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We’re pleased to announce our Trained Immunity Focus Issue 🎉
With original research and reviews spanning history, current state and future directions of trained immunity, explore today:
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With original research and reviews spanning history, current state and future directions of trained immunity, explore today:
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November 5, 2025 at 3:12 PM
We’re pleased to announce our Trained Immunity Focus Issue 🎉
With original research and reviews spanning history, current state and future directions of trained immunity, explore today:
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With original research and reviews spanning history, current state and future directions of trained immunity, explore today:
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Hungary 1956
'Well over a 100k people fled the country seeking asylum. Among them was a young geneticist named George Rédei, who headed for the Austrian border with a small vial of seeds tucked in his pocket.
The seeds belonged to a spindly weed in the mustard family called Arabidopsis thaliana.'
'Well over a 100k people fled the country seeking asylum. Among them was a young geneticist named George Rédei, who headed for the Austrian border with a small vial of seeds tucked in his pocket.
The seeds belonged to a spindly weed in the mustard family called Arabidopsis thaliana.'
How a humble weed became a superstar of biology
Arabidopsis thaliana was always an unlikely candidate for the limelight. But 25 years ago, the diminutive thale cress launched the botanical world into the molecular era.
knowablemagazine.org
November 6, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Hungary 1956
'Well over a 100k people fled the country seeking asylum. Among them was a young geneticist named George Rédei, who headed for the Austrian border with a small vial of seeds tucked in his pocket.
The seeds belonged to a spindly weed in the mustard family called Arabidopsis thaliana.'
'Well over a 100k people fled the country seeking asylum. Among them was a young geneticist named George Rédei, who headed for the Austrian border with a small vial of seeds tucked in his pocket.
The seeds belonged to a spindly weed in the mustard family called Arabidopsis thaliana.'
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The discovery of DNA and the triplet code inspired me to be a molecular biologist and for that I’m grateful. Forget James Watson. Franklin, Crick, Brenner and Sanger are the heroes in this story.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:49 PM
The discovery of DNA and the triplet code inspired me to be a molecular biologist and for that I’m grateful. Forget James Watson. Franklin, Crick, Brenner and Sanger are the heroes in this story.
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Looking for a home for your genetics or genomics preprint?
We review research from the genetic basis of health and disease to epigenetics.
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We review research from the genetic basis of health and disease to epigenetics.
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The eLife Model: Submit your research
In January 2023, we switched to a new way of publishing where all papers reviewed by eLife are published as Reviewed Preprints.
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November 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Looking for a home for your genetics or genomics preprint?
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We review research from the genetic basis of health and disease to epigenetics.
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we're following closely... 👏👏👏
glad to see an "update" to > smallthingsconsidered.blog/schaechter/2...
glad to see an "update" to > smallthingsconsidered.blog/schaechter/2...
November 8, 2025 at 1:36 PM
we're following closely... 👏👏👏
glad to see an "update" to > smallthingsconsidered.blog/schaechter/2...
glad to see an "update" to > smallthingsconsidered.blog/schaechter/2...
Reposted by Maria Mercedes (Mechas) Zambrano
Reposted by Maria Mercedes (Mechas) Zambrano
Decades-long mystery of ginger/orange cats revealed.
Parallel studies have shown these cats are missing a section of their genetic code, which means the cells responsible for their skin, eye & fur tone produce lighter colours.
🧪🧬😺 #catsofbluesky
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Parallel studies have shown these cats are missing a section of their genetic code, which means the cells responsible for their skin, eye & fur tone produce lighter colours.
🧪🧬😺 #catsofbluesky
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Decades-long mystery of ginger cats revealed
Researchers in Japan and US have unlocked the 60-year mystery of what gives cats their orange colour.
www.bbc.com
May 15, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Decades-long mystery of ginger/orange cats revealed.
Parallel studies have shown these cats are missing a section of their genetic code, which means the cells responsible for their skin, eye & fur tone produce lighter colours.
