First-ever atlas of brain development shows how stem cells turn into neurons There are 6 excellent human brain development papers in Nature - www.nature.com/articles/d41... Check them out!

🚨🚨🚨 The SFBD board needs to be renewed with 5 members We wish to strengthen our board with young scientists To apply: send a brief text introducing your research interests and motivations to [email protected] by December 4th Elections will be held online from December 10th to 17th Please share the info

🚨 Exciting conference for stem cell aficionados! ‘Frontiers in Stem Cell Innovation’ will bring together experts in stem cell biology from academia & industry to discuss key developments as well as challenges in regenerative medicine and disease modelling. fisci2026.eventbrite.co.uk Please repost 🙏

Paul Nurse describing the main job of a PI (From ‘The Thinking Game’, 2024)

Funders must recognise that great discoveries often come from studies that seeks to advance knowledge for its own sake go.nature.com/3X5lbUg

Really impressive study on spinal cord development by @giulia-boezio.bsky.social and @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social. #neurodevelopment

Starting Monday!!! If you are in Paris, feel free to drop in for this exceptional course!

Self-organizing principles driving hierarchical transitions and cell heterogeneity in colorectal tumors. Very interesting work!

Excited to share our new #biorxivpreprint: “Sexual dimorphism in the complete connectome of the Drosophila male central nervous system” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We describe the #connectomics reconstruction and analysis of an entire adult #maleCNS #drosophila central nervous system. 1/10

🎂 Mon blog (Neuro)biologie et société (neurobiologieetsociete.org) associé au @cafe-sciences.org a 10 ans en ce mois d'octobre 2025 ! neurobiologieetsociete.org Les 5 billets les plus populaires au cours de ces 10 ans 👇 : #CultureScientifique #vulgarisationscientifique

Reprigramming of neural crest cells to mesodermal fates drives Ewing sarcoma…. Very nice study using zebra fish! www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Il n’est pas acceptable qu’un pays développé comme la France ignore l’ensemble des causes d’une incidence singulière du cancer. www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

Developmental Biology lost a giant yesterday 😔 May his legacy thrive and keep inspiring current and future generations of scientists www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/nobel-laurea...

Abstract deadline (Dec 15th) approaching for the 2026 Neurogenesis meeting in Ascona. The last one was outstanding, so we’re all really looking forward to this second edition. Reassuringly in this day and age it’s held on the “Mount of Truth”.

Great clip. About PhDs here on H1B’s that “create entire industries.”

🧠 You are in Marseille on September 29th and interested in neurodevelopmental questions, don't forget to register to our symposium "Linking neural development, human disease and evolution". To register: evento.renater.fr/survey/mini-... @neuromarseille.bsky.social @ibdm.bsky.social

L’effet Matilda n’est pas une fiction. Il est inscrit dans l’histoire scientifique. Il a éclipsé des femmes comme Marthe Gautier, née il y a cent ans, pionnière oubliée de la trisomie 21. ➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/1LI

C'est la rentrée et vous cherchez des comptes de scientifiques, médias et passeurs de science ? Ne cherchez plus, @sciencecqfd.bsky.social vous a préparé LE starter pack ⬇️ go.bsky.app/CFvzzJP

Interested in a sabbatical in Lyon? The Collegium de Lyon provides accommodation and attractive interdisciplinary environment for 1 or 2 semesters. Open to all disciplines. You can be affiliated with any local department/lab. Apply now for 2026-27. collegium.universite-lyon.fr/2026-2027-un...

We are recruiting an enthusiastic engineer to work on the core project of our lab: identifying Hox protein-RNA networks in Drosophila @igmm-montpel.bsky.social Interested in BioID, UV-RIP and muscle development? Apply: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U... Please share! #jobOffer #RNA #hox #Drosophila

We're hiring! Our lab is looking for a postdoc to investigate the #evodevo of #cephalopod brains. Did you recently graduate, and do you want to join our EU #WEAVE project with the Simakov and @simon-sprecher.bsky.social labs? Find the application form👇Thanks for RT 🐙🦑 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

Mechanosensation and fast reorientation of ciliary structures: Marvin's work on the surprising locomotion capabilities of Trichoplax, an animal without neurons! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🧠 Position still opened! Don't hesitate to apply if you want to use human pluripotent stem cell based models to understand the evolution of human cerebellar neurons and disorders!

Excited to share that the lab will be supported by #Atip-Avenir and @cnrs.fr! Huge thanks to @ibdm.bsky.social and @neuromarseille.bsky.social, and to my mentors past and present. Students & postdocs: stay tuned, positions will open soon!
On the menu: axons, gene regulation, live imaging and more 🧠🔬

#jobAlert We are hiring! If you like #imaging ,gene regulation and a dynamic group please apply. We are looking for a research assistant with a master degree and prior experience in academia.

