Just approved an order for standard lab consumables. Prices have nearly doubled since starting the lab. Meanwhile, the bar for publishing keeps rising, requiring ever more costly experiments, while grant budgets barely changed. Hard to see how this is a sustainable trajectory for academic research.

C.H. Waddington's lasting achievements in development and evolution Jonathan B. L. Bard examines some of Waddington's research papers that show why he is one of the few pre-molecular-age developmental biologists still widely remembered and how they remain significant. doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Annual killifish continue to surprise us: they make neutrophils before almost every other cell type, even before gastrulation. Neutrophils usually arise from the lateral plate mesoderm (forming in cyan), but in killifish they are already patrolling around the embryo in gold. tinyurl.com/killiphil

For the first time ever, the EMBO Young Scientists’ Forum is coming to Dubrovnik, #Croatia, 28–30 October 2026. 🧪 Sign up now! Early bird registration deadline: 15 July 2026 https://event.fourwaves.com/eysf#Croatia#EYSF2026 #LifeSciences #EarlyCareerResearchers

Our @jesusoxford.bsky.social @biology.ox.ac.uk student, Bethan Sheldon, reflects on her field course in Borneo.

Applications are open for the international course “Developmental Biology” organized by the Institut Curie in partnership with @sorbonne-universite.fr 📅 Oct. 19–28, 2026 (Paris) ⏳ Jul. 19 & Sept. 18 🔗 training.institut-curie.org/courses/developmental-biology-2026

Fish #devbio strongly represented by @nordenlab.bsky.social, @zenlabpasteur.bsky.social, @campaslab.bsky.social, @cantautbelarify.bsky.social, @rashmi-priya.bsky.social, @bertaverd.bsky.social among others 🐟🤩

🚨Online ECR Seminar TOMORROW- 24.06.26 | 16:00 UK Jan Rombouts (Université Libre de Bruxelles) and Chandrashekar Kuyyamudi (Harvard University). Please share & to attend online please register to our 📧: lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/subscr...

First pre-print from the lab, a collaborative effort led by Jess Bourn @bournsupremacy.bsky.social, a fantastic PhD in my group. We resolve a key problem in development + evolution: how do we quantify heterochrony and link temporal variation to phenotype? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Our new preprint by the super talented and persevering @callumbucklow.bsky.social on the integrated evolution of body elongation and vertebral shape. I guess it's not all about modularity after all!

New preprint now available on BioRxiv ( doi.org/10.64898/202...)! Thank you to @bertaverd.bsky.social, Roger Benson and my other co-authors, Hannah Ugboma, Katharine Criswell and Mexford Mulumpwa.

Dream job alert 🎉 Are you a talented videographer with a passion for nature? Join our team! Apply online ➡️ www.bto.org/jobs 📆 Full time. 📝 £33,954 per annum. 📍 Thetford, Norfolk (Hybrid). ⚠️ Application deadline: 5 July.

Fully-funded 4-year PhD-position available! The PhD-student will investigate the effects of restocking European eel. The position will be based at SLU Aqua in Stockholm, Sweden. Application deadline is July 6. Info about the PhD-position and link to apply: www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

Here is the announcement of a Symposium @college-de-france.fr on 26 June on Information Flow and Computation in Biological systems. A great line of speakers on a variety of topics from embryogenesis to neuroscience, immunology and microbiology. Free entrance, come if you are in Paris end of June 🤩

Whole genome duplications over 450 million years ago enabled the emergence of different kinds of brain cells 🧠 These cellular innovations are shared across vertebrates - from primitive fish to mammals - and form the basis of the sophisticated brains seen today 👇

We have a fully funded PhD position on European eel! Please spread! 🐟 🪱 Main supervisor Josefin Sundin @josefin-sundin.bsky.social at SLU Aqua Stockholm (scholar.google.com/citations?us...). Apply through the portal: www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

Congratulations to Gautam Dey (EMBL) and Omaya Dudin (University of Geneva) for being awarded the EMBO Gold Medal 2026 in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the #LifeSciences in Europe! 🧪 https://www.embo.org/press-releases/embo-gold-medal-2026-awarded-to-gautam-dey-and-omaya-dudin/

📢 We are looking for a Junior Group Leader to join us at @institutcurie.bsky.social! Having joined the department just over a year ago, I can honestly say that it is an exceptionally stimulating and supportive scientific environment, filled with outstanding colleagues — all in the heart of Paris.

Congratulations to #HFSP Awardee Sonomi Yamaguchi, recipient of an Inspiration Prize in the 5th Marie Sklodowska Curie Award! 🎉 The award recognizes outstanding women researchers with exceptional scientific achievements and future potential.🧪 📑 zurl.co/1wtaS#HFSP #sts

From Whole Body to Single Cell. At www.DeepPiction.com we can see where disease begins and identify ways to make therapies safer & more effective. We’re excited to share our new paper at @nature.com! Our goal is to advance drug discovery for #Cancer, #LongCovid, #Inflammation, and more.

