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Evan Bardot (he/him)

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Fighting enshittification online and off. Senior Editor at Nature Communications handling Developmental Biology.

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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 24/09/2026
Shit’s too expensive, and workers are stressing over every bill and paycheck. Working people built this country, and we deserve more than just scraping by. Let’s elect candidates who will fight to make this economy work for us, not billionaires.
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Evan Bardot (he/him) @ebardot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Really excited to see these papers from @trayon.bsky.social and @ebisuyamiki.bsky.social in @cp-devcell.bsky.social! Check them out, along with my Research Highlight for @natcellbio.nature.com. www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.cell.com/developmenta... www.cell.com/developmenta...
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Keeping time with protein turnover - Nature Cell Biology
Nature Cell Biology - Keeping time with protein turnover
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Allison Kann @apkann.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Part 1 of my postdoc work is officially published! 🥳 Hofstenia miamia has emerged as a new model system because of its ability to accomplish whole-body regeneration - but that also means that animals must be able to heal any type of wound. How do they do this? 🧵 1/13 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A flexible repertoire of wound closure strategies precedes whole-body regeneration - Nature Communications
Animals capable of whole-body regeneration can heal virtually any wound. Here they show that Hofstenia miamia accomplishes this feat through variable morphogenetic strategies that depend on which epit...
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Evan Bardot (he/him) @ebardot.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
There have been recent updates to the @natcomms.nature.com AI use policies! There is a helpful rubric for determining what types of AI use are acceptable that I encourage everyone to check out. www.nature.com/ncomms/edito... I'm happy to share any feedback from my communities!
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) | Nature Communications
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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Evan Bardot (he/him) @ebardot.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
This is a great read that captures a lot of my resistance to LLMs. www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int... It takes years to shape a mind into something strong and nimble. I plan for my kids to have such minds.
Screencap from article: “So I think we also need to talk to young people about reading to outrun and outfight injustice. Reading to get faster, swifter and tougher; to develop powers of scrutiny and criticism and huge creative imagination. Reading human work to insist that we are human. Reading for liberation and emancipation; reading for intellectual freedom, and to have the strength to fight in the arenas of the mind, because when we let a computer think for us, we put a gun to the head of civilisation.

