Our final prize-winning essay on 'Innovative ideas for the future of sustainable events' looks at a simple yet effective system to help academics decide which conferences to attend, based on sustainability criteria. Read the essay from @katherinepaine.bsky.social: www.biologists.com/stories/sust...

Honestly, this is pretty cool!

A deep dive into the backstory of @dev-journal.bsky.social and why it changed its name (spoiler - it's not *just* because Journal of Embryology and Experimental Morphology was such a mouthful!). Many thanks to Nick Hopwood for researching and writing this. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

HELP! Please suggest a cool paper/preprint in your field in the last year or so. For a course I teach, I am collecting papers on: cell/dev bio, microbio, neuro, maths/stats/CS/chem/phys applied to biology. 1/2

Hello, here is a review I wrote about how cells sometimes try to synchronise with surrounding cells so that they can do a good job of building tissues during development. It is called "Keeping up with the neighbours" link.springer.com/article/10.1... #DevBio 🧪

Very happy to share our 'Evoscape' paper, now published in PNAS ! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A special #PUFFFIN -filled day as we celebrate the successful viva of Dr @lebektamina.bsky.social! Many thanks to @aidarodrigo.bsky.social and @tristanrodriguez72.bsky.social for examining and huge congratulations to the brilliant Dr Lebek!

I do like the @dev-journal.bsky.social "Research Report" format for shortish papers This one is valuable. "Is it the N2B27?" is the stem cell biologist version of "Is it the magnesium?" Congrats Tina Balayo @dias-andre.bsky.social David Turner & all authors journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

🌱During #COP30, we invite you to explore what is the carbon footprint of an event and learn about easy steps to take to minimise it. 🟢Learn more with our free event carbon calculator: biologists.com/sustainabili...

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...

It was such a pleasure to host @joadelas.bsky.social at @edinuni-irr.bsky.social yesterday. What a great talk- fascinating insights into how Cis Regulatory Elements process spatial and temporal information to build complicated and beautiful things such as embryos. Bravo Joaquina!

Go to sleep in London, wake up in Edinburg! Great experience aboard the Caledonian Sleeper train. Looking forward to a fun day full of science at the CRM. Thank you so much @cellysally.bsky.social for hosting me.

Read the 1st prize winning essay from our competition 'Innovative ideas for the future of sustainable events'. Read Liew Yao Rong’s essay and learn about his innovative approach that combines participants’ management, location and logistics: www.biologists.com/stories/peop...

Thank you @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social for featuring our Event Carbon Calculator in your article. Read more for many great #sustainability tips.

“Developmental biology is fundamentally beautiful. We are no less beautiful for our variation. Instead, perhaps we are more so. Perhaps we are remarkable. Perhaps we are full of wonder.” Read this insightful post by Bethan on the Node. thenode.biologists.com/developmenta... #Disability

The Possible vs. The Actual: can #GenerativeBiology reveal fundamental design principles of complex life? @philipcball.bsky.social closes #GenBio25 with a magnificent synthesis of the past two days of discussions, and guides us towards an agenda for the future of the field.

Good afternoon #GenBio25. @bensteventon.bsky.social uses a flock of sheep as an analogy for multi-level reciprocal interactions between cells and how to engineer them.

Who are our (cellular) neighbours? @matt-mala.bsky.social is addressing this question now at #GenBio25, using characters living on a conceptual ‘Cell Street’. Learn more in his @dev-journal.bsky.social Primer: doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Good morning from Generative Biology! @bernasozen.bsky.social starts by taking a closer look at metabolism in early embryogenesis. Learn more about stem cell-based embryo models in her recent @dev-journal.bsky.social Review: doi.org/10.1242/dev.... and interview: doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Three short talks now at #GenBio25. @bracciolilab.bsky.social discusses the ability of cells to contribute to different lineages in a gastruloid model. Luca recently published an ‘In preprints’ article in @dev-journal.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1242/dev....

We are looking forward to spending the next two days discussing INTERESTING THINGS at our workshop on Generative Biology: new approaches to study developmental design principles #GenBio25 Thanks to my excellent coorganisers @jcornwallscoones.bsky.social & @dbenzinger.bsky.social & all participants

BREAKING🚨: @Equinor has resubmitted its application to open the biggest undeveloped oil field in the UK - Rosebank. In the next weeks, the UK gov will decide to reject or approve this disaster project. Equinor hasn’t given up, and neither will we. We’re stepping things up.

With storm Amy approaching, it’s an ideal time to get your SLiPERs on!

