Attending 'Modeling Life from Cells to Tissues: Emergence and Self-Organization' by @lakeconferences.bsky.social?
Editors, @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social, @pfrancois.bsky.social, @irenemiguel-aliaga.bsky.social & Matthias Lutolf, are present - chat to them about publishing with us.
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James introducing his work on neural patterning
James advertising Development and its initiatives
Editor in chief of Development @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social opening the floor today at the Allen Institute Lake Conference 2026 meeting ! @biologists.bsky.social
Promotional graphic for a Development webinar announcing the Outstanding Paper Prize. The slide shows the date and time (Wednesday 29 April, 15:00 BST), chair Steve Wilson, and two speakers with headshots and paper titles, alongside a colorful fluorescent microscopy-style image and a QR code, with The Company of Biologists and Development logos at the bottom.
📢 Register for our #DevPres webinar featuring the finalists of the 2025 Outstanding Paper Prize
The webinar, chaired by Steve Wilson, features talks from Xi Yang and Bénédicte Lefèvre @drosopachea.bsky.social.
🗓️29 April, 15:00 GMT/UTC
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Attending the @bscb-official.bsky.social tomorrow?
Be sure to visit the @biologists.bsky.social exhibit and chat with our colleagues at @jcellsci.bsky.social.
Also, take a look at our 2026 cell biology subject collection, curated by @swathiarur.bsky.social.
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Thank you to Jim Smith for writing about the legacy of #devbio giant and former Chair of @biologists.bsky.social's Board of Directors, Sir John Gurdon.
📢Call for images
Our FocalPlane-ELMI2026 @eulimi.bsky.social image competition is open for entries. Share your favourite images for your chance to win £200 and see your image on the cover of @jcellsci.bsky.social.
Deadline: 18 May 2026
#ELMI2026
@ppbioimaging.bsky.social
Today!!!
Reminder! Application deadline Friday 8th May
Event image card: Human Development: Stem Cells, Models, Embryos Date: 7 – 9 September 2026 Location: University of Warwick, UK
One month until early-bird deadline for @dev-journal.bsky.social & @wellcometrust.bsky.social-funded consortium HDBI's 2026 Meeting on Human Development: Stem Cells, Models, Embryos. Check out the programme biologists.com/meetings/dev... and register by 8 May www.biologists.com/meetings/dev...
A European common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) wearing a pair of red and blue 3D glasses. They look cool as fuck. Their arms are reaching out and they have a sandy striped pattern
A European common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) wearing a pair of red and blue 3D glasses swimming just above the ground. They look very cool. They have a yellow sandy beige colour.
A European common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) wearing a pair of red and blue 3D glasses sitting on the ground. Their two centre arms are raised and reaching back while the other limbs rest on the ground. They have a grey colour with brown spots. They look extremely cool.
A European common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) wearing a pair of red and blue 3D glasses reaching for a projection of a shrimp. They look pretty cool. They have a sandy brown colour.
In 2019, scientists velcro'd 3D glasses to European common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis)
They didn't do this just to make them look cool as fuck, but in order to study their vision. Using a 3D theatre made for the cuttlefish, they were able to test if cuttlefish have stereo vision (they do!)
Promotional graphic for a Development webinar announcing the Outstanding Paper Prize. The slide shows the date and time (Wednesday 29 April, 15:00 BST), chair Steve Wilson, and two speakers with headshots and paper titles, alongside a colorful fluorescent microscopy-style image and a QR code, with The Company of Biologists and Development logos at the bottom.
📢Register for our #DevPres webinar featuring the finalists of the 2025 Outstanding Paper Prize
The webinar, chaired by Steve Wilson, features talks from Xi Yang and Bénédicte Lefèvre @drosopachea.bsky.social.
🗓️29 April, 15:00 GMT/UTC
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
May 29th. If you're in Paris, mark your calendars. Lock your pipettes. TELL YOUR cHAIR. RUN FOR YOUR LIVES 🧪🐟
✨Join us in 1h!
