#ELMI2026 is starting =). Come say hi!

Fantastic outreach by @maitrejl.bsky.social et al, who have brought Biology Quest (En Quête de Bio) of the @sfbd.bsky.social to Japan! Want to bring model organisms into your primary schools? See www.eqd-bio.org or contact me or @drosopachea.bsky.social . French, English and other languages!

Woop woop !

Save the date! The 2027 BSDB Spring Meeting will take place on 19 - 22 April in Edinburgh. An exciting programme with a fantastic lineup of speakers showcasing developmental biology across scales! More details soon!

#DBfeature #DBeditorial Bridging developmental biology and social justice to reclaim trust in science and society by Nicole Theodosiou, Michael Barresi @spiraldoc.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Did you know that Development publishes Research Reports? These short articles emphasise an important finding, laying the groundwork for future research. Browse a selection of our latest, free-to-read Research Report highlights in our subject collection journals.biologists.com/dev/collecti...

Biology lost one of its giant 😢

*** 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 🧬🐭🐟🪰🌱❤️

#DBfeature A new hypothesis about meiosis "rejuvenating" germ cells each generation by ensuring they continue to match the species' DNA specifications by Allan Spradling et al www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#DBfeature Elongation of the nascent avian foregut requires coordination of intrinsic and extrinsic cell behaviors By Olivia Powell, Emily Garcia, Vanshika Sriram, Yi Qu, Nandan L. Nerurkar tinyurl.com/52pecyc5

The vertebrate yolk sac: evolutionary origins & current advances in #invitromodels Blagrove & co examine the evolution of the extra-embryonic endoderm, an evolutionarily ancient tissue co-opted to form the yolk sac, & explore how in vitro models are uncovering its biology. doi.org/10.1242/dev....

#DBfeature A low-cost, high-throughput pipeline for 3D imaging of embryonic mouse hearts using lightsheet microscopy By Xiangyang Liu, Jianfeng Wang, Youshi Chen, Hongjun Shi tinyurl.com/yc46asz2

Definitely a meeting worth attending!

We are searching for a research technician to join our lab for a year 🔬🧬🐟 Please see the ad below and spread the word!! #ZebrafishRock

Congrats to all the laureates! Glad to see some @sfbd.bsky.social members in there ! Dev bio for the win !

🧠 Layers on layers of neural architecture Stacked confocal view of columnar interneurons in the developing fly brain 🟢 GFP-lit neurons revealing precise organization 📸 #FluorescenceFriday by Rajesh Raghuvanshi Submit your images here ➡️ @raghu5.bsky.social docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

New Pre-Print Alert! Evolving initial conditions: an alternative developmental route to morphological diversity with Shannon Taylor and @jamesehammond.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Attending 'Modeling Life from Cells to Tissues: Emergence and Self-Organization' by @lakeconferences.bsky.social? Editors, @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social, @pfrancois.bsky.social, @irenemiguel-aliaga.bsky.social & Matthias Lutolf, are present - chat to them about publishing with us. tinyurl.com/yvrse8se

🚨Next DevBioConnect on the way Developmental Biology Author webinar featuring Dr. Diana Fulmer @dianavoss.bsky.social Dr. Amber D. Ide 🗓️May 12th, 2026 ⏰11 am–12 pm CST @socdevbio.bsky.social Register here👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

From eating to mating: ZFH-2 is required for alimentary tract and gonad development in worms This Research Highlight showcases work by Antoine Sussfeld, Oliver Hobert, @surojitsural.bsky.social & co. @columbiauniversity.bsky.social @hhmi-science.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

The CODA workflow works for: - any tissue type (eye, kidney, pancreas, brain,...) - any disease (cancer, fibrosis, diabetes,...) - any species (human, mouse, rhesus macaque, ...) It can be integrated with any spatial omic technique (CODEX, Visium, IF, IHC,..) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📢 Register for our #DevPres webinar featuring the finalists of the 2025 Outstanding Paper Prize The webinar, chaired by Steve Wilson, features talks from Xi Yang and Bénédicte Lefèvre @drosopachea.bsky.social. 🗓️29 April, 15:00 GMT/UTC us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

#DBfeature Proteins involved in cell division have broad tissue-specific functions in sea urchin development By Jessica Benito, Elizabeth McCulla, Raisa Sumaiya, Jia Song tinyurl.com/554jhd6h

Bravo @drosopachea.bsky.social

🎉 Great success for our 2nd SFBD-SBCF science outreach day in Ivry-sur-Seine, with the support of the city! Over a thousand children came to take part in our workshops, led by around fifty researchers from institutes in Paris and Gif-sur-Yvette! Thank you all for your enthusiasm! 🔬🧬

Fantastique journée de médiation organisée par la @sfbd.bsky.social (Maëva Luxey, Eglantine Heude et moi-même) et @sbcf.bsky.social (Stéphanie Lebreton) à Ivry-sur-Seine avec le soutien de la mairie ! 4 ateliers, plus d'un millier d'enfants, une cinquantaine de volontaires ! Merci à tous !

