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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 2d

New blog post. In which I analyze the new HHMI announcement and what it means for the science publishing ecosystem openrxiv.org/preprint-man...

Preprint mandates gather momentum - openRxiv

By Richard Sever, PhD. Chief Science & Strategy Officer, openRxiv Preprints speed up science by enabling researchers to disseminate reports of new findings immediately. They also represent a simple wa...

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Kevin Terretaz @kwolbachia.bsky.social · 4d

I’m happy to share some plugins I’ve been developping this summer: "Channels and Contrast" and LUTs Manager!
I can’t find new bugs and ideas by now so I need your help to please test them in your machines and report bugs, feedbacks and ideas! forum.image.sc/t/looking-fo...

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Joe Parham @joeparham19.bsky.social · 6d

Come and join our lab @mrclmb.bsky.social for your PhD! A wonderful environment to explore our archaeal origins with supportive and collaborative colleagues and the chance to investigate big evolutionary and cell biology questions.

Buzz Baum @buzzbaum.bsky.social · 6d

LMB PhD studentship available in the Baum lab to use informatics to infer cell structure from genomic data in collaboration with the brilliant Tom Williams. If you write to me and I don’t reply - try again - the spam filter is hungry…

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preLights @prelights.bsky.social · 8d

Our latest ‘call for preLighters’ closes tonight!

Interested, but didn’t find the time to write an application? Expressions of interest are also welcome – just email us at [email protected]

Why join? See what other preLighters have to say…⬇️👀

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Siân Culley @superresolusian.bsky.social · 9d

BioImage analysis friends - King's are recruiting for a full-time, permanent facility position! Come and work with fun microscopes and fun people (and me!) - please share! www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/126345-...

Bioimage Analysis Specialist | King's College London

www.kcl.ac.uk

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Nadja M. Hümpfer @nadjahuempf.bsky.social · 10d

Now out on bioRxiv. 🥳My research on #cytokinesis, averaging thousands of #ExM images🔬, creating a dynamic atlas of cytokinesis 🦠⏳. Here's an animated sneak peek of what we found. Better resolution on bioRxiv😄 #PSFoftheGIF

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Stephen Royle @steveroyle.bsky.social · 12d

I prefer the term programming. A peer reviewer of my book manuscript pointed out that today kids in schools learn coding (not programming). Since they're the future, we should retire the term programming. Hard to argue with that, so I switched.

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Jason Moore @moorejh.bsky.social · 15d

#pdf

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Felix Campelo @felixmendu.bsky.social · 16d

🧵 I've been meaning to write a #Skytorial on our recently posted prepring in which we show evidence that the Golgi 🥞 is a mechanoresponsive organelle. Extracellular mechanical forces also tune Golgi export capacity! 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Mechanical forces stimulate Golgi export

Human cells face a wide range of external mechanical stimuli that vary with cell type, state, and pathological conditions. The rapidly growing field of mechanobiology investigates how cells sense and ...

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Michael Way @drmichaelway.bsky.social · 16d

Now isn't this just the best reason to accept to review JCS papers as well as our sister journals Development, Biology Open, DMM and J Experimental Biology!

Seema Grewal @seemagrewal.bsky.social · 19d

Huge thanks to all of our peer reviewers! Thanks to your efforts, we’ve helped to restore and preserve over 10,000 trees in ancient woodland! 🌳
#PeerReviewWeek
#PRW2025
#notforprofit
#ForestofBiologists

The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 19d

In our Forest of Biologists we fund the restoration and preservation of ancient woodland and dedicate these trees to our peer reviewers.

There are now over 10,000 trees for peer reviews!

Thank you to all our peer reviewers. Find out more:
forest.biologists.com

#PRW2025 @peerreviewweek.bsky.social

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Matthew Freeman @mjafreeman.bsky.social · 16d

I was Chair of @biologists.bsky.social when we started this initiative, the brainwave of the @stevenkelly.bsky.social

It was an imaginative idea and I am thrilled to see this landmark

Remember: @biologists.bsky.social are the goodies in scientific publishing!

The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 19d

In our Forest of Biologists we fund the restoration and preservation of ancient woodland and dedicate these trees to our peer reviewers.

There are now over 10,000 trees for peer reviews!

Thank you to all our peer reviewers. Find out more:
forest.biologists.com

#PRW2025 @peerreviewweek.bsky.social

Lots of illustrated trees. A sample image taken from the Forest of Biologists website.

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Eugene Katrukha 🇺🇦 @ekatrukha.bsky.social · 19d

A cell finding its way through the matrix, imaged with @joycemeiri.bsky.social on LLS.

