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Mar 20: Navigating the Journal Editor Application Process workshop with Heather Van Epps (former Exec Editor PLOS Medicine) & Natascha Bushati (former Editor Nat Comm & NCB). Learn about the process & how your application is assessed.

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“The JEDI Award… helped me clearly communicate my science to reviewers beyond my field.”
Free, expert feedback (manuscript / short grant / job app) from volunteer former journal editors & grant specialists.
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Help us amplify underrepresented voices in science! LSEF is producing a 6-episode podcast series (Mar–Aug 2026) featuring JEDI Awardees + LSEF leadership, hosted by Oliver Bogler @oliverbogler.bsky.social .

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DEAR FRIENDS - My son Jake made this online quiz to help you discover your life philosophy, which might not be what you think. Note that the questions are tough and the answers are limited/imperfect. That's life, baby, 😉
Takes about 15-20 minutes. jacoblum22.github.io/philosophy-q...

Continuity Is Missing from Modern Medicine — A Need for Health Companions This essay is part of an ongoing exploration of the growing need to better support patients in understanding and navigating an increasingly complex healthcare landscape.

Loved this essay from my former mentor, David Jones, on the hidden gaps in healthcare, why continuity, interpretation, and presence matter, and how AI could help restore them. substack.com/@utzonahealt...

Apply for a JEDI Award - Life Science Editors Foundation “Before this backlash worsens, DEI advocates, the scientific community, universities, and federal agencies need to collectively call out the dangers of setting aside DEI and come up with robust ways t...

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Fertilization triggers early proteomic symmetry breaking in mammalian embryos Single-cell proteomics finds asymmetries between sister blastomeres from the 2-cell stage in human and mouse embryos, defining two states: alpha and beta. Alpha-beta asymmetry can be traced back to th...

Congratulations, Lisa Iwamoto-Stohl, Aleksandra A. Petelski, Nikolai Slavov, Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, and all the authors on this remarkable discovery and paper! Fertilization triggers early proteomic symmetry breaking in mammalian embryos: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Dec 10 deadline! Want thoughtful, editor-style feedback on a manuscript, short grant, or job app? Our volunteers help with clarity, narrative, and overall polish. Join this beautiful crew—apply here lifescienceeditors.org/apply/

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I miss the Roys

i just read something about grief from C.S. Lewis and his book, “A Grief Observed”

basically, when someone you love dies, it isn’t just them that you miss, but the parts of yourself that person brought out of you that can never be brought out again.

i feel that with my dad.

Gosh this is awful and cruel and tragic. My dad passed away this year. In Canada. Ambulance, 1 week hospital stay, palliative...we never even saw a bill. It never even occurred to me. 😢 💔

a man in a blue shirt says " i am untethered and my rage knows no bounds ! " ALT: a man in a blue shirt says " i am untethered and my rage knows no bounds ! "

Hey folks. I have spent *days* reading and meticulously drafting comments on a very lengthy manuscript. Which I have just found includes an AI-faked quote. Attributed to ME.

Here is a thread of my feelings

Next pitch, a Ted Lasso x @qedscience.bsky.social x @lifescienceeditors.bsky.social collaboration for apple TV. I can propose this alongside a series documenting my (and other) career journey similarities to the growth/fall/growth of Anakin Skywalker (©️) .

Let's go! Super excited to partner with @richardsever.bsky.social and the fantastic @openrxiv.bsky.social team - Preprints have been the best thing that happened to science publishing during my lifetime, and we're happy @qedscience.bsky.social can make preprints do more 👊

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Most setbacks (logic gaps, novelty confusion, unsupported conclusions) are preventable.
That’s what the @lifescienceeditors.bsky.social x @qedscience.bsky.social pilot is for.
Impact, not (necessarily 😉) impact factor.
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It’s Election Day! 🐸 💙

Figure 3 - Neuropeptide expression delineates distinct neural circuits in H. vulgaris. Panels D and F - Top and middle: Immunostaining using an antibody against GLWa (green) reveals the RP1 circuit extending from the basal disk to the tentacles. Bottom: GLWa immunostaining in body column rings shows endodermal en1 neurons of the RP2 circuit.

A molecular, spatial and regulatory atlas of the Hydra vulgaris nervous system

Read this #LifelongDevSI #OA Techniques and Resources Article by Hannah Morris Little, Abby S. Primack, Jennifer Tsverov, Celina E. Juliano (@julianolab.bsky.social) and colleagues:

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UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 5: Vito Marcantonio

There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future.

Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.

Stephen and Natascha have such valuable behind-the-scenes knowledge that can help you succeed in any career 'beyond the bench'. This is a great opportunity you don't want to miss ☺️

Thinking about applying for a journal editor position?
Join our 2-hour coaching workshop on Dec 5. Learn how to navigate the application process from former editors at Cell Reports & Nature Comms.
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Max 20 participants
$100 (discounted)

Flyer for a free webinar hosted by Life Science Editors titled Beyond the Lab: Exploring a Career as a Journal Editor. The event will feature former editors sharing their perspectives on careers at top-tier journals. Speakers include April Pawluk (Cell, Molecular Cell, Cell Reports), Natascha Bushati (Nature Cell Biology, Nature Communications, EMBO Molecular Medicine), Stephen Matheson (Cell Reports Editor-in-Chief, PLOS), and Helen Pickersgill (Science, Science Translational Medicine, Developmental Cell). Date: Tuesday, October 7, 2025. Time: 9:00 AM Los Angeles, 12:00 PM New York, 5:00 PM London, 6:00 PM Paris. A QR code is provided for more information and registration. Website: www.lifescienceeditors.com

Free webinar “Beyond the Lab: Exploring a Career as a Journal Editor.” In 2006, I traded postdoc uncertainty for an editor role at Cell. This experience gave me lifelong friends, amazing science, and plenty of tough decisions! Curious about publishing? Register via QR code in the image!

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The #NIH is calling for public comments on its plan to cap the use of grant funds to pay #APCs. It seeks comments on five listed options or suggestions for other options.
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-25-138.html

The comment deadline is September 15, 2025. The NIH […]

Please help me to celebrate Mei Zhen, an innovator and tremendous collaborator, named to the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science on September 4, 2025

That's fantastic!

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.

This is not a joke. This is not normal.

Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

Does anyone have #zebrafish LC3 reporter lines and would be willing to share them with us? #askzebrafish

Illinois protects, lifts its LGBTQ+ residents Unlike some other states, Illinois is choosing compassion and building the infrastructure to protect LGBTQ+ rights. Also, clean energy, college sports, fruit-filled memories, call to Peoples Gas, Trump's National Guard plans, Trump supporters and and sky-high prices for groceries and other goods.

Commentary: As LGBTQ+ people are facing a coordinated attempt to erase their communities, Illinois is choosing compassion and building the infrastructure to protect their rights.

Thanks to Trump's funding cuts, PBS will lay off 15% of its staff.

Trump wants to exert control over the news and information that the public receives – or doesn’t even receive at all.

It’s a hallmark of dictatorship.