We all need a little nudge sometimes when it comes to writing. The Node is hosting a great writing challenge to help beat that dreaded writing procrastination. I cannot wait to read the community's entries and there is a chance to win £200!

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the Node@the-node.bsky.social · 5d ago

Win £200 for your post on the Node This is your opportunity to publish your piece at last for a chance to win £200. We are hosting an exciting writing challenge to help motivate you to share your piece with the Node’s community of biologists by 4 September. thenode.biologists.com/win-200-for-...

Love Pokemon and #2026SDB? I recently witnessed the GOAT @amjeve.uk live messaging SDB presentations and assigning a #PokemonPartner in real time! Truly impressive 🙌🏼. Follow his posts for more! It’s like you’re actually there 👀.

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Alex Eve@amjeve.uk · 2w ago

Neuronal circuits are assembled using a repertoire of different chemical and electrical synapses, with the latter connecting the cytoplasm between two neurons. Anne Martin asks how this complex process develops, finding proteins that bridge both synapse types. #2026SDB Preprint⤵️

Come and talk to us! I would love to meet more of the #DevBio and #StemCell biology communities!

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Development@dev-journal.bsky.social · 2w ago

Our Executive Editor, @amjeve.uk, and Community Manager for @the-node.bsky.social, @andreamurillo.bsky.social, are in Las Vegas now for #2026SDB. Drop by @biologists.bsky.social booth #20 to speak to them and pick up your freebies. Sign up for news for one of our coasters or a charging adapter.

Less than a week now until I head to Vegas for #2026SDB. Drop by the @biologists.bsky.social booth for goodies and a chat about @dev-journal.bsky.social and @the-node.bsky.social

Winners from the 2025 Quintay International Course on Developmental Biology cover competition Congratulations to Natália Heloísa de Oliveira, Fernanda Salce, and @federicasalatiello.bsky.social, for their image, Amphipod, which received the most votes! thenode.biologists.com/winners-from...

Winners from the 2025 Quintay International Course on Developmental Biology cover competition - the Node

We find out more about the winners of the 2025 Quintay International Course on Developmental Biology cover competition.

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DEADLINE APPROACHING! ⏰ Apply to Comparative Developmental Biology by July 28. This intensive two-week laboratory course is designed for graduate students in their second or later year of Ph.D studies and post-docs. 🔗 More info here: go.mbl.edu/CDB

I had the privilege of joining these amazing scientists as they discussed gene network evolution this past week! 🧠 I was inspired by their passion and their vision for the field.

The Company of Biologists@biologists.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Thank you to organisers to James Hombría and Antónia Monteiro @monteirolab.bsky.social and everyone who joined us at this week's Workshop on 'Novelty, Co-option and Divergence During Gene Network Evolution' biologists.com/workshops #BiologistsWorkshops

Vote for a @dev-journal.bsky.social cover from the 2025 Quintay International Course on Developmental Biology We’re excited to launch a cover competition to select an image from the 2025 cohort of @devbioquintay.bsky.social. Voting closes on 24 June 2026. thenode.biologists.com/vote-for-a-d...

Vote for a Development cover from the Quintay International Course on Developmental Biology - the Node

Browse through the gallery of the 9 images and vote for your favourite by Wednesday, 24 June 2026.

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#SciArt profiles are one of my favorite things to do in my new position. So many #DevBio and stem cell researchers with such creative brains 🧠 ! Continually inspiring. Check out the latest one with Ramin! Can’t wait to see what he does next 👀.

the Node@the-node.bsky.social · 2mo ago

SciArt Profile: Ramin Rahni Start off this weekend with a dose of creativity from our latest #SciArt profile. Meet Ramin Rahni, a plant developmental biologist 🌱 and artist, who integrates precision and noise in ways both dramatic and understated. #DevBio thenode.biologists.com/sciart-profi...

