Excessive paperwork and inefficient systems are sabotaging scientific progress. Really proud to be part of this global manifesto spearheaded by @kentimmis.bsky.social. We need action at all levels to tackle the root causes. Our analysis & proposals @microbiotech.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1111/1751...

Reach your target audience with our help 💪🐟 Submit community news & job openings using the forms on our website (linktr.ee/zebrafishrock). These will be shared across our network for maximum exposure 🤩 #RockOn 🧪

Genetic and functional analysis in zebrafish shows that Vgll4 limits tissue growth by inhibiting Yap1–Tead–mediated activation and promoting Tead-dependent repression, providing a framework for how Hippo pathway output regulates organ size in vivo. @vlecaudey.bsky.social go.sn.pub/gxi8wg

This finding provides broad comparative support for the longstanding hypothesis that the nuclear-to-cytoplasmic (N/C) ratio acts as a timer of genome activation. Moreover, this scaling accurately predicts ZGA timing across diverse animals from genome size and egg volume of a species alone. 8/15

Then, what determines ZGA onset?? We correlated multiple genomic, developmental and ecological features with ZGA timing and, cutting to the chase, we found that the log ratio of genome size vs. egg volume very strongly scaled negatively with ZGA onset in cell cycles! 7/15

Thrilled to present our comparative study on the evolution of zygotic genome activation (ZGA)!! 🥚🧬 Amazing PhD work of @campobes.bsky.social together with @fedemantica.bsky.social and many collaborators! @melisupf.bsky.social @crg.eu. Thread below 1/15 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New paper from the lab out in Cell Death & Disease @cddpress.bsky.social @cbm-csic-uam.bsky.social "Transcription-dependent and -independent functions of Drosophila p53 isoforms in the induction of apoptosis and senescence-associated tumorigenesis.” #p53 #Drosophila Thread 1/9👇👇👇

📢 New on the SEBD blog! #GFE2026 reflections & experiences shared by our #SEBD travel awardees 🌍✨ Don’t miss their unique perspectives and key takeaways 👇👇🏻 sebioldev.blogspot.com/2026/04/germ... @gfeev.bsky.social #devbio 🧪

The #SEBD offers its junior members (PhD students and postdocs) travel grants to attend #SEBD meetings. In the last #GfESEBDDSDB joint meeting the awardees were Miguel Angel Garitagoitia, CNIC , Jorge Mañes @cbm-csic-uam.bsky.social and Daniel Barcenilla @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social. Join the #SEBD!

The 2026 call for the José Luis Gomez-Skarmeta award of excellence in #DevBio is now open! If you’d like to join the previous awardees @dariloops.bsky.social 2024 and @mirimiam.bsky.social and @radaiglesiaslab.bsky.social 2022, please don’t hesitate to apply to #JLGS2026

Thanks to Girish Kale (@girishkalephd.bsky.social) for reporting on our joint developmental biology meeting in Potsdam #GfE2026 #GfESEBDDSDB2026. enjoy the read: thenode.biologists.com/meeting-repo... looking forward to seeing you and @the-node.bsky.social at #GfE2028

Grateful to be part of this great team. Thanks to @eliasbarrigalab.bsky.social for all the coordination effort! Looking forward to the exciting science to come.

Special congrats to @hlemmik.bsky.social, @thezgs.bsky.social, @nathaliejuya.bsky.social, @neurofishh.bsky.social, @jrmarmor.bsky.social, @eliasbarrigalab.bsky.social, @heisenbergcplab.bsky.social, @ehannezo.bsky.social, @mvargam.eurosky.social, & @fabianlab.bsky.social among others! 🎉 #YouRock

The 2026 Visual System Development GRC and GRS are fast approaching. Jeremy Kay, Kristen Kwan, Robert Johnston, and I have built an exciting program that we hope you will enjoy. Looking forward to seeing everyone at the meeting this summer in beautiful Maine. Register and RT!

