"Why is publishing so expensive?" It's a question I hear all the time, so we at @biologists.bsky.social thought we'd try to dispel some of the myths around publishing economics & provide transparency around our costs. Today, we publish editorials in all 5 of our journals - links in the thread below.

It’s FREE to publish in Journal of Cell Science – there are no page charges, colour charges or hidden fees. And if your institution has a Read & Publish agreement, you can publish immediate OA free of charge. Find out more: journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/re... #forscientists #notforprofit

Registration is OPEN for the 2026 Santa Cruz Meeting on Developmental Biology!!! #scdb26 @flybase.bsky.social @zfinmod.bsky.social @alliancegenome.bsky.social @insdb.bsky.social @isdb.bsky.social @geneticssociety.bsky.social @bsdb.bsky.social @ascbiology.bsky.social scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu

Looking forward to #R2Rconf in a couple of weeks, where I’ll be taking part in a panel discussion on journal-independent peer review. Want to hear more about @reviewcommons.org, @prelights.bsky.social and other initiatives? You can still register and the rest of the programme looks great too!

Congrats to the 2026 SDB Award Winners! Conklin Medal: Lee Niswander SDB Lifetime Achievement Award: Alexandra Joyner Hamburger Outstanding Educator Prize: Roberto Mayor Hay New Investigator Award: Jeffrey Farrell SDB Trainee SciComm Award: Nicholas Desnoyer bit.ly/4afnjiC

Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social is recruiting an enthusiastic and motivated Reviews Editor. An exciting opportunity for a talented scientific editor to make a contribution to an important journal in the field of #cellbiology. Deadline 2 Feb. More at: www.biologists.com/about-us/wor...

An organisation is only ever as good as the people who work in it. I've now been at @biologists.bsky.social for 14 years, and there's no way I'd have stayed so long were it not for the friendly, talented and dedicated people I get to work with every day. #biologists100

A deep dive into the backstory of @dev-journal.bsky.social and why it changed its name (spoiler - it's not *just* because Journal of Embryology and Experimental Morphology was such a mouthful!). Many thanks to Nick Hopwood for researching and writing this. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

At #CellBio2025 and want to find out more about how you can get your paper peer reviewed in 7 working days? This is what @biologyopen.bsky.social's Fast & Fair initiative is doing. @danielgorelick.bsky.social has all the details at the @biologists.bsky.social booth!

Are you a #devbio postdoc planning to go on the job market in 2026? Then this is the initiative for you! Offering training, networking, mentoring and profile-raising components, Development's PI Programme can give you that extra support you might need while navigating this challenging time...

If you’re not aware of BiO’s Fast & Fair initiative, do listen to this podcast or find out more on the website (journals.biologists.com/bio/pages/fa...). We’re trying to tackle two big issues with the peer review process - how to make it quicker & how to recognise the crucial work of peer reviewers

Publication integrity has always been a big part of what we do @biologists.bsky.social but it’s more challenging than ever these days. Lots of people contribute to this work, but a special shout-out today to our awesome in-house integrity team. Thanks for all you do! #PublicationIntegrityWeek

One month left for early-career researchers to apply for a funded place at our Workshop 'Novelty, Co-option and Divergence During Gene Network Evolution' organised by James Hombría & Antónia Monteiro Deadline 5 Dec. biologists.com/workshops/ju... @isabelalmudi.bsky.social @jlopezrios.bsky.social

Delighted to see other journals joining @dev-journal.bsky.social and @jcellsci.bsky.social in supporting Review Commons with handling of submissions to the platform.

Compared to other publishers, The Company of Biologists is small fry with fewer than 70 staff supporting 5 journals from a single office. But, for over 100 years now, it’s punched above its weight in innovation, prestige and community support.

It’s our 100th birthday today - and we’re still going strong after all this time! Here’s to the next 100 years of community-centric publishing and charitable support… 🎉

Are you enthusiastic about stem cell biology and developmental biology and looking to start a PhD in 2026? Funded opportunites now available. Contact for more infomation. Links below! @lovegrovelab.bsky.social @veronicabiga.bsky.social @manchester.ac.uk @ukri.org

Never considered myself extraordinary but very touched that my colleagues wanted to feature me in this series. Do check out the other much more extraordinary scientists we’ve featured over the course of the year

Very saddened to hear of John Gurdon’s passing. I’ve been lucky enough to interact with him at multiple points through my career - from undergrad lectures, through his position as former Chair of @biologists.bsky.social’s Board of Directors, and as an author at @dev-journal.bsky.social.

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.

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/...

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/...

👋Introducing Ingrid - the new Reviews Editor for @dev-journal.bsky.social thenode.biologists.com/introducing-...

As a former fly pusher, this news hits hard: FlyBase is such a critical resource for the community. My thoughts are with the dedicated individuals at Harvard whose jobs have been cut, and the broader FlyBase team whose future is in question.

Well this feels pretty terrifying.

Great opportunity to join the team here at @biologists.bsky.social. Feel free to get in touch with me or @amjeve.bsky.social for more information

Yup - these are challenging times for small and society publishers...

