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Tim @timisstuck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Needed to consult my editorial assistant on these critical reviewer comments.

Tim @timisstuck.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Immunology journal editor (in a webinar) "reviewers spend 1-2 hours to write a quality review" Seems kind of low to me? Is that true, immunologists?

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Tim @timisstuck.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

For the 125th birthday of @rockefeller.edu my colleagues at @rupress.org created this beautiful booklet ✨✨

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Tim @timisstuck.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I need to hear from the people about italicizing "in vitro" and "in vivo" in manuscripts: Should @lsajournal.org stick to the Council of Science Editors and various others' conventions and force authors to remove italics for these? I have heard that this request makes some authors unhappy...

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Tim @timisstuck.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Here in lovely Woods Hole for the annual meeting @sgpweb.bsky.social, where I am delighted to chat about both @lsajournal.org and @jgp.org A great theme this year on excitability in human reproduction!! (My congrats to Sue on her impressive puddle)

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Tim @timisstuck.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

QED Science correctly celebrates high-scoring preprints that were later published in lower impact journals. This is a helpful time to remind everyone that impact factor is a journal-level metric, was not, and still is not, any kind of metric for a single paper. But also...

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Tim @timisstuck.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

This is why editors want to attend conferences btw

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Tim @timisstuck.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Weekend reading: this back and forth about a p16 reporter mouse for senescence and aging research. Read here in @emboreports.org and many more comments PubPeer. It seems to me that many journals are quite reluctant to publish these correspondences, to their great detriment.

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Tim @timisstuck.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Nice benchmarking resource for publication integrity guardrails with AI They prompted agents to generate false data or other forms of misconduct. Prompts were overt or covert attempts at misconduct, compared against a benign request. Strong showing for Claude, quite poor for DeepSeek

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Tim @timisstuck.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

"Please address all comments by Reviewer 21"

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Tim @timisstuck.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

It puts the journal decision letter in the basket

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Tim @timisstuck.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Agree. Nice read! This sums it up nicely

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Tim @timisstuck.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

From the survey you did yourself! c'mon...

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Tim @timisstuck.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

It's interesting being an editor of a journal and yet finding myself targeted by these offers from our *much* more aggressive competitor @frontiersin.bsky.social

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Tim @timisstuck.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Reviewer 1 tapping the sign:

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Tim @timisstuck.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Helpful writer of the catastrophic charges proposed at OMB here. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

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Tim @timisstuck.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Was a very fun week at the @embl.org symposium on phase separation! A nice emerging theme was pH and electrostatic charge. Not much grappling with terms/naming conventions, but it was a safe space for just calling things as you wanted. Here was a nice view towards my colleagues @embopress.org

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Tim @timisstuck.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Here for the week with my cherished colleagues @embopress.org (and some phase separation thanks to the EMBL symposium)

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Tim @timisstuck.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Another fantastic meeting at CSHL!! The Genome Biology meeting was probably the most scientifically diverse small meeting I’ve ever been to. Curious, generous folks happy to share and learn from one another. Huge thanks to the organizers especially Matthew Meyerson!

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Tim @timisstuck.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Delighted to be back at @cshlmeetings.bsky.social for Biology of Genomes, a historically important meeting w a really diverse and exciting lineup!

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Tim @timisstuck.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Love getting predatory solicitations to submit to a journal (Cancers) with a higher impact factor than our own at @lsajournal.org . The only way MDPI got my email address is: Attendance at a recent immunology conference (AAI Immunology) OR My authorship on editorials for LSA.

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Tim @timisstuck.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Another delightful visit to my alma mater @ucscscience.bsky.social Thanks to @needhibhalla.bsky.social and many others for exciting + important convo. Most of all thanks to students who came to my talk w SO MANY good questions about careers + publishing. Until next time!

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Tim @timisstuck.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I got to see a former trainee defend her thesis @rockefeller.edu! Marwa Saad worked with me at MIT during my postdoc and gave me this fabulous mug (still have it!) Then we both ended up at Rockefeller! She was a grad student w with @danmucida.bsky.social and I’m here at @rupress.org Congrats!!

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Tim @timisstuck.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Important pivot underway by my colleagues @embopress.org to embrace evolutionary biology, diverse species, and non-reductionist approaches to biological systems. Bravo!

