Happy to share this work from Carlos Camacho de la Maccora that reveals how rates of posterior progenitor addition and anterior vacuolation are balanced across the notochord. With Alberto Ceccarelli and @osvaldo-chara.bsky.social we present a model of long-range communication to provide robustness.

Applications for our Fellowship Mentorship Programme are open! The programme supports promising early career researchers to submit fellowship applications and move towards research independence. Find out more ⬇️ https://bit.ly/BioIRF

Job alert! 📣 I’m looking for a research assistant to join my new team @idrm.ox.ac.uk Were using #zebrafish to understand gene-environment interactions that shape the heart 🫀generate natural diversity 🐸🐭 and contribute to congenital defects ❤️‍🩹 Full info below, and please share! 🫶🏻 bit.ly/467TO0M

📣 Please spread: we’re hiring a Lab Manager! It is a critical position in our new lab. As our lab moves to Barcelona and joins the @crg.eu, we’re looking for a Lab Manager to help build the lab and set the lab atmosphere. 🔗 Apply here 👉 recruitment.crg.eu/content/jobs...

Feb 1 deadline approaching for our @kitp-ucsb.bsky.social QBio summer course on Physical Principles of Morphogenesis in Plants and Animals. @streichan.bsky.social @maurazimmermann.bsky.social @maizel-lab.org @yusuke-mori.bsky.social @akankshi.bsky.social @nicolettapetridou.bsky.social

Are you planning your summer ahead and are interested in immersing yourself in some intense weeks of research, science and fun? Then this might be for you: Check out the amazing summer course offerings @mblscience.bsky.social, including the #Zebrafish course! www.mbl.edu/education/ad...

Lovely little pre-Christmas present to see this out @natcellbio.nature.com! Some 🔥 new results in here since the biorvix incl (1) a new RARE-GFP reporter ✳️🙌, (2) additional NMP quantification 🔢, (3) no neural tube patterning on RA inhibition 🙅 etc. Enjoy! 😍 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Absolutely delighted to share that I have been awarded a Kennedy Trust Research Ignition Award with my colleague Dr Ruby Peters from Sheffield to develop a new label-free/AI-driven method for measuring tissue stiffness as a diagnostic and prognostic tool !! 🧬🔬💻⚙️ www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/news/researc...

O little town of Oxford, How still we see thee lie. But above thy deep and dreamless sleep, Complex thoughts go by. Still not convinced? Don't worry, you have all Christmas to 'mull' it over. Closes 12 January. Full details of the role: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/74844

🔬 Call to create junior research groups at the Institut Pasteur Focus: Infectious diseases, host-microbe interactions, vaccines Special interest: AI methodologies 📅 Deadline: Feb 9, 2026 👥 2-12 years post-PhD Apply now 📝 research.pasteur.fr/en/call/crea... #JobOpportunity #Research

Philosophy group at Wageningen University is hiring an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy of the Life Sciences. Position is in the Philosophy (PHI) group led by @rachelankeny.bsky.social Deadline is 12 January 2026 www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/a... #philsci #philjobs #philsky #hpbio

Come to be our colleague! Center of Paris, excellent facilities, research spanning the whole range of basic and biomedical life science topics, enthusiastic and collaborative colleagues, crème brûlée every Friday... What else could one want?

To Oxford, to talk to the Biochemistry Society about DNA and Rosalind Franklin. Talk is at 19:00 in St Peter's College if you fancy coming along.

And ‘Searching for the Asgards’ the movie: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgmE...

Applications are open for @dev-journal.bsky.social 2026 Pathway to Independence (PI) programme, supporting postdocs applying for group leader positions: Mentoring Profile raising Leadership training Network building Spread the word... www.biologists.com/grants/devel...

Apply for our Pathway to Independence (PI) programme, supporting postdocs in #devbio and #stemcell research during the transition to their first group leader position: www.biologists.com/grants/devel... Application deadline: 2 February 2026.

Congrats to @bertaverd.bsky.social, who's been accepted into the @embo.org Young Investigator Programme! Her research focuses on one of the fundamental and most longstanding questions in biology: how phenotypes evolve to generate the incredible diversity of forms we see 👇 https://bit.ly/4aj8YDi

I am so happy to have been accepted into the EMBO YIP community! Looking forward to making the most of it over the next four years. Thanks for having me!

Advanced grad students + postdocs: apply for the 2026 #kitpqbio summer course, "Physical Principles of Morphogenesis in Plants and Animals," at buff.ly/OXXMKEv. Apply by Feb. 1. Course directors Adrienne Roeder (Cornell) and Sebastian Streichan (UCSB)

Random cellular “noise” can, when combined with growth, generate surprisingly orderly patterns. Researchers from @roederlab.bsky.social in @weillinstitute.bsky.social have revealed that randomness itself can be a powerful driver of biological design. news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

The European Drosophila Society #flyEDS extends the condolences on the passing of Antonio García-Bellido, considered the founder of the Spanish school of #Drosophila genetics and an influential figure in developmental biology research worldwide. May he rest in peace.

Opportunity for a Master’s/Bachelor’s student: - Join us for up to 5 months 🗓️ - Build computational/mathematical models 💻 - Learn about genotype-phenotype maps and evolution 🧬 - Work closely with PhD student Manuela Giraud - full info here: www.crg.eu/en/content/t...

The @crick.ac.uk is recruiting Early Career Group Leaders - Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers - Support for up to 12 years - Access to our core facilities - Competitive salary - Fantastic colleagues - All areas of biology Deadline 27 Nov www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

How does life construct itself from within, and how might we learn to emulate its generative logic? Glad to be soon talking and discussing with @philipcball.bsky.social @bertaverd.bsky.social and other great colleagues at this @royalsociety.org event royalsociety.org/science-even...

