Still time to apply! Deadline extended to 25th May! This is an enriching, immersive, interactive week of talks and discussions with leaders in the field. A brilliant oppportunity for PhD students, postdoc, new PIs. See our testimonials: www.stemcellsummerschool.org/testimonials Spread the word!

📣 One week left for early-bird registration. We have teamed up with the @wellcometrust.bsky.social -funded consortium Human Developmental Biology Initiative (HDBI) to co-organise our 2026 Journal Meeting. Register by 8 May for early-bird registration at biologists.com/meetings/dev.... #HumanDev26

John Gurdon (1933-2025) Sir John Gurdon was a towering figure in developmental biology, respected and admired throughout the world. In this Obituary, Jim Smith writes about his legacy. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

One week until the early-bird deadline for @dev-journal.bsky.social Meeting in September on Human Development: Stem Cells, Models, Embryos. Check out the programme & great line-up of speakers at tinyurl.com/85aeazvs and secure your discounted registration by 8 May: tinyurl.com/a87am9d6

Excited to be thinking about the upcoming EMBO workshop on quantitative tissue morphgenesis meetings.embo.org/event/26-tis...

Fantastic - congratulations @storerlab.bsky.social and the whole team! Great work!

One month until early-bird deadline for @dev-journal.bsky.social & @wellcometrust.bsky.social-funded consortium HDBI's 2026 Meeting on Human Development: Stem Cells, Models, Embryos. Check out the programme biologists.com/meetings/dev... and register by 8 May www.biologists.com/meetings/dev...

The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social has a more than 100 year history of supporting science through its journals, meetings, and fellowships. Help lead it into its second century! pls share www.inspiredselection.com/jobs/jo00000...

This is not an April fool's! The YEN 2026 Conference is really happening on June 15th! We are excited to have Kay Elder, Diana Pinheiro and Christopher Thomas. We are looking forward to your abstract submissions! Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Excited to be part of the EMBO tissue morphogenesis workshop in September: meetings.embo.org/event/26-tis... #EMBOTissueMorphogenesis

Such beautiful work here - congratulations @mariapalcolea.bsky.social and the lab!!

The Rawlins lab thoroughly enjoyed meeting Hans Clevers when he visited @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social today!

In collaboration with Nora Bourbia @ukhsa.bsky.social we have a fully funded (UK/home fees) PhD studentship available @phar.cam.ac.uk: "Radiotherapy induced nerve damage and pain: can we prevent it?" Naked mole-rats will be involved!

We are delighted to announce that we are now open for applications for 2026 summer school Dates: 11th - 18th September 2026 Deadline for applications: 8th May See our website for info on how to apply.. and to check out our stellar speaker list! www.stemcellsummerschool.org/apply 🧪

Delighted to announce that @dev-journal.bsky.social has teamed up with the @wellcometrust.bsky.social-funded consortium Human Developmental Biology Initiative (HDBI) to co-organise their 2026 Journal Meeting. Registration is now open at biologists.com/meetings/dev... #HumanDev26

Register now for the 2026 Annual Meeting, themed 'Epigenetics of embryogenesis and placentation', from Loke the Centre for Trophoblast Research in Cambridge, UK! ⬇️ thenode.biologists.com/loke-centre-...

www.ukri.org/news/open-le... ‘You may be aware of recent pauses to some programmes. For our curiosity-driven research programmes, headroom in funding will increase, ….new opportunities opening later this year….levels of funding for curiosity-driven research will remain stable across this SR period’

We encounter some bureaucratic problems importing our fish...Does anybody have a transgenic zebrafish line that marks the basement membrane/ECM in the UK? Would need to mark optic cup and final eye for our purposes. And/or an ras-GFP/RFP line? Thanks for looking and reposting!

🚨We are recruiting two PhD students 🚨 1) Quantitative & dynamic analysis of limb-regenerative signaling centers w/ @osvaldo-chara.bsky.social 📶🧮💻 🔗https://www.phd.tuebingen.mpg.de/80704/Quantitative-and-dynamic-analysis-of-limb-regenerative-signaling-center-interactions

Do you want to play a key role in running a cutting-edge stem cell and embryology lab at reNEW @ucph.bsky.social ? We’re hiring a Lab Manager to support our team and help with stem cell and animal work. Apply before Feb. 1st : rb.gy/d5uf17

Great meeting!!! Amazing talks and posters today also.

We're very excited to welcome Dr. @sumrubayin.bsky.social from the @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social onto the next episode of the podcast! 🎉 Her lab studies the mouse #cerebellum to better understand the regulation of #neural stem cell behavior. 🧠

Very cool - though would be even more amazing if they could do this for the sciences also!

