📢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
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...
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 👍
An illustrated summary of the BSDB Spring Meeting 2026
In this post, @alexneaverson.bsky.social shares her insights on using illustration to share the joy of developmental biology at the 2026 @bsdb.bsky.social meeting.
thenode.biologists.com/an-illustrat...
#SciArt
Mapping nerves in a whole embryos.
We find that across species and development stages, embryonic nerves display (beautiful) fractal geometry.
More here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
From molecules to morphogenesis
Discover a curated #preList of preprints presented at the BSDB Spring Meeting @bsdb.bsky.social - highlighting exciting new research in developmental biology
Explore this #preprints list prepared by @ingridtsang.bsky.social ⬇️
prelights.biologists.com/prelists/bsd...
Today in "Lateral Plate Mesoderm is beautiful":
#devbio #NotEverythingIsNeuralCrest #MesodermStillRocks
Did you know the Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting has an entire session just for NEW PI Talks? And a New PI Keynote Talk? It does! These will be chosen from the abstracts. New PIs, sign up!
@socdevbio.bsky.social @rashmi-priya.bsky.social @lowelab.bsky.social
scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu
🛍️✨ New swag just dropped! 🎉🧬 The Society for Developmental Biology merch store is now live with brand-new items for the dev bio community 💙🔬👕 Represent your favorite field in style 😎 check out the new gear here ➡️ sdb-official-merch.printify.me
#SDB #DevBio #DevelopmentalBiology
Join us on 12 May 2026 for an inside look at how stem cell research oversight works in practice! In this interactive webinar, a mock oversight committee will review real-world research protocols in real time. Register today 👉 https://bit.ly/3PRCXtW
🌱🔬We’re exciting to be hosting a new webinar series on quantitative plant imaging with @ajcellbio.bsky.social & @joemckenna.bsky.social. The first webinar will be on 30 April at 15:00 BST.
For more info and to sign up to our mailing list or volunteer to give a talk ⤵️
Proud to share this work with @kevinchalut.bsky.social and Byron Mui. Why do some injuries scar while others regenerate? Using digit tip models, we show the ECM is a key driver. HA-rich ECM promotes regeneration, and boosting it can shift healing away from fibrosis. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
An example of an embryo model, featuring a mix of differently coloured spots and blobs on a black background.
An example of an embryo model, featuring a mix of differently coloured spots and blobs on a black background.
An example of an embryo model, featuring a mix of differently coloured spots and blobs on a black background.
An example of an embryo model, featuring a mix of differently coloured spots and blobs on a black background.
These stem cell-based models help researchers to study the 'missing four weeks' of embryo development – a period long unseen by science.
Explore @nmoris.bsky.social's work with these models and what's next for research and regulation:
www.crick.ac.uk/news/2026-03...
🚨3 days left❗to submit your abstract for the Society for Developmental Biology Annual Meeting 2026 in Las Vegas! 🎰🃏 Don’t miss your chance to share your science, connect with the dev bio community, and join us in Vegas ➡️ www.sdbonline.org/2026mtg_abst... ✨ #SDB2026 #DevBio #DevelopmentalBiology
Happy #MicroscopyMonday!
This image shows the underside of a skeletal preparation of a little skate (Leucoraja erinacea) hatchling.
Imaged by Andrew Gillis, an associate scientist at the MBL.
#JobAlert
We’re looking for a #ScienceCommunication Officer (parental leave coverage) with creativity, a strong feel for language and media, and curiosity for emerging topics.
🗓️ Apply by 24 April 2026
👉 More info: kurzlinks.de/6qoo
Fixed-term until 27 November 2026.
#UniversityOfFreiburg
🚨The abstract submission deadline is this Friday 17 April 2026.
Mark your calendars! The @lscn.bsky.social 9th Annual Symposium is happening on 15 May – and it's shaping up to be an unmissable day of cutting-edge science, collaboration, & community! A great line-up has also been announced.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/9th-annual...
‼️The registration for the Development Journal Meeting 2026 - Human Development: Stem Cells, Models, Embryos is now open. This year marks a collaboration between @dev-journal.bsky.social and the Human Developmental Biology Initiative consortium.
www.biologists.com/meetings/dev...
Join us 🌟 #EvoDevoMondays
🗓️April 13, 2026 ⏰10am PDT/1pm EDT
Speakers
🐌Luiza de Oliveira Saad
🐤 João Francisco Botelho
Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
@the-node.bsky.social @latinxdb.bsky.social @lasdb.bsky.social
🚨 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
This course is featured in our Events Calendar. Explore what other exciting events are happening for the #DevBio and #StemCell community in 2026.
thenode.biologists.com/events/
Loke CTR launch registration for 2026 Placental Biology Course
📣 Erin Slatery announces the launch of the @loke-ctr.bsky.social 2026 Placental Biology Course registration.
Take a look 👇
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#DevBio
🏅 Fifth Place – DevBio Art Contest 🎨 “The Leech Family” 🪱 Helobdella austinensis, a very dorky segmented worm that’s taught us decades of developmental biology! 🧬 This clay piece by @biyolokum.bsky.social captures their quirky life as hermaphroditic parents carrying babies on their belly 💚
Early asymmetric cleavage and distribution of serotonin in early Ilyanassa embryos. (A) Schematic figures of the first three asymmetric macromere divisions (4, 8, and 12-cell stages) of the Ilyanassa embryo. Four macromeres are generated during the first two division cycles. During each successive cleavage cycle, each macromere undergoes an asymmetric division and produces a smaller daughter cell (micromere) with a distinct cell fate. The macromeres divide at an oblique angle, clockwise from the animal-vegetal axis, and generate the first micromere daughter cells. In the next cleavage, macromeres divide at a similar oblique angle, counterclockwise from the animal-vegetal axis, and generate the second micromere daughter cells. (B-D′) Serotonin distribution during the 4-cell stage. Co-staining with serotonin (red) and β-tubulin (green) antibodies and DAPI-stained DNA (blue) is shown. During interphase serotonin was detected in the center of the array of microtubules (arrowheads) and the macromere cortex. During prometaphase, an apical section shows that serotonin is concentrated in the apical cytoplasm (C, arrowhead). During metaphase, serotonin is localized to the surface of the macromere and concentrated around the apical spindle pole.
#DBfeature 🐌
Serotonin-receptor antagonist treatment disrupts typical asymmetric cleavage in mud snail I. obsoleta embryos, suggesting a novel role for serotonin signalling
By Ayaki Nakamoto, Lisa Nagy
tinyurl.com/bpaexdsw
@dev-journal.bsky.social’s 2025 outstanding paper prize. The top nominees include a fetal human heart atlas from the group of Heather Etchevers and Stéphane Zaffran, that I nominated journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
If cell diversity and developmental biology are your thing, my talk will extremely be your jam. Come for the whole-mount spatial transcriptomics and 14Tb light-sheet videos, stay for the humble RNA in situs. Everyone loves in situs 🧪🐟🧅
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]
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....
