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Jordan Raff (University of Oxford in the #UnitedKingdom) shares why he chose Review Commons: https://www.embo.org/features/why-i-chose-review-commons/ 🧪

Emma R Andersson (Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, #Sweden) shares why she chose Review Commons: https://www.embo.org/features/why-i-chose-review-commons/ 🧪 Photo credit: Original photo of Emma R. Anderson by Ulf Sirborn

See-Yeun Ting (Academia Sinica in Taipei, #Taiwan) shares why he chose Review Commons: https://www.embo.org/features/why-i-chose-review-commons/ 🧪

The transition to setting up one's own lab is a steep learning curve. From 21–23 October, EMBO is hosting a workshop for group leaders in #Singapore to help them navigate this transition: https://meetings.embo.org/event/starting-your-own-lab-2 🧪 Leadership Sculptor GmbH #career #SoftSkills #training

Current and former members of the EMBO Young Investigator Network were asked about the network’s unique value to early-career group leaders, also pointing to how the network can evolve further. 🧪 Read more: https://www.embo.org/features/the-embo-young-investigator-network-surveys-its-community/

Read in our ISSUE 20: Whole genome duplication causes nuclear instability Transgenerational histone mark inheritance in C. elegans Excess linear ubiquitination causes solid aggregates Meiotic crossover control by rice ZEP1 ...and more! link.springer.com/journal/4431...

Today, EMBO launches the Resource on Responsible Research, a free, open set of materials to help research communities talk about what #ResponsibleResearch looks like in practice. 🧪 Watch the intro video to find out more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_4O...

Our October issue is online! link.springer.com/journal/4432... On the cover: A. Plazzo, T. Brunner & colleagues @uni-konstanz.de show that gut bacteria-derived #VaccenicAcid is a novel LRH-1 activator that improves #MetabolicDisease in vivo. doi.org/10.1038/s44321-026-00516-3 Image: A. Plazzo

“Once you’ve addressed the reviewers’ comments, you don’t have to start all over again. You simply move on to the next journal. It just saves so much time!” explains Friedrich Frischknecht on his experience using Review Commons. 🧪 More here: https://www.embo.org/features/why-i-chose-review-commons/

We spoke with four researchers who have repeatedly chosen Review Commons as a preprint #PeerReview platform for their own work. 🧪 Learn why they decided on Review Commons here: https://www.embo.org/features/why-i-chose-review-commons/ #LifeSciences #research #publishing #preprint

I am a huge fan of bioRxiv & medRxiv and Review Commons and I recently spoke with @saramonaco-rc.bsky.social about why. For us, the workflow has been simple and effective:

Congratulations to EMBO Members Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel, who with Karl Deisseroth have won the 2026 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and #optogenetics. 🧪

Today, the #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine was announced. Interested in how the #research developed? 🧪 In 2017, @emboreports.org @embopress.org interviewed Karl Deisseroth, one of the Nobel Prize winners, about his work on #optogenetics and more: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Issue 19! Highlight: The plasticity of Paneth cells Review: co-activator stepbrothers SAGA & ATAC Perforin-2 cytosolic antigen escape mechanism TAD hierarchies & cohesion zones Hox/Meis transcription & neural crest diversification Cover by Trowitzsch, Tampé et al link.springer.com/journal/4431...

What will it take to make #CultivatedMeat part of our everyday food? 🧪 A Science & Society article (EMBO Reports, EMBO Press) explores the challenges facing #CellularAgriculture. More here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s44319-025-00492-8 #LifeSciences #research

Europe’s #research excellence offers enormous potential for new #HealthTechnologies. How can we strengthen the path from discovery to patient benefit? 🧪

EMBO #Sustainability Officer Philipp Weber talks about the importance of sustainable laboratories and green computing, grassroots and top-down initiatives as well as how the EMBO-funded EU project SPARKHub is helping us move towards #SustainableResearch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaUlfuUPZXo 🧪

Deadline extended! European-based journalists have until 30 October to apply for financial support from the Maria Leptin | EMBO #ScienceJournalism Fellowships. 🧪 More info: https://www.embo.org/features/science-journalism-fellowships-deadline-extended/ #funding #LifeSciences #ScienceCommunication

