The next Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoc Seminar will be Friday, November 14 at 3 pm Eastern Time with Olya Yarychkivska from @rockefeller.edu and Anthony Galenza from Stanford University. Register today and join us. bit.ly/4gvaHqd #SDBPostdocSeminar #Celegans #drosophila

🐸 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

💚🦴 Fluorescence Friday: Halloween edition! 🎃 This glowing mouse embryo skeleton is serving serious spooky vibes 👻 Who knew bone development could look this eerie and elegant? 💀 Image by @martinestermann.bsky.social #FluorescenceFriday #SpookyScience

🥈 Second Prize – DevBio Art Contest 🎨
Hyloscirtus lynchi tadpoles captured in watercolor! 🐸 A tribute to this critically endangered Andean frog, showcasing its natural colors, unique hindlimb sacs & delicate morphology. 🌿 Painting by Sebastian Plata #DevBio #ScienceArt

Ascidians (Ciona intestinalis)🪸Our distant chordate cousins! 🌊 Simple sea squirts that reveal how vertebrate body plans evolved 🧬 A key model for notochord formation, neural induction, and cell lineage mapping 📸 Video by MBL Embryology 2019 #ModelMonday #DevBio #EvoDevo

Meet the real rainbow fish 🌈🐟 Using Cre-mediated recombination, each zebrafish cell expresses a unique fluorescent color, creating a living rainbow of developmental history 🎨✨ Image by Bret Pearson #FluorescenceFriday #Zebrafish #DevBio

💭Transitioning to independence isn’t only a Latinx concern! One key takeaway from our workshop at ICDB in Puerto Rico: this is a shared challenge across the field. @socdevbio.bsky.social Proud of the diversity — celebrating Latinx representation, gender balance, and early career voices in Dev Bio!

🏆 First Prize – DevBio Art Contest 🖼️
“A Model Meeting” by Karla Akari Garcia Inspired by The Quaker Meeting, this watercolor honors animal research models, from mouse to axolotl, that have advanced developmental biology 🎨 A tribute to science’s often unsung heroes. #DevBioArt

🧠Talk about having guts! 💪Embryonic mouse intestines stained for ❤️💚 nerves and 💙 endothelial cells, forming the early circuits that keep things moving (literally!) 🔬 Image by Nathan Burns. #FluorescenceFriday #DevBio

The October 10 #SDBPostdocSeminar with @austinseroka1.bsky.social of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and @dingwallaby.bsky.social‬ of @upenn.edu has been posted. Thank you to moderators @sarahcolijn.bsky.social and @shyama13.bsky.social. Watch here: youtu.be/k4OJHnZV2gk

Got stunning fluorescence microscopy images? 🌈🔬 SDB wants to feature YOUR work for #FluorescenceFriday! We highlight images from SDB members with a short description and the image creators 📸. Fill out the form to be featured: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

✴️Sea urchins have illuminated fertilization 🧫, early cleavage divisions 🔬, and gene regulation in embryonic patterning 🧬. A classic marine model that shaped our understanding of cell fate and axis formation. 📸 Image by Laurent Formery #ModelMonday #DevBio

🐟 Talk about jaw-dropping evolution! 😮 Bahamian pupfishes show huge craniofacial diversity with tiny genetic tweaks. 🎏 Here’s C. desquamator, where 🟠 atp8a1 Is expressed just the jaw muscles (🩷tpm3b)🔬image from @fishfena.bsky.social #FluorescenceFriday #EvoDevo

The next Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoc Seminar will be this Friday, October 10 at 3 pm Eastern Time with Austin Seroka @austinseroka1.bsky.social of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center & Heather Dingwall @dingwallaby.bsky.social‬ of @upenn.edu. Register today and join us. bit.ly/4nIlJed #SDBPostdocSeminar

🪱 Planarian (Schmidtea mediterranea)
✨ Planarians can regenerate a complete body from tiny fragments thanks to their amazing pluripotent stem cells (neoblasts) 🧬 A star of regeneration and stem cell biology 📸 Image by Rachel Gandee #ModelMonday #DevBio

The next #SDBPostdocSeminar will be held Friday, October 10 at 3 pm Eastern Time with Austin Seroka @austinseroka1.bsky.social from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and Heather Dingwall @dingwallaby.bsky.social‬ from @upenn.edu. Register today and join us. bit.ly/4nIlJed

