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Publish-Review-Curate (PRC) Alliance @prcalliance.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Have you heard of the Publish-Review-Curate (PRC) model of scholarly publishing? PRC reimagines scholarly publishing by breaking the traditional publishing process into independently executable stages: ✨publish, ✨review, and ✨curate.
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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
“move from preprint to peer-reviewed publication leaves the central claims of most abstracts intact, indicating preprints are a reliable source…papers that were never posted as preprints were retracted at roughly twice the rate of those that were…” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Tracking claim changes from preprint to publication across 72,644 biomedical studies using large language models
Preprints now disseminate a large share of biomedical research before peer review. Because they have not yet passed peer review, some scientists regard preprint claims as unverified or potentially unr...
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
"I got my PhD by writing prompts instead of doing research, I'm winning" got some bad news, there still no jobs and now you also know nothing
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Nicolas Panayotis @npanayotis.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Very happy to share our new paper in #ScienceSignaling revealing that importin β1 isn’t just important for nuclear transport or neuronal growth. We now show it is key for presynaptic plasticity in the hippocampus, local translation, and memory! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Subcellular depletion of importin β1 impairs presynaptic local translation and spatial memory
Axonal localization of importin β1 is required for presynaptic functions that support spatial memory tasks.
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Desdemona Fricker @desdemonafricker.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Coincidence of thalamic HD signal and retrosplenial visual input is detected in the Presubiculum! 🎯 This may be the neuronal basis for landmark anchoring of the HD signal. Pleased to announce the VOR is now available elifesciences.org/articles/92443 Congrats first author Louis Richevaux 🙌
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Projection-specific integration of convergent thalamic and retrosplenial signals in the presubicular head direction cortex
Nonlinear dendritic integration in single presubicular neurons provides a mechanism for combining vestibular-based head-direction signals and visual landmark signals to anchor the brain’s internal com...
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Brandon Stell @brandonstell.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Excited to share our new article in @natneuro.nature.com with two amazing students in the lab, Vinh Nguyen and Capucine Gros! 🐭🕹️ We investigated how mice learn a joystick task to retrieve water rewards and adapt to sudden perturbations. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Matteo Carandini @carandinilab.net · 03/11/2025
Europe's MSCA postdoctoral fellowships are now attracting many researchers who would have gone to the US. So the payline has dropped below 10% (~1,600 fellowships to 17k applicants). Super tough situation. One more reason to double the next Horizon budget, as proposed by the EU Commission.
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Ben Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
okay maybe *one* king
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Michael Clarke @mtclarke.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Yes, yes, Europe has its benefits. Walkable cities. Cultural heritage. Amazing food. Little gun violence. Healthcare. Governments that are not shut down. But the number of website pop-ups asking one to accept cookies renders the continent pretty much unlivable.
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Brandon Stell @brandonstell.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/s... “If these trends are not stopped, science is going to be destroyed…” Uh, really? I can’t imagine one of these papers ever influencing my lab’s research. Curious if folks studying noncoding RNA see it differently.
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Fraudulent Scientific Papers Are Rapidly Increasing, Study Finds
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Brandon Stell @brandonstell.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Grateful for the invitation from the Royal Society — and heartening to see the growing momentum, evident throughout the meeting, behind separating evaluation from publication.
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James Fraser @fraserlab.com · 11/07/2025
Academia may be a prestige economy but it wasn’t some choice of scientific leadership- we do it to ourselves, every day. Leadership rarely makes tenure criteria too down - it’s a committee of peers that sets it up for institutions. Leadership doesn’t sit on study sections - it’s peers doing it!
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Brandon Stell @brandonstell.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Grateful for the chance to join this webinar series—great questions and engaging discussion.
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Michael Andrades @michaelandrades.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Brandon Stell puts it powerfully - and accurately: 'We value publications more than what's inside them.' It's not something we wanted to hear, but it's something we needed to.
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Brandon Stell @brandonstell.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
White House Health Report Included Fake Citations www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...
