😍 Really beautiful summary!

Honoured to have been awarded the 2026 British Society for Developmental Biology Lewis Wolpert Medal - means so much; as i was Lewis’s last PhD student,recognition for continuing his legacy of public engagement & impact of our research on Thalidomide & Primodos survivors.

bsdb.org/2026/03/24/2...

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Excited for BSDB's 2026 Meeting organised by @abinagui.bsky.social @vmetzis.bsky.social, @gastruloids.bsky.social & co?

Our Reviews Editor @ingridtsang.bsky.social & the Node's Community Manager @andreamurillo.bsky.social will also be attending - come and chat to them about our journal & the Node.

Très intéressant...Est ce qu’il y a un lien pour l’enregistrement en ligne? Merci!

Peer Review Timelines Show Gender Gap, Large Study Reports A study of millions of life science papers revealed that manuscripts with women in key authorship roles spent longer between submission and acceptance.

Study of 8M biomed & life science articles finds those led by women spent 7 to 15 days longer in review than those led by men. Over a career, women's papers could spend 350 to 750 additional days in review. Delays could slow promotion, esp to full professor. www.the-scientist.com/women-s-rese...

Institut Pasteur (@pasteur.fr) is recruiting new young PIs to open new groups in the Institute. Deadline is February 9th! Don't miss the opportunity!

Sox2 and T 😜

Congratulations! 🫶
… (wow time does fly! I have a box of primers you left behind… see your name everytime I open the freezer!)

🚨DEADLINE TOMORROW FRIDAY 16th JANUARY
If you are interested in DevBio, *don't think about it twice*
👇STEPS:
1)Submit an abstract bsdb.org/meetings/
2)Become a @bsdb.bsky.social member if you aren't already bsdb.org/about-us/#me...
3)Apply for travel grants bsdb.org/membership/#...

See you there!

I think the latest cover helps to remind us that Development is not just a faceless brand of a journal eager to line shareholder pockets - it's a group of people who share a love for #devbio and, in my experience, really are trying to do their best for their community.

#not-for-profit

🙌🙌🫶

UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme Exclusive: British students will be able to participate in EU-wide scheme from January 2027, sources say

Breaking...

Very good news. A first step towards...?

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Join us in Sheffield! We are keen to support early career researchers in applying for independent research fellowships (IRFs) to join our friendly and collaborative environment, in areas related to developmental biology, stem cells and regenerative biology, and neuroscience.

I am absolutely delighted to share the invited speakers for our upcoming @bsdb.bsky.social "Molecules to Morphogenesis" meeting!

Registration and abstract submission is now open - join us!

bsdb.org/meetings/

March 23-26, 2026 - UK

🚨DevBio enthusiasts!!
Registration & abstract submission is open for our 2026 BSDB annual meeting: Molecules to Morphogenesis! @bsdb.bsky.social

👇👇 To REGISTER click HERE 👇👇
bsdb.org/meetings/
Don't forget to join the BSDB for reduced rates and access to conference/travel grants :D!

The Company of Biologists 100 logo to the left and QR code to the right. Portrait of Katherine Brown to the left, text to the right 100 extraordinary biologists Katherine Brown is the Company’s Publishing Director, having previously served as Development’s Executive Editor. There, she co-initiated the ‘From Stem Cells to Human Development’ meeting series, helping to launch the Company’s Journal Meetings. Katherine has also been closely involved with preLights since its inception.

Our first extraordinary biologist featured this week is Katherine Brown, @biologists.bsky.social Publishing Director and former @dev-journal.bsky.social Executive Editor, who has been closely involved with @prelights.bsky.social since its inception. #100biologists

@katherine-brown.bsky.social

Brachyury expression levels predict lineage potential and axis-forming ability of in vitro derived neuromesodermal progenitors Neuromesodermal progenitors (NMPs) produce the spinal cord and musculoskeleton in the elongating anterior-posterior axis. In vivo, NMPs possess dual potency, coinciding with regions coexpressing SOX2 ...

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...

