Want to join a happy bunch 🥳 to organise meetings, outreach activities and other initiatives about developmental biology in France? Apply and/or vote 🗳️!

Don't miss out on these opportunities to join this fantastic lab!

Simply stunning 🤩

On met les enfants en cage et on les électrocute pour la #FeteDeLaScience au @grandpalaisrmn.bsky.social par le @palaisdecouverte.bsky.social.

Jochen was a brilliant and visionary scientist who inspired me and so many others. His creativity blew my mind more than once and his generous advice early on in my career was extremely useful. How lucky I feel to have met him.

Slowly and tediously, even the rich and powerful can be taken down in functional democracies. This is the third conviction for Sarkozy (and his acolytes). This should encourage other democracies in difficult situations to keep hoping for justice to prevail. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

I was on a H1B visa for part of my postdoc. Also when I started as Assistant Professor. Several of my postdocs where on H1Bs. This new fee will affect more academia than tech or finance companies because there is no way universities can pay that… www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...

We’re organizing a conference at @ijmonod.bsky.social in Paris, January 2026, in memory of M.P. Sheetz — pioneer in cell mechanics and mechanobiology, co-discoverer of kinesin, and founder of @mbisg.bsky.social. Join us to explore his legacy. mikeinmemoriam.sciencesconf.org

Which city is the best for Cytoskeleton research? Dresden? Barcelona? Cambridge ? Noooo ... you all know its Paris, right? 😎 Registering to the annual meeting on Friday 14th of November is now open: pcd2025.sciencesconf.org Keynote speeches by @carter-lab.bsky.social and Verena Ruprecht !

We had #four interdisciplinary teams, integrating dev-bio, evolution, tissue mechanics, and biophysical modeling, all going full throttle to understand the #CF. Still, it took more than 7 years to publish two papers back-to-back (10/12) www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We are all super happy and proud to see our work on the function and evolution of the #cephalic #furrow published in @nature.com. Let me say a few things about the background and history of this work on the #Evolution_of_Morphogenesis (1/12)

How is this possible? This ant can lay eggs of two different species, birthed by the same mother

A dream come true: the first expansion microscopy images of C. flexa 🤩 Generated by Mylan & Uzuki who learned from the best (@hiralshah.bsky.social @gautamdey.bsky.social @dudinlab.bsky.social). We will learn so much from these!

🔬 The next international Developmental Biology course, organized by Institut Curie with @sorbonne-universite.fr, will focus on "From stem #cells to #morphogenesis". 📅 Apply by: • July 20 (3.5 weeks with hands-on workshop) • Aug 31 (10 days of seminars) 🔗 training.institut-curie.org/courses/deve...

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...

SARCOMERES divide! Mechanism how muscles grow while contracting - daughter sarcomeres appear everywhere. Seen live, registered on our cover. Pioneered by @clementrodier.bsky.social @friedrich-group.bsky.social Ian Estabrook @ibdm.bsky.social $ by @hfspo.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Happy to be the next (and 1st female) @crg.eu director. The CRG always stood out to me, for its excellence in understanding life's principles, with implications for health and biodiversity, & its collaborative, open and innovative way of doing science. Thrilled to join its amazing community in 2026!

Had a very productive day @eshre.bsky.social #eshre2025 meeting with the biomedical community! We have a very different way of thinking and questioning the embryo and a lot to learn from each other!

Happy to be elected at the national committee @cnrs.fr I thank all of those who voted🙏. I promise to do my best to promote excellence in science through diversity and interdisciplinarity, transparency and discussion with the public. 📣Let me know what you would like to see improved @cnrs.fr📣

On the Shape of Life: meeting report, SFBD meeting 2025 Girish Kale @girishkalephd.bsky.social wrote about his experience attending #ShapingLife3, the @sfbd.bsky.social meeting, which took place in the picturesque town of Cassis: thenode.biologists.com/on-the-shape...

📣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

Students (Master's/PhD), do not miss this fantastic Developmental Biology course of @sorbonne-universite.fr and @institutcurie.bsky.social - It is FREE and open to international students, however, room and board + travel are not included. training.institut-curie.org/courses/deve...

It's frustratingly tedious, it's imperfect but it eventually works. Democracy works, even against the most powerful men. www.lemonde.fr/en/france/ar...

Breaking News: The Harvard researcher detained after failing to declare scientific samples to U.S. customs was freed from federal custody. She still faces criminal charges.

Thanks @currentbiology.bsky.social we need to hear the voice of honest and generous scientists like @dudinlab.bsky.social more often. Also, if you don't know about @dudinlab.bsky.social amazing science yet, go check it out immediately 🤩!