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White House Health Report Included Fake Citations
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Gretchen Goldman, PhD @gretchentg.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
The Trump administration just dropped an executive order, "Restoring Gold Standard Science" and there's lots to unpack. This EO reveals more about how the Administration will approach scientific integrity and science in regulatory contexts. Some initial thoughts. 🧵 www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Restoring Gold Standard Science
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United
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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
📣 Save the date for the 11th PCI webinar on June 18, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Brandon Stell (CNRS, Paris) will present "Elevating Scientific Standards: Community-Driven Assessment on PubPeer ". For more details and registration, visit: buff.ly/XuownT0
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PubPeer @pubpeer.com · 18/05/2025
Learn more about the PubPeer Monthly Prize—made possible by the Einstein Foundation (@einsteinberlin.bsky.social‬)—and explore past winning comments to see what makes a strong entry so that you can win the next one! pubpeer.com/static/award
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Brandon Stell @brandonstell.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Hoping to see Horton's heat at Citi field tonight. open.spotify.com/track/1QlzrF... @cubsbot.bsky.social
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The Reverend Horton Heat · Smoke 'em if You Got 'em · Song · 1991
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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
OK we all get that this is literally impossible though, right? Europe and Canada do not have the resources to absorb 75% of US scientists and btw getting jobs in these places was already competitive for the people who live there.
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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Pet peeve: I hate how often ppl claim “all the researchers will just move to Europe/Canada!” You vastly under-estimate how little money there is there vs the USA- and unless that changes ASAP this loss is just going to decimate global science, full stop. 🧪🔭
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 07/03/2025
Is everyone huffing paint? Crypto guy claims to have built an LLM-based tool to detect errors in research papers; funded using its own cryptocurrency; will let coin holders choose what papers to go after; it's unvetted and a total black box—and Nature reports it as if it's a new protein structure.
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AI tools are spotting errors in research papers: inside a growing movement
Study that hyped the toxicity of black plastic utensils inspires projects that use large language models to check papers.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
How bad this is depends on how far they are willing to go. Are they willing to fabricate evidence to attack vaccines? My guess would be yes.
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Einstein Foundation Berlin @einsteinberlin.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
⏰ Join an engaging colloquium on scientific integrity, featuring the 2024 Einstein Foundation Award Winners next week! @elisabethbik.bsky.social, @brandonstell.bsky.social @pubpeer.com, @helenajambor.bsky.social & Christopher Schmied at Charité or online: www.einsteinfoundation.de/en/insights/...
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 12/02/2025
Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
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Einstein Foundation Berlin @einsteinberlin.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
📆 From detection to prevention: improving the scientific publication record - Join the 2024 Einstein Foundation Award Winners’ Colloquium w/ @elisabethbik.bsky.social, @brandonstell.bsky.social @pubpeer.com, @helenajambor.bsky.social & Christopher Schmied www.einsteinfoundation.de/en/insights/...
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PubPeer @pubpeer.com · 11/02/2025
Congratulations to Vitaly Podzorov for winning the January PubPeer Monthly Prize for his outstanding analysis of a 2024 Nature article! pubpeer.com/publications... These $1,000 awards are given each month. Learn more and see examples of winning comments: pubpeer.com/static/award
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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
NIH staff told they can submit papers to journals but not preprints. "a short pause to allow the new team to set up a process for review and prioritization" <- review by whom...? www.science.org/content/arti... ht @philipncohen.com 1/2
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NIH memo addresses ‘confusion’ about restrictions imposed by Trump, easing some concerns
Memo from acting director to staff allows some purchasing, and suggests travel and study sections could soon resume
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Salena @salena.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.
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Einstein Foundation Berlin @einsteinberlin.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Important read on the devastating impact of fraud in Alzheimer's research, highlighting the work of 2024 #EinsteinFoundationAward winners @elisabethbik.bsky.social and @pubpeer.com in cleaning up the scientific record. #ResearchIntegrity www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/o...
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Opinion | The Devastating Legacy of Lies in Alzheimer’s Science (Gift Article)
Fraud in research needs to end.
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Tim Behrens @behrenstimb.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Hope you'll forgive a quick thread as I take over as the new EiC of @elife.bsky.social
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
But not today. Today they got beat. Everybody should take the W & the lesson that fighting back matters.
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 28/01/2025
American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12
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Brandon Stell @brandonstell.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Only one week left to apply to the Paris School for Neuroscience Techniques! parisneuro.ovh
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Gabrielle Girardeau @ggirardeau.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
⚠️ Un poste de MCU en Maths-Info-Stats s'ouvre bientôt à Sorbonne Université pour rejoindre mon équipe (background computationnel et experience en analyse de données de neurosciences experimentales souhaités + qualification requise). Contactez-moi pour plus d'infos! Please RP!
