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  1. Kudos to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (#HHMI) for strengthening its 2022 #OpenAccess policy to require the immediate sharing of new research through #preprints under #CCBY licenses.
    hhmicdn.blob.core.windows.net/

    This kind of policy is often called #Plan_U, though HHMI doesn't use that term. The policy takes effect January 1, 2026.

    For background, here are the items tagged with "oa.plan_u" in the Open Access Tracking Project (#OATP, @oatp).
    tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/

    #Medicine #ScholComm

  2. Kudos to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (#HHMI) for strengthening its 2022 #OpenAccess policy to require the immediate sharing of new research through #preprints under #CCBY licenses.
    hhmicdn.blob.core.windows.net/

    This kind of policy is often called #Plan_U, though HHMI doesn't use that term. The policy takes effect January 1, 2026.

    For background, here are the items tagged with "oa.plan_u" in the Open Access Tracking Project (#OATP, @oatp).
    tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/

    #Medicine #ScholComm

  3. Kudos to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (#HHMI) for strengthening its 2022 #OpenAccess policy to require the immediate sharing of new research through #preprints under #CCBY licenses.
    hhmicdn.blob.core.windows.net/

    This kind of policy is often called #Plan_U, though HHMI doesn't use that term. The policy takes effect January 1, 2026.

    For background, here are the items tagged with "oa.plan_u" in the Open Access Tracking Project (#OATP, @oatp).
    tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/

    #Medicine #ScholComm

  4. Kudos to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (#HHMI) for strengthening its 2022 #OpenAccess policy to require the immediate sharing of new research through #preprints under #CCBY licenses.
    hhmicdn.blob.core.windows.net/

    This kind of policy is often called #Plan_U, though HHMI doesn't use that term. The policy takes effect January 1, 2026.

    For background, here are the items tagged with "oa.plan_u" in the Open Access Tracking Project (#OATP, @oatp).
    tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/

    #Medicine #ScholComm

  5. Kudos to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (#HHMI) for strengthening its 2022 #OpenAccess policy to require the immediate sharing of new research through #preprints under #CCBY licenses.
    hhmicdn.blob.core.windows.net/

    This kind of policy is often called #Plan_U, though HHMI doesn't use that term. The policy takes effect January 1, 2026.

    For background, here are the items tagged with "oa.plan_u" in the Open Access Tracking Project (#OATP, @oatp).
    tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/

    #Medicine #ScholComm

  6. HHMI-funded research must be posted as preprints, including subsequent revisions after peer review:
    hhmicdn.blob.core.windows.net/

    Effectively implements Plan U as spelled out by @richardsever et al. (2019) here:
    journals.plos.org/plosbiology/

    Michael Eisen & Prachee Avasthi @PracheeAC go a step further and call the new policy not enough, asking for "HHMI should prohibit the use of any HHMI funds on any aspect of journal publishing" – and indeed, that would bring about much needed change in #ScientificPublishing .
    thescientistpapers.substack.co

    #HHMI #preprints

  7. HHMI-funded research must be posted as preprints, including subsequent revisions after peer review:
    hhmicdn.blob.core.windows.net/

    Effectively implements Plan U as spelled out by @richardsever et al. (2019) here:
    journals.plos.org/plosbiology/

    Michael Eisen & Prachee Avasthi @PracheeAC go a step further and call the new policy not enough, asking for "HHMI should prohibit the use of any HHMI funds on any aspect of journal publishing" – and indeed, that would bring about much needed change in #ScientificPublishing .
    thescientistpapers.substack.co

    #HHMI #preprints

  8. HHMI-funded research must be posted as preprints, including subsequent revisions after peer review:
    hhmicdn.blob.core.windows.net/

    Effectively implements Plan U as spelled out by @richardsever et al. (2019) here:
    journals.plos.org/plosbiology/

    Michael Eisen & Prachee Avasthi @PracheeAC go a step further and call the new policy not enough, asking for "HHMI should prohibit the use of any HHMI funds on any aspect of journal publishing" – and indeed, that would bring about much needed change in #ScientificPublishing .
    thescientistpapers.substack.co

