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We’re thrilled to welcome the Journal of General Physiology @jgp.org @rupress.org to our Affiliate Program! 🎉
Authors can now seamlessly transfer their #peerreviewedpreprint @reviewcommons.org @embo.org to JGP via our transfer portal.
Excited to start this new chapter with JGP @rupress.org!
Authors can now seamlessly transfer their #peerreviewedpreprint @reviewcommons.org @embo.org to JGP via our transfer portal.
Excited to start this new chapter with JGP @rupress.org!
One review. Many journals. Less redundancy. Check out this conversation with our head Dr. Thomas Lemberger on the vision behind @reviewcommons.org and what it means for authors and journals alike @embopress.org @embo.org
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Review Commons: rethinking peer review – Features – EMBO
A conversation with Thomas Lemberger, lead of the Review Commons initiative and Head of Open Science Implementation at EMBO.
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December 11, 2025 at 8:52 AM
One review. Many journals. Less redundancy. Check out this conversation with our head Dr. Thomas Lemberger on the vision behind @reviewcommons.org and what it means for authors and journals alike @embopress.org @embo.org
www.embo.org/people/revie...
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You can find out more about Review Commons and the transfer to affiliate journals including JCS here: www.reviewcommons.org/authors/
You can find out more about Review Commons and the transfer to affiliate journals including JCS here: www.reviewcommons.org/authors/
Guidelines for Authors
Note: a version-controlled version of these guidelines is maintained at https://github.com/review-commons
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Scope and editorial assessment
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November 19, 2025 at 10:02 AM
This article is a @reviewcommons.org transfer.
You can find out more about Review Commons and the transfer to affiliate journals including JCS here: www.reviewcommons.org/authors/
You can find out more about Review Commons and the transfer to affiliate journals including JCS here: www.reviewcommons.org/authors/
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Thanks to @reviewcommons.org and very fast handling by @jcb.org
December 4, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Thanks to @reviewcommons.org and very fast handling by @jcb.org
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Attending #CellBio2025? Learn about "Providing constructive feedback in #PeerReview" tomorrow in Room 123 from 10–11:30 EST at the EMBO #training with speaker Sara Monaco, Managing Editor at Review Commons. 🧪 EMBO Lab Leadership
December 8, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Attending #CellBio2025? Learn about "Providing constructive feedback in #PeerReview" tomorrow in Room 123 from 10–11:30 EST at the EMBO #training with speaker Sara Monaco, Managing Editor at Review Commons. 🧪 EMBO Lab Leadership
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Round 2! Join us again at booth #825 from 14:00–15:00 EST to chat with editors Poonam (Molecular Systems Biology), Sara Monaco (Review Commons) and Tim (Life Science Alliance) to discuss your manuscript, talk about #publishing or hear about life as an editor. See you there! EMBO Press #CellBio2025
December 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Round 2! Join us again at booth #825 from 14:00–15:00 EST to chat with editors Poonam (Molecular Systems Biology), Sara Monaco (Review Commons) and Tim (Life Science Alliance) to discuss your manuscript, talk about #publishing or hear about life as an editor. See you there! EMBO Press #CellBio2025
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Wrapping up a series of @embo.org #workshops at #CellBio2025 with editors from @molsystbiol.org and @reviewcommons.org .
Today we close with “Giving a flash talk or poster presentation” with Poonam Bheda, Senior Editor at @molsystbiol.org @embopress.org. See you in Room 123 from 12:45–14:15!
Today we close with “Giving a flash talk or poster presentation” with Poonam Bheda, Senior Editor at @molsystbiol.org @embopress.org. See you in Room 123 from 12:45–14:15!
December 9, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Wrapping up a series of @embo.org #workshops at #CellBio2025 with editors from @molsystbiol.org and @reviewcommons.org .
Today we close with “Giving a flash talk or poster presentation” with Poonam Bheda, Senior Editor at @molsystbiol.org @embopress.org. See you in Room 123 from 12:45–14:15!
Today we close with “Giving a flash talk or poster presentation” with Poonam Bheda, Senior Editor at @molsystbiol.org @embopress.org. See you in Room 123 from 12:45–14:15!
