Thomas Lemberger

@qedscience.bsky.social has come up with a really controversial idea - an AI score for scientific impact. This trained score correlates with the impact factor of published preprints and the binning of papers into discrete quality bins accessed by independent scientists. Backlash in 3, 2, 1... (more)

Read this @emboreports.org paper here=> link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Our joint study with EMBO is just out! We are proud to be at the forefront of this sea change. AI will reinforce the central role of scientists in this new era. Strong science should be seen! @embo.org @reviewcommons.org @tlemberger.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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.

It’s finally out! Together with @embopress.org and @reviewcommons.org, we conducted a structured side-by-side comparison of human peer review and our AI scientific review (see thread 👇👇👇🔥).

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/ 🧪

Cool 😎 Scholar Labs: an AI-powered Google Scholar search. scholar.googleblog.com/2025/11/scho...

Honored to be included in this reflection on 20 excellent years of MolSystBiol! From our first phosphotyrosine interactome in 2005 to proteome-wide networks - scale has grown exponentially. MS proteomics + AI is transforming systems-level understanding. Exciting times! embopress.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

IT'S HAPPENING! 💥 I'm psyched to launch the collaboration between @qedscience.bsky.social & @openrxiv.bsky.social @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social! Preprint + q.e.d = your science is out there, and anyone can appreciate it. Let's care about making discoveries, and not on “getting published” (1/3) 👇

Very cool! I agree AI scientific review can be useful if it is transparent. It is all progressing very fast and will change everything. @qedScience @bioRxiv is a great first step. We are doing some human-based eval, so more soon from @EMBOPress @ReviewCommons with @qedScience. Watch this space ;-)

Last week on 11–12 Sep, together with our publishing partner @springernature.com, EMBO hosted a workshop "AI to advance open science publishing” in Heidelberg, DE. 🧪 Participants engaged in demonstrations and experiments using tools developed by Springer Nature and EMBO for innovation in publishing.

Two metrics designed for measuring the impact of investments in the specific context of life sciences (in brief: the metrics assess the potential increase in life years attributable to the investment & the improvement in quality of life) ➡️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🤖✍️ How is #AI transforming scientific publishing? From trust to truth, @tlemberger.bsky.social @embopress.org explains what’s changing and why it matters for all of us. youtu.be/k-_MuFEwFx0 @salmaamin.bsky.social @mkiwanski.bsky.social

An important, moving, and courageous piece from @juliosaezrod.bsky.social Respect! "Becoming a patient has given me a new perspective on biomedical research. Despite my background in data analytics, I have found that I do not necessarily have access to the data or information I need..."

#TCTeAC - the Woodstock of Biology2 & #nightscience - was such an amazing event!! We met great scientists who creatively presented their high quality work. We dreamt and discussed in a very broad, open-minded setting. Talking science outside of our nutshell can be soo valuable - let's do this again!

Let's not be #TCTeAC "The Conference To END All Conferences", but a new format of many more such events. Depating science outside of our typical nutshell (scientifically and mentally) has great potential - we could have come up with 50+ project proposals together. Let's bring fun back to science :)

@paveltomancak.bsky.social and @itaiyanai.bsky.social fighting /debating about the hourglass idea #theconferencetoendallconferences #TCTeAC

#fightforsciemce at #TCTeAC with #nightscience :) cell & gene people gather together. (no scientist got hurt)

Our publishing process needs to be revolutionised @odedrechavi.bsky.social #TCTeAC high-quality AI generated peer review

Introverts at the Woodstock of Biology #theconferencetoendallconferences #TCTeAC

I'm late to review the "Illusion of Thinking" paper, so let me collect some of the best threads by and critical takes by @scaling01 in one place and sprinkle some of my own thoughts in as well. The paper is rather critical of reasoning LLMs (LRMs): x.com/MFarajtabar...

