Over the past year, @biologyopen.bsky.social has expanded its Fast & Fair initiative to accelerate peer review. The results are impressive - take a look at their latest preprint to find out more: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Paying pre-contracted peer reviewers and offering a structured editorial timeline helped BiO reduce the time to first decision with reviews from a mean of 37.7 working days to 5.5.
Read the latest Fast & Fair preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Anne Cathrine Hyde & co develop a scoring system to determine which #zebrafish are more frail than other fish to be able to separate out the different types of ageing. doi.org/10.1242/bio....
Learn more about this research in our interview with Anne Cathrine Hyde, now a postdoctoral research associate in the lab of Hilary Ashe at The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK, investigating how RNA molecules affect development and cellular processes.
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Paying peer reviewers works.
Expanded Fast & Fair experiment @biologyopen.bsky.social:
• 5.5 vs 37.7 working days to decision with reviews
• ~3 vs ~9 reviewer invitations per manuscript
• no reduction in editor-assessed review quality
• similar acceptance rates
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Issue 4 is closed!
On the cover: A common hamster at the entrance of its burrow. Gérard & co explore the use of body temperature to detect parturition events, offering new opportunities to better understand and protect this endangered rodent.
Explore here: journals.biologists.com/bio/issue/15/4
To learn more about this research, read our interview with first author José Ignacio Quesada Márquez, who conducted this research while an undergraduate research assistant in Rafael Lucena Hernández's lab at the University of Seville, Spain.
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José Ignacio Quesada Márquez & co show that membrane lipids are not simply structural components, but active regulators that help cells ‘measure’ whether conditions are appropriate for growth.
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Marie De Wilde and colleagues show that molluscivorous red knots are able to survive, in captivity, on a diet that only contains plant material.
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Paying peer reviewers works.
Expanded Fast & Fair experiment @biologyopen.bsky.social:
• 5.5 vs 37.7 working days to decision with reviews
• ~3 vs ~9 reviewer invitations per manuscript
• no reduction in editor-assessed review quality
• similar acceptance rates
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