Such a fun experience reflecting on a journey spanning more than a decade and paying tribute to everyone who shared this path along the way. Grateful for the science, collaborations, mentorship, and all the behind-the-scenes moments that never make it into the papers. Thanks for the invitation! 😊

the Node@the-node.bsky.social · 2mo ago

From comparison to mechanism: decoding heart regeneration “Why do some hearts regenerate, while others do not?” @benlai-taiwan.bsky.social tells us about a question that has followed him for more than a decade. 🐟❤️ thenode.biologists.com/from-compari...

When the weather gets hot, @biologists.bsky.social front section teams need an iced beverage ASAP! 👀🧊☕️

It is a friends of Development reunion: graduated PI Fellows @girishkalephd.bsky.social & @clotilde-cadart.bsky.social, inaugural Preprint Editor @joadelas.bsky.social & Reviews Editor @ingridtsang.bsky.social at the Developmental regulation: from molecular to ecological niches meeting in Roscoff.

Next, @ingridtsang.bsky.social chronicles a day in the life of a Reviews Editor (including must-have snacks!) thenode.biologists.com/a-day-in-the...

A day in the life of a Reviews Editor (at Development) - the Node

Ingrid Tsang gives us a glimpse of what a day in the life of a Reviews Editor is like.

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Have you ever been curious about what Reviews Editors do? For your #WeekendRead, we have 2 special blog posts from @dev-journal.bsky.social Reviews Editors. @saanjbati.bsky.social answers a frequently asked question: “What exactly does a Reviews Editor do?” thenode.biologists.com/what-does-a-...

Investment in ECRs brings huge benefits to organisations - I've seen it myself in my own work and is why I have always championed them. Empower ECRs 💪 scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/04/28/g...

Guest Post — Develop to Delegate: How Investing in Early-Career Professionals Strengthens Organizations - The Scholarly Kitchen

Today's guest post advocates for investing in the development of early-career professionals to foster a healthy pipeline of emerging talent in scholarly publishing.

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Happy to chat with anyone attending #Rooting2026!

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Development@dev-journal.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Are you attending the upcoming 11th International Symposium on Root Development? 11thinternationalsymposiumonrootdevelopment.com @andreamurillo.bsky.social will be there to talk about @dev-journal.bsky.social, @the-node.bsky.social and @biologists.bsky.social's charitable activities.

Using light-activated CRISPR in zebrafish, we triggered synchronized DNA breaks and track the repair process. ⚡🐟⚡ 

 Well ... DNA repair is very different in embryos compared to tissue culture cells. Embryos repair DNA breaks incredibly fast - within minutes! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The signal that got through In this 'Behind the paper' story, Max Wilson and @mariannebauer.bsky.social discuss their journey and transatlantic collaboration, which culminated in their latest paper on anti-resonance in developmental signalling. thenode.biologists.com/the-signal-t...

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Written by Maxwell Wilson and Marianne Bauer Although Marianne and I first met at the Aspen Center for Physics, USA, in the summer of 2022, our scientific

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The version of record is here @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🥳 Happy for this collaboration with @emmanuelhaillot.bsky.social and Stephan Schneider At #EED24 in Helsinki we met. Instead of competing, we got our 2 stories togheter into a bigger one #EvoDevo #DevBio

Allan Carrillo-Baltodano@allancarbal.bsky.social · last yr.

It's finally here! Great start of the summer. We got our latest preprint from @chemamd.bsky.social in @qmulsbbs.bsky.social @qmulse.bsky.social, showing evidence of developmental system drift in the specification of dorsoventral (belly vs back) axis in annelids 🪱🪱🪱 #DevBio #EvoDevo

Congratulations to Xi Yang, Yun Zhou & co for winning our 2025 Outstanding Paper Prize. Their paper addresses broad & long-standing questions about how cells become new stem cell populations in the fern Ceratopteris. Read the Editorial: doi.org/10.1242/dev.... Paper: doi.org/10.1242/dev....

