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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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Evan Bardot (he/him) @ebardot.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Congratulations on this incredibly cool work! It was an absolute pleasure handling it, and I'm thrilled to see it published at @natcomms.nature.com. Really looking forward to seeing where you take this!

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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

Updates to the manuscript submission systems are in the works!

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Evan Bardot (he/him) @ebardot.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Two key points I want to highlight: 1) Disclose ALL use of AI! Transparency builds trust. 2) Don't put anything confidential or unpublished into an "open" LLM. Ever.

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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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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 · 28/07/2026

Terrific talk(s)! I (and others) audibly gasped when you showed the image in your post. Stunning work that I'm already using to engage my non-scientist friends in core concepts of #devbio.

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Evan Bardot (he/him) @ebardot.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Despite the past two @socdevbio.bsky.social meetings being in Atlanta and San Juan, the weather for this year's in Las Vegas is set to be 10+ degrees hotter!

A four day weather forecast showing full sun with high temperatures of 111 to 113 degrees and lows of 88-90.

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Evan Bardot (he/him) @ebardot.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Beautiful work! There’s little I love more than a fate map 😍

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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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Evan Bardot (he/him) @ebardot.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Congratulations on the beautiful preprint! I have been thinking of these results since we chatted about them in the fall. Super exciting to see how it has come together 🤩

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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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Evan Bardot (he/him) @ebardot.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Completely fair. Your reviewing time should be spent on well-crafted work. Obvious cases get filtered out before they reach me but I don’t fully know how. AI-detection tools are not super reliable and often incorrectly flag writing from authors who speak English as a second language. It’s hard!

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Evan Bardot (he/him) @ebardot.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Email the editor with your concerns. They may need you to submit them as a review in order to take action, so talk it through before withdrawing (if you can)!

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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

This is one reason I am glad NComms publishes the peer review comments and responses. It's helpful to show that in MOST cases, everyone involved during peer review acts with good intentions. We all care about the field; my job is to balance speedy publication against scientific rigor.

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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

Sometimes the punchline is a gut punch

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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

Yes, readers will understand if you make tdTomato magenta. No, the colors from your antibodies/FPs are not what is actually captured by the (black-and-white!) camera. I cannot force authors to modify their color choices (yet), but watch me try.

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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

One question (of many) I have is whether opinions change if researchers are asked if they think AI scientific reviews should be relied on for their colleagues' papers. Often, what researchers want differs depending on whether they are the author or the reviewer.

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Evan Bardot (he/him) @ebardot.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

I'd posit that getting input on a manuscript in prep from a real human colleague could serve the same purpose, while also deepening interpersonal connections that have secondary positive effects. The value of this cannot be understated, but it does take more effort.

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Evan Bardot (he/him) @ebardot.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

For example, the consensus that AI scientific reviews are most useful as part of the manuscript preparation process fits with my current feelings. This is a great way to identify blind spots to sort out before peer review, which may save time in review and reduce reviewer burden in the long run.

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Evan Bardot (he/him) @ebardot.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

There will be lots to consider on this topic going forward and this provides a useful framework as well as some baseline impressions. As an editor, it's also good to know that my current opinions are in line with where authors are at the moment.

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