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Head of the Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) is Europe’s flagship life sciences organisation, and one of the world’s leading research institutions. An intergovernmental organisation of 29 Member S...

EMBL Cell Biology and Biophysics department is searching for a new director. A major position to lead this field in Europe and beyond.
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

I just circulated this to faculty in my Department and encourage you all to do likewise

"Dear Colleagues
NIH has issued a Request for Information on Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs, and is looking for feedback. Please consider responding.

I have an idea… journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

I'm applauding NIH for putting this out for public comment. Have ideas about how to best limit spending on inequitable and expensive article processing charges? Send them to the NIH:
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-25-138.html

Big news for #OpenScience! openRxiv has launched as an independent nonprofit to oversee bioRxiv and medRxiv, ensuring preprints remain researcher-led, open, rapidly shared, and sustainable.

Read more: openrxiv.org/introducing-...

#AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #ECRChat #PhDSky #MedSky

Opening for a professorship in multimodal imaging in the context of our cluster of excellence #3DMM2O. Here is the full advertisement with all details: tinyurl.com/2ksy2b2s

#jobAlert We are hiring! If you like #imaging ,gene regulation and a dynamic group please apply. We are looking for a research assistant with a master degree and prior experience in academia.

7 Reasons to post a preprint 1 Accelerate science. Papers are rapidly online and freely accessible. 2 Retain control. Share your research fast when you want to 3 Get early recognition. Preprints get a DOI on posting and can be cited. 4 Advance your career. Cite your preprints in grant and job applications. 5 Improve your paper. Get feedback and update your preprint. 6 Build your community. Increase your network and collaboration. 7 Speed up journal submission. Easily transfer your manuscript to many journals. openRxiv

You're in research because you want to advance science, share your results with others, grow in your career & connect with the community.

Here are 7 reasons why posting preprints on bioRxiv & medRxiv can help you meet those goals. 💚

#OpenScience #Preprints #ScienceCommunication #bioRxiv #medRxiv

Publications | Faculty Job Market Collaboration A record of our team's research and funding.

Furthermore, we have published a few papers on insights we have gleaned from looking at applicants' experience on the faculty job market. @frontiersin.bsky.social @elife.bsky.social @futurepislack.bsky.social
faculty-job-market-collab.org/publication/

Explore Our Data | Faculty Job Market Collaboration A record of our team's research and funding.

Are you planning to apply for faculty positions in North America this Fall? Our team of researchers have synthesized 3 years of applicant survey data to create a dashboard to allow assistant professor candidates to see where they stand.
faculty-job-market-collab.org/dashboard/

Find me in the FocalPlane Network

Looking for new #microscopy collaborations, organising speakers for a conference, assembling a committee?

Visit and join the @focalplane.bsky.social network to broaden your contacts and find those who may not come to mind.

focalplane.biologists.com/network

#Microscope #Imaging #CellBiology

Against the Grain - The Podcast: ATGthePodcast 280 - A Conversation with Richard Sever, Assistant Director, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press Today’s episode features guest host Michael Upshall (guest editor, Charleston Briefings) who talks with Richard Sever, Assistant Director, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. Richard earned his PhD ...

Podcast: conversation with me on getting into science, getting out of academia, and pushing change in publishing to adoption of preprints
atgthepodcast.libsyn.com/atgthepodcas...

Staying ahead of the curve: a decade of preprints in biology When Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory announced the launch of bioRxiv in November 2013, only the braver or more radical amongst us would have predicted that it heralded a lasting change within the scienc...

Hard to remember that just 12 years ago there was no @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social and almost no one in the biology community preprinted their work. What a long way we’ve come. @reinierprosee.bsky.social and I wrote a thing about how @biologists.bsky.social embraced the preprint world

Lecturer, Animal Ecology - Townsville, QLD, Australia James Cook University (JCU) is creating a brighter future for life in the Tropics and beyond, through education and research that makes a difference locally and globally.  We now have an opportunity a...

🚨 Lecturer in Animal Ecology position @jcuofficial.bsky.social. Candidates with expertise in terrestrial animal ecology are encouraged.

📍 Townsville, AU
Closes: 8th Aug 2025
🔗 careers.jcu.edu.au/jobs/lecture...

Deadline for applications is this Friday!!!