Excited to share our latest work with @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social . A global #cis-regulatory temporal program guides how spatial cues are interpreted in neural progenitors. We show how #space and #time can be integrated to generate cell type diversity in the #spinalcord. Congrats to all authors.

Thrilled to share that our latest work on marsupial heterochrony is now online at @cp-devcell.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social @lab-turner.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk We used scRNAseq to understand the asynchronous progression of developmental programmes in marsupials www.cell.com/developmenta...

📢 We are recruiting! Several projects are available and can be tailored to the candidate's profile. Most include confocal imaging/spatial OMICs technologies. Please share and RT 🙏

🚨 Our paper is out! 🚨 Check how spatial-scERA can predict enhancer activity in a virtual Drosophila embryo. Very proud of this first step in the research world published in @narjournal.bsky.social Thanks to @yghavi.bsky.social, @paulvilloutreix.bsky.social and all the scientists who made it real!

The deadline is approaching for this fantastic course! Apply now! Free to attend!

Au fil de ces prochains jours les très fortes #chaleurs 🌡️vont s'étendre de plus en plus vers le nord. Le pic caniculaire semble attendu mardi dans le Sud-Ouest et mercredi pour les régions centrales avec des températures souvent supérieurs à 38/40°C. #Canicule 🟠Protégez-vous.

🥇Sham Tlili has been awarded the CNRS 2025 Bronze Medal! She studies how physical forces shape living tissues by using mouse stem cell models known as gastruloids. A unique blend of physics & biology. 🔗 Read more: www.ibdm.univ-amu.fr/sham-tlili-w...

Jusqu’ici tout va bien…

Thanks @girishkalephd.bsky.social for this nice report on #ShapingLife3 It was a pleasure to meet and listen to you there! @the-node.bsky.social @biologists.bsky.social @sfbd.bsky.social @ibdm.bsky.social

We want to thank everyone who attended this year's #Drosophila JEDI meeting at Château du Feÿ! Three days of amazing talks, great ideas and chat at the camp fire. We are looking forward to meeting everyone again at the next meeting!

Towards more sustainable research: reducing the environmental impact when working with #Drosophila. Challiner, Saurya., Patel, Raff, Fostier, Prokop, A. (2025) @genetics-gsa.bsky.social‬, in press -- doi.org/10.1093/gene... - Always happy to discuss and hear your ideas and views!

Mark your calendars for May 18-22, 2026- in Roscoff, Brittany, for the next iteration of the Developmental Biology Conference Jacques Monod!

Thank you Julie for making such a beautiful poster for our conference. It was universally admired and appreciated!

#Drosophila @flybase.bsky.social requires emergency funding: "As it stands, by the end of July, 2025, there will be no future updates to #FlyBase, and in the worst case scenario access to the website will also be lost". Please help if you can!

Bravo to the poster and best talk winners @sfbd.bsky.social #ShapingLife3: 3 PhD students: Romain Giromini, Étienne Poidomani and Noemi Zollo

This @sfbd.bsky.social conference had also an #outreach event in primary schools coordinated by @maevalux.bsky.social and 11 volunteers.

Thanks Omaya for sharing with us your passion to understudied forms of life. There is the much to explore and discover out there! #ShapingLife3

The amazing organization team of #ShapingLife3 meeting of @sfbd.bsky.social in sunny Cassis! Thanks to the great scientists for sharing their passion for embryos, and the beauty of life ! @maitrejl.bsky.social @cedricmaurange.bsky.social @maevalux.bsky.social @ibdm.bsky.social and others

Getting ready for my talk at #ShapingLife3 - amazing conference location that might be somewhat distracting…

#ShapingLife3 I must admit, that along amazing #developmental #Biology, having the sea in the conference room is quite a treat here in #Cassis.

A big thanks to the @sfbd.bsky.social , @maitrejl.bsky.social & @embo.org YIP for what has been a very sunny & exciting #DevBio + beautiful hikes around #Cassis. & now everyone in there knows about #Ichthyosporea & #Expansion #Microscopy Which is a big ➕️ #ShapingLife3

What an amazing #emboyip lecture from @dudinlab.bsky.social at the French #devbio meeting #ShapingLife3! @sfbd.bsky.social

Moving towards the end of #ShapingLife3 with the last Keynote speaker @justinmcrocker.bsky.social

📣 We are recruiting new group leaders in Innovative Biology! RNA biology Epigenetic regulation Cell cycle regulation Cancer, immunology Virology Application and information ⬇️ application.igmm.cnrs.fr @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @cnrsoccitanieest.bsky.social @umontpellier.bsky.social