🧪🧬😺 #catsofbluesky
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Parallel studies have shown these cats are missing a section of their genetic code, which means the cells responsible for their skin, eye & fur tone produce lighter colours.
🧪🧬😺 #catsofbluesky
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Wow: check it out; these fungi distribute their chromosomes across different nuclei!
Normally each nucleus has a complete set of all chromosomes.
Distribution of haploid chromosomes into separate nuclei in two pathogenic fungi | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Normally each nucleus has a complete set of all chromosomes.
Distribution of haploid chromosomes into separate nuclei in two pathogenic fungi | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Distribution of haploid chromosomes into separate nuclei in two pathogenic fungi
Nuclei define eukaryotes, enabling macromolecular compartmentalization and cellular regulation. Each nucleus is believed to contain one or more haploid sets of chromosomes (1N). However, we discovered...
www.science.org
May 16, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Wow: check it out; these fungi distribute their chromosomes across different nuclei!
Normally each nucleus has a complete set of all chromosomes.
Distribution of haploid chromosomes into separate nuclei in two pathogenic fungi | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Normally each nucleus has a complete set of all chromosomes.
Distribution of haploid chromosomes into separate nuclei in two pathogenic fungi | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Breathtaking:
Ocean Vuong Was Ready to Kill. Then a Moment of Grace Changed His Life. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/m...
Ocean Vuong Was Ready to Kill. Then a Moment of Grace Changed His Life. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/m...
‘The Interview’: Ocean Vuong was Ready to Kill. A Moment of Grace Changed His Life.
The poet and novelist on the real reason he became a writer.
www.nytimes.com
May 4, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Breathtaking:
Ocean Vuong Was Ready to Kill. Then a Moment of Grace Changed His Life. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/m...
Ocean Vuong Was Ready to Kill. Then a Moment of Grace Changed His Life. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/m...
Among so many, here is a beautifully written account of how to find oneself.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/s...
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/s...
The Church of the Open Road (Gift Article)
The writer Colum McCann biked across America, searching for a God.
www.nytimes.com
April 27, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Among so many, here is a beautifully written account of how to find oneself.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/s...
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/s...
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Why do some people leap to help while others hold back?
New research traces these choices to how we perceive need, merit, and fairness, patterns that stay surprisingly stable over time.
New research traces these choices to how we perceive need, merit, and fairness, patterns that stay surprisingly stable over time.
What shapes kindness?
People appear to have stable individual differences in their tendency to perceive neediness or deservingness of others, which in turn shapes their willingness to help others.
buff.ly
April 20, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Why do some people leap to help while others hold back?
New research traces these choices to how we perceive need, merit, and fairness, patterns that stay surprisingly stable over time.
New research traces these choices to how we perceive need, merit, and fairness, patterns that stay surprisingly stable over time.
What Are Microplastics Doing to Our Bodies? This Lab Is Racing to Find Out. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/w...
The Lab Racing to Find Out What Microplastics Are Doing to Our Bodies
Inside a New Mexico lab, researchers estimate there is five bottle caps worth of plastic in human brains. Now they are trying to find out its effects.
www.nytimes.com
April 8, 2025 at 12:21 PM
What Are Microplastics Doing to Our Bodies? This Lab Is Racing to Find Out. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/w...
Because what you don't see can still hurt you: ‘Some insects are declining but what’s happening to the other 99%? | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
‘Some insects are declining but what’s happening to the other 99%?’
Insects are the dominant form of animal life on our planet, providing humans and wildlife with pollination, food, and recycling services but, despite concerns about population declines, little is know...
www.eurekalert.org
April 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Because what you don't see can still hurt you: ‘Some insects are declining but what’s happening to the other 99%? | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
Reposted by Maria Mercedes (Mechas) Zambrano
Reposted by Maria Mercedes (Mechas) Zambrano
Imagine if those funds went to paying students, technicians, or postdocs to do more research. 🧪
🚨 Preprint! We combine our recent open dataset of #APC prices with the article counts per journal-year from #OpenAlex to estimate how much the academic community has paid in APCs over the last 5 years.
