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There are aliens here on Earth for those who seek them. Life is a special kind of magic.

Congratulations, James!

#Cilia are beautiful! That's it, that's the tweet. Oh, and Happy #FluorescenceFriday 🔬

BiO is pleased to launch a new grant: BiO Global South Conference Travel Grants, to help ECRs based in the Global South attend international biological and biomedical science conferences. Next application deadline: 19 June 2026. tinyurl.com/22zx7msy

We are delighted to share this week’s featured image from Nat Prunet @nat-prunet.bsky.social, showcasing pollen grains from various plant species. Read our post to discover more about the image and learn about Nat’s research. #FluorescenceFriday focalplane.biologists.com/2026/03/27/f...

Last chance today to collect a free @dev-journal.bsky.social charging cable, @the-node.bsky.social coaster or @biologists.bsky.social T-Shirt at @bsdb.bsky.social 2026. Visit our stand in the refreshment break (10.55-11.25) to sign up for a newsletter and gets yours...

Our Editor-in-Chief @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social spoke at the 2026 @bsdb.bsky.social meeting about Development, the Node and The Company of Biologists' initiatives. Please speak to James about the many reasons to choose Development to publish your paper. journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/ab...

Are you attending @bsdb.bsky.social 2026: Molecules to Morphogenesis in Warwick this week? Visit our stand to complete our quick survey and be in with a chance of winning a special goodie bag.

Very excited to be representing @dev-journal.bsky.social and @biologists.bsky.social at @bsdb.bsky.social this year... we even have an exhibitor stand! Come say hi if you're around 👋

Come say hi at the @biologists.bsky.social booth to talk about @the-node.bsky.social, @dev-journal.bsky.social & our other journals and charitable activities!

Rave worm! What a gorgeous display this polychaete worm’s setae is giving under UV light! #marineplankton 🦑

We are inviting experienced researchers to apply to become Preprint Editors, a new type of editorial role responsible for handling our 'In preprints' articles and forging links with preprint literature. #prepints Learn more and apply before 30 March 2026: journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pr...

Is the bottom image really C. elegans? I've worked with them for more than 15 years, this is not what they look like! BTW - the conclusion of the article is not that model organism research is fading, but rather that it is becoming a smaller fraction of all the research that is being done!

Excited for BSDB's 2026 Meeting organised by @abinagui.bsky.social @vmetzis.bsky.social, @gastruloids.bsky.social & co? Our Reviews Editor @ingridtsang.bsky.social & the Node's Community Manager @andreamurillo.bsky.social will also be attending - come and chat to them about our journal & the Node.

Have my science communicator friends filled out our survey yet? Please take a few minutes and help our research team understate the state of the field. #SciComm 🧪

If you are interested in this initiative, Development has a call for Preprint Editors – active researchers with their finger on the pulse of preprint literature – to commission and write ‘In preprints’ articles. Apply by Monday 30 March 2026. Find out more: journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pr...

Great to have Andrea on the @dev-journal.bsky.social team

Hi from the new Community Manager The Node welcomes Andrea Murillo as the new Community Manager. Here, @andreamurillo.bsky.social introduces herself to our #DevBio and #StemCell communities. thenode.biologists.com/hi-from-the-...

Delighted to share that our study is now out @cp-cellstemcell.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell-stem-ce... Congrats to Dr. @federicamosti.bsky.social for the culmination of a beautiful thesis!

Check out! Our postdoc Yan Wu and graduate student Yiling Lan's paper is featured! journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Join SDB President Richard Behringer Wednesday, March 18 (tomorrow) at 2pm ET for an Information Session on #2026SDB in Las Vegas. This 30-minute live webinar will highlight what is new in 2026. Ask any questions you may have. Register today! bit.ly/4snV4pS

Our Editor, Ken Poss, will be attending the @embo.org Workshop 'Limb development and regeneration' #EMBOLimbDev, which starts next week in Tokyo, Japan. meetings.embo.org/event/26-lim... Please speak to Ken about publishing your regeneration papers in Development.

Paid 12-month internship: Communications Officer. We have an exciting opportunity for someone looking to take their first step into a science communication or publishing role. Based Cambridge, UK (& wfh). See the full role description for further details at biologists.com/wp-content/u...

Preprint Editors – Development's next step into the preprint landscape In this Editorial, @reinierprosee.bsky.social, @amjeve.uk and @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social announce a call for Preprint Editors in Development. Apply by 30 March. doi.org/10.1242/dev....

✨Development from the tail up 🦎 Gecko embryo tail glowing with HNK1 🟢 and DAPI 🔵 under the microscope 🔬 Proof that even the tail end of an embryo can be fabulous. 📸 Image by Maria Elena de Ballard #FluorescenceFriday

That's it: #GfE2026 #GfESEBDDSDB2026 is over. Thanks for the science, talks, posters, chairing, discussions, helpers in back & front. See you latest at #GfE2028 for more #DevBio & oidsks for all the fish, plants, mice, worm, flies, frogs, squids, brown algae, human, -oids, whatnots and you.

And #gfe2026 comes to an end! Thanks to the organisers from @gfeev.bsky.social, @sebioldev.bsky.social & DSDB, and all the speakers and delegates for a really fun and interesting meeting. Delighted that @dev-journal.bsky.social and @biologists.bsky.social could be involved! ..I'll stop typing now

More zebrafish heart regeneration at #gfe2026. Juliane Münch explains that scars are stiffer than healthy tissue & shows that regenerated heart tissue has region-specific mechanical properties, with stiffer regions exhibiting high fibrin deposition that activates mechanosensitive responses in cells.