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Brandon Stell @brandonstell.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Very much looking forward to reading this.
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Campden Instruments @campdeninstruments.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Check out this incredible course opportunity! We love being able to support training initiatives, and are thrilled that our vibratomes will be available for the students to use to make their slices! 🧠
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Brandon Stell @brandonstell.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
There's still time to apply to the Paris NeuroCourse. This year we'll have two 2-photons, miniscopes, neuropixels, voltage imaging, patch-clamp, and of course an amazing list of lecturers: parisneuro.ovh 2 weeks of neuroscience lectures and techniques in Paris!
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Paris NeuroCourse | Optical Imaging and Electrophysiological Recording in Neuroscience
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PubPeer @pubpeer.com · 06/01/2025
Congratulations to @malte.the100.ci for winning the inaugural PubPeer $1000 Monthly Prize for the best comment! December brought many excellent contributions, but Malte's journal club discussion truly stood out. pubpeer.com/publications...
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PubPeer @pubpeer.com · 20/12/2024
There’s still time to share your insights and qualify for our first $1,000 award! Add your comment before the end of the month, and stay tuned here to find out who the December winner will be: pubpeer.com/static/award
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PubPeer - Search publications and join the conversation.
PubPeer enables scientists to search for their publications or their peers publications and provide feedback and/or start a conversation anonymously.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 17/12/2024
Breaking news: A 2020 paper that sparked widespread enthusiasm for hydroxychloroquine as a #COVID19 treatment has been retracted, following campaigning by scientists who alleged the research contained major scientific flaws and may have breached ethics regulations. scim.ag/4iR9bQ6
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Infamous paper that popularized unproven COVID-19 treatment finally retracted
Study on hydroxychloroquine by Didier Raoult and colleagues gets pulled on ethical and scientific grounds
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Florian Naudet @floriannaudet.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Tip of the day: use @pubpeer.com for evaluating a grant application: if an author have a serious issue (it is important to appraise this qualitatively) that has not been addressed (no satisfying answer), do not recommend the application for funding. Wish of the day: funder make this tip mandatory.
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Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Thank you to Prof Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social for taking this important stand 👇 “Oxford scientist resigns from Royal Society over Elon Musk’s continuing fellowship” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Oxford scientist resigns from Royal Society over Elon Musk’s continuing fellowship
Prof Dorothy Bishop said fellowship was ‘a contradiction of all the values’ of UK’s national academy of sciences
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Leslie B Vosshall PhD @leslievosshall.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I love my job @hhmi.bsky.social This week we hosted 164 scientists and heard 30 amazing 15-minute talks, dove into 70 posters, ate many fancy meals, and saw zero journal names.
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Brandon Stell @brandonstell.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
This hasn’t been our year for lasers. We’ve lost two Mai Tais (each with ~10 years of service), and last night, mid-in vivo imaging session, a Spark 920 gave out. Unlike Spectra-Physics, Spark assures us a quick repair, but it’s off to them tomorrow.
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Brandon Stell @brandonstell.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Spread the word! PubPeer is awarding $1,000 for outstanding comments. Comments featured on the front page (pubpeer.com) are strong contenders. bsky.app/profile/pubp...
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PubPeer - Search publications and join the conversation.
PubPeer enables scientists to search for their publications or their peers publications and provide feedback and/or start a conversation anonymously.
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UCL Neuroscience @uclnpp.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Lets start with something exciting! Applications are now open to join our fantastic department as a group leader fellow! Come start your independent group at (in our opinion) the best neuroscience department! reach out here or @macaskillaf.bsky.social for more info! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
For those who missed it: Elon Musk, the Royal Society, and me deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-...
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Why I have resigned from the Royal Society
The Royal Society is a venerable institution founded in 1660, whose original members included such eminent men as Christopher Wren, Robert H...
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Jean Christophe Poncer @poncerlab.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
#Neuroscience and #cognition science students around the world! Want to do a #PhD in the #Paris region? Apply to the @c-brains.bsky.social international PhD program and select one of the 40+ projects selected for this year's competition! More information on dim-cbrains.fr/en/phd-progr...
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Brandon Stell @brandonstell.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
My personal account won't post much about research integrity issues but you might be interested in @pubpeer.bsky.social
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