    #HHMI #preprints

  9. HHMI-funded research must be posted as preprints, including subsequent revisions after peer review:
    hhmicdn.blob.core.windows.net/

    Effectively implements Plan U as spelled out by @richardsever et al. (2019) here:
    journals.plos.org/plosbiology/

    Michael Eisen & Prachee Avasthi @PracheeAC go a step further and call the new policy not enough, asking for "HHMI should prohibit the use of any HHMI funds on any aspect of journal publishing" – and indeed, that would bring about much needed change in #ScientificPublishing .
    thescientistpapers.substack.co

    #HHMI #preprints

  10. HHMI-funded research must be posted as preprints, including subsequent revisions after peer review:
    hhmicdn.blob.core.windows.net/

    Effectively implements Plan U as spelled out by @richardsever et al. (2019) here:
    journals.plos.org/plosbiology/

    Michael Eisen & Prachee Avasthi @PracheeAC go a step further and call the new policy not enough, asking for "HHMI should prohibit the use of any HHMI funds on any aspect of journal publishing" – and indeed, that would bring about much needed change in #ScientificPublishing .
    thescientistpapers.substack.co

    #HHMI #preprints

  11. Bodo Stern at #HHMI is spot on in his assessment of the decision by #WebOfScience to stop indexing @eLife articles: "Rather than helping move scholarly communication forward, Web of Science, by punishing a leader in the field, is in fact holding it back."

    coalition-s.org/blog/how-the-w

    @cOAlitionS_OA

  12. Bodo Stern at #HHMI is spot on in his assessment of the decision by #WebOfScience to stop indexing @eLife articles: "Rather than helping move scholarly communication forward, Web of Science, by punishing a leader in the field, is in fact holding it back."

    coalition-s.org/blog/how-the-w

    @cOAlitionS_OA

  13. Bodo Stern at #HHMI is spot on in his assessment of the decision by #WebOfScience to stop indexing @eLife articles: "Rather than helping move scholarly communication forward, Web of Science, by punishing a leader in the field, is in fact holding it back."

    coalition-s.org/blog/how-the-w

    @cOAlitionS_OA

  14. Bodo Stern at #HHMI is spot on in his assessment of the decision by #WebOfScience to stop indexing @eLife articles: "Rather than helping move scholarly communication forward, Web of Science, by punishing a leader in the field, is in fact holding it back."

    coalition-s.org/blog/how-the-w

    @cOAlitionS_OA

  15. Bodo Stern at #HHMI is spot on in his assessment of the decision by #WebOfScience to stop indexing @eLife articles: "Rather than helping move scholarly communication forward, Web of Science, by punishing a leader in the field, is in fact holding it back."

    coalition-s.org/blog/how-the-w

    @cOAlitionS_OA

  16. Neuroscientist Nelson Spruston named new executive director of #HHMIJanelia, replacing cell biologist Ron Vale.

    #HHMI president's words are as transparent as it gets:

    "Erin O’Shea, President of HHMI, said, “Nelson is the right leader at the right time in this next chapter for Janelia. With his deep knowledge about what makes the Janelia model conducive to doing great science, he can help guide Janelia both strategically and operationally to pursue important questions in the life sciences.”"

    janelia.org/news/janelia-names

    #neuroscience

  17. Neuroscientist Nelson Spruston named new executive director of #HHMIJanelia, replacing cell biologist Ron Vale.

    #HHMI president's words are as transparent as it gets:

    "Erin O’Shea, President of HHMI, said, “Nelson is the right leader at the right time in this next chapter for Janelia. With his deep knowledge about what makes the Janelia model conducive to doing great science, he can help guide Janelia both strategically and operationally to pursue important questions in the life sciences.”"

    janelia.org/news/janelia-names

    #neuroscience

  18. Neuroscientist Nelson Spruston named new executive director of #HHMIJanelia, replacing cell biologist Ron Vale.

    #HHMI president's words are as transparent as it gets:

