The moment we've all been waiting for is finally here… On June 29, 2026, NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory officially began the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST)! 🔭🧪☄️🌌 🔗: rubinobservatory.org/news/action-...

¿Para quién son las viviendas protegidas de alquiler en España? En muchos casos, necesitas cobrar más de 2.000€ al mes para acceder a una vivienda social. No es una exageración. En las casas del Plan Vive, de la Comunidad de Madrid, las condiciones de acceso no son para la mayoría social. ⬇️🧵

As Editor of @dev-journal.bsky.social I get asked "What are you doing about your impact factor?" In our new editorial we say: Ask not what Dev can do for the impact factor. Ask what you can do for Dev's IF The IF is about how we all cite, review & assess each other's work doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Fantastic news for the lab! We've just been awarded a Wellcome Discovery award and will be recruiting at postdoc and research assistant level shortly. We're excited by this project that aims to understand how metabolism influences male germline development. Please forward to any interested people!

Somatic cells compartmentalise their carbohydrate metabolism to sustain germ cell survival @diegosainzdelamaza.bsky.social, Marc Amoyel et al link.springer.com/article/10.1...

My latest work is out in @embojournal.org, and it well deserves a 🧵!!!👇 For the first time in vivo, we show that somatic gonadal cells sustain the developing germline by producing lactate through glycolysis and shuttling it directly to germ cells to keep them alive link.springer.com/article/10.1...

PlasmidGPT: A generative framework for plasmid analysis and generation | Science Advances https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.aee6916?af=R

On cloudy days, immune cells serve as the homing pigeon’s internal compass. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/pigeon-navigation-iron-liver-cells

It was amazing to be part of this. Lots of new ideas to test in the lab!

Antonio García-Bellido (1936-2025): journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Dogs in Europe had been domesticated from wild wolves by at least 14,200 years ago, two new genetic studies suggest. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/oldest-dog-dna-domestication

I'm a Luddite, Why Aren't You

Turning on the ‘for you’ feed on X shifted political opinions, but turning it off did not @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We’re back with the Metabolism in Development & Physiology online seminar series 🎉 Thu 15 Jan 2025, 16:00 CET Speakers: Heidi Lempradl (Professor, VAI) Diego Sainz de la Maza (PostDoc, UCL)

El pastelero que patentó una molécula contra el cáncer que se ha vendido por 7.000 millones de euros dozz.es/tgwbd7

Now @thenode.bsky.social #SEBD Honours Antonio García-Bellido thenode.biologists.com/sebd-honours...

El artista vasco Koque Martínez descansa eternamente, bajo el mismo sol y a la sombra de los mismos cipreses, junto a Karl Marx.

This parasitic ant tricks workers into killing their own queen. Learn more: https://scim.ag/43FNdcR

Este viernes a las 19:00h, la Residencia de Estudiantes y el CBM organizamos una sesión de homenaje a Antonio García-Bellido, con la participación de sus discípulos, amigos y colegas. Estáis todos invitados a venir.

Obituary: John Gurdon (1933-2025) Biologist who made cloning possible go.nature.com/3WicRAe

An Interview with Azim Surani Ashley Moffett and @geraldinejowett.bsky.social spoke to Azim, recipient of both the 2025 Kyoto Prize and 2026 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize, about his non-traditional and inspirational route into academia: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

There's an update on the state of FlyBase on the FlyBase.org front page. You can contribute to FlyBase at this link wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase... We express enormous gratitude to the people, labs, groups, and foundations who have already helped us. #FlyBase #Drosophila

The FlyBase situation has made the national news www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

Congratulations to the winners of our image competition with the @mblscience.bsky.social Embryology course. The winner of the Editor’s choice is an image of a anole lizard eye, acquired by Arthur Boutillon @campaslab.bsky.social. thenode.biologists.com/results-from... #devbio 🔬🎉

FlyBase needs your help! We ask that European labs continue to contribute to Cambridge, UK FlyBase, whereas US and other non-European labs can contribute to US FlyBase. For more information and how to donate: wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...

