We have a postdoc position available in the lab and would like to spread the word. Please apply if you are interested! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

This is the last call to early-career researchers applying for the 7 August deadline for the next round of JEB Travelling Fellowships Get your application in so you can visit an international lab to perform that essential experiment or learn a technique www.biologists.com/grants/trave...

VACANCY - We’re looking for a Research Assistant to join the Penfield Group, working to understand the effects of temperature on plant reproductive development. https://okt.to/Yx9K5e Deadline - 18 August 2026 Contract - Until 7 August 2029, full-time

Research Assistant (Penfield Group) | John Innes Centre

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Research Assistant to join the Penfield Group at the John Innes Centre, working on cutting-edge science in the field of Crop Genetics.

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VACANCY - We’re looking for a Research Assistant/Lab Manager to join the @tinaschreier.bsky.social group, working on plant cell biology and C4 photosynthesis. https://okt.to/e9GALv Closing date - 18 August 2026 Contract - 36 months, full-time

📢 JOB ALERT 📢 Exciting opportunity to join us as a Lecturer in Ecology. 3 year post @ 0.5FTE. Application deadline 18/09/26 - see below for details. @biouea.bsky.social @ueaceec.bsky.social vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/23...

Lecturer in Ecology (ATS1374) in University of East Anglia | UEA

View details and apply for this Lecturer in Ecology (ATS1374) vacancy in University of East Anglia. Faculty of Science School of Biological Sciences Lecturer in Ecology (0.5 FTE) Ref: ATS1374...

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Happy #FluorescenceFriday 🔥 The title may be new, but the spectacular microscopy isn't! Congratulations to the newly minted DR @vanderspuy.bsky.social on a well-earned PhD! 🔬

VACANCY - We’re looking for a Research Assistant/Lab Manager to join the @tinaschreier.bsky.social group, working on plant cell biology and C4 photosynthesis. https://okt.to/ewfnRI Closing date - 18 August 2026 Contract - 36 months, full-time

Blast from the past! Did you know you can create clean, readable notebooks for the ImageJ Macro language? A great way to build tutorials, teaching materials, and [mentally] reproducible image analysis workflows. 👨‍🏫📜🚀 github.com/haesleinhuep...

Come join us! 🔬🐣 The Piacentino Lab at Johns Hopkins @hopkinsmedicine.bsky.social is recruiting a postdoc to study membrane lipids, cell migration, and invasion in neural crest and embryonic models! @socdevbio.bsky.social @ascbiology.bsky.social #devbiol #cellbio #lipids

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! 🔥🧪🔬 A blaze of neural crest cells migrates through a developing quail embryo on one of embryonic development's most epic journeys. Beautifully captured by @vanderspuy.bsky.social 👩‍🔬🐣 #Devbio

PhD position in my group for entry in October 2026. Round 3 of the @nrpdtp.bsky.social BBSRC competition. Please RT👇 biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/van...

Vanishing Virulence: Investigating pathogenicity loss in a plant pathogenic fungus (TALBOT_S26DTP3) | Doctoral Training Partnership

What makes a plant killer lose its edge? This project will investigate why fungal pathogens lose virulence when they are grown in laboratory culture away from their host plant. Use cutting-edge…

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You know when you're deep into dissecting a mechanism for your project, and you've thrown everything at it and it still is not that? I call it "The Magic Gnome principle": there's maybe a invisible property or phenomenon yet to be discovered that's messing with it. This is a Magic Gnome 🧪

Alexey Amunts@amunts.bsky.social · last mo.

RNA can build. A short RNA self-assembles into a 60-subunit icosahedral cage like a viral capsid, but made entirely of RNA. The striking preprint also reveals a 57-nt RNA filament at ~2.7 Å. Congratulations, Lin Huang and colleagues! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Review of CH Waddington's influence on developmental biology and evo-devo: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/... includes supp info with his 50th birthday songs!

C.H. Waddington's lasting achievements in development and evolution

ABSTRACT. C.H. Waddington (1905-1975) was a British biologist and perhaps the major figure in developmental biology between the 1940s and 1960s. He is one of the few pre-molecular-age developmental bi...

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I am constantly surprise by the barrier that many postdocs looking for a job in the #biosci find when they have a #preprint. They are often told: don’t bother to apply until you publish your paper. WHAT DOES PUBLICATION SAY ABOUT THE WORK THAT THE PREPRINT DOESN’T brief 🧵

The elephant in the room: impact factor journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

The elephant in the room: impact factor

Summary: This Editorial offers an honest look at impact factor trends in developmental biology, explains how Development serves its community, and makes the case that sustaining developmental biology ...

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🚨Job alert!!🚨 I'm recruiting a 3-year postdoc on amphibian host–microbiome interactions at @bangoruniversity.bsky.social - funded by BBSRC. Deadline: 8 July 2026 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRW850/p...

