ALT We were excited to submit our paper to Journal of Experimental Biology because The Company of Biologists uses surplus processing charges to develop and implement programs that benefit our community, which is a great way to reward scientists (directly or indirectly) for their valuable volunteered time for peer-reviewing and editing. The grant that funded our work had already expired when our paper was submission-ready unfortunately, but the University of Kentucky Libraries and The Company of Biologists had a Read & Publish agreement that allowed us to publish in the journal we wanted AND make it accessible for everyone! So, I’m glad that this type of agreement exists and I hope it continues to bring in new institutions to participate.

ALT FocalPlane features… quantitative plant imaging across scales Thursday 15 October, 15:00 BST (UTC+1) Organised by Alex Johnson and Joe McKenna FocalPlane logo Picture of Marcel Dickmanns (Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry & Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf) Exploring the Molecular Landscape within Plant Cells by Cryo-Electron Tomography Picture of Laura Copeland (University of Strathclyde) Multimodal Quantitative Fourier Ptychographic Microscopy and Fluorescence Imaging Reveals Stable Bacterial Colonisation Architecture Under Phosphate Limitation #FocalPlaneFeatures focalplane.biologists.com Cryo-ET segmentation of a plasmodesmata.

ALT Jay (left) and Liz (right) Scott.

ALT Publishing in Development was a wonderful experience. We are especially grateful that the Read & Publish agreement with Johns Hopkins University enabled us to publish Open Access free of charge. The agreement is an important investment in open science, and I hope similar partnerships become more common across scholarly publishing.

ALT Three early-career researchers holding drinks chatting at a conference

ALT Original artwork by Pete Jeffs. Sketch of ‘Mole’ wearing a pointed hat looking at a crystal ball. Mole is saying “I look, I look, I see, I see...” The teapot, which is also wearing a pointed hat and sitting on a table responds, “…me thinks, me thinks, Mole has had too much tea!”

ALT Membrane Function: Insights from Cellular Diversity and Evolution Date: 13 – 16 June 2027 Location: Buxted Park, East Sussex, UK Organisers: Snezhana Oliferenko and Cunqi Ye

ALT Profile card for Anchel de Jaime-Soguero, Preprint Editor (Development) at IRIBHM Jacques E. Dumont Institute, Belgium. The card includes a quote about contributing to a more critical and insightful preprint landscape, increasing visibility for authors, and refining research judgment. Key topics listed are early embryogenesis, signalling, and stem cells. On the right, a portrait photo shows Anchel in a laboratory.

ALT Editorial headline in the journal Development: "The hard truth about how hard it is to publish in Development" with a long multi-author byline and two-column introductory paragraphs discussing peer review and publication challenges.

ALT JCS cover: Deconvolved confocal images showing a lateral view of the tail of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, highlighting the localisation of epidermal AGEF-1 (an orthologue of BIG2; gold, cyan and orange puncta in the top, middle and bottom images, respectively) and RAB-35 (cyan, green and yellow blobs and striated patterns in the top, middle and bottom images, respectively). AGEF-1 interacts with RAB-35 in the nematode epidermis to modulate the integrity of touch-sensing nerves embedded within the skin. See article by I. Bonacossa-Pereira et al. (jcs264565), a Review Commons transfer.

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