Enhorabuena al equipo que está por detrás de #METALoci ahora publicado en en Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. En particular en grupo de @dariloops.bsky.social del #CABD que comparte autoría senior con Marc A. Marti-Renom @crg.eu @cnag-eu.bsky.social y Blanche Capel @durham.ac.uk (1/5)

Youthful antics predict lifespan? Using machine learning & continuous recordings of #killifish behavior from adolescence until death, @brunetlab.bsky.social & @deisseroth.bsky.social find early-life behavior predicted future lifespan! Now published @science.org: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪 1/2

What a way to start the second day of #GfESEBDDSDB2026 ! A Keynote lecture by Isabel Fariñas @farinaslab.bsky.social introduced by our president Eloisa Herrera @eloisaherrera.bsky.social

We continue the morning with a session on “Forces define form - mechanobiology” with 2 #SEBD representatives, Jerome Solom from Biofisika Institute (CSIC, EHU) and Cielo Centola from @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social

Cielo Lucía Centola (from @jrmarmor.bsky.social lab) investigates how "Rhythmic contraction waves trigger the Yap-dependent mechanoregulatory loop fueling gastrulation movements in medaka"

Cielo Centola and @jrmarmor.bsky.social from #CABD are participating in the Joint Meeting #gfe2026 in Potsdam!!!

Un recuerdo hoy (y todos los días) para todas las mujeres investigadoras, en el #DiaInternacionalDeLaMujer #8M seguimos implicados todos/as para conseguir la tan deseada igualdad entre hombres y mujeres lo antes posible. Ya vamos tarde. 💜 @cnb-csic.bsky.social @sebbm.bsky.social @csic.es @uam.es

#CABDseminars "Temperature and timing in embryonic development " by Michael Dorrity, @embl.org Heidelberg, Germany 🗓️ March 6th ⏰ 12 pm 📍Rosalind Franklin Auditorium, CABD Hosted by @crisprscan.bsky.social & @jrmarmor.bsky.social

Don't miss Sofía Manzo explaining her PhD project at ProgRET. About short living killifish and retinal disease.

Guess who’s turning 217 today? It’s Charles Darwin! 🥳 Born in 1809, he transformed the way we understand the natural world. He developed the theory of evolution by natural selection in his 1859 best-seller, ‘On the Origins of Species’. Send him your birthday wishes in the comments! 👇

I think that, like with art, papers offer an opportunity for you to tell the story your own way. Could another person research the same question? Yes. However, each person has the opportunity to do it and communicate it in their own way, and we must protect that 🧪

Lamentamos profundamente el fallecimiento de nuestro socio Máximo Ibo Galindo, investigador de encefalopatías del desarrollo, como el síndrome de Dravet y pionero en la utilización de #Drosophila en la investigación de enfermedades humanas en España. DEP

The moment to celebrate a paper is when it’s shared with the world, not when it passes the arbitrary hurdle of “acceptance”

And finally, we have It out! Do not miss It, If you are into early eye development, GRNs, and eye malformations. Thanks to Javier Macho and the rest of the authors for a terrific job.

Single-cell multiomics identifies key nodes and cis-regulatory elements of the networks specifying the eye domains in zebrafish https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.31.703039v1

Ludovica Ciampi, investigadora posdoctoral Juan de la Cierva en el laboratorio de @jrmarmor.bsky.social nos cuenta su trabajo entendiendo a nivel de celular única como las células de la retina se comportan en situaciones fisiológicas y de en enfermedad. #TodasHacemosCiencia @csic.es

This summer I had the chance get to know a quite comprehensive representation of the medaka community in an exciting meeting in Heidelberg. I am very grateful for the experience! Now everybody can have a glimpse on what was discussed. anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

We are looking for a Bioinformatician (both graduate and postdoctoral levels) to join our lab. Please help us spread the word about this opportunity! Applicants should submit their motivation letter, full CV and academic record to Juan R. Martínez-Morales: [email protected]

SEBD Honours Antonio García-Bellido thenode.biologists.com/sebd-honours...