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Don't miss out on the last "Meet the Editors" session at #CellBio2025! Join us at booth 825 from 14:00–15:00 EST to chat with editors Poonam (Molecular Systems Biology), Sara Monaco (Review Commons) and Tim (Life Science Alliance) to talk about #publishing, life as an editor and more! 🧪 EMBO Press
December 9, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Don't miss out on the last "Meet the Editors" session at #CellBio2025! Join us at booth 825 from 14:00–15:00 EST to chat with editors Poonam (Molecular Systems Biology), Sara Monaco (Review Commons) and Tim (Life Science Alliance) to talk about #publishing, life as an editor and more! 🧪 EMBO Press
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The preprint #PeerReview platform Review Commons was launched at the 2019 ASCB | EMBO Meeting to make scientific #publishing more open and effective. Thomas Lemberger, lead of the initiative, tells us more about the platform: https://www.embo.org/features/review-commons-rethinking-peer-review/ 🧪
December 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The preprint #PeerReview platform Review Commons was launched at the 2019 ASCB | EMBO Meeting to make scientific #publishing more open and effective. Thomas Lemberger, lead of the initiative, tells us more about the platform: https://www.embo.org/features/review-commons-rethinking-peer-review/ 🧪
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I love @reviewcommons.org
The preprint #PeerReview platform Review Commons was launched at the 2019 ASCB | EMBO Meeting to make scientific #publishing more open and effective. Thomas Lemberger, lead of the initiative, tells us more about the platform: https://www.embo.org/features/review-commons-rethinking-peer-review/ 🧪
December 10, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I love @reviewcommons.org
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The support from @embopress.org and @reviewcommons.org means a lot! Thank you @tlemberger.bsky.social ! @qedscience.bsky.social
Very cool! I agree AI scientific review can be useful if it is transparent. It is all progressing very fast and will change everything. @qedScience @bioRxiv is a great first step. We are doing some human-based eval, so more soon from @EMBOPress @ReviewCommons with @qedScience. Watch this space ;-)
Excited to launch an openRxiv partnership with the scientist-run AI review service qed (@qedscience.bsky.social), the brainchild of @odedrechavi.bsky.social 1/n
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November 6, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The support from @embopress.org and @reviewcommons.org means a lot! Thank you @tlemberger.bsky.social ! @qedscience.bsky.social
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The Chameau gene helps flies survive starvation at lower temps, but a mere 2{degree sign}C rise makes it obsolete! This temperature-dependent role in metabolism and resilience has big implications for climate change biology.
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November 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM
The Chameau gene helps flies survive starvation at lower temps, but a mere 2{degree sign}C rise makes it obsolete! This temperature-dependent role in metabolism and resilience has big implications for climate change biology.
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Chameau (HBO1) gene function in starvation resistance is bypassed by slightly elevated temperatures in Drosophila, suggesting a temperature-dependent metabolic role.
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November 14, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Chameau (HBO1) gene function in starvation resistance is bypassed by slightly elevated temperatures in Drosophila, suggesting a temperature-dependent metabolic role.
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How can gut microbes modulate host lifespan?
@jogender-singh.bsky.social & coworkers show that in C. elegans, lifespan extension arises from microbial perturbation of iron homeostasis and oxidative stress response activation
#RefereedPreprint c/o @reviewcommons.org
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@jogender-singh.bsky.social & coworkers show that in C. elegans, lifespan extension arises from microbial perturbation of iron homeostasis and oxidative stress response activation
#RefereedPreprint c/o @reviewcommons.org
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November 17, 2025 at 1:22 PM
How can gut microbes modulate host lifespan?
@jogender-singh.bsky.social & coworkers show that in C. elegans, lifespan extension arises from microbial perturbation of iron homeostasis and oxidative stress response activation
#RefereedPreprint c/o @reviewcommons.org
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@jogender-singh.bsky.social & coworkers show that in C. elegans, lifespan extension arises from microbial perturbation of iron homeostasis and oxidative stress response activation
#RefereedPreprint c/o @reviewcommons.org
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Review Commons partner journal network is expanding!
Welcome to Journal of General Physiology @jgp.org @rupress.org. Looking forward to this collaboration.
Welcome to Journal of General Physiology @jgp.org @rupress.org. Looking forward to this collaboration.
We’re thrilled to welcome the Journal of General Physiology @jgp.org @rupress.org to our Affiliate Program! 🎉
Authors can now seamlessly transfer their #peerreviewedpreprint @reviewcommons.org @embo.org to JGP via our transfer portal.
