How to lead a journal club you won’t be embarrassed by later https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2026/01/13/how-to-lead-a-journal-club-you-wont-be-embarrassed-by-later/ #Criticism #JournalClubs #Writing #science #journalclub #journaldiscussions

How to lead a journal club you won’t be embarrassed by later

https://fsolt.es/2026/01/how-to-lead-a-journal-club-you-wont-be-embarrassed-by-later/

📢 New preprint! Ten Simple Rules for Running a ReproducibiliTea Journal Club

The idea of ReproducibiliTea is simple: Get a group of aspiring early career researchers together, drink tea, and critically discuss issues surrounding reproducibility, open research, and academic culture. But how do you even get started? How do you engage people? How do you balance logistics and inspiration?

In our paper, we as past and present members of the ReproducibiliTea Global Steering Committee have drawn on our experience and that of our wider network to offer you 10 simple rules for organising a ReproducibiliTea journal club. Our aim is to equip you as early career researchers with the tools needed to lead grassroots change in research culture. Whether you are launching your first meeting or sustaining a long-running journal club, these rules are designed to help you brew a welcoming, impactful, and inspired community – one cup of tea at a time.🍵

Check out the preprint on MetaArXiv: https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/swg38_v1

Lianne Wolsink, Paulina Manduch, Abigail Licata, Hazel Aileen van der Walle, @VornhagenJB, Hemani Sharma, @will_ngiam, Michael Muhoozi, Anastasiia Marmyleva, Matt Jaquiery, @cruwell, @helenagellersen
with special thanks to the ReproducibiliTea community✨

#reproducibility #openresearch #openscience #journalclub

#JournalClub
Tierversuche reduzieren – mit Schweinelungen aus Schlachtabfällen!
Das interdisziplinäre Team um Professor Sascha Kreuer und Christian Bur der Universität des Saarlandes und des Universitätsklinikums in Homburg zeigt, wie klinische Expertise, Ingenieurskunst und Ethik Hand in Hand gehen. Der Artikel von Larissa Tetsch auch online: https://www.laborjournal.de/rubric/journalclub/jc/jc_25_12_02.php

#Laborjournal #LifeSciences #Tierversuche #Alternativmethoden #Schweinelunge #ExVivo #Pharmakologie #Anästhesiologie #Saarland

#today I am in at uni, likely the last time this year, for #JournalClub this morning. We will be reviewing the Monsanto glyphosate safety paper #retraction: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273230099913715

#today is #NewScientist article splurge day, but I also have to do some admin for #JournalClub and the inventors' club, and I'd like to maintain the slight #research momentum I gathered yesterday. (Do I make Python pandas work or do I rewrite some simple stats code in awk: decisions decisions!)

It's the last week of our intern's projects here @iaacsic.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy and they are giving presentations in our #JournalClub. Pieter has been working with me on predicting orbits of comets for @cometinterceptor.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy, while Maxime showed some cool seismic wave simulations inside #asteroids!

#today is #uni again including #JournalClub, then in the evening #inventorsClub.

I will continue to work on the lecture slides for the end of the month. I've had some positive feedback on the content from a couple of people...

#today just making lunch. Sartorially confused with double socks, tank top and gilet. Have been in steering group meeting for #KEHS. Working through admin (and paper) for #JournalClub and #inventorsClub. I know the next tiny #planning and #modelling steps for my #research so aim to get to some of them...

What are formats that work well to organize JOURNAL CLUBS? What motivates people to contribute and to commmit?
PLEASE SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCES!

(I want to start a journal club on breeding for agroecology in my chairgroup).

#fedisciencehelp #fediscience #science #journalclub

📚 New Nat Rev Neurosci #JournalClub by @juangallego: Neural #manifolds: more than the sum of their neurons. He reflects on the shift from single-neuron mappings to population-level #ManifoldRepresentations and suggests that neural manifolds might capture fundamental principles of neural computation and do not just serve as interpretative tools 👍

🌍 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41583-025-00919-0

#Neuroscience #CompNeuro #NeuralManifolds

In our recent #JournalClub, I presented Genkin et al. (2025), who decode #DecisionMaking in the #PremotorCortex of #macaques as low-dimensional #latent #dynamics shared across #NeuralPopulations. Their generative model links tuning curves, spike-time variability, and stimulus-dependent potential landscapes to a common internal decision variable. I summarized and discussed their findings in this blog post:

📝https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09199-1
🌍https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/blog/2025-08-01-decoding_decision_making_in_premotor_cortex/

#CompNeuro #Neuroscience #Cortex

Hospitalized preterm infants have a higher chance of brief apnea episodes within 48 hours after receiving their 2-month vaccinations, but no serious complications were observed. 💉

🩺 This supports continuing timely vaccination while monitoring for apnea in the NICU.

