“We know from experience that training driven by commercial priorities can sometimes gloss over nuance, limitations, and ethical considerations.” Important librarian perspective on AI training from @drbeth.bsky.social! www.uksg.org/newsletter/u... #charlestoninbetween

Did you know that the BSCB has a YouTube channel? If you missed the #dynamiccell meeting in April, you can catch the excellent talks from our 2026 medal winners here: www.youtube.com/@official_BSCB

We're excited to be partnering with My Mito Mission who funded one of our summer studentships on mitochondrial research. The studentship was awarded to Hannah Jackson who will be working in Michael Clague’s lab at the University of Liverpool on TMEM11 in mitophagy. Congratulations Hannah!

Great science deserves to be seen! 🧬🧪 Discover the standout posters and the researchers behind them from 'Building networks: engineering in vascular biology': s.embl.org/evb26-01-posters Congrats to the winners: • Adrian Candelas • Harriet Smith • Jorge Trojanowski #EMBOBuildNetworks

With the highest ratings for value for money in over 10 years driven by teaching quality, and strong student satisfaction across the country, today's findings are a vote of confidence in our universities. See our response to the survey here ➡️ www.russellgroup.ac.uk/news/russell...

Many thanks for the award!!

My 2nd place image for the @bscb-official.bsky.social imaging competition. I made this during the Lunar new year period, or we call it Tet in Vietnam. Peach blossom 🌸 is the traditional flower that every family in the North would have during this time, so the image is certainly inspired by it.

Eva Simpson (University of Nottingham) is awarded the 2026 Raff Medal PhD Award at #DynamicCellVI by our PhD Rep @harrietasmith.bsky.social, before her fantastic medal talk about her research using 3D-CLEM to study meiotic chromosome organisation Congratulations Eva 👏👏

The team in our Making Lab are helping to answer challenging biological questions by building miniature airways, automating syringe pumps and rigging up Wi Fi for fruit fly larvae. Learn about the scientific challenges each of these inventions are helping us solve. www.crick.ac.uk/news/2026-03...

The next edition of our ECR forum #BSCBNextGen will be on Tues 14th April

BSCB members, you have ONE WEEK left to: - submit your summer studentship applications - submit you image competition entries - submit you science writing competition entries There are prizes to be won! All details on our website bscb.org Deadlines are 31st March

Have you produced beautiful images as part of your cell biology research? Then enter our image competition! bscb.org/competitions... Deadline 31st March Check out last year's winner 'Brainbow' by Alvaro Castano

Do you know a talented undergraduate student who would like to undertake a paid summer internship in your cell biology lab? Applications to our summer studentships are OPEN Deadline 31st March For details and how to apply, see our website: bscb.org/support-gran...

We’ve had a space open up for next week’s #BSCBNextGen — if you’re interested in presenting please sign up here: forms.gle/39gTybNriWPd... 10th Feb 2026, 14-15:00 GMT :)

Two weeks left to apply to be the BSCB Postdoc rep

BSCB NextGen kicks off tomorrow at 14.00 BST. Don't forget to register your place!

Happy New Year from the BSCB! We're very excited to announce 'BSCB NextGen', a new monthly online seminar series aimed at ECRs in Cell Biology. The series kicks off on 13th January For full details and how to register see: bscb.org/announcing-b...

Don't forget to register for our Spring Meeting: Dynamic Cell VI A joint meeting with the @biochemsoc.bsky.social Super early bird registration ends 21st Jan

Do you know an outstanding cell biologist? Nominations are open for our 2026 medals: 🔬Hooke Medal for outstanding contribution in cell biology 👩‍🔬Women in Cell Biology medal 🧫 Postdoctoral Researcher medal 🔬Raff PhD medal award Deadline 1st November

If you're attending #biologists100 visit our exhibition stand & chat to our PhD reps @harrietasmith.bsky.social @emilyxlucas.bsky.social They're looking for volunteers to film a 60 sec video discussing your work or poster You'll get one of our lovely BSCB mugs!

Deeply honoured to receive the 2025 Raff Medal! Huge thanks to @bscb-official.bsky.social for the recognition. This wouldn’t have been possible without the support of my supervisors, Sylvie Urbé & Mike Clague, my colleagues, collaborators, and the many mentors who inspired me along the way.

We caught up with @bscb-official.bsky.social PhD rep @harrietasmith.bsky.social at #biologists100. Key words describing Harriet’s research are angiogenesis and cell protrusions. #angiogenesis #CellProtrusions

Come and check out our stand at #biologists100 with a chance to enter our mystery prize draw! @biologists.bsky.social @emilyxlucas.bsky.social @harrietasmith.bsky.social

Thank you to everyone who came to the ECR careers event yesterday at #Biologists100! A big thanks to @richardsever.bsky.social for an excellent talk @biologists.bsky.social @bscb-official.bsky.social @bsdb.bsky.social @harrietasmith.bsky.social @abinagui.bsky.social @aymen-alrawi.bsky.social #bscb

A great first day at #Biologists100. Always inspiring to see the @bscb-official.bsky.social and @bsdb.bsky.social medal winners present! Congratulations to @helenweavers.bsky.social, @impeiyee.bsky.social and Muzlifah Haniffa #bscb @harrietasmith.bsky.social @biologists.bsky.social

it was an honour to give Dr Tay this year’s BSCB Raff medal! She gave a brilliant talk that was both inspiring & motivating 💪🧬✨

It's not too late to submit your abstract for our Spring @biologists.bsky.social meeting. Join us in Liverpool this March! 100yearsconference.biologists.com

@biologists.bsky.social hi! I’m having trouble editing my abstract in the abstract submission portal for the Biologist’s 100 conference, as there’s no edit button available. Is there any way to fix this before the deadline later today?

just finished my first meeting as phd representative on the BSCB committee! excited for the next few years & especially looking forward to the @biologists.bsky.social 100 years meeting this coming spring :)