A trio of #Postdoc job openings in the #WeinsteinLab at NIH 🐟🔬 Epigenetics of development: zfin.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/... Vascular-associated tissues & organs: zfin.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/... Angiogenesis & Lymphangiogenesis: zfin.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/... h/t @zfinmod.bsky.social 🧪

With this “Behind the paper” story, I’d like to give special thanks to two remarkable contributors whose generosity made a big difference: @jialinliu.bsky.social for the scMultiomics data behind the multiomic atlas, and Guoqiang Yu’s group for sharing ITEC cell tracking, which enabled MERFISH-FATE.

the Node@the-node.bsky.social · 4mo ago

From fate to form: the journey to whole-embryo spatial transcriptomics In this 'Behind the paper' feature, @yinanwan.bsky.social shares the inside story of an ambitious journey with @schierlab.bsky.social & co. thenode.biologists.com/from-fate-to...

From fate to form: the journey to whole-embryo spatial transcriptomics In this 'Behind the paper' feature, @yinanwan.bsky.social shares the inside story of an ambitious journey with @schierlab.bsky.social & co. thenode.biologists.com/from-fate-to...

From fate to form: the journey to whole-embryo spatial transcriptomics - the Node

Where molecules meet form I have long been interested in understanding how development emerges at the intersection of molecular and spatial organization.

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Congratulations to our Editor-in-Chief @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social on receiving the 2026 BSDB Waddington Medal. He has made a big impact on Development since becoming EiC in 2018, including introducing Associate Editors, launching the Pathway to Independence programme & developing the Node Network.

Our Editor-in-Chief @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social spoke at the 2026 @bsdb.bsky.social meeting about Development, the Node and The Company of Biologists' initiatives. Please speak to James about the many reasons to choose Development to publish your paper. journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/ab...

Come say hi at the @biologists.bsky.social booth to talk about @the-node.bsky.social, @dev-journal.bsky.social & our other journals and charitable activities!

Development@dev-journal.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Excited for BSDB's 2026 Meeting organised by @abinagui.bsky.social @vmetzis.bsky.social, @gastruloids.bsky.social & co? Our Reviews Editor @ingridtsang.bsky.social & the Node's Community Manager @andreamurillo.bsky.social will also be attending - come and chat to them about our journal & the Node.

Excited for BSDB's 2026 Meeting organised by @abinagui.bsky.social @vmetzis.bsky.social, @gastruloids.bsky.social & co? Our Reviews Editor @ingridtsang.bsky.social & the Node's Community Manager @andreamurillo.bsky.social will also be attending - come and chat to them about our journal & the Node.

Absolutely thrilled to begin my tenure as the Community Manager for @the-node.bsky.social. If you are attending the 2026 @bsdb.bsky.social Meeting next week! Please stop by and say hi 👋!

the Node@the-node.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Hi from the new Community Manager The Node welcomes Andrea Murillo as the new Community Manager. Here, @andreamurillo.bsky.social introduces herself to our #DevBio and #StemCell communities. thenode.biologists.com/hi-from-the-...

"Every time a brilliant researcher decides the UK is too expensive – or too unsettling – to call home, we don’t just lose a colleague. We risk losing the next life-saving breakthrough." Read more from our Director Prof Samra Turajlić in the @theobserveruk.bsky.social paper @crukpolicy.bsky.social

Offer scientists stability or the UK’s health and economy...

High costs and an unwelcoming attitude are behind a failure to recruit the best researchers

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Preprint Editors – Development's next step into the preprint landscape @dev-journal.bsky.social announce an open call for experienced, research-active Preprint Editors. Read the Editorial and apply by 30 March 2026. #Preprints #Publishing #DevBio #StemCells thenode.biologists.com/preprint-edi...

Preprint Editors – Development's next step into the preprint landscape - the Node

Development announce an open call for experienced, research-active Preprint Editors. Read the Editorial and apply by 30 March 2026.

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