Two species of ray-finned fish, zebrafish & medaka, can and cannot regenerate hearts, respectively. Miguel Angel Garitagoitia-Romero compares injury response between species to find permissive regeneration cues, showing more scarring & fewer vessels in regenerated medaka hearts than zfish. #gfe2026

Using inbred families of Japanese rice fish (medaka), Jana Fuss employs a high-throughput assay to find strains that regenerate well after spinal injury (determined by swimming behaviour) and will map their genomes to identify DNA regions associated with this regenerative potential. #gfe2026

Heart muscle cells, cardiomyocytes, are multi-nucleated (polyploid) – but not via fusion as in myoblasts: #gef2026. Chi-Chung Wu reveals heart chamber-specific features of polyploidy, with signalling from endothelial cells inducing more polyploid cells in the left atrium.

Mitochondria adopt a variety of shapes depending on cellular energy demand through fission and fusion events. Muscle cells also fuse to produce multinuclear 'myoblasts'. Susanne Önel shows mitochondrial fission is dynamically controlled during fly myoblast fusion and frog tail regeneration. #gfe2026

Super proud of Tanya receiving the @gfeev.bsky.social PhD Award. Very well deserved!

Bones regenerate relatively well after fracture, but this declines with age. @agrigoryan.bsky.social uses engineered human bone models to show skeletal stem cells from aged donors produce cartilage, marrow & bone less effectively, & changes in aging blood stem cells increase inflammation. #gfe2026

Planarian flatworms are highly regenerative. Stem cells are distributed throughout the body that renew all tissues, including the germline, meaning mutations in stem cells can be passed to future generations. Jochen Rink asks whether stem cells compete by transplanting them between animals. #gfe2026

Mice and human embryos look similar at some stages of development, but the time to reach those stages differs. @trayon.bsky.social asks how developmental tempo emerges, showing species-specific protein turnover correlates w/ developmental speeds & might link other factors, like metabolism. #gfe2026

How can skin repair without scarring? Kerstin Bartscherer learns from spiny mice, which frequently suffer large wounds from predatory snake bites that fully regenerate both skin and hair. Comparing spiny mice, lab mice and gerbils, Kerstin shows immune cells are involved in regeneration. #gfe2026

Final morning at #gfe2026, with Hans Clevers delivering the @isdb.bsky.social lecture. Hans brings together #devbio, stem cells and medicine, using organoid models of the small intestine to study human disease, explaining why signalling and the microenvironment are important for stem cell activity.

YEN 2026 registration is now live! Join us for the 2026 YEN conference on the 15th of June at the Francis Crick Institute, London, UK. Sign up now to attend and submit your poster/abstract: forms.gle/2HQEmZgEi4hP... Abstract submission deadline is 15 May. Stay tuned for more information!

Finally today at #gfe2026, @maikbischoff.bsky.social receives the Hilde Mangold Award from @gfeev.bsky.social 🎉 Maik's explains how tubes coil in the right direction. Handedness – or chirality – in fly testes depends on asymmetric mesenchymal muscle migration and rotation, sculpting a 3D spiral. 🌀

#gfe2026 @gfeev.bsky.social PhD Award goes to Tatiana Lebedeva 🎉 for Tatiana's thesis investigating the role of β-catenin in specifying germ layers in one of my favourite organisms, the starlet sea anemone, Nematostella.

Congratulations to Elisabeth Knust, winner of the #gfe2026 @gfeev.bsky.social Klaus Sander Award 🎉 Eli's talk takes us through the history of #devio, touching on aging, rejuvenation, the wonder of discovery, Notch, Crumbs, the privilege of curiosity-driven research and heartfelt tributes.

Elisabeth Knust -- former director at the @mpi-cbg.de -- acknowledges the "priviledge to do curiosity-driven science" in her acceptance speech for the Klaus Sander lifetime award of the @gfeev.bsky.social at #gfe2026 in @unipotsdam.bsky.social. Congratulations!

The #gfe2026 @gfeev.bsky.social and @sebioldev.bsky.social José A. Campos-Ortega Award Lecture is presented by co-winner, Noelia Antón Bolaños. Noelia explains her career trajectory and how she came to develop neural 'chimeroids' with Irene Faravelli to understand human brain biology and disease.

How do cells like neurons create complex branched morphologies? @sofiajaraujo.bsky.social uses fly nervous and tracheal systems to understand how cells take shape, highlighting the importance of cellular organelles called centrosomes. #gfe2026 Read the #preprint⤵️

Many individual plant cells have potential to form whole new plants (totipotency). Kim Boutilier explains how the BABY BOOM totipotency gene is regulated by RKD2 and, when activated in thale cress egg cells, causes <1% of them to form embryos without fertilisation for asexual reproduction. #gfe2026

Fly larvae have precursor structures for adult organs called imaginal discs. Anne-Kathrin Classen uses the wing imaginal disc as a system for epithelial biology. In tumour-like wounds, both local (e.g. inflammation) and systemic (e.g. insulin) responses coordinate to promote regeneration. #gfe2026

Here are some links to things I mentioned during my talk at #gfe2026 - Summary of @biologists.bsky.social #biologists100 celebrations: www.biologists.com/100-years/ - Grants from the Company: www.biologists.com/grants/ - @dev-journal.bsky.social/HDBI meeting: www.biologists.com/meetings/dev... ...

Are you fascinated by self-organised patterning processes? The brand-new Stuart lab at EMBL Barcelona is looking for a lab manager! Hannah @htstuart.bsky.social is a fantastic scientist and mentor. Building the lab with her will be a lot of fun! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Bar...