New preprint from the lab! Check it out, we show how somatic gonadal cells ensure that carbohydrate metabolism is wired to support the developing germline! Ah, and we rename a gene!

🆕🧪‼️ New lab preprint! We study how germ cells (the cells that give rise to gametes, in this case sperm) are supported by somatic (non-germ) cells of the gonad. This matters for our understanding of reproduction - without germ cell development, animals are sterile. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

"Thinking time —the time needed to concentrate without interruptions has always been central to scholarly work. It is essential to designing experiments, compiling data, assessing results, reviewing literature and, of course, writing. Yet, [it] is often undervalued." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

If using Bloomigton #Drosophila Stock Center stocks, pls. acknowledge them & their NIH funding (P40 OD018537). Papers listing this no. are being harvested as evidence. We massively depend on the @bdsc.bsky.social & they need our support in these dire times! @flybase.bsky.social @fly-eds.bsky.social

Acabar un día de trabajo echando un ratico para hablar de lo divino, de lo humano y de los testículos de la mosca de la fruta fue una gozada. Gracias @raticosdeciencia.bsky.social

A decade in, expansion microscopy is unlocking insights across biology and medicine https://go.nature.com/4adlNgg

Spread of yellow-bill-color alleles favored by selection in the long-tailed finch hybrid system www.cell.com/current-biol...

Repurposing of a gill gene regulatory program for outer ear evolution

Un experimento en un laboratorio español ha recreado la Tierra primitiva y han surgido protocélulas, un paso previo a los seres vivos. “No hay un soplo divino” en el origen de la vida, afirma el geólogo Juan Manuel García Ruiz elpais.com/ciencia/2024...

New #GeneGroups subset: Metabolic Pathways! These manually curated reports aim to facilitate metabolic research in Drosophila by providing high-quality gene lists and visual representations of fly metabolic pathways, integrated with the other rich data in FlyBase.

Kaur, R., McGarry, A., Shropshire, J. D., Leigh, B. A., Bordenstein, S. R. (2024). Prophage proteins alter long noncoding RNA and DNA of developing sperm to induce a paternal-effect lethality. Science, 383(6687):1111-1117 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Our latest: how to generate the notochord "Timely TGFβ signalling inhibition induces notochord" A thread: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Nature shares their top image picks from 2024 - from volcanoes to flowery bacteriophages to boxing palm weevils in microphotography www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Varios de los protagonistas del caso Neurona rompen su silencio: “Hicieron piezas horrorosas [en los medios]. Llegaron a acosar a mis padres”, recuerda Teresa Arévalo. Sacaron imágenes de su casa y de su hijo. “El acoso fue terrible durante meses”

We're hiring a postdoc! Come join us and work on understanding how somatic cells support the germline. This project aims to understand metabolic compartmentalisation between somatic and germ cells and how it contributes to fertility. Apply here www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

‪Someone used @michaelgbertram.bsky.social's name and professional identity to write dozens of fake peer reviews, in a scandal that may lead to 47 retractions. I talked to Bertram about the experience. www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

We're hiring a postdoc! Please forward to people you know who are looking for positions. Interested in studying how metabolism is wired to support fertility? 🔬🪰 Come join us! Ad to go live next week, but informal enquiries encouraged.

Similarities between academia and parenting: terrible for your finances, insane working hours, challenging for mental health and no reasonable answers to the question 'why do you do it then?' apart from 'I don't know, I just love the job'

Here’s my spreadsheet of starter packs (>80!) related to broadly ‘mechanistic biology’ plus some intriguing extras Complete with collective nouns I’ve been tracking these but now can’t keep up Hope it’s helpful 2/2 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

"Bluesky is awesome now, for how long?" I mean, look, all things change and end, we will all die, earth will be uninhabitable in a billion years, then the sun will expand and destroy the planet, and the universe will die a slow death of proton decay. But BEFORE THAT, let's make this place fun, okay?