With storm Amy approaching, it’s an ideal time to get your SLiPERs on!

Hot off the press! Cell-type-specific functionality encoded within the intrinsically disordered regions of OCT4 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Nice work from Val Wilson & co on neuromesodermal progenitors SOX2/TBXT co-expressing cells are self-propagating bipotent NMPs Increasing TBXT levels (not SOX2/TBXT ratio) switch NMPs from neural- to mesoderm-biased www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Ever thought about exploring Stem Cells in different fields of biomedical research while surrounded by the beauty of a Greek island? That's exactly what the European Stem Cell Summer School offers – an inspiring learning experience on the outstanding island of Spetses 🇬🇷 @stemcellsummer.bsky.social

An image analysis toolkit to streamline the study of cell fates in embryo development Image made with @leicamicrosystems.bsky.social microscopy 📷 Matthew French et al @cellysally.bsky.social lab University of Edinburgh in @plosbiology.org ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2025...

Very excited to have this back-end-of-an-embryo cell-neighbour-analysis image from our latest paper featured as today's Biomedical Image of the Day! Congrats to first author and ace image-analyst Matthew French bpod.org.uk/archive/2025...

👀 Do you have an idea for a post on the Node that you have been postponing writing for a while? This is your chance to publish your piece at last for a chance to win £200. Submit your post by 30 September 2025. 📝 thenode.biologists.com/the-node-wri... #devbio #stemcell

The Scientific Distillery Could you distil a complex scientific concept so that it can be explained in 30 seconds and be understood by a lay person, but *without* sacrificing scientific depth? The delegates at #SCSS2025 were brilliant at this task 👏

Austin Smith points out that naive pluripotent cells in the embryo only self- renew rarely, if ever. In response to some heckling from the faculty, he says “You can call ES cells artifacts if you want, but they’re still bloody marvellous” 😃 #SCSS2025

A provocative opening this morning from Cedric Blanpain, who sets out to argue that most tissues are maintained by unipotent stem cells. We look forward to hearing him make his case.. #SCSS2025

Thirst for knowledge? The 2025 Stem Cell Summer School starts next Friday! We have an uncommonly spectacular array of faculty, and have no doubt that our delegates will also be spectacular Follow ‪@stemcellsummer.bsky.social‬ and #SCSS2025 for updates during the meeting

Thirst for knowledge? The 2025 Stem Cell Summer School starts next Friday! We have an uncommonly spectacular array of faculty, and have no doubt that our delegates will also be spectacular Follow ‪@stemcellsummer.bsky.social‬ and #SCSS2025 for updates during the meeting

Patrick Vallance hits pause on Research Excellence Framework www.timeshighereducation.com/news/patrick...

If you love cytoskeleton and tissue morphogenesis, have a read!

An interesting new paper from Meijer, Dale & co explains how stability of Notch1 is regulated to tune the timing of sequential somite formation Here's my outlook on their work (& the 2nd time in recent years that I've snuck a Bowie quote into a biology paper 🙂) genesdev.cshlp.org/cgi/content/...

The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social has a strong commitment to sustainability including our sustainability hub www.biologists.com/sustainabili... & event carbon calculator www.biologists.com/sustainabili... Find out more about what our initiatives & the carbon footprint of your event

"🎵 Efficient, logical, effective, and practical 🎶". Also: beautiful. Congratulations @dbenzinger.bsky.social & @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social. Your #PaperThemeTune is "ChemiOptoGenetic Engineering" by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oddg... #ShowingMyAge

Very excited to organise this Workshop with @rocha-lab.bsky.social ! Thanks @biologists.bsky.social for selecting our proposal 😍

Pathway to Independence – an interview with Anzy Miller Here, @anzymiller.bsky.social talks about about her research interests at the intersection of developmental biology and modelling, as well as her advocacy for inclusivity and sustainability in science. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

"Whatever people say that I am, that is what I'm not" Nanog, named for the Land of the Ever Young, famed for maintaining pluripotency. Now revealed to also do the opposite. A mass of contradictions, just like the rest of us. Congrats to @fredwck.bsky.social & co www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Dear friends and scientific colleagues, (especially those of you who knew David Ish-Horowicz). Feel free to share the attached PDF widely (all the speakers are happy for the talks to be shared). Many thanks Best regards Ilan www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Thrilled to share the first story from my postdoc! 🎉 A wonderful experiment + simulations collaboration. In the Drosophila wing, we find that 3D cell shapes affect signalling range and fine-tune developmental patterning www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Thread below ⬇️

Apply by Friday! 👇

Would you like to make your lab greener? Read our blog series by Jeroen Dobbelaere to find out how to make your lab more energy efficient and less wasteful. www.biologists.com/storycategor... #Sustainability #Energy #CarbonFootprint #Plastics #Environment

A Summer reading recommendation: new primer in @dev-journal.bsky.social explains how dynamical systems theory unlocks the logic of developmental patterning Everything from bistable switches & oscillators to phase portraits & more with Python code to explore journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Thanks @cellysally.bsky.social ! It's shaping up to be a great meeting (no pun intended...) so I'm looking forward to it ☺️

Speaker update for our Generative Biology workshop: we are delighted to have @nmoris.bsky.social join us. See full list of speakers on the attached flyer or on our website. Apply by 15th August. Places available for short talks. royalsociety.org/science-even...

