Meagan Phelan
Curious human. Communications Director at the Science family of journals. Interested in what makes good leaders—& good jokes.
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- Reposted by Meagan PhelanWe have a new paper in Science today on how malicious AI swarms can threaten democracy. AI systems can already coordinate autonomously, infiltrate communities, and fabricate social consensus. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Led by @kunstjonas.bsky.social & @daniel-thilo.bsky.social!
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- What should we focus on in the next chapter of public access history? In this two-part story out this week on @aaas.org's site, I argue that what’s crucial now is building channels of meaning in open scientific literature (and in all scientific literature). www.aaas.org/news/next-fr...
- Reposted by Meagan PhelanMan, I love the sciences and Science Magazine (@science.org). If you can, give to the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Science needs funding. Science needs the advocacy and scholarship that AAAS provides. You can help. www.aaas.org/membership/w...
- 🧪 EXCLUSIVE 🧪 from @science.org: Scientists have swabbed a 500-year-old drawing attributed to Leonardo da Vinci—and may have found a piece of his DNA. www.science.org/content/arti... Yes, really. A quick thread:
- Reposted by Meagan Phelan📢Our new paper is out in @science.org #ScienceTranslationalMedicine 📢 Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a leading cause of blindness. Patients show vascular changes in their retinas long before vision starts to deteriorate. What triggers these early defects? Could targeting them prevent vision loss? 🧵
- Reposted by Meagan PhelanThe team is already working to expand the platform’s abilities, including testing in clinically relevant immune and stem cells, and engineering future versions of the system that can rearrange sequences beyond one megabase. Learn more in the full paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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- Reposted by Meagan Phelan@heatherstaines.bsky.social and @meagan-g-phelan.bsky.social checking in on Meagna's keynote at @scholarlypub.bsky.social's New Directions Seminar focused on the critical intersection of science, politics, and public trust. #Trust #Evidence #Scholarship #Science #ScholComm
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- Can ChatGPT help science writers? | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/blog...
- During #PeerReviewWeek, @science.org heard from individual authors who talked about how peer review strengthened their work, making it functionally richer, more accessible, more pointed regarding limitations--sometimes in collaboration with preprint review. See author posts in thread below. 🧵
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- Reposted by Meagan PhelanWe won the #Frontiersplanetprize in the national category of Germany for breakthrough in sustainability with our gravel pit study in #science www.igb-berlin.de/news/robert-...
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- Reposted by Meagan PhelanIf you love #viruses, #ribosomes, and genomic #darkmatter, this thread is for you!! 💫 We're excited to share our new publication developing Massively Parallel Ribosome Profiling (MPRP), which uncovered ~4,000 hidden proteins in ~700 viral genomes. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Healthy people have an intrinsic tendency to form antibodies against a peanut allergen, Ara h 2, despite having different genetic backgrounds, according to a new study. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Meagan PhelanDowns et al. have developed a data-assimilation technique to simulate the Sun's corona. Satellite observations are incorporated on the fly and model predictions update hourly, akin to weather forecasting. They applied the method to the 2024 total solar eclipse. 🔭🧪☀️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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- Reposted by Meagan PhelanCongratulations to Wes Sundquist, chair of the @utah.edu Department of Biochemistry, and collaborators for receiving the @aaas.org Mani L. Bhaumik Breakthrough of the Year Award for their work on lenacapavir. www.aaas.org/news/road-le...
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- “We are global leaders [in science],” France Córdova said. “We should be proud of that. But we didn’t get here by accident. It has taken nearly a century of effort — and it can be undone much faster than we think.” www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...
- Reposted by Meagan PhelanIs it "good" or "bad" when skilled people leave low-income countries? We summarized the evidence in favor of "brain gain" vs. "brain drain": www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.... Ungated PDF: johanneshaushofer.com/research
- “The clinical trials would never have been as successful as they were had it not been for Yvette Raphael,” said @holdenthorp.bsky.social. www.aaas.org/news/road-le...
- Reposted by Meagan PhelanDid you hear? You can now listen to audio narrations of our #NewsfromScience stories. 🎧 Check out this new tool on a story about the oldest ant fossil ever found: scim.ag/44PK0IY
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- “These individuals represent the three arms of what is necessary to create new science and then translate it for the world...to make a difference,” said @meganranney.bsky.social, part of the committee — convened by @holdenthorp.bsky.social — that selected the winners. www.aaas.org/news/road-le...
