"Funders serious about timely, open, and equitable access to research must explicitly recognize preprint sharing as a route to Open Access compliance"
I know I'm a broken record on this but it seems so blindingly obvious... #PlanU journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
council.science/blog/open-sc...
Photos of the six female JEB Editors. Top row: Almut Kelber, Monica Daley and Emily Baird. Bottom row: Katie Gilmour, Trish Schulte and Sheila Patek
On #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience, we celebrate all of the great women that contribute to JEB, from our fantastic female Editors to the female ECRs submitting their first ever paper to the journal!
#WomeninScience
Word is still what the vast majority of authors write papers with. A reminder for those of us hoping for new authoring tools that we must meet people where they are. 5/n
Pls re-post: My department @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social are recruiting for several new faculty positions (links below). Broad search in molecular biology/biochemistry, across prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Interested in understanding life at the molecular level, this job might be for you!
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What about feedback/comments? Authors clearly want and are getting feedback on articles, but it’s mostly private, via email. Cultural change is needed for this to move to the public comment section, and it will always be distributed (social media, etc.) 4/n
So when do authors preprint? Many do long before they submit to a journal (to get feedback to improve the work?); many submit around the same time (just want the work out?). Only a minority are submitting once the paper is under review [evidence against claims by some detractors]. 3/n
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University of Melbourne is hiring for 4 new positions!
Individual job details below!👇
#ScienceJobs
Several scientists who are linked to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in files released last month are now facing consequences
go.nature.com/3N0Fl0l
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Eli Lilly is hiring for 5 new positions!
Individual job details below!👇
#ScienceJobs
The ninth session of YBM is coming up next week. Join us for two exciting talks on Monday (2nd March 2026) at 11am (EST). Mark your calendars🗓️: tinyurl.com/29b7yk47 Zoom Meeting link: sites.google.com/view/theoret...
Sign up here for 3 exciting talks tomorrow: t.co/O7XhxxSn2u
bioRxiv continues to grow – a brief spike and lag in the pandemic (details of which are included) but a steady increase in submissions since then. % revisions, license choice, etc. all fairly constant. 0.1% withdrawal rate is comparable to journal retraction rates 2/n
New version of our preprint on bioRxiv about bioRxiv up. Now that’s what I call a revision – 6 years after the first version!
It has new data about our progress and highlights from a massive user survey. 1/n
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Jobs on Friday! ⚠️
The Department of Geoscience at Aarhus University, Denmark, invites applications for a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor or Associate Professor position. Are especially encourage specialists in the fields of petrology and structural geology.
www.earthworks-jobs.com/jobpost/aarh...
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A tenure-track faculty position (Professor of Evolutionary Biology) is open at #UQAR in Quebec, Canada. Teaching in French. Application deadline: 4 May 2026. Details: www.csz-scz.ca/job-postings... 🧪
Faculty position in Plant Molecular Biology (Associate Professor or Tenure-Track Assistant Professor) at Aarhus University, Denmark
mbg.au.dk/aktuelt/ledi...
Been on multiple search committees
For me (personally so YMMV)…I basically dismiss everything that’s labeled *submitted* unless there’s a preprint I can read
You can read more about that experience here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
bioRxiv Community Voices graphic featuring Michael Feigin, from the Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center (USA). The post has a headshot of Michael and the quote “I was able to set up a collaboration based on reading a preprint, which led to a nice paper a few years later.“ The footer says "bioRxiv and medRxiv are preprint servers of openRxiv."
@mikefeigin.bsky.social’s favorite bioRxiv experience was being able to start a collaboration based on reading a preprint, leading to a publication years later. As an Affiliate, he helps these impactful preprints be posted ~48 hours post-submission
#openRxiv #OpenScience #preprints #CommunityVoices
Would you like to support #preprints 📰 but don't know how? Or maybe you don't have much time? ⏳
Below you can find several tips, some of which will only take 5 minutes! ⏲️
#OpenScience
Fascinating piece on the history of bioRxiv and medRxiv!
From 11 February, all submissions posted on arXiv must be either written in English or accompanied by a full English translation
go.nature.com/4k5V5LJ
Interested in a fellowship in London? Come and join me in my department. The department is EE but research topics can be very wide: happy to host people with any overlapping interests in NeuroAI/SNNs/etc. More info on available fellowships and timelines here: www.imperial.ac.uk/electrical-e...
Preprints of pandemic potential - new historical piece from me on the history of bioRxiv/medRxiv, their role in the pandemic, and the way forward. 1/n journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Folks interested in science philanthropy should read this interview w/Simons Foundation President David Spergel on the role of philanthropy, support of early career scientists (from incentives to a call for more retirements), and the pivot point between future scenarios.
issues.org/american-sci...
#chemjobs
The Carleton College chemistry department is hiring! Come be my colleague next year! carleton.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Carlet...
If you are submitting an NIH grant in February, you will be required to use SciENcv to prepare you biosketch.
IT IS MUCH WORSE THAN YOU CAN POSSIBLY IMAGINE.
Set aside *at least* 4 hours just to transfer an existing an biosketch into SciENcv.
New Year, new career ambitions?
Still a few weeks left to apply... 👇
📣We have 2 open faculty positions for senior researchers in Neuroscience at Queen's University!
healthsci.queensu.ca/administrati...
1. a new Director for our Centre for Neuroscience Studies
2. a non-human primate NeuroAI researcher
Please share widely and reach out for questions!
