On the cover - Congrats @jeromeavellaneda.bsky.social @nunoluis.bsky.social flies fly! @fly-eds.bsky.social www.cell.com/developmenta...

🚨Excited to kick off our online seminar series on Metabolism in Development and Physiology! Please help us grow a collaborative and supportive community by joining (<1min): forms.gle/Y8QzucogKKrZ... #Metabolism #Development #StemCells Please RT! 🙏

We’ve officially launched the MetaboDev lab at IMBA 🚀! I’m extremely grateful for all the support from the @imbavienna.bsky.social & @viennabiocenter.bsky.social community. Special thanks to @eunicechan.bsky.social, the most amazing first lab member I could have hoped for. On to the science!🔬🧬#NewPI

I'm very excited to announce that UNC Biology has 6 faculty positions open this year! The first is for an Asst Professor who studies organismal resilience using an integrative approach 1/n unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

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...

Pleasure to announce the program of my new series of lectures at the College de France in Nov-Dec. Continuing on the theme of Biological information. I will focus on the computational aspects, building on David Marr's tri-level of analysis in biological systems. YouTube link sent when it starts.

New life at IMBA. Micropatterned cells.

🧠 You are in Marseille on September 29th and interested in neurodevelopmental questions, don't forget to register to our symposium "Linking neural development, human disease and evolution". To register: evento.renater.fr/survey/mini-... @neuromarseille.bsky.social @ibdm.bsky.social

#JobOffer 💼 Post-doc researcher (M/F) in biophysics 📅 November 3rd 📍 @minclab.bsky.social Apply on the CNRS job portal before August 18th 🔗 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

EMBL Cell Biology and Biophysics department is searching for a new director. A major position to lead this field in Europe and beyond. embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

Microtubules: the architect of muscles. Watch how microtubules transport mitochondria in proximity to energy consuming sarcomeres in muscles of flies and mice. @jeromeavellaneda.bsky.social @nunoluis.bsky.social @ibdm.bsky.social with @gomeslabo.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Flies rock 🪰

So happy to see this out!

#MetabolismMondays Meet @kstapornwongkul.bsky.social, #newPI at @imbavienna.bsky.social @vbcscitraining.bsky.social, alumni from @viktri08.bsky.social @embl.org - discussing metabolism of embryonic development using #gastruloids. #theNodeCorrespondents #ecr @the-node.bsky.social #DevBio #stemcell

Have you heard of the 'Matthew effect'? Essentially, that early career success (measured as grant income) predicts later career success in research. These authors argue that grant schemes have morphed into talent identification schemes. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Are you a scientist with an interest in photography? We're delighted to announce that the Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition is now open for entries until 15 August 2025! 🎉 Find out more: royalsociety.org/journals/pub... #RSPphotocomp

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...

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...

What do we see when looking at cells under the microscope? 👉Some are bigger than others, some are elongated and align with the neighbors & others seem to move. Cool, right? But wouldn't it be cooler to quantify these observations? I'm @juliaeckert.bsky.social. Let's explore some analysis software!‬

Sex is complicated. “Male mouse fetuses can develop female organs in utero if their mother is iron deficient during pregnancy, a study in Nature reports. This is the first-known example of a dietary mineral affecting sex determination” #ReproSky 🧪 #Development www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Changes to Starting and Consolidator Grant eligibility finally in place! #erc

Check out our "In Preprints" @dev-journal.bsky.social w/ Yonit Maroudas-Sacks & Marc Trani Bustos @mpi-cbg.de @poldresden.bsky.social, putting recent #gastruloid work from @viktri08.bsky.social @thomasgregor.bsky.social @amartinezarias.bsky.social labs in broader perspective: doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Do you have some cool results to present to the #Drosophila community at #EDRC2025 ? Please do not forget that abstract submissions are opened until the 28th of May edrc2025alicante.com/abstracts/

Bye bye Dortmund. So much fun I had working with #cryo-ET #liquidnitrogen in #vacuum 🤩

Titin evolution, titin force and muscle contraction instruct sarcomere dimensions in insect muscles to allow high frequency flight, larval crawling and max force to cut leafs. @ibdm.bsky.social @mpi-nat.bsky.social @jfrupprecht.bsky.social @vincent-loreau.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....