Excited to start this new chapter with JGP @rupress.org!
Authors can now seamlessly transfer their #peerreviewedpreprint @reviewcommons.org @embo.org to JGP via our transfer portal.
Excited to start this new chapter with JGP @rupress.org!
October 29, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Review Commons partner journal network is expanding!
Welcome to Journal of General Physiology @jgp.org @rupress.org. Looking forward to this collaboration.
Welcome to Journal of General Physiology @jgp.org @rupress.org. Looking forward to this collaboration.
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1/ @reviewcommons.org, @embo.org's preprint peer review platform, is taking an important step forward. Multiple publishers, including eLife, are now jointly running the peer-review process on behalf of the platform.
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October 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
1/ @reviewcommons.org, @embo.org's preprint peer review platform, is taking an important step forward. Multiple publishers, including eLife, are now jointly running the peer-review process on behalf of the platform.
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Big New! @elife.bsky.social @genetics-gsa.bsky.social #G3journal are joining editorial forces with @reviewcommons.org - bringing not just field-specific expertise to the process but also making #PreprintPeerReview a truly collaborative effort!🎉👏
Read more to find out👇
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Read more to find out👇
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Publishers join the Review Commons peer review process – Features – EMBO
Editors from eLife, Genetics, G3 and Journal of Cell Biology will contribute to the EMBO preprint peer review platform
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November 3, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Big New! @elife.bsky.social @genetics-gsa.bsky.social #G3journal are joining editorial forces with @reviewcommons.org - bringing not just field-specific expertise to the process but also making #PreprintPeerReview a truly collaborative effort!🎉👏
Read more to find out👇
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Read more to find out👇
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#RefereedPreprint c/o @reviewcommons.org by Faccioli, Biasini et al:
Transient exposure of cryptic phosphorylation sites buried in protein cores during folding may represent novel regulatory mechanism linking co-translational modification to protein folding control
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Transient exposure of cryptic phosphorylation sites buried in protein cores during folding may represent novel regulatory mechanism linking co-translational modification to protein folding control
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October 6, 2025 at 1:04 PM
#RefereedPreprint c/o @reviewcommons.org by Faccioli, Biasini et al:
Transient exposure of cryptic phosphorylation sites buried in protein cores during folding may represent novel regulatory mechanism linking co-translational modification to protein folding control
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Transient exposure of cryptic phosphorylation sites buried in protein cores during folding may represent novel regulatory mechanism linking co-translational modification to protein folding control
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This study focuses on schizophrenia-related genes in a genetically tractable system and identifies the requirement of both glial and neuronal MMPs during developmental remodeling. @reviewcommons.org www.life-science-alliance.org/content/8/12...
October 9, 2025 at 8:43 AM
This study focuses on schizophrenia-related genes in a genetically tractable system and identifies the requirement of both glial and neuronal MMPs during developmental remodeling. @reviewcommons.org www.life-science-alliance.org/content/8/12...
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Fibril formation of α-synuclein, central to Parkinson’s disease, is catalyzed by ubiquilin-2 droplets and can be suppressed by small-molecule targeting of UBQLN2
#RefereedPreprint c/o @reviewcommons.org by Masaya Imoto, Nobutaka Hattori and coworkers
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#RefereedPreprint c/o @reviewcommons.org by Masaya Imoto, Nobutaka Hattori and coworkers
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October 14, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Fibril formation of α-synuclein, central to Parkinson’s disease, is catalyzed by ubiquilin-2 droplets and can be suppressed by small-molecule targeting of UBQLN2
#RefereedPreprint c/o @reviewcommons.org by Masaya Imoto, Nobutaka Hattori and coworkers
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#RefereedPreprint c/o @reviewcommons.org by Masaya Imoto, Nobutaka Hattori and coworkers
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And also the bacterial telomere protection paper by Maya, Nicolas, & Ania is out:
doi.org/10.1038/s443...
Great experience with @reviewcommons.org
& @embojournal.org
Feels just right to have the manuscript reviewed without having to target a specific journal from the start.
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Great experience with @reviewcommons.org
& @embojournal.org
Feels just right to have the manuscript reviewed without having to target a specific journal from the start.
