1/Today, we’re pleased to announce Wellcome funding that will support a new initiative – eLife Pathways – in building an open and collaborative ecosystem for alternative approaches to scholarly communication

https://elifesciences.org/for-the-press/60edaa10/elife-receives-wellcome-boost-to-build-open-publishing-ecosystem?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic

RE: https://biologists.social/@Co_Biologists/116045841227166472

The deadline for the BiO Global South Travel Grants for #EZM2026 is approaching. Apply by 15 March 2026.
http://ezsociety.org/grants-EZM2026

We are deeply saddened by the death of Alan Wilson. Our thoughts are with his family, friends, collaborators & colleagues.

Alan was a longstanding member of the JEB community & world-leading biomechanist whose work transformed our understanding of human and animal locomotion.

As an author, reviewer, JEB Editorial Board member & Director of The Company of Biologists, Alan’s presence, energy and vision will be profoundly missed.
https://www.biologists.com/stories/a-tribute-to-prof-alan-wilson-frs/

Manet's famous painting Un Bar aux Folies-Bergère never appealed to me. But now I realize its genius, and my spine tingles every time I see it.

The perspective looks all wrong. You're staring straight at this barmaid, but her reflection in the mirror is way off to right. Even worse, her reflection is facing a guy who doesn't appear in the main view!

But in 2000, a researcher showed this perspective is actually possible!!! To prove it, he did a photographic reconstruction of this scene. Check it out in my next post.

This blows my mind.

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New version of our preprint on bioRxiv about bioRxiv. Now that’s what I call a revision – 6 years after the first version!

It has new data about our progress and highlights from a massive user survey.

bioRxiv continues to grow – a brief spike and lag in the pandemic (details of which are included) but a steady increase in submissions since then. % revisions, license choice, etc. all fairly constant. 0.1% withdrawal rate is comparable to journal retraction rates.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/833400v2

On the matplotlib incident by an LLM, compounding upon the abuse of LLM training on open source software repositories by for-profit companies, is there a better warning for taking all open source software away from the public and into invitation-only walled gardens.

https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/