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- Today @science.org's Science Magazine print edition has a new look! It's been 11 years since our last print redesign, & we're thrilled to launch this latest iteration. You can see aspects of the redesigned print version starting w/ the cover, highlighted at the end of the animation below:
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- "It’s time to stop using this shorthand and make clear what [scientific consensus] really means," said @holdenthorp.bsky.social. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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- Reposted by Meagan PhelanThis paper is the result of >20 yrs of hard work by talented students, postdocs and collaborators, but none more than my co-author Ren Ng and his team in EECS. 1/n Novel color via stimulation of individual photoreceptors at population scale | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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- Reposted by Meagan PhelanBig thanks to @aaas.org @science.org Sage, Jove, @aaup.bsky.social @ioppublishing.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social and #UKSG2025 for making baby roo’s weekend…
- Reposted by Meagan PhelanCan #GoldOA #openaccess survive a shift to Green? #UKSG2025 @rsc.org @jisc.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk COUPERIN - What aspects of OA are more important to you? @meagan-g-phelan.bsky.social @aaas.org: 1 Gold OA journal and the other 5 enable #greenOA - APCs impact both access to pub and quality
- Reposted by Meagan Phelan@meagan-g-phelan.bsky.social " @aaas.org supported #openaccess #GreenOA for 2 decades. All our convos are researcher-focused which told us this was urgent. As of 2023, we're doing 0-day green. We've always supported #opendata. It's needed to replicate the work" (SR note: 🤔) #UKSG2025
- Reposted by Meagan PhelanHappy to share our new ScienceTM paper from Yingjun Cui, Erol Fikrig and @aaronmring.bsky.social et al. We built a yeast display library of 3,000+ I. scapularis proteins to profile antigens recognized by tick-resistant hosts, and developed a new anti-tick vaccine. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- In Boston at the recent @aaas.org Annual Meeting, five researchers nominated by an editor from @science.org family journals presented their case for why journalists should take a second look at their work, to discover aspects that have so far flown under the media radar www.aaas.org/news/science...
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- Highlights from work travel to Tokyo and Kyoto—and lessons learned. www.linkedin.com/posts/meagan...
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- “Students are learning that you should talk across differences, but we’re not necessarily born with that skill,” said Eisenhower Institute Executive Director Tracie Potts. www.gettysburg.edu/news/stories...
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- Reposted by Meagan PhelanI work as a journalist at @science.org, although not directly for @holdenthorp.bsky.social. That said, I applaud this unusual and welcome set of tips from him and Meagan Phelan for scholars who want to engage with the media. For everyone's sake, we need more openness www.science.org/content/blog...
- Such a lovely cover. ✨
- From octopuses to snails, the complicated molluscan family tree has now been mapped in unprecedented detail, researchers report in Science. Learn more in this week's issue: scim.ag/4hVhrxB
- "All of these requirements are critical in the search for #quantum advantage... It will be then that useful quantum computing is brought to the world." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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- "It is vital to remember that it is the words and actions of all members of the scientific community...that form the collective voice of science, not any one statement...we need unity and support for each other now." @holdenthorp.bsky.social in @science.org today: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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- Some “tips” for authors in our related blog post: If you cannot answer the question(s) b/c you are in the midst of a confidential investigation or simply do not know the answer, instead of not commenting, try to build a connection with the reporter. See two approaches by which to do so in our post.
- Reposted by Meagan PhelanI hate the term “Wintry Mix”. That should refer to a yummy hot chocolate drink, not this sleety, snowy, icy mess.
- Some of the “tips for authors” in our related blog post: Approach the interview w humility Respond on substance. Don’t attack the motives or standing of the critics Invite the journalist to examine the raw data in your paper Encourage them to talk to others who have replicated your results
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- At #AAASmtg? Join us Feb 15 for a session on #openaccess. As OA policies have been developed in different countries, there has been growing realization that researchers have felt disconnected. Our session will discuss how policies should be designed with them in mind. aaas.confex.com/aaas/2025/me...
