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Thomas Lemberger

@tlemberger.bsky.social
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Life scientist. AI, q-bio, systems biology. Head, Open Science, @embo.org Project Lead, @reviewcommons.org @embopress.org Loves 🎶 and plays the 🎻 Views my own

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Pedro Beltrao @pedrobeltrao.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
@qedscience.bsky.social has come up with a really controversial idea - an AI score for scientific impact. This trained score correlates with the impact factor of published preprints and the binning of papers into discrete quality bins accessed by independent scientists. Backlash in 3, 2, 1... (more)
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EMBO Press @embopress.org · 26/02/2026
Read this @emboreports.org paper here=> link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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QED Science @qedscience.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Our joint study with EMBO is just out! We are proud to be at the forefront of this sea change. AI will reinforce the central role of scientists in this new era. Strong science should be seen! @embo.org @reviewcommons.org @tlemberger.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Thomas Lemberger @tlemberger.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
It was a very cool experiment! The author-centric perspective makes a lot of sense. An important next step is to benchmark multiple AI review platforms. Maybe this can also pave the way for benchmarking human peer review across journals and defining "quality features" of the peer review process.
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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
It’s finally out! Together with @embopress.org and @reviewcommons.org, we conducted a structured side-by-side comparison of human peer review and our AI scientific review (see thread 👇👇👇🔥).
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EMBO @embo.org · 10/12/2025
The preprint #PeerReview platform Review Commons was launched at the 2019 ASCB | EMBO Meeting to make scientific #publishing more open and effective. Thomas Lemberger, lead of the initiative, tells us more about the platform: www.embo.org/features/review-common… 🧪
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Thomas Lemberger @tlemberger.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Cool 😎 Scholar Labs: an AI-powered Google Scholar search. scholar.googleblog.com/2025/11/scho...
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Scholar Labs: An AI Powered Scholar Search
Research questions are often detailed. Answering them can require looking at a topic from multiple angles. Today, we are introducing Scholar...
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Mann Lab @mannlab.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Honored to be included in this reflection on 20 excellent years of MolSystBiol! From our first phosphotyrosine interactome in 2005 to proteome-wide networks - scale has grown exponentially. MS proteomics + AI is transforming systems-level understanding. Exciting times! embopress.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
IT'S HAPPENING! 💥 I'm psyched to launch the collaboration between @qedscience.bsky.social & @openrxiv.bsky.social @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social! Preprint + q.e.d = your science is out there, and anyone can appreciate it. Let's care about making discoveries, and not on “getting published” (1/3) 👇
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Thomas Lemberger @tlemberger.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Very cool! I agree AI scientific review can be useful if it is transparent. It is all progressing very fast and will change everything. @qedScience @bioRxiv is a great first step. We are doing some human-based eval, so more soon from @EMBOPress @ReviewCommons with @qedScience. Watch this space ;-)
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EMBO @embo.org · 15/09/2025
Last week on 11–12 Sep, together with our publishing partner @springernature.com, EMBO hosted a workshop "AI to advance open science publishing” in Heidelberg, DE. 🧪 Participants engaged in demonstrations and experiments using tools developed by Springer Nature and EMBO for innovation in publishing.
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Maria Polychronidou @mpolychronidou.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Two metrics designed for measuring the impact of investments in the specific context of life sciences (in brief: the metrics assess the potential increase in life years attributable to the investment & the improvement in quality of life) ➡️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A new impact framework for investors in life sciences bridges financial returns and patient outcomes - Nature Biotechnology
A new model for quantifying the impact of capital investments in life science interventions could help investors, policymakers and healthcare stakeholders to assess, monitor and optimize the societal ...
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Human Technopole @humantechnopole.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
🤖✍️ How is #AI transforming scientific publishing? From trust to truth, @tlemberger.bsky.social @embopress.org explains what’s changing and why it matters for all of us. youtu.be/k-_MuFEwFx0 @salmaamin.bsky.social @mkiwanski.bsky.social
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Trust, Truth and AI in Scientific Publishing with Thomas Lemberger
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Thomas Lemberger @tlemberger.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
A message of hope and optimism in these crazy times: Gewandhaus Orchestra open air concert, in Leipzig, Germany, right now: 20,000 people peacefully listening to the music of Max Bruch. Beautiful event.
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Thomas Lemberger @tlemberger.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
An important, moving, and courageous piece from @juliosaezrod.bsky.social Respect! "Becoming a patient has given me a new perspective on biomedical research. Despite my background in data analytics, I have found that I do not necessarily have access to the data or information I need..."