Join us for a discussion on how the scholarly community can move beyond outdated, paywalled publishing systems—and build an open, resilient, community-governed infrastructure for research communication.

#OpenScience #AcademicPublishing #ScholarlyCommunication

Call for Applications: 2025 NPA Board Election - National Postdoctoral Association Please note, that the Board of Directors call for applications is restricted to NPA members: Individual, Affiliate, and Organizational Member representatives. If you are not a member, please click here to become a member of the NPA.

Today (July 10th at midnight) is the final day to submit your nomination to serve on the National Postdoctoral Association Board of Directors.
Learn more: www.nationalpostdoc.org/news/703208/...

Calling all #mitochondriaks - register now for our webinar together with @mitotalks.bsky.social.

🗓️ Thursday 3 July 17:00 CEST, 16:00 BST, 11:00 EDT, 08:00 PDT

focalplane.biologists.com/2025/06/09/m...

BME UNITE @bmeunite.bsky.social is launching Year 5 of our Future Faculty Program! BME Faculty candidates from marginalized groups on the job market - apply here by July 11th to present your work and receive mentorship to successfully navigate the academic job market: forms.gle/sVto2GRQauNA...

Explore Our Data | Faculty Job Market Collaboration A record of our team's research and funding.

And explore our Data Dashboard with some metrics and outcomes (faculty offer or not) for those on the faculty job market 2019-2022
faculty-job-market-collab.org/dashboard/

Complete our surveys and learn more about this work at:
faculty-job-market-collab.org

If you haven't checked out the new ASAPbio website yet, you should do it ASAP 😉

One of the pages that you might find most useful is the Resources tab, where you can search for resources by focus area or resource type.

Let us know which resources you find most useful!

asapbio.org/resources/

Help shape your future publishing experience by completing our community survey

We are gathering feedback from our readers, authors and reviewers, to help us shape the next 100 years and to keep offering a publishing experience that truly supports our community.

Have your say at:

www.surveymonkey.com/r/39QKVZY

#Publishing #Community #HaveYourSay #Science #Communication

ONE WEEK LEFT!

NINDS wants to recognize YOU for enhancing attention to rigor 🏆 💰

#Phdlife #postdoclife #ECRs #science #neuroscience #metascience #biotech #pharma

Respond to six short prompts and you could win one of 11 CASH prizes of up to 10k!!!

www.challenge.gov?challenge=ni... Challenge.gov

Were you postdoc on the faculty job market May 2024 - May 2025? Are you a new assistant professor who landed your position (any field!) in the past year? We want to hear from you about your experience on the faculty job market.

Social media postcard that says: Are you an early-career researcher within five years of your first appointment to a faculty position? You could be eligible for our new grants for junior faculty staff. The Journal of Experimental Biology logo is in the bottom left corner. The Kickstart grant logo, two hands shaking, is in the bottom right corner.

If you're a new PI within 5 years of your first faculty position, here are two fantastic grants to help develop your research: the Kickstart Travel Grant and ECR Visiting Fellowships. The next deadline is 6 June

Find out more at biologists.com/grants/#jeb

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Our "goal is to create a stable, independent non-profit organization that ensures [bioRxiv & medRxiv] remain open...governed by and for the research community, not a single funder...or any one stakeholder."

Some common questions about openRxiv answered:

openrxiv.org/qa-governanc...

Have questions about openRxiv? Check out the Q&A with our co-founders and Interim COO. Image of a laptop with the openRxiv website homepage shown. Website title is Communication at the speed of science. Cards with bioRxiv and medRxiv below. Read the blog below.

Want to learn more about openRxiv?

Read the Q&A with our co-founders + team:
openrxiv.org/qa-governanc...

➡️ Why independence matters
➡️ Who makes the decisions
➡️ How we fund open preprint platforms
➡️ What’s next for research access & integrity

#preprints #OpenScience #biorxiv #medrxiv

Two (tenure track) Junior Professorship Chair in Nice, France on:

'Modeling in Neurosciences and Cognition'

math.univ-cotedazur.fr/laboratoire/...

'Mathematics of Life"
math.univ-cotedazur.fr/laboratoire/...

📣 Save the date for the 11th PCI webinar on June 18, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Brandon Stell (CNRS, Paris) will present "Elevating Scientific Standards: Community-Driven Assessment on PubPeer ". For more details and registration, visit: buff.ly/XuownT0