New preprint in collab with Capelson & Schindler labs): Nuclear pore complexes are developmentally removed and rebuilt during oocyte specification. Blocking turnover prevents gene silencing and meiotic entry. Nuclear architecture renewal is required for cell fate. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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

Postdocs: Polish your skills for the academic job market! Get expert advice and feedback on your package from those outside your institution. This e-course is just one of the fantastic offerings from @socdevbio.bsky.social

Postdocs: Polish your skills for the academic job market! Get expert advice and feedback on your package from those outside your institution. This e-course is just one of the fantastic offerings from @socdevbio.bsky.social

Come join us in beautiful Roscoff for this Conference Jacques Monod on Developmental regulation: from molecular to ecological niches May 18-22, 2026 Roscoff, France Abstract deadline: January 31, 2026 Apply here: cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en

I’m recruiting new members to the Farrell Lab this summer. We will have space for 1 postdoc (since Abhinav is leaving to start his own lab at U Arizona!!) and 2 postbacs, since my current two will leave for PhD programs at the end of the summer. More details in thread:

Friends! I am so happy to share our new preprint! Hydrogen peroxide has been the most common reactive chemical threat to life forms since the Great Oxygenation Event 2.5 billion years ago. How do animals like C. elegans sense it fast and escape? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Thread 1/

Our new paper reveals critical new regulators of stem cell differentiation that control where the right kinds of cells are made in planarians. In particular, we find Anosmin—a gene responsible for Kallmann Syndrome—as a restrictor of neurogenesis. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #basicresearch

Soon you’ll be able to read an updated version of our paper at Nature Communications! Congratulations to all the authors for all of their hard work. @kuangtse.bsky.social @evodevo-tw.bsky.social and others not on the socials!

Now Open: E-STEEM Postdoc Call 2026 20+ fully funded 4 year-postdoc positions for females in STEM (and Economics) at the University of Vienna. careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e... Application Deadline: March 2, 2026 Select your desired Host. Anyone interested in my lab, please get in touch.

Apply to the Neurobiology course at MBL! It is supercool. Apps due Feb 4.

The next the Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoc Seminar will be this Friday, January 9 at 3 pm Eastern Time with Priyom Adhyapok @priyomadhyapok.bsky.social @duke-university.bsky.social and Zong-Yuan Liu @UMich. Register today and join us. bit.ly/4ncxr0M #SDBPostdocSeminar

The December 12 #SDBPostdocSeminar with @weiyiqian.bsky.social from the New York University Grossman School of Medicine and Robyn Allen of @universityofky.bsky.social has been posted. Thank you to moderators Olya Yarychkivska and Anthony Galenza‬. Watch here: youtu.be/yKFlB_nB2lo

To all current/future planarian enthusiasts: The next installment of the North American Planarian Meeting will occur in June 2026 in Ithaca, New York. We welcome anyone who wants to participate, organized by me and Chris Petersen (Northwestern). Please share far and wide. napm2026.weebly.com

Can't believe my postdoc paper is finally out. Christmas came early this year, holy moly 🎄 Molecular basis for de novo thymus regeneration in a vertebrate, the axolotl | Science Immunology www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Petition for a NY Biomedical Institute. This is a no-brainer to support science in NY, similar to programs in CA/TX. www.change.org/p/support-a-...

Interested in cell adhesion, evolution of multicellularity, or developing tools for emerging marine models? My lab at UM is hiring a postdoc, and the application is now open: 🔗 tinyurl.com/28jvu4aa If you know anyone looking for a postdoc, please pass this along!

I was one of those immigrants, and we commit fewer crimes than people born here. “Trump says he wants to “permanently pause migration” from poorer nations and is promising to seek to expel millions of immigrants from the US by revoking their legal status.” apnews.com/article/trum...

ICYMI – the recordings of the Development presents… webinar on regeneration are up on the Node. Tune in to hear the talks from Stephanie Tsai & Ben Cox. #DevPres thenode.biologists.com/catch-up-on-...

My kid’s salacious google search triggered a Qustudio alert through the school monitoring system. I sure hope this software cost the school/district/state a pretty penny.

