Still doing #neuroscience.

Our #orbitofrontalcortex (#OFC) paper published in _Neuron_ today. (Also available in #biorxiv.)

Paul Cunningham, A. David Redish (2025) Opposing, multiplexed information in lateral and ventral orbitofrontal cortex guides sequential foraging decisions in rats Neuron.

https://www.cell.com/neuron/abstract/S0896-6273(25)00467-2

Key insights:

1. VO and LO are doing opposite things: LO is about immediate value, while VO is about opportunity costs.

2. OFC neurons are representing both task state (through which neurons are active) and value (as the total activity).

Reimagining peer review: new #spotLights episode discussing the Fast & Fair peer review initiative launched by @BiologyOpen

Dan, Alejandra & Jonathan discuss early insights, now published as a #bioRxiv #preprint, and how you can get involved.

Listen below
https://youtu.be/mM6mZIubZaw

New research reveals domestic cats were first tamed in ancient Egypt for religious rituals honoring the goddess Bastet, challenging earlier beliefs that domestication began for pest control in early farming communities.

https://wildhunt.org/2025/05/researchers-say-religion-not-rodents-helped-turn-wildcats-into-house-cats.html

The #bioRxiv website is soooooooooo slow.

It’s about time to share the March #CellBio preprint picks! #preList

8 preLighters teamed up to curate a preprint reading lists across different categories in cell biology, including cancer biology, cell migration, cell signalling and mechanosensing & more

Check out the preList!
https://prelights.biologists.com/prelists/march-in-preprints-the-cellbio-edition/

As we continue our #polaroidproject at #biologists100, we now feature Matteo Allegretti

Matteo is presenting work on the macromolecular architecture of male germ nuclei - part of which can be found as a preprint on #bioRxiv

#preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.30.620797v2

#Preprint sites #bioRxiv and #medRxiv launch new era of independence
The popular repositories, where life #scientists post research before #peerreview, will be managed by a new organization called #openRxiv.
Until now, they had been managed by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. The new organization, named openRxiv, will have a board of directors and a scientific and medical advisory board. It is supported by a fresh US$16M grant from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI).
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00762-4

#BioRxiv down?
If you want to check: https://www.biorxiv.org/
Edit: back now it seems!

openRxiv has arrived!

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of openRxiv as an independent, researcher-led nonprofit to oversee @biorxivpreprint and @medrxivpreprint the world’s leading preprint servers for life and health sciences.
https://openrxiv.org/introducing-openrxiv/

openRxiv ensures communication at the speed of science remains the mission.

So yesterday i read a promotion `article´ in #biorxiv from a company proposing an #AI pipeline to write from proposal grants to the article ... "to allow the researcher to focus on the important things" and today I read a post saying that #Nature is thinking to used AI to be part of the peer review process. I think it is time for scientists, scientific bodies , National Academies of science... to put an end to this madness. All that money used for this | "help me to find the correct term " | is diverted from actual grant money, fair and actual smart research.

#bioRxiv has been down for 2 days for maintenance. This reliance on centralized repositories with no ability to mirror their site during maintenance is concerning. With recent talk of needing to decentralize #Pubmed, I think it's time we consider preprint servers as well. Solutions? Funding? How do we keep it neutral, away from the grubby hands of capitalism and governments gone wrong?

February in #preprints – the #CellBio edition!

This month the list was curated by Barbora Knotkova, Matthew Davies, Sristilekha Nath, Girish Kale, Prasanna Padmanaban, Vibha SINGH & Felipe Del Valle Batalla #community #ECRs

Explore their favourite #CellBio #preprints!

#preList
https://prelights.biologists.com/prelists/february-in-preprints-the-cellbio-edition/

Everything is worrying at the moment but something I am wondering is if we should worry about the scientific publishers. Elsevier, Nature, #PLoS, maybe even #BiorXiv and others - is it possible that the US government forces them to either stop publishing, delete some or all of their published papers, or only accept papers that correspond to specific criteria?

Edited because I thought most of these were US-based but they are not.

Please tell me there is nothing to worry about on that front at least..
#Academia #Science #AcademicPublishing

New Key Resources tables for bioXriv articles with metadata on software or algorithms used in particular research papers.

https://world.einnews.com/pr_news/782914359/sciscore-and-biorxiv-launch-new-key-resource-tables-for-preprints-pioneering-new-era-of-reproducibility-transparency

Example of an article with this new data. Click "Automated Services" under the red "Review and Context" button to display Key Resources data.
The screenshot shows an example of this data.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.01.578381v1

@richardsever With the current US administration going after everything scientific and especially biomedical, wouldn't it be a good time to establish a European mirror of @biorxivpreprint ? Maybe hosted by the EMBL?

It would be such a huge loss if they managed to shut down #biorxiv...

TWO new preprints from our lab on hierarchical processing in ferret auditory cortex!
Stay tuned for highlights on each study in the following posts
#Neuroscience #CogSci #BioRxiv

As we start a new week, please take a quick look at the latest #preList compiled by Ethan Ewe & Jawdat Sandakly highlighting some exciting, recent #genetics & #genomics #preprints

Explore their picks of the month!

#preList
https://prelights.biologists.com/prelists/early-2025-preprints-the-genetics-genomics-edition/

One co-author was curious about the little bright coloured buttons on the side of our new #bioRxiv #preprint. He clicked on the "automated services"... and found there 2 "#AIbstracts" of our manuscript, #AI generated #blurbs factually nearly correct and featuring only slighlty more than usual the commonplace attention catchers we scientists use.

Old news, it seems, though, but I hadn't noted it before.

https://connect.biorxiv.org/news/2023/11/08/summaries