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Steve Cranford @cranfordmatter.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

August 2026 Issue of Matter & Light is now live!

Steve Cranford @cranfordmatter.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Issue #3 of Matter & Light by Cell Press is online now! By coincidence, the cover depicts a number 3, illustrating an array of organic phototransistors simultaneously sensing and classifying a handwritten digit (check out the first research article by Sadeghi et al.) www.cell.com/issue/S3117-...

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Steve Cranford @cranfordmatter.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

VROOOOOM! Issue #2 of Matter & Light is online now!

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Steve Cranford @cranfordmatter.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Singapore Sling? In Singapore? Of course!

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Steve Cranford @cranfordmatter.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Do you use #LLMs to read and summarize the most recent science literature? What if you HAD to use an LLM to read the article? New issue, new editorial: 48656C6C6F20576F726C64: An editorial for your favorite LLM www.cell.com/matter/fullt... Had a fun time writing (and converting) this one!

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Steve Cranford @cranfordmatter.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

36 Chambers of Science Editors www.cell.com/matter/fullt...

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Steve Cranford @cranfordmatter.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

New issue, new editorial... www.cell.com/matter/fullt...

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Steve Cranford @cranfordmatter.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

SUM 41, All Killer No Filler It's not just a clever name.

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Steve Cranford @cranfordmatter.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Made some minor edits to this spot on post...

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Cell Biomaterials @cp-cellbiomat.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Excited to join the Biomaterials & Biofabrication conference next week! Join @cranfordmatter.bsky.social's talk"Editors-in-the-Loop: A Publisher’s Perspective in the AI-Driven Science Era." Also, stop by and chat with @elainejeong.bsky.social too—we’d love to connect! #Biofabrication #Biomaterials

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Steve Cranford @cranfordmatter.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Despite the proliferation (and convenience) of meeting via Zoom online, it cannot replace physical face-to-face interactions in science and academia. In this month's editorial I pose that "face-to-face still matters". Science, ultimately, is people... not papers. www.cell.com/matter/fullt...

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Steve Cranford @cranfordmatter.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Remove a letter, ruin a movie. Petty Woman

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Steve Cranford @cranfordmatter.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Materials Today Conference? In Spain? On the beach? In June? WITH AWESOME SPEAKERS? Sign me up! #MaterialsToday2025 #CranfordWillBeThere SEE YOU IN SPAIN! So excited, made this AI-generated song... enjoy! youtu.be/P9390hA-y78?...

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Materials Today Conference 2025, Sitges, Spain (AI generated promo)

YouTube video by Supplementary Matter

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Steve Cranford @cranfordmatter.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Sometimes it's a ton of fun just to bash out an editorial at a bar...

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Steve Cranford @cranfordmatter.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

The "reciprocal" tariffs include... checks list... St. Pierre and Miquelon... 🤣

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Steve Cranford @cranfordmatter.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

New issue online! My latest editorial is on behalf of the entire editorial team, announcing our new editorial strategy. In a nutshell: Less Editorial Desk Rejections, casting a wider net.

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Steve Cranford @cranfordmatter.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Just a revision of editors out for dinner in NYC...

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Steve Cranford @cranfordmatter.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Our current theme song for rejecting manuscripts... youtu.be/qd9eATB6ugc?...

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It Doesn't Matter

YouTube video by Wyclef Jean - Topic

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Steve Cranford @cranfordmatter.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Did you know that March is our annual Double Issue? Twice the materials science, twice the fun! cell.com/matter/current

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Steve Cranford @cranfordmatter.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Double issue of Matter was an opportunity to write two articles! I had a fun time writing this Matter of Opinion, where I discuss the rate of scientific progress as well as the disruptive nature of a single work through an analogy of catalysis! Link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kiwk9Cyxd...

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Steve Cranford @cranfordmatter.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

A new month, a new issue of Matter, a new editorial! "For Team Matter, each submission is an opportunity to learn—learn a little bit of new materials science and learn how to improve in our role as editor and serve the community." authors.elsevier.com/a/1kiwk9Cyxd...

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Steve Cranford @cranfordmatter.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

First issue of Cell Biomaterials is online now! Check it out: www.cell.com/issue/S3050-...

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Steve Cranford @cranfordmatter.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

As academics, we need to invent a perfectly cromulent word to replace "next slide please"... Suggestions?

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Steve Cranford @cranfordmatter.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

"Bio-inspired" doesn't always add value to a materials science study. In my latest editorial, I discuss when (and when not) to appropriately use the term...

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Steve Cranford @cranfordmatter.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Anyone else checking out RedNote (Xiaohongshu)? I figure China is already keeping tabs on me, so I'm giving it a go...

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Matter @cp-matter.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Hui-Ming Cheng and colleagues present a metal-lattice-heredity strategy for synthesizing ultrathin TMO single crystals in #MatterVolume8Issue1!

Article: Metal-lattice-heredity synthesis of single-crystalline 2D transition metal oxides by Junyang Tan, Jingwei Wang, Shengnan Li, Huiyu Nong, Shengfeng Zeng, Xiaolong Zou, Bilu Liu, Hui-Ming Cheng. Cell Press, Matter, cell.com/matter.

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Steve Cranford @cranfordmatter.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Not many people know I’m a bit of a knife nerd (many chef knives and folders). I think it was the materials influence. So I reached out to Larrin Thomas, Ph.D., metallurgist, inventor of MagnaCut, and founder of “Knife Steel Nerds” to contribute a Matter of Opinion. www.cell.com/matter/fullt...

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Steve Cranford @cranfordmatter.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Cell Reports Physical Science is entering its post-Batchelor era, with Andrew Bisette taking the reins... he may humbly use the term "novice editor-in-chief" in his coming out editorial, but it's an oxymoron... there's nothing novice about this team. Check it out: www.cell.com/cell-reports...

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Five years of Cell Reports Physical Science

Welcome to Volume 6 of Cell Reports Physical Science! This issue marks our fifth anniversary—five years since our founding editor-in-chief, Dr. Luke Batchelor, launched the journal and set out our amb...

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Steve Cranford @cranfordmatter.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Matter and Cell Reports Physical Science Editor Yan Li's take (with a minor assist from me) on "Publish or Perish" the game and citations in science publishing... www.cell.com/matter/fullt...

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Steve Cranford @cranfordmatter.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Don't get me started on "Rhythm and Blues"

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

When the editor rejects the paper but you choose to interpet it as an agreement to see major revisions

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