Great 日本分子生物学会 panel discussion in Kobe on 'Publishing in the Open Access and Open Science era' with EMBO Press, summarized here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gt…

speculative declarations of fraud are defamatory: 'The hockeystick graph stands as published bec. the data were peerreviewed..Accusations of misconduct were addressed by running established processes..calling it fraud thus met the standards for defamation' science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Anne Ephrussi, recently retired yet very present EMBL, on null hypothesis 'We must ensure we have done everything possible not to prove our hypotheses, but rather to disprove them. It’s about not falling in love with one’s ideas & being misled by results' embl.org/news/lab-matte…

urgh: share price of Elsevier’s parent RELX & its predecessor increased 650% since 2009. The stock is the top performer on the U.K.’s FTSE 100 index in its 40-year history. In 2023, RELX’s scientific division reaped a profit margin of 38%' (Financial Times, RELX annual report)

~30% @embojournalpapers are preprinted: going higher would require a mandate (cf. eLife - the journal). Thanks for the analysis Stephen@clathrin quantixed.org/2024/03/09/pre…

'The problems AI poses are not existential, but social..our concern should not be that machines may..exercise power over humans but that they already work [to] reinforce inequality&injustice, providing tools [for] those in power [to] consolidate authority' theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Honesty researcher F. Gino “committed research misconduct intentionally, knowingly or recklessly" concludes investigation by HBS. G. is pursuing a $25 mil lawsuit against Harvard & pointed to a collaborator as having had both means & motive to sabotage her science.org/content/articl…

EMBO announces the launch of a pilot scheme to support Open Access #OA publication by life scientists performing their #research in #India. embo.org/features/suppo…

New EMBO Press transparency initiative: in ~60% of papers, authors now supplement article-level with figure-level authorship: claim credit for fig. panels + #sourcedata! Make the contributions of 'middle authors' visible! Add accountability! EMBO Reports embopress.org/doi/full/10.10…

Incredible demographic shift in US postdocs: 1% drop in 2022, of which -8% in U.S. citizens and +6% for temporary visa holders! If the visa situation should deteriorates further post election, the US postdoc population will reach criticality. ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/gradua…

The new Gates Foundation OA policy needs to go further or risks undermining science: (i) require preprinting (great) + (ii) no $ for APCs (not great w/o reinvestment to support quality control in other ways e.g. #refereedpreprints Review Commons). gatesfoundationoa.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/secti…

Opening of the most exciting meeting in my cal: EMBO EMBO YIP global investigators NTU Singapore - impeccable arrival straight off flight 3' before opening by chair of biosci. school, Kanaga Sabapathy: nice reminiscences of our join work on JNK-SAPK signalling 30 years ago. EMBO Press

Great day of labvisits, student discussion & @embopress talk ⁦⁦Duke-NUS Medical School⁩ - world class research. Only downside is that my durians are banned at the hotel.

Opening of exciting Chromatin in Cancer ⁦⁦EMBO⁩ workshop by Dennis Kappei + Polly Chen of ⁦CSI Singapore⁩. Stephen Baylin opening keynote = super-eloquent overview of this dynamic field. So glad ⁦EMBO Press⁩ can be here

I just published: More on toxic academia: does investing time in outreach, mentoring and community activities matter? Outreach, mentoring, and community support are crucial for fostering a positive academic environment. Yet some established academics dismiss their importance,

Great talk by Kelly Anderson, an editor EMBO Press, on the initiatives they've been rolling out, including Review Commons. I also learned to include a graphic in a cover letter.

#Reformscape is a tool to explore & share examples of responsible assessment for hiring, promotion & tenure. 💡The new Reformscape Guide by Flora Massah & ruth schmidt provides a visual overview of how the data are categorized in Reformscape. ow.ly/bau650S11Ta

Our academic editor Yehu Moran is attending #Evol2024 in Montreal from 26-30 July. If you’re attending, please join him July 27th from 12:45-13:45 as he introduces our journals’ portfolio expansion in #ecology and #evolution. SSE Society of Systematic Biologists ESEB American Naturalist Evolution Meetings

The 2024 HHMI Investigator Competition included a Research Culture & Mentoring component that assessed commitment to open science, inclusive mentoring, and professional service to institution, broader scientific community, and the general public 2/