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😃 to share this new @plos.org Medicine 📄 written in collaboration with the super cool @kahin-tai.bsky.social (from the super cool @sharectd.bsky.social doctoral network), Gérard Legoff, @annelelouarn.bsky.social & @synthymama.bsky.social.
Open science must include effective results dissemination to study participants
Open science often centers around publications and data transparency. This Perspective discusses how and why disseminating results to study participants is essential for maximizing the values and bene...
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October 16, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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The 2025 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”
Cartoon from the Nobel Assembly showing the three prize winners, their names, and “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”
October 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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In our latest Editorial, PLOS Medicine Executive Editor Helen Lumbard and I call for the scientific community to tackle research fraud and paper mills head on by creating robust systems of data sharing and transparency 🧪 #PLOSMedicine #datasharing #openscience
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Open science and transparency are our strongest tools in the fight against fraudulent publishing activities
PLOS Medicine Executive Editor, Helen Lumbard, and Senior Editor, Front Section, Daniel Routledge, call for the scientific community to tackle research fraud and paper mills head on by creating robust...
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October 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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We are proud to announce a new agreement with @rorinstitute.bsky.social and @aimosinc.bsky.social to become a partner journal with MetaResearch Open Review (MetaRoR) @metaror.bsky.social

#metaresearch #openscience 🧪

Learn more: plos.io/45wPZB9
PLOS Biology announces agreement to become a MetaROR partner journal - The Official PLOS Blog
Note: PLOS issued the following press release on Thursday, August 14th. SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Today, PLOS Biology announced a new agreement…
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August 14, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Charting the future of PLOS Medicine – in their Editorial, Executive Editor, Helen Lumbard, and Editor-in-Chief, Till Baernighausen, outline their vision for the journal’s next chapter and reaffirm its commitment to diversity, openness, and actionable science. 🧪

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Charting the future of PLOS Medicine: Priorities for evidence, impact, and equity
As PLOS Medicine enters a new chapter, its leadership sets out a bold editorial vision grounded in evidence, impact and equity. In a rapidly evolving global health landscape, the journal reaffirms its...
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August 15, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Our new Collection on #cancer is out now! We delve into how #omics technologies are helping researchers to better understand what goes on in the tumor microenvironment 🧪

See 🧵⬇️ for more info on the articles 1/9

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Unveiling cancer crosstalk across spatial and temporal scales
This collection focuses on how recent technological advancements in omics approaches (genomics, proteomics, metabolomics etc.) have enhanced our understanding of the mechanisms governing tumor progres...
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August 1, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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What links #migraine aura and #headache? In this Essay, Anders Hougaard, Messoud Ashina &co delve into the mechanistic and pathophysiological relationship between migraine aura and headache. 🧪
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The mysterious link between migraine aura and migraine headache
The relationship between migraine aura and headache has been the subject of a long-standing debate. With insights from clinical, pharmaceutical, and in vivo animal studies, this Essay delves into the ...
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June 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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It was so nice to visit my old stomping ground in Exeter visiting the @lsiexeter.bsky.social and to give a talk about working in publishing and being an editor at @plos.org as part of the LSI Career Day 📖 And great to see some old colleagues and my PhD supervisor @scholpplab.bsky.social again!
April 25, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Our latest editorial in defense of #vaccines and vaccination introduces two Perspectives on priorities for outbreak vaccination, as well as the important successes of vaccines to date ⬇️
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Please read and spread the word this #WorldImmunizationWeek 💉
Vaccines work… and do not cause autism
Vaccines have saved millions of lives, yet their importance and safety is repeatedly in question. W e cannot let disinformation campaigns get in the way of global public health – it is not time to def...
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April 24, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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#DevBio job opportunity!

Development (@dev-journal.bsky.social) is looking for a new Community Manager to run our community site, the Node (@the-node.bsky.social) – a great opportunity if you love devbio, #stemcells, #scicom and community engagement. Happy to chat informally about the role.

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Work for us
Working for us We’re always looking for talented and motivated people to work as part of our close-knit team. Roles range from editorial to production, marketing to event co-ordination, HR to accounts...
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April 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Vacciness have saved > 6 lives/min in the last 50 years, yet their importance & safety is often questioned

“We should not allow misinformation, disinformation, ignorance and defunding to hinder vaccine development, deployment and use”

My latest @plosbiology.org

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Vaccines work… and do not cause autism
Vaccines have saved millions of lives, yet their importance and safety is repeatedly in question. W e cannot let disinformation campaigns get in the way of global public health – it is not time to def...
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April 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Our latest editorial in defense of vaccines and vaccination, introduces two Perspectives in this issue on priorities for outbreak vaccination, as well as the important successes of vaccines to date

Please read and spread the word 🙏🏻!
npariente.bsky.social Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · Apr 20
Vacciness have saved > 6 lives/min in the last 50 years, yet their importance & safety is often questioned

“We should not allow misinformation, disinformation, ignorance and defunding to hinder vaccine development, deployment and use”

My latest @plosbiology.org

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Vaccines work… and do not cause autism
Vaccines have saved millions of lives, yet their importance and safety is repeatedly in question. W e cannot let disinformation campaigns get in the way of global public health – it is not time to def...
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April 20, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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How did #vocal communication come to dominate human #language? This Unsolved Mystery discusses evidence suggesting that fetal auditory development & learning in the womb are important factors that contributed to human language evolving via a vocal, rather than gestural, route 🗣️🧪
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April 16, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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🌍🔬 📣 Please spread the word! Join us!
How can cell biology shape a more resilient planet?
Virtual registration is still open for the EMBO Workshop on Cells 4 Climate Resilience → meetings.embo.org/event/25-cli...
🗓️ Deadline: April 11
🎥 Watch the teaser → youtu.be/8eMJ91udHDs
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April 7, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Can we ever have too much #ecological field #data? This Perspective advocates for proper funding and resources to enable collection of long-term ecological data, which is essential to assess animal behavior and adaptation in the face of anthropogenic change 🧪
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The end of long-term ecological data?
Can we ever have too much ecological field data? Are data sharing norms and the environmental costs of travel disincentivizing its collection? This Perspective advocates for proper funding and resourc...
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April 7, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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npariente.bsky.social
Looking forward to this webinar with @scilifelab.se on navigating open science policies.