A. $8.349 billion ($8.968 B in 2023 USD)
$2.5B in 2023 alone.
arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551 #metasci
A. $8.349 billion ($8.968 B in 2023 USD)
$2.5B in 2023 alone.
arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551 #metasci
Estimating global article processing charges paid to six publishers for open access between 2019 and 2023
This study presents estimates of the global expenditure on article processing charges (APCs) paid to six publishers for open access between 2019 and 2023. APCs are fees charged for publishing in some ...
arxiv.org
March 26, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Imagine if those funds went to paying students, technicians, or postdocs to do more research. 🧪
Spiders webs to insulate from sound: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/s...
Everyone in the City Needs Soundproofing, Even Spiders (Gift Article)
Researchers have found evidence that a common North American spider species alters its webs to deal with urban noise pollution.
www.nytimes.com
March 23, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Spiders webs to insulate from sound: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/s...
The many surprising lives of DNA
March 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The many surprising lives of DNA
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💡 In case you missed it: We’re looking back at two years of our publish, review, curate publishing model with headline figures, author testimonials, landmark papers and more.
Take a look at the two-year update ⬇️
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Take a look at the two-year update ⬇️
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The eLife Model: Two-year update
How is the eLife Model driving change in research? We explore some key milestones and accomplishments of the first two years of a new era for research publishing.
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March 16, 2025 at 11:01 AM
💡 In case you missed it: We’re looking back at two years of our publish, review, curate publishing model with headline figures, author testimonials, landmark papers and more.
Take a look at the two-year update ⬇️
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Take a look at the two-year update ⬇️
buff.ly/w2tTaZi
The Great AI Art Heist www.chicagomag.com/chicago-maga...
The Great AI Art Heist
A lab at the University of Chicago is protecting artists from theft by a new adversary: the machines.
www.chicagomag.com
March 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
The Great AI Art Heist www.chicagomag.com/chicago-maga...
Curious about the quality of the air you breathe? Check it out..
www.iqair.com/us/world-air...
www.iqair.com/us/world-air...
2024 World Air Quality Report | IQAir
Interactive global map of 2024 PM2.5 concentrations by city.
www.iqair.com
March 13, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Curious about the quality of the air you breathe? Check it out..
www.iqair.com/us/world-air...
www.iqair.com/us/world-air...
New ideas that people have: The Morning Ritual That Helps Me Resist the Algorithm www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/m...
How Poetry Helps Me Resist the Algorithm
Instead of defaulting to the notifications on my phone, poetry has inspired me to begin the day in a different way.
www.nytimes.com
February 26, 2025 at 12:43 PM
New ideas that people have: The Morning Ritual That Helps Me Resist the Algorithm www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/m...
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Enter the Pirates
by Christoph — Well-known examples of rapacious bacteria are Myxococcus xanthus and the vampires from the Bdellovibrio tribe. Enter the pirates with Captain Aureispira…
thx @pilhoferlab.bsky.social for this story.
Read more > schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2...
#MicroSky
by Christoph — Well-known examples of rapacious bacteria are Myxococcus xanthus and the vampires from the Bdellovibrio tribe. Enter the pirates with Captain Aureispira…
thx @pilhoferlab.bsky.social for this story.
Read more > schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2...
#MicroSky
February 17, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Enter the Pirates
by Christoph — Well-known examples of rapacious bacteria are Myxococcus xanthus and the vampires from the Bdellovibrio tribe. Enter the pirates with Captain Aureispira…
thx @pilhoferlab.bsky.social for this story.
Read more > schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2...
#MicroSky
by Christoph — Well-known examples of rapacious bacteria are Myxococcus xanthus and the vampires from the Bdellovibrio tribe. Enter the pirates with Captain Aureispira…
thx @pilhoferlab.bsky.social for this story.
Read more > schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2...
#MicroSky
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