    "Erin O’Shea, President of HHMI, said, “Nelson is the right leader at the right time in this next chapter for Janelia. With his deep knowledge about what makes the Janelia model conducive to doing great science, he can help guide Janelia both strategically and operationally to pursue important questions in the life sciences.”"

    janelia.org/news/janelia-names

    #neuroscience

  19. Neuroscientist Nelson Spruston named new executive director of #HHMIJanelia, replacing cell biologist Ron Vale.

    #HHMI president's words are as transparent as it gets:

    "Erin O’Shea, President of HHMI, said, “Nelson is the right leader at the right time in this next chapter for Janelia. With his deep knowledge about what makes the Janelia model conducive to doing great science, he can help guide Janelia both strategically and operationally to pursue important questions in the life sciences.”"

    janelia.org/news/janelia-names

    #neuroscience

  20. Neuroscientist Nelson Spruston named new executive director of #HHMIJanelia, replacing cell biologist Ron Vale.

    #HHMI president's words are as transparent as it gets:

    "Erin O’Shea, President of HHMI, said, “Nelson is the right leader at the right time in this next chapter for Janelia. With his deep knowledge about what makes the Janelia model conducive to doing great science, he can help guide Janelia both strategically and operationally to pursue important questions in the life sciences.”"

    janelia.org/news/janelia-names

    #neuroscience

  21. NIH increases PhD and postdoc salaries:

    "Predoctoral scholars will receive an approximate 4% increase in their pay level bringing it to $28,224, and postdoctoral scholars will receive an approximate increase of 8%, with pay levels beginning at $61,008 and upwardly adjusted based on years of experience. NIH aims to increase these pay levels over the next five years."

    nih.gov/news-events/news-relea

    For postdocs, "only" ~10k short of entry-level salaries at #HHMI: hhmi.org/news/hhmi-announces-p

    #NIH #academia

  22. NIH increases PhD and postdoc salaries:

    "Predoctoral scholars will receive an approximate 4% increase in their pay level bringing it to $28,224, and postdoctoral scholars will receive an approximate increase of 8%, with pay levels beginning at $61,008 and upwardly adjusted based on years of experience. NIH aims to increase these pay levels over the next five years."

    nih.gov/news-events/news-relea

    For postdocs, "only" ~10k short of entry-level salaries at #HHMI: hhmi.org/news/hhmi-announces-p

    #NIH #academia

  23. NIH increases PhD and postdoc salaries:

    "Predoctoral scholars will receive an approximate 4% increase in their pay level bringing it to $28,224, and postdoctoral scholars will receive an approximate increase of 8%, with pay levels beginning at $61,008 and upwardly adjusted based on years of experience. NIH aims to increase these pay levels over the next five years."

    nih.gov/news-events/news-relea

    For postdocs, "only" ~10k short of entry-level salaries at #HHMI: hhmi.org/news/hhmi-announces-p

    #NIH #academia

  24. NIH increases PhD and postdoc salaries:

    "Predoctoral scholars will receive an approximate 4% increase in their pay level bringing it to $28,224, and postdoctoral scholars will receive an approximate increase of 8%, with pay levels beginning at $61,008 and upwardly adjusted based on years of experience. NIH aims to increase these pay levels over the next five years."

    nih.gov/news-events/news-relea

    For postdocs, "only" ~10k short of entry-level salaries at #HHMI: hhmi.org/news/hhmi-announces-p

    #NIH #academia

  25. NIH increases PhD and postdoc salaries:

    "Predoctoral scholars will receive an approximate 4% increase in their pay level bringing it to $28,224, and postdoctoral scholars will receive an approximate increase of 8%, with pay levels beginning at $61,008 and upwardly adjusted based on years of experience. NIH aims to increase these pay levels over the next five years."

    nih.gov/news-events/news-relea

    For postdocs, "only" ~10k short of entry-level salaries at #HHMI: hhmi.org/news/hhmi-announces-p

    #NIH #academia

  26. "In this report, we summarize the results obtained over the past decade."

