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Register for a free scientific storytelling workshop @the-node.bsky.social, @prelights.bsky.social & @focalplane.bsky.social are excited to announce our free half-day workshop on scientific storytelling! Join us on 10 November 2026 from 13:00-17:00 GMT. #ScienceStorytelling #ECR #Scicomm

Should you get a PhD? — Seven questions to ask yourself David Fay discusses seven questions l to ask yourself when deciding about graduate school. thenode.biologists.com/should-you-g...

What is the cost of knowledge? For #OAweek, @biologists.bsky.social reflects on what researchers value in publishing and who bears the cost of creating that value. thenode.biologists.com/what-is-the-...

Loke CTR PhD studentship – applications open! Closing 3 November @erinslatery.bsky.social writes about the Loke Centre for Trophoblast Research fully funded 4-year PhD studentships for home or overseas students. The applications close on 3 November. thenode.biologists.com/loke-ctr-phd...

Interview with @mpi-cbg.de director Meritxell Huch @merihuchlab.bsky.social with the Hungarian Research Network on what laboratory-grown organoids can teach us about the function of human tissues, help us better understand regeneration & their role in drug development. hun-ren.hu/research_new...

🌱🔬The recordings from our recent quantitative plant imaging webinar are now available. Catch-up on the talks from @madic.bsky.social on exploring plant cells using cryo-ET, & @lauracopeland.bsky.social on the application of FPM to study biofilms on plant roots.

Metabolism is traditionally studied at the individual cell level, yet its role during development is very much under-appreciated. @mongeralab.bsky.social, @matyasbl.bsky.social and Olivier Pourquié lab discuss this interesting interplay between metabolism and morphogenesis: doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Meet Bill Hinchen, winner of the 2026 writing challenge Read our interview with Bill Hinchen, winner of the Node's #2026writingchallenge, whose entry explores the story of the unsung hero, the beach hopper. thenode.biologists.com/meet-billy-h...

📢 New ISRB Webinar — Morphogenesis and pattern formation Zone 1: Australia, East and South Asia 🗓 November 10, 2026 at 14:00 Asia/Shanghai 🎤 Kana Aoki 🎤 Toshimichi Yamada More info: isrbio.org/webinars

Yesterday, we held our annual Development Editors’ meeting and discussed the journal's future plans. Thank you to our Editors, all active researchers and your peers, colleagues and mentors. Their dedication makes it possible for us to publish papers the community can be proud of.

Want to learn how to tell your scientific story? The @biologists.bsky.social community sites @focalplane.bsky.social @the-node.bsky.social @prelights.bsky.social are organising an online workshop 10 November 13:00-17:00 GMT to help you tell your story Register now! tinyurl.com/4tndhueb

This is shaping up to be an egg-cellent meeting, for those interested! #devbio

University of Gothenburg is hiring: Postdoctoral in Pluripotent Stem Cell Models of Human Development #postdoc #biomedicine

What #preprints have the @dev-journal.bsky.social Preprint Editors been reading? Since June, they've been showcasing standout #DevBio preprints through the ‘In preprints’ series. We've collected the ones published (so far!) in one #preList ⬇️ prelights.biologists.com/prelists/in-...

Registration and abstract submissions are now open for the #ISSCR2027 Annual Meeting! Join us in San Francisco, USA, 15-18 June 2027. Explore the program, speakers, and the many opportunities the meeting offers 👉 www.isscr2027.org

📣 APPLICATIONS OPEN! Applications for the MBL's Advanced Research Training Courses are now open. 🔗 Check out details for course offerings here: go.mbl.edu/ARTC27

Hide and seek: exonic sequences harbor cis regulatory elements and regulate spatial expression of brassinosteroids receptors. #PlantBiology @karimaelm.bsky.social covers a recent #preprint by Raúl Denia-Mondéjar et al. @noelponte.bsky.social #preLight ⬇️ prelights.biologists.com/highlights/b...