3D cell cultures better mimic real tissues than 2D—but how do we image them? This review explores 2D & 3D microscopy techniques for studying 3D cultures, highlighting strengths, limitations, and future innovation needs. #microscopy #bioengineering @naturemethods.bsky.social

Another fly muscle imaging day. #Drosophila #flymuscle #microscope #bioimaging

Pan-PTM profiling identifies post-translational modifications associated with exceptional longevity and preservation of skeletal muscle function in Drosophila www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What’s the link between Origami and morphogenesis? This is the world of Actuation, I’m @ar-abdelfattah.bsky.social, and I’ll share with you insights, experiments and an outlook on how epithelia use mechanical forces to gain geometrical and functional complexity.

Saturday #drosophila #muscle #microscopy. #science #bioimaging

📣Exciting meeting ahead! Join us next June in beautiful Cassis for #ShapingLife3! www.atoutcom.com/shaping-life/ @justinmcrocker.bsky.social @mhverlhac.bsky.social @guignardlab.bsky.social @bulutkarslioglu.bsky.social @dudinlab.bsky.social @flowerwhatelse.bsky.social @sfbd.bsky.social

#SHAPINGLIFE3 conference with amazing speakers in beautiful Cassis. You can't miss it!

What we as a scientist could do to promote science to the public.

Happy to share our review on methodology for measuring and manipulating mechanical forces with specific focus on developmental biology! Congrats to authors @clemvilleneuve.bsky.social @mccreery.bsky.social and hats off to the community for developing awesome tools www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Serendipity in science! Many years ago while investigating the timing of cell spreading, I noticed two strange cell-like objects landing on the coverslip. This was my first glimpse of blebbisomes in action! #CellBiology 🧐🎥 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Spatial transcriptomics in fly brain and body. Wonderful collaboration with @steinaerts.bsky.social led by @jasperjanssens.bsky.social @pierremangeol.bsky.social Nikolai Hecker & Gabriele Partel - look at mRNA patterns in muscles and brains spatialfly.aertslab.org elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

💫NEW: Hervé, Scelfo et al. show that #chromosome missegregation induces #mTORC2 - & ATR-mediated p53 activation via a mechanosensitive checkpoint at the nuclear envelope triggered by altered heterochromatin content and increased nuclear membrane tension. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I love this article partly because it details how this little fly has been vital for all sorts of research, including for human health. But I really love the part about where fruit flies originated and how they’ve conquered the world. 🍓🍒🍷🪰 🧪 🪲 🪳 phys.org/news/2025-01...

Let’s stop treating "leaving academia" as negative. Scientists train for academia, industry, or what suits them. Industry isn’t an alternative; it’s a choice. In fields like engineering, most PhDs go to industry, and no one calls it "leaving academia." We should train scientists for diverse paths.

Very excited to teach in this @embl.org developmental biology summer course. Great balance of theoretical and experimental approaches, and of canonical vs noncanonical model systems, with a stellar line-up of speakers 🤩 Apply! www.embl.org/about/info/c...

Excited to share that IBDM (Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille) is expanding its research groups this year! A great place for developmental biology and interdisciplinary research located on the beautiful Marseille-Luminy campus! Deadline for applications: March 30th, 2025

How to make labs more sustainable: energy use in labs www.biologists.com/stories/sust...

The Munro (Chicago), Lenne and Rupprecht (Marseille) groups seek 2-3 postdoctoral fellows to join a newly funded (NSF/ANR) international collaboration on the multiscale dynamics of cell contact formation and remodeling.

Interested in starting a PhD to explore ovarian biology through a cross-disciplinary approach combining live-cell microscopy and biophysics? Get in touch for more details—and please share! 🔬🙌🏼

8. Kumar et al., Science. Brain-muscle communication prevents muscle aging by maintaining daily physiology. tinyurl.com/4y3erekn

7. Sun et al., Nat. Comms. Lineage tracing of nuclei in skeletal myofibers uncovers distinct transcripts and interplay between myonuclear populations. tinyurl.com/bdhbhpaj

Muscles growth by sarcomere divisions - how your muscles add new sarcomeres during developmental growth: they divide! Cool collaboration @friedrich-group.bsky.social @raunser-lab.bsky.social @Dirk Görlich @univ-amu.fr @cnrs.bsky.social sciencecast.org/casts/aspy9l... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Just let me be a scientist: The experienced, highly qualified postdoc is a valuable resource. PDF download www.embopress.org/doi/epdf/10....

Cell and developmental biologists: as you start looking at conferences in 2025, consider joining us at the 2025 Cell Contact & Adhesion GRC. We've assembled a strong and diverse program of speakers at the cutting-edge of science in our field 1/n Please repost www.grc.org/cell-contact...