    Which funding agency, which institution could sport such time ranges? #HHMI of course.

    "A split-GAL4 driver line resource for Drosophila CNS cell types", Meissner et al. 2024

    biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

    #Drosophila #genetics #GAL4 #Split_GAL4 #neuroscience

  27. "In this report, we summarize the results obtained over the past decade."

    Which funding agency, which institution could sport such time ranges? #HHMI of course.

    "A split-GAL4 driver line resource for Drosophila CNS cell types", Meissner et al. 2024

    biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

    #Drosophila #genetics #GAL4 #Split_GAL4 #neuroscience

  28. "In this report, we summarize the results obtained over the past decade."

    Which funding agency, which institution could sport such time ranges? #HHMI of course.

    "A split-GAL4 driver line resource for Drosophila CNS cell types", Meissner et al. 2024

    biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

    #Drosophila #genetics #GAL4 #Split_GAL4 #neuroscience

  29. "In this report, we summarize the results obtained over the past decade."

    Which funding agency, which institution could sport such time ranges? #HHMI of course.

    "A split-GAL4 driver line resource for Drosophila CNS cell types", Meissner et al. 2024

    biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

    #Drosophila #genetics #GAL4 #Split_GAL4 #neuroscience

  30. "In this report, we summarize the results obtained over the past decade."

    Which funding agency, which institution could sport such time ranges? #HHMI of course.

    "A split-GAL4 driver line resource for Drosophila CNS cell types", Meissner et al. 2024

    biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

    #Drosophila #genetics #GAL4 #Split_GAL4 #neuroscience

  31. @alexh

    #HHMI is veering that way – preprints and open access in non-profit journals only. I wish the #WellcomeTrust, #MaxPlanckSociety and #ERC were to follow suit.

    On @eLife , the article falls very short: at #eLife we've been publishing Reviewed Preprints at the same rate that we were publishing "traditional" articles before. See:

    "eLife’s New Model: One year on" (2024) elifesciences.org/inside-elife

    and

    "Scientific Publishing: The first year of a new era" (2024)
    elifesciences.org/articles/964

    #ScientificPublishing

  32. @alexh

    #HHMI is veering that way – preprints and open access in non-profit journals only. I wish the #WellcomeTrust, #MaxPlanckSociety and #ERC were to follow suit.

    On @eLife , the article falls very short: at #eLife we've been publishing Reviewed Preprints at the same rate that we were publishing "traditional" articles before. See:

    "eLife’s New Model: One year on" (2024) elifesciences.org/inside-elife

    and

    "Scientific Publishing: The first year of a new era" (2024)
    elifesciences.org/articles/964

    #ScientificPublishing

  33. @alexh

    #HHMI is veering that way – preprints and open access in non-profit journals only. I wish the #WellcomeTrust, #MaxPlanckSociety and #ERC were to follow suit.

    On @eLife , the article falls very short: at #eLife we've been publishing Reviewed Preprints at the same rate that we were publishing "traditional" articles before. See:

    "eLife’s New Model: One year on" (2024) elifesciences.org/inside-elife

    and

    "Scientific Publishing: The first year of a new era" (2024)
    elifesciences.org/articles/964

    #ScientificPublishing

  34. @alexh

    #HHMI is veering that way – preprints and open access in non-profit journals only. I wish the #WellcomeTrust, #MaxPlanckSociety and #ERC were to follow suit.

    On @eLife , the article falls very short: at #eLife we've been publishing Reviewed Preprints at the same rate that we were publishing "traditional" articles before. See:

    "eLife’s New Model: One year on" (2024) elifesciences.org/inside-elife

    and

    "Scientific Publishing: The first year of a new era" (2024)
    elifesciences.org/articles/964

    #ScientificPublishing

  35. @alexh

    #HHMI is veering that way – preprints and open access in non-profit journals only. I wish the #WellcomeTrust, #MaxPlanckSociety and #ERC were to follow suit.

