📢Preprint: Positional information (PI) and information flows in dynamic tissues.
Our mathematical framework quantifies, from data, how the coupled stochastic dynamics of cell positions and properties preserve, degrade and generate PI. @alex-plum.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Excited for #DynamicCellVI @bscb-official.bsky.social @biochemsoc.bsky.social
New Pre-Print Alert!
Evolving initial conditions: an alternative developmental route to morphological diversity
with Shannon Taylor and @jamesehammond.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
New in @currentbiology.bsky.social from teams at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre @ucllifesciences.bsky.social, and the University of Oldenburg:
News: www.sainsburywellcome.org/research-new...
Paper: cell.com/current-biol...
The atlas is available in @brainglobe.info
I am giving a "Crash Course in Embryo Development" for the general public (no science background needed! pitched around GCSE-level) in London on 21st May www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/cri... We'll dip into development, with a splash of embryo models, and a pinch of ethics. And it's free! Book online 👍
Excited to announce Physics of Living Matter 19! To be held in Cambridge 24-25th September 2026:
www.plm-symposium.org
It's finally here! Great start of the summer. We got our latest preprint from @chemamd.bsky.social in @qmulsbbs.bsky.social @qmulse.bsky.social, showing evidence of developmental system drift in the specification of dorsoventral (belly vs back) axis in annelids 🪱🪱🪱
#DevBio #EvoDevo
Just published in @science.org 🚀
By controlling how cells align, we show that living nematic tissues can be programmed to generate forces and fold into predictable 3D shapes.
A new platform for tissue engineering and the design of smart active materials!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Come join us in beautiful Roscoff for this Conference Jacques Monod on Developmental regulation: from molecular to ecological niches
May 18-22, 2026 Roscoff, France
Abstract deadline: January 31, 2026
Apply here: cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en
We are looking for an experienced light microscopy specialist, motivated to support our users in the Advanced Light Microscopy Facility at EMBL Heidelberg.
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j... -closing date 11 May 2026 @eurobioimaging.bsky.social @globalbioimaging.bsky.social
Will someone give this man a Faculty job already?! #AskingForAFriend
⏱️ Starting soon! #EuroBioImaging's Image Data Community Days event takes place online this week. Don't miss the first session starting at 🕒️ 9 am CEST TODAY to learn more about our Data Services!
www.eurobioimaging.eu/events/image...
Point of View: An easy way to improve lab meetings doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
I'm really happy to see this one out @elife.bsky.social. Awesome Cara Glynn and I describe and reflect on a year-long, low-cost practice that transformed our group meetings.
#researchculture #ECR #labmeetings
How can we learn tissue mechanics directly from cell patterns and images?
In our new preprint, we introduce VertAX, a differentiable vertex-model framework in JAX for simulating epithelia, inferring parameters, and designing target tissue behaviors.
shorturl.at/PUzT0
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Following several years (!) of discussion and rumination, our team of excellent colleagues - Martin Pera, @nicolasrivron.bsky.social, @amartinezarias.bsky.social, Karen Sermon and Nienke de Graeff - have published a new ethical perspective on SCBEM #embryomodels rdcu.be/fcklG [1/5]
🚨 Why can’t mammals regenerate limbs like frog tadpoles or salamanders?
In our new paper in @science.org , we show that species-specific oxygen sensing acts as a gatekeeper for initiating limb regeneration 🐭🐸
🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #EvoDevo
📣Registration is open! #CBIAS2026📣
Last day to submit an abstract! This is a meeting aimed at all career stages, but especially geared on early career scientists (PhD/postdoc), don't feel you need to have a perfectly polished story to present!
Fantastic to join the #EdinburghScienceFestival with our lab’s Stitch and Fly workshop!
We had a highly interactive, fully booked session discussing our research alongside fruit fly-inspired stitching!
Huge thanks to the PhD students in our lab and SBS public engagement team.
#Drosophila #Genetics
I'm moving to Purdue University as a tenured professor this summer! Excited to hire postdocs there and get a lab up and running with @runxishen.bsky.social as co-lead.
More details: www.linkedin.com/posts/anneca...
Society for Developmental Biology Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoctoral Seminar Series Friday, April 10, 2026, 3:00pm - 4:00 pm Eastern Time Joaquín Navajas Acedo (Biozentrum at the University of Basel) Spatiotemporal emergence of somatosensory neuron diversity in zebrafish Yiqun Wang (University of California, San Diego) Asymmetric mRNA partition mediated embryonic patterning in spiralian development revealed by spatial transcriptomics
The next the Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoc Seminar will be held this Friday, April 10 at 3 pm Eastern Time with Joaquín Navajas Acedo @mads100tist.bsky.social @biozentrum.unibas.ch and Yiqun Wang @ucsandiego.bsky.social. Register today and join us. bit.ly/42xUhYh #SDBPostdocSeminar
#microscopycommunity- looking for help on your image analysis? GloBIAS offers free help sessions!
Dates: 20-24 April 2026
Registration deadline: 15 April 2026
Registration may close earlier if all available slots are filled.
Register here buff.ly/KzgIYOd
More information: buff.ly/vaCW4sF
Join us at the LS2 #Theory #across #Biology chalk talk symposium! 12 June 2026 in Bern, CH. @lifesciswitzerland.bsky.social
No movies that fail, no Mac to PC issues. Only the best ideas and exchange across biology from evolution and ecology to physics of life.
meetings.ls2.ch/theory-acros...
A group of people in conversation during a networking event in a modern indoor space.
If you're based at UCL, Imperial College London or King's College London, sign up for our newsletter for our university partners to keep up with training, events and news from the Crick: www.crick.ac.uk/sign-up-for-our-newslett...
🚨🚨🚨JOB ALERT🚨🚨🚨
The Image Analysis Unit at Human Technopole in Milan is recruiting for two positions to join our growing team:
1) Bioimage Analyst
2) Research Software Engineer (RSE)
Read on to learn why one of these two people should be you!
"Why is publishing so expensive?" It's a question I hear all the time, so we at @biologists.bsky.social thought we'd try to dispel some of the myths around publishing economics & provide transparency around our costs. Today, we publish editorials in all 5 of our journals - links in the thread below.
Poster for Young Embryologists Network Conference 15th June 2026. Invited speakers: Kay Elder, Diana Pinheiro, Christopher Thomas.
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...
We are recruiting!
We are searching for an exceptional postdoctoral fellow to lead the single-cell phenoscaping efforts of the REWIRE-CAN Cancer Grand Challenge @cancergrand.bsky.social
For more information and to apply please visit: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Excited to share our new paper (CVPR 2026 🚀): "MuViT: Multi-Resolution Vision Transformers for Learning Across Scales in Microscopy" which enables local predictions to use global context.
Great work led by @albertdm.bsky.social & another fun collab w @gioelelamanno.bsky.social! @scadsai.bsky.social
