I'm attending #ISSCR2026. Visit The Company of Biologists' @biologists.bsky.social booth to learn more about publishing in our journals, including @dev-journal.bsky.social. I'll also be participating in 'How to get your paper ready for peer review' organised by @stemcellreports.bsky.social.

This: ‘if AI is part of the problem, it also has to be part of the answer’ is a truly insane thing to say. Next up, a Frontiers spokesperson on how to rescue a burning building using flamethrowers.

Dear Dev Mech Enthusiasts! The Developmental Mechanics Seminar Series returns on 24 September. We have an exciting lineup of speakers. If interested in presenting your work/ attending it. Register here:https://tinyurl.com/2munv5bv @goncaerdemci.bsky.social @tarafinegan.bsky.social

We are recruiting! We invite applications from highly motivated PhD candidates interested in developmental biology, imaging, and in situ structural biology to study the biogenesis and plasticity of motile cilia in development and disease.

1/9 A few thoughts and personal opinions on the use of AI in research evaluation. I suspect many of these changes may be inevitable, so the real question may not be whether this will happen, but how we shape it responsibly 🧵

Don't use slop. Someone's trying to make money out of you and your colleagues and your friends. Do yourself a favor and read 100% human-crated content in @prelights.bsky.social Upload preprints. Read preprints. Cite preprints. Fuck AI 🧪

The elephant in the room: impact factor @amjeve.uk & @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social offer an honest look at impact factor trends in #DevBio, explain how Development serves its community, & make the case that sustaining developmental biology journals is a shared responsibility. doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Trustee Directors The deadline to apply to join us as Trustee Director is 17 July. We're particularly looking for those with an interest in comparative animal physiology and biomechanics or experience in financial scrutiny and strategic guidance. Find out more at www.biologists.com/wp-content/u...

An interesting #devbio weekend read, and the first manuscript I've ever handled with audio files that really take you back in time.

Come for the beautiful images and stay for technical tips! Thanks to Benita Wolf for writing this fantastic highlight for FocalPlane on one of my favourite papers from 2026.

Meet our Preprint Editors We are pleased to welcome Gwendolyn K. Kirschner @gwenkirschner.bsky.social to our first group of Preprint Editors to our editorial team, responsible for handling our 'In preprints' articles. journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pr...

Noticeable underrepresentation of women as corresponding authors in the 1%. Almost as if AI has been trained on years of discriminatory behaviours and is perpetuating that bias.

Are you currently at #ICAR2026? Make sure to speak to @dev-journal.bsky.social Editor @stanfordstomata.bsky.social and Reviews Editor @saanjbati.bsky.social about publishing in Development, including our newly announced Special Issue – Plant and Algae Development #DevSIPlantAlgae

This past Saturday, Embryology students gathered to learn how to bring science stories to life from science communicator and filmmaker John Rubin, co-producer of The Moth Radio Hour and science storytelling coach Viki Merrick, and NPR science desk contributor Ari Daniel Shapiro.

Begging news outlets to stop illustrating deadly heat waves with happy beach fun 🏖️😎 and life-saving vaccines with terrifying needle assaults 💉😭. Especially on social media (where many/most people get their news) the photo is the most prominent part of the story; these choices undermine it completely

Dominique Bergmann from Stanford university on the iconic structure of guard cells and their purpose for single plants and for the planet #icar2026 @stanfordstomata.bsky.social

Amazing talk by Dominique Bergmann on how stomata get their holes (pores) with cool swapping experiments that actually flip the orientation of the guard cells to create what look like butterflies 🦋! #icar2026

Issue 11 is now complete! Cover: An adult ascidian of the HM-line, one of two genetically controlled closed colonies newly established. These ascidian colonies promise to significantly enhance experimental reproducibility & traceability. See Satou et al. doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Super excited to be in sunny Basel for @bacell3d.bsky.social this week!🌞Feel free to come say hi at the Meet the Editors tables during tomorrow and Wednesday's coffee breaks 👋

⭐️ A stony coral, Montipora capitata, primary polyps, one month of age. Autofluorescence of symbiotic algae (magenta) and GFP (green). 🔬 📸 Credit: Emma Rangel-Huerta from Stowers Institute for Medical Research #FluorescenceFriday #devbio #cnidarians 🪸

Please do chat to Dominique and Saanjbati about submitting to Development and our upcoming Special Issue – Plant and Algae Development #DevSIPlantAlgae journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pl...

Thank you to organisers to James Hombría and Antónia Monteiro @monteirolab.bsky.social and everyone who joined us at this week's Workshop on 'Novelty, Co-option and Divergence During Gene Network Evolution' biologists.com/workshops #BiologistsWorkshops

If you are attending BaCell3D (@bacell3d.bsky.social) from 22-24 June in Basel, Switzerland, Reviews Editor @ingridtsang.bsky.social will also be there. Don't forget to chat to Ingrid about @dev-journal.bsky.social and @the-node.bsky.social.

