Crick Crash Course: Embryo development

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 👍

Thrilled to present our comparative study on the evolution of zygotic genome activation (ZGA)!! 🥚🧬

Amazing PhD work of @campobes.bsky.social together with @fedemantica.bsky.social and many collaborators! @melisupf.bsky.social @crg.eu. Thread below 1/15

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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!

This is so cool!

📢 We are #hiring!

#GroupLeader positions open at #IRBBarcelona in #ChemicalBiology and #StructuralBiology.

Application deadline: May 22, 2026

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#IRBJobs #Jobs #AcademicSky

The time has come for another round of QBMM - we have a fantastic lineup of speakers in genomics, systems biology, and modeling cell dynamics. Check it out!

Co-orgs @elowitzlab.bsky.social @tinekelenstra.bsky.social @trayon.bsky.social @savitski-lab.bsky.social and I look forward to seeing you

Beautiful! Congrats, Afnan!!

Excited to share our new #preprint uncovering how early human forebrain is patterned.

Compared to mouse, human dorsoventral and anteroposterior telencephalon patterning is strikingly delayed, which is correlated with SHH and FGF signalling differences.
Read it here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Mosaic gastruloids reveal a temporal restriction for developmental cell competition - Nature Cell Biology Frenster et al. utilize mosaic mouse gastruloids as a model of cell fitness and competition, identifying a temporal window between primed pluripotency and early gastrulation during which cell competit...

🥳 I am happy to share our latest manuscript published in @natcellbio.nature.com We use #Gastruloids to study #CellCompetition during early mammalian development and find not only that this is highly pronounced in our system but also tightly restricted in time. (1/12) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A person stands outdoors in front of a giraffe, looking up at it.

A newborn giraffe and an adult giraffe in an enclosure.

Two people examine a sample of giraffe placenta on a metal bench.

A person in a white lab coat loads samples into a machine in a lab.

Crick evolutionary biologist @margaridamcm.bsky.social is working with conservation charity ZSL to investigate an enduring mystery: how the placenta has evolved with incredible variation across species.

Read the full story: www.crick.ac.uk/news/2026-03...

The Cooper lab is hiring a postdoc with a strong background in mouse genetics and molecular biology to advance.our gene drive work. Must be extremely organized, engineering-minded, and outcomes-oriented. Spread the word and have interested candidates email me directly.

This is wonderful news, Ali! I'm so happy to hear it. Can't wait to see all the future Evo-Devo-Tempo work!! 🙌

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Thanks Ali!

Oleeee 🍾

Exactly!! 🥳

Honoured and grateful to receive the 2026 BSDB Dennis Summerbell Award. This was the cherry on the cake of a fantastic meeting. Thank you @bsdb.bsky.social and the whole DevBio community for being so inspiring

🎉 We are thrilled to announce the very first winner of the BSDB Marie Johansson Prize!

This year’s award goes to Giulia Boezio @giulia-boezio.bsky.social, recognised for outstanding contributions to developmental biology and for embodying Marie’s scientific originality and rigour.

🧬 Placental Biology Course 2026 – Open for Booking!

📅 14–18 September 2026, 💻 Online

💷 2026 fees (held at 2024 rates):
• £125 – Students
• £150 – Post-docs
• £300 – Medical & Vet Health Professionals & Group Leaders
• £500 – Industry colleagues

www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/placentalbio...

Congrats, Agnese!! Looking forward to seeing your future work

🚨 Job Alert - Please share! 🙏

Interested in 3D gene regulation in development & evolution? 🤓🧬

💥 Our lab at @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social is expanding!

We’re recruiting:
✅ PhD students
✅ Postdocs
💻🧪 Experimental or computational backgrounds welcome

👇 Details below

Apply to become a Preprint Editor Development

We are inviting experienced researchers to apply to become Preprint Editors, a new type of editorial role responsible for handling our 'In preprints' articles and forging links with preprint literature. #prepints

Learn more and apply before 30 March 2026:
journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pr...

The molecular evolution of vertebrate organs Nature Ecology & Evolution - This Review discusses recent advances in the molecular evolution of vertebrate organs, including rates of evolution of organs and cell types, molecular mechanisms...

Our internal organs are evolutionary marvels. New technologies are transforming our understanding of the evolution of vertebrate organs. You can find more by reading here:
rdcu.be/e5EgU
#EvoBio #EvoDevo 🐟🦎🐢🦇🐊🦜

🚨🚨 #Hiring!

Funded #phd position open in our lab @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social to study the role of YAP1 and associated factors in #preimplantation embryo development.

📆 Apply by 6th March 2026 Details below.

@sebioldev.bsky.social

Please RT!

To kickstart this new Bluesky account: We're hiring!
The Bertolin Lab @dundee.ac.uk is looking for a postdoc to work on DNA-end homeostasis & genome stability, funded by Wellcome Trust Award. Exciting science, fantastic environment, founding role in the lab.
Details in the flyer — get in touch! 👇

PDRA position still open in my lab for anyone who wants to solve some outstanding questions in limb development. We have a variety of models and approaches (everything from stem cells to chicks and catsharks). Please share!

Happy birthday @ucl.ac.uk #UCL200

Job alert! 📣 I’m looking for a research assistant to join my new team @idrm.ox.ac.uk

Were using #zebrafish to understand gene-environment interactions that shape the heart 🫀generate natural diversity 🐸🐭 and contribute to congenital defects ❤️‍🩹

Full info below, and please share! 🫶🏻

bit.ly/467TO0M

We are thrilled that our study on the evolution of gene regulation in mammalian cerebellum development – led by @ioansarr.bsky.social, @marisepp.bsky.social and @tyamadat.bsky.social, in collaboration with @steinaerts.bsky.social – is now out in @ScienceMagazine! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The @neuroalc.bsky.social invites applications for two permanent research positions (Científico titular @csic.es , Tenure-track) to build independent programs in a collaborative, international environment. We welcome applicants from all demographic backgrounds 👇
in.umh-csic.es/en/ofertas/d...