#EvoDevoMondays
Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
🚨The abstract submission deadline is this Friday 17 April 2026.
Happy #fluorescencefriday (and start of vacation!) to all those who are celebrating
Lifeact-labeled epidermal stem cells closing a wound after in vivo adult zebrafish skin injury
Deeply honored to be among the finalists of
@dev-journal.bsky.social 's 2025 Outstanding Paper Prize for the latest article of my PhD, together with Michael Lang, @courtier-orgogozo.bsky.social and our colleagues!
doi.org/10.1242/dev.204662
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Happy #CtenophoreDay (10-04) for those in Europe, UK, Australia & others that use DD-MM-YYYY format! This bi-annual event celebrates these squishy globs of goodness 🤩 Go ahead: share your favorite #ctenophore images and videos using the hashtag #CtenophoreDay! Credit video to @oceana.bsky.social.
Fantastic talks at the ‘Architecting Life’ symposium @tsinghuauniversity.bsky.social, including some from our own Academic Editors @jcellsci.bsky.social!
(@drmichaelway.bsky.social, @roylab-ucsd.bsky.social , @guijacquemet.bsky.social )
Screenshot of a journal editorial webpage titled “Development’s 2025 Outstanding Paper Prize,” dated 8 April 2026. Authors listed are James Briscoe, Alex Eve, and Steve Wilson. The page introduces the Outstanding Paper Prize, includes article information, a DOI link, and text recognising papers published in Development in 2025.
Congratulations to Xi Yang, Yun Zhou & co for winning our 2025 Outstanding Paper Prize. Their paper addresses broad & long-standing questions about how cells become new stem cell populations in the fern Ceratopteris.
Read the Editorial: doi.org/10.1242/dev....
Paper: doi.org/10.1242/dev....
I illustrated my way through the @bsdb.bsky.social Spring Meeting a couple weeks ago - here's my illustrated summary of the conference! I sketched (almost) all the speakers and glimpses of the science that made it such a great few days.
One month left for early-career researchers to apply for a funded place at our Workshop on Integrating Multi-Modal, Multi-Scale Models of Cardiovascular Disease Mechanisms. Apply by 8 May
@dmmjournal.bsky.social
📢 New on the SEBD blog!
#GFE2026 reflections & experiences shared by our #SEBD travel awardees 🌍✨
Don’t miss their unique perspectives and key takeaways 👇👇🏻
sebioldev.blogspot.com/2026/04/germ...
@gfeev.bsky.social
#devbio 🧪
Issue 6 is now complete!
On the cover: Fluorescence micrograph of a Caenorhabditis elegans gonadal region showing the spermatheca (cyan) and adjacent syncytial gonad (magenta). For more details, see Chan et al.
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@embo.org and @biologists.bsky.social Workshop has officially started in Haining, China!
Excited to be attending the Annual Meeting of the Chinese Society for Cell Biology in Hefei next week! If you’re going and would like to connect or find out more about @jcellsci.bsky.social or @biologists.bsky.social, please get in touch!
With this “Behind the paper” story, I’d like to give special thanks to two remarkable contributors whose generosity made a big difference:
@jialinliu.bsky.social for the scMultiomics data behind the multiomic atlas,
and Guoqiang Yu’s group for sharing ITEC cell tracking, which enabled MERFISH-FATE.
Excited to be heading to Paris next week for @embo.org Structure and Function of the #Cytoskeleton! Please say hi if you're around and want to chat about publishing, @jcellsci.bsky.social or any of @biologists.bsky.social grants and community initiatives!
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Delighted to announce that @dev-journal.bsky.social has teamed up with the @wellcometrust.bsky.social-funded consortium Human Developmental Biology Initiative (HDBI) to co-organise their 2026 Journal Meeting. Registration is now open at biologists.com/meetings/dev... #HumanDev26
Apply now to join us in December for our workshop "Rethinking Cell Differentiation and Development: A Unicellular Perspective". This will be an intimate meeting (30 people total) and we hope will be a great place to discuss this topic.
