In our Forest of Biologists we fund the restoration and preservation of ancient woodland and dedicate these trees to our peer reviewers. There are now over 10,000 trees for peer reviews! Thank you to all our peer reviewers. Find out more: forest.biologists.com #PRW2025 @peerreviewweek.bsky.social

Great to see this from @vmetzis.bsky.social & co published Dissection of CDX2 regulatory elements identifies a repressive element that converts to an enhancer with a nuclear receptor motif switch www.cell.com/developmenta...

Excited for the #CSHAmeeting on Human Development - From Embryos to Stem Cell Models in Suzhou, China? Our Editor, Peter Rugg-Gunn, is attending and has curated a collection of review-type and Research Articles on this topic: journals.biologists.com/dev/collecti...

NEW PODCAST: ‘A Question of Science’ with Professor Brian Cox. In every episode, panels of scientists and experts answer audience questions about some of the biggest issues facing us today. Listen to the first episode, ‘Can we live forever?’: lnk.to/AQOSAgeingBB

Excited for next week's #AXON2025 #neuroscience conference? To complement the meeting, our Editor Debby Silver @debbysilver.bsky.social has curated a collection of review-type and Research Articles on #NeuralDevelopment: journals.biologists.com/dev/collecti...

1/7 Really happy to see my PhD work published in ✨Developmental Cell✨ today! We find human endoderm is specified by two developmental trajectories 🔀, and the choice between alternate routes is dictated by the combinatorial BMP4/Activin signalling. www.cell.com/developmenta...

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

On 4 September 2000 I arrived at MRC-NIMR Mil Hill, feeling a little anxious and out of my depth, for my first day as a group leader Twenty five years later, not much has changed. Still trying to figure out what I'm meant to be doing and hoping not to be found out

Read BSDB Beddington Medal winner @rorymaizels.bsky.social interview with @the-node.bsky.social Discussing his journey from undergraduate to PhD and beyond

👀Interview with @bsdb.bsky.social Beddington medal winner @rorymaizels.bsky.social We caught up with Rory to discuss his career path, his PhD with @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social and what he is excited about in #devbio. thenode.biologists.com/an-interview...

Exciting day for @crick.ac.uk today: Edith Heard takes over as Director We're looking forward to this new chapter in the story www.crick.ac.uk/about-us/lea...

Very honored to receive the Royal Society Research Culture Award - this represents the work of a great team who've worked non-stop since we launched bioRxiv in 2013 royalsociety.org/news/2025/08... www.cshl.edu/inglis-and-s...

Super excited that our latest work is out! We use optogenetics to dynamically control and study the formation of morphogen gradients. If you are interested in optogenetic tools and/or how cells shape and process extracellular signals, check out @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social's thread and the paper.

Check out the latest work by @dbenzinger.bsky.social and @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social ! Building gradients in space and time. I am extremely biased but the Dec 15 issue of Dev Cell is 🔥🔥

Our latest: We developed a chemo-optogenetic system for precise spatiotemporal control of morphogen production. Using dual light + small molecule control of Sonic Hedgehog production, we recapitulated neural tube patterning in vitro & measured spread of Shh 🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Meet Development’s 2025 Pathway to Independence (PI) fellows In a series of interviews published in @dev-journal.bsky.social, we learn more about each fellow’s career path, research interests and aspirations when they start their own lab. thenode.biologists.com/developments...

Like our sister journals, you can also submit an additional language abstract at @dev-journal.bsky.social and we cater for non-Western characters for author names. Did you know Development also facilitates retrospective author name changes?

Join our online workshop, 'A creative approach to science communication' presented by Anatolii Kozlov @anatoliikozlov.bsky.social. 🗓️Wednesday 10 September, 14:00-15:30 BST (UTC+1) Sign up here⤵️ thenode.biologists.com/a-creative-a... #scicomm

Lovely memory of Benny Shilo by Stas Shvartsman www.cell.com/developmenta...

Podcast recommendation: The Lab Detective Tells the story of a miscarriage of justice & @crick.ac.uk's @carovinuesa.bsky.social role in righting it Compelling human interest story with major implications for how courts deal with scientific evidence shows.acast.com/the-tortoise...

We are deeply saddened by the passing of our colleague Catherine Rabouille. Catherine was senior group leader at the Hubrecht Institute, an exceptional cell biologist, a passionate mentor, and a driving force for diversity and inclusion in science. Full tribute: www.hubrecht.eu/in-memoriam-...

Latest on Waddington Landscapes: Computational methods to fit dynamical landscapes directly to single cell data Applied to neural tube patterning shows morphogen-signalling landscapes can be linearly interpolated Connects interpretable landscape models with data www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Latest on Waddington Landscapes: Computational methods to fit dynamical landscapes directly to single cell data Applied to neural tube patterning shows morphogen-signalling landscapes can be linearly interpolated Connects interpretable landscape models with data www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Great to see UK's strengthening its science through funding from Horizon Europe www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Thrilled to bits to see our latest work online in Dev Cell! 🥳 We wanted to know how cells build functional organs with precision🫀🫁📏 Here we show how coupling of cell shape and organ function fine tunes the form and contractile power of the developing #zebrafish heart 1/n tinyurl.com/cell-stretch

