Calling early-career developmental biologists! Apply for a funded place at our #Workshop, Novelty, Co-option and Divergence During Gene Network Evolution. Application deadline: 5 December www.biologists.com/workshops/ju... #DevBio #BiologistsWorkshops #Collaboration #Networking

The winner of Woodland Trust's UK Tree of the Year 2025 is the Argyle Street ash in Glasgow, pictured below. Read about this tree's story and what it means to the community in Glasgow: www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-... #Trees #WoodlandTrust #Nature #Conservation #Environment #Community

Proud to support the 2025 European Drosophila Research Conference (EDRC) @edrc2025.bsky.social and publish important Drosophila research across our portfolio of journals. edrc2025alicante.com #EDRC2025

We are pleased to share insights from our second winner of our competition for the most sustainable journeys to #biologists100. Read the blog from Saurabh Chand Sagar about how he minimised carbon emissions whilst travelling. Read more: www.biologists.com/stories/redu... #Sustainability

We are highlighting James Liao, who was awarded the 2024 Ig Nobel Prize in Physics for his 2004 @jexpbiol.bsky.social study, as an extraordinary biologist. #100biologists

preLights is a #preprint highlighting service—supported by @biologists.bsky.social—encouraging #ECRs to highlight and discuss preprints that spark interest or debate within the biological #community. #SciComm Interested in joining? Our 'call for preLighters' is open for another week! ⬇️👀

Our ‘First Person’ series was launched in 2017 to highlight the first authors of our Research Articles. In this ‘First Persons through the decades’ article, Amelia Glazier highlights some notable scientists who have published first-author papers in JCS. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Authors can now include a translation of their submitted manuscript’s abstract in their chosen language, which will be published directly following the English language abstract. We also enable the display of non-Western character author names. Read more: journals.biologists.com/dmm/pages/news

In our Forest of Biologists we fund the restoration and preservation of ancient woodland and dedicate these trees to our peer reviewers. There are now over 10,000 trees for peer reviews! Thank you to all our peer reviewers. Find out more: forest.biologists.com #PRW2025 @peerreviewweek.bsky.social

Our next extraordinary biologist is Tshepiso Majelantle, early-career researcher and postdoc at Witwatersrand University, South Africa, who attended @biologists.bsky.social's first Global South Workshop in 2024. #100biologists #NPAW2025

To celebrate National Postdoc's theme of communicating your science and research, we share advice and tips from our #SciCommConnect webinar which discussed practical ways to help researchers deliver their message. Find out more: thenode.biologists.com/scicommconne... #LovePostdocs #NPAW2025

Call for papers: Cell Biology of the Nucleus We invite you to submit your latest research to our special issue: Cell Biology of the Nucleus, guest edited by @abbybuch.bsky.social alongside JCS Editor Megan King @luskinglab.bsky.social. Deadline: 3 November journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/nu...

We are featuring Daisy Pineda-Suazo, who was interviewed for @biologyopen.bsky.social's ‘First Person’ series in 2024 after her first-author publication in the journal, as an extraordinary biologist. #100biologists #NPAW2025

To celebrate the #NPAW2025 theme of communicating your science and research, we share advice and tips from our #SciCommConnect webinar, which discussed practical ways to help researchers deliver their message. Find out more bit.ly/3K6GeCC #LovePostdocs

What’s happening to the UK’s woods? We’re proud to partner with the Woodland Trust, who have published their State of the UK’s Woods and Trees 2025 report, putting woodlands back under the microscope to check up on their health and see what’s changed. bit.ly/3USkOeC Image: John Bridges WTML

Our next extraordinary biologist is Zolelwa Sifumba, lecturer at Walter Sisulu University Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, South Africa, who was interviewed for @dmmjournal.bsky.social’s ‘The patient's voice’ series in 2025. #100biologists

