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New research reveals domestic cats were first tamed in ancient Egypt for religious rituals honoring the goddess Bastet, challenging earlier beliefs that domestication began for pest control in early farming communities.

wildhunt.org/2025/05/researche

The Wild Hunt · Researchers Say Religion—Not Rodents—Helped Turn Wildcats into House CatsBy Manny Moreno

Our #genomics #bioRxiv preprint with Magdalena Machnicka is out!

Trans-homologous interactions identified in Hi-C data are associated with embryonic development biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

Chromatin contacts between homologous chromosomes are widespread in the fruit fly and also present in other organisms. But what does it mean if trans-homologous (transh) contacts are enriched compared to the cis-homologous (cish) ones?

It’s about time to share the March #CellBio preprint picks! #preList

8 preLighters teamed up to curate a preprint reading lists across different categories in cell biology, including cancer biology, cell migration, cell signalling and mechanosensing & more

Check out the preList! ⬇️ 👀
prelights.biologists.com/preli

preLightsMarch in preprints – the CellBio edition - preLights

#Preprint sites #bioRxiv and #medRxiv launch new era of independence
The popular repositories, where life #scientists post research before #peerreview, will be managed by a new organization called #openRxiv.
Until now, they had been managed by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. The new organization, named openRxiv, will have a board of directors and a scientific and medical advisory board. It is supported by a fresh US$16M grant from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI).
nature.com/articles/d41586-025

www.nature.comPreprint sites bioRxiv and medRxiv launch new era of independenceThe popular repositories, on which life scientists post research before peer review, will be managed by a new organization called openRxiv.

So yesterday i read a promotion `article´ in #biorxiv from a company proposing an #AI pipeline to write from proposal grants to the article ... "to allow the researcher to focus on the important things" and today I read a post saying that #Nature is thinking to used AI to be part of the peer review process.🙄 I think it is time for scientists, scientific bodies , National Academies of science... to put an end to this madness. All that money used for this | "help me to find the correct term " | is diverted from actual grant money, fair and actual smart research.

#bioRxiv has been down for 2 days for maintenance. This reliance on centralized repositories with no ability to mirror their site during maintenance is concerning. With recent talk of needing to decentralize #Pubmed, I think it's time we consider preprint servers as well. Solutions? Funding? How do we keep it neutral, away from the grubby hands of capitalism and governments gone wrong?