✨ They say true beauty is on the inside… This zebrafish took that personally 🐟 🟢 Bone 🟣 tendon & ligament🔬Image by Hung-Jhen (Olivia) Chen #FluorescenceFriday #DevBio #Zebrafish

The September 12 #SDBPostdocSeminar with @sarahcolijn.bsky.social of Washington University in St. Louis and @shyama13.bsky.social‬ of the University of Pittsburgh has been posted. Thank you to moderators Rui Yan and Taylor Medwig-Kinney. Watch here: youtu.be/kGAtxCqFARk

Mouse (Mus musculus) 🐭 is the powerhouse of mammalian genetics, essential for studying embryogenesis, organ development and gene function using transgenic technologies. 📸 Image by Zhong Hua also featured on the cover of Developmental Biology textbook (11th edition) #ModelMonday

Reviewer Workshop! Interested in reviewing in #DevBio? Join us for a discussion on reviewer best practices! Sept 24th 10-11am CST. Sign up here! forms.gle/w4NTp21RNmnL...

Check out the latest President's Corner by SDB President Richard Behringer @rrbehringer.bsky.social on challenges. www.sdbonline.org/resource?Res...

Deadline to register for Get Into Grad School Webinar approaching! Share with interested #undergraduates and #postbacs Registration Deadline: Thursday, September 18. bit.ly/3HFJ9BG

#SDBPostdocSeminar today at 3pm ET!

Don't miss the next #SDBPostdocSeminar this Friday, September 12 at 3pm ET featuring @sarahcolijn.bsky.social‬ from Washington University in St. Louis and @shyama13.bsky.social‬ from the University of Pittsburgh. Register today and join us. bit.ly/4649fWS

✨Drosophila melanogaster 🪰The fly that changed science 🔬Drosophila has been a cornerstone for understanding genetic control of development, axis patterning, and organogenesis 🧪 GIF from Bruno Vellutini #ModelMonday #DevBio

✨Nervous about development? Don’t be! 🧠 E13.5 🐁 embryo showing nerves (🩵) and endothelial cells (💙) weaving together in the developing pup 🔬 image by Nathan Burns 🧪 #FluorescenceFriday #DevBio #MouseEmbryo

#Undergraduates #Postbacs @socdevbio.bsky.social is hosting a webinar Get Into Grad School September 21 at 3pm ET. Learn about doctoral programs, the key elements of a compelling grad school application, and the interview process. Register: bit.ly/3HFJ9BG

The 2025-2026 season of the Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoc Seminar kicks off Friday, September 12 at 3 pm Eastern Time with @sarahcolijn.bsky.social‬ of Washington Univ in St. Louis and @shyama13.bsky.social‬ of the Univ of Pittsburgh. Register today and join us. bit.ly/4649fWS #SDBPostdocSeminar

SDB Past President Carole LaBonne's latest op-ed in STAT 'U.S. science and universities are becoming political hostages in the Orbánization of knowledge' highlights how "the fight for science and universities is, at its core, a fight for democracy itself." bit.ly/4633by7

Axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum)🦎 can regrow limbs, tail, spinal cord, heart, and even parts of its brain. Axolotls are champions of regeneration and also shed light on limb patterning, wound healing, and developmental plasticity. Image from Prayag Murawala #ModelMonday #DevBio

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has proposed changes to limit student & exchange visitor visas to 4 years. These changes would affect undergrads, grad students & postdocs from outside the U.S. DHS is accepting comments through September 29. Learn more: bit.ly/4fVeexC

🔬Two heads are better than one… even in frogs! 🐸✨ This Xenopus laevis embryo developed with two heads, offering a striking view of early developmental patterning. 🟢 actin 🟣 neural tissue 🔵 nuclei. Image by Kourtnie Whitfield. #FluorescenceFriday #DevBio #Xenopus

🎉 The Midwest SDB Regional Meeting is happening soon! Join at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center for exciting developmental biology from across the Midwest. 🧬 Registration deadline: September 2nd ✨. More information here: www.midwestsdbincincy.org #MIDWESTSDB25

