Alejandro Montenegro

You will be visited by three spirits

Exactly!

Interestingly, this suggests keeping an accurate list of lab members and alumni.

In a previous lab, the PI only listed as alumni those who were "lab friendly" and only those considered "successful". The rest were erased.

Oh, I hadn't noticed the acknowledgement in the paper! Thanks again :)
And, hopefully, you will be able to join us for a future edition of the meeting.

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A new issue of CSH Protocols is out!

The cover image highlights the work by Marshall et al., who describe a detailed protocol for performing multicolor flip-out (MCFO) in Drosophila larvae.

⬇️Links below

Regulation of Chloroplast Biogenesis and Differentiation Abstract. Chloroplasts are semi-autonomous organelles essential for photosynthetic organisms. They derived from ancestral cyanobacteria through an endosymb

Very happy this review is out 😊🌱
I've collected recent advances in transcriptional and epigenetic 🧬 Regulation of Chloroplast Biogenesis and Differentiation url: academic.oup.com/jxb/article/...

Thank you for accepting our invitation to contribute this and for supporting the @molbiosystems.bsky.social!

Someone built a Goodreads for papers (and other stuff)

www.papertrailshq.com

As Virginia Walbot wrote, "Are we training pit bulls to review our manuscripts?"

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Why Does A.I. Write Like … That?

"Perhaps that day will come for us, too. Soon, without really knowing why, you will find yourself talking about the smell of fury and the texture of embarrassment. You, too, will be saying “tapestry.” You, too, will be saying “delve.”" 😭

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/m...

This is why we can't have nice things

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Yup

once I started to see what certain people submit (mostly as an associate editor), I definitely adjusted my model of how much they actually care about science and lost quite a bit of respect

And now, AI

www.nature.com/articles/ncp...

The Plant Mind: Unraveling Abiotic Stress Priming, Memory, and Adaptation Plants exhibit a remarkable capacity to adapt to recurrent abiotic stresses, prompting a re-evaluation of traditional views on plant responses to environmental challenges. This review explores the in...

Interesting topic; awful title

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I'd argue being privileged is a form of luck too. But I agree.

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STREAMS guidelines: standards for technical reporting in environmental and host-associated microbiome studies - Nature Microbiology This Consensus Statement presents the standards for technical reporting in environmental and host-associated microbiome studies (STREAMS) guidelines.

One of our roles as journals is to promote and enforce guidelines developed by the community

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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It’s great to see so much excitement when research integrity experts/sleuths visit institutions to give talks.

I just wished we channelled some of that energy into building institutional systems that actually *prevent* integrity issues in the first place.

Stronger internal oversight is essential

#ThankYourEditor❤️

Dated gene duplications elucidate the evolutionary assembly of eukaryotes - Nature Analysis of eukaryotic gene sequences using a relaxed molecular clock methodology indicate that eukaryotes emerged 3.0–2.25 billion years ago as a result of mitochondrial endosymbiosis with complex ar...

"Our results enable us to reject mitochondrion-early scenarios of eukaryogenesis, instead supporting a complexified-archaean, late-mitochondrion sequence for the assembly of eukaryote characteristics"

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congrats Maria Elena!!

Ah, we could have done something for CSH Protocols! Next time 😊

Writing in ink and pencil in Franklin's notebook, from Churchill College.

Franklin searching for the structure of DNA in 1952, with triple and quadruple strands, some of which exclude a helix. She was working with the wrong structure of the bases, so would be unable to find the right answer.

Challenges for the human immune system after leaving Earth - npj Microgravity npj Microgravity - Challenges for the human immune system after leaving Earth

There a journal actually called Microgravity...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dated gene duplications elucidate the evolutionary assembly of eukaryotes - Nature Analysis of eukaryotic gene sequences using a relaxed molecular clock methodology indicate that eukaryotes emerged 3.0–2.25 billion years ago as a result of mitochondrial endosymbiosis with complex ar...

"Our results enable us to reject mitochondrion-early scenarios of eukaryogenesis, instead supporting a complexified-archaean, late-mitochondrion sequence for the assembly of eukaryote characteristics"

www.nature.com/articles/s41...