Here it is! Postdoctoral position to identify the progenitors sensory organs in the regenerating legs of Parhyale apply here: www.averof-lab.org/pages/tracman 1/3

Development does not happen in isolation! Material properties, geometry, stiffness, fluid flows...can all steer how development unfolds. If you’re exploring these kinds of questions, we’d love to see your work @dev-journal.bsky.social More info below ⬇️

Fantastic to see this now out in published form! Well done to the authors @jamesehammond.bsky.social and @callumbucklow.bsky.social. Check it out if you're interested in vertebrate, and in particular vertebral count, evolution!

1 To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised! 🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Exciting Research Professorship Position in Stem Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of Leuven. Amazing research ecosystem, great colleagues, high quality of life, tenure track. For those interested in joining us, please see below: www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

🌱 Passionate About Plant Development? Join the "Summer School", a dynamic three-day intensive program tailored for enthusiastic PhD students and postdocs eager to deepen their understanding of plant developmental biology. Register here: www.graduateschool-eps.info/events/eps-s...

Learn about tissue #development and engineering, #microscopy, #ImageAnalysis, and more at the EMBO Practical Course "Optics, Forces & Development" in Santiago, Chile, 7–17 January 2026. Deadline: 10 October 2025 meetings.embo.org/event/26-opt... #EMBO26optics #EMBOevents #research #training 🧪

Can using synthetic approaches to build biology help teach us the design principles of how embryos build themselves? 👷‍♀️🔧 If this is a question that interests you, come and share your thoughts at this Royal Society Workshop on Generative Biology royalsociety.org/science-even...

📣Join us for the DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY COURSE @institutcurie.bsky.social @sorbonne-universite.fr We have fantastic speakers and registration is free! training.institut-curie.org/courses/deve... @karinayaniv.bsky.social @doetschlab.bsky.social @eileen-furlong.bsky.social @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social

🚨 Calling all plant modelling enthusiasts! Plant Computational Biology Workshop Open to researchers at all levels Workshop is free. Participants cover own travel, food & accommodation 📅 8-12 Sept | 💻 Talks, tools & hand-on sessions 🔗 www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/computationa... #ComputationalBiology #PlantSci

Features work from Square Lab at Florida, @vlecaudey.bsky.social, Solnica-Krezel Lab at WUSTL, @rburdine1.bsky.social, @otamplin.bsky.social, @flomarlow.bsky.social, @balciunaslab.bsky.social, @bertaverd.bsky.social, @bowmaniacs.bsky.social, @thomthum.bsky.social, @singhlab.bsky.social among others!

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...

And one more from @callumbucklow.bsky.social on how verterbal regionalisation and counts are linked in evolution. See his tutorial below. Well done Callum!

Registration is now open! Gastrulation Reloaded: Developing, engineering & evolving the body plan 📅 October 14–17, 2025 📍 Paris, France 🗓️ Abstract & early bird deadline: July 15, 2025 www.gastrulation-reloaded.conferences-pasteur.org/home Exceptional lineup of speakers & many selected talks

🚨Job Alert🚨 We are looking for a technician to join us in Oxford @biology.ox.ac.uk to study epigenetics and vibration-sensing: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... The work will be varied: Arthropod culture 🕷️🪰 Lab work (DNA/RNA extraction, sequencing library preparation…) Apply by Mon 23 June 🧪

Please help me circulate this job ad. Thanks! @the-node.bsky.social

Experimental embryology postdoc available in my lab at the @biology.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk working on the evolution of vertebral counts. Reach out if you’re passionate about EvoDevo, enjoy lab work and microscopy and are into or could get into cichlid fishes. Deadline on the 16th June. Please share!

Latest from the lab! @callumbucklow.bsky.social's beautiful paper on the dynamics of morphological evolution using African cichlids & showing that evolution repeats itself. Congrats Callum and co-authors. Check out the tutorial below.

Sign up here. Registration is free royalsociety.org/science-even...

Come and join us! We’re hiring a new Group Leader in Generative Biology at the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social Building AI models or the data to train them? Core funding of >$130M a year for a faculty of ~30. www.nature.com/naturecareer... acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:... pls RT!

Can using synthetic approaches to build biology help teach us the design principles of how embryos build themselves? 👷‍♀️🔧 If this is a question that interests you, come and share your thoughts at this Royal Society Workshop on Generative Biology www.royalsoc.ac.uk/science-even...

Segmentation clock & tissue development are decoupled - explanation for evolution of flexible body plans? #EvoDevo #SegmentationClock Study from Verd Lab @bertaverd.bsky.social @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social 🆕 #preprintpeerreview @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social --> doi: doi.org/10.1101/2024...

The Natural History Museum Denmark is hiring a new Tenure-Track Assistant Professor and Curator of (Vertebrate) Palaeontology! Could it be you or someone you know‽ spread the word! Really excited to have a new colleague to work on our amazing collections! 🧪🏛️ candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

Interested in biological research beyond the standard? Join us in Edinburgh for the EMBO Workshop exploring how unconventional vertebrate models are becoming engines for biomedical research! 🦇 🐿️ 🦌 🐒 🦍 🐹🧍‍♀️ 🚨 Abstract submission deadline: 11 April 2025 🚨 meetings.embo.org/event/25-ver...

🚨Registration for the UK #EvoDevo meeting is open! Join us on July 11th in London to enjoy an exciting day of talks, posters, friends, and superb science! -Registration (only £5!): shorturl.at/9cQGL -More info: londonevodevo.ac.uk

Latest from the lab: a review led by @jamesehammond.bsky.social on the evolvability of vertebral counts and the developmental processes that make it possible.