Did you know that fully half of the talks at the Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting this year will be chosen from submitted abstracts? It's true! Great opportunities for trainees and PIs, too! @socdevbio.bsky.social @rashmi-priya.bsky.social @lowelab.bsky.social scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu

Upcoming Freeman Hrabowski Scholars competition! Career transforming stable, sustained support @hhmi-science.bsky.social #FreemanHrabowski Scholars Program offers early career faculty up to $10M over 10 yrs, plus salary & benefits. Postdoc program, too. Applications open 11/3! bit.ly/4vhC0LA

Excited to share our new preprint, a project initiated during my postdoc in the @stanfordstomata.bsky.social, on how plants encode environmental responsiveness in development 🌱 We use tomato to dissect how stomatal production is tuned by climate inputs via cis-regulatory variation in SPCH

The latest elegant (as always) review from @onsunlau.bsky.social Silent master: SPEECHLESS the driver of stomatal stem cell fate and integrator of intrinsic and environmental cues - Yang - New Phytologist - Wiley Online Library nph-onlinelibrary-wiley-com.stanford.idm.oclc.org/doi/10.1111/...

🎙️🔬🍀 New episode of #No_Time_To_Read_podcast is online! In this episode, Laura told us about cell cycle regulation during plant regeneration. Podcast: tinyurl.com/2zv935d4 Article: tinyurl.com/mryz9e36

Our first Kalanchoë laxiflora story found its perfect home @Science Advances with a beautiful cover image of Kalanchoë thyrsiflora leaves. I am grateful that I can continue working with this incredible new model to learn more about succulent development 🤩 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Our first study on how the leaf succulent Kalanchoë laxiflora makes stomatal subsidiary cells is finally peer-reviewed & out - and it made the cover! 🌵 🧬 🔬 doi.org/10.1126/scia... Despite 150 years of evolution, grasses and Crassulacean succulents use the SAME gene to make subsidiary cells! 🤯

Our Editor, @swathiarur.bsky.social, has curated a new subject collection for the journal, highlighting the intersection between developmental and cell biology. Take a look at the collection 'Cell biology in development' here: journals.biologists.com/dev/collecti...

Our Review "Development, Anatomy and Integrated Function of Grass Leaf Veins and Graminoid Stomata" is out doi.org/10.1146/annu... Alec Baird and I discuss the development and function of the anatomical structures that regulate water supply (leaf veins) and water demand (stomata) in the grass leaf.

This is an amazing opportunity for students and postdocs to learn new ideas and techniques at the intersections of biology/physics/AI. This course was transformative for me and my students! Summer in beautiful Santa Barbara as a bonus.

Is everyone ready for #Plantsgiving?!?! Thank you @martinebotany.bsky.social for my favorite botanical tradition 🥹🌱

What a glorious day--waking up to see this lovely preprint that does it all--a comprehensive scRNAseq atlas of leaf development, hints at the txn of new cell types, and great hypotheses about how GRNs may differ among related TFs (and in other news, some hope for American Democracy)

Development that lasts a life time. Check out the 2025 special issue of @dev-journal.bsky.social on Lifelong Development: the Maintenance, Regeneration and Plasticity of Tissues journals.biologists.com/dev/issue/15...

Understanding #microtubule dynamics: The synergy of technology, theory, and experiment. New Perspective from Richard McIntosh @colorado.edu: rupress.org/jcb/article/... #Cytoskeleton #Biophysics #Microtubules

Welp, I guess I can claim that I had my profile banner photo up years before demolition was cool.

Wow! Love your creativity Ocean Beach (San Francisco)!

2010: Launch of the Node @the-node.bsky.social, our community site for and by developmental and stem cell biologists. Find out how the Node was born. bit.ly/3VOfCZZ

Our paper comparing stomata of the three annual Brachypodium species is out 🌾 bmcplantbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... A great collaborative effort between @lbmountain.bsky.social, & our friends at University of Silesia (Alexander Betekhtin and Anna Milewska-Hendel). Funded by @dfg.de and NAWA

Stand up for our country & against this authoritarian regime. Big SF protest saying hell no to Trump.

17X17 Protest (17K people and 17 miles long) in Redwood City - here are our two 90+ y.o. protestors out there for all two hours!

Congrats Gozde and team!! A plethora of new preprints from the Demirer lab @caltech.edu 📚

My new @science.org editorial on the role of scientists in defending democracy is out today. As authoritarianism takes hold in the US, we must fight for the democratic principles that enable a free society and scientists have a key role. I hope you'll join us. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

One of my absolute favorite meetings! Attendees--please do ask me about CoB and the journal Development. Our community has strong advocates there.