This is a useful summary of how some major publishers are responding to the new NIH policy. We've just updated our policies at @biologists.bsky.social: @dev-journal.bsky.social @jcellsci.bsky.social and @jexpbiol.bsky.social will allow authors to deposit the accepted version with zero embargo.

Seconded. Ethan is one of @dev-journal.bsky.social's Pathway to Independence fellows this year, and - on top of his great research programme - has been super-active in the @prelights.bsky.social community.

Hard to remember that just 12 years ago there was no @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social and almost no one in the biology community preprinted their work. What a long way we’ve come. @reinierprosee.bsky.social and I wrote a thing about how @biologists.bsky.social embraced the preprint world

I just heard this too. Terribly sad news - Pete's work really exemplified the path from basic science all the way through to the clinic.

On my way to Basel for #BaCell3D. Looking forward to a few days of great science and connecting with colleagues. If you're at the meeting, please do come chat to me about any of @biologists.bsky.social journals, community sites and charitable activities.

Suffering from FOMO and missing the #devbio crowd now I've moved on from @dev-journal.bsky.social and don't get to attend #2025ICDB. But go chat to the journal's awesome new Exec Ed instead! And if you all could just decide on one hashtag, that'd really help me follow along remotely...!

Delighted to see @nature.com take this step. I've been a big supporter of transparent peer review ever since @embojournal.org instituted it back when I was a newbie editor.

We currently have a call for support that has gone out to European labs, to support FlyBase-UK. We are asking our colleagues from labs in the US and other countries to wait for a similar call to them that will go out in the near future, to support the US sites. We thank you for your patience.

We will be attending #ISSCR2025. Visit the @biologists.bsky.social booth in the exhibition hall for giveaways and to learn about grants and events, and be sure to reach out to Dina Mikimoto with any questions you might have about publishing with us. @isscr.org

Register now to attend our #DevPres webinar next week, featuring the winners of the @bsdb.bsky.social poster prize, @shifaant.bsky.social and @giuliapaci.bsky.social, and chaired by Abigail Tucker. 4 June at 15:00 BST us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Introducing the 2025 PI Fellows of our Pathway to Independence Programme Over the next year, we will be supporting this talented group of eight postdocs, providing training, mentorship and networking opportunities as they apply for independent positions. journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi...

This is great news for @dev-journal.bsky.social and for the #DevBio community. Anyone who has had the pleasure of benefitting from Alex's editorial advice during his previous roles will know that he is an exceptionally insightful, helpful and committed editor. Congratulations @amjeve.bsky.social!

Over on @the-node.bsky.social. Reflections on the end of an era: a look back at my time on Development. So many things I could have written about in this post - it's been a wonderful 13 years at Development - but these are some of the things that have particularly stuck in my mind...

Woo hoo! I'm so excited to see Alex take on this role. Though this makes me no longer the Executive Editor for @dev-journal.bsky.social 😢. Instead, I'm now the Publishing Director at @biologists.bsky.social, where I'll be supporting all our journals with their future strategic plans and activities.

Come and join us at @biologists.bsky.social!

Looking forward to this meeting - I’ll be taking part in the panel discussion and look forward to hearing all the latest on organoids!

As we turn 15, we want to collect feedback from you, our community, to ensure the Node is still relevant and useful. If you’ve ever visited the Node to read, write and interact with the #DevBio & #StemCell community, thank you! Please spare 5min to take our survey: www.surveymonkey.com/r/7QHYQCW

New #spotLights episode! 🎙️ We’re kicking off our #biologists100 series (led by @jontytownson.bsky.social) with @richardsever.bsky.social. We discuss the recently launched #openRxiv, the importance + future of preprints & how early-career researchers benefit. Listen now 🎧⬇️ youtu.be/L5O2mDnqDUI?...

Early-career researchers can apply for a funded place at our Workshop 'New Technologies for Studying and Reprogramming Development' organised by Alex Dunn, @zevgartner.bsky.social , @adrianjacobo.bsky.social and Matthew Kutys. 📆Apply by 23 May biologists.com/workshops/no... #BiologistsWorkshops

🎉Congratulations to the Top 3 images from the Node–FocalPlane image competition! 1️⃣"Cell-estial bloom" by @oozguc.bsky.social 2️⃣"Dancing actinotroch" by @allancarbal.bsky.social 3️⃣"Who’s active?" by @jupeloggia.bsky.social thenode.biologists.com/results-from... @focalplane.bsky.social #biologists100

Great fun at last night's Gala Dinner at the stunning St Georges Hall. #biologists100

The most important question of #biologists100 so far: would you rather fight 40 1-foot ducks or one 40-foot ducks? #askingforafriend

Exhausted at the thought of having to resubmit your paper to a new journal after rejection? 🙁 Did you know you can transfer your paper+reviewers reports from any journal to any of @biologists.bsky.social journals, and get a quick decision, from editors who are working biologists 😃 #biologists100