We’re looking for a Reviews Editor to join the team. Joining an experienced & successful journal team, this is an exciting opportunity for a talented scientific editor to make a significant contribution to an important journal in the field of cell biology. www.biologists.com/about-us/wor...

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Explore career opportunities at The Company of Biologists. Join a team passionate about science, publishing and community support.

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Japan has now joined Horizon Europe. Japan’s researchers can now partner with teams across the EU. Together, we will advance global research in health, digital technologies, and climate neutrality ↓ link.europa.eu/YP7MtB

🚨 I am very happy (and relieved!) to announce that I secured Emmy Noether funding by the @dfg.de to start my own group at @unimainz.bsky.social , hosted by Marion Silies & Jakob von Engelhardt in August! 🚨 Website coming soon - open for name/logo suggestions. They better be funny tho!

Sophia Petrillo with Megaphone in Golden Girls

ALT: Sophia Petrillo with Megaphone in Golden Girls

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Final VGZT seminar of the season! 🎉 We're delighted to welcome Cassandra Extavour for our rescheduled keynote lecture: "One, two, three: evolution of developmental counting mechanisms" 🗓️ Thursday, July 23rd
 ⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CEST We look forward to seeing you there! 👋

We’re accepting abstracts for QBMM, come join an excellent set of speakers, due early Sept

Funded places are available for early-career researchers at our Workshop on Bridging Scales and Disciplines to Understand Robust Development, 18-21 April 2027, organised by Mauricio Rocha Martins and Giulia Paci @giuliapaci.bsky.social Find out more and apply at www.biologists.com/workshops/ap...

In preprints – light, cluster, friction: a cell dance on the gastrulation stage @girishkalephd.bsky.social covers a #preprint that managed something the community has wanted: a method for E-cadherin clustering that forms native clusters that don't seem to get endocytosed. doi.org/10.1242/dev....

In preprints – light, cluster, friction: a cell dance on the gastrulation stage

Multicellular organisms, as the name suggests, are composed of many cells that work together. Cells need to stick together to ensure efficient cell coordination. Cadherins, which are calcium-dependent...

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Awesome Symposium coming up @cosheidelberg.bsky.social in September! Check it out - registration is free. www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/cos-sympo...

COS Symposium 2026 - Centre for Organismal Studies

Venue: Lecture hallCentre for Organismal Studies – Heidelberg UniversityIm Neuenheimer Feld 230

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📣 #JobAlert The Faculty of Biology of @uni-freiburg.de invites applications for a Professorship (W3) for Bioinformatics and Molecular Genetics. ❗ Application Deadline: 15 August, 2026 🔗 kurzlinks.de/roi8 #Biology #Bioinformatics #MolecularGenetics

📣 📣 📣 📣 To all Drosophilists: the call for Workshop proposals at the 2027 European Drosophila Research Conference in Bonn (20-23 September 2027) is OPEN! Go to link below for instructions. Closing date: 30 September 2026. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 tinyurl.com/45y8trzd

As global warming continues, everyone is going to feel its effects, even tiny insect embryos. In this #FluorescenceFriday post, I want to show you what an early fly embryo (Drosophila melanogaster) looks like at an elevated temperature, only 4ºC above the culture temperature. (Details in the 🧵) 1/4

Excited to share our new paper, now published in Nature Cell Biology! 🎉 We asked a fundamental question in cell biology: How do cells maintain polarity while migrating? Especially how do cancer cells navigate confined spaces? www.nature.com/articles/s41556-026-01981-1

CD44 restricts EGFR mobility to polarize cytoskeletal signalling modules driving bleb-based migration - Nature Cell Biology

Jha et al. show that the transmembrane protein CD44 restricts EGFR mobility to maintain an EGFR–PI3K–Rac gradient during bleb-based cell migration.

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Had a lot of fun revisiting my old love for E-cadherin, writing this In Preprints article. Thanks Daniel @yosoyden.bsky.social for commissioning the article :) Also also, this is my second such article so far! (more yey's for me)

Daniel Ríos@yosoyden.bsky.social · last mo.

Go check out @girishkalephd.bsky.social in preprints article, now out in @dev-journal.bsky.social! This is my first commissioned article as preprints editor (: thank you Girish! In preprints – light, cluster, friction: a cell dance on the gastrulation stage journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Just got this awesome souvenir! Congratulations to everyone involved, especially @thomaslecuit.bsky.social, who has been a steadfast support for a lot of my fly work (even after leaving the lab a few years ago) and more 🙂

Thomas Lecuit@thomaslecuit.bsky.social · last mo.

