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Zooplankton larvae shoot up in the water column when exposed to high pressure.
Mediated by special pressure-sensory photoreceptors.
From our paper on the mechanism of barotaxis.
https://elifesciences.org/articles/94306
#cilia #plankton #neuroscience
If change doesn’t come from reviewers, publishers, or the courts, one remaining lever is for funders to set clearer standards for journals publishing publicly funded research.
Litigation could force structural change, but in this case the courts declined to intervene.
That leaves regulation by research funders.
Demand side: publishers could adopt new models if they believe it improves their product or business.
Across the industry, however, there is little economic pressure pushing publishers to change long-standing practices.
There are at least four possible drivers of change.
Supply side: reviewers could refuse to provide free labor.
In practice this is unlikely because peer review norms (reviewing for free) are deeply embedded in academic culture.
The case raises a broader question: how does change happen in scientific publishing?
In the peer-review labor market, reviewers supply labor and journals demand it, yet the price of that labor has long been set at zero.
The argument was essentially that scholars provide valuable labor (peer review) for free while publishers generate billions in journal revenue.
The claim: publishers collectively enforce norms that keep peer review unpaid and restrict competition between journals, eg by prohibiting authors from submitting a manuscript to multiple journals at once.
A recent lawsuit against several major academic publishers raises an interesting question: how does change actually happen in scientific publishing?
A group of researchers sued 6 publishers (Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley, Sage, Taylor & Francis, Wolters Kluwer) alleging antitrust violations.
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age and gender distribution of directors in the max planck society. shows a more than 3:1 ratio of men:women above age of 55. But the ratio is much more even in younger ages.
The Max Planck Society has a junior research group program for women named after Meitner. It's existence is evidence that things haven't changed enough. It wouldn't be necessary, if they had. But there are signs of progress. Look at this age/gender dist of directors:
This microscopic freshwater organism, Limnias malicerta, is a rotifer, recognized by its rotating wheel-like structures. It uses spinning cilia on its head to swim and capture tiny food like algae and bacteria.
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Absolutely terrible news. I knew Alan as he was a long-serving Director @biologists.bsky.social. Our research interests were very far apart but I loved chatting with him about running, gait analysis and GPS. He was a data nerd just like me. So sad. My thoughts are with his family.
Obama: "We are living in a time where it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback to the idea of the rule of law ... but this man - Rev. Jesse Jackson - inspires us to take a harder path ... bc if we don't step up, nobody else will"
Rapid RSV tests linked to less antibiotic prescribing in kids
An Italian study finds an RSV-positive rapid antigen test in children aged nine to 36 months was associated with a 48% reduced risk of receiving an antibiotic.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/r...
2nd- or 3rd-year PhD student? Applications for @hhmi-science.bsky.social's #GilliamFellows Program open 9/1! Robust dissertation support, an incredible community of scientists, tailored professional development (for you *and* your faculty thesis advisor), & so much more. Bookmark bit.ly/4qQArRh!
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"the application-led research bucket, which maps to responsive mode applications, as you used to know them..... So curiousity driven research is protected in scale and in scope"?
Because LMB isn't traditionally thought of as funding for "responsive mode applications" (nor is it QR).
Interesting thing about the UKRI funding diagram: the research councils are invisible with their programmes now (maybe?) inputs to funding bucket outcomes. Disciplines not the organising principle, but pieces of delivery channels. That’s the enormous structural shift. Universities better catch up
*Recruiting new group leaders*
The @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social at University College London are looking for outstanding candidates to sponsor for career development fellowships. Fellows would then be assessed for tenured positions at the end of the fellowship term.
Amazing legacy of lab culture & talent hothousing Piali!! Congratulations 🥂
This poses an intriguing question: how is cytoplasm robustly and accurately organized in absence of physical barriers, and how is cytoplasmic partitioning achieved within the constrained time window of rapid embryonic divisions? (2/9)
One more week to finalize your applications for the 2026 MBL zebrafish course at Woods Hole!
Application deadline extended to March 9.
Please repost and forward to anyone interested in learning 'everything zebrafish'!
www.mbl.edu/education/ad...
Change can be positive and may lead to better outcomes. This is just a plea for more information or to be clearly told when more information will be available.
Simple things like cashflow in HEIs. If MRC £ a key income stream then knowing the exact length of the pause is critical to planning.
We are #Hiring! Our lab is looking for a LabTech/Lab Manager! Take a look to our research here!
physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/team/pol-gro...
Drop a line if you are interested to know more details!
#labtech #labtechnician #biology #labtechnicians #labmanager #labwork #Xenopus #zebrafish #devbiol
Just published: chemotactic sperm cells become phototactic 💡- by loading photo-activatable second messengers. This allows to "reverse-engineer" chemotactic signaling dynamics and expose cells to signals they would never see in the wild. Honoured to be part of this collaboration with the Kaupp lab.
I am so grateful to the Blavatnik Family Foundation and the New York Academy of Sciences for this honor. Can’t wait to be back to the lab and celebrate with lab members on this special recognition of their hard work.
Millions of moms struggle with depression during their pregnancy.
America deserves a Surgeon General who can state plainly that SSRIs are SAFE for the majority of pregnant women.
We don't need more junk science charlatans. I'm voting NO on Casey Means' confirmation.
LOL- let the #FlexYourOrganism Top Trump games begin #MotileCilia #UNICIL
In which we show that Tatton-Brown-Rahman syndrome due to a pathogenic variant of DNA methyl transferase DNMT3A can be associated with Familial Pneumothorax 🫁🧬
#RareDisease
#Pneumothorax
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