There are dark days ahead. If we are to fight against those with untold financial wealth, we will need untold intellectual wealth. We will need tough-minded people; people with stamina, a huge range of knowledge, and an ability to see wide and far enough to understand in real time what is being done to us. Reading for pleasure and delight are vital – but alongside that and even more urgently: reading for power.”
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SciAm Union @sciamunion.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
@springernature.com sold @sciam.bsky.social to LabX Media after the staff voted to form a union with the goal of improving and preserving the publication. We call on LabX to recognize our union. Sign the letter in solidarity! wgaea.st/sciam-letter
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Evan Bardot (he/him) @ebardot.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
It's really frustrating to have to take time away from reading exciting science to comment on the proposed OMB regulations, but here we are. I strongly recommend anyone who cares about the future of science in the US to do the same. www.regulations.gov/commenton/OM...
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Evan Bardot (he/him) @ebardot.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I had the chance to highlight some amazing #DevBio from @gcharras.bsky.social and @herveturlier.bsky.social for @natcellbio.nature.com this month! Check out my Research Highlight www.nature.com/articles/s41... and the original article in @cp-devcell.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Relative tension shapes embryos - Nature Cell Biology
Nature Cell Biology - Relative tension shapes embryos
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Evan Bardot (he/him) @ebardot.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Two weeks until #2026SDB kicks off! Super excited to be headed to Las Vegas for another @socdevbio.bsky.social meeting. DMs are open if you want to set up a time to discuss a potential @natcomms.nature.com submission on #DevBio or #stemcells, editorial careers, or anything else!
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Phil Abitua @ohnolog.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Annual killifish continue to surprise us: they make neutrophils before almost every other cell type, even before gastrulation. Neutrophils usually arise from the lateral plate mesoderm (forming in cyan), but in killifish they are already patrolling around the embryo in gold. tinyurl.com/killiphil
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Statement by @sciamunion.bsky.social on Springer Nature's sale of Scientific American and massive editorial layoffs right before a successful union vote is counted. www.wgaeast.org/wgae-scienti...
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WGAE-Scientific American Union Statement on Springer Nature’s Sale and Layoffs | Press Room
The following is a statement from Writers Guild of America East members at Scientific American on today’s decision to sell Springer Nature and lay off staff: “Earlier today in an all-staff meeting we ...
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Daryl Jason Verzosa David @djdavid.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Enroute to #EESMechanobiology! proud to represent both @natcellbio.nature.com as senior editor and npj Biological Physics & Mechanics as advisory editor. Let's discuss your interesting work, science publishing, & more! Find me around &at the #MeetTheEditor lunch On Wed. Note, I'm only here Tues+Wed
Banner image for the EMBO EMBL Symposium: Mechanobiology acrosso the tree of life.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 28/05/2026
🚨UPDATE: We will launch our action center on this issue tomorrow. 📣JOIN US: Emergency Science Meeting (Virtual) June 2nd at 4pm et. Details to come. Our Policy Team has read through the entire 400 page hot mess express from Russ Vought...here are the high level details. A Thread🧵 1/x
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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
TL;DR: We've identified more than 100 cases of apparent manipulation in Thermo Fisher Scientific's antibody verification data. @sholtodavid.bsky.social @johanduchene.bsky.social reeserichardson.blog/2026/05/28/h...
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How much of Thermo Fisher’s antibody data has been manipulated?
We’ve documented more than 100 instances of apparent data manipulation in Thermo’s catalog
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
So... I got more information about this plan. The most important points follow on the next posts. 1/3
A slide with recommendations about peer review scores.
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Nature Communications @natcomms.nature.com · 04/05/2026
Headed to the #WeinsteinCVD2026 this week? Our #DevBio and #regeneration editors @ebardot.bsky.social and @keatonschuster.bsky.social will be there! Find them to learn more about publishing with Nature Communications.
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Evan Bardot (he/him) @ebardot.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Excited to be able to go to the #WeinsteinCVD2026 meeting this week! I attended this meeting during my PhD and loved the community. DM me if you want to discuss a potential submission or just say hi. I’ll make time Wednesday for 1:1s. Looking forward to seeing what’s new in heart development🫀
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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Screaming to the abyss: #ColossalBio did not resurrect the dire wolf and they're probably just going to make an antelope with methemoglobinemia to give it a bluish color. Their #DeExtinction #DisInformation campaign is just a pyramid scheme because #ExtinctionIsForever 🧪
An image from Time magazine, which I screen-shot from Colossal Biosciences’ Instagram account of a bluish antelope in a presumably African grassland (that is almost certainly AI-generated). This will likely be flagged as a DCMA violation and taken down.
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SciAm Union @sciamunion.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
The SciAm Union is disappointed that @springernature.com dragged our colleagues into a last minute meeting this morning with the notorious union-busting law firm Littler Mendelson (the same one Starbucks and Amazon hire 👀)
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Swathi Arur @swathiarur.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Congratulations to Nick Newkirk, an amazing graduate student from the lab, on the latest story that supports a model in which helicase-domain methylation and Dicer phosphorylation act together to regulate Dicer conformation and effector recruitment. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Functional requirement for Dicer helicase arginine methylation in 26 G siRNA biogenesis and oocyte meiotic program - Nature Communications
Here they show that arginine methylation of Dicer’s helicase domain coordinates with phosphorylation to enable 26 G endo-siRNA production and ensure faithful oocyte meiotic program by controlling effe...
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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
In August, Jay Bhattacharya said “Training future biomedical scientists” was the 1st priority for his version of NIH. But talk is cheap. Let’s see how JB’s doing. 🤔 NIH supports trainees mostly via fellowship (F), training (T), and career development (K) awards. Here are funding curves for each.🧵
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
This is more broadly generalizable: If you don't do the research yourself, you have no idea if AI is making stuff up. And if you do the research yourself, then AI isn't saving you much labor, if any.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
My quote of the day We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over. Ambrose Bierce
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Laura Davulis @davulis.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Please do not use AI to review a scholarly manuscript. I absolutely do not care what Claude or whoever thinks about the rise of emu farming in Omaha 1850-1864. I asked you because I care what you think about it.
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Evan Bardot (he/him) @ebardot.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
One hard thing about being an editor is that because of confidentiality, we can't respond to The Discourse about our work. It's fun (and justified!) to take shots at the big bad publishing houses. But pile-ons about specific papers from those not involved are tough to watch silently.
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Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
57 of my fellow students were arrested, academically disciplined, and barred from campus 2 weeks before finals. And then the visas of some of those students were quietly revoked. And then the DEI office was killed. And then we watched our mentors’ grants evaporate over “woke”.
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Evan Bardot (he/him) @ebardot.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Shameless plug, but I’m excited to see work in model organisms submitted to @natcomms.nature.com. Model organisms, non-model organisms, stem cell models. There’s room for all of it.
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Evan Bardot (he/him) @ebardot.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Thank you for submitting your Joke "Asphalt-guided Directional Locomotion of Gallus gallus" for consideration in Advances in Jokes. We have now received comments from three reviewers with appropriate senses of humor. Considering their advice I regret to inform you that we cannot publish your Joke.
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Evan Bardot (he/him) @ebardot.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I have a conference joke - actually it’s really more of a comment?
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Evan Bardot (he/him) @ebardot.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Once again shouting into the void to say that there is no excuse for using red/green for immunofluorescence images. Obviously 4+ color imaging is difficult to present, but any reason someone gives for using red/green in 2-3 color images is trash.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Just full-on outing myself as a chaotic good professor here. I do have deadlines, but otherwise slowing down, doing things by hand, and focusing on critical thinking skills (observation, curiosity, connection) has been more fun for me and my students have had better learning outcomes.
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Ian L Morgan @ianlmorgan.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
NIH leadership wants to strip worker's rights from the majority of scientists on its campuses. But, the NIH does not get to say whether we are a union or not. We do, and we are no strangers to having to fight for our union. Time for a short history lesson. 1/n Disclaimer: all views are my own.
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NIH Says It Will No Longer Recognize the Research Fellows’ Union
NIH leadership said the union “should never have been certified,” in an email to the union’s leadership.
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Evan Bardot (he/him) @ebardot.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
This is a really cool approach to both evaluating AI scientific reviews and determining how authors think and feel about having AI tools in the loop. Props to @reviewcommons.org and @qedscience.bsky.social for making this effort! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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How do authors want to use AI for review? - EMBO Reports
EMBO Reports - A survey of researchers who compared AI-generated scientific reviews with journal-agnostic human peer review reveals that they overwhelmingly prefer using AI as a self-checking tool...
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Evan Bardot (he/him) @ebardot.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
As an alumni of Mount Sinai, I am horrified by this reporting. Sadly, the culture of prioritizing money and prestige above all else was strong at Sinai. I’m less surprised than I would like to be. These doctors and CEO Kenneth Davis need to go. Now.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
The fundamental flaw with @holdenthorp.bsky.social’s argument is thinking that organizations and people can only do one thing at a time (even though he is really close to acknowledging it!) Let’s break it down, bc I’m tired of this. 🧵 (cred: @ianlmorgan.bsky.social)
Holden Thorp’s slides from a recent talk.
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Evan Bardot (he/him) @ebardot.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Headed to @keystonesymposia.bsky.social on Stem Cell Models in Embryology tomorrow! Looking forward to hearing what’s new at the interface of #stemcells and #DevBio and finding promising stories for @natcomms.nature.com. Want to chat? DM me or find me there!
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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Feel like this is a good lesson to keep generative AI far from your editorial process as a matter of policy. Ars is a great website. If it can happen there it can happen to anyone that allows these tools in
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Ars Technica Pulls Article With AI Fabricated Quotes About AI Generated Article
A story about an AI-generated article contained fabricated, AI-generated quotes.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
My quote of the day Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. Charles Darwin
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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Congrats to the 2026 SDB Award Winners! Conklin Medal: Lee Niswander SDB Lifetime Achievement Award: Alexandra Joyner Hamburger Outstanding Educator Prize: Roberto Mayor Hay New Investigator Award: Jeffrey Farrell SDB Trainee SciComm Award: Nicholas Desnoyer bit.ly/4afnjiC
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Society for Developmental Biology 2026 Award Winners

