ASCL1 can’t always make neurons alone… In this 2‑minute #Short, jethrolb.bsky.social explains how chromatin priming and co‑factors shape cell fate decisions in embryonic stem cells. #StemCells #DevBio www.youtube.com/shorts/UB2es...

The challenge of in vitro gametogenesis. #DevBio Alan Leung highlights a #preprint from the Hamer’s Lab that identifies the specific metabolites and proteins in immature hPGCLSc that could create a maturation bottleneck. #preLight + an author response ⬇️ prelights.biologists.com/highlights/h...

Friction at the tip keeps the Drosophila germ band straight against innate instabilities. #DevBio Ruoheng Li highlights a #preprint from @giuliaserafini.bsky.social & colleagues @paveltomancak.bsky.social Lab #preLight + an insightful author response 👀⬇️ prelights.biologists.com/highlights/e...

preLighters’ choice – A curated selection of recent preprints In this post on the Node, read concise #preprint highlights of recent #DevBio and #StemCell biology papers prepared by the @prelights.bsky.social community. thenode.biologists.com/prelighters-...

Really happy to share my PhD story about the regulation of developmental speed in the Drosophila eye 🪰😃👀, which is now published @embojournal.org: link.springer.com/article/10.1... Grateful to everyone who make this possible, particularly F. Schweisguth @pasteur.fr @devstempasteur.bsky.social

Interesting work by @nveits.bsky.social on the effect of NAD+/redox state on developmental speed in the Drosophila eye. I also enjoyed the discussion on the distinct effects of NAD+ levels and cellular redox state (NADH/NAD+ ratio). #metabolism #devbio #drosophila

And so it began. The CNRS Jacques Monod Conference 2026 #CJM26 in beautiful Roscoff kick started masterclassfully by Marianne Bronner on the development and evolution of the vertebrate neural crest.

Explore plant #CalciumSignaling in the eponymous EMBO Workshop in Primosten, Croatia, 20–24 September 2026. Abstract submission deadline: 30 May 2026 Registration deadline: 31 May 2026 https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-calcium-signaling#CalciumSignaling#EMBOCalciumSignaling #conference #meeting #EMBOevents 🧪

🌱🔬Save the date for the second webinar in this series: Thursday 16 July at 15:00 BST. Updates will appear on our webpage or you can sign up to our FocalPlane features... mailing list to stay up-to-date with the latest information. focalplane.biologists.com/macro-to-mic...

Join us for a Zone 2 webinar on June 9th featuring Anastasia Polikarpova from the Inst. of Mol. Biotech., AUT, and Mekayla Storer from the Cambridge Stem Cell Inst., ENG., focusing on axolotl bone regeneratio and mouse digit tip regeneration! See isrbio.org/webinars for Zoom links and details.

🚨 TODAY is the Early Registration Deadline! 🚨 Register by 11:59 PM ET (May 20) for the Society for Developmental Biology 2026 Annual Meeting in Las Vegas 🎰 First 250 registrants get a FREE t-shirt 👕Don’t miss it! 🔗 www.sdbonline.org/2026mtg_regi... #SDB2026 #DevBio

#Drosophila community update: FlyCROSS is undergoing a new exciting transition. Me and Laurel Raftery are stepping down as co-chairs. We are beyond thrilled to announce that @shyama13.bsky.social and @jocmcdonald.bsky.social will be the new co-chairs of the FlyCROSS mentoring program! (1/N) 🥹🎊

🚨 BEYOND is a new #HorizonEU #MSCA-COFUND postdoc programme, led by Fondazione Telethon, offering 35 fully funded, 3‑year postdoc positions. It’s designed to train researchers in advanced cell & gene therapies across the full path to patient impact.

🚨 We discovered a new mode of Hox gene regulation in annelids! 🪱 A distal enhancer acts as a "global control region", lifting Hox genes from Polycomb repression. This is reminiscent of Hox gene control in vertebrates, but the two modes likely evolved convergently. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Apply to the postdoctoral researcher position at IMBA: www.oeaw.ac.at/imba/career-...

