Very pleased to finally share the main story from my PhD, now published in @natcomms.nature.com ! 🎉 Using a sea anemone we discovered and characterised epithelial cell extrusion as the mechanism underlying starvation-induced cell loss. 🔗 Open-access article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Epithelial cell extrusion underlies starvation-induced cell loss in a sea anemone - Nature Communications

Epithelial cell extrusion in a sea anemone shares key hallmarks with bilaterians and is dynamically regulated by nutritional status. During starvation-induced body shrinkage, extrusion likely contribu...

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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...

Are you an undergrad, grad student, or postdoc seeking financial assistance to attend #Dros27? Several opportunities are now open! Read application or nomination instructions for each. Note that some require 1–2 recommendation letters you'll want to request with time. Learn more: buff.ly/ZKwSLDd

bug is out of the rug, I got commissioned by @theguardian.com to #SciArt illustrate this year's goobies for #InvertebrateOfTheYear there are some really good ones stay tuned! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Revealed: the top 10 invertebrates of the year

At last! It’s time for our invertebrate of the year competition as voted for by you. Today, the common woodlouse – come back on Tuesday to find out who else made the top 10

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Petra Korlević@petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 6d ago

something exciting coming your way on Monday #BugSky

📢 We're hiring! Join the Rosalind Franklin Institute as a Research Associate in 𝘐𝘯 𝘝𝘪𝘵𝘳𝘰 Models of Early Development. Help develop stem cell and blastoid models to uncover how cell fate is established. To find out more information and to apply, click here: tinyurl.com/wcwsapbr #hiring #research

We discovered a previously unrecognized role for TRF2 in preserving muscle stem cell identity and enabling muscle regeneration-a finding that changes how we think about this classic telomere protein and opens new directions for understanding muscle’s remarkable regeneration capability.

Foteini (Faye) Mourkioti@mourkiotilab.bsky.social · 5d ago

I’m thrilled to finally share our work published today in Science Advances! Sometimes the most interesting discoveries come from asking old proteins new questions. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! Following up on last week's theme of giving our 🔬 the Warhol treatment, here is a collage of an image of 🫁 cells labeled using the Confetti lineage tracer. From @christinaadaly.bsky.social 🧪 #DevBio 👩‍🔬 #SciArt

Love science, teaching genetics, and mentoring? There are some great students and faculty at @smithcollege.bsky.social and they are hiring a tenure track assistant professor! Some of my favorite folks in #DevBio are there! www.smith.edu/people/cagne... www.smith.edu/people/micha...

George O'Toole (he/him/his)@geiselbiofilm.bsky.social · 5d ago

Pls share. Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences - Genetics/Genomics at Smith College. apply.interfolio.com/190342

Harvard University (@harvard.edu) is hiring: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Developmental Biology #postdoc #biology #developmentalbiology

University of Michigan (@umich.edu) is hiring: Assistant Professor - Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology #assistantprofessor #biology #molecularcellular

SAVE THE DATE! Join us for the 2026 ANZSCDB NSW Branch Cell & Developmental Biology Symposium at the Garvan Institute on Wed Nov 4 2026. Register for this FREE event via the QR code! 🧫🔬 @anzscdb.bsky.social

Getting back into art by combining it with my work. Here is a scientifically inaccurate, but visually "surreal", Ouroboros-inspired sketch of a sea cucumber consuming its eviscerated organs (basic annotations for my grandparents). Just a casual Saturday night activity! #Echinoderms #EvoDevo #DevBio

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-...

Win £200 for your post on the Node - the Node

A chance to win £200 by posting on the Node before 4 September

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Excellent first post from Ben, highlighting a #preprint from @htstuart.bsky.social & colleagues @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social #TanakaLab #DevBio Check out the #preLight ⬇️👀

Benjamin Swedlund@benswedlund.bsky.social · last wk.

Check out my first preprint highlight with @prelights.bsky.social! How cells read the room - coordinated symmetry breaking and proportional cell fate allocation in neural organoids, from Hannah T Stuart et al. Lovely story with solid back-and-forth between modelling and perturbative experiments.

We're hiring 4 postdocs at @unibo.it to study nervous system evolution. Seeking expertise in single-cell genomics, molecular or developmental biology in ctenophores, cnidarians, echinoderms, flies or human stem cells. 2+2 yrs contract. Deadline: 26 Aug. Please share! bandi.unibo.it/s/apos7/proc...

Procedura di valutazione comparativa per titoli e colloquio per il conferimento di n. 4 contratti di ricerca presso il Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche e Ambientali - SSD BIOS-04/A - GSD...

