The dream of any incompetent scientist: publish in high-profile journals, focusing on "questions", without understanding the technical part. This has *never* worked (e.g., statistics), but it pollutes the literature with bad science.

It is probably worth checking whether this is even compatible with their own copyright transfer agreement. It would be equivalent to e.g. proposing alternative definitions of their own in the margins of published papers, alternative wording, etc. without the author's consent.

Maud Tenaillon (@maudtenaillon.bsky.social), Editor-in-Chief:

To be totally transparent, one needs to consider the hidden cost for the European scientific community to write ~ 4000 40+page grants. Assuming a couple of months of work per grant + many days spent on evaluating them, this is > 1000 years or research from experts lost in this bureaucratic process.

Our paper on evolution of plasticity and character displacement in a fluctuating environment is now published as early view in Evolution. Check it out if you're interested in eco-evolutionary dynamics, coevolution... and plasticity of course!
academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

It is frequently believed that cis-regulatory mutations in gene promoters have smaller and less pleiotropic effects than trans-acting mutations in the coding sequence. We could show that this pattern is not a universal truth, as it can only be observed in scale-free regulatory networks.

Based on simulations, we show that the size and pleiotropy of mutations affecting gene expression heavily depend on the structure of the underlying gene network.