🚨Happy to share a new PreLight covering the latest #preprint by the Meissner lab (@molgen.mpg.de) on acute SUZ12 degradation during TLS formation. A work brilliantly executed by @dannimklee.bsky.social et al. Get to know more about him and his work here ⤵️ prelights.biologists.com/highlights/t...

🤔 How do stem cells determine how to respond to physical cues during development? 👨‍🔬The Doyle Lab at PoL combines approaches from biology, computer science, and engineering to understand the molecular circuits that enable mechanosignalling. Learn more👉 youtu.be/OJO2sxbYw4w

Rethinking Cell Differentiation and Development: A Unicellular Perspective Workshop @biologists.bsky.social is delighted to announce a new Workshop. Early-career researchers apply for funded places by 12 June 2026. thenode.biologists.com/rethinking-c...

New edition of the great Quintay Developmental Biology Course !!! More information at: biodesarrollo.unab.cl

The University of Queensland is hiring: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Developmental Biology #postdoc

In 2027, ISSCR returns to San Francisco to recognize 25 years of discovery, collaboration, and progress in stem cell science; to gather the people, ideas, and work that will shape the next quarter century. Join us in San Francisco, USA, 15–18 June 2027. https://ow.ly/hqR650Z1FGP

An exciting opportunity to join Dr Schreier's new group as a postdoctoral researcher is open for applications until 15 June 2026: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...

We’re recruiting two Postdoctoral Researchers to join the Endocrine Signalling in Inflammation Group at the LMS! 🔬 Postdoctoral Research Scientist in Immunometabolism 🧠 Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Gut–Brain–Immune Axis Visit our website to find out more ⬇️

🐞 Tribolium castaneum (red flour beetle) 🧬✨Tribolium helps uncover how insect body segments form and evolve through short-germ development, offering key insights into ancestral developmental mechanisms 📸 Image by Xavier Franch and David Martin. #ModelMonday #EvoDevo 🐣

Elegant work from @heemskerklab.bsky.social @davidbrueckner.bsky.social and co

Here are my four GWAS lectures of ~20 minutes each for the International Statistical Genetics Workshop 2026. They're part of the broader workshop curriculum but also work as standalone lectures covering the basics of GWAS from the ground up. Videos are below 👇🏽

Have you ever been curious about what Reviews Editors do? For your #WeekendRead, we have 2 special blog posts from @dev-journal.bsky.social Reviews Editors. @saanjbati.bsky.social answers a frequently asked question: “What exactly does a Reviews Editor do?” thenode.biologists.com/what-does-a-...

#DBfeature 🧑‍🎓 The Neural Tube CURE trains students in developmental biology methodology while offering a research course designed to increase opportunities for undergraduate research experience By Anneke Dixie Kakebeen, Joshua Fandel, Lee Niswander tinyurl.com/y2va2xpy

University of Helsinki (@helsinki.fi) is hiring: Postdoctoral Researcher in Cell and Developmental Biology #postdoc

PIs: Send me your people! Postdocs: throw your hat in! You can win a prize and everyone's attention! 🧪🐟

Insights from the InSDB–ISD Joint Meeting 2025 In this Meeting Report, Prashant Tewari gives us insights from the Indian Society of Developmental Biologists – International Society of Differentiation Joint Meeting 2025. thenode.biologists.com/insights-fro...

Are you a researcher based in the USA 🇺🇸 or Canada 🇨🇦 interested in pursuing curiosity-driven research in Europe? Join the ERC and Euraxess for a webinar exploring ERC funding opportunities. 👇️ 📅 20 May 2026 🕚 11:30 AM ET | 8:30 AM PT 💻 Online Find out more and register:

✨ 2026 SDB Art Show 🎨 SDB will host the show at the 85th Annual Meeting in Las Vegas 🎰 Deadline: June 1st ‼️ Open to meeting attendees: 2D & 3D in "Research Images as Art" or "Art Inspired by Research" 🎨 More information: www.sdbonline.org/2026mtg_art_...

