Use as directed? A comparison of software tools intended to check rigor and transparency of published work The causes of the reproducibility crisis include lack of standardization and transparency in scientific reporting. Checklists such as ARRIVE and CONSORT seek to improve transparency, but they are not ...

So happy our paper is finally out!!! thank you everyone in the #ScreenIT group. This effort involved at least 12 people curating 1500 papers for various criteria. Thank you all for pulling it off. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Can’t agree more, nice reuse of our figure :-)

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LOL yes mice, rats and even lowly flies are probably in dire need of acknowledgement and persistent identifier based citations. Does this drive improvements in reproducibility of papers? Yep, if you can find the "ingredients" in a recipe you are more likely to be able to make it.

Do organisms need an impact factor? Citations of key biological resources including model organisms reveal usage patterns and impact Research resources like transgenic animals and antibodies are the workhorses of biomedicine, enabling investigators to relatively easily study specific disease conditions. As key biological resources,...

Have you wondered why mice don't have an impact factor? Here is a paper that explores how such a thing could be built!

Do organisms need an impact factor? Citations of key biological resources including model organisms reveal usage patterns and impact

August 13, 2025
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Ten simple rules for leading a many-author non-empirical paper Many-author non-empirical papers include recommendations or consensus statements, catalogs of ideas, roadmaps for future research, calls to action, or “how to” articles. These papers have great potent...

...and the companion paper is actually out at the same time... Ten simple rules for leading a many-author non-empirical paper
Tracey L. Weissgerber ,Natascha Drude,Rima-Maria Rahal,Friederike E. Kohrs
Published: August 14, 2025
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Ten simple rules for being a co-author on a many-author non-empirical paper Many-author non-empirical papers include “how to” articles, recommendations or consensus statements, roadmaps for future research, catalogs of ideas, or calls to action. These papers benefit the resea...

Paper just out! Ten simple rules for being a co-author on a many-author non-empirical paper
Friederike E. Kohrs ,Natascha Drude,Anita Bandrowski,Tracey L. Weissgerber
Published: August 14, 2025
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This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered

Research Resource IDentifiers (RRIDs) and the RRID Portal

A huge thanks to Anita Bandrowski of #SciCrunch & @rrids.bsky.social for the fantastic Deep Dive into Research Resource IDentifiers - #RRIDs.

An increasing number of journals are requesting that researchers use RRIDs - particularly in #biomedicine.

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#AcademicSky #opensource

Thanks for posting this. I just hope that the RRID system can help CURIOSS

Screenshot of Einstein's manuscript https://ilorentz.org/history/Einstein_archive/Einstein_1914_typescript/index.html#Einstein_1914_07.html

We can easily solve the problem of LLM-generated nonsense papers by requiring them to be typeset on a typewriter, with hand-written equations, and submitted to journals by mail.

#FossilFuelsMachineryTurboChargingExtremeWeatherEvents

#TexasFloods

Why is la not in total gridlock?

Wow need to put this in my next paper! If the reviews are lazy then it is on them

This lovely paper argues that authors should adopt #RRIDs and other standard Persistent Identifiers for all life sciences studies, thank you! We could not have said it better! doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Are you notified when we post from @rridrobot.bsky.social with your handle, like this post: bsky.app/profile/rrid...

@bioxcell.bsky.social are you notified when we post from @rridrobot.bsky.social about your antibodies?

Medicaid covers 41% of all US births 61% of long term care 38% of health care for children Now Republicans want to cut Medicaid to pay for tax breaks for billionaires

#MedicaidCutsKillUs

Medicaid is not just for those in poverty, which is so important. It funds most nursing home care, 40% of births, and 38% of children's health care.

Tell the Republicans in Congress not to cut Medicaid to fund billionaire tax breaks!

The videos for the presentations given at our "Cell lines in the 21st century symposium" are now available on YouTube, They are listed on our educational resource page: https://www.cellosaurus.org/educational_resources.html

Bernie Sanders made a surprise appearance at Coachella 2025 last night.

So he went from the LA rally to Coachella. He's 83 and fighting like this. This should be an inspiration to all of us. If he can do this, we can all do a little more.

The April (and #AACR25) issue of Cancer Discovery is now online! The cover features work by Ling Cai, Nia Hammond, @faubert.bsky.social, @rjdlab.bsky.social & colleagues showing high glucose contribution to the TCA cycle is a feature of aggressive NSCLC - more here: aacrjournals.org/cancerdiscov...

This is one fugly white boy!!!

The former ambassador to Denmark for the United States, Rufus Gifford, posted this video on his Facebook account:

Ht: @hpsc24.bsky.social

Daily Reminder: Social Security is OUR money, an EARNED benefit!

Can someone just hack that platform so that we can all learn what they are saying, not just the Russians and the Chinese?

Automatic detection and extraction of key resources from tables in biomedical papers - BioData Mining Background Tables are useful information artifacts that allow easy detection of missing data and have been deployed by several publishers to improve the amount of information present for key resources...

Have you ever wondered why information in tables is so difficult to pull out of PDF files? Our paper on this topic was just released by the journal of BigDataMining, which may have editors who do not pass the Turning test, but at the reviewers were great. Thank You!
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hey @eeglab.bsky.social our bot detected that EEGLAB was used in the paper, but the authors did not use RRID. Can you help us ask them to cite you using #RRID?!

Boom 💥