Edwin G. Conklin Medal
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Lee Niswander, University of Colorado Boulder

Society for Developmental Biology Lifetime Achievement Award
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Alexandra Joyner, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Viktor Hamburger Outstanding Educator Prize
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Roberto Mayor, University College London

Elizabeth D. Hay New Investigator Award
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Jeffrey Farrell, National Institutes of Health
 
Society for Developmental Biology Trainee Science Communication Award
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Nicholas Desnoyer, The Sainsbury Laboratory
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 30/01/2026
The City’s Budget is our future. And you deserve to know how it works.
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The NewsGuild-CWA @newsguild.org · 23/01/2026
WE WON: Today, workers at the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) voted to form a union, with 81% in favor! ✊ At over 460 eligible employees, this will be the largest environmental nonprofit union in the US. newsguild.org/workers-at-e...
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Workers at Environmental Defense Fund win union election, forming the largest green nonprofit union in the U.S. | The NewsGuild - TNG-CWA
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Half the battle with this guy is just reiterating government can and already does good things that are so ubiquitous they’ve become invisible. He’s able to remind you in a way that you understand that good government can exist outside of a 24/7 vengeance operation, and in NYC already does.
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Evan Bardot (he/him) @ebardot.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Some thoughts and questions about the Human+AI review pilot published by NEJM AI. There will be lots of efforts to integrate AI into #SciencePublishing and this is my current baseline. ai.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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Accelerating Science with Human+AI Review
This issue of NEJM AI features the first two articles published through our accelerated human+AI review process. In this editorial, we describe the invitation-only “Fast Track” process used to revi...
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Evan Bardot (he/him) @ebardot.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
When you submit your manuscript, do you want 2/3 of the reviews you get to be AI-generated? Call me old fashioned, but I'd like to keep the "peer" in peer-review. Accelerating Science with Human+AI Review | NEJM AI ai.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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Accelerating Science with Human+AI Review
This issue of NEJM AI features the first two articles published through our accelerated human+AI review process. In this editorial, we describe the invitation-only “Fast Track” process used to revi...
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
👀 “If you are a 75-year-old professor reading this, now would be a good time to take emeritus status. It’s something that a lot of people could do that would contribute enormously. The job market for young people would be in much better shape if most people over 75 retired.”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.” What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.” Funny how that works.
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Eva Hörmanseder @evahoermanseder.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
We probably shouldn’t have favourites amongst projects in the lab, but this one was mine. I’m so pleased we can finally share it: Our work is now out in Nature Communications: 🔗 nature.com/articles/s41467-025-67692-7
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Everything is getting stupider
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Evan Bardot (he/him) @ebardot.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Come join our team! Feel free to DM me with any questions.
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