Shout out to people routinely working in their 2nd or 3rd language. Yesterday I gave a 1-hour research seminar in French. Afterwards, my brain was pretty much done for the day. Respect to the loads of scientists who do this daily (and usually a lot more effectively than me!)

PhD opportunity in plant developmental biology for UK based students of Black heritage! How do they know when to grow up? Join us at the University of Bristol to find out. Application deadline Jan 6th www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #PlantSciencePhDs @blackinplantsci.bsky.social

Apropos of today's discussion on science Bluesky 🧪 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_pur...

Curious how mechanics shape the developing eye? 👁️ Join us for your PhD at the interdisciplinary @lsiexeter.bsky.social to explore early eye morphogenesis through developmental biology, biophysics and computational modelling. lsi.exeter.ac.uk/groups/harma... Supported by @swbiodtp.bsky.social

Discover #DevBio and #StemCell biology conferences, meetings, training courses & workshops on our Events Calendar 🗓️ 👀 Missed one? Sign up & add relevant events here: thenode.biologists.com/events/

🎧crack on the latest episode of ‘A Question of Science - What is the Future of Fertility’ for my hot takes on follicles, female fertility & how finding the moment (or even the willing males) to procreate is an issue IVF / egg freezing can’t fix for females with careers 🤫👇link below (lmk ur thoughts)

IRR's Dr Güneş Taylor joins Professor Brian Cox to explore the science of fertility in the latest episode of A Question of Science. Joining an expert panel, Taylor discusses the role of the ovary when it comes to fertilisation, pregnancy, and development. 🎧Listen now: www.lnk.to/AQOSFertilit...

Working in a biomed institute, its natural to think about health & medical impact of dev bio but there's more to dev bio Agriculture is dev bio (plant growth, livestock breeding) And dev bio is important to understand environment & climate impact. See e.g: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

My new ImageJ / Fiji toolkit is out 🔥! The goal is to make image handling & visualization easy, with an intuitive interface! Install it on Fiji with the "Image Viewer" update site #microscopy #ImageJ #FluorescenceFriday #microscopyMonday imagej.net/plugins/imag...

Check out this useful #DevBio #preprint reading list on the Node. Also, the #CellBio edition just dropped on preLights, this month curated by Matthew Davies, @sristi.bsky.social & @vibhasingh.bsky.social #preList ⬇️ prelights.biologists.com/prelists/oct...

One of the most useful resources for anyone who uses fluorescence methods.

🐸 Xenopus laevis 💚 The frog that shaped modern developmental biology! ✨ Xenopus embryos have revealed how the body axis forms, cells choose their fate, and tissues self-organize during early development 📹 Video by Bioquest Sudio and Xenbase #ModelMonday #DevBio

Which features of tissue flows are most robust and how do they emerge from #EpithelialMechanics? I’m @alex-plum.bsky.social (@mattiaserra.bsky.social group) and I’ll be sharing some papers on characterizing and controlling avian gastrulation flows.

🚨 PhD Projects 🚨 We are advertising two UKRI funded PhD projects at the @sheffielduni.bsky.social. #stemcells #development #embryology #reproductivephysiology #mathmaticalmodelling #quantitativebiology

Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term www.gov.uk/government/p...

Learn more about postgraduate opportunities on our website: bit.ly/48K3P6C #PhD #PhDJourney #HomeOfTheWonderful

Want to automate workflows in #FIJI? Don't know where to start? We (@lankylaste.bsky.social, Alicja Skórkowska and Sara Salgueiro Torres) have added a step-by-step tutorial to the wiki to get you started. Thanks @ctrue.bsky.social for adding! imagej.github.io/tutorials/ba...

A daughter following on the work of her mother: a computer game exploring the wonders of a hidden world ensures a lasting legacy for our lovely late colleague Prof Harriet Jones. #UEAScience www.uea.ac.uk/about/news/a...

Serrano Nájera, G., Plum, A. M., Steventon, B., Weijer, C. J., & Serra, M. (2025). Control of tissue flows and embryo geometry in avian gastrulation. Nature communications, 16(1), 5174. #EpithelialMechanics buff.ly/CMKn8rn

In our next BIO Open Lecture on Wednesday 5th November, 2-3pm, in EFRY 01.08 we welcome Dr Caroline Beck from University of Otago with talk title "What can tadpoles teach us about rare genetic epilepsy?" Hosted by Prof. Grant Wheeler. All welcome #UEAScience

Axial Rotation Comprises Concurrent Twisting and Bending, Each Differentially Regulated by TGF-β Signaling https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.23.683873v1

Pax6 maintains lens epithelial cell identity and coordinates secondary fiber cell differentiation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.23.684166v1

Reposting for the Monday morning scrollers! Funded PhD opportunity with me @multipleye-lab.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social - spiders, their eyes, and their babies under long- and short-term light pollution!

My lab is seeking two PhD candidates to investigate the function and regulation of endogenous retroviruses in the early stages of human development 🦠👩‍🔬. Apply through the International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) program: www.molgen.mpg.de/IMPRS/applic.... www.molgen.mpg.de/5094682/Fuey...