University of Pennsylvania is hiring: Research Associate in Molecular Biology

Many thanks @nicolettapetridou.bsky.social from @embl.org Heidelberg for visiting us @centuri-ls.bsky.social and giving a truly exciting talk on cell division timing and phase transition during embryogenesis 🤩! Developmental biology is really cool 😎

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Plant Developmental Biology // University Of Sydney www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list... The research will focus on flower development using the model plant species Arabidopsis thaliana, as part of a project by Dr Marcus Heisler & colleagues. #BotanyJobs

On @the-node.bsky.social, 'Behind the paper’ explores how projects unfolded – from the unexpected to ideas that only worked after months/years! Alongside these are candid career stories, where researchers reflect on resilience, non-linear paths & the realities of academic life thenode.biologists.com

Science is a story – join the communities that tell it. Every experiment has a backstory. Every figure, failure and breakthrough is shaped by people, choices and chance. If narratology is about how stories are told and why they matter, then science is rich with narratives waiting to be uncovered.

What’s new in #DevBio? 👀 Our preLighters Theodora, Jawdat, @sristi.bsky.social & @deevithab.bsky.social have handpicked a selection of exciting preprints in this area. Check out the #preList and let us know your favourite, recent DevBio preprint ⬇️: prelights.biologists.com/prelists/pre...

New evo-devo textbook 'Eco-Evo-Devo: The Environmental Regulation of Development, Evolution, and Health' 📗In this post on the Node, Scott F. Gilbert announces a new eco-evo-devo textbook. ⬇️ thenode.biologists.com/new-evo-devo... #DevBio

Today's this is what we all hoped AI was going to be used for news: a multi discipline research collab developed an AI framework that can help predict how cells develop into specialised cell types. This research could help accelerate discoveries in developmental biology and regenerative medicine.

✨ 2026 SDB Art Show 🎨 SDB will host the show at the 85th Annual Meeting in Las Vegas 🎰 Deadline: June 1st ‼️ Open to meeting attendees: 2D & 3D in "Research Images as Art" or "Art Inspired by Research" 🎨 More information: www.sdbonline.org/2026mtg_art_...

We're really looking forward to the official launch of the Welsh Microscopical Society next week @cardiffuni.bsky.social Join us in support of #microscopy and #imaging in Wales 🔬😀 Big thanks also to our sponsors: @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social, Biostatus and @jeoleurope.bsky.social

🚨One week left! Applications for our Postdoctoral Fellows Program will close on 20. May! We offer numerous benefits: ✅ 3-year funded position ✅ Core research funding to cover travel, publishing, and project costs ✅Mentorship from 2+ PoL PIs ..and much more! Apply now: tud.link/y3djda

Do you work with genetic resources collected elsewhere 🧬 ? Are you confident that you’re using them fairly and legally? New step-by-step guide to the Nagoya Protocol helps researchers navigate this complex framework. www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/p...

Join us for our next Discovery Seminar with guest speaker Prof. @Sergiu P. Pașca from @stanforduniversity.bsky.social, presenting “Building Human Neural Circuits: From Stem Cells to Organoids to Assembloids and Beyond.”

Will you be there at the 9th Annual London Stem Cell Network Symposium on 15 May 2026? @lscn.bsky.social Reviews Editor @saanjbati.bsky.social will be attending to answer all your questions about @dev-journal.bsky.social, @the-node.bsky.social and @biologists.bsky.social.

🤔How do cells and tissues process noisy information and robustly self-organize into functional structures? 👨‍🔬The Friedrich group @friedrich-group.bsky.social combines mathematics, simulations, and advanced data analysis to understand biological function across scales Full video👉 y2u.be/ROsqabrpQL0

📣Job Opportunity: Conduct research in understanding of successful pregnancy in mammals. You will work within a multidisciplinary team developing novel 3D model systems to understand the key pathways and regulatory networks that drive pregnancy success in mammals. More Info: edin.ac/42wM6Lv

Investigate regeneration and repair using whole animals or organ/tissue systems at EMBO Workshop "The molecular and cellular basis of #regeneration and #TissueRepair" in Krems, AT, 21–25 Sep 2026. Deadline: 20 May https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-tissue-repair#regeneration#TissueRepair#EMBORegeneration #EMBOevents 🧪