@sfbd.bsky.social general assembly during #shapinglife3 meeting. This happened in ENGLISH!

A big thanks to the @sfbd.bsky.social , @maitrejl.bsky.social & @embo.org YIP for what has been a very sunny & exciting #DevBio + beautiful hikes around #Cassis. & now everyone in there knows about #Ichthyosporea & #Expansion #Microscopy Which is a big ➕️ #ShapingLife3

Bravo to the poster and best talk winners @sfbd.bsky.social #ShapingLife3: 3 PhD students: Romain Giromini, Étienne Poidomani and Noemi Zollo

This @sfbd.bsky.social conference had also an #outreach event in primary schools coordinated by @maevalux.bsky.social and 11 volunteers.

The amazing organization team of #ShapingLife3 meeting of @sfbd.bsky.social in sunny Cassis! Thanks to the great scientists for sharing their passion for embryos, and the beauty of life ! @maitrejl.bsky.social @cedricmaurange.bsky.social @maevalux.bsky.social @ibdm.bsky.social and others

Breaking News: A judge said the government should release Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist employed by Harvard University, saying U.S. customs had “no factual or legal basis” for revoking her visa.

Yes, that is me, for those who did not yet know. This was not planned but I am very happy to go 'home' even though I will miss a lot about Portugal. If you still want to visit, hurry, otherwise see you in Cambridge. If you want to know more contact me directly. www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-care...

A cortical pool of LIN-5 (NuMA) controls cytokinetic furrow formation and #cytokinesis completion. New study from Kuheli Adhikary, Sukriti Kapoor, and Sachin Kotak (Indian Institute of Science Bangalore): rupress.org/jcb/article/... #Development #CellDivision #Celegans

Want to hear about the forces controlling lumen formation and expansion? See you in a bit!

Comment la jeunesse peut elle entreprendre les projets de demain quand les generations vieillissantes monopolisent les richesses (et n'en font rien puisqu'elles n'ont plus autant de projets)? #TaxTheRich

Thanks @minclab.bsky.social for the visit @mpiib-berlin.mpg.de!
 Grateful for the captivating talk and those stunning sea urchin embryo visuals! 🤩

Stoked to present our latest, superbly led by Chris et al & @torres-sanchez.bsky.social We tackled a fundamental problem – how tissues are patterned during development – found that geometry-constrained ECM fractures pattern the myocardium in the vertebrate heart 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

2 weeks of exciting experiments with old and new friends🤩! Dresden didn't disappoint❤️

Siri show me why we should tax the rich to make society work rather than hope for their charity

Join us for our next #ForceTalk on "Mechanics of blastocyst morphogenesis" with Dr Jean-Leon Maitre @maitrejl.bsky.social of Institut Curie: 🗓️ 7 May 2025 🕒 15:00 - 16:00 BST Online and open to all, link to join 👉 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/force... #mechanobiology @kingsnmes.bsky.social

Our field has lost an amazing scientist, mentor, and old friend. Benny, along with Mike Hoffman, had a brilliant idea in the early 1980s. The first oncogenes were being cloned and they realized if we wanted to understand their roles in cancer, we needed to understand their normal function 1/n 🧪

Benny, as he faced his cancer diagnosis, created a remarkable video reflecting on his long and eventful life www.youtube.com/watch?v=50cK...

Feeling 25 again on my way to the lab! That's right! I'm back in beautiful Dresden, my alma mater, to do experiments over the next 2 weeks with the generous help from @eliasbarrigalab.bsky.social and Claudia Gerri's labs

We may not have really squared the circle — but we came close! 😉 In our @NaturePhysics paper w/ @fakhrilab.bsky.social, light-triggered membrane excitability enables programmable shapes — a step toward engineering living matter. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #biophysics #syntheticcell #softmatter

Guess what? It's also possible to prevent crooked politicians to run for election! www.lemonde.fr/en/france/ar...

This is very disturbing. Harvard PhD student Kseniia Petrova (Russian citizen) was arrested by ICE for transporting xenopus embryos into Boston from Paris. She has been detained in Louisiana since Feb. 16. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

36 slots for selected talks from abstracts! Join us and share your latest research! Deadline for early registration coming up next week

Register for #sfbd #devbio #ShapingLife3 meeting in sunny Cassis by the sea. If you like dev biology, join us! speakers include @justinmcrocker.bsky.social @guignardlab.bsky.social @bulutkarslioglu.bsky.social @dudinlab.bsky.social @flowerwhatelse.bsky.social and more @maitrejl.bsky.social

This looks really cool!