We are pleased to announce our partnership with GetFTR (Get Full Text Research). This partnership reflects our belief that efficient access to trusted science is essential to advancing biology. Read the announcement in full at www.getfulltextresearch.com/companyofbio...
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We’re all set up and ready for Dynamic Cell VI in Reading. Looking forward to talