Our latest with @torres-sanchez.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/dev/article-... Breaking isn’t always a bad thing! Think of birth, seed release... We highlight how living tissue not only tolerates fractures but actively fracture to grow, shape, reproduce, or adapt – across species and scales.

Registration is OPEN for the 2026 Santa Cruz Meeting on Developmental Biology!!! Please spread the word! @mads100tist.bsky.social @socdevbio.bsky.social @bsdb.bsky.social @xenbase.bsky.social @isdb.bsky.social @devbiol.bsky.social @the-node.bsky.social scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu

How can cells use information from neighboring cells to improve the spatial precision of morphogen patterns? 🤔 We show that cells can gain positional information by "talking" to their neighbors - how much depends critically on spatial correlations of the patterns. buff.ly/w56OUJT

The Elbe Program is offering positions for independent postdocs at the interface between theory (physics, maths, computing) and biology. Join us in Dresden! Deadline 13 March.

New preprint! We show how mesoscopic nonequilibrium fluctuations in active gels emerge from the breaking of detailed balance at the molecular scale. Warning: Long technical paper ahead! Enjoy! @mpipks.bsky.social @ub.edu @ubics.bsky.social @icreacommunity.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2601.20483

www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/f... Become our new colleague (and next door neighbor) and lead a chair/group/department of Biophysics at Wageningen University. Reach out to me for info and please spread!!!

Online Now! High-content screening of organoids reveals the mechanisms of human pancreas acinar specification #stemcells

Congratulations to Rashmi and Karolina and also to the technology development studio of the MPI-CBG without whom the screen would not have been possible. If you are interested in high-content screening in organoid models, you may want to take a look.

We spy a few #zebrafish peeps as invited speakers 🤩

@marineluciano.bsky.social recreates intestinal Villi geometry by growing epithelial cells on wavy rolling substrates. Unexpected intrication of curvature effects is observed. Thanks to all! @caterinatomba.bsky.social @sgabriele.bsky.social @sciencesunige.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Development Editor Jim Wells is attending the Takeda Science Foundation symposium, 'ORGANOID 4D: Development, Disease, Diversity and Discovery', starting on Friday 23 January. Use the opportunity to meet Jim and speak about publishing in Development. journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/ed...

Congratulations Alison and Brugues lab. It’s been amazing seeing the story developing over the years!

Congratulations to Byung Ho for spearheading this work and our HFSP team! Curious about the formation of networks of thin lumens and some physics behind it? Take a look at the paper. Byung Ho is looking for PI positions and he has amazing ideas and leadership. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New research group leader @matthiasmuhar.bsky.social joins @mpi-cbg.de! 🥳 With his group "Functional genomics of proteome remodeling,” Matthias wants to pursue high-throughput genetic studies to understand how protein turnover is regulated. Welcome, Matthias! www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

How does an elastic line buckle within a curved surface? The answer, by @zhaoshh.bsky.social and @lepuslapis.bsky.social @mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social, has now been #published @physrevlett.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1103/63py-ph5s

Pleasure to announce the program of my new series of lectures at the College de France in Nov-Dec. Continuing on the theme of Biological information. I will focus on the computational aspects, building on David Marr's tri-level of analysis in biological systems. YouTube link sent when it starts.

We stand with our international colleagues today on their rallies to defend science as a public good and pillar of social, political, and economic progress. @standupforscience.bsky.social

🎉 Our Master’s programs are accredited until 2032! 🧬 Regenerative Biology and Medicine 🔬 Molecular Bioengineering 🌌 Physics of Life ✅ The programs went through internal quality check at TU Dresden and passed with flying colors! Applications open April 1! More info ➡️ tud.link/ynf76g #Masters #MSc

‼️The Cell and Developmental Biology Department at UCL is looking for potential candidates for their Research Career Development Fellowships with a potential for tenure-track‼️ And believe it or not, UK Research Councils are not frozen🤗 Please spread the words! www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Excited to share that IBDM (Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille) is expanding its research groups this year! A great place for developmental biology and interdisciplinary research located on the beautiful Marseille-Luminy campus! Deadline for applications: March 30th, 2025

Applications are open for ELBE #postdoc fellowships @mpicbg.bsky.social @mpipks.bsky.social at the Center for Systems Biology Dresden! These are FANTASTIC opportunities for independent, interdisciplinary work in #biophysics, systems biology, ... Deadline: 14th February 2025!