Are you interested in developmental biology? Then we have news for you: #EESDevelopment is coming to EMBL next year which will explore how emerging technologies and transformative concepts are reshaping the field. 🧪 Submit your abstract by 2 March: s.embl.org/ees27-02-bl

The @sonnenlab.bsky.social discovered a functional role for oscillation frequencies in keeping the gut cells in balance. They experimentally changed the frequency of Hes1 oscillations in intestinal organoids and showed that this altered cell-type composition.https://www.hubrecht.eu/cells-got-rhythm/

#CellBio community, this one is for you! Applications are open for the #LakeConference on Modeling Life from Cells to Tissues! 📆 Mar. 21-25, 2027 📍 Lake Thun, Switzerland 🔬 All career stages welcomed Apply to attend by 12/10: https://bit.ly/4ANhchR

Applying for fellowships and not sure where to start? @plantgrads.bsky.social is hosting a free webinar with a panel of plant scientists who’ve earned USDA, NSF-GRFP, & FFAR fellowships. They’ll share advice on finding the right opportunities & writing competitive applications. Oct 26th @ 3 PM ET

Our story about short-long cell leaf epidermal patterning is out in @currentbiology.bsky.social now! My highlight is the beautiful imaging and thorough analysis by the incredibly talented @ncyberwitch.bsky.social. Congrats to all involved 🌾 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I wrote something (as did Mehul Malik) More importantly, @royalsociety.org has just launched a series: a practical guide to starting your PI career royalsociety.org/blog/2026/10...

1/ How do cells divide when they're stuck in something squishy? Most of what we know about the cell cycle comes from yeast in liquid or on flat plates, but in nature they live in dough, mucus, soil and tissue. This new paper asks what that does to division. Love this one!

Immune cells don't only interact with the ECM, they also interact with surrounding cells in tissue as they migrate. This video gives me so much joy because there is just so much biology here to be discovered. Sticky cells! Here, immune cells are 🔴, ectodermal cells are ⚪. Happy #FluorescenceFriday

Are you looking to improve your presentation skills, make your written work more compelling or learn how to use graphics to tell the story of your research? Join us at our free workshop on scientific storytelling on 10 November from 13:00 – 17:00 GMT. focalplane.biologists.com/2026/10/16/w...

Want to make your research presentations more engaging, identify the stories within your science and create compelling visual summaries of your work? Join us on 10 November 2026 from 13:00-17:00 GMT for a free half-day workshop: prelights.biologists.com/news/registe...

A new study from the @squeezycellslab.bsky.social lab shows that the same cell population can experience completely different physical challenges within an embryo. Unlike the cranial counterpart, the trunk NCCs adapt as their nuclei are deformed during migration 👏 #ECR www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New commentary from the lab - can we identify principles of transcriptional regulation & cis-regulatory element (CRE) control of gene expression? With @jcornwallscoones.bsky.social & @joadelas.bsky.social in @cp-molcell.bsky.social A thread 🧵 doi.org/10.1016/j.mo...

Our latest paper is out in @embojournal.org! Chromatin compaction is a hallmark of apoptosis, but the mechanism & function of this process was unclear. We show apoptotic compaction is required to prevent fragmented DNA from spreading beyond the dying cell, and is driven by histone deacetylation.

Call for papers - Plant and Algae Development Edited by @stanfordstomata.bsky.social and Susana Coelho, we welcome submissions studying the interface between development and the environment. Deadline: 2 November 2026. tinyurl.com/ykvs896x

🎉 Our paper is out today in @science.org! How does the intestine maintain the right balance of cell types? We find that signalling rhythms matter! So proud of our three shared first authors, Sonja Weterings, @hiromuneeto.bsky.social & @jddeleede.bsky.social! 🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Last week @science.org A DNA Typewriter records the cell lineage history of a mouse, from zygote to late organogenesis | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We've been funded to start using Dictyostelium as a model system for early endomembrane evolution!! Now I'm hiring a Postdoc to join the lab in Edmonton and start playing with Dicty in the lab:) iaejup.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

In preprints – reading a cell in two tenses: the proteome holds the present, the transcriptome points to the future Roshana Thambyrajah discusses a preprint by @mannlab.bsky.social & co, showing that the most complete picture of cellular identity may come from reading RNA and protein together.