The next the Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoc Seminar will be this 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

Join us 19 November to hear from two early-career researchers, Stephanie Tsai & Ben Cox, working on regeneration. Chaired by @dev-journal.bsky.social's Executive Editor, Alex Eve @amjeve.bsky.social. 📅 Wednesday 19 November – 16:00 GMT/UTC Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Dear all, A scientist from UNC Chapel Hill, Paul Maddox, is running for congress in NC for a seat currently held by a republican. If you care about science (and democracy) please consider donating to his campaign #Standupforscience secure.actblue.com/donate/paul-...

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...

Here it is! Postdoctoral position to identify the progenitors sensory organs in the regenerating legs of Parhyale apply here: www.averof-lab.org/pages/tracman 1/3

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

WE'RE HIRING: Cornell University’s Weill Institute for Cell & Molecular Biology and the Department of Molecular Biology & Genetics are seeking a tenure-track Assistant Professor whose research integrates cell and molecular biology with an evolutionary perspective. apps.hr.cornell.edu/recruiting/f...

🚀 NY-CURES Launch — Championing State-Wide Investment in Science! 🚀 Our new coalition advocates for sustained public support of New York’s vibrant biomedical research ecosystem — creating cures, economic gains & strengthening communities. Sign up. Stay informed. Join the movement: www.nycures.org/

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

#Postdoc-opportunity at Columbia U. in New York!! Looking for a postdoc position? We are interested in candidates from biochemistry background & excited about fractionation, purification and reconstitution to study autonomous clocks in the cell cycle, in colab. with @aydinlab.bsky.social at NYU!

12 examples of how developmental biology research led to fundamental discoveries for biomedical research. There are many more! Download ppt & jpg versions on @socdevbio.bsky.social website. Use & modify as needed. Poster formats are also posted to print & hang in your lab!

✨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

#DevBio #Postdocs! Abstracts are being accepted for speakers in the 2025-2026 Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoctoral Seminar Series. SDB postdoctoral members are eligible to apply. Deadline: August 1. #SDBPostdocSeminar bit.ly/3x1ptgb

Only one day left to comment on the value of using model organisms in research:

Tell your story in an op-ed for a LOCAL HOMETOWN PAPER to be published June 16! #McClintockLetters #saveNSF We have to reach folks who don't read NYT and WaPo. Communicate to the public about how we serve them with fed dollars, & insights into fed funded research. tinyurl.com/McClintockLetters

@socdevbio.bsky.social students/postdocs-I know you are feeling all the feels about the assault on science and what it means for your careers. I am planning a few "Resistance and Resilience" zoom meetups as a forum for support and conversation-DM contact info if you are interested in participating

Congrats to Sylvia, Jon, Cedric, and all other authors!!

Federal research cuts impact local economies, and stall progress. Publish an opinion piece in your hometown paper on June 16th to SPREAD THE WORD about how scientific research contributes to the everyday health and wealth of the general public. #McClintockLetters blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-...

👇👇👇 New preprint dropped! Where we dive deep into the factors that restrict pluripotent stem cells to make the RIGHT cell types in the RIGHT place in planarians. Many surprises in this very exciting story. @kuangtse.bsky.social

Blue Origin’s all-female flight proves that women are now free to enjoy capitalism’s most extravagant spoils alongside rich men, our culture critic writes.

This insanely cool paper is making my day!!! (Cue arguments about Haeckel being right!) Congrats to Gage Crump, Andrew Gillis, @goodfrognosis.bsky.social and all the other authors. Well done! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39788155/

Trump's Gender Directives Ignore the Sceince of Biological Sex thehill.com/opinion/whit...

Excellent article on the impact of slash-and-burn tactics at NIH by @timdickinson.bsky.social @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Check out this year's exciting lineup of speakers for the Northeast Society for Developmental Biology meeting, April 25-27, at the Marine Biological Laboratory! www.sdbonline.org/nesdb2025_pr...

The Society for Developmental Biology has released a statement on how the Abrupt Dismissal of NIH and NSF Staff Undermines Government Efficiency. bit.ly/3X9VEKd

Our values and resolve are only strengthened by recent events.

not paying indirect costs for research is like only paying the players in the Super Bowl. can't have a Super Bowl without coaches, referees, security, janitors, announcers, stadium staff, and a stadium - and you can't have research without supporting people and facilities

Here is the 2025 embryo alphabet from alligator to zebrafish. Developmental biology is stunning & leads to important discoveries for human medicine. @socdevbio.bsky.social

The Society for Developmental Biology has released a statement on the Unprecedented Disruptions to Biomedical Research in the United States.

Biology of Aging at MBL: happening again in 2025