PREreview & @dorassessment.bsky.social invite you to join a roundtable discussion exploring what it would take for #PeerReview contributions to be not only visible and citable, but meaningfully recognized and valued. 🗓️ 7 Oct, 2026, 2pm UTC 👉 Register: tr.ee/roundtable #ResearchAssessment

The beautiful cover of our September issue highlights the article by H. Wong, H. Chen, N. Ip & colleagues: “#DeepPlaque: a scalable multimodal platform for Aβ pathology and cell analysis in #AlzheimersDisease” 👉 doi.org/10.1038/s44321-026-00488-4 Scientific illustration by the authors

Tomorrow our Fellows' Meeting begins in Heidelberg! 🧪 We're looking forward to welcoming our fellows for days of discussion, #exchange and fresh ideas. Next week, they will be joined by our EMBO Members. Safe travels to everyone on their way and see you tomorrow! #EMBOFMM26 #community

Have a look at our second September issue: link.springer.com/journal/4431... The cover features work by Jean-Michel Cioni and co-workers identifying LC3B mRNA as a component of the endosome-associated mRNA pool. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

There is still time to apply for the EMBL International PhD Programme! 📢 Don’t miss this opportunity to receive dedicated mentoring while doing interdisciplinary research. Research groups across EMBL are recruiting now! bit.ly/4x9Edss

Can having too much make us less resourceful? 🧪 A Science & Society article reflects on how scarcity can encourage #creativity and thoughtful use of resources in #science, and asks whether today’s abundance may have the opposite effect: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s44319-026-00883-5

EMBO Workshop on Bacterial Networks: Our microbiology editor Ieva Gailite presenting the @embojournal.org poster prize to Morgane Wuckelt from the @mathieucoureuil.bsky.social lab - congratulations!

EMBO is #hiring a Programme Assistant for the EMBO Young Investigator Programme (absence cover) – Apply now! https://www.embo.org/vacancy/programme-assistant-embo-young-investigator-programme-absence-cover/ #JobOpening #JobSearch #CareerOpportunities 🧪

Issue 18: Comment on timescale mismatch in anthropocene evolution Review: tRNA evolution in photosynthetic organisms Method: Engineering editopes to make tumor neoantigens Ribosome-associated protein quality control during CFTR synthesis Cover: Alessio Zippo et al link.springer.com/journal/4431...

Very happy to announce that @emboreports.org will be sponsoring a cash prize for the best poster at Ctrl+Epi+Edit ✒️🧬! Still time to register and submit an abstract (speaking slots still open also), but it's filling up, so act fast! Thanks for the support 🙏 ctrlepiedit.sciencesconf.org

What if treating a disease isn’t enough to stop it? 🧪 A Science & Society article explores why ending schistosomiasis requires going beyond treatments and how #PublicHealth policies as well as community action could help: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s44319-026-00845-x

We congratulate Eleftheria Zeggini (Helmholtz Munich, Technische Universität München) who receives the FEBS | EMBO Women in Science #Award 2027! 🧪 More information in the press release: https://www.embo.org/press-releases/febs-embo-women-in-science-award-2027-for-eleftheria-zeggini/ #WomenInScience

Issue 17 Comment—bridging scRNA-seq discovery with in vivo genetics Local autophagy & brain-wide presynaptic remodeling RAD54L in nucleolar DNA damage response & rDNA stability Distinct in vivo roles of caspase-3 & -7 activation Cover: @wilhelmpalm.bsky.social et al link.springer.com/journal/4431...

ISSUE 15 Perspective: immunosuppressive neutrophils Review: cryptic lncRNA translation Method: scalable phosphotyrosine proteomics Resource: SenFlag senescence signature Assembly: RNA exosome, ATP synthase, SecYEG membrane protein insertase Cover: Ikuo Suzuki et al link.springer.com/journal/4431...