We welcome Juan Pascual Anaya @jpascualanaya.bsky.social to the #SEBD Board! Beatriz Galindo researcher at UMA PhD from @ub.edu and former postdoc at RIKEN (Japan). He leads a research group exploring the origin and evolution of vertebrates through comparative genomics, morphology, and evo-devo.

Jumping spiders can recognise one another. This ability to learn, remember and represent images is quite surprising for such a tiny-brained animal! buff.ly/dCkwPr0

As a tribute to our founding member and president, Antonio Garcia Bellido, we have gathered the testimony of some of his closest collaborators. Thank you Antonio for your legacy youtu.be/AXlqTx5wYPE?...

We are pleased to announce our next #SEBD2026 meeting! The meeting will take place in El Rompido, Huelva, from the 28th to the 30th of October 2026 #savethedate @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social @isdb.bsky.social @gfeev.bsky.social @ijdb.bsky.social @devbiol.bsky.social @devdynamics.bsky.social

Congratulations to the new cohort of 28 EMBO Young Investigators! They are joining an international network of more than 800 life scientists – Welcome! Read the press release here: https://www.embo.org/press-releases/twenty-eight-group-leaders-become-embo-young-investigators/

enhorabuena!

Exciting news! PoL PI Elias Barriga @eliasbarrigalab.bsky.social has been awarded the Innovation Award by the German Society for Cell Biology! (DGZ) 🏆 The DGZ recognizes his contributions, including the discovery that mechanically induced electric fields guide collective cell migration. Congrats!

👏🏻Enhorabona a la Dra.Sofia Araújo @geneticsub.bsky.social,guardonada a #LaMarató2024 pel seu projecte "Traducció de gens candidats causals en malalties respiratòries humanes utilitzant Drosophila melanogaster",conjuntament amb els investigadors Marios Georgiou i Ian Sayers (Univ. de Nottingham)1/2

📢Drive Your Own Project on the Genomics of Aging! Ready to launch an independent research program? The teams of Juan Tena and @jrmarmor.bsky.social are seeking visionary candidates for the prestigious #ComFuturo iAGE call! 📍CABD, Sevilla Deadline:January 9th, 2026 🔗 fgcsic.es/en/convocato...

“Developmental biology is fundamentally beautiful. We are no less beautiful for our variation. Instead, perhaps we are more so. Perhaps we are remarkable. Perhaps we are full of wonder.” Read this insightful post by Bethan on the Node. thenode.biologists.com/developmenta... #Disability

And also from @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social , Juan Tena, presented his lab's work on aging using killifish and a collaborative project to understand age-related retina degeneration.

Next, Juan Ramón Martinez Morales ( @jrmarmor.bsky.social ), from @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social , presented their work on eye malformations and aging, and the underlying gene regulatory networks, using fish models.

Amazing talk today at #CABDseminars by @sarawickstrom.bsky.social! Sara explained work understanding mechanical regulation of cell states. She was hosted by @dariloops.bsky.social & @jrmarmor.bsky.social. Thanks for coming Dr. Wickstrom!

Happy to share the last version of our story @currentbiology.bsky.social on the role of interfacial tension in mechanical cell competition led by @leovalon.bsky.social and Alexis Matamoro Vidal www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We are very pleased to announce our joint meeting with the German @gfeev.bsky.social and the Dutch Developmental Biology Societies, which will take place in Potsdam from the 10-13th of March 2026. Registration is now open! www.uni-potsdam.de/en/gfe-meeti...

Amazing meeting coming up!!! @jrmarmor.bsky.social from #CABD is parte of the scientific committee! Don't miss the deadlines to attend! Registration is now OPEN

#CABDseminars "Mechanical regulation of cell states" by Sara Wickström @sarawickstrom.bsky.social, @mpi-muenster.bsky.social 🗓️October 10th ⏰ 12 pm 📍Rosalind Franklin auditorium, CABD Co-hosted by @dariloops.bsky.social & @jrmarmor.bsky.social