A fantastic day of outreach in Ivry with 43 classes, 1075 kids and 47 scientists from the @sfbd.bsky.social and @sbcf.bsky.social. Thanks: Mairie of Ivry, @drosopachea.bsky.social Maeva Eglantine and Stéphanie for organizing! And many participants @antoinezalc.bsky.social @michaelrera.bsky.social +

The vascular network in developing embryos follow a similar geometric fractal pattern across species and development stages. More here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

#DBfeature 🐟 Effects of age on the response to spinal cord injury: optimizing the larval zebrafish model by Whitney Walker, Karen Mruk et al. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Congrats @canaztekin.bsky.social ! You are our 1000th follower! And congrats on your recent beautiful paper! Let's reach 2000 followers now !

Excited to share that @socdevbio.bsky.social has a new and improved merch store! Rep your fav model organism in one of the Society’s new original designs 🤗 sdb-official-merch.printify.me

Now also featured in the cover of @devbiol.bsky.social

📢Register for our #DevPres webinar featuring the finalists of the 2025 Outstanding Paper Prize The webinar, chaired by Steve Wilson, features talks from Xi Yang and Bénédicte Lefèvre @drosopachea.bsky.social. 🗓️29 April, 15:00 GMT/UTC us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Whole organism 3D mapping reveals universal branching topology and biophysical optimization governs vascular and nervous system development Read about our work here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Epigenetics Update - De novo formation of cis-regulatory contacts in the absence of NIPBL-driven chromatin loop extrusion go.nature.com/4cnKLeo @nicholas-aboreden.bsky.social/Han Zhao and Haoyue Zhang/Gerd A. Blobel in @natgenet.nature.com #Epigenetics #Chromatin --- epigenometech.com

#DBfeature #InHoxWeTrust 🪲 Divergent Hox cluster arrangement in horned beetles retain conserved embryonic and adult expression patterns. by Erica Nadolski, Isabel Manley, Sukhmani Gill, Armin Moczek @ericanadolski.bsky.social tinyurl.com/ycxabrh5

ElmoFire.gif @mads100tist.bsky.social @nkonst4.bsky.social @ijmonod.bsky.social Looking forward to having Dr. Mad Scientist (AKA Joaquin) grace our humble institute! 🐟🧪

I am SO excited about SDB's new merch. Get your favorite model organism, and help support our society! (PS: more organisms will be added in the future). 👉 sdb-store.printify.me 👈@socdevbio.bsky.social #Sciart #stem #biology #drosophila #xenopus #planarians #embryos #plants

Epigenetics Update - Postmitotic transcription and 3D regulation show locus-specific and differentiation-specific sensitivity to cohesin depletion go.nature.com/48ISkLD UkJin Lee and @efapostolou29.bsky.social at @weillcornell.bsky.social #Epigenetics #Chromatin --- epigenometech.com

Congrats @camilledumas.bsky.social who is the 999th to follow us! Who wants to be the 1000th !

#BidenFundedNASA In 2025 Chump tried to defund NASA but he failed. He is trying again this year.

Who else is still feeling the joy this morning? 🙋‍♀️🚀🧑‍🚀 THIS is what science can do!!

📣 New paper from #SEBD board member @estella-carlos.bsky.social @cbm-csic-uam.bsky.social Check it out! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

New in @science.org ‼️ In the most comprehensive study to date, we show that wildlife trade is driving animal-to-human zoonotic spillover at a planetary scale, with +1 spillover per host every 10 years. Live animal markets and illegal trade pose even greater risks. 🔓 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Sharing this very sad news. Greg influenced many beyond his lab and across fields. This is a very nice write up from CRUK-CI highlighting what he meant to many of us. Thank you for putting into words what many of us can't right now. www.cruk.cam.ac.uk/news/in-memo...