Learn more about this important finding and other neonatal research in this #JournalClub episode: https://www.the-incubator.org/post/279-journal-club-the-complete-episode-from-february-9th-2025

Thinking of organizing a regular (every 2 months) full-online journal club on #HippocampalReplay (and more generally, internally-generated sequences phenomena).

Would anyone from here be interested? I had been organizing something similar (IGSJC) where the first author presents a recent paper, but it has only been every year or so, this would be more regular and not necessarily presented by the first author.

The goal would be to keep up with the replay literature with a critical (and fair) approach. If you are interested can you let me know your timezone? 🧠

#JournalClub #Neuroscience #Hippocampus

Recently, we discussed this insightful paper by Squadrani et al (2024) in our #JournalClub. It explores how #astrocytes enhance #SynapticPlasticity during #ReversalLearning by modulating D-serine levels, providing a #biophysical basis for dynamic #LTP thresholds. The findings suggest astrocytic signaling is crucial for #AdaptiveLearning, linking #glial activity to #behavioral flexibility. Here’s a summary from our JC:

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/blog/2025-06-29-astrocyte_enhance_plasticity/
📝 https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-06540-8

#CompNeuro #Neuroscience

Postdocs at @iaacsic.bsky.social organised a #JournalClub to discuss recently published results. Discussion this week: the 'bio-signature' detection on K2-18b... going in strong with the controversy! :) #PlanetSci

Very happy to have Heleen Wilbrink and Annelot Vijn from Utrecht Archives in our (online) Journal Club today taking about recent projects related to Records in Context (RiC-O) and Persons in Context ontologies as well as on transkribus-based HTR, LLM-based post processing and information extraction.

#archives @epoz @tabea @AnnaJacyszyn @heikef @enorouzi @joerg @sourisnumerique @GenAsefa #ontologies #semanticweb #lod #dh #culturalheritage #htr #transkribus #llms #journalclub

#NeuroESC #JournalClub
Reading Mental exploration of future choices during immobility theta oscillations

If you've read it, will you let me know what you think?

The authors look at #ThetaSequences in a working memory task in a radial arm maze. They find theta during immobility (makes sense, e.g. we saw that in our two-goals task). They also find that theta sequences might preferentially represent the next goal (also makes sense, e.g. Hippocampal theta sequences reflect current goals)!

I have only done a quick reading so far, but am confused by a few points:

• the decoding is done on all cells (pyramidals and interneurons), shouldn't it be done on pyramidal or #PlaceCells only?
• the cell counts are quite low (often less than 40 pyrs) when I would have thought at least 50 place cells would be needed for this kind of maze. I guess that shows that #Neuropixels are not the best to record from dCA1!

• the decoded algorithm itself includes a ' position transition matrix' which seems like it would bias decoding towards realistic trajectories that the rat is about to do??? (but I probably missed something)

• also, this study is very related to this other paper, which is not discussed or even cited (😕 ):
  Assembly Responses of Hippocampal CA1 Place Cells Predict Learned Behavior in Goal-Directed Spatial Tasks on the Radial Eight-Arm Maze #CsisvariLab

Let me know what you think!

#LeutgebLab #NeuroRat #Neuroscience #SpatialCognition

#today lots of meeting admin for stuff next Wednesday (#JournalClub and inventors' club) , listening to a new #drumAndBass track on SoundClound that it touted to me over email (may be a first) and I have it on loop so it's good, and several short interesting meetings (eg for an extra #RepairCafe session with one uni, and a #Hackathon with another)...

MOAR COFFEE PLZ!

[Journal Club] Elucidation of the mechanism of [2Fe-2S] clusters biosynthesis
Iron-sulfur (Fe-S) clusters are ubiquitous metallocofactors constituting the active site of a multitude of enzymes and proteins involved in electron transfer, catalysis, sulfur donation and signalling. They are made of iron and sulfide ions assembled into diverse structures. The [
https://frenchbic.cnrs.fr/2025/02/04/elucidation-of-the-mechanism-of-2fe-2s-clusters-biosynthesis/
#JournalClub #Marseille #ParisSud