    On @eLife , the article falls very short: at #eLife we've been publishing Reviewed Preprints at the same rate that we were publishing "traditional" articles before. See:

    "eLife’s New Model: One year on" (2024) elifesciences.org/inside-elife

    and

    "Scientific Publishing: The first year of a new era" (2024)
    elifesciences.org/articles/964

    #ScientificPublishing

  36. @brembs @deevybee @thetransmitter @eLife

    With #HHMI the slogan would be "the world's best scientists", where "world" is defined in the US-centric sense of the 50 states – like the "world league" and "world championship" and so on the US uses for its sports – and in that context it's largely true.

    A journal with a high retraction rate cannot with a straight face claim that slogan for itself. Which comes to show it's all marketing and for-profit business – not scientific research, not advancing the world's knowledge, not academic collegiality.

  37. @brembs @deevybee @thetransmitter @eLife

    With #HHMI the slogan would be "the world's best scientists", where "world" is defined in the US-centric sense of the 50 states – like the "world league" and "world championship" and so on the US uses for its sports – and in that context it's largely true.

    A journal with a high retraction rate cannot with a straight face claim that slogan for itself. Which comes to show it's all marketing and for-profit business – not scientific research, not advancing the world's knowledge, not academic collegiality.

  38. @brembs @deevybee @thetransmitter @eLife

    With #HHMI the slogan would be "the world's best scientists", where "world" is defined in the US-centric sense of the 50 states – like the "world league" and "world championship" and so on the US uses for its sports – and in that context it's largely true.

    A journal with a high retraction rate cannot with a straight face claim that slogan for itself. Which comes to show it's all marketing and for-profit business – not scientific research, not advancing the world's knowledge, not academic collegiality.

  39. @brembs @deevybee @thetransmitter @eLife

    With #HHMI the slogan would be "the world's best scientists", where "world" is defined in the US-centric sense of the 50 states – like the "world league" and "world championship" and so on the US uses for its sports – and in that context it's largely true.

    A journal with a high retraction rate cannot with a straight face claim that slogan for itself. Which comes to show it's all marketing and for-profit business – not scientific research, not advancing the world's knowledge, not academic collegiality.

  40. @brembs @deevybee @thetransmitter @eLife

    With #HHMI the slogan would be "the world's best scientists", where "world" is defined in the US-centric sense of the 50 states – like the "world league" and "world championship" and so on the US uses for its sports – and in that context it's largely true.

    A journal with a high retraction rate cannot with a straight face claim that slogan for itself. Which comes to show it's all marketing and for-profit business – not scientific research, not advancing the world's knowledge, not academic collegiality.

  41. @brembs @deevybee

    There are institutions that in various ways embody these new boats.

    #ArkadiaScience comes to mind; results to be seen in a few years, particularly regarding long-term persistence of the institution itself and of its online-only publication approach. Paper has many flaws but it's energy-independent persistence is laudable.

    #HHMI, for all its faults, it's at the end of the day a charity by scientists for scientists, and is doing a lot of good moves, some of them purposefully designed to address a need while pushing the rest of scientific academia into the same direction. With salaries, for example. And with its Hannah Grey Fellows program hhmi.org/programs/hanna-h-gray , its Freeman Hrabowski Scholars program hhmi.org/programs/freeman-hrab , and more diversity.hhmi.org .

    Distillers initiatives like The Transmitter @thetransmitter with its curated, accessible reviews are providing the filter plus summary and references for anyone to access a particular field on a solid foundation. A role that good reviews also do. Here, it's critical to avoid biases in sampling the literature, hard as it is but imperative to do right.

    In that vein, journals like @eLife (disclosure: I'm one of the senior editors) with its vast corpus of trusted reviewing editors, each and every one of them a practising scientist that runs a lab in an academic institution, and spanning from early career to senior, is providing also a reference for trust. If a journal can contribute anything at all in these days of gaming impact factors and papermills is precisely what eLife is doing: empowering trusted, active scientists to curate the new literature.

  42. @brembs @deevybee

    There are institutions that in various ways embody these new boats.

