The Canadian Association for Neuroscience is very proud to announce Dr. Maria Ioannou, from the University of Alberta, has been awarded the CAN 2026 New Investigator Award
View her profile: can-acn.org/awards/new-i...
"Why is publishing so expensive?" It's a question I hear all the time, so we at @biologists.bsky.social thought we'd try to dispel some of the myths around publishing economics & provide transparency around our costs. Today, we publish editorials in all 5 of our journals - links in the thread below.
Proctor Academy
There are still spots available (get them while they last) for the 2026 Lysosomes and Endocytosis GRC (June 14-19, 2026). APPLY NOW if you are interested. Newcomers to the field or old friends, everyone is welcome! www.grc.org/lysosomes-an...
🌈 Download JCB's CELLULAR DIVERSITY poster! 📩 Sign up to receive our future special collections and download this beautiful artwork by Bianca Dunn to display at home or in the lab 👉 info.rupress.org/jcb-collecti...
Looking forward to both!
🌈 Download JCB's CELLULAR DIVERSITY poster! 📩 Sign up to receive our future special collections and download this beautiful artwork by Bianca Dunn to display at home or in the lab 👉 info.rupress.org/jcb-collecti...
The cell biologist’s guide to detecting and modulating membrane #phospholipids. New review from Michael Worcester, Gerald Hammond @gerryhammond.bsky.social and colleagues: rupress.org/jcb/article/...
#Methods #Reproducibility #Membrane #lipid #Biochemistry #Cancer
To all lipid-curious cell biologists: check out this comprehensive overview of lipid-based methods by @gerryhammond.bsky.social and colleagues in @jcb.org — a school of Babel fish for #lipidtime:
rupress.org/jcb/article/...
Are you attending #CellBio2025 in Philadelphia? Visit us at Journal of Cell Biology Booth #1224 to chat about the journal, pick up a copy of The Year in Cell Biology: 2025 magazine 📕, and grab one of our exclusive puzzles 🧩
See The Year in Cell Biology: 2025 rupress.org/jcb/collecti...
📢 SIGN & SHARE THE PETITION! 📢
New York needs an Empire Biomedical Research Institute to create new statewide funding opportunities for scientists & physician-scientists so that patients and their families get the life-saving and life-changing new therapeutics they're hoping for ✏️ c.org/TDMy2H9JTW
Independent validation of the SnxA biosensor as a sensitive reporter of PI(3,5)P2 dynamics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11....
“The bad review will come from your list of suggested reviewers”
Congratulations!
Our new collection offers cell biologists practical, expert-driven guidance and best practices in the design, execution, and analysis of experiments, and the subsequent communication of their results to their peers. 👉 rupress.org/jcb/collecti...
#Reproducibility
In a new Perspective article, Josh Morgan discusses how progress in cell biology is hindered by significance testing and the need for a shift to effect size estimation. rupress.org/jcb/article/...
#Technology #Reproducibility #CellCycle #CellDivision #Statistics
100% that is my job and as an editor I put very little weight into inappropriate or poorly justified critiques of a paper.
been a long time since I have done benchwork but special low-fluorescent PVDF membranes were the best solution I found if you must use PVDF
Title: SOME GRAMMATICAL VOICES FOR USE IN SCIENTIFIC WRITING ACTIVE VOICE e.g. Our team collected samples and then we tested them. CLICKBAIT VOICE e.g. We collected some samples... You won't believe what happened next! PASSIVE VOICE e.g. Samples were collected and tested. HAIKU VOICE e.g. Quiet science lab. Workers arrive with samples. The testing begins. PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE VOICE e.g. We did all the collecting and testing. No need to thank us. Just doing our job. CONSPIRACY VOICE e.g. Mysterious "Samples" were harvested and covertly "tested" by so-called scientists.
My latest @newscientist.com cartoon
We're hiring! The Journal of Cell Biology (JCB) seeks a talented individual for the role of Scientific Editor. Join our team in New York City! For more info 👉 careers.rockefeller.edu/jobs/1797?la...
#STEMjobs #LifeScienceJobs #PublishingJobs #ScienceJobs
Hey Canadian scientists who haven't voted yet, here's a comparison of the costed platforms as they pertain to science prepared by the Canadian Society of Molecular Biosciences: csmb-scbm.ca/wp-content/u...
Go vote 🇨🇦 allez voter !
A screen grab of a illustrator template with three different sized boxes labeled 1, 1.5, and 2 columns and dimensions. Also font sizes, also a gel with a band dimensions and molecular weight markers.
Periodic reminder: spend some time coming up with a generic figure template that shows sizes of commonly used items, eg, label sizes, expected sizes of bands on gels, micrographs and scale bars, fonts, also handy to include common overall sizes.
I am both humbled and thrilled (humbly thrilled) to announce that I have been appointed Executive Editor of Life Science Alliance 🥳 @lsajournal.org
This young journal is the open access/nonprofit Captain Planet from the combined powers of @embopress.org, @rupress.org, and @cshlpress.bsky.social.
Butterflies on a blue sky
THREAD
The numbers are in. @bsky.app research sharing volumes vs X Formerly Twitter
In March 2024, on most days, Bluesky hosts more posts linked to research published in 2025 than X.
By quite a lot.
Release the Kraken...
#AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics
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Interested in graduate studies in science? Was your admission to a US program just rescinded? Well, Canada is now offering doctoral scholarships to qualified foreign students
www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...
Are you headed to the @embo.org Workshop "From molecules to organisms: An integrative view of cell biology" in Austria? Interested in chatting about publication? 👉 Get in touch with our Deputy and Reviews Editor Andrea Marat @andreamarat.bsky.social who's attending!
✉️ rupress.org/jcb/pages/ed...
It is a private echo chamber with manipulated algorithms and responds to a rogue government. I vote yay.
I was watching the CBC stream and they translate the french.
