Here we go again!! Our paper on #proteostasis in human oocytes featured on the #cover of @embojournal!! A great collaboration with @DexeusMujer @LabBoke! 🥂💪🏻👏🏻

Happy Sunday! Here comes another great week for #research in germ cells biology! Here the @AmoyelLab describes in @embojournal how Drosophila somatic cells metabolize carbohdrates to feed germ cells: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4224… Read the full issue with more exciting papers here: biomed.news/bims-cebooc/2026… Follow #cebooc or subscribe here to never miss any new issue: biomed.news/bims-cebooc Powered by @Bims_BiomedNews

How eligibility criteria for grant applications are defined

When a senior PI moves the lab to another institute

How collaborators decide on their contribution to the paper:

How flow cytometry works

Happy Sunday! Here comes your weekly issue of #cebooc full of great papers on oocyte biology! Here @jcarrollmonash reveals how mitochondria stream on actin filaments in oocytes: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4215… Full issue here: biomed.news/bims-cebooc/2026… Powered by @Bims_BiomedNews

Ok, this is new for me: I was looking at the open peer review file of a published paper - for which I wasn't involved at all in the review process - and I noticed that some comments of one reviewer are identical, and I mean word-by-word, to my own comments to a previous version of the same manuscript for another journal (which was ultimately rejected) 😲. Only some points are identical though, not the entire review, which makes it unlikely that this is a case of manuscript transfer between journals. What's going on here? 🤨 #review #academia #reviewer2 @GrumpyReviewer2

"We sincerely thank the reviewers for their insightful and constructive criticism"

When you try to enter a research niche dominated by big labs

Happy Sunday! #cebooc reaches 101 issues today! This week @YanivElkouby reviews the features of the Balbiani body here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4212… Full issue here: biomed.news/bims-cebooc/2026… Thanks @Bims_BiomedNews for preselecting!

Reviewing each other’s grants

Happy Sunday eggficionados! Today in most Countries it's #Mother's Day, let's celebrate it with the latest scientific papers on our favourite maternal cell, the #oocyte! Suto, Teraoka, Kawasaki, and colleagues discover how, in C. elegans, germ granule proteins regulate maternal protein degradation in the endolysosomal pathway: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4209… Read the full list of papers here: biomed.news/bims-cebooc/2026… Kudos to @Bims_BiomedNews for preselecting!

Happy Sunday! Here comes another egg-cellent issue of #cebooc, the weekly curated list of papers on #oocyte cell biology! The Kitajima group is on fire, look how they discover how parental genomes compete for cytoplasm after fertilization in this #Nature paper: nature.com/articles/s41586-0… Read the full issue here: biomed.news/bims-cebooc/2026… Thanks @Bims_BiomedNews for preselecting the papers.

Competing labs trying to scoop each other

One of my MSc #students just asked me if I'm #old enough to have done #PCRs manually in water baths... 🫣 #aging

Reviewers these days

Happy Sunday eggficionados! Here comes another spectacular issue of #cebooc! In Drosophila, neighboring cells squeeze their cytoplasm into the developing oocyte, contributing to its growth. Now this fundamental paper by the Kitajima group reveals that this mechanism is not conserved in mammals: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4201… Read the full issue here: biomed.news/bims-cebooc/2026… Powered by @Bims_BiomedNews