Dear All, You are receiving this email as you are part of the author list of the BLS consensus statement we are now finalizing for Nature Photonics. We have finally managed to cut the manuscript down (by a factor of >5) to fit into the required format and tried our best to make it into a somewhat coherent story, while accommodating most requests. We would like to submit it on Monday next week. Please take a read through the Manuscript (Main Text) and Supplementary Text here and add any comments you see relevant. When doing so, remember we are tight on space, and we can have at times up to almost 40 different opinions (approx. number of authors), but we will do our best to accommodate. It would be really great if you could provide your comments before the weekend so we can implement course of Sat & Sun. Here are the main files, which you should also have access to edit: Main Text: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mdSDVePGOB8y0B4mCZpiKr_pFvF5WDeZ/edit?us... Supplementary Text: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1d5wA-QFlYJNiVtgA20ENMZnhJUSRzjO5/edit?us... Also, for the submission we will have to enter all your affiliations and any requested mentions of funding sources, etc. To not write everyone individually, could you please be sure to fill in the following online excel sheet before Monday: Affiliation and funding .xlsx file: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YP-5kgcZcC3FViogO44GN-vm7JDSmjZk/edi... If you submitted any data (and especially if you see your image in the manuscript) please double check the completeness of the Minimum Reporting Table you submitted with the data, and as needed send me an updated version. These will be provided with the manuscript as Supplementary Data. Neither we (nor the journal) will edit what you entered further, so please make sure it is as you would like to see it in print online. (FYI the Minimum Reporting Table file is still available here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1i-bz6QJ0l3LZl8YUgCw7b3hkzdWrtW_v/edi...) Last but not least, since there are so many authors (and I cannot send to all at once in cc/bcc using my University account – it thinks I have been hacked!), I created this mailing list consensus@biobrillouin.org If you would like to write all the authors you may also post to this, but please do not send files to this mailing list or everybody gets them (and it will clog everyones mailbox). If you share any files, the best option is to upload here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1zBkQajxKTgjzUju19fdrFPFZC1r5O5Kq?usp... and send me a quick email stating you have uploaded something and what it is you have uploaded. All the best, Kareem