PhD position(s)🚨deadline 20th Jan 1-development of brain & behaviour in the precocial spiny mouse tinyurl.com/yaxhy5y2 2-social behaviour & neurophysiology in a menstruating rodent using AI tinyurl.com/ykv93cts apply ✍️ @ai4bicdt.bsky.social @sidb-edinburgh.bsky.social @edinunineuro.bsky.social

Come and work with us! We're looking for a talented postdoc with interests in developmental biology, cancer and the primary cilia to join us @mortlab.bsky.social. An exciting MRC funded collaboration with Pleasantine Mill - @cilialab.bsky.social. Further details: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPR804/s...

'Despite all their difficulties, [UK] universities remain an enormous and irreplaceable national asset. As well as educating millions of people, they generate about £24bn in export earnings, which is about 1% of GDP' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This morning, Paul Brennan, @clairedurrant1.bsky.social and @tspiresjones.bsky.social were on TODAY on BBC Radio 4. They discussed how tissue removed during routine brain surgery is being used to break new ground and find a cure for Alzheimer’s. Listen from 00:32:48 edin.ac/45k92zl

This is the best thing Nature has done this year.

Scottish universities strongly represented in this grouping.... www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

We are opening a FACULTY POSITION (tenure track, permanent) in the University of Cambridge at the interface of control and biology, interpreted broadly. Theorists and wet lab quantitative biologists with backgrounds in control, EE, applied math, ... apply by Jan 28! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...

Two studentships available, one with me and Sam Booker and the other with me and Paul Donlin-Asp- do apply! www.findaphd.com/phds/project... www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Dramatic clouds at sunset this evening

Interested in the mechanisms of neurogenesis, and how they might converge/differ across species, regions, and life epochs? Check this out, wonderful location and great science! Please RT neuro-unige.ch/news/csf-mee...

If you’re applying to your dream lab for an internship/PhD/postdoc, always send a second email 1-2 weeks after the first one if you don’t hear back. I promise we will be grateful rather than annoyed. My email inbox is a disaster and I’m quite junior - and very few of us have secretarial support

Hot off the press! Cell-type-specific functionality encoded within the intrinsically disordered regions of OCT4 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥 We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪 Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇 open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...

This is good on the extraordinary alienation that has now grown up in academia. The gap between the values of lecturers and the universities that employ them are now a huge unbridgeable chasm. One stands for education, the other institutional self-interest. blog.matthewbarnard.phd/a-world-with...

We are incredibly honored to receive continued support from the Simons Foundation in our mission to uncover the biological mechanisms underlying neurodevelopmental disorders

Big boost for autism research: The Simons Foundation has pledged up to £40m to study brain development and neurodevelopmental disorders with the aim of finding new treatments for conditions such as Fragile X syndrome and SYNGAP1-related disorders. edin.ac/454Gqt4 @sidb-edinburgh.bsky.social

Interested in developmental epigenetics? So are we! Apply now to join us for your postdoc! Multiple positions across multiple groups @mrc-lms.bsky.social Projects spanning germline demethylation, gene regulation, genome architecture in development & disease 👇👇 lms.mrc.ac.uk/work/vacanci...

Advance your career with the Anatomical Sciences Programme at the University of Edinburgh. Study online, enjoy flexible learning, and gain hands-on experience at summer workshops. Applications for September 2025 are open!

#NextGenSci asked young scientists to write a rule that all principal investigators should be required to follow to improve the experience of young scientists in their lab. Check out their answers on #NationalHigherEducationDay: scim.ag/45zsFEr

Our latest "Dynamic Landscape Analysis of Cell Fate Decisions: Predictive Models of Neural Development From Single-Cell Data" A rigorous mathematical foundation for Waddington's landscape to study cell fate decision making Applied to ventral neural tube development www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Annual ‘Genes & Development’ group retreat to Edinburgh University’s outdoor field centre Firbush on the shore of Loch Tay. Best weather ever!

It was a pleasure to visit St Andrews to deliver a TEDx talk! www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJME...

Lovely gift all the way from Sarawak ☕️😋

Feeling old today - 40th anniversary of my first ever paper being accepted

📢 We are hiring! 📢 We are looking for a postdoc to help us work out why mice cannot regenerate the spinal cord but spiny mice *can*. More info and how to apply: tinyurl.com/4m6yzbef Get in touch if interested!

Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University, by an anonymous academic. This is truly shocking read. The Cardiff executive board should hang their heads in shame. voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...

New preprint out from the lab, check out thread below!

The 2025 Stem Cell Summer School! We get outstanding feedback each year & should probably update our testimonials page 🙃 www.stemcellsummerschool.org/testimonials This is an advanced course for experienced PhD students (2nd yr & up), postdocs & Junior PIs It will be great. Please spread the word

🧠Job Opening!🧠 We are opening 2️⃣! positions – bioinformatics / molecular biology – in a project studying how temporal patterns set up connectivity in human brain tissue. @institutimagine.bsky.social. Full details below, contact me for details if interested. And please retweet (re-bluesky?)!

Join us at the BNA Festival of Neuroscience! Researchers Rebecca Jordan, Danai Katsanevaki, Matt Jones & Oliver Hardt will share their latest work, with a focus on how genetic changes in neurodevelopmental conditions affect brain function, behaviour & cognition. @beckyjordan.bsky.social

Trump has ordered the National Institutes of Health to cancel their review panels on cancer research. “The impact of [Trump’s] collective executive orders appears devastating,” one senior NIH employee says.

Neurons, astrocytes, microglia, oligodendrocytes, blood brain barrier, organoids, chips... we've got it all covered! 🧠 Check out our full list of speakers (and register to come see them) at scmnd.com! #iPSC #neuroscience #neurodegeneration #organoid #stemcells

Researchers spend approximately 45% of their time on administrative activities related to #grants rather than actual #research. The current #competition in research #funding has significant drawbacks; evidence-based improvements of the funding system are required: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

It’s been an exciting holiday season for the Lancaster Lab, with not 1, not 2, but 3 new preprints to share! Check ‘em out: doi.org/10.1101/2024... doi.org/10.1101/2024... doi.org/10.1101/2024... Happy holidays and best wishes for 2025 from our lab to yours! 🎄🎉

This makes me feel old! - I was a PhD student at LMB in 1984

Very nice mouse brain organoid study from @lancasterlab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Excited to have passed my PhD viva yesterday with no corrections! Thank you to my examiners Prof. John Mason and Prof. Marisa Karow, as well as everyone that has supported me on this journey, especially my amazing supervisors Prof. Deepak Srivastava and Prof. Anthony Vernon and the Srivastava lab!

My lab is looking to recruit PhD students starting in Fall 2025. We currently have two projects advertised (details for each below) aiming to understand the molecular regulation of mRNA capture and translation at the synapse Please reach out if interested! 1/3

♀️ Female brains are more resilient to food restriction than ♂️ males. Read more on the latest paper from the @RochefortLab here: sidb.org.uk/news-events/...

Bonkers beautiful in the birkwood this morning.

PhD opportunity: If you're interested in how astrocytes and the meninges talk to each other and how this is affected in dementia come do your PhD with us in Edinburgh (cc: Karen Horsburgh and Ingo Schiessl)! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

The SIDB PhD programme with projects on neurodevelopmental disorders (including one from our lab) is now open for applications. Good stipend, excellent environment and a beautiful city sidb.org.uk/phds/

New spinout Trogenix unveils its novel treatment platform that targets aggressive cancers, including brain cancer. IRR's Professor Steven Pollard is co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer #Cancer #RegenerativeMedicine #CRM regeneration-repair.ed.ac.uk/news/irr-new...

TOMORROW! Tune in to watch the brilliant @lebektamina.bsky.social talk about illuminating cellular neighbourhoods in model systems of development ..then stay tuned in for three more excellent talks from other BSDB prize winners thenode.biologists.com/development-... #DevBio #PUFFFIN

40 years on - The genetic screen that revolutionised developmental and cell biology

We are here! 🎉 Welcome to the BSDB bluesky, where we will promote developmental biology research and dissemination. #devbio #developmentalbiology

Postdoc positions available in the Röper lab at the University of Cambridge @PDN_Cambridge! Join us and help discover the role that supracellular actomyosin assemblies and cell adhesion play in sculpting organs in Drosophila! jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48942/

Do you work in #DevBio and want to introduce the fascinating world of developmental biology to your family and friends? You can show them this science documentary, produced by the British Society for Developmental Biology, The Company of Biologists and Cambridge Filmworks! 📽️ youtu.be/avrmIs3vPUQ?...