Alejandro Montenegro
@aemonten
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Molecular Biologist, PhD丨Chief Editor CSH Protocols & Head of Integrity in Publishing — @CSHL丨Scientific Chair @molbiosystems丨Central Dogma Police丨Chilean 🇨🇱
New York, USA
Joined May 2009
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Great to see a Chilean research (and my high-school classmate), @LasagnaLab, selected as one of the NAM’s Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine (ELHM) 2025 class.
nam.edu
The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) has selected the 2025 class of Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine Scholars, a group of early- to mid-career
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Alguno de uds trabaja (o tiene conexiones con) la Universidad de Almería en España? . Gracias!.
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One thing that could help, is if papers were reviewed only once, for soundness only, and then journals could bid for the revised papers. That is the basis of my bottoms-up approach to publishing (from way back in 2018 😅).
aemonten.github.io
(By Alejandro Montenegro-Montero. Originally published in “The MolBio Hut”, 2018-01-27)
Journals and funders are trying to boost the speed and effectiveness of review processes that are under strain.
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RT @CharlesMBrenner: real time observation of a misinformation campaign by @davidasinclair . every claim in the review has been debunked —….
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RT @biorxiv_plants: An in planta single-cell screen to accelerate functional genetics #biorxiv_plants.
biorxiv.org
Genetic screens in whole plants are a powerful tool for functional genetics. However, elucidating gene function in highly redundant genetic programs such as signaling pathways remains challenging in...
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RT @OdedRechavi: Can AI save the day? check out our new tool for pre-submission review (find your paper's weak spots in time!) it's called….
qedscience.com
Critical Thinking AI for constructive criticism and science evaluation
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Plot your data. Always. Just *look at at it*. That's step one.
I think a good rule of thumb is to spend at least as much time thinking about your data as you did obtaining it. It's common for people to spend a lot less time thinking than doing which gives rise to all kinds of problems.
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In addition to my role as Chief Editor of CSH Protocols, I’m happy to now also support CSH Perspectives in Biology & CSH Perspectives in Medicine, two outstanding reviews journals. I’m always looking for great ideas for collections & review articles, so let's talk 😊
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This is absolutely correct, of course. On moving to publishing from academia. Link to full post below
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RT @Eileen_Furlong: To all post-docs: The Genome Biology dept @embl has an Independent faculty position. Fantastic place to set up your lab….
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Current academic incentives result in pushing as many papers as possible. Gold OA & APCs create a market where journals profit from volume, not quality. Perfect storm. Instead, when there's no financial incentive to accepting papers, the scientific & publishing ecosystem benefits.
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RT @molbiosystems: Still planning your trip to #mbiosys25? Even @AmericanAir is promoting Puerto Varas!. You can learn more about travel op….
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A new issue of CSH Protocols is out!. The cover image highlights a series of articles by Yang et al.,who describe a complete workflow for the generation of antigen binders from a chicken library, from immunization to the screening of the phage display library. ⬇️Links below
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I wonder if the fact that it is being pushed down people's throats on every aspect of their work has anything to do with the reticence.
depressing to me how biologists, because of their allergy to all things AI/ML, have basically ceded the AI+Bio space to computer scientists.
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