly ranks as one of the leaders in innovation globally

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EMBO Press @embopress.org · Jul 31

One week left to register & submit poster abstracts for #FusionAging25! Our @emboreports.org editor Martina Rembold will attend and award a poster prize. Join her and a great line-up of speakers in Malta this October! @fusionconf.bsky.social

Register until August 7th => bit.ly/3IWo45X

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EMBO @embo.org · Jul 30

EMBO Reports is 25! @emboreports.org publishes both long- and short-format papers that communicate major findings in all areas of molecular, cell and developmental #biology, offering novel physiological, functional insight robustly documented by evidence. 🧪 #LifeSciences #research #publishing

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EMBO @embo.org · Jul 30

CoARA has released recommendations on how to recognize and reward #PeerReview. Bernd Pulverer, Head of @embopress.org, is producer and co-chair of the working group and Sandra Bendiscioli, Senior Policy Officer at EMBO, is co-author of Chapter 4. 🧪 zenodo.org/records/1596...
#research #publishing

Recognizing and Rewarding Peer Review of Scholarly Articles, Books, and Funding Proposals: Recommendations by the CoARA Working Group on Recognizing and Rewarding Peer Review

In this pre-endorsed publication, the CoARA Working Group on Recognizing and Rewarding Peer Review calls for systemic efforts to acknowledge, and appropriately reward, peer review as integral to the…

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EMBO Press @embopress.org · Jul 21

The registration deadline is approaching for @fusionconf.bsky.social #Neuroepi25! Book your place by August 7th - great speaker line-up plus @embojournal.org editor Ioannis Papaioannou will attend and present a poster prize.

Details & Registration: bit.ly/3XHb4pm

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Human Technopole @humantechnopole.bsky.social · Jul 2

🤖✍️ How is #AI transforming scientific publishing? From trust to truth, @tlemberger.bsky.social @embopress.org explains what’s changing and why it matters for all of us.

youtu.be/k-_MuFEwFx0 @salmaamin.bsky.social @mkiwanski.bsky.social

Trust, Truth and AI in Scientific Publishing with Thomas Lemberger

YouTube video by Human Technopole

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EMBO @embo.org · Jul 1

Welcome and congratulations to the 60 new members and 9 associate members who have been elected to the EMBO Membership! This honour celebrates #research excellence and outstanding achievements in the #LifeSciences. 🧪

Learn more here:
www.embo.org/press-releas... #EMBOMembers2025

Outstanding life scientists elected to the EMBO Membership – Press releases – EMBO

Sixty-nine new members join the community of leading life scientists in Europe and beyond

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EMBL Events @events.embl.org · May 30

🌍 Did you know @embo.org awards a Sustainability Badge to events that cut their environmental impact? From green venues to low-waste catering & virtual access — science can be sustainable.🌿

🔗 https://www.embo.org/conferences-training/sustainable-conferencing/
🔗 https://www.embl.org/events

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EMBO @embo.org · May 26

Curious about #funding #opportunities in the #LifeSciences in #Mexico? Join us at our upcoming EMBO Information Webinar, 28 May at 17:00 CEST.

Register here: embo-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi... 🧪
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EMBO Press @embopress.org · May 22

Upcoming webinar on EMBO Scientific Exchange Grants, co-hosted by @embo.org and Japan Science and Technology Agency. Open to JST-funded researchers and those interested in learning about EMBO-JST cooperation - bring your questions!

Program flyer with registration link: www.jst.go.jp/world/common...

Image with EMBO and JST logos announcing a webinar on the topic of EMBO Scientific Exchange Grants scheduled for June 3rd @ 16-17:00 Japanese time

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EMBO Press @embopress.org · May 19

📣 Job alert: we're looking for a scientific editor at @emboreports.org to provide a 12-month absence cover. Prior editorial experience is not required. For details and to apply: www.embo.org/vacancy/scie...

Scientific Editor (Absence cover) – EMBO

About us EMBO is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting excellence in the life sciences in Europe and beyond. We fund talented researchers at all career stages, facilitate scientific exc...

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The EMBO Journal @embojournal.org · May 16

Next up in the @embopress.org "Medicine & Society" virtual seminar series: Bob Weinberg!
Don't miss it - register via cancerprev.com/medicine-soc...

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EMBO Lab Leadership @embolableadership.bsky.social · May 14

It's not too late to join the 2.5-day @embo.org #SelfLeadership for Scientists online course starting on 4 June - register now to avoid disappointment: www.embolableadership.org/course/self-...

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EMBO Molecular Medicine @embomolmed.org · May 12

Are you attending the 2025 'Defence is the Best Attack: Immuno-Oncology Breakthroughs' conference in Barcelona?
So is our editor Lise Roth!

Talk to her if you are looking for a home for your paper or about scientific publishing @embopress.org

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Bernd Pulverer @berndpulverer.bsky.social · May 6

new #NIH #OA policy from July1st: @EMBOPress.org is #goldOA and thus fully compliant. The ‘Nelson memorandum’ is one of the few matters of science policy the new administration carried over. The principle is great - the rush will cause yet more mayhem. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

NOT-OD-25-101: Revision: Notice of Updated Effective Date for the 2024 NIH Public Access Policy

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Revision: Notice of Updated Effective Date for the 2024 NIH Public Access Policy NOT-OD-25-101. NIH

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Yehu Moran @yehumoran.bsky.social · May 5

I'm starting a short sabattical of 4 months at @embopress.org today! I hope we can achieve some good things for the molecular eco-evo community and science publishing during this time! #heidelberg

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Arnaud Krebs @arnaudkr.bsky.social · May 2

Pol II Pausing on LSD on the MSB cover! Credits to the amazing creative team @kasitc.bsky.social (right) and Roos (left)! Pleasure to work with this bunch of talented people, here at our Belgian retreat. Paper: doi.org/10.1038/s443...

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