A toolkit for mapping cell identities in relation to neighbors reveals conserved patterning of neuromesodermal progenitor populations by Matthew French, Rosa P. Migueles, Alexandra Neaverson, Aishani Chakraborty, Tom Pettini, Benjamin Steventon, Erik Clark, J. Kim Dale, Guillaume Blin, Valerie Wilson, Sally Lowell Patterning of cell fates is central to embryonic development, tissue homeostasis, and disease. Quantitative analysis of patterning reveals the logic by which cell-cell interactions orchestrate changes in cell fate. However, it is challenging to quantify patterning when graded changes in identity occur over complex 4D trajectories, or where different cell states are intermingled. Furthermore, comparing patterns across multiple individual embryos, tissues, or organoids is difficult because these often vary in shape and size. This problem is further exacerbated when comparing patterning between species. Here we present a toolkit of computational approaches to tackle these problems. These strategies are based on measuring properties of each cell in relation to the properties of its neighbors to quantify patterning, and on using embryonic landmarks in order to compare these patterns between embryos. We perform detailed neighbor-analysis of the caudal lateral epiblast of E8.5 mouse embryos, revealing local patterning in emergence of early mesoderm cells that is sensitive to inhibition of Notch activity. We extend this toolkit to compare mouse and chick embryos, revealing conserved 3D patterning of the caudal-lateral epiblast that scales across an order of magnitude difference in size between these two species. We also examine 3D patterning of gene expression boundaries across the length of Drosophila embryos. We present a flexible approach to examine the reproducibility of patterning between individuals, to measure phenotypic changes in patterning after experimental manipulation, and to compare of patterning across different scales and tissue architectures.

A toolkit for mapping cell identities in relation to neighbors reveals conserved patterning of neuromesodermal progenitor populations @PLOSBiology.org

Hello!
If submitting an abstract, Can we still pay early bird after the 15th of July (once we know of the outcome)?

The Company of Biologists 100 logo to the left and QR code to the right. Portrait of Sally Lowell to the left, text to the right 100 extraordinary biologists Sally Lowell Stem cell biologist Sally Lowell from The University of Edinburgh, UK, has been a Director since 2019. Sally was involved in introducing The Company of Biologists’ Sustainability Initiative and is the current chair of the Sustainability Committee. #100biologists #biologists100

We are featuring Sally Lowell, Director of @biologists.bsky.social and current chair of the Company's Sustainability Committee, as our 50th extraordinary biologist. #100biologists @cellysally.bsky.social

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We are proud to recognize & thank ‪The University of Edinburgh for its support of bioRxiv & medRxiv.

Their commitment helps sustain open access to preprints in biology & medicine, ensuring timely and globally-available sharing of scientific knowledge.

Thank you! 💚

#bioRxiv #medRxiv #OpenScience

Because I had a long incubation time, I'm more resilient to the stress that comes with an academic career - the Node No such thing as a standard career path – an interview with Eve Seuntjens

"Because I had a long incubation time, I’m more resilient to the stress that comes with an academic career"

Thank you Eve Seuntjens @eveseuntjens.bsky.social for sharing your career journey and your advice to people currently in the endless postdoc period #AcademicLife

Read our interview with Eve:

Experimental embryology postdoc available in my lab at the @biology.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk working on the evolution of vertebral counts. Reach out if you’re passionate about EvoDevo, enjoy lab work and microscopy and are into or could get into cichlid fishes. Deadline on the 16th June. Please share!

This. Company of Biologists & their journals supports scientists, not shareholders @biologists.bsky.social

Did you attend Biologists @ 100 in Liverpool last week? Then help out and fill in the feedback form- get your thoughts heard!

Any chance this will be streamed?

Thank you a lot for coming over! :)

@cathyabbott.bsky.social

If he wants to join us at KB on Monday, he is most welcome! 3:30 Ashworth lecture theatre 3. It will be the same talk as today’s and the IRR on Monday, followed by tea and coffee for extended discussion , Q&A

@richardsever.bsky.social will give the same talk at KB from 3:30pm -Ashworth lecture hall 3. It is open to everybody and the following discussion with tea and coffee is organised by ECRs but not only for ECRs! Everybody is very welcome to join!!