Tim
@timisstuck.bsky.social
Executive Editor at Life Science Alliance. I help decide how biology thinks 🤔
Views are my own and do not reflect editorial policy.
www.timfessenden.com
Views are my own and do not reflect editorial policy.
www.timfessenden.com
Weather update here in San Diego 🥰
November 16, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Weather update here in San Diego 🥰
Today at #sfn2025 I’ll be at @rupress.org booth 3719! Come say hi and chat about the many routes to publishing your neuroscience work!
November 16, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Today at #sfn2025 I’ll be at @rupress.org booth 3719! Come say hi and chat about the many routes to publishing your neuroscience work!
Excellent reporting and interviews in this episode, from Season 2 of The Harvard Project @wnyc.org @bostonglobe.com
Highly recommend this podcast for everyone in life sciences in the US (and beyond)
www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
Highly recommend this podcast for everyone in life sciences in the US (and beyond)
www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
November 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Excellent reporting and interviews in this episode, from Season 2 of The Harvard Project @wnyc.org @bostonglobe.com
Highly recommend this podcast for everyone in life sciences in the US (and beyond)
www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
Highly recommend this podcast for everyone in life sciences in the US (and beyond)
www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
Publishers being very naughty with retractions...
I found this purely by chance. Elsevier states in a retraction notice from Oct 2025 that the authors requested retraction in 2019!!! And they posted a preprint ~disproving~ their prior paper in 2021 (in the link)
What on earth took so long??
I found this purely by chance. Elsevier states in a retraction notice from Oct 2025 that the authors requested retraction in 2019!!! And they posted a preprint ~disproving~ their prior paper in 2021 (in the link)
What on earth took so long??
November 6, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Publishers being very naughty with retractions...
I found this purely by chance. Elsevier states in a retraction notice from Oct 2025 that the authors requested retraction in 2019!!! And they posted a preprint ~disproving~ their prior paper in 2021 (in the link)
What on earth took so long??
I found this purely by chance. Elsevier states in a retraction notice from Oct 2025 that the authors requested retraction in 2019!!! And they posted a preprint ~disproving~ their prior paper in 2021 (in the link)
What on earth took so long??
Catch me speaking as part of @rockefeller.edu R3 program: Scientific Rigor, Reproducibility, and Reporting www.rockefeller.edu/research/r3/
I'll provide the perspective of a journal editor @lsajournal.org on the value of publishing negative data. If you're in the Tri-I come check it out!
I'll provide the perspective of a journal editor @lsajournal.org on the value of publishing negative data. If you're in the Tri-I come check it out!
November 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Catch me speaking as part of @rockefeller.edu R3 program: Scientific Rigor, Reproducibility, and Reporting www.rockefeller.edu/research/r3/
I'll provide the perspective of a journal editor @lsajournal.org on the value of publishing negative data. If you're in the Tri-I come check it out!
I'll provide the perspective of a journal editor @lsajournal.org on the value of publishing negative data. If you're in the Tri-I come check it out!
Putting numbers to what we have all experienced: out of 1,800 academics polled, most have reduced use of X. Bsky has not replaced it.
October 31, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Putting numbers to what we have all experienced: out of 1,800 academics polled, most have reduced use of X. Bsky has not replaced it.
This week @rupress.org introduces our team to the broader research community at @rockefeller.edu 🥳
Researchers at Rockefeller benefit enormously from a world-class academic press right on their campus! Come say hi 👋
Researchers at Rockefeller benefit enormously from a world-class academic press right on their campus! Come say hi 👋
October 20, 2025 at 7:11 PM
This week @rupress.org introduces our team to the broader research community at @rockefeller.edu 🥳
Researchers at Rockefeller benefit enormously from a world-class academic press right on their campus! Come say hi 👋
Researchers at Rockefeller benefit enormously from a world-class academic press right on their campus! Come say hi 👋
Reminder of the importance of negative results for research quality and integrity, published in @plosbiology.org
@lsajournal.org will gladly consider your manuscript with negative or confirmatory results!
Read the full piece here: doi.org/10.1371/jour...
@lsajournal.org will gladly consider your manuscript with negative or confirmatory results!
