Review Commons

We’re thrilled to welcome the Journal of General Physiology @jgp.org @rupress.org to our Affiliate Program! 🎉 Authors can now seamlessly transfer their #peerreviewedpreprint @reviewcommons.org @embo.org to JGP via our transfer portal. Excited to start this new chapter with JGP @rupress.org!

Today marks the launch of the PRC (Publish, Review, Curate) Alliance, which includes EMBO’s preprint review platform, Review Commons. 🧪 The Alliance is a joint initiative of COAR and ASAPbio. Learn more: https://reviewcommons.org https://www.publish-review-curate.org/

Very excited to start this collaboration with EU-LIFE! Review Commons and EU-LIFE share a commitment to improving research culture and supporting early-career researchers. Looking forward to seeing what we can achieve together! This #BetterTogether session is a great way to start!

See-Yeun Ting (Academia Sinica in Taipei, #Taiwan) shares why he chose Review Commons: https://www.embo.org/features/why-i-chose-review-commons/ 🧪

We are pleased to be a @reviewcommons.org affiliate journal and our Academic Editors are happy to consider transfers from Review Commons. Find out more about the platform and why authors chose it:

We spoke with four researchers who have repeatedly chosen Review Commons as a preprint #PeerReview platform for their own work. 🧪 Learn why they decided on Review Commons here: https://www.embo.org/features/why-i-chose-review-commons/ #LifeSciences #research #publishing #preprint

This article is a @reviewcommons.org transfer. You can find out more about Review Commons and the transfer to affiliate journals including @jcellsci.bsky.social here: www.reviewcommons.org/authors/

Read now: Metabolite import by SLC33A1 is required for ATF6 activation during endoplasmic reticulum stress @reviewcommons.org www.life-science-alliance.org/content/9/6/...

Study from the Ordonez group @ucam.edu showing how SLC33A1 enables ATF6α maturation, reshaping UPR signaling- now published @lsajournal.org #Preprintpeerreview by @reviewcommons.org Reviews and author's response available here👇(Reviews and Context>TRIP Peer reviews) doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Additional thanks to the editors and reviewers for the constructive revision process. Interestingly, we trialled AI review with @reviewcommons.org during this process. Overall we found that it was nitpicky and missed the big picture. Not a replacement for proper scientific review 🧵 8/9

ATF6 is an ER stress sensor. SLC33A1 transports metabolites into the ER. Loss of SLC33A1 impairs ATF6 activation, revealing a link between ER metabolite import and protein quality control. @reviewcommons.org www.life-science-alliance.org/content/9/6/...

Very happy to be the parto of this great initiative that involves young investigators in the peer review. A very promising start for this initiative at @embopress.org and @reviewcommons.org. Thanks to all the postdocs for brainstorming and the trainers for the encouragement! @embl.org @embo.org

This is such a great and timely survey on author's perception of peer review vs AI scientific review. A collaboration between @reviewcommons.org and @qedscience.bsky.social. The geek in me would have liked to see the distributions in the response scores ;). link.springer.com/article/10.1...

No label-free methods report both the functional and physical state of single mitochondria. AFM imaging + nanoscale phenotyping enable single-mitochondrion analysis. @reviewcommons.org www.life-science-alliance.org/content/9/5/...

A big thank you to @reviewcommons.org, who found four very helpful reviewers for the paper and were patient with us as we followed up on loose ends. Thanks of course to those reviewers, and to @genetics-gsa.bsky.social #GENETICS journal for accepting the paper!

Association of orphan nuclear receptors and heterochromatin are involved in Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres – Liuh-Yow Chen and coworkers identify their link as the transcriptional corepressor TRIM28 Thanks to @reviewcommons.org for another #RefereedPreprint link.springer.com/article/10.1...

TBXA2R signaling activates ERMs via Gαq/11–Gα12/13, Rho GTPases, and SLK/LOK, enhancing TNBC cell migration, invasion, and metastasis @reviewcommons.org👇 www.life-science-alliance.org/content/9/6/...