We're excited to announce the first of two prize winners in our #biologists100 #sustainable #travel blog competition. Read Lea’s experience of travelling via four trains from France to Liverpool. www.biologists.com/stories/my-j... Stay tuned for next week’s post from winner two. #Sustainability

We were pleased to support this summer's Comparative Cartilage & Bone Biology conference with a Scientific Meeting Grant. Learn more about the meeting and how the funding facilitated attendance by early-career researchers from organiser Mason Dean. Read more:

Thank you Danilo Giacometti for sharing your experience of fee-free Open Access publishing in Journal of Experimental Biology via our Read & Publish agreement with Brock University. See all participating institutions: www.biologists.com/library-hub/... #OpenAccess #OA #Research #JEB #Academia

Issue 16 is complete! On the cover: Embryonic eye of an anole lizard stained for nuclei and F-actin. The image was acquired at the 2025 MBL Embryology course by Arthur Boutillon and was the Editor's choice from the Node image competition. thenode.biologists.com/vote-for-you...

We are highlighting Owen Sansom, @dmmjournal.bsky.social Monitoring Editor and co-organiser of the 2024 DMM Journal Meeting, as an extraordinary biologist this week. #100biologists @osansom.bsky.social @cruk-si.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...

Our next extraordinary biologist is Stephen Tait, recent @biologists.bsky.social Director, @jcellsci.bsky.social author and speaker at the 2025 Workshop on mechanometabolism. #100biologists

Thank you John Weldon for sharing your experience of fee-free Open Access publishing in @biologyopen.bsky.social via our Read & Publish agreement. Is your institution participating too? www.biologists.com/library-hub/... #OpenAccess #OA #Publishing #Academia #Research #ReadAndPublish

Win £200 for your post on the Node! Do you have an idea for a post on the Node that you have been postponing for a while? Post your piece by 30 September. One winner will be randomly selected for a prize of £200 and an interview with the Node. Find out more: thenode.biologists.com/the-node-wri...

We are highlighting Sheila Patek, @jexpbiol.bsky.social Deputy Editor-in-Chief, as an extraordinary biologist this week. #100biologists

#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...

We are joining in celebrating #OrganicSeptember by sharing resources on how to create organic and sustainable menus for your events. Check out our blog post: www.biologists.com/stories/sustainablemenuspart2/ #Organic #Sustainability #Environment #Food #Events

Our next extraordinary biologist is Jeroen Dobbelaere, a member of the @biologists.bsky.social Sustainability Committee and an early advisor on the event carbon calculator and The Forest of Biologists. #100biologists

Thank you Lily Kelleher for sharing your experience of publishing in our journal @biologyopen.bsky.social. Find out if your institution has an Open Access publishing agreement with us: www.biologists.com/library-hub/... #OpenAccess #OA #Publishing #Biology #Research #ReadAndPublish

Registration is now open for early-career researchers to apply for a funded place at our Workshop on Revisiting Metabolic Fundamentals, organised by Lydia Finley and Wilhelm Palm. Find out more and apply: biologists.com/workshops/ap... #Workshop #Metabolism #Biology #Career #Collaboration

Would your #cellbio research benefit from you attending a #Microscopy or #BioimageAnalysis training course? For grants of up to £1,000, check out our Microscopy Training Grants with @focalplane.bsky.social Next deadline: 5 September 2025 www.biologists.com/grants/jcs-f...

Our first extraordinary biologist featured this week is Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, a @jcellsci.bsky.social Editor, @focalplane.bsky.social Scientific Advisory Board member and plenary speaker at the Biologists @ 100 conference. #biologists100 #100biologists

Are you an early-career researcher using Drosophila in your research? Sign up to be matched with a mentor as part of FlyCROSS 2025-26. Apply by 1 September 2025. thenode.biologists.com/mentees-flyc... #Drosophila #DevelopmentalBiology #Mentor #Career #Biology #FlyCross

This week, we are also highlighting Carol Bucking, who recently co-edited @jexpbiol.bsky.social Special Issue: The Integrative Biology of the Gut, as an extraordinary biologist. #100biologists ‪

New special issue from Journal of Experimental Biology This issue considers the functional roles of the #gut, from the #cellular level to its interactions with other #organs and tissues, including its role in #ecophysiological and #biogeochemical processes. journals.biologists.com/jeb/issue/22...

