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it appears your manuscript "in preparation" was not published in 2025 after all, mr. bond

A few days left to apply for exciting PhD and Postdoc opportunities in wonderful Copenhagen and join our efforts in understanding Epigenetic Cell Memory.

Groundbreaking

Great opportunity in a fantastic lab!

Can most significant historic events be explained through infectious diseases? I want to believe YES

CCRB paper alert! Most snakes can open their mouths so wide they can consume food that is much larger than their own head. This is partly due to their ‘free’ mandibular symphysis, found to be both bone and cartilage-free. So, how ‘free’ is that symphyseal gap? (1/3)

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If you're heading to the cinema to see One Battle After Another today, you'll be pleased to know that there is a scene with a mini centrifuge that is properly balanced. And they change the tip for pipetting each sample.

If there’s one place on Earth you don’t want to be, it’s in the mouth of a Komodo dragon. Not convinced? No problem - you can see all of their deadly dental secrets in this week’s #SurprisingScience 🦎 ☠️

Looking for a postdoc position? Join us at the Tucker group! We have chocolate Digestives on a weekly basis

Dev biologists! 3-yr postdoc position at King's, collaboration with Trizzino lab @marcotrizzino.bsky.social modelling CHD3 neural crest. We are looking for postdocs with mad embryology skills @the-node.bsky.social #developmental @ccrb27.bsky.social thenode.biologists.com/jobs/postdoc...

After living in the UK for 1 year, I've learned that the little side pocket of my backpack is not only for water bottles but also umbrellas

So proud of the lab team at @ccrb27.bsky.social who achieved a silver LEAF accreditation as part of this. Special mention goes to Rhys Hippolyte-Belle who won the freezer challenge!

It’s always a bit awkward to write about personal experiences. I tried to touch on what Pride means to me and ended up reflecting on heteronormativity, passing, and allyship. Thank you @slefkopoulos.bsky.social for the great opportunity! @ucph.bsky.social #LGBTQIA+ #PRIDE #Diversity

Today I smashed my record of mouse embryos in 1 litter: 20 embryos! I'm taking suggestions on crazy experiments.

In case you were wondering, cats prefer to sleep on their left side. www.cell.com/current-biol...

A fossilized gut with its owner's last meal! www.cell.com/current-biol...

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

Today is my viva-anniversary! I can't believe it's been 1 year since that very stressful but special day.

Researchers from @ccrb27.bsky.social have explored the genetics of deafness, identifying potential genes, known as 'candidates' that could be responsible for the condition. kcl.ac.uk/news/candida... #ScienceAtKings #deafness

All ready in Tuscany for the Neural Crest and Cranial Placodes GRC! Did I get the room with the best view? 🤩

🎉Congratulations to the Top 3 images from the Node–FocalPlane image competition! 1️⃣"Cell-estial bloom" by @oozguc.bsky.social 2️⃣"Dancing actinotroch" by @allancarbal.bsky.social 3️⃣"Who’s active?" by @jupeloggia.bsky.social thenode.biologists.com/results-from... @focalplane.bsky.social #biologists100

Ready for a third day full of exciting science at the biologists @ 100 conference, celebrating 100 (!) Years of The Company of Biologists! #biologists100 @biologists.bsky.social @bsdb.bsky.social

We need more colourful lab equipment

Have you always dreamt of doing a PhD in eardrum stem cells with Abbie Tucker @ccrb27.bsky.social, on the 27th Floor or Europe's tallest hospital in London? Well, here's an ideal opening for your oddly specific dream www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Happy International Women’s Day! To celebrate, why not listen to this special podcast series: “6 Minutes with 6 Women of CCRB”, put together by the amazing Dr Qamariya Nasrullah and the CCRB Comms Team. Listen on Spotify! 👇 open.spotify.com/show/7GoTzSh... #InternationalWomensDay #WomeninSTEMM

Turtles dance and clap in presence of food! Reminds me of a certain somebody...? Ah yes, that's would be me.

Excited to celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science #February11 at the Crick Symposium in memory of DevBio extraordinaire Rosa Beddington #BeddingtonConf Looking forward to another day of great talks!

Fantastic story! Unexpected results AND against what was previously thought, but thoroughly supported by the analysis

London Stem Cell Network @lscn.bsky.social is on Bsky! Hello! Please follow☝🏻 if interested in stem cells

Today the world is a little darker.

What a beautiful picture! Branching organs are the best💜

Light-induced PCP! Amazing!!!

We are happy to report that our journals and community sites now have Bluesky accounts. Follow them at: @dev-journal.bsky.social @jcellsci.bsky.social @jexpbiol.bsky.social @dmmjournal.bsky.social @biologyopen.bsky.social @the-node.bsky.social @prelights.bsky.social @focalplane.bsky.social

You asked for it...

Early bird registration for our upcoming #beddingtonconf has been extended to 22 November, and abstracts can be submitted until 2 December. www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/the...

Development, BSDB and Cambridge Filmworks teamed up to produce a documentary showcasing the wonder and the importance of the #developmentalbiology field. We invite you to watch, enjoy and share this movie. #devbio 🎬🎦 m.youtube.com/watch?v=avrm...

We need to have a ‘code of conduct’ for reviewing manuscripts, like (1) if you say that something is not novel then provide the reference. (2) If you propose an experiment, state precisely to which claim it is crucial. (3) If you want to say something nasty then sign your name.

A dual enhancer-silencer element ensures transient Cdx2 expression during posterior body formation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.04.10.588878v1

Today for International Women's Day I want to remind everyone that the reading direction of mRNA (5' to 3') was discovered by Margarita Salas (J Biol Chem, 1965, PMID: 5320647) #RememberHerName #IWD2024 #InternationalWomensDay #InspireInclusion #WhyWasThisNotInMyTextbook

Very happy to share the second part of my PhD work, now on bioRxiv: Common modes of ERK induction resolve into context specific signalling via a combination of signal duration and cell type specific transcriptional repression. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Deep Learning Based Models for Preimplantation Mouse and Human Development https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.16.580649v1

Suppression of ERK signalling promotes pluripotent epiblast in the human blastocyst https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.01.578414v1

Very nice study finding TF cooperativity driven by a specific DNA motif, and going all the way from ChiP-seq and CUT&RUN data to crystal structures and analysis of human facial variation! #Epigenetics #NeuralCrest #Cooperativity www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...?

Inspiring story on achieving lab sustainability from the Groth lab on CPR, UCPH www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Smad4 is essential for epiblast scaling and morphogenesis after implantation, but nonessential prior to implantation in the mouse https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.23.576717v1

Mice are not only the best animal model but they also are better than humans at tidying up www.bbc.com/news/uk-wale... www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLDP...

This is probably the coolest graphical abstract I've ever seen, from: doi.org/10.1016/j.is...

Nice collection of reviews and recent papers on in vitro models of development 👉 journals.biologists.com/dev/collecti...