Daniel Gorelick
@danielgorelick.bsky.social
Science is real
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Editor-in-chief, BiO (Biology Open)
Opinions are my own, not my employers
gorelicklab.org
Editor-in-chief, BiO (Biology Open)
Opinions are my own, not my employers
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy
December 27, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy
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As a Jew, it’s fun watching the administration post Christian nationalist messages while also saying they are doing everything they can to curb antisemitism.
Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.
December 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
As a Jew, it’s fun watching the administration post Christian nationalist messages while also saying they are doing everything they can to curb antisemitism.
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made a trip to Cerebral Brewing which has perhaps the best named beer for a neuroscientist #neuroskyence
December 24, 2025 at 10:10 PM
made a trip to Cerebral Brewing which has perhaps the best named beer for a neuroscientist #neuroskyence
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Someone should sit the new members of ACIP down and explain what their job is and is not to them in simple terms, and maybe teach them some basic law. Dr. Malone's claims here have several misunderstandings. 1/n
December 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Someone should sit the new members of ACIP down and explain what their job is and is not to them in simple terms, and maybe teach them some basic law. Dr. Malone's claims here have several misunderstandings. 1/n
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Thus begins the #dadjoke thread for 2025 bsky.app/profile/hist...
Hey did I tell y’all what my New Year’s resolution is?
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January 4, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Thus begins the #dadjoke thread for 2025 bsky.app/profile/hist...
Should funders mandate where grantees can publish?
Probably not.
But funders could mandate where grantees cannot publish.
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1/11
Probably not.
But funders could mandate where grantees cannot publish.
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1/11
December 24, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Should funders mandate where grantees can publish?
Probably not.
But funders could mandate where grantees cannot publish.
🧵
1/11
Probably not.
But funders could mandate where grantees cannot publish.
🧵
1/11
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Can scientists get a fair shake publishing solid work in specialty journals? Definitely if article metrics were used; many such papers are revealed to be as influential as papers from high tier journals 1/4 #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter #NIH #NSF #OpenScience journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Most researchers would receive more recognition if assessed by article-level metrics than by journal-level metrics
Are authors fairly judged by assessment of the prestige of the journals in which their work is published? This study compares article level metrics with journal level metrics, finding that the vast ma...
journals.plos.org
December 18, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Can scientists get a fair shake publishing solid work in specialty journals? Definitely if article metrics were used; many such papers are revealed to be as influential as papers from high tier journals 1/4 #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter #NIH #NSF #OpenScience journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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The story is based on data presented at the NHLBI Advisory Council meeting.
The data show that the Early Stage Investigator funding rate declined from
29.8% in FY2023
to
26.1% in FY2024
to a stunning
18.5% in FY2025.
2/4
The data show that the Early Stage Investigator funding rate declined from
29.8% in FY2023
to
26.1% in FY2024
to a stunning
18.5% in FY2025.
2/4
December 19, 2025 at 12:08 AM
The story is based on data presented at the NHLBI Advisory Council meeting.
The data show that the Early Stage Investigator funding rate declined from
29.8% in FY2023
to
26.1% in FY2024
to a stunning
18.5% in FY2025.
2/4
The data show that the Early Stage Investigator funding rate declined from
29.8% in FY2023
to
26.1% in FY2024
to a stunning
18.5% in FY2025.
2/4
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On the same day he stripped AAP of millions in grant funding in retaliation, RFK Jr awarded $1.6M to Tracy Høeg's Danish friends for a grossly unethical study that will expose African babies to hep B for no reason than it's politically expedient.
Steal from American taxpayers, give to MAHA cronies.
Steal from American taxpayers, give to MAHA cronies.
CDC awards $1.6 million for new hepatitis B vaccine study in Guinea-Bissau. Although the award recipients aren't named, the grant seems tailored to Danish researchers whose work is championed by anti-vaxxers but challenged by mainstream scientists.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
CDC awards $1.6 million for hepatitis B vaccine study, likely to controversial Danish researchers
www.cidrap.umn.edu
December 18, 2025 at 4:31 PM
On the same day he stripped AAP of millions in grant funding in retaliation, RFK Jr awarded $1.6M to Tracy Høeg's Danish friends for a grossly unethical study that will expose African babies to hep B for no reason than it's politically expedient.
Steal from American taxpayers, give to MAHA cronies.
Steal from American taxpayers, give to MAHA cronies.
Shocking absolutely nobody, NIH is having problems finding competent & experienced scientists to fill institute director positions. When you elect a clown, you get a circus. I trained to run a research group, not a circus
December 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Shocking absolutely nobody, NIH is having problems finding competent & experienced scientists to fill institute director positions. When you elect a clown, you get a circus. I trained to run a research group, not a circus
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Why do people publish in shoddy journals?
Last month, Science of the Total Environment was delisted from Clarivate’s Web of Science. Delisting is often a death knell. It signals a journal no longer meets expectations for publication ethics or quality.