Looking to attend a #microscopy training course? Don't miss the 16 October deadline to apply for a grant of up to £1,000 from @jcellsci.bsky.social and @focalplane.bsky.social Find out more at www.biologists.com/grants/jcs-f...

That's a wrap! 'Zebrafish Infection and Immunity 9' concluded yesterday, which ends our time in the City of Dreaming Spires 🐟🦠 ICYMI, here are some photos of the event ⬇️ Conference organizers would like to thank @biologists.bsky.social for their generous sponsorship of #zii9! #ZDMS #DiseaseModels

🌱🔬 October can mean only one thing… it’s time for the next webinar in our FocalPlane features… quantitative plant imaging series! We’ll be treated to talks from Marcel Dickmanns @madic.bsky.social & Laura Copeland @lauracopeland.bsky.social. Register now: focalplane.biologists.com/2026/09/23/r...

Applications are now OPEN for our Year in Industry programme. 🗓️ DEADLINE: 18 October 2026 https://okt.to/YeZ7cz

Have you considered the environmental impacts of your scientific computing? Join our free webinar on 12 October 2026 as we discuss the importance of our digital footprint: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve... Speakers: Anica Araneta and @loiclnlg.bsky.social Lannelongue | University of Cambridge 🖥️📊🧬🌱

#SICB job board job share Assistant #Professor of #Biology – #Neurobiology, Trinity University in San Antonio, TX sicb.org/jobs-and-fel... & see other #jobs via sicb.org/jobs-and-fel...

Happy #FluorescenceFriday. Single immune cell migration is fascinating. But these cells can also behave like a coordinated collective, like 🐝 from a hive. I captured some embryonic myeloid cells (🔴) displaying swarming behaviour in a migrating ectoderm cell sheet (🔵), like neutrophils in our body!

🧬 New research in Nature Cell Biology reveals how tissue flow helps guide immune cell migration and polarity. Congrats to Hoang Anh Le, Jonas Hartmann, Ricard Alert and collaborators! 👏🔬 #CellBiology #Immunology 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper from the lab! 🚨 Congratulations to Amanda A. G. Ferreira and Sergio Córdoba 🎉

Tongue-tied? Maybe tentacle-tied! 🪼🪢🪼 These larval comb jellies (cydippids) got all tangled up after going for the same piece of food (now white debris in the middle of aggregate) 🤦‍♂️ Don’t worry though! It’s nothing a transfer pipette can’t solve 😊 #scicomm #mneniopsis #ctenophore #MarineLife

Our collaborative paper on snake coiling is now out in the latest issue of @currentbiology.bsky.social and featured on the cover! 🎉 Delighted to see our work highlighted this way. You can read it here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1ni9h3QW8S... @helsinki-biotech.bsky.social @helsinki.fi

If you are curious about quantitative and predictive cell date decisions landscapes but our 14 figure paper seemed just a bit daunting, have a look at James' linked summary.

Welcome to #SLS26 by symposium coordinators @robinsonsci.bsky.social and Neha Bhatia

We would like to add one or two postdocs to our lab in the next couple of years. If you are close to finishing your PhD and interested in the science we do, feel free to reach out to discuss opportunities.

How is proliferation modulated in regeneration for tissues to reach their right size? We found that, in zebrafish scales, proliferation is shut down by a moving front of osteoblast maturation. The front's dynamics scale with tissue size, ensuring proper osteoblast amplification. tinyurl.com/5e45twx3