We just celebrated with alumni & current members the 25yrs anniversary of our group @ibdm.bsky.social and @centuri-ls.bsky.social. Lots of joy to witness the scientific paths of so many talented ex members. Big smiles, laughs and fun 🤩. So thankful for having had such colleagues. Let’s keep going 😊

Exciting VGZT session this week! 🎉 🗓️ Thursday, July 2nd ⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CEST Our speakers are: 👉 Silvia Santos (@santoslab.bsky.social) 👉 Diana Pinheiro (@dianapinheiro.bsky.social) See you there! 👋

Our latest manuscript on (Harry Potter and) the effect of elevated temperature on embryonic development in flies. Even a small increase in temperature causes developmental defects, indicating problems in the face of global warming! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Elevated temperature fatally disrupts nuclear divisions in the early Drosophila embryo - Nature Communications

Kale et al. show that nuclear divisions are defective at elevated temperature, leading to gastrulation defects and embryo lethality. Their work finds that F-actin – microtubule interactions during mit...

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Last few days left to submit your idea for a Workshop for our 2028 programme. Send us your proposal by 29 May 2026 at www.biologists.com/workshops/pr... #BiologistsWorkshops

Interested in the physics that drives morphogenesis? Join us at the Journées de la Matière Condensée October 26 to 30 in Toulouse, France for our session on the physics of morphogenesis in living organisms. jmc2026.sciencesconf.org Talk applications are due May 30th. @sfp-physique.bsky.social

Beautiful end of a great conference #CJM26

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

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.

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.

Please help us to promote the next version of the Developmental Biology course (Quintay Chile). More information in: biodesarrollo.unab.cl

Issue 8 is now complete! On the cover: Embryos of diverse animals & choanoflagellates expressing different fluorescent reporters, from a project to identify membrane-localising tags across diverse organisms. See the Techniques and Resources Article by Karapidaki et al. doi.org/10.1242/dev....

What’s new in #DevBio? 👀 Our preLighters Theodora, Jawdat, @sristi.bsky.social & @deevithab.bsky.social have handpicked a selection of exciting preprints in this area. Check out the #preList and let us know your favourite, recent DevBio preprint ⬇️: prelights.biologists.com/prelists/pre...

preLighters’ choice – Handpicked DevBio preprints - preLights

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Meet our Preprint Editors We are pleased to welcome our first group of Preprint Editors to our editorial team, responsible for handling our 'In preprints' articles. #preprints journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/ed...

📢 Institut Jacques Monod Seminar 📅 May 29th 📍 Institut Jacques Monod Invited by @nkonst4.bsky.social and @maxvcg.bsky.social, Joaquín Navajas Acedo ( @mads100tist.bsky.social ) will present the IJM seminar "Spatiotemporal Emergence of Somatosensory Neuron Diversity " ➡️ buff.ly/1Ityfxj

Open-rank search: 2 (!) PI positions in Pulmonary Biology at @cuanschutz.bsky.social 🌄 We are looking for new colleagues @cupediatrics.bsky.social, working in lung fibrosis, focusing on #devbio, stem cell, & regen.biology of the lung 🫁🫀. Please help spread the word! cu.taleo.net/careersectio...

We’re looking for a technician to join our lab in Dresden - help manage the lab and work with us on a cool 'stem cell zoo' comparison projects! 🐁🚶‍♀️🦏🐒 Apply by May 21! tud.link/wbqrwm

Physics of Life Dresden@poldresden.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨 #JobAlert: Lab Technician. Please share with your colleagues! 👩‍🔬The Ebisuya lab @ebisuyamiki.bsky.social is looking for an experienced technician in molecular & cell biology to join their interdisciplinary team. Apply now! Learn more here 👉 tud.link/wbqrwm 🗓️Application deadline: May 21.

Cambridge → Boston → Cambridge again: I’m thrilled to return to Cambridge(UK) to open my lab at the Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge!🥳 (mzhulab.com) We study how dev timing shapes and being shaped by plasticity, evolution & ageing. 🚩Hiring at all levels: pls email me if interested!📩

Meng Zhu Lab

We study how development measures time and how timing matters in development, evolution and ageing.

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Join us tomorrow to hear two of the three finalists of Development's 2025 Outstanding Paper Prize

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

Development presents... finalists of the 2025 Outstanding Paper Prize 🏆 🚨One week left to register for @dev-journal.bsky.social's #DevPres webinar featuring two finalists of the 2025 Outstanding Paper Prize. 👇 thenode.biologists.com/devpres_2025...