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 ⬇️

I'm attending too! Please feel welcome to speak to me about your research and how the journal can better serve you. I'm taking part in the 'Ethics and Publishing' session on Thursday 25 September and I'm also bringing some @dev-journal.bsky.social goodies, including some of our popular posters.

Excited for the #CSHAmeeting on Human Development - From Embryos to Stem Cell Models in Suzhou, China? Our Editor, Peter Rugg-Gunn, is attending and has curated a collection of review-type and Research Articles on this topic: journals.biologists.com/dev/collecti...

Cdh2 helps the segmentation clock keep time This Research Highlight showcases the work from Xueqi Jia, Akihiro Isomura and Ryoichiro Kageyama: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

I could not have summarised our article better than @katherine-brown.bsky.social!! Please see below and keep reading if you are interested in human embryo research policy. It was such a pleasure to write this piece with Susana, Mina and Catello.

Frozen potential: embryo research at the crossroads of ethics, regulation and scientific opportunity A Perspective from Mina Popovic, Catello Scarica, Susana M. Chuva de Sousa Lopes and Marta N. Shahbazi @marta-shahbazi.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

It was fun to look back over a decade of 'From Stem Cells to Human Development' meetings at @dev-journal.bsky.social. This is one of the projects I most enjoyed during my time at the journal - and I really hope we helped to catalyse and support a community... journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

1🧵 Excited to share my first PhD paper, published in @dev-journal.bsky.social What if fish gills —often overlook —hold secrets about development, patterning, and function? We uncovered how early patterning shapes adult gill architecture. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/... #DevBio #Zebrafish

Hydra body axis balance: a fight between two transcription factors This Research Highlight showcases the work from Jaroslav Ferenc, Marylène Bonvin, Panagiotis Papasaikas, Jacqueline Ferralli, Clara Nuninger and Charisios D. Tsiairis: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Schematics of our increasing knowledge of in vivo human primordial germ cell development, and a summary of the exciting hPGCLC maturation protocols: @dev-journal.bsky.social @biologists.bsky.social

In honour of Postdoc Appreciation Week, here are three ways we support postdocs: 1. Since 2023, we’ve supported 24 postdocs as they transition to becoming a group leader through our Pathway to Independence programme. Meet our latest fellows: journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi... #NPAW2025

The Company of Biologists and the British Society for Developmental Biology: a model partnership As part of the #biologists100 anniversary, Saanjbati Adhikari and Raman Das review the relationship between @biologists.bsky.social and @bsdb.bsky.social doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Save the Date! Development has teamed up with the Wellcome-funded consortium the Human Developmental Biology Initiative to co-organise a meeting on #HumanDevelopment. 📅7 - 9 Sep 2026 📍University of Warwick, UK Register your interest for #HumanDev26: www.biologists.com/meetings/dev...

Excited to share our Review on human PGC development covering the latest in vivo observations & in vitro developments, esp. in the last 5 years. Have a read! journals.biologists.com/dev/article/... From: @astar-gis.bsky.social @ki.se Warwick University, @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social

Emerging principles and models of human primordial germ cell development In this Review, Navin B. Ramakrishna @navinbr.bsky.social, João Pedro Alves-Lopes and Wolfram H. Gruhn examine how recent insights guide in vitro models of human gametogenesis: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

ICYMI, the recordings of our #DevPres webinar on gene regulation are now available. Check out the talks from @dev-journal.bsky.social PI fellows Anzy Miller @anzymiller.bsky.social and Marlies Oomen @marliesoomen.bsky.social. thenode.biologists.com/catch-up-on-... #devbio 🎥

Excited for next week's #AXON2025 #neuroscience conference? To complement the meeting, our Editor Debby Silver @debbysilver.bsky.social has curated a collection of review-type and Research Articles on #NeuralDevelopment: journals.biologists.com/dev/collecti...

Transitions in development – an interview with Misty Riddle. We caught up with Misty from @unevadareno.bsky.social to find out about her path from the vet clinic to the lab bench, her research into cavefish and her transition to becoming a group leader: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Mathematical modelling of the first fate decision This Research Highlight showcases the work from Maria Avdeeva, Madeleine Chalifoux, Bradley Joyce, Stanislav Y. Shvartsman, Eszter Posfai @eposfai.bsky.social : journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Issue 16 is complete! On the cover: Embryonic eye of an anole lizard stained for nuclei and F-actin. The image was acquired at the 2025 MBL Embryology course by Arthur Boutillon and was the Editor's choice from the Node image competition. thenode.biologists.com/vote-for-you...

Just out in @dev-journal.bsky.social - important discussion on the availability of human embryos for research. Thanks @marta-shahbazi.bsky.social and co-authors for contributing this: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Adhesion strength, cell packing density and cell surface buckling in pericellular matrix-mediated tissue cohesion Read this #OA Research Article by Rudolf Winklbauer, Olivia Luu, Debanjan Barua, Martina Nagel, Yunyun Huang journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Actin up: Mrtfa regulates actomyosin and apical constriction This Research Highlight showcases the work from Keiji Itoh, Olga Ossipova, Sergei Y. Sokol: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

We are excited to welcome Ingrid to the Development team. Please say hello if you spot her at a conference in the future.

