Excited to share our Review on human PGC development covering the latest in vivo observations & in vitro developments, esp. in the last 5 years. Have a read! journals.biologists.com/dev/article/... From: @astar-gis.bsky.social @ki.se Warwick University, @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social

🚨 New call for preLighters!🚨 Help us highlight the most exciting biological #preprints. Share your insights, build your profile, and be part of a supportive community! 🌍 Interested? Apply today & help shape the future of science publishing! 📢 More info: prelights.biologists.com/news/join-th...

Something SPARC’d between us and left me Breathless: Haemolymph cells turn on repair in the Drosophila tracheal system An exciting #preLight by @jontytownson.bsky.social talks about the work of Nourhene Ammar, Hadi Boukhatmi and the team.

Our preprint has been highlighted by @prelights.bsky.social and @jontytownson.bsky.social ! 🙏 Huge thanks for helping us share our work with this wonderful community

I have written another #preLight post, featuring the first work from the Boukhatmi lab. Always fun to read a #fly paper, especially with #microscopy too! Check it out if you like injury repair and tissue/ECM remodeling. prelights.biologists.com/highlights/i... #Repair #ImmuneCells #preprint #ECM

FOMO no more: NOMO and Calmin extend #mechanobiology to the ER. Julie Heffler and Jan Lammerding @LammerdingLab.bsky.social discuss recent studies from the @schliekerlab.bsky.social (doi.org/10.1083/jcb....) & @hennelab.bsky.social (doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...), in Spotlight: rupress.org/jcb/article/...

#FocalPlaneFeatures meets @prelights.bsky.social @fadelvalle.bsky.social & Vibha Singh have picked 2 fantastic #cellbio preprints & will be presenting their preLights alongside research talks from @probablycarmen.bsky.social & Eva Mejia-Ramirez. Register: focalplane.biologists.com/2025/08/20/f...

📢Call for speakers We are looking for ECRs to speak in our mini-symposium run together with the popular membrane trafficking webinar series organised by ‪@franbottanelli.bsky.social @felixmendu.bsky.social & @ishier.bsky.social. focalplane.biologists.com/2025/07/14/f... Apply by 24 August

Better late than never, I am sharing the last #spotlight interviews I did with @prelights.bsky.social at #biologists100 in Liverpool. It was fantastic to get different perspectives on preprints and the publishing world, as well as to hear a bit about the cutting-edge research being presented. (1/5)

We currently have a call for support that has gone out to European labs, to support FlyBase-UK. We are asking our colleagues from labs in the US and other countries to wait for a similar call to them that will go out in the near future, to support the US sites. We thank you for your patience.

It was great talking to @giuliapaci.bsky.social about her work and #preprints at #biologists100 earlier this year. And exciting that she is again talking (more science and less preprints) today for the Development presents… seminar thenode.biologists.com/development-...

While I applaud Europe taking a step to fund bringing scientific excellence to Europe, the ERC’s current success rates at 10% for Europe based scientists is statistically at lottery levels. The total ERC budget should double across the board aiming at doubling funding rates.

Human, C. elegans, and fruit flies shared a common ancestor pre-Cambrian, which was at the very least 500-600 million years ago (mya), whereas angiosperms shared a common ancestor in late Jurassic (~160 mya), meaning Arabidopsis is more closely related to most crops than worms or flies are to human.

ICYMI, our FocalPlane reporter Margarida Araújo shares her Biologists @ 100 conference report. As well giving an overall of the event, Margarida picks out some of her highlights including talks on #climatechange and #imaging. focalplane.biologists.com/2025/05/08/b... #NoNeedForFOMO

At the @biologists.bsky.social‬ #biologists100 conference, I worked with @prelights.bsky.social‬ to interview some of the researchers presenting their #preprint. The first two have been published. (1/3)

It was great to meet @richardsever.bsky.social‬ at #biologists100 in Liverpool. As part of a conference #spotLights series with @prelights.bsky.social‬, he very kindly agreed to answer a few questions on #preprints, and their past and future impact. Check it out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5O2...

What does openRxiv mean for bioRxiv/medRxiv? How did biologists embrace preprints? And what's the future of the scientific article? Fun talking with @jontytownson.bsky.social at #biologists100 www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5O2...

Reflecting on #biologists100 last week, I greatly enjoyed meeting past colleagues and getting to know the work of @biologists.bsky.social better. The experience reinforced for me the importance of society own journals and their work (1/3).

The preList for the @biologists.bsky.social conference #biologists100 is out! With @prelights.bsky.social we compiled the cutting-edge research and exciting preprints that were presented last week Check it out here: prelights.biologists.com/prelists/bio... (1/2).

Had lots of fun representing @prelights.bsky.social together with @jontytownson.bsky.social at #biologists100 @biologists.bsky.social Keep an eye out for our conference #preList + the #spotLights episodes that will appear on preLights over the next few weeks! 👀

Built a peer review system that doesn’t take forever. Spoiler: scientists love it. Huge thanks to the amazing team at The Company of Biologists for making Fast & Fair happen. Read the preprint: bit.ly/4iZ30st #biologists100 @biologists.bsky.social @biologyopen.bsky.social

We're walking around #biologists100 with a polaroid frame, capturing snapshots of the wonderful #ECRs attending this conference! ✨ First up: @jontytownson.bsky.social, the #preLights conference reporter, uncovering the stories behind the #preprints being presented. Come say hi & strike a pose! 🕺

Will you be discussing a preprint at Biologists @ 100, either as a poster or talk? Jonty Townson @jontytownson.bsky.social is curating a @prelights.bsky.social preList of #preprints at the conference. Include yours by sending it to forms.gle/JYiTFj8iSUcT... #biologists100

Arrived in Liverpool for #biologists100. I’m looking forward to the ECR sessions today and presenting my organelle dynamics poster later in the week! (1/2)

My next @prelights.bsky.social post is out. I saw this first preprint from @storerlab.bsky.social a while back and took some time over writing it but I think it was worth it! (1/2) #preprint #regeneration #mechanosensing #ECM

In their Review, Julien Morival, Anna Hazelwood and Jan Lammerding @lammerdinglab.bsky.social discuss new insights and technological advances in understanding nuclear mechanotransduction. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

I’m excited to attend the @biologists.bsky.social Biologists@100 next week. With @prelights.bsky.social, I’m collating a preList of all preprints at the conference. If you’re coming with a #preprint of your own, make sure I don’t miss it here: forms.gle/JYiTFj8iSUcT... #biologists100

Take a look at this list full of insightful #preLights! ⬇️ 👀 Great contributions from (among others) @castrojohnbosco.bsky.social, @bdmaier.bsky.social, @sinanmalik.bsky.social, @vibhasingh.bsky.social, @jontytownson.bsky.social & @kyohalie.bsky.social 🙌 #preLighters #community

🧪Getting ready for #biologists100; what’s the best way to prepare? 🤔 Conference Survival Guide Needed! 📝 If you could give ONE piece of advice to a first-time attendee, what would it be? Let’s help the newcomers thrive! ✨ #SciComm #ConferenceTips #AcademicLife #AcademicSky @the-node.bsky.social

I'm also super pleased that another tree was planted in the Forest of Biologists. I think this is a great initiative and hope to go the Young Peoples Forest in Mead eventually! #ForestOfBiologists

Very happy to see the review I wrote on mechanosensing by the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) published @jcellsci.bsky.social! I’ve really enjoyed studying the ER and hope to contribute some research articles soon. #EndoplasmicReticulum #review #mechanosensing journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...