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Ben Hartl @bhartl.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
#TCTeAC - the Woodstock of Biology2 & #nightscience - was such an amazing event!! We met great scientists who creatively presented their high quality work. We dreamt and discussed in a very broad, open-minded setting. Talking science outside of our nutshell can be soo valuable - let's do this again!
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Ben Hartl @bhartl.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Let's not be #TCTeAC "The Conference To END All Conferences", but a new format of many more such events. Depating science outside of our typical nutshell (scientifically and mentally) has great potential - we could have come up with 50+ project proposals together. Let's bring fun back to science :)
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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
@paveltomancak.bsky.social and @itaiyanai.bsky.social fighting /debating about the hourglass idea #theconferencetoendallconferences #TCTeAC
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Ben Hartl @bhartl.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
#fightforsciemce at #TCTeAC with #nightscience :) cell & gene people gather together. (no scientist got hurt)
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Natanella Illouz-Eliaz @natanellae.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Our publishing process needs to be revolutionised @odedrechavi.bsky.social #TCTeAC high-quality AI generated peer review
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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Introverts at the Woodstock of Biology #theconferencetoendallconferences #TCTeAC
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Andreas Kirsch @blackhc.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
I'm late to review the "Illusion of Thinking" paper, so let me collect some of the best threads by and critical takes by @scaling01 in one place and sprinkle some of my own thoughts in as well. The paper is rather critical of reasoning LLMs (LRMs): x.com/MFarajtabar...
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Ben Lehner @benlehner.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
We quantify the aggregation of >100,000 random protein sequences to train CANYA, a convolution-attention hybrid neural network to predict aggregation from sequence. With @bennibolo.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Massive experimental quantification allows interpretable deep learning of protein aggregation
xAI trained on >100,000 random peptides predicts and elucidates primary sequence determinants of aggregation.
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Paul Klee @paul-klee.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
A kind of cat www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/a-kind…
A kind of cat
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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 16/04/2025
Many of the moons orbiting Jupiter and Saturn appear to host subsurface oceans. Mysteries abound as to what fills these deep sea worlds. But the hints that we’ve already gathered make them tantalizing targets in the search for life beyond Earth. 🧵
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Thomas Lemberger @tlemberger.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Very sad news!
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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...
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Andy Fraser @andyfraser.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Woohoo it’s arrived!!! If it’s even 25% as good as Civilizations it’ll be amazing…
New Binet cover
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Jan Philipp Kreysing @jpkreysing.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
We then used a physics-based model to predict DNA linkers between the nucleosomes obtained by cryo-ET. This allowed us to visualize kbp-long chromatin fragments from inside human cells.
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Jan Philipp Kreysing @jpkreysing.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
New preprint on 3D heterochromatin architecture in human cells! Great collab with @sergiocruzleon.bsky.social & @johannesbetz.bsky.social from @hummerlab.bsky.social, @marinalusic.bsky.social & the Turoňová lab. Many thanks to my supervisor @becklab.bsky.social. bioRxiv: tinyurl.com/3a74uanv 🧵👇
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Vincent van Gogh @vangogh.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
The Courtyard of the Hospital in Arles, 1889 #artbots #vangogh botfrens.com/collections/46/content…
The Courtyard of the Hospital in Arles
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Thomas Lemberger @tlemberger.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
OK, self-replicating AI agents are perhaps not yet quite ready. Models still struggle to debug, a new Microsoft study reports. Claude 3.7 Sonnet dominates. Will there be a Claude 3.7 Opus? Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2503.21557 Blog: www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
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Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Group Leader | Generative and Synthetic Genomics at Wellcome Sanger Institute in Hinxton (UK) Closing date: Sunday 01-JUN-25 #sciencejobs sanger.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Wellco...
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Group Leader | Generative and Synthetic Genomics
Do you want to help us improve human health and understand life on Earth? Make your mark by shaping the future to enable or deliver life-changing science to solve some of humanity’s greatest challenge...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 04/04/2025
Pretty much everything is fucked, but here is some beautiful and exciting science from @archaeon-alex.bsky.social and colleagues. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Tissue-like multicellular development triggered by mechanical compression in archaea
The advent of clonal multicellularity is a critical evolutionary milestone, seen often in eukaryotes, rarely in bacteria, and only once in archaea. We show that uniaxial compression induces clonal mul...
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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
The Tariff rate is calculated the same way as the Impact Factor
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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
This really is remarkable finding - receiving the herpies zoster vaccine reduced the probability of a new dementia diagnosis over a follow-up period of 7 years by 3.5 %, corresponding to a 20.0% relative reduction; protective effect stronger in women > men 🧪 #MedSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A natural experiment on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia - Nature
Using a natural experiment that avoids common bias concerns, this study finds that the live-attenuated shingles vaccine reduced the probability of a new dementia diagnosis within a follow-up period of...