Our next #DevPres webinar focusses on gut development with talks from Surojit Sural @surojitsural.bsky.social, Swarnabh Bhattacharya @iamzico.bsky.social and Brittany Edens, chaired by Alex Eve @amjeve.bsky.social. 📆 17 September, 15:00 BST (UTC+1) Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

RAP comes first and then comes RAC: synapse development in worms This Research Highlight showcases the work from Reagan Lamb, Michael Scales, Julie Watkins, Martin Werner, Salvatore Cherra: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Pathway to Independence – an interview with Toshimichi Yamada In this interview, Toshimichi Yamada talks about why he decided to apply to the Pathway to Independence programme, and what research directions he hopes to pursue with his own lab. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Supracellular control and coordination of tissue morphogenesis, through supracellular actomyosin assemblies, that is what my lab @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social @pdncambridge.bsky.social and I like to dig into at the moment! Fascinating and beautiful! journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Supracellular actomyosin assemblies: master coordinators of development In this Review, Katja Röper @katjaroeper.bsky.social discusses supracellular actomyosin structures, tissues where they function, their known roles as well as potential properties journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

📢Call for papers. Submit your latest research to our upcoming special issue – The Extracellular Environment in Development, Regeneration and Stem Cells Guest Editors: Alex Hughes and Rashmi Priya 📅 Deadline: 1 March 2026 journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/ex... #DevBio

In preprints: primed for patterning – how epiblast cells encode the neural map in motion See Swee Tang and Laura Pellegrini highlight a preprint by ‪Rathore and colleagues introducing an in vitro model of early human neural tube patterning: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

One week to go! Register now for our #FocalPlaneFeatures webinar with @prelights.bsky.social. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

FLOE in the 2D-to-3D growth transition This Research Highlight showcases the work from Zoe Weeks @zoeweeks.bsky.social, Gargi Chaturvedi, Emily Day, Steven Kelly, Laura A. Moody @moodytomato.bsky.social: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Super proud of @zoeweeks.bsky.social and the rest of the team for this work. We were honoured to be selected as a research highlight - see our interview here: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

I am very excited to share my first publication from my PhD work: A FLOE-related protein regulates the two-dimensional to three-dimensional growth transition in the moss Physcomitrium patens url: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Pathway to Independence – an interview with Sonya Widen In this interview, @sonyawiden.bsky.social talks about her research interests in genome evolution, hopes for the Pathway to Independence programme and plans for her future lab. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Join our #DevPres webinar on gene regulation at 15:00 BST (UTC+1) today with two of Development’s PI fellows, Anzy Miller @anzymiller.bsky.social and Marlies Oomen @marliesoomen.bsky.social Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Pathway to Independence – an interview with Marlies Oomen In this interview, @marliesoomen.bsky.social talks about her plans for her future lab and her hopes for the Pathway to Independence (PI) programme journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

And if you're interested in my academic path, scientific interests and plans for the future; I had a great conversation with @katiepickup.bsky.social @dev-journal.bsky.social as part of the Pathway to Independence program: doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Pathway to Independence – an interview with Max Farnworth In this interview, @maxfarnworth.bsky.social talks about about why he decided to apply to the Pathway to Independence (PI) programme, and what research questions he hopes to address with his own lab. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

If you happen (…!) to be interested in what fascinates me about science and brain evolution and what I am up to, click here: doi.org/10.1242/dev.... Thanks to @dev-journal.bsky.social and @biologists.bsky.social for the interview 🙏

Two of Development’s PI fellows, Anzy Miller @anzymiller.bsky.social and Marlies Oomen @marliesoomen.bsky.social, will be giving talks in our upcoming #DevPres webinar on gene regulation. 🗓️Wednesday 27 August, 15:00 BST (UTC+1) Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Toshi Yamada, one of @dev-journal.bsky.social's 2025 PI fellows, presented his research at our #DevPres webinar on stem cells and organoids. You can view his presentation here: thenode.biologists.com/catch-up-on-...

Celebrating our award winning trainee talks from the recent ISRB Conference in Madison given by Daniela Münch, Anish Bose and Lauren Connolly, and proudly sponsored by Development @dev-journal.bsky.social and Experimental Cell Research.

Celebrating our award winning trainee talks from the recent ISRB Conference in Madison given by Rannyele Passos, Pierre Gillotay and Wouter Masselink and proudly sponsored by Developmental Dynamics @devdynamics.bsky.social and Development @dev-journal.bsky.social

Issue 15 is complete! On the cover: When echinoid (ed) mutant clones (white) and wild-type twin clones (red) are generated in the developing Drosophila eye (right), the mutant tissue is eliminated. See Research Article by Spitzer et al. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Like our sister journals, you can also submit an additional language abstract at @dev-journal.bsky.social and we cater for non-Western characters for author names. Did you know Development also facilitates retrospective author name changes?

You can find the first JEB additional language abstract by Cameron Nemeth and colleagues in #Hawaiian accompanying their paper, The key to bubble-net feeding: how humpback whale morphology functionally differs from other baleen whales at journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

EMG1 cooperates with GRHL3 in β-catenin-mediated surface ectoderm differentiation to regulate neural tube closure Read this Research Article by Chiharu Kimura-Yoshida, Kyoko Mochida, Chihiro Matsuno, Keiko Kano, Emi Mishiro-Sato, Isao Matsuo journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

I hope everyone had an amazing time at @isrbio.bsky.social. Sorry that @dev-journal.bsky.social weren't able to attend in person this time, but we are proud to sponsor some poster prizes. Our latest #SpecialIssue on lifelong dev, which is still in progress, has many great regeneration papers!