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Holly Lovegrove @lovegrovelab.bsky.social · 19d

What an excellent thing! Thank you @biologists.bsky.social And as someone who grew up in the Lake District extra great for this protected tree to be by Winderemere.

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Alexis Barr @alexisbarr.bsky.social · 20d

@mariasecrier.bsky.social & I are looking for an enthusiastic & excellent data scientist for a 4-year postdoc to understand cell cycle dysregulation in cancer.

Deadline 15th October. Get in touch if you have any questions.

Please repost!

More details:
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

Description

Please note that job descriptions are not exhaustive, and you may be asked to take on additional duties that align with the key responsibilities ment...

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Stephen Royle @steveroyle.bsky.social · 20d

ICYMI an idea for a teaching session. Someone on Mastodon suggested it could be a podcast with contributions from the authors…

Stephen Royle @steveroyle.bsky.social · 20d

IDEA: "Where are they now?" but for big splash papers published in the 2000s.

quantixed.org/2025/09/18/w...

Where are they now? – quantixed

quantixed.org

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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 20d

Our next extraordinary biologist is Tshepiso Majelantle, early-career researcher and postdoc at Witwatersrand University, South Africa, who attended @biologists.bsky.social's first Global South Workshop in 2024. #100biologists #NPAW2025

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Stephen Royle @steveroyle.bsky.social · 20d

Is your feeling that that's a higher rate than for non-flashy studentship holders?

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Stephen Royle @steveroyle.bsky.social · 20d

IDEA: "Where are they now?" but for big splash papers published in the 2000s.

quantixed.org/2025/09/18/w...

Where are they now? – quantixed

quantixed.org

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Stephen Royle @steveroyle.bsky.social · 21d

Congrats. I had a bit of trouble reading. Seems the formatting is messed up? Figures look nice!

screenshot of author version of a manuscript except the layout is messed up so that the text is arranged in a weird diagonal shape and partly off the page. The title says that delta-type glutamate receptors are ligand-gated ion channels.

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 22d

Lovely to see David Stephens highlighted in 100 years of cell biologists at J. Cell Sci., alongside Linda Amos, Peter Medawar, Juan Bonifacino, and others
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

‘First Persons’ through the decades – 100 years of notable scientists in Journal of Cell Science

Summary: JCS highlights the lives and careers of 10 notable scientists from around the world who published first author papers in our journal over the last 100 years.

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Tim @timisstuck.bsky.social · 22d

Aggrieved editor post incoming...

At @lsajournal.org we offer to consider manuscripts that have been declined after review at one of our partner journals.

We have to be fast, fair, and accurate. It's hard! Instead of saying "no thanks" this author wanted to make a point.

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Felix Campelo @felixmendu.bsky.social · 22d

Next Thursday Sept 25 (4-6pm CET) we have our first #FocalPlaneFeatures together with our #membranetrafficking community! Thanks to all who submitted such exciting abstracts. The final program is out, featuring a keynote by Gillian Griffiths. Register here: focalplane.biologists.com/2025/09/16/f...

FocalPlane features... membrane trafficking
Thursday 25 September, 15:00 -17:00 BST (UTC+1)
Chaired by Francesca Bottanelli, Felix Campelo and Ishier Raote
Nick Ader (UNC Greensboro)
Keep it together! Mechanisms of membrane maintenance and biogenesis
Hannes Maib (University of Sheffield)
Multiplex and super resolution imaging of phosphoinositide conversion during receptor trafficking
Mónica Quiñones-Frías (Brandeis University)
Loss of ER-Shaping protein Atlastin causes synaptic ER stress and membrane trafficking defects
Keynote speaker
Gillian Griffiths (Yale University)
Unexpected membrane dynamics in T cells

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Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾 @janelangdale.bsky.social · 23d

Come and join us in our new home - great colleagues and brand new facilities

Oxford Biology @biology.ox.ac.uk · 23d

Oxford Biology is growing 📢

We’re appointing 3 Associate Professors in:
🌱 Plant Sciences
🦉 Animal Behaviour
🔬 Molecular Cell Biology

3 fields. 3 opportunities. One new home for Oxford Biology.

Learn more 👉 bit.ly/41S2Tc7
Apply now 👉 bit.ly/488CNW3

Photo showing the inside atrium of the new Life and Mind Building

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 27d

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN.

It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.

Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

ggplot2 4.0.0

A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.

www.tidyverse.org

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News from UK Research and Innovation @news.ukri.org · 29d

ICYMI: Simplifying access to MRC applicant-led funding #MRC #AcademicSky

Simplifying access to MRC applicant-led funding

We’re introducing a new flexible research grant and removing closing dates from our board funding opportunities.

www.ukri.org

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