🪱 C. elegans (Nematode). Every cell counts, literally. C. elegans has a fully mapped cell lineage from egg to adult. Key for understanding cell fate specification, apoptosis, nervous system wiring, aging, and stem cell regulation. Image taken by Swagata Dey #ModelMonday

Got stunning fluorescence microscopy images? 🌈🔬 SDB wants to feature YOUR work for #FluorescenceFriday! We highlight images from SDB members with a short description and the image creators 📸. Fill out the form to be featured: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Last day to apply! tinyurl.com/SDBFaculty

✨If Monet studied mouse ovaries 🎨 Stromal cells 💜 Follicular cells 🔵 and Fatty Cells 🟡. Together, they reveal the cellular architecture and functional zones of the ovary 🔬 Image provided by @shmimberly.bsky.social 🧪 #FluorescenceFriday #ReproductiveBiology

Asking my #DevBio @socdevbio.bsky.social & #Neuroscience @sfn.org colleagues to join me in donating to the ABRCMS conference poster award fund. I am sure there will be 🤩 posters on these topics @ ABRCMS 2025 in Nov, let's make sure there is award $ to recognize their work! abrcms.org/donate/stude...

🎉 The Midwest SDB Regional Meeting is happening soon! Join at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center for exciting developmental biology from across the Midwest 🧬✨ 📅 Poster abstracts deadline: August 22nd. More information here: www.midwestsdbincincy.org #MIDWESTSDB25

✨ Are you a pre-tenure faculty or advanced postdoc with an academic offer in hand? 🎓 3 days left to apply for the SDB New Faculty Boot Camp! 🚀 Deadline: Aug 22, 2025 Apply here 👉 tinyurl.com/SDBFaculty

📚 Wishing all developmental biologists an AMAZING new academic year! 🚀 Boost your teaching & learning with SDB CoRe: a FREE, peer-reviewed online database of stunning images, movies & diagrams for all things development! 🌱🐣🦎 Explore here: www.sdbcore.org 🌟 #DevBio

🐟 Zebrafish (Danio rerio): Clear as glass, zebrafish embryos let you watch organs form in real time. A powerhouse for studying organogenesis and regeneration, they’re also champions of transgenic expression of fluorescent proteins 🌈 image from Gopi Shah 🧪 #ModelMonday #DevBio

📢 Last day to apply for the MBL Light Microscopy Bootcamp! 👉 www.mbl.edu/education/mb... Learn how to reveal 10 genes with HCR in situ in zebrafish embryos 🐟🔬and so much more!!

✨Not a rainbow trout… a rainbow zebrafish 🌈 🐟 The expression of 10 different genes simultaneously including Hox genes along the body axis, somites, brain regions, skeletal muscle, and heart 🔬Image by Alice Sherrard, Gabby Jerz & Nipam Patel 🧪 #FluorescenceFriday

🎉 The SDB West Coast Regional Meeting is starting today! Excited to connect, share groundbreaking developmental biology research, and spark new collaborations. Let’s make this an inspiring event! 🚀🔬 #WCSDB2025 #DevBio

✨ Are you a pre-tenure faculty or advanced postdoc with an academic offer in hand? 🎓 Two weeks left to apply for the SDB New Faculty Boot Camp! 🚀 Deadline: Aug 22, 2025 Apply here 👉 tinyurl.com/SDBFaculty

🚨Only 4 days to apply!!!🚨Join the SDB SciComm Internship! Gain hands-on experience writing stories on the latest developmental biology discoveries🔬Connect with top mentors & earn $500 to attend the SDB Annual Meeting 🎉! 👉 www.sdbonline.org/science_comm... #SciComm #DevBio

🐣Chick embryo (Gallus gallus domesticus): a window into vertebrate development. From heart and limb formation to neural crest migration and axis patterning, this model has been cracking the developmental code for over a century. Image by Vincent Pasque #ModelMonday #DevBio

Got stunning fluorescence microscopy images? 🌈🔬 SDB wants to feature YOUR work for #FluorescenceFriday! We highlight images from SDB members with a short description and the image creators 📸. Fill out the form to be featured: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

✨Development meets design in this embryonic chameleon lung 🫁 🦎. Smooth muscle swirls 🟣 and branching tips and cartilage 🟢 come together in reptilian lung morphogenesis. Image taken by @drkatiegoodwin.bsky.social 🔬🧪 #FluorescenceFriday #DevBio