Get your calendars, because the new 2027 EMBL Annual Poster has arrived: s.embl.org/2027-poster Whether you'd like to enhance your skills in a practical course or engage with the latest research at one of our conferences, we've got you covered. See you at EMBL in 2027! 🙌 #LifeSciences #EMBL

Missed out on the early submission deadline for #CellBio2026? No problem. 🧪 Late poster abstract submission is still open until 4 August: https://www.ascb.org/cellbio2026/ American Society for Cell Biology

What if you could hear scientific data instead of see it? 🧪 A Science & Society article in EMBO Reports explores how #sonification, the use of sound to represent data, could interpret complex datasets and make #science more accessible: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s44319-024-00230-6

Golden US sci policy to please the president: after RFKJr's 'Gold Standard Sci' now Kratsios's 'Unleashing the Golden Age of Sci' (shorturl.at/pupf5) + NSF's pivot to X-labs (shorturl.at/0Z03h) + OMB rulechange (shorturl.at/YtsTT), side-stepping Vannevar Bush's defining vision. Stone- or golden age?

What if #AI learned like humans do? 🧪 A Science & Society article in EMBO Reports explores how AI could learn through interaction with the physical and social world and what this could mean for the future of human-AI collaboration: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s44319-025-00549-8

ISSUE 14: Review on skin aging SPACA9 and MNMIP1 on spermatid manchette microtubules DNA damage-activated kinase in bacterial immunity MORC3 regulates interferon via tandem repeat enhancer Cover: Sekler, Shirihai and coworkers link.springer.com/journal/4431...

7/2026 Issue ➡️ link.springer.com/journal/4432... spatially-informed RNA velocity, cell identity and metabolomics, breast cancer combination therapy, B cell differentiation #GRNs, single-cell omics ensemble learning Cover: #morphodynamic features predict epithelial fate @kuba-sedzinski.bsky.social

Come work with us! @embo.org is looking for a Senior Communications Officer and its next Head of Information and Support Resources. Apply until August 2nd. www.embo.org/about-embo/w...

Missed out on the early submission deadline for #CellBio2026? No problem. Late poster abstract submission is still open until 4 August: https://www.ascb.org/cellbio2026/ 🧪 American Society for Cell Biology

Academic independence after the USA's 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence? Read why the proposed #OMB policies would undermine research & economic leadership + comment by July13th shorturl.at/2s6f8). At the same time we must get our house in order. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

In issue 13: Review: roles of nonsense-mediated RNA decay New SUMO ligase in plant immunity Mitochondrial calcium uptake in Alzheimer’s progression Mechanosensitive FHL2 and microtubule-actomyosin crosstalk Cover: Zheng, Hu, Long et al link.springer.com/journal/4431...

🏅Thrilled to see @yehumoran.bsky.social elected to the membership of @embo.org! Yehu was instrumental in forming an #ecology & #evolution advisory board for our journals while serving as Academic Editor, where he now continues as an advisor. #EMBOMembers2026 www.embo.org/press-releas...

White House draft regulations could reshape federally funded research, including peer review and international collaborations. Learn what's proposed and why it matters. Comments due July 13. https://www.ascb.org/science-policy/white-house-draft-regulations-could-reshape-american-science/

See our second June issue! link.springer.com/journal/4431... The cover features work by Xin Zhang, Xiaozhi Rong, Jianfeng Zhou and co-workers showing that CST complex subunit Stn1 amplifies #Wnt/beta-catenin signaling and ensures proper #oocyte development. -> link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Issue 12: Comment on spatial metabolomics Review: Host/transposable element coexistence Method: One-step generation of T-cell receptor knock-in mice Phase separation of bacterial transcription terminator Cover: Sabrina Chumpen, @dmitryshvarev.bsky.social et al link.springer.com/journal/4431...

A lively and honest panel on funding and publishing interdisciplinary research, featuring Poonam Bheda @embopress.org @molsystbiol.org, Dario Corradini @apsphysics.bsky.social and Guntram Bauer @hfspo.bsky.social

A fantastic opportunity to hear from top journal editors this morning at #EACR2026! Thank you all for joining us. @barbmarte.bsky.social @natcancer.nature.com @science.org @springernature.com @cp-cancercell.bsky.social @cp-cell.bsky.social @moloncology.bsky.social @embopress.org

Congratulations to Gautam Dey (EMBL) and Omaya Dudin (University of Geneva) for being awarded the EMBO Gold Medal 2026 in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the #LifeSciences in Europe! 🧪 https://www.embo.org/press-releases/embo-gold-medal-2026-awarded-to-gautam-dey-and-omaya-dudin/