🚨 RIGHT NOW opposite Labour Party HQ in London. We’ve turned their street into Jabaliya camp in Gaza. A genocide is happening, but the Labour government is supplying weapons, intelligence and diplomatic cover to the perpetrator. Protesting this is not terrorism.

Speed of Life genesdev.cshlp.org/content/earl...

Closing the chapter: Goodbye from Joyce Our (former) Community Manager @joyceyu.bsky.social‬ bids farewell 👋 to the Node community. Check out her (almost) final post: thenode.biologists.com/closing-the-...

Just published: The cis-regulatory logic integrating spatial and temporal patterning in the vertebrate neural tube A global temporal chromatin program, operating across the CNS, directs binding of specific spatial TFs & hence when/where neurons & glia are born authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Measuring properties of individual cells in relation to their neighbors in 3D tissues is challenging. @cellysally.bsky.social &co develop a computational toolkit to facilitate this, analyzing developmental patterning in mouse, chick & #Drosophila #embryo @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4lQMeNu

Paper alert! I am really pleased to share the final version of the work led by Irène Amblard in the team on a regulatory switch controlling Cdx2 expression during posterior body development! #regulatorylogic #devbio @mrc-lms.bsky.social @imperialmed.bsky.social

We are proud to recognize & thank ‪The University of Edinburgh for its support of bioRxiv & medRxiv. Their commitment helps sustain open access to preprints in biology & medicine, ensuring timely and globally-available sharing of scientific knowledge. Thank you! 💚 #bioRxiv #medRxiv #OpenScience

🚨 New paper out in Development! 🚨 We show that donor embryonic stem cells (ESCs) reshape the developing mouse embryo, not just by what they signal, but where they push. 📄 doi.org/10.1242/dev.... [1/8]

Join us! This will be a great meeting.

If a Bristol-based Trip Hop collective can do it for their festivals, surely we scientists can do it for our conferences? ethicalrevolution.co.uk/massive-atta... #SustainableConferencing #Sustainability

This is a really useful tool to help anyone organising a scientific meeting with sustainability in mind. It is designed to be simple, user-friendly and evidence-based, helping you explore which changes will have the biggest impact on your carbon footprint. Do report back if you find it helpful!

USEFUL INFORMATION! Tissue-specific consequences of tag fusions on protein expression in transgenic mice www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Congrats Gillian Taylor @andrewwood.bsky.social & all authors. Your #PaperThemeTune is System Check by Degroni Size www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJmt...

Do you have ideas on how to improve sustainability of scientific conferences and meetings? While still keeping them fun, frutiful, and fulfilling? Do you want to share your ideas to help inspire positive change? Do you want to win £250? Act fast! Essay competition! Deadline TOMORROW!

Students (Master's/PhD), do not miss this fantastic Developmental Biology course of @sorbonne-universite.fr and @institutcurie.bsky.social - It is FREE and open to international students, however, room and board + travel are not included. training.institut-curie.org/courses/deve...

People have the power www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPR-...

We are highlighting Pleasantine Mill, 2025 @bsdb.bsky.social Wolpert Medal winner, as an extraordinary biologist this week. Pleasantine is also coordinating a @jcellsci.bsky.social Special Issue and co-organised the 2024 @dmmjournal.bsky.social‬ Journal Meeting. #100biologists @cilialab.bsky.social

It was a great pleasure to be part of the team who put this together. Congratulations to Eugenia Piddini, Kendra Prutton, and all other members of the @isscr.org Education Committee whose vision, energy, and dedication have been a joy to behold throughout this process. www.isscr.org/continuing-e...

Fantastic talk from Sophie Brumm who’s undertaking her #postdoc with @cellysally.bsky.social at @edinuni-irr.bsky.social in the afternoon session of #SDBG2025 👏🏻 #development #cells

This👇should be a heads-up to every progressive and community-minded academic scientist out there. Skip the brands, skip the prestige, and ask yourself when you publish “Am I getting good service?”, because it’s the by/for community journals that do it best 😠

One more week to apply for the Stem Cell Summer school! Deadline 30th May.

Today, we are highlighting Ottoline Leyser, former @dev-journal.bsky.social Editor and current member of the journal’s Advisory Board, as an extraordinary biologist. #100biologists‬‬‬‬

Congratulations to Professor Donal O’Carroll, IRR Group Leader, who has been elected a Fellow of @royalsociety.org Donal has been recognised for his lab work including work on safeguarding germline immortality. Read our story: edin.ac/3H5gbKB...