Read the full piece here: doi.org/10.1371/jour...
October 20, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Reminder of the importance of negative results for research quality and integrity, published in @plosbiology.org
@lsajournal.org will gladly consider your manuscript with negative or confirmatory results!
Read the full piece here: doi.org/10.1371/jour...
@lsajournal.org will gladly consider your manuscript with negative or confirmatory results!
Read the full piece here: doi.org/10.1371/jour...
I've been claimed!
Life Science Alliance @lsajournal.org is now on @researchgate.bsky.social 🥳
If you peruse ResearchGate, give us a follow!
Life Science Alliance @lsajournal.org is now on @researchgate.bsky.social 🥳
If you peruse ResearchGate, give us a follow!
October 15, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I've been claimed!
Life Science Alliance @lsajournal.org is now on @researchgate.bsky.social 🥳
If you peruse ResearchGate, give us a follow!
Life Science Alliance @lsajournal.org is now on @researchgate.bsky.social 🥳
If you peruse ResearchGate, give us a follow!
Lady day here #cshlcancer @cshlmeetings.bsky.social
Congrats to @lsajournal.org travel award winner Debolina Ganguly from Judith Agudo’s group!!
Debolina is exploring how tissue-specific differences in antigen presentation can modulate the systemic immune response. Excellent talk!!
Congrats to @lsajournal.org travel award winner Debolina Ganguly from Judith Agudo’s group!!
Debolina is exploring how tissue-specific differences in antigen presentation can modulate the systemic immune response. Excellent talk!!
September 20, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Lady day here #cshlcancer @cshlmeetings.bsky.social
Congrats to @lsajournal.org travel award winner Debolina Ganguly from Judith Agudo’s group!!
Debolina is exploring how tissue-specific differences in antigen presentation can modulate the systemic immune response. Excellent talk!!
Congrats to @lsajournal.org travel award winner Debolina Ganguly from Judith Agudo’s group!!
Debolina is exploring how tissue-specific differences in antigen presentation can modulate the systemic immune response. Excellent talk!!
Congrats to @lsajournal.org travel award winner Jess Hebert from Monte Winslow’s group!!
Jess presented innovative new mouse models (already available at @jacksonlab.bsky.social) to engineer complex genotypes that modulate cancer metastasis.
Presented here #cshlcancer @cshlmeetings.bsky.social
Jess presented innovative new mouse models (already available at @jacksonlab.bsky.social) to engineer complex genotypes that modulate cancer metastasis.
Presented here #cshlcancer @cshlmeetings.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Congrats to @lsajournal.org travel award winner Jess Hebert from Monte Winslow’s group!!
Jess presented innovative new mouse models (already available at @jacksonlab.bsky.social) to engineer complex genotypes that modulate cancer metastasis.
Presented here #cshlcancer @cshlmeetings.bsky.social
Jess presented innovative new mouse models (already available at @jacksonlab.bsky.social) to engineer complex genotypes that modulate cancer metastasis.
Presented here #cshlcancer @cshlmeetings.bsky.social
Spending a few lovely days at @cshlmeetings.bsky.social for the tumor biology meeting. My second time here for this meeting, highly recommend!
September 18, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Spending a few lovely days at @cshlmeetings.bsky.social for the tumor biology meeting. My second time here for this meeting, highly recommend!
Exploring the best practices on AI in peer review (for preprints in this case) is sorely needed.
Author views seem polarized on use of AI in peer review more broadly. See discordant survey results for physicists:
Author views seem polarized on use of AI in peer review more broadly. See discordant survey results for physicists:
September 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Exploring the best practices on AI in peer review (for preprints in this case) is sorely needed.
Author views seem polarized on use of AI in peer review more broadly. See discordant survey results for physicists:
Author views seem polarized on use of AI in peer review more broadly. See discordant survey results for physicists:
Aggrieved editor post incoming...
At @lsajournal.org we offer to consider manuscripts that have been declined after review at one of our partner journals.
We have to be fast, fair, and accurate. It's hard! Instead of saying "no thanks" this author wanted to make a point.
At @lsajournal.org we offer to consider manuscripts that have been declined after review at one of our partner journals.