Julie Ahringer from @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social @geneticscam.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk gives talk on decoding genome regulation during development. Exploring how chromatin accessibility changes throughout development enable single cells to become multicellular organisms.

Brilliant meeting - thanks to the organisers!

Consider myself fortunate to hear @kottond.bsky.social speaking at #RespGen25 today.

Not the most flattering picture, but a great conference!

Last chance to apply - closing Nov 3rd: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52936/ Consider coming to Cambridge to work on a highly collaborative project on lung stem cells and lung disease with @labrawlins.bsky.social and @jennydickens41.bsky.social

📢 New in @natbiotech.nature.com! Via live imaging of late-stage preimplantation human #embryos, Dr. Kathy Niakan at @loke-ctr.bsky.social#embryoshas shown that abnormalities can arise at a later stage of development than previously thought. 🗒️: https://go.nature.com/4oIQj80 🎧: https://bit.ly/4qwoGke

Thrilled to share my main postdoc work with @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social We used genomic barcoding + scRNAseq in chick & human embryos to reveal a lineage architecture that reshapes how we understand neural tube development & cell fate decisions 🧵👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

new out in Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Applications close 3 Nov: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52936/ We are looking for 2 post docs to work between @jennydickens41.bsky.social and @labrawlins.bsky.social and with colleagues across the Cambridge and at GSK. Exciting, collaborative opportunity to dig into lung cell biology - please share!

Fabulous opportunity here - make sure you apply!

Excellent article on science communication in @dev-journal.bsky.social - thank you to all the authors! doi.org/10.1242/dev.... ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Tomorrow is our final day for conference registrations so head on over to our shop page if you'd like to secure your place! Tomorrow is our final day for conference registrations so head on over to our shop page if you'd like to secure your place! shop.le.ac.uk/conferences-...

Cambridge scientists have found a new way to grow human blood cells in the lab 🧫 A major step towards regenerative therapies, this could also help scientists with better understanding blood disorders like #leukaemia. New #research from @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social#leukaemia#researchttps://bit.ly/3J0mO23 🧪

Exciting collaborative post doc opportunity to study lung disease mechanisms working with 2 friendly labs @jennydickens41.bsky.social @labrawlins.bsky.social and GSK colleagues www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52936/

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...

Fantastic work from Roya, Simon and team using in vivo mouse and in vitro human organoid models to study mechanisms of lung disease: doi.org/10.1038/s414... Great to finally see this out - congratulations!

Interested in a highly collaborative post doc project working on pulmonary fibrosis with @labrawlins.bsky.social @jennydickens41.bsky.social and GSK - then look no further... www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52936/

It is with great sadness that we share the news of the death of our founder, colleague, mentor and friend, Professor Sir John Gurdon. His vision and dedication will continue to inspire generations of scientists. 🔗 www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/nobel-laurea...

Saddened to learn of the death of John Gurdon today. He was the supreme scientist. And truly inspirational lecturer and speaker. The Gurdon Institute @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social has been a wonderful place to run a lab - and he will be truly missed. www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/nobel-laurea...

Very sad news, John Gurdon has died. A developmental biologist's developmental biologist, Nobel prize winner His work is the foundation of much of today's dev & stem cell bio. An inspiration to many, including me. Always asking questions & wanting the answers www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...

John Gurdon's research inspired me in my own scientific pursuits as a stem cell biologist. Starting my lab at @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social was therefore particularly exciting. Seeing him around daily only underscored his admirable dedication to science and research. RIP John. tinyurl.com/nha6z25h

Looking forward to working with new colleagues on a collaborative project in lung disease modelling and transcriptomics - please share! And email Jenny @jennydickens41.bsky.social, or me, with any questions. 😀 www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52936/

Registrations for the Respiratory Genomics Conference, and abstract submissions, closes on the 15th October. Sign up today – limited availability!

From stem cells to human development: supporting a growing field This Perspective from @katherine-brown.bsky.social reflects on the history of our journal meetings and their impact on both the developmental biology community and @biologists.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Going to be a great meeting...

Our 2025 GI retreat prize winners are: 🎉Social Engagement: Giada Vanacore and Shay Melamed 🙂 Research Culture: Theresa Gross-Thebing 🙌 Good Citizen: Sam Banjo 🔬Image Competition: @geraldinejowett.bsky.social 🌳Green: Tamara Romero Thank you all for your great community spirit and positive vibes!