Do you have a manuscript with reviews from another journal?
We can use them to fast track a decision on your submission.
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We are pleased to welcome 8 new fellows to our Pathway to Independence programme.
Welcome Maëlle Bellec, @iamzico.bsky.social, @evhealy.bsky.social, @josepmercadal.bsky.social, @nikhil-mishra.bsky.social, Jessica Perochon, Yamini Ravichandran & Margherita Zamboni.
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Development
Enjoyed a very convincing talk by @seemagrewal.bsky.social explaining why choosing a non-profit publishers benefits the community; revenues are used to support researchers, rather than filling the pockets of the publisher.
Find more reasons here: journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/re...
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...
Development
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Katherine Brown
Joachim Goedhart
Heading off to Amsterdam for the Dutch Society for Cell Biology conference. Happy to chat about @jcellsci.bsky.social and our not-for-profit status and charitable activities!
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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...