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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
23andMe has filed for bankruptcy and legal permission to auction off its assets - could this cloud have a silver lining for researchers? A new owner of the impressive dataset could make it more accessible to researchers… 🤞🏼 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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23andMe plans to sell its huge genetic database: could science benefit?
Following the firm’s bankruptcy, researchers hope that they will be able to continue accessing the valuable data set even if it is sold to new owners.
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 01/04/2025
A Review in Nature Reviews Biodiversity summarizes how differing forest restoration approaches affect impacts on biodiversity, and key knowledge gaps and research priorities for achieving biodiversity-centred restoration. go.nature.com/4c0XIuh 🧪
This is figure 1, which shows the approaches to restore forest cover and its expected outcomes for native biodiversity, carbon, water, timber and food.
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Typas Lab @typaslab.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Join our favorite microbiology meeting! Fantastic talks, poster sessions, new technologies, and all the hot areas of microbiology in a great environment - experts in cell & systems biology, microbiomes, environment & evolution, pathogenesis, phage & antibiotics DON’T MISS abstract deadline, April 1
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Only 9% of >105,000 people with 30-years of follow-up reached age 70 without chronic diseases. Our diet and healthy aging, a review of the new report @naturemedicine.bsky.social this week, and placing it in context erictopol.substack.com/p/our-diet-a...
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Our Diet and Healthy Aging
A very large prospective study assessed dietary patterns and healthy aging
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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Why is an AI agent not doing your job already? Apparently it’s because they struggle to keep track of multiple streams of information, respond to a dynamic environment, work with unclear or changing goals & multitask…. Looks like quite a few jobs are safe for now 😉 on.ft.com/4iEMIoK
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Why hasn’t AI taken your job yet?
New research shows ChatGPT’s inability to cope with ‘messy’ multitasking is still protecting some human workers
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Gearing up mRNA vaccines ("tolerogenic") to prevent autoimmune diseases, vital science that is currently under irrational and reckless attack www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Generation of tolerogenic antigen-presenting cells in vivo via the delivery of mRNA encoding PDL1 within lipid nanoparticles - Nature Biomedical Engineering
Therapeutic tolerogenic antigen-presenting cells can be generated in vivo by delivering, via lipid nanoparticles, mRNA coding for the inhibitory protein programmed death ligand 1, as shown in mouse mo...
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
A huge loss at FDA. Peter Marks originated rhe Operation Warp Speed Covid vaccine idea and has overseen so many essential biotech programs such as genome editing cures www.wsj.com/politics/top...
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Exclusive | Top Vaccine Official Out at FDA
In his resignation letter, Dr. Peter Marks cited ‘misinformation and lies’ from Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr.
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Tim Behrens @behrenstimb.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
The unparalleled XJ Wang has written a book about the computations underlying cognition. I read a draft version and it is awesome. He is not on social media, so I am sharing it on his behalf :)
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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Peer review completed within 7 days! Paying peer reviewers! Yes, it's possible. Fast & Fair peer review by @biologyopen.bsky.social More innovation from @biologists.bsky.social Details here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Fast & Fair peer review: a pilot study demonstrating feasibility of rapid, high-quality peer review in a biology journal
Traditional peer review is slow, often delayed by the time-consuming process of identifying reviewers and lengthy review turnaround times. This study tests the feasibility of the Fast & Fair peer revi...
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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 25/03/2025
My OpEd in @elife.bsky.social “It feels as if we are trying to fight a series of attacks on science with one arm tied behind our back and our lips half sewn shut.” “Yet we are not beaten, and some of us are downright energized.” elifesciences.org/articles/106...
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Science Under Threat in the United States: Feeling abandoned but energized
Many individual researchers are frustrated by the response - or the lack of a response - from universities to a growing crisis.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
HHS's Office of Long COVID Research and Practice has been DOGEd. Closing this week.
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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
The UK has announced a case of avian flu virus #H5N1 detected in a sheep (on a farm with infected birds). I think some of the significance of this (and the wider picture) is being missed in a lot of the reporting. So a short thread... 🧪 #IDsky www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Influenza of avian origin confirmed in a sheep in Yorkshire
Influenza of avian origin (H5N1) has been confirmed in a single sheep in Yorkshire.
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Mindscape 309 | Christof Koch on Consciousness and Integrated Information Theory. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
Title card for Mindscape episode with Christof Koch.
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Science is under threat, but science will not stop!
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