We have to be fast, fair, and accurate. It's hard! Instead of saying "no thanks" this author wanted to make a point.
September 16, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Aggrieved editor post incoming...
At @lsajournal.org we offer to consider manuscripts that have been declined after review at one of our partner journals.
We have to be fast, fair, and accurate. It's hard! Instead of saying "no thanks" this author wanted to make a point.
At @lsajournal.org we offer to consider manuscripts that have been declined after review at one of our partner journals.
We have to be fast, fair, and accurate. It's hard! Instead of saying "no thanks" this author wanted to make a point.
Agree!
And if we get to a point where AI could replace human authors of reviews, I agree with this author that journals should not publish them:
And if we get to a point where AI could replace human authors of reviews, I agree with this author that journals should not publish them:
August 29, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Agree!
And if we get to a point where AI could replace human authors of reviews, I agree with this author that journals should not publish them:
And if we get to a point where AI could replace human authors of reviews, I agree with this author that journals should not publish them:
I just sent this in an email. I revisit this uncertainty soooo often.
August 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I just sent this in an email. I revisit this uncertainty soooo often.
Very interesting read about downsizing at the org that maintains the Dewey decimal system. This quote applies to many other domains as well.
August 27, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Very interesting read about downsizing at the org that maintains the Dewey decimal system. This quote applies to many other domains as well.
A skew towards human disease relevance in studying protists is understandable but this is insane !
August 23, 2025 at 12:42 AM
A skew towards human disease relevance in studying protists is understandable but this is insane !
And! We included an important note in our instructions to reviewers under “Confidentiality”
July 29, 2025 at 4:09 PM
And! We included an important note in our instructions to reviewers under “Confidentiality”
Every editor and every journal has to decide on a policy towards AI use in manuscripts. It feels like a fundamentally unanswerable question at this point, but we have a duty to offer guidance to authors here.
Pleased to say the @lsajournal.org now has an AI use policy on our site!
Pleased to say the @lsajournal.org now has an AI use policy on our site!
July 29, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Every editor and every journal has to decide on a policy towards AI use in manuscripts. It feels like a fundamentally unanswerable question at this point, but we have a duty to offer guidance to authors here.
Pleased to say the @lsajournal.org now has an AI use policy on our site!
Pleased to say the @lsajournal.org now has an AI use policy on our site!
I love this so much... MDCK spheroids make the same actomyosin stars that span multiple cells. It was not really more than a passing observation in my JCB paper but I was always fascinated by these!
This 10 year old image does not do justice, but you can see the faint actin cables.
This 10 year old image does not do justice, but you can see the faint actin cables.
July 9, 2025 at 11:23 AM
I love this so much... MDCK spheroids make the same actomyosin stars that span multiple cells. It was not really more than a passing observation in my JCB paper but I was always fascinated by these!
This 10 year old image does not do justice, but you can see the faint actin cables.
This 10 year old image does not do justice, but you can see the faint actin cables.
Editors must have a VERY clear understanding of what exactly journals offer, in a world where when preprints can be both peer reviewed and collected/disseminated.
Mandatory listening for the latest on this + a brief history of BioRxiv, + general thoughtfulness of Richard.
Mandatory listening for the latest on this + a brief history of BioRxiv, + general thoughtfulness of Richard.
June 21, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Editors must have a VERY clear understanding of what exactly journals offer, in a world where when preprints can be both peer reviewed and collected/disseminated.
Mandatory listening for the latest on this + a brief history of BioRxiv, + general thoughtfulness of Richard.
Mandatory listening for the latest on this + a brief history of BioRxiv, + general thoughtfulness of Richard.
Read the full piece here, with interesting quotes by Powers. cen.acs.org/research-int...
June 19, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Read the full piece here, with interesting quotes by Powers. cen.acs.org/research-int...
Loved reading this piece in the excellent C&EN on trust and skepticism. But this little snippet caught my eye. Journals publishing negative results are a rare commodity!
June 19, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Loved reading this piece in the excellent C&EN on trust and skepticism. But this little snippet caught my eye. Journals publishing negative results are a rare commodity!