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Join the C. elegans Community Mentor Match Program! sign up for mentors sign up for mentees and to join peer-mentoring groups https://forms.gle/nfNWQRnpymu6tCYC9 https://forms.gle/pZdwor7wERmQ4oMG8

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Mentee sign-ups are open for the 2026-2027 C. elegans Community Mentor Match Program! Choose: - One-to-one mentoring with an experienced mentor - A peer-mentoring group with people at your career stage Or sign up for both, it takes just 2-5 minutes. And please spread the word! 🧵

Mentee sign-up for the C. elegans Community Mentor Match program

The 2026 cycle of the C. elegans Community Mentor Match is open to graduate students, postdocs, and faculty at any career stage. ⏱️ This form takes only 2–5 minutes to complete depending on your choic...

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Applications for the EMBL-EBI–Sanger Postdoc Programme are now open! Here, current fellows Leticia & Ouli talk about how working across the Institute and @ebi.embl.org enables interdisciplinary research tackling important questions in human health. Apply by 27 Sept: www.ebi.ac.uk/research/pos...

With most 1st-year PhD students starting graduate programs this month, it seemed like a good time to address the most important dilemma faced by many incoming PhD students—how to choose rotation labs. Although perhaps obvious to those with experience, many of the key factors are often overlooked.

Choosing rotations and a dissertation lab - Help, I'm a Scientist!

By David Fay Choosing a lab in which to carry out your PhD is admittedly one of the more important decisions you’ll make in your early scientific career. But it’s important to have some perspective. F...

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How can a tiny worm shape a scientific career? Join 2026 GSA Mentorship Award recipient @irinakitop.bsky.social of @fredhutch.org on August 20 at 1:00 p.m. EDT as she shares how C. elegans has guided discoveries, collaborations, and approaches to mentorship. 🔗https://buff.ly/iUmQCCQ

Congratulations to all the fellows but particularly @dumontlabucsf.bsky.social, @stephgupton.bsky.social, @sadiewignall.bsky.social and @danstarrucdavis.bsky.social! 🥳🎉🎊

American Society for Cell Biology@ascbiology.bsky.social · 2d ago

Congratulations to the 2026 ASCB Fellows! ASCB is proud to recognize 15 scientists whose careers have advanced cell biology through outstanding research, leadership, mentorship & service. Meet the 2026 Fellows: https://www.ascb.org/society-news/fifteen-visionary-scientists-named-2026-ascb-fellows/

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Congratulations to the 2026 ASCB Fellows! ASCB is proud to recognize 15 scientists whose careers have advanced cell biology through outstanding research, leadership, mentorship & service. Meet the 2026 Fellows: https://www.ascb.org/society-news/fifteen-visionary-scientists-named-2026-ascb-fellows/

Fund the Humanities just because. Fund the Humanities for more vicarious intellectual intercourse on Main. Whichever.

Stop by The Company of Biologists booth (#20) to learn more about the benefits of publishing in Development and the charitable activities of our publisher. If you'd like a 1-to-1 meeting to discuss your latest work, please feel welcome to contact me on Whova, here or via email. #2026SDB

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#2026SDB is right around the corner @socdevbio.bsky.social. If you are attending, @amjeve.uk, Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis and @andreamurillo.bsky.social will be there and would love to chat about @dev-journal.bsky.social, @the-node.bsky.social and @biologists.bsky.social.

#2026SDB is right around the corner @socdevbio.bsky.social. If you are attending, @amjeve.uk, Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis and @andreamurillo.bsky.social will be there and would love to chat about @dev-journal.bsky.social, @the-node.bsky.social and @biologists.bsky.social.

Are you attending #2026SDB and have questions about the Node? Come and chat with @andreamurillo.bsky.social and @amjeve.uk! 👀

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

#2026SDB is right around the corner @socdevbio.bsky.social. If you are attending, @amjeve.uk, Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis and @andreamurillo.bsky.social will be there and would love to chat about @dev-journal.bsky.social, @the-node.bsky.social and @biologists.bsky.social.