🧵1/8
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
Last month, Science of the Total Environment was delisted from Clarivate’s Web of Science. Delisting is often a death knell. It signals a journal no longer meets expectations for publication ethics or quality.
🧵1/8
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
The fall of a prolific science journal exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing
One of the 15 publications that put out the most studies globally has been expelled from the indexing system for irregularities. Its publisher, Elsevier, has a 38% profit margin that reached $1.5 bill...
english.elpais.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Why do people publish in shoddy journals?
Last month, Science of the Total Environment was delisted from Clarivate’s Web of Science. Delisting is often a death knell. It signals a journal no longer meets expectations for publication ethics or quality.
🧵1/8
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
Last month, Science of the Total Environment was delisted from Clarivate’s Web of Science. Delisting is often a death knell. It signals a journal no longer meets expectations for publication ethics or quality.
🧵1/8
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
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The #NIH IRP Summer (paid!) Internship Program for 2026 has opened its application portal. This opportunity is open to US Citizens who are college students (including rising first-years), postbaccalaureate, and graduate students, including medical and dental. The deadline is 2026/02/18!
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DCEG offers a summer research internship in cancer epidemiology, biostatistics, or genetics fo college, postbaccalaureate masters-level students, and graduate students, including medical and dental st...
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December 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The #NIH IRP Summer (paid!) Internship Program for 2026 has opened its application portal. This opportunity is open to US Citizens who are college students (including rising first-years), postbaccalaureate, and graduate students, including medical and dental. The deadline is 2026/02/18!
Finally someone understands!
Annual reminder:
Die Hard is about using impossibly limited resources to defend a tower from foreign invaders.
Die Hard is a Hanukkah movie.
Die Hard is about using impossibly limited resources to defend a tower from foreign invaders.
Die Hard is a Hanukkah movie.
December 14, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Finally someone understands!
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My quote of the day
In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
Stephen Jay Gould
In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
Stephen Jay Gould
December 14, 2025 at 12:31 PM
My quote of the day
In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
Stephen Jay Gould
In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
Stephen Jay Gould
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As an author, when I see reviewer-requested experiments, the only conclusion I can reach is they don’t want to see the research published. If two out of three reviewers requested for additional experiments, I will simply try another journal.
December 13, 2025 at 11:20 PM
As an author, when I see reviewer-requested experiments, the only conclusion I can reach is they don’t want to see the research published. If two out of three reviewers requested for additional experiments, I will simply try another journal.
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Download our large database of postdoc fellowships in all fields of research.
Database freely available to all; 281 fellowships.
Download here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
Database freely available to all; 281 fellowships.
Download here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
December 13, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Download our large database of postdoc fellowships in all fields of research.
Database freely available to all; 281 fellowships.
Download here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
Database freely available to all; 281 fellowships.
Download here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
Fun working the @biologists.bsky.social booth #CellBio2025 spreading the word about journals.biologists.com/bio/pages/fa...
December 9, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Fun working the @biologists.bsky.social booth #CellBio2025 spreading the word about journals.biologists.com/bio/pages/fa...
With two giants of the sci publishing world who birthed biorxiv & medrxiv
December 8, 2025 at 9:24 PM
With two giants of the sci publishing world who birthed biorxiv & medrxiv
December 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
With two giants of the sci publishing world who birthed biorxiv & medrxiv
Can’t go to Philly without enjoying some scrapple #CellBio2025
December 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Can’t go to Philly without enjoying some scrapple #CellBio2025
From the sublime to the subcellular! Finished matinee performance of Handel's Messiah with the Houston Symphony Chorus, now on my way to #CellBio2025. Looking forward to talking science & science publishing & spreading the word about Biology Open paying reviewers & providing 7 day turnaround
December 7, 2025 at 11:56 PM
From the sublime to the subcellular! Finished matinee performance of Handel's Messiah with the Houston Symphony Chorus, now on my way to #CellBio2025. Looking forward to talking science & science publishing & spreading the word about Biology Open paying reviewers & providing 7 day turnaround
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Journal of Cell Science is published by The Company of Biologists, a not-for-profit organisation that exists to benefit scientists, not shareholders.
Visit booth 1232 at #CellBio2025 to find out more about how we support the community (or visit: journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/re...)
Visit booth 1232 at #CellBio2025 to find out more about how we support the community (or visit: journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/re...)
Reasons to submit | Journal of Cell Science | The Company of Biologists
Reasons to submit | Journal of Cell Science | The Company of Biologists
Reasons to submit to Journal of Cell Science
Making it easy for our authors
It’s free to publish – no page ...
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December 7, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Journal of Cell Science is published by The Company of Biologists, a not-for-profit organisation that exists to benefit scientists, not shareholders.
Visit booth 1232 at #CellBio2025 to find out more about how we support the community (or visit: journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/re...)
Visit booth 1232 at #CellBio2025 to find out more about how we support the community (or visit: journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/re...)