🔈 Heading to Euro Evo-Devo #EED2026 in Glasgow? Don't miss out our Fish Satellite Meeting! Co-organized with Mike Dorrity @mwdorr.bsky.social, Ralf Schneider @ralfschneider.bsky.social, Laure Sanders @lsaunders.bsky.social and Joost Woltering, and with a list of outstanding speakers 👇

Join our Symposium S08 – Integrative Perspectives on Craniofacial Evo-Devo, at #EED2026 ! Invited speakers: Agáta Horáčková, Markéta Kaucká, Joseph Keating, Hiroki Higashiyama Contributing speakers: Taro Nojiri, Laura Wilson, Joshua Gross, Irene Soto Bajo, Richard Dearden, Tatjana Haitina

Join our symposium, next week at #EED2026 ! Invited speakers: Katie Pelletier, Erica Nadolsky, Rebecca Green and Jukka Jernvall Contributing speakers: Luisa F. Pallares, Tobias Gerber, Chiara Castelletti, Alistair P. McGregor and Tom Van Dooren Funding from @biologists.bsky.social

Professor Tim Coulson FRS is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He is a biologist working at the interface of ecology and evolution, developing theory to explore how ecological change influences evolution, and vice versa. #RSFellows https://royalsociety.org/people/timothy-coulson-9070/

Looks like the 2027 Dev Bio GRC is shaping up to be another good one: www.grc.org/developmenta...

Updated GRC Developmental Biology 2027 flyer/poster with the latest roster of invited speakers. 🌱🐟🧬🐭🪰🧪🧫 Come join us to discuss the latest in #devbio at the Renaissance Tuscany Il Ciocco Resort, Jan 17-22 ! #GRCDevBio2027

From this thursday May 28th onwards, Claude Desplan @NYU will give four seminars as a guest Professor @college-de-france.fr Dont' miss this great colleague and teacher, on a super interesting and timely topic! Free access, no registration and an air-conditioned auditorium🤘

“These results demonstrate that body elongation in cichlids necessitates integrated, multivariate changes in axial morphology [and] highlight the importance of morphological integration in facilitating coordinated evolutionary responses in anatomical systems.” New from @bertaverd.bsky.social et al🐠

I am looking for a Post-doc in Oxford to work with me on morphogenesis at the cellular scale, with particular emphasis on growth processes and their mechanical and dynamical consequences. Please circulate my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... This bristle is created by a single cell! Let's model it.

Glad to see this out in its final form! www.nature.com/articles/s41... What changed since the preprint? Wonderful experiments disentangling the effect of receptor binding vs tissue porosity on Nodal diffusion, plus one of the smoothest review experiences! Thanks @natcellbio.nature.com & reviewers 🙏

#philjobs #philsci

🚨 A wonderful review exploring the diversity of sensory systems across life and species-agnostic tools we now have to study them and to better understand principles of neuroscience! @tessamontague.bsky.social @kocherlab.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The 2026 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting is gonna be awesome! DEADLINE to register is June 1st! Sign up now! scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu

🚨Job claxon🚨 4-year #Postdoc available in our lab in @camzoology.bsky.social developing molecular and anatomical approaches to mapping evolutionary changes in the brain, using #Heliconiini butterflies. Come join us, we are nice. 🧪 www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

Reminder! Application deadline Friday 8th May

Bingo! Do I win a prize now?

Stay tuned to @dev-journal.bsky.social to hear more from the fellows in the coming months!

Congratulations to all authors! Your #PaperThemeTune is this lovely number from the Kasambwe Brothers, who, like your little fishies, are a) from Malawi and b) great. thekasambwebrothers.bandcamp.com/track/mtima-...

I love the comparative approach here. I think this is the way to go ! Again highlights the modularity of developmental processes Keeping the tempo of the clock the same but playing with initial conditions leads to variation in somite number.

🦈🧠2 JOB OFFERS in the brand-new Neuroshark group starting at the Institute of Neuroscience Paris-Saclay (NeuroPSI)? Lab manager: www.linkedin.com/posts/idoia-... Bioinformatician: www.linkedin.com/posts/idoia-... Curious about the lab but not your profile? Feel free to contact me

Spine-tingling findings from @bertaverd.bsky.social et al. 🤩 🧪 #cichild

New Pre-Print Alert! Evolving initial conditions: an alternative developmental route to morphological diversity with Shannon Taylor and @jamesehammond.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

As part of this grant I will be looking soon for a Post-doc in Oxford to model nano-morphogenesis. Please RT and contact me directly if it is a good match for you.

Register for our upcoming scientific meeting in Edinburgh on 5-6 May as psychologists, neuroscientists, anthropologists, sociologists, and zoologists meet to discuss the evolution of love in human relationships: https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2026/05/love-actually-theory/

May 5th: if you are around London, please join the London #EvoDevo symposium at QMUL / Charterhouse campus, as usual we will have selected talks and post-event 🍻. A warm up for #EED2026 in Glasgow. Registration £0, more info here: londonevodevo.co.uk

⏰ Closing soon! A final reminder about our Fellowship Mentorship Programme for early career researchers, application for this year closes in just one week on 25 March ⬇️ https://bit.ly/BioIRF

This is really beautiful work by PhD student Alexandre Porcher Fernandes (@alefern.bsky.social) on the evolution of reproductive strategies. I'm really keen to see where we can take this framework next!

Calling myself an imperfect fish from now on....

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