    #ArkadiaScience comes to mind; results to be seen in a few years, particularly regarding long-term persistence of the institution itself and of its online-only publication approach. Paper has many flaws but it's energy-independent persistence is laudable.

    #HHMI, for all its faults, it's at the end of the day a charity by scientists for scientists, and is doing a lot of good moves, some of them purposefully designed to address a need while pushing the rest of scientific academia into the same direction. With salaries, for example. And with its Hannah Grey Fellows program hhmi.org/programs/hanna-h-gray , its Freeman Hrabowski Scholars program hhmi.org/programs/freeman-hrab , and more diversity.hhmi.org .

    Distillers initiatives like The Transmitter @thetransmitter with its curated, accessible reviews are providing the filter plus summary and references for anyone to access a particular field on a solid foundation. A role that good reviews also do. Here, it's critical to avoid biases in sampling the literature, hard as it is but imperative to do right.

    In that vein, journals like @eLife (disclosure: I'm one of the senior editors) with its vast corpus of trusted reviewing editors, each and every one of them a practising scientist that runs a lab in an academic institution, and spanning from early career to senior, is providing also a reference for trust. If a journal can contribute anything at all in these days of gaming impact factors and papermills is precisely what eLife is doing: empowering trusted, active scientists to curate the new literature.

  43. @brembs @deevybee

    There are institutions that in various ways embody these new boats.

    #ArkadiaScience comes to mind; results to be seen in a few years, particularly regarding long-term persistence of the institution itself and of its online-only publication approach. Paper has many flaws but it's energy-independent persistence is laudable.

    #HHMI, for all its faults, it's at the end of the day a charity by scientists for scientists, and is doing a lot of good moves, some of them purposefully designed to address a need while pushing the rest of scientific academia into the same direction. With salaries, for example. And with its Hannah Grey Fellows program hhmi.org/programs/hanna-h-gray , its Freeman Hrabowski Scholars program hhmi.org/programs/freeman-hrab , and more diversity.hhmi.org .

    Distillers initiatives like The Transmitter @thetransmitter with its curated, accessible reviews are providing the filter plus summary and references for anyone to access a particular field on a solid foundation. A role that good reviews also do. Here, it's critical to avoid biases in sampling the literature, hard as it is but imperative to do right.

    In that vein, journals like @eLife (disclosure: I'm one of the senior editors) with its vast corpus of trusted reviewing editors, each and every one of them a practising scientist that runs a lab in an academic institution, and spanning from early career to senior, is providing also a reference for trust. If a journal can contribute anything at all in these days of gaming impact factors and papermills is precisely what eLife is doing: empowering trusted, active scientists to curate the new literature.

  44. @brembs @deevybee

    There are institutions that in various ways embody these new boats.

    #ArkadiaScience comes to mind; results to be seen in a few years, particularly regarding long-term persistence of the institution itself and of its online-only publication approach. Paper has many flaws but it's energy-independent persistence is laudable.

    #HHMI, for all its faults, it's at the end of the day a charity by scientists for scientists, and is doing a lot of good moves, some of them purposefully designed to address a need while pushing the rest of scientific academia into the same direction. With salaries, for example. And with its Hannah Grey Fellows program hhmi.org/programs/hanna-h-gray , its Freeman Hrabowski Scholars program hhmi.org/programs/freeman-hrab , and more diversity.hhmi.org .

    Distillers initiatives like The Transmitter @thetransmitter with its curated, accessible reviews are providing the filter plus summary and references for anyone to access a particular field on a solid foundation. A role that good reviews also do. Here, it's critical to avoid biases in sampling the literature, hard as it is but imperative to do right.

    In that vein, journals like @eLife (disclosure: I'm one of the senior editors) with its vast corpus of trusted reviewing editors, each and every one of them a practising scientist that runs a lab in an academic institution, and spanning from early career to senior, is providing also a reference for trust. If a journal can contribute anything at all in these days of gaming impact factors and papermills is precisely what eLife is doing: empowering trusted, active scientists to curate the new literature.