🚨 3 DAYS until #2026SDB! 🐟 That’s about how long it takes a zebrafish to go from fertilization to hatching. That’s a lot of development, and we’re almost ready to hatch some exciting new ideas in Las Vegas! 🧬🎰 See you soon!

📣 Meeting announcement - the SDB Southwest Regional meeting will be at the University of Utah from March 5-7, 2027! Developmental biologists from Denver to Mexico City and from Reno to New Orleans, join us to share your research and celebrate our community. Details soon. @socdevbio.bsky.social

C. elegans friends: If you participated in the mentor match program last year, we want your feedback on what worked, what didn't, and how to make the program better! Please fill out this survey: forms.gle/xYCF19saFfoj...

C. elegans Community Mentor Match 2025 feedback survey

Thank you for providing feedback about your experiences as a mentee, mentor, and peer group member in the last cycle of the C. elegans Community Mentor Match program! Please skip questions that are n...

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Posing with doctoral student Allen Sun at his poster #Celegans #wormtopicmeeting2026

We have good news to share 🎉 We've just secured some funding to support travel fellowships for early-career researchers at the 5th Molecular Biosystems Conference, our 10-year anniversary edition, taking place next year in beautiful southern Chile. Stay tuned for details! #mbiosys27

And the organizers challenged us to find randomly matched attendees - I ran into my first, Ransome Van Der Hoeven, on the terrace and we had a nice chat! I ❤️ #Celegans meetings!

First night at #Celegans topic meeting #MAPSS + #DevCell had three inspiring talks by Judith Kimble, Jane Hubbard, and Malene Hansen!

Development Editor @swathiarur.bsky.social will be attending the MAPSS 2026 and DevCell meeting from 10-14 June 2026 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. Stop by to chat with her about your next @dev-journal.bsky.social paper.

We are looking for a new colleague to join us in Galway. The position is in Biochemistry and if research focus lines up we hope the successful person will join us in the Centre for Chromosome biology (chromosome.ie). Reach out if you are interested in applying! tinyurl.com/2jy4rj3r

The International C. elegans meeting #worm27 is going to Kobe, Japan in 2027! genetics-gsa.org/celegans/ Organizers: Erik Andersen @erikandersen.bsky.social, Johns Hopkins University Kavita Babu @kavita-babu.bsky.social, IISc Bangalore Suhong Xu, Zhejiang University @genetics-gsa.bsky.social

POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY!!! The Rutgers IRACDA program is phenomenal: 70% of postdoctoral fellows land faculty positions. Martha Soto (LinkedIn below) is the amazing director and leader of this program. Please apply or reach out if you have questions. www.linkedin.com/posts/martha...

INSPIRE is recruiting! Please share broadly with senior graduate students and beginning postdocs. INSPIRE, the NIH-funded Rutgers-IRACDA, offers postdoctoral training for individuals interested in… | ...

INSPIRE is recruiting! Please share broadly with senior graduate students and beginning postdocs. INSPIRE, the NIH-funded Rutgers-IRACDA, offers postdoctoral training for individuals interested in com...

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Please share widely. The new (simpler) MIRA R35 for Early Stage Investigators (ESI) NOFO is published. First due date is 10/2/2026. files.simpler.grants.gov/opportunitie...

*** GRC Developmental Biology 2027 - Jan 17-22 @ Renaissance Tuscany Il Ciocco Resort *** Join us for a fabulous 2027 Gordon Conference on all things #devbio & the trainee-led GRS! More info on registration, abstract submission, et al., here: www.grc.org/developmenta... #GRCDevBio2027 🧬🐭🐟🪰🌱❤️

I don't know who needs to hear this, but girl, if you are unhappy where you are, with who you became, you can change. You can start again. You need no man, no family support, just yourself. And remember, you’ll never feel ready because being ready isn’t a feeling, it’s a decision.

Download our updated database of postdoc fellowships from different foundations and agencies. We identified 275 fellowships. For each entry, we provide description of the fellowship, focus, amount, deadline, eligibility, etc. Download this database here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

AOC on possibly running for the Senate or President: They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, elected officials come and go, single payer healthcare is forever.

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...