What happens if editors invite postdocs as referees? We have shown that we get rigorous, timely, high-quality reviews, and finally give young scientists the recognition they deserve. I’m proud to have contributed to this initiative with @reviewcommons.org, @embopress.org, @embo.org and @embl.org

It was a very cool experiment! The author-centric perspective makes a lot of sense. An important next step is to benchmark multiple AI review platforms. Maybe this can also pave the way for benchmarking human peer review across journals and defining "quality features" of the peer review process.

✨ Happy New Year from @reviewcommons.org . Thanks to our authors, reviewers, journals for a year of thoughtful science, constructive peer-review, and open dialogue. We look forward to another exciting year. Wishing you a happy, healthy, and inspiring 2026! @embopress.org @embo.org

Very nice initiative, so far we've only experienced timely and balanced reviews when using Review Commons (currently n=2).

Our updated preprint is now out! The feedback from @reviewcommons.org was fantastic, we are very grateful to our reviewers for their suggestions. The last figure (plus other things) is product of this feedback and we're certain every point strengthened our work! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Huge congrats to first author, brilliant PhD student Martina Demurtas, who is now on the hunt for postdoc positions in London, she is super talented! Also, this was another great experience with @reviewcommons.org and @biologists.bsky.social @Development!

The study shows how blood and lymphatic endothelial cells reorganize metabolism in proliferating and quiescent states, revealing distinct pathway dependencies that sustain their specialized functions. @reviewcommons.org www.life-science-alliance.org/content/9/3/...

The study shows how blood and lymphatic endothelial cells change their metabolism when they are growing and resting. It reveals different pathways that support their specific functions. @reviewcommons.org www.life-science-alliance.org/content/9/3/...

Ordering of cell cycle events by regulated proteolysis is not just for eukaryotes: @buzzbaum.bsky.social et al define mechanisms underlying switch-like degradation of archaeal ESCRT-III CvdB in Sulfolobus Thanks to @reviewcommons.org for another #RefereedPreprint link.springer.com/article/10.1...

One review. Many journals. Less redundancy. Check out this conversation with our head Dr. Thomas Lemberger on the vision behind @reviewcommons.org and what it means for authors and journals alike @embopress.org @embo.org www.embo.org/people/revie...

This article is a @reviewcommons.org transfer. You can find out more about Review Commons and the transfer to affiliate journals including JCS here: www.reviewcommons.org/authors/

Thanks to @reviewcommons.org and very fast handling by @jcb.org

Attending #CellBio2025? Learn about "Providing constructive feedback in #PeerReview" tomorrow in Room 123 from 10–11:30 EST at the EMBO #training with speaker Sara Monaco, Managing Editor at Review Commons. 🧪 EMBO Lab Leadership

Round 2! Join us again at booth #825 from 14:00–15:00 EST to chat with editors Poonam (Molecular Systems Biology), Sara Monaco (Review Commons) and Tim (Life Science Alliance) to discuss your manuscript, talk about #publishing or hear about life as an editor. See you there! EMBO Press #CellBio2025

Wrapping up a series of @embo.org #workshops at #CellBio2025 with editors from @molsystbiol.org and @reviewcommons.org . Today we close with “Giving a flash talk or poster presentation” with Poonam Bheda, Senior Editor at @molsystbiol.org @embopress.org. See you in Room 123 from 12:45–14:15!

Don't miss out on the last "Meet the Editors" session at #CellBio2025! Join us at booth 825 from 14:00–15:00 EST to chat with editors Poonam (Molecular Systems Biology), Sara Monaco (Review Commons) and Tim (Life Science Alliance) to talk about #publishing, life as an editor and more! 🧪 EMBO Press

The preprint #PeerReview platform Review Commons was launched at the 2019 ASCB | EMBO Meeting to make scientific #publishing more open and effective. Thomas Lemberger, lead of the initiative, tells us more about the platform: https://www.embo.org/features/review-commons-rethinking-peer-review/ 🧪

I love @reviewcommons.org

The support from @embopress.org and @reviewcommons.org means a lot! Thank you @tlemberger.bsky.social ! @qedscience.bsky.social

The Chameau gene helps flies survive starvation at lower temps, but a mere 2{degree sign}C rise makes it obsolete! This temperature-dependent role in metabolism and resilience has big implications for climate change biology. @reviewcommons.org www.life-science-alliance.org/content/9/1/...