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

Excellent opportunity @mrc-lms.bsky.social for a human physiologist to start their own group. Deadline 4th May. Core funding, excellent package. Please repost! lms.mrc.ac.uk/work/vacanci...

Excited for BSDB's 2026 Meeting organised by @abinagui.bsky.social @vmetzis.bsky.social, @gastruloids.bsky.social & co? Our Reviews Editor @ingridtsang.bsky.social & the Node's Community Manager @andreamurillo.bsky.social will also be attending - come and chat to them about our journal & the Node.

We’re looking for a new team member! 🚀 Only 3 more weeks to apply to the fantastic Vienna BioCenter PhD program

A really thoughtful and interesting review by @cellysally.bsky.social on how cells synchronise with their neighbours to build tissues.

Applications are open for @dev-journal.bsky.social 2026 Pathway to Independence (PI) programme, supporting postdocs applying for group leader positions: Mentoring Profile raising Leadership training Network building Spread the word... www.biologists.com/grants/devel...

Delighted that Ziqi Dong's PhD paper is out for all to read! Hypoxia is fundamental to normal development, and fascinating! Thanks to all of our co-authors including @jamesnathanlab.bsky.social @jellevda.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

New blog post. In which I analyze the new HHMI announcement and what it means for the science publishing ecosystem openrxiv.org/preprint-man...

Meet the 2025 cohort of @dev-journal.bsky.social Pathway to Independence fellows Read about the scientific visions of eight dev bio post-docs entering the academic job market journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

🪰 Calling all Drosophilists interested in nutrition…HolFast, Sebastian Sorge’s new chemically defined diet works really well. We’ve given some free HolFast aliquots to @vdrc-flies.bsky.social Please contact them directly if you fancy trying it out. Hurry while stocks last!

Pathway to Independence – an interview with Joaquín Navajas Acedo. In this interview, @mads100tist.bsky.social talks about about his research vision, zebrafish and the importance of community: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

1/n Dear friends, in light of the current events in Palestine and to help spread awareness, a large number of filmmakers have made their FILMS about PALESTINE AVAILABLE FOR ONLINE FOR FREE Below, we are sharing links to films that you can watch and share to spread our message to the world:

Thrilled to share our work using live imaging to understand how Epiblast (future embryo proper) and Primitive Endoderm (future extraembryonic tissues) cell fates segregate in the preimplantation mouse embryo. Gargantuan effort led by amazing @rpkimyip.bsky.social, David Denberg and Denis Faerberg!

We wrote this introductory review on how concepts from dynamical systems can help us understand developmental biology, hope it’s useful to somebody! It was a lot of fun to put together, and great to collaborate with brilliant colleagues across theory and experiments

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...

Next time, consider submitting to Biology Open. Decision with reviews within 7 working days of submission journals.biologists.com/bio/pages/fa...

Brexit has never looked quite so daft

Our next extraordinary biologist this week is Daniel Gorelick, current Editor-in-Chief of @biologyopen.bsky.social and Associate Professor at @bcmhouston.bsky.social, USA. To know more about Dan’s visions for BiO, read this Editorial: doi.org/10.1242/bio..... #100biologists

We pay our academic editors (we don't do special issues with guest editors). Beginning in April, we also pay peer reviewers @biologyopen.bsky.social details to be announced at #biologists100 bit.ly/4h1cmCC @biologists.bsky.social

EpiSci - Hi there! Our review “Mechanotransduction in stem cells” is finally published. With @carstenschulte4.bsky.social we provided a comprehensive picture, that aims to cover the whole mechanotransductive pathway from the cell microenvironment to the nucleus. 1/3 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38729084/

I very thoughtful and reflective piece.

A postdoctoral position is available in my lab to study the subcellular organisation of signalling of the glucagon receptor family. For more information and to apply please click here: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

An excellent opportunity to go to a great lab with a caring mentor.

Nice to see our latest review published in @natrevmcb.bsky.social today – a collaborative exploration of mammalian extraembryonic development with @cwhanna.bsky.social for an invaluable epigenetic focus. @srinivas-lab.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very happy to share the latest preprint from the lab. We find that during cell competition, winners induce an increase in proline metabolism in loser cells, and this drives their elimination through repression of the integrated stress response. biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Essential reading for all is that serve as reviewers. Please help your authors as if they were in your lab. Make your reviews constructive. Overly onerous reviews amount to blocking each others’ work. It slows progress and demoralizes junior investigators. Let’s elevate, not crush, #DevBio

Happy to have the Srinivas lab on Bluesky! Even our embryos are starting to feel a little festive in the Srinivas lab! We are excited to share our new bioRχiv pre-print – investigating the role of calcium in the early embryo www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thrilled to share one of our biggest discoveries: “Inceptor binds to and directs insulin towards lysosomal degradation in beta cells”. doi.org/10.1038/s422... A tremendous collaborative effort led by JohannaSiehler, Sara Bilekova and other members of the Lickert lab @heikolickert.bsky.social

Hello #SciSky 🧪! We're the Node, a community site for developmental and stem cell biologists, hosted by @dev-journal.bsky.social This is your site: once you’ve registered, you can share your blog post, job advert or event notice with the #DevBio and #StemCell community. thenode.biologists.com

🚨Abstract deadline- 13th December! 🚨 Join us next March in Liverpool for our Spring Meeting, joined with the BSCB and part of the Biologists@100 @biologists.bsky.social 🎉 Not to be missed! We have annual meetings grants! Next deadline is the 10th of Jan. +Info here : bsdb.org/membership/#...

Like others, I've finally done it, deleted my app, deactivated my account and left twitter.

Here is my obituary to my PhD supervisor and close friend David Ish-Horowicz, a lovely supportive mentor and friend for many generations of scientists and spent 10 years in my lab after “retiring”. We will all miss him. Development (2024) 151 (21): dev204429. doi.org/10.1242/dev....