📢 We are growing! 📢 The Cayuso Lab at the University of Portsmouth is recruiting a fully funded 3-year PhD student to investigate the mechanisms of CASK-related neurodevelopmental disorders using #zebrafish 🐠. More info and applications here: www.port.ac.uk/study/postgr... #ZebrafishJobs #DevBio

I am absolutely delighted to share the invited speakers for our upcoming @bsdb.bsky.social "Molecules to Morphogenesis" meeting! Registration and abstract submission is now open - join us! bsdb.org/meetings/ March 23-26, 2026 - UK

🚨 PhD studentship alert! 🚨 Joint PhD with Münsterberg and Mok labs (UEA) with collaborators Macaulay and Haerty labs (EI) Explore how enhancers control heart, blood & vessel development using single-cell multi-omics biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/one... #PhD #DevBio #Cardiovascular

“Developmental biology is fundamentally beautiful. We are no less beautiful for our variation. Instead, perhaps we are more so. Perhaps we are remarkable. Perhaps we are full of wonder.” Read this insightful post by Bethan on the Node. thenode.biologists.com/developmenta... #Disability

Come and join the Cancer Genetics team in the lovely Norwich. We have a three year position for a senior bioinformatician starting in Feb 2026. Click the link for further details. bit.ly/3Wt3Lk8 🧬 🖥️ @prostateukprofs.bsky.social @ueamedical.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social #postdoc

This week has been special for us, marking 100 years of supporting biologists and inspiring biology. We celebrated our achievements at @zoologymuseum.bsky.social last night. We want to thank all our staff, whose continual inspiration and daily support for one another make our work possible.

Today for #FluorescenceFriday I’m sharing a 👻Halloween-themed🎃 neural crest explant “web of cells” from Julia Godinez, a 4th year @ucdavis.bsky.social graduate student in the lab. She is studying mechanisms driving conserved and divergent cranial neural crest migration and differentiation. #DevBio

We are looking for a PhD student to study the effects of light pollution on the evolution and development of spider eyes 🌃🕷️👀 🌍Open to students worldwide 📆Start Sept 2026 👩🏽‍💻Online info event 24th Nov 💶Fees and stipend incl. ⏰Deadline December 15th Spread the word! 🗣️ www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Next up in our CDMB Seminar Series is Dr Rafeeq Mir, a Post Doc in the Wheeler and Münsterberg labs, speaking on Thursday 23 October. All welcome!

🎉 Big news! 🎉 We will be moving to @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social in 2026!! We're so excited to be joining such a dynamic and thriving department, university, and city - thank you to everyone who has already been so welcoming! 📢 But that's not all - come and join us! 👇

Please RT! 🚨 4-year PhD position in my lab (Oct 2026 start) 🚨 Molecular and genomic insights to sexually antagonistic genes Application deadline: Dec 2, 2025 biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/mol...

New BBSRC funded PhD opportunity in my group with Inspiralis Ltd and @conradn.bsky.social. If you are interested in RNA - protein interactions and RNA modifications check the details below for how to apply. @nrpdtp.bsky.social @biouea.bsky.social @earlhaminst.bsky.social tinyurl.com/bdzvn4dr

Excellent article on science communication in @dev-journal.bsky.social - thank you to all the authors! doi.org/10.1242/dev.... ⭐⭐⭐⭐

#DBfeature 🪶 New tools bring embryonic feather bud development back to the forefront of efforts to understand vertebrate organogenesis By Jon Riddell and Denis Headon tinyurl.com/hzzhr5z8 #SpecialIssue on #Development and #Regeneration of ectodermal organs

#DBfeature 🐣 The chicken embryo brings new insights into the tissue specific evolutionary role of WFDC1 during amniote development -T Metzker-Pinto, YTH Tran, I Buzzatto-Leite, L Lok, JF Sampar, HF Carvalho, G del Monte-Nieto, LE Alvares tinyurl.com/3abhm3d5 #SpecialIssue on Avian model systems

#DBfeature 🐣 PRDM14 is essential for vertebrate gastrulation and safeguards avian germ cell identity by antagonising FGF-induced differentiation By D Doddamani, D Carlson, L McTeir, L Taylor, S Nandi, M Davey, M McGrew, J Glover tinyurl.com/2wpakkyd #SpecialIssue on Avian Model Systems

I'm hiring a postdoc! If you're interested in researching mechanisms of 3D tissue morphogenesis and have experience studying cell dynamics and performing quantitative image analysis, consider joining us @mbisg.bsky.social! www.mbi.nus.edu.sg/jobs/seeking...

1925: On this date, 100 years ago, The Company of Biologists is founded by George Parker Bidder III. Throughout today, we will be posting some of our key milestones. Read more about the past 100 years at bit.ly/3WnTVA1.

transport yourself to the late 90s with this really cool paper on digit number regulation by Shh and BMP, ZPA and AER. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Was recently reminded by a mentor that leading by example also means taking vacation.

A very important resource!

Don’t miss out on the UK #zebrafish husbandry meeting at the University of Manchester on Wednesday 22nd October. Ticket sales end in two days (15th). More details in the LinkedIn post: www.linkedin.com/posts/zebraf...

This #ADHDAwarenessMonth focuses on the many faces of #ADHD 👫🧠 Diverse cognitive styles, including those associated with ADHD, can lead to innovative problem-solving and unique insights, essential for tackling complex challenges in plant and microbial research 🌱🦠

As Editor’s Choice winner of the MBL Embryology course image competition, Arthur Boutillon’s image (‘Embryonic eye of Anole lizard’) features on this cover of Development. Learn more about Arthur and his work in the interview now available on the Node ⬇️👀 thenode.biologists.com/interview-wi...

#DBfeature Research facilities in the UK, France, and Japan maintaining transgenic lines for Avian developmental biology By Lindsay Henderson, Yuya Okuzaki, Christophe Marcelle, Mike McGrew, and Ken-ichi Nishijima tinyurl.com/4drw4d6a #SpecialIssue on Avian model systems