We are featuring David Stephens, a former @jcellsci.bsky.social Editor, as an extraordinary biologist this week. The JCS-David Stephens Prize for the best JCS paper is also named after him. #100biologists

July in preprints, the CellBio edition, is out now on the preLights website. Thanks to Girish Kale, Matthew Davies, Barbora Knotkova and Sristilekha Nath for their contributions. Have a look: prelights.biologists.com/prelists/jul... #PrePrints #Publishing #Biology #Research #CellBio #PreLights

Why would anyone want to be a scientist? Check out our new Essay from Martin Schwartz: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Pathway to Independence – an interview with Chee Kiang (Ethan) Ewe. In this interview, @ethanewe.bsky.social talks about about what drives and excites him, and what he hopes to achieve in his own lab: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Thank you Christian Schröter @schroeterfisch.bsky.social for sharing your experience of fee-free #OpenAccess publishing in JCS @jcellsci.bsky.social via our #ReadAndPublish agreement with University of Leiden. Is your institution participating? www.biologists.com/library-hub/... #OA #Publishing

Our next extraordinary biologist is Honor Fell, who served on JEEM (now @dev-journal.bsky.social)'s first Editorial board, contributed to @jcellsci.bsky.social and @jexpbiol.bsky.social, and was part of the @bscb-official.bsky.social's founding committee. #100biologists

Our next #DevPres webinar focusses on gene regulation with talks from 2025 Development PI fellows Anzy Miller @anzymiller.bsky.social and Marlies Oomen @marliesoomen.bsky.social, chaired by James Gahan @jgahan.bsky.social. 📆 27 August, 15:00 BST (UTC+1) Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

We are committed to improving equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in all our activities. Click on the image to read why we have adopted the C4DISC Joint Statement of Principles, and are signatories of the Joint commitment for action on inclusion and diversity in publishing. @c4disc.bsky.social

Deadline approaching: Friday 15 August Early-career researchers, apply for a funded place at our Workshop 'Macro to Micro: Quantitative Plant Imaging Across Scales' organised by Mark Fricker, Alexander Johnson, Joseph McKenna and Markéta Šámalová. www.biologists.com/workshops/fe...

This week's first extraordinary biologist is Martin Schwartz, a @jcellsci.bsky.social Editorial Advisory Board member and author of several popular essays in JCS reflecting on the challenges of being a scientist. #100biologists

Development's next #DevPres webinar focusses on stem cells and organoids, with talks from Toshi Yamada (UCSF), Chrysanthi-Maria (Anthie) Moysidou (Max Delbrück Center) & Daniel Medina-Cano (MSKCC). Wednesday 13 August 16:00 BST (UTC+1) us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #StemCells #Organoids

Our next extraordinary biologist is Andrea Paterlini, the first early-career researcher highlighted in @biologyopen.bsky.social's 'Future Leaders to Watch' series, who also wrote a 2023 Review for BiO's ‘A Year at the Forefront of…’ collection. #100biologists @apaterlini.bsky.social

Our interdisciplinary @embo.org @biologists.bsky.social workshop on Biophysical and Molecular Mechanisms of Animal Homeostasis and Repair will take place in beautiful Haining, China, 6-10 April 2026. Exciting line up of international speakers! Register now: meetings.embo.org/event/26-hom...

Call for papers Disease Models & Mechanisms (DMM) invites you to submit your latest research to their upcoming special issue: In Vitro Models of Human Disease to Inform Mechanism and Drug Discovery. Find out more: journals.biologists.com/dmm/pages/in... #Research #CallForPapers #Disease #Science