A day in the life of a Transgenic Quail lab Samara Ranie @samarar.bsky.social, PhD student in Melanie White's @melaniedwhite.bsky.social lab, reveals a day in the life of a transgenic quail lab. 🥚🔬 thenode.biologists.com/a-day-in-the...

A day in the life of a Transgenic Quail lab - the Node

Samara Ranie, PhD student in Melanie White's lab, takes us through a day in the life of a transgenic quail lab.

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Be part of a supportive and engaged community of #singlecell and #spatial scientists! 🧬💻🔎 Register for the Norwich Single-Cell and Spatial Symposium and discover the latest methods across diverse living systems. 🌱🧠🐟️ Take a look at our full programme: buff.ly/2KvQ3Zv #EISingleCell26

Norwich Single-Cell and Spatial Symposium 2026

Bringing together the international single-cell and spatial community for a two-day discussion across model and non-model systems.

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New preprint from my PhD is out! We show that loss of miR‑219 disrupts neural border gene programs and prevents neural crest specification. Excited to finally share it 🚀 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #xenopus #miRNA #genomics

MicroRNA miR-219 is required for neural border and neural crest development in Xenopus neurulas

Neural crest (NC) multipotent stem cells give rise to many tissues including most of the peripheral nervous system, pigment cells and the craniofacial mesenchyme and skeleton. During gastrulation and ...

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Our latest: Minimal essential requirements for neural tube self-organisation How does a single cell give rise to a tissue with the right cell types in the right proportions? We deconstruct and rebuild a self-organising tissue from first principles A thread🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Minimal essential requirements for neural tube self-organisation

The reliable generation of diverse cell types in precise proportions is essential for the formation of functional tissues during embryonic development. Three-dimensional organoid models derived from p...

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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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Being elected a Fellow of the Royal Society is a tremendous honour. My deepest thanks go to the hundreds of students and postdocs who have passed through my lab over the last 30+ years. They have been the soul of the lab, and this recognition belongs as much to them as it does to me.

YEN 2026 Conference and Image Competition Haven't submitted your image for the YEN 2026 Image competition? Good news, the deadline has been extended until 10 June. ⬇️ @yen-network.bsky.social thenode.biologists.com/yen-2026-con...

YEN 2026 Conference and Image Competition - the Node

We hope you are looking forward to the Young Embryologist Network Conference 2026! The meeting will be held at the Francis Crick Insitute on the 15th June

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DySTrack is officially published!: doi.org/10.1242/jcs.... If anyone is keen on using it feel free to reach out as we are more than happy to help and demo if need be!

DySTrack – a modular smart microscopy tool for live tracking of dynamic samples on modern commercial microscopes

Summary: DySTrack is an easy-to-use open-source tool that bridges standard microscope control software with the Python image analysis ecosystem to enable automated tracking of moving, drifting, or gro...

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Zimeng Wu@zimengwu33.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Pleased to say that Jonas Hartmann (bs-less) and I have finally released DySTrack (“diss track”) - Dynamic Sample Tracking. It’s a Python-based, modular tool that brings smart microscopy to everyday imaging on commercial systems. Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... [1/6]

Now that @idweek.bsky.social abstracts are submitted, I’m working with several trainees on writing their first manuscript 📝 It is a daunting task for a trainee balancing: Clinical duties 👩‍⚕️ 👨‍⚕️ Research 🔬 🧐 Limited personal time 🏖️ 🏃 🥘 Here is how I break down papers with trainees: #IDSky 1/10

New edition of the great Quintay Developmental Biology Course !!! biodesarrollo.unab.cl

Here’s the last major paper from the PhD of @paulknabl.bsky.social. We were trying to understand what BMP signaling does in the sea anemone Nematostella when it is not patterning its second body axis. Check out Part 1 in BMC Biol. 2025; and here's is our Part 2 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

The anti-neural role of BMP signaling is a consequence of its ancestral function in dorsoventral patterning

Bilaterian animals with centralized nervous systems have patterns of BMP signaling activity gradient that suggest an “anti-neural” ancestral role, but the evidence for this remains unclear. This study...

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How do sperm and egg fuse? Surprisingly, we still don’t fully know… Our field has uncovered many pieces of the fertilization puzzle, but not how they fit together. We identify ✨ SPARK ✨ - a conserved sperm complex that couples sperm-egg binding to fusion. tinyurl.com/34cm4xat Read on! 🧵👇

New preprint! We show that cell fate can be predicted from a snapshot of combinatorial signaling — and the underlying map is a single angle in signaling space. Work by first authors Bassit Fijabi and Seth Teague and collaboration with @davidbrueckner.bsky.social. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

An exciting opportunity to join Dr Schreier's new group as a postdoctoral researcher is open for applications until 15 June 2026: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...

Postdoctoral Researcher | John Innes Centre

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the newly starting Schreier group at the John Innes Centre, working on cutting-edge science in the field of photosynthesis…

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