Jacek Radwan

Male Reproductive Senescence in Mammals Is Pervasive and Aligned With the Slow‐Fast Continuum We found evidence of male reproductive senescence in 59.6% of the mammalian studied species, with a detection probability increasing with larger sample sizes and a longer age range relative to lifesp....

Male Reproductive Senescence in Mammals Is Pervasive and Aligned With the Slow-Fast Continuum
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Cover of the new issue of Evolution Letters @evolletters.bsky.social featuring our stickleback-tapeworm paper. academic.oup.com/evlett
What happens to immunity and infection prevalence in the 50 years after a host invades a new location

Ant queen lays eggs that hatch into two species Bizarre discovery of interspecies cloning “almost impossible to believe,” biologists say

This is just B A N A N A S. Hymenopteran genetics, amirite? www.science.org/content/arti...

Agreed, but learned society journals should strive to become more open and inclusive! Is this OK for our journals to hide behind paywalls that preclude free access by researchers from low income countries? More here: trulyopenscience.blogspot.com/2025/09/why-...
#SocietyJournals #SciPub

Agreed, but learned society journals should strive to become more open and inclusive! Is this OK for our journals to hide behind paywalls that preclude free access by researchers from low income countries? More here: trulyopenscience.blogspot.com/2025/09/why-...
#SocietyJournals #SciPub

Great talk and suggestions (!!!) for a responsible open publishing by @jacek-radwan.bsky.social

#eseb2025 talks were great so far. Subjective ranking of the most common quotes:
- theory and modeling: "with this very simple approach"
- genomics: "using methodology you all know"
- plenaries: "Nature/Science" in the bottom right of a slide
- posters: "una cerveza por favor"

#OnThisDay in 1858, a seminal journal article comprised of papers by Alfred Russel Wallace FRS and Charles Darwin FRS on the theory of evolution by natural selection was published by the Linnean Society, the first public announcement of the theory of evolution. bit.ly/3k8fq4u

Not only fantastic #ESEB2025 talks, but also great posters. Józefina presented her work on Borelia, Neha on sexual selection and populations dynamics, Sebastian on bulb mite genomics, Mateusz on genetic load in guppies and Jacek on CFH gene in bank voles. Our diversity unleashed!

If you are frustrated with the quality of reviews and excessive article processing charges, take a minute read:
trulyopenscience.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-si...
We researchers really have a power to change this!
#ScientificPublishing

A Sting Inside a Papermill “It’s clear that any academically corrupt individual — particularly one with editorial connections — could easily “place” dozens of these Anzen products into indexed journals and collect a ha…

This is a must-read. Csaba Szabó, the author of Unreliable, was approached by a paper mill, and he decided to conduct a sting operation. He documented how paper mills operate.

forbetterscience.com/2025/05/19/a...

A billion-dollar donation: estimating the cost of researchers’ time spent on peer review - Research Integrity and Peer Review Background The amount and value of researchers’ peer review work is critical for academia and journal publishing. However, this labor is under-recognized, its magnitude is unknown, and alternative way...

This makes it unjustifiable to still count with thousands of unpaid hours, worth billions of dollars, from reviewers (eg doi.org/10.1186/s410...) and others, such as editorial board members in this case.

How Scientific Publishers’ Extreme Fees Put Profit Over Progress Last month, the editorial team of NeuroImage resigned over the “unethical fees” charged by the journal’s publisher, Elsevier. Can scientists ditch the for-profit system?

We need urgent changes in academic publishing, which costs research institutions too much, draining important resources from science to unparalled high profit margins for big publishers (eg www.thenation.com/article/soci...).

🌟 NEW blog post: "From Gold to Diamond: Is Equitable Open Access Still a Mirage?" 💎🔓

Our VP of Open Research @hahnel.org shares data & insights on the current state of play for #OA.

🔗 Read his post now: www.digital-science.com/tldr/article...

#OpenResearch #OpenAccess #scholcomm

Blue-lined octopus Hapalochlaena fasciata males envenomate females to facilitate copulation Chun et al. show that in the blue-lined octopus Hapalochlaena fasciata males envenomate females during copulation, most likely as a defense against being cannibalized.

Bloody hell! Blue-lined octopus males inject females with tetrodotoxin before mating with them. 🧪 Something for your sexual conflict lectures... www.cell.com/current-biol...

Exploiting social traits for clinical applications in bacteria and viruses npj Antimicrobials and Resistance - Exploiting social traits for clinical applications in bacteria and viruses

Excited to see review with @asherleeks.bsky.social out today in Nature Antimicrobials and Resistance. We compare application of social evolution to treatment of infection in bacteria and viruses: very different stories! rdcu.be/eftKw @biology.ox.ac.uk @erc.europa.eu @naturerevmicro.bsky.social

@judithmank.bsky.social Hi Judith could you add me to Mating Systems starting pack?

@pfvale.bsky.social hello Pedro could you add me to HostParasireEcoEvo?

🐦 Calling all Early Birds! ​
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Hurry up and seize the opportunity to participate in the upcoming ESEB Congress, set in the vibrant city of Barcelona 🌟​
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🎟️ Secure now your place at the best possible price 👉🏻 eseb2025.com/registration...
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#ESEB2025 #Biology #Evolution #Genomics

Bat genomes illuminate adaptations to viral tolerance and disease resistance - Nature A systematic analysis of 115 mammalian genomes, including 10 new bat genomes, reveals prevalent positive selection in immune genes in bats and shows key adaptations in the antiviral gene ISG15 that ai...

Happy to report that our work on immune system adaptations in bats is now out in @nature.com 🦇🧬 www.nature.com/articles/s41... @ariadnamorales.bsky.social @batresearch.bsky.social @virology.bsky.social @DGKontopoulos.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy @sgn.one @bat1kgenomes.bsky.social Read more ...

Post-Doc position in the KZLab! Immune responses to pathogen infections in frogs We are looking for an NSF-funded post-doc in our lab in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin. The work will examine immune mechanisms that potentially underlie…

Hello All, plz share. Last call for applications for a post-doc position in our lab to study immune function in frogs infected with the fungal pathogen Bd. Deadline is Feb 1, reviews will begin soon after. zamudiolab.org/2024/12/17/p...

Will you science people just stop writing really interesting sounding papers that I now have to find time to read, please? 🧪

This is what "open acces" is doing: you pay you
publish

AAAS leadership was pushing to publish more by raising the acceptance rate somewhat and also wanted to increase the APC. The editors were comfortable with where bar had been set and did not want to raise the APC.

50/n

Wow, just wow.
V different approach reveals numerous problems in Scientific Reports - cf deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/10/an-o...
I do hope @springernature.bsky.social will start to publish reviewer reports and editor info as we suggested

Maybe it is also a question of whether vaccines can target conserved epitopes (which influenza vaccines so far cannot)