Future PI Slack

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!

ArXiv says submissions must be in English: are AI translators up for the job? The preprint repository’s requirement could boost the use of large language models to translate scientific texts.

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

Fellowships We welcome applications from outstanding researchers applying for external fellowship funding.

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/...

“There Are Two Possible Futures for American Science.” The Simons Foundation president talks about science philanthropy, the future of the research enterprise, and remaining hopeful.

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

Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry The Chemistry Department at Carleton College is seeking applications for a Visiting Assistant Professor starting September 1, 2026. This is a full-time, one-year position with the possibility of renew...

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!

As for access barriers to papers, @mbeisen.bsky.social and I have of course proposed a simple solution journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... and that too was clearly effective during the pandemic (we had >30K COVID papers on bioRxiv/medRxiv and clear benefits to early sharing) 2/2

#HappyMicroscpyMonday #microscopycommunity - Join us tomorrow, Tue Jan 6 for a talk by Eugene Katrukha on "Single molecule imaging using LLS7", hosted by the BINA Lattice Lightsheet User Group

Learn more & register here: buff.ly/US5Xd2q

Fluorescence microscopy image of an ovarian follicle (light blue/magenta), with a bright central oocyte.

💥🥚 ANR-funded Assistant Engineer position open in our “Control & Dynamics of the Ovarian Cycle” group at IBDM Marseille 🇫🇷

Work on mouse lines + lab logistics + follicle culture/imaging 🔬

🗓️ Apply by 26 Jan: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

Please share widely — especially with colleagues in France!

Biomedical Sciences - Ladder Rank Associate or Full Professor (Tenure) University of California, Riverside is hiring. Apply now!

New tenured faculty position open here at University of California, Riverside School of medicine! Please share and feel free to reach out with questions! aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF02207
#academicsky #PhDchat

Interested in the MBL Physiology Course in Woods Hole and want to learn more before you apply?

Join myself and Cliff at our Virtual Open House TOMORROW 2–3 PM ET. You will hear what the course experience is like and get all your questions answered.

Register/Join: princeton.zoom.us/j/97673682905

Seminar titles: Andrea Soranno (Single molecule spectroscopy of disordered regions and nucleic acids) and Bokai Zhu (Nuclear speckle rejuvenation to ameliorate proteinopathy).

IDPSeminars is BACK THIS WEEK!

Talks from Andrea Soranno and @bokaizhulab.bsky.social on Thursday! 1 pm EST / 7 PM European time!

Sign up here: forms.gle/3yCHeYvuuqLh...
And check out the full Spring 2026 schedule at idpseminars.com!

PREreview: Open preprint reviews. For all researchers. See preprints with a PREreview.

PREreview:
✨ Offers peer review workshops where they help participants hone their skills as reviewers
✨ Runs collaborative, interactive live preprint review calls
✨ Helps researchers to start preprint PREreview Clubs

Visit their website to learn more and join their initiatives!
buff.ly/Z4NCsLm

PREreview: Open preprint reviews. For all researchers. See preprints with a PREreview.

🚀 We want to give a big shoutout to our friends at @prereview.bsky.social who work tirelessly to promote the constructive and open peer review of prepints! 👏

PREreview works with many like-minded organizations and preprint servers to "bring more equity and transparency to scholarly peer review."👏

AY25-26 Chemical Engineering Faculty Jobs List

The 2026 Chemical Engineering Faculty Jobs List (run by Arvind Ganesan and Todd N. Whittaker) has 96 research/teaching positions and 19 teaching-only positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemEjobs #chemsky

The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List

The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 359 tenure-track positions and 65 teaching positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemsky

Faculty, if you know of tenure-track positions that we should be listing, or see an error, please e-mail me at chemjobber@gmail.com

CSU Monterey Bay seeks an Assistant Professor in Ecology for Fall 2026. Candidates must have a Ph.D. and a commitment to teaching and research. Apply by 01/13/2026. More info at: https://careers.csumb.edu/en-us/job/552990/assistant-professor-of-community-ecology #job

The University of Fribourg, Switzerland, is seeking applicants for an open-rank Professorship in Animal Ecology. Applications due by 31 March 2026. More info: https://www.unifr.ch/scimed/de/faculty/positions #job

#LivingArchitectures
We put cells and cytoskeleton filaments on the architecture of the musée d'Orsay.
www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/agenda/ev...
Scientists of the #CytoMorphoLab adapted their protocols to illustrate the questions that keep them awake at night.
-> Two shows on the 24th and 25th of January.

Happy New Year! Just 5 days until the 4th Netflux and Network Biology Virtual Conference on Jan 7, 1-5 pm ET. Please share. Agenda and free registration at: tinyurl.com/netfluxnet2026

The hard truth about how hard it is to publish in Development Every researcher knows the anticipation and trepidation that come with submitting a paper to a journal. Years of effort have been distilled into a few thousand words and a handful of figures containin...

"revision requests can expand beyond what is feasible...we've been told reviews are unnecessarily harsh... reviews can seem formidable but usually represent constructive critiques"

Interesting reflections and introspection from editors of Development 1/n

journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

PDB101: Molecule of the Month: Alcohol Dehydrogenase Alcohol dehydrogenase detoxifies the ethanol we drink

Here's a toast to alcohol dehydrogenase, our primary defense against alcohol, a toxic molecule that compromises the function of our nervous system #HappyNewYear