I will speak about open science practices at scientific journals.

There’s still time to sign up - come join us!

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PLOS and SciLifeLab Webinar: Navigating Open Science Policies – Practical Guidance for Researchers on Sharing Data and Software
Open science policies are rapidly evolving, but many researchers find them to be vague and difficult to navigate. These policies often lack clear, actionable guidelines for how researchers can respond...
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March 31, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Find out the ins and outs of Registered Reports at the Responsible Research #FREEwebinar on 30 April

Join to learn what a registered report is & how it differs from other publication formats, & the benefits of registered reports for authors & science

Find out more & register at:
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Announcement of a webinar about Registered Reports. Free registration at https://lnkd.in/ed3csppN
March 31, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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The coming decade might see major cuts to US Government #funding for biomedicine. This Perspective highlights how your biosciences #PhD gives you the problem-solving skills to navigate this maelstrom, especially if you maintain flexibility, optimism &enthusiasm for uncharted paths🧪
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Navigating your US bioscience career into the 2030s
The coming decade might see major cuts to US Government funding for biomedicine and the mainstreaming of pseudoscience. This Perspective highlights how your biosciences PhD gives you the problem-solvi...
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March 31, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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Soil #biodiversity is critical for the health of humans, animals & the environment. However, global change threatens our soil ecosystems. This Essay discusses the importance of soil biodiversity in the face of global stressors & the major knowledge gaps precluding its conservation🧪
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A diagram showing global change stressors (e.g. global warming, deforestation and carbon dioxide enrichment), the impacts these have on soil, and how consequential changes in soil biodiversity alter resistance and resilience to this change.
March 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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"after all, scientists are problem-solvers. If the solution was easy, wouldn’t we have figured it out by now?"

Check out my Editorial w/ @npariente.bsky.social discussing portable peer review, reviewer pools, AI, paying reviewers... &other solutions proposed for making peer review more sustainable🧪
plosbiology.org PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · Mar 26
The term "reviewer fatigue” has become familiar in scientific publishing. In this Editorial, @droutledge.bsky.social & @npariente.bsky.social discuss how we can make the peer review system more sustainable & ways that PLOS Biology is already helping to ease the burden on reviewers🧪
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On improving the sustainability of peer review
The term “reviewer fatigue” has become only too familiar in scientific publishing. This editorial discusses how we can ease the burden on reviewers to make the peer review system more sustainable, whi...
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March 26, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Multiplexed imaging is a powerful approach in spatial biology, but is complex, expensive & labor-intensive. This Community Page presents the IBEX Knowledge-Base, a central resource for reagents, protocols & more, to enhance knowledge sharing & innovation of multiplexing techniques.🧪
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A figure depicting an Ibex (representing the IBEX Knowledge-Base) at the top of a mountain, highlighting the guiding principles of the resource and how providing and sharing reagents, protocols and discoveries etc. can help with multiplexed imaging (ascending the mountain).
March 20, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Insect vector #microbiomes make promising targets for controlling vector-borne diseases. This Perspective discusses how microbial isolate collections aid in identifying microbial targets, & outlines how international collaborations should ensure ethical & equitable benefit sharing🧪
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A diagram showing the critical considerations for the establishment and expansion of microbiota isolate collections, including philosophy, experimental design, sampling, analysis, and isolate collection.
March 19, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Really enjoyed editing this one - a very thought-provoking Essay that eloqeuntly challenges the somatic mutation theory and the notion that cancer is a purely genetic disease 🧪
plosbiology.org PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · Mar 18
Genome sequencing & single-cell transcriptomics continue to produce findings that challenge the idea that #cancer is purely a genetic disease. This Essay delves into #omics data that questions the somatic mutation theory & presents alternative theories based on GRNs & tissue fields.🧪
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A figure depicting the concept of cancer attractor states within Waddington's landscape, and how gene regulatory network dynamics influence these states. The figure shows how cancerous cells derive from those that have accidentally entered into unused attractor states that are usually unoccupied in developmental trajectories.
March 18, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Science under siege: protecting scientific progress in turbulent times

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Science under siege: protecting scientific progress in turbulent times
As Editors-in-Chief of The Company of Biologists' journals, we have been watching with growing concern the policy changes in the United States of America (USA) and the challenges that these are creati...
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March 13, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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A major challenge in natural-product-based drug discovery is identifying gene clusters most likely to specify new chemistry & bioactivities. In this Perspective @marnixmedema.bsky.social & @gillesvanwezel.bsky.social discuss the challenges & state of the art of antibiotic discovery🧪
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New solutions for antibiotic discovery: Prioritizing microbial biosynthetic space using ecology and machine learning
A major challenge in natural-product-based drug discovery is the identification of gene clusters most likely to specify new chemistry and bioactivities. This Perspective discusses the challenges and s...
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March 3, 2025 at 11:21 AM