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Tim @timisstuck.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Gould's essay is exquisite and was taken up admirably by Bowerman (who corresponded with Gould, quoted in his piece). Both provided me with fantastic examples outside cell biology and biomedicine that perfectly highlight the universality of this issue:

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Tim @timisstuck.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

A few years earlier, Gould wrote Cordelia's Dilemma to discuss why scientists decide that some data are not interesting. While paleontologists scoured the fossil record for evidence of evolution, the non-change (stasis) they often observed was explicitly uninteresting according to Gould:

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Tim @timisstuck.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Writing my recent editorial was secretly just an excuse to read a bunch of Stephen Jay Gould. I was led there by Howard Browman in his editorial. Browman frames question of negative data as a deeply philosophical issue of what motivates scientists to communicate their findings.

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Tim @timisstuck.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Editorial by me, in our March issue! Negative results are a thorny issue in essentially all fields of scientific research, and deserve a renewed look by authors and editors 👇

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Tim @timisstuck.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Returning to this to emphasize that NIH action/inaction is preventing funds from getting to researchers. Important to note the difference between legislative budget actions and executive disbursement actions. graph via @deniswirtz.bsky.social

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Tim @timisstuck.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

!!! www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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Tim @timisstuck.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Let's look at this wikipedia article... ah yes.

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Tim @timisstuck.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

The first person listed under "speakers" is this guy. There is no one at Brown by this name... The homepage link takes you to a wikipedia article about him. But h index = 137!!

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Tim @timisstuck.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

One of the spammy things you see repeatedly as a journal editor are invitations to publish conference proceedings. They get to have a paper and the targeted journal collects an APC. Like this one. Is this real? Who knows

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Tim @timisstuck.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Sir Francis Bacon griping about publication bias in 1605 😍 From Steven Jay Gould’s collection of essays Dinosaur in a Haystack

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Tim @timisstuck.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Last a huge finding on PD-1 signaling from T cell whisperer Ron Germain. Targeting PD-1 boosts anti tumor immunity short term but they argue it also impedes formation of high-avidity effector clones. I wonder if this tanked some immuno-oncology pharma programs... doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Tim @timisstuck.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Poll of two postdocs I happened to sit with for lunch yesterday (at Rockefeller U): -Editor at @science.org offered guidance to authors on how to respond to reviewer comments. -Editors at @nature.com did NOT. Just sent a form email inviting revisions.

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Tim @timisstuck.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

With a smaller, somewhat fraught #cellbio2025 behind us I am nevertheless still inspired and amazed at this community. Curious to hear others’ impressions!!

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Tim @timisstuck.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Flyers for @lsajournal.org with our cell bio collection: Collect all 4 to recreate the full artwork by our fantastic collaborator Laurène! And come get a tshirt with this work today 1-3pm at @embo.org booth 🎊

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Tim @timisstuck.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Today and every day at #cellbio2025 💥 find me and chat about @lsajournal.org 💥 take a gorgeous flyer 💥 get a free t-shirt 🥳

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Tim @timisstuck.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Has anyone seen this executive order establishing "Genesis Mission" at the DOE? In particular the provision that this initiative will be provided with "scientific datasets" and "experimental and production tools" to further its mission. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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Tim @timisstuck.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

The assumed link between conceptual advance and journal impact factor is alive and well 😔

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Tim @timisstuck.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

The latest AI slop published by @springernature.com (great work!) has me wondering if, unlike the rat testicle one, this could be explained by English illiteracy? The graphics are not obviously wrong. Does anyone know?

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Tim @timisstuck.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Today!! Freshly jetlagged from #sfn25 in San Diego, I will discuss publishing negative data at the fantastic R^3 series (Scientific Rigor, Reproducibility, and Reporting) @rockefeller.edu Check out their website for other topics they cover: www.rockefeller.edu/research/r3/

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Tim @timisstuck.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Obsessed w this work we just published @lsajournal.org : This acetyltransferase mediates metabolic adaptation to starvation… but can be replaced by a 2 degree temperature shift!! This is why fruit flies you guys!

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Tim @timisstuck.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Weather update here in San Diego 🥰

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Tim @timisstuck.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

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!

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