Excited to be at the @bscb-official.bsky.social Dynamic Cell conference this week! Happy to chat about publishing in @jcellsci.bsky.social or to tell you more about the charitable activities of @biologists.bsky.social.
#notforprofit
#cellbiology
Congratulations to @jasoncasler.bsky.social (and @lllackner.bsky.social lab)! Jason’s article was judged by our Editors to be the best article published in @jcellsci.bsky.social last year and earns him a £1000 prize 🏆
🌱🔬We’re exciting to be hosting a new webinar series on quantitative plant imaging with @ajcellbio.bsky.social & @joemckenna.bsky.social. The first webinar will be on 30 April at 15:00 BST.
For more info and to sign up to our mailing list or volunteer to give a talk ⤵️
About one quarter of the 20659 proteins in the human proteome have TMDs. Most have 1 TMD, there's about 1000 with 7 TMDs. Details are in the post, which is linked.
How many proteins in the human proteome have transmembrane domains? And of those, how many examples with n TMDs are there?
Couldn't find an answer, so I calculated it from Uniprot data with some #RStats magic (and I did some model organisms while I was at it). 🧪
quantixed.org/2026/04/16/m...
Excited to announce Physics of Living Matter 19! To be held in Cambridge 24-25th September 2026:
www.plm-symposium.org
Congratulations Charlotte!
📢 Two weeks to go until the first webinar in our new series on quantitative plant imaging across scales.
We’ll hear from @blace.bsky.social and Simon Gilroy in this webinar chaired by @ajcellbio.bsky.social and @joemckenna.bsky.social.
📢Call for images
Our FocalPlane-ELMI2026 @eulimi.bsky.social image competition is open for entries. Share your favourite images for your chance to win £200 and see your image on the cover of @jcellsci.bsky.social.
Deadline: 18 May 2026
#ELMI2026
@ppbioimaging.bsky.social
Please do not use AI to review a scholarly manuscript. I absolutely do not care what Claude or whoever thinks about the rise of emu farming in Omaha 1850-1864. I asked you because I care what you think about it.
Reminder! Application deadline Friday 8th May
Why choose JCS?
- FREE to publish (with OA options available)
- Fast-track option for papers with reports
- Submissions handled by Academic Editors
- Published by a not-for-profit publisher
- A tree planted for every peer-reviewed article🌳
Find out more at:
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🚨 Paper Alert! In this new work published in @jcellsci.bsky.social we shift our focus on MTFR1L and the feedback loop linking mitochondrial fission, mitophagy and apoptosis. MTFR1L emerges as a critical coordinator of the fission and autophagy machinery.
🔗Find the paper here: doi.org/10.1242/jcs....
We’re also very grateful to The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social for supporting these workshops and bringing scientists together & to Gautam Dey @gautamdey.bsky.social for kindly sharing information about them.
Beyond proteins and DNA, #lipids are emerging as key players in nuclear biology - shaping nuclear envelope dynamics, mechanosensing, gene regulation and genome stability.
Our new Perspective highlights recent advances, open questions, and future directions 👉 journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Special Issue Imaging Cell Architecture and Dynamics Guest Editors: Francesca Bottanelli and Giulia Zanetti Extended deadline: 1 May 2026 Journal of Cell Science Call for papers logo Image of a cell
We are accepting submissions for our upcoming special issue - Imaging Cell Architecture and Dynamics. This issue will be coordinated by @franbottanelli.bsky.social & Giulia Zanetti alongside our Editor @guijacquemet.bsky.social.
Extended deadline: 1 May 2026
journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/im...
Fantastic talks at the ‘Architecting Life’ symposium @tsinghuauniversity.bsky.social, including some from our own Academic Editors @jcellsci.bsky.social!
(@drmichaelway.bsky.social, @roylab-ucsd.bsky.social , @guijacquemet.bsky.social )
Excited to be attending the Annual Meeting of the Chinese Society for Cell Biology in Hefei next week! If you’re going and would like to connect or find out more about @jcellsci.bsky.social or @biologists.bsky.social, please get in touch!
Breakdown of costs for JCS in 2025. Pie chart: Editorial salaries and stipends - 19%; In-house production salaries - 23%; Manuscript processing and publication costs - 7%; Travel and expenses - 3%; Marketing - 6%; Sales - 8%; Community engagement - 5%; General expenses/overheads - 29%.
Why is publishing so expensive?
In this Editorial, we (@katherine-brown.bsky.social @drmichaelway.bsky.social & @seemagrewal.bsky.social) provide details and context on JCS's finances, and hope to dispel some of the myths around the economics of publishing.
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
"We want to see the academic publishing industry change in a way that benefits science, not just profits"
Very helpful series of articles to help understand what goes into publishing. Remember that Company of Biologists is not a for-profit publisher.
"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.
Get in touch if you need more info or have questions!
We're hiring at NTU SBS, Singapore. Tenure-track faculty position in Biomedical Data Science (computational biology, AI in biology, bioinformatics). Great infrastructure, great place to do science. Please share.
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I am excited to share that our paper on ERK-mediated Capicua (Cic) phosphorylation was published in its final form at @jcellsci.bsky.social ! A short 🧵 1/5
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
A unique opportunity to lead the most wonderful company in scientific publishing (I might be slightly biased here). The Company of Biologists are searching for a CEO.
www.inspiredselection.com/jobs/jo00000...
‼️ A really good meeting for people working on host-pathogen interactions! Great keynote speakers this year: Raphael Valdivia and Florence Niedergang. Please repost!
FocalPlane features… quantitative plant imaging across scales Thursday 30 April, 15:00 BST (UTC+1) Organised by Alex Johnson and Joe McKenna Image of Beatrice Lace (University of Freiburg) Multiplexing and Endogenous Fluorescence Discrimination Using FLIM in Plants Image of Simon Gilroy (University of Wisconsin–Madison) Do plants feel pain? How imaging has brought plant wound signaling into the human timescale. #FocalPlaneFeatures focalplane.biologists.com Image of a segmented root
We are excited to launch a new webinar series, Macro to micro: quantitative plant imaging across scales, organised by @ajcellbio.bsky.social and @joemckenna.bsky.social. Our first webinar will featured talks from @blace.bsky.social and Simon Gilroy.
focalplane.biologists.com/2026/03/30/n...
I’m excited to share that our pic of meiotic midbodies in wildtype and mos mutant oocytes made the cover @jcellsci.bsky.social! Congrats to @muhammad-haseeb.bsky.social and @giselacairobaza.bsky.social!