A Summer reading recommendation: new primer in @dev-journal.bsky.social explains how dynamical systems theory unlocks the logic of developmental patterning Everything from bistable switches & oscillators to phase portraits & more with Python code to explore journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Our upcoming #DevPres webinar focusses on stem cells and organoids, with talks from Toshi Yamada (UCSF), Chrysanthi-Maria (Anthie) Moysidou (Max Delbrück Center @mdc-berlin.bsky.social) and Daniel Medina-Cano (MSKCC). 13 August 16:00 BST Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

To all post-docs: The Genome Biology dept ‪@embl.org has an Independent faculty position. Fantastic place to set up your lab –great package: core funding, fantastic Ph.D. students, cutting edge core facilities & great colleagues. Closing date Sept 19th embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

Our Faraday Discovery Fellowships Accelerated International Route is now open for applications, providing a fast-track option for attracting mid-career researchers looking to relocate to the UK from overseas, providing up to £4m over a five-year period. #RSGrants

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.

New In Preprints from @dev-journal.bsky.social by Valdebenito & Diaz-Cuadros Highlights recent work investigating how the rate of development is controlled from @trayon.bsky.social & Coussement et al In preprints: setting the tempo of development url: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Thrilled to share that our latest work on marsupial heterochrony is now online at @cp-devcell.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social @lab-turner.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk We used scRNAseq to understand the asynchronous progression of developmental programmes in marsupials www.cell.com/developmenta...

Very promising news on the next seven-year EU budget, with a proposed substantial increase for Horizon Europe including the ERC. We are analysing the other parts of this proposal in more detail. @Vonderleyen @EZaharievaEU research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/news/all-res...

Just published: The cis-regulatory logic integrating spatial and temporal patterning in the vertebrate neural tube A global temporal chromatin program, operating across the CNS, directs binding of specific spatial TFs & hence when/where neurons & glia are born authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

New work with Saunders & Charras labs Physical boundaries guide cell fate decisions during human trunk development Reaction Diffusion model shows how geometry shapes biology with TBXT expression forming consistent domains regardless of colony size & shape www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

What links developmental biology and mini-robots? - Complex adaptive systems Nice N&V piece on recent work on developmental biology inspired robotics www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Excited to share our latest work with @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social . A global #cis-regulatory temporal program guides how spatial cues are interpreted in neural progenitors. We show how #space and #time can be integrated to generate cell type diversity in the #spinalcord. Congrats to all authors.

Great technique from my @crick.ac.uk colleagues in @petrznam.bsky.social lab Reconstructing neural circuits with barcoded Rabies virus & in situ sequencing www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Great that Life Science Sector Plan puts support for discovery research at top of the list But odd that MRC-LMB singled out for 10 year funding. Is MRC no longer responsible for the LMB? Who will do scientific evaluation? What about other research organisations? www.gov.uk/government/p...

Just published: The cis-regulatory logic integrating spatial and temporal patterning in the vertebrate neural tube A global temporal chromatin program, operating across the CNS, directs binding of specific spatial TFs & hence when/where neurons & glia are born authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Mind the pores: studying morphogen gradients Read this Research Highlight showcasing work from Justina Stark, Rohit Krishnan Harish, Ivo Sbalzarini @mosaicgroup.bsky.social and Michael Brand @tudresden.bsky.social: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Interested in developmental epigenetics? So are we! Apply now to join us for your postdoc! Multiple positions across multiple groups @mrc-lms.bsky.social Projects spanning germline demethylation, gene regulation, genome architecture in development & disease 👇👇 lms.mrc.ac.uk/work/vacanci...

It was good to meet with fellow @biologists.bsky.social editors for two days last week to discuss @dev-journal.bsky.social & other journals Lots of plans and ideas for the coming year

The NAS Council has approved the nomination of Neil H. Shubin to be the next president of the National Academy of Sciences. An evolutionary biologist and science communicator, Shubin would succeed Marcia McNutt when her term ends on June 30, 2026. Read more: www.nasonline.org/news/neil-h-...

Publishing scientific papers is an obstacle course. There are many aspects to this but lengthy review times are one. That's why I am very excited about the new initiative @biologyopen.bsky.social, @biologists.bsky.social open access journal: Fast & Fair 1/n 🧪 journals.biologists.com/bio/pages/fa...

Save the Date! Development has teamed up with the Wellcome-funded consortium the Human Developmental Biology Initiative to co-organise a meeting on #HumanDevelopment. 📅7 - 9 Sep 2026 📍University of Warwick, UK Register your interest for #HumanDev26: www.biologists.com/meetings/dev...

For many people (me included) writing is thinking If you're not thinking you're just the pretty front (wo)man in the band Do you want to be Noel or Liam? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I was interviewed recently by @stemcellpodcast.com I witter on about morphogens, notochord, @dev-journal.bsky.social & how biology is becoming a data science Thanks @stemcellpodcast.com for talking to me stemcellpodcast.com/ep-299-spina...

We have a new episode out! Tune in to hear Dr. @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social from @crick.ac.uk discuss his research on the developmental dynamics of the #SpinalCord, and his position as Editor-In-Chief of @dev-journal.bsky.social. Listen now: bit.ly/4nzLrCp

Hear from our Editor-in-Chief, @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social, in the latest episode of @stemcellpodcast.com.