Hot off the press! Cell-type-specific functionality encoded within the intrinsically disordered regions of OCT4 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Nice work from Val Wilson & co on neuromesodermal progenitors SOX2/TBXT co-expressing cells are self-propagating bipotent NMPs Increasing TBXT levels (not SOX2/TBXT ratio) switch NMPs from neural- to mesoderm-biased www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Ever thought about exploring Stem Cells in different fields of biomedical research while surrounded by the beauty of a Greek island? That's exactly what the European Stem Cell Summer School offers – an inspiring learning experience on the outstanding island of Spetses 🇬🇷 @stemcellsummer.bsky.social

An image analysis toolkit to streamline the study of cell fates in embryo development Image made with @leicamicrosystems.bsky.social microscopy 📷 Matthew French et al @cellysally.bsky.social lab University of Edinburgh in @plosbiology.org ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2025...

Very excited to have this back-end-of-an-embryo cell-neighbour-analysis image from our latest paper featured as today's Biomedical Image of the Day! Congrats to first author and ace image-analyst Matthew French bpod.org.uk/archive/2025...

👀 Do you have an idea for a post on the Node that you have been postponing writing for a while? This is your chance to publish your piece at last for a chance to win £200. Submit your post by 30 September 2025. 📝 thenode.biologists.com/the-node-wri... #devbio #stemcell

The Scientific Distillery Could you distil a complex scientific concept so that it can be explained in 30 seconds and be understood by a lay person, but *without* sacrificing scientific depth? The delegates at #SCSS2025 were brilliant at this task 👏

Austin Smith points out that naive pluripotent cells in the embryo only self- renew rarely, if ever. In response to some heckling from the faculty, he says “You can call ES cells artifacts if you want, but they’re still bloody marvellous” 😃 #SCSS2025

A provocative opening this morning from Cedric Blanpain, who sets out to argue that most tissues are maintained by unipotent stem cells. We look forward to hearing him make his case.. #SCSS2025

Thirst for knowledge? The 2025 Stem Cell Summer School starts next Friday! We have an uncommonly spectacular array of faculty, and have no doubt that our delegates will also be spectacular Follow ‪@stemcellsummer.bsky.social‬ and #SCSS2025 for updates during the meeting

Thirst for knowledge? The 2025 Stem Cell Summer School starts next Friday! We have an uncommonly spectacular array of faculty, and have no doubt that our delegates will also be spectacular Follow ‪@stemcellsummer.bsky.social‬ and #SCSS2025 for updates during the meeting

Patrick Vallance hits pause on Research Excellence Framework www.timeshighereducation.com/news/patrick...

If you love cytoskeleton and tissue morphogenesis, have a read!

An interesting new paper from Meijer, Dale & co explains how stability of Notch1 is regulated to tune the timing of sequential somite formation Here's my outlook on their work (& the 2nd time in recent years that I've snuck a Bowie quote into a biology paper 🙂) genesdev.cshlp.org/cgi/content/...

The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social has a strong commitment to sustainability including our sustainability hub www.biologists.com/sustainabili... & event carbon calculator www.biologists.com/sustainabili... Find out more about what our initiatives & the carbon footprint of your event

"🎵 Efficient, logical, effective, and practical 🎶". Also: beautiful. Congratulations @dbenzinger.bsky.social & @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social. Your #PaperThemeTune is "ChemiOptoGenetic Engineering" by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oddg... #ShowingMyAge

Very excited to organise this Workshop with @rocha-lab.bsky.social ! Thanks @biologists.bsky.social for selecting our proposal 😍

Pathway to Independence – an interview with Anzy Miller Here, @anzymiller.bsky.social talks about about her research interests at the intersection of developmental biology and modelling, as well as her advocacy for inclusivity and sustainability in science. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

"Whatever people say that I am, that is what I'm not" Nanog, named for the Land of the Ever Young, famed for maintaining pluripotency. Now revealed to also do the opposite. A mass of contradictions, just like the rest of us. Congrats to @fredwck.bsky.social & co www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Dear friends and scientific colleagues, (especially those of you who knew David Ish-Horowicz). Feel free to share the attached PDF widely (all the speakers are happy for the talks to be shared). Many thanks Best regards Ilan www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Thrilled to share the first story from my postdoc! 🎉 A wonderful experiment + simulations collaboration. In the Drosophila wing, we find that 3D cell shapes affect signalling range and fine-tune developmental patterning www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Thread below ⬇️

Apply by Friday! 👇

Would you like to make your lab greener? Read our blog series by Jeroen Dobbelaere to find out how to make your lab more energy efficient and less wasteful. www.biologists.com/storycategor... #Sustainability #Energy #CarbonFootprint #Plastics #Environment

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/...

Thanks @cellysally.bsky.social ! It's shaping up to be a great meeting (no pun intended...) so I'm looking forward to it ☺️

Speaker update for our Generative Biology workshop: we are delighted to have @nmoris.bsky.social join us. See full list of speakers on the attached flyer or on our website. Apply by 15th August. Places available for short talks. royalsociety.org/science-even...