October 15, 2025 at 12:06 PM
And also the bacterial telomere protection paper by Maya, Nicolas, & Ania is out:
doi.org/10.1038/s443...
Great experience with @reviewcommons.org
& @embojournal.org
Feels just right to have the manuscript reviewed without having to target a specific journal from the start.
doi.org/10.1038/s443...
Great experience with @reviewcommons.org
& @embojournal.org
Feels just right to have the manuscript reviewed without having to target a specific journal from the start.
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Final thoughts: the experience of publishing this article via @reviewcommons.org and @embojournal.org was awesome!
October 15, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Final thoughts: the experience of publishing this article via @reviewcommons.org and @embojournal.org was awesome!
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Check out this recently published paper in LSA:
A Drosophila screen of schizophrenia genes highlights neural and glial MMPs in neuronal remodeling @reviewcommons.org www.life-science-alliance.org/content/8/12...
A Drosophila screen of schizophrenia genes highlights neural and glial MMPs in neuronal remodeling @reviewcommons.org www.life-science-alliance.org/content/8/12...
October 16, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Check out this recently published paper in LSA:
A Drosophila screen of schizophrenia genes highlights neural and glial MMPs in neuronal remodeling @reviewcommons.org www.life-science-alliance.org/content/8/12...
A Drosophila screen of schizophrenia genes highlights neural and glial MMPs in neuronal remodeling @reviewcommons.org www.life-science-alliance.org/content/8/12...
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T-cell smFISH:
@anilevetu.bsky.social, @monikawolkers.bsky.social et al present an optimized workflow for simultaneously quantifying nascent and mature mRNA, and its localization with single-cell resolution in human T-cells
#RefereedPreprint c/o @reviewcommons.org
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@anilevetu.bsky.social, @monikawolkers.bsky.social et al present an optimized workflow for simultaneously quantifying nascent and mature mRNA, and its localization with single-cell resolution in human T-cells
#RefereedPreprint c/o @reviewcommons.org
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October 17, 2025 at 10:26 AM
T-cell smFISH:
@anilevetu.bsky.social, @monikawolkers.bsky.social et al present an optimized workflow for simultaneously quantifying nascent and mature mRNA, and its localization with single-cell resolution in human T-cells
#RefereedPreprint c/o @reviewcommons.org
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
@anilevetu.bsky.social, @monikawolkers.bsky.social et al present an optimized workflow for simultaneously quantifying nascent and mature mRNA, and its localization with single-cell resolution in human T-cells
#RefereedPreprint c/o @reviewcommons.org
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
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E. coli bacteriophage N15 suppresses Mre11-Rad50-mediated end degradation of its linear genome via a telomere-resolution-independent function of its telomere resolvase TelN
#RefereedPreprint c/o @reviewcommons.org by @gruberlab.bsky.social
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#RefereedPreprint c/o @reviewcommons.org by @gruberlab.bsky.social
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October 20, 2025 at 1:19 PM
E. coli bacteriophage N15 suppresses Mre11-Rad50-mediated end degradation of its linear genome via a telomere-resolution-independent function of its telomere resolvase TelN
#RefereedPreprint c/o @reviewcommons.org by @gruberlab.bsky.social
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#RefereedPreprint c/o @reviewcommons.org by @gruberlab.bsky.social
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How do cells curb nutrient uptake during quiescence & does it matter?
@teislab.bsky.social & Co. show TXNIP-dependent endocytosis of amino acid transporter LAT1/SLC7A5 is essential to prevent cell death and human disease
#RefereedPreprint c/o @reviewcommons.org
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@teislab.bsky.social & Co. show TXNIP-dependent endocytosis of amino acid transporter LAT1/SLC7A5 is essential to prevent cell death and human disease
#RefereedPreprint c/o @reviewcommons.org
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
October 24, 2025 at 2:57 PM
How do cells curb nutrient uptake during quiescence & does it matter?
@teislab.bsky.social & Co. show TXNIP-dependent endocytosis of amino acid transporter LAT1/SLC7A5 is essential to prevent cell death and human disease
#RefereedPreprint c/o @reviewcommons.org
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
@teislab.bsky.social & Co. show TXNIP-dependent endocytosis of amino acid transporter LAT1/SLC7A5 is essential to prevent cell death and human disease
#RefereedPreprint c/o @reviewcommons.org
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....