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The Midwest regional meeting of The Society of Developmental Biology will be held at the Graduate Hotel hosted by Cincinnati Children's Hospital on September 25-27, 2026. Registration now open! www.midwestsdbincincy.org #science #devbio #cellbio #xenopus #frogs #MWSDB26

We're so excited to see the lineup of incredible science in the 2027 courses and conferences poster. We can't wait to welcome you to Hinxton, Heidelberg, or virtually at an event with us and @events.embl.org next year. Which event are you most interested in? Let us know in the comments! 🖥️📊🧬

EMBL Events@events.embl.org · 5d ago

Get your calendars, because the new 2027 EMBL Annual Poster has arrived: s.embl.org/2027-poster Whether you'd like to enhance your skills in a practical course or engage with the latest research at one of our conferences, we've got you covered. See you at EMBL in 2027! 🙌 #LifeSciences #EMBL

VACANCY - We’re hiring for a Strategic Bids Coordination Lead to join our Directorate team, supporting the development and delivery of high-value research funding opportunities https://okt.to/MQAvNy  Deadline - 9 August 2026

EMBL researchers & colleagues show for the first time that the Golgi Complex plays an active role in regulating DNA repair. The research opens up new avenues for therapeutic interventions and drug development. Learn more: www.embl.org/news/science...

Shari Eberts—hearing health advocate, author, and speaker—recently visited the Marine Biological Laboratory to speak with students in the 2026 Biology of Hearing and Balance Course. 🔗 Read the full story here: go.mbl.edu/take5-eberts

Applications for the Hubrecht International PhD program are open until September 15! PhD students at the Hubrecht work on various themes, including ‘Developmental biology and regeneration’. Curious what kind of questions PhD students Rahul and Andy work on? Read the comments! www.hubrecht.eu/hipp/.

📢 JOB ALERT! 📢 I am recruiting a 30-month postdoc to work on modelling the vision of trilobites @hfspo.bsky.social ! If you like 3D data, fossils, and functional morphology, this is the one for you! 📆Deadline 27. Aug Pls contact me with any Qs and share widely! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Tentacular #sciart 😍 #ctenophore

Annie Shao Art@annieshaoart.bsky.social · last wk.

For today's #ArtRepostJuly prompt Animal, I had a lot of art to choose from! I picked my painting of a yet unnamed deep sea jelly that I saw at the @montereybayaquarium.org last year. Sometimes it's hard to believe these too are animals! 🦑 #SciArt #Watercolor #FineArt #MontereyBayAquarium

It was an honor to serve on the @socdevbio.bsky.social Engagement and Outreach committee as Chair for the last 3 years. Alas, my term is up and the new Chair of the EOC will be @valetornini.bsky.social from UCLA. Huge thanks to the #DevBio community! Also- thanks for the swag SDB! Love it! 😍

New preprints! 1/3 Spider venom glands are modified salivary glands which have recruited appendage and myogenic programs from other the developmental programs of other organs. Led by Giulia Zancolli, with @yehumoran.bsky.social doi.org/10.64898/202...

Our latest for your summer reading list: how do plants control growth at the organ surface? So proud of @zoenv.bsky.social's magnum opus and grateful to all the other authors, including Annamaria Kiss, @nathan-german.bsky.social, and @moritznowack.bsky.social! www.cell.com/current-biol...

Plant cells at the organ surface use mechanical cues to activate a specific growth-control program

Nemec-Venza et al. show how mechanical signals, such as tissue tension, can activate gene expression in epidermal cells at the surface of Arabidopsis roots. The expression of the edge-specific growth ...

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@oeaw.bsky.social is searching for the next #director of @gmivienna.bsky.social ‼️It’s a huge opportunity to shape the future of #plantscience oeawnr.onlyfy.jobs/de/job/u3g5t...

Scientific Director (f/m/x)

OeAW - Discovering the futureThe Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology (GMI), part of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW), is seeking to appoint a visionary Scientific Director to lea

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The vagus nerve connects the brain and the body, with the nuclei of each neuron spatially organised in the brain according to the positions of the tissues they innervate. Using zebrafish, Veronica Sikora shows additional back-front topography in a hoxc6b- and temporal-dependent manner. #2026SDB

The urinary system is regulated by neurons from the pelvic ganglia, but this system has not been well studied. Thomas Mehaffey uses imaging approaches of fluorescent neurons to unpick its complex origin and organisation. This #2026SDB talk's #PokemonPartner is Xurkitree, the Glowing Pokemon.

Xurkitree Pokemon

ALT: Xurkitree Pokemon

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Stavros Papadopoulos asks how spinal cord regionalisation along the head-tail axis allows complex locomotion. Finding discrete developmental regions, Stavros can transform parts of the spinal cord into different regions with different neural circuitry. #2026SDB Preprint⤵️