💊It’s Day 12 of #31Days Of Action! Attend our weekly Webinar to learn about our mission and how YOU can get involved! Join #StandUpForScience and Special Guest Jeremy Berg, former director of the NIH & NIGMS, for our Tues Action Hour TONIGHT at 8pm ET/5pm PT! Sign up here👉 zurl.co/OmG1N

Well, this is a huge Executive Order power grab... www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... 1/3

Excited for the @faseborg.bsky.social's upcoming #PlantDevelopment conference in Massachusetts? #PDevSRC To complement the meeting, we've curated a collection of review-type and Research Articles on this topic: journals.biologists.com/dev/collecti...

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/...

Wow, what a spectacular workshop! People, place and prospect of deep conversations that could guide the next decade of inquiry.

We received 80 abstracts and have >100 registered participants for the Mech. of Plant Development FASEB (Aug 24-28 in Southbridge MA USA). Time for us to select ~20 talks from those 😱 It will be an exciting meeting! FOMO? Still time to register! → tinyurl.com/24fsjq6a

Measuring properties of individual cells in relation to their neighbors in 3D tissues is challenging. @cellysally.bsky.social &co develop a computational toolkit to facilitate this, analyzing developmental patterning in mouse, chick & #Drosophila #embryo @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4lQMeNu

Congrats to the 3 poster prize winners at ICAR2025 ! But a particular highlight about Alexis Lebecq, alumini of the SICe group at RDP lyon @rdplab.bsky.social @ensdelyon.bsky.social Which is now postdoc in the lab of @stanfordstomata.bsky.social 🤓🧪🌱🧬 👏👏👏 amazing project 😍

The Company of Biologists and the Woods Hole Embryology Course We explore the association of Development and @biologists.bsky.social‬ with the Woods Hole Embryology Course @mblscience.bsky.social‬ and hear from former students about the impact the course has had on them: doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Very smart, high ROI initiative from the Spencer Foundation. Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants: 1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process. 2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers. 3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.

We're looking for a new PhD candidate to join the lab. Please share 🌱😄

As we turn 15, we want to collect feedback from you, our community, to ensure the Node is still relevant and useful. If you’ve ever visited the Node to read, write and interact with the #DevBio & #StemCell community, thank you! Please spare 5min to take our survey: www.surveymonkey.com/r/7QHYQCW

Meet the 2025 @dev-journal.bsky.social Pathway to Independence (PI) fellows Eight developmental and stem cell biologists transitioning from postdoc to principal investigator journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi...

Redwood City CA. May day has at least 3k people here. RESIST!!

San Francisco today

In honor of March Madness, enjoy this piece from last year about Botanical Team Mascots, from my spouse in UNC' Herbarium and the NC Botanical Garden. How can you resist the Fighting Okra or the UNC School of the Arts Fighting Pickles! 🧪 ncbg.unc.edu/2024/03/05/m...

BSA Member & 2024 Emerging Leader Award winner Joyce Onyenedum launches "Build a Plant", a free video series on plant anatomy! A great resource for students, instructors, & scientists. Watch here: www.youtube.com/@joyceonyene...

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

Less than one week to go until #biologists100! 😱We’re putting the final touches to the programme, picking up t-shirts, and polishing our best conference trainers! Looking forward to some fantastic science and catching up with the community. Oh, and celebrating 100 years of @biologists.bsky.social! 🎉

🎉 bioRxiv & medRxiv are now managed by openRxiv, a new independent nonprofit. This transition allows for more flexibility and innovation. Our mission remains being a free service to authors ensuring rapid sharing of scientific information before peer review. ℹ️ openrxiv.org/introducing-...

Together with @focalplane.bsky.social, we're having an image competition to accompany the #Biologists100 conference. Thank you everyone who submitted their images. Shortlisting only 15 was tough! Browse through the gallery and vote for your favourite image: thenode.biologists.com/vote-for-you...

Since it apparently needs to be said: As a Jew who works on a university campus, I am safest in a country that protects academic freedom and liberal values of due process of law. Anyone who supports extrajudicial detention of students for "wrong" ideological opinions is not doing it for my safety.

Even little cities (Palo Alto) know it's important to #standupforscience in

A reminder that, in addition to publishing five awesome journals (yes, I’m biased 🫠), @biologists.bsky.social gives out grants and fellowships that support the scientific community. #notforprofit

A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping with major retailers tomorrow, February 28, as part of an “economic blackout.” I encourage you to join. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/boycott

We have an opening for a Reviews Editor on Development. If you love developmental biology and its academic community, and have an interest in publishing and science communication, this could be the role for you. Full details here: www.biologists.com/wp-content/u...