We quantify the aggregation of >100,000 random protein sequences to train CANYA, a convolution-attention hybrid neural network to predict aggregation from sequence. With @bennibolo.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A kind of cat https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/a-kind-of-cat-1937

Many of the moons orbiting Jupiter and Saturn appear to host subsurface oceans. Mysteries abound as to what fills these deep sea worlds. But the hints that we’ve already gathered make them tantalizing targets in the search for life beyond Earth. 🧵

Very sad news!

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

Woohoo it’s arrived!!! If it’s even 25% as good as Civilizations it’ll be amazing…

We then used a physics-based model to predict DNA linkers between the nucleosomes obtained by cryo-ET. This allowed us to visualize kbp-long chromatin fragments from inside human cells.

New preprint on 3D heterochromatin architecture in human cells! Great collab with @sergiocruzleon.bsky.social & @johannesbetz.bsky.social from @hummerlab.bsky.social, @marinalusic.bsky.social & the Turoňová lab. Many thanks to my supervisor @becklab.bsky.social. bioRxiv: tinyurl.com/3a74uanv 🧵👇

The Courtyard of the Hospital in Arles, 1889 #artbots #vangogh https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14663

Group Leader | Generative and Synthetic Genomics at Wellcome Sanger Institute in Hinxton (UK) Closing date: Sunday 01-JUN-25 #sciencejobs sanger.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Wellco...

Pretty much everything is fucked, but here is some beautiful and exciting science from @archaeon-alex.bsky.social and colleagues. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The Tariff rate is calculated the same way as the Impact Factor

This really is remarkable finding - receiving the herpies zoster vaccine reduced the probability of a new dementia diagnosis over a follow-up period of 7 years by 3.5 %, corresponding to a 20.0% relative reduction; protective effect stronger in women > men 🧪 #MedSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

23andMe has filed for bankruptcy and legal permission to auction off its assets - could this cloud have a silver lining for researchers? A new owner of the impressive dataset could make it more accessible to researchers… 🤞🏼 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A Review in Nature Reviews Biodiversity summarizes how differing forest restoration approaches affect impacts on biodiversity, and key knowledge gaps and research priorities for achieving biodiversity-centred restoration. https://go.nature.com/4c0XIuh 🧪

Join our favorite microbiology meeting! Fantastic talks, poster sessions, new technologies, and all the hot areas of microbiology in a great environment - experts in cell & systems biology, microbiomes, environment & evolution, pathogenesis, phage & antibiotics DON’T MISS abstract deadline, April 1

Only 9% of >105,000 people with 30-years of follow-up reached age 70 without chronic diseases. Our diet and healthy aging, a review of the new report @naturemedicine.bsky.social this week, and placing it in context erictopol.substack.com/p/our-diet-a...

Why is an AI agent not doing your job already? Apparently it’s because they struggle to keep track of multiple streams of information, respond to a dynamic environment, work with unclear or changing goals & multitask…. Looks like quite a few jobs are safe for now 😉 on.ft.com/4iEMIoK

Gearing up mRNA vaccines ("tolerogenic") to prevent autoimmune diseases, vital science that is currently under irrational and reckless attack www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A huge loss at FDA. Peter Marks originated rhe Operation Warp Speed Covid vaccine idea and has overseen so many essential biotech programs such as genome editing cures www.wsj.com/politics/top...

The unparalleled XJ Wang has written a book about the computations underlying cognition. I read a draft version and it is awesome. He is not on social media, so I am sharing it on his behalf :)

Peer review completed within 7 days! Paying peer reviewers! Yes, it's possible. Fast & Fair peer review by @biologyopen.bsky.social More innovation from @biologists.bsky.social Details here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

My OpEd in @elife.bsky.social “It feels as if we are trying to fight a series of attacks on science with one arm tied behind our back and our lips half sewn shut.” “Yet we are not beaten, and some of us are downright energized.” elifesciences.org/articles/106...

HHS's Office of Long COVID Research and Practice has been DOGEd. Closing this week.