Check out our latest subject collection, showcasing @dev-journal.bsky.social papers on plant development, which has been curated to support ICAR2026: journals.biologists.com/dev/collecti...

Are you attending ICAR 2026 next week (from 22-26 June) at National University of Singapore? @dev-journal.bsky.social Editor, @stanfordstomata.bsky.social, and Reviews Editor, @saanjbati.bsky.social, will be there. Feel free to chat with them about your next Development paper.

Journal impact factors were released yesterday. In our latest @dev-journal.bsky.social Editorial, @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social and I discuss how we are all architects of impact, highlighting that measuring the influence and support journals provide goes beyond a single number. doi.org/10.1242/dev....

"IF is a flawed metric...not an indication of the quality of published research...But, we are not naive. We know IF influences authors' decisions about where to publish". ☝️ The dilemma every journal faces. And that last sentence is a huge understatement. 1/2 journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

As Editor of @dev-journal.bsky.social I get asked "What are you doing about your impact factor?" In our new editorial we say: Ask not what Dev can do for the impact factor. Ask what you can do for Dev's IF The IF is about how we all cite, review & assess each other's work doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Journal impact factors were released yesterday. In our latest @dev-journal.bsky.social Editorial, @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social and I discuss how we are all architects of impact, highlighting that measuring the influence and support journals provide goes beyond a single number. doi.org/10.1242/dev....

It's that time of year when the JIFs are out. Over-reliance on it fuels integrity risks like papermills & fraud. Everything is connected! Join us in shifting the focus from venue prestige to merit. Explore RRA resources & course: sfdora.org/reports/ & bit.ly/DORA-Intro-Course

Two of the papers in this issue were handled by me. Keep sending us your amazing science! journals.biologists.com/dev/issue/15...

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...

Thanks, @socdevbio.bsky.social for these awesome tees!

It was fun to contribute to @dev-journal.bsky.social “In preprints” series and cover this beautiful preprint on mechanics and epithelial multilayering - check it out!

Don't miss your chance to contribute to our upcoming Special Issue: The Integrative Biology of Reproduction The submission deadline is 30 June Find out more about pre-submission enquires, the guest editors, article types and the topics covered at bit.ly/3ZT42hY

Development Editor @swathiarur.bsky.social will be attending the MAPSS 2026 and DevCell meeting from 10-14 June 2026 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. Stop by to chat with her about your next @dev-journal.bsky.social paper.

How are two embryos alike? As we collect spatio-temporal microscopy data, we want to quantify variability in the timing of key developmental events. Alignment of multiple recordings is a core engineering challenge here and we suggest a solution; read about it: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Very happy to be part of this wonderful team! 😀😀😀

Our Cell Scientist to Watch is Mu He @mh-lab.bsky.social. We spoke to Mu over Zoom to discuss her research career, the challenges of establishing a lab under pandemic restrictions and the importance of balance in life. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Another reason to support your non-profit society journals!

The first webinar in our #FocalPlaneFeatures #CellMigration webinar series is tomorrow (Thursday 11 June) at 15:00 BST (UTC+1). Join us via Zoom to hear from @juanmagararc.bsky.social, @kyohalie.bsky.social & @djcohen.bsky.social. focalplane.biologists.com/2026/05/29/n...

Vote for a @dev-journal.bsky.social cover from the 2025 Quintay International Course on Developmental Biology We’re excited to launch a cover competition to select an image from the 2025 cohort of @devbioquintay.bsky.social. Voting closes on 24 June 2026. thenode.biologists.com/vote-for-a-d...

Repost please !! We have extended the abstract deadline for the 2026 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Conference to June 20. scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu. Get those abstract in !

I had a great time at #Morpho5 (@cammorphoseries.bsky.social) last Friday, representing @dev-journal.bsky.social and @biologists.bsky.social, who sponsored the meeting and poster prizes. It was a pleasure to speak with the speakers and attendees. Congratulations again to the poster prize winners!

There are so many fun ways to approach research dissemination! Tried the @prelights.bsky.social spotLight video format to share our latest published work on how ZIC2 shapes early neural development! Total YouTuber vibes: and I kinda' loved it, tbh. 🤳🔬👇 youtu.be/V_yMoWMkZCM

Walking on your knuckles is a weird way to get around, but it's normal for chimps & gorillas. Recently, Thompson & co showed that, while the hand posture is odd, the muscle contractions required are quite similar to a monkey's, which walk on their palms doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

Inspired by comb jellies, Cteno-Bot is an untethered swimming robot using magnetoactive propulsors coordinated via metachronal waves. Antiplectic beating improves speed, & more propulsors increase efficiency without extra power demand 🤩🌊 #ctenophores advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Safe travels to those making their way to Glasgow for #EED2026 😊 While you are stuck in transit, you can check out this special collection of #EvoDevo papers compiled by @dev-journal.bsky.social ⬇️

#SciArt profiles are one of my favorite things to do in my new position. So many #DevBio and stem cell researchers with such creative brains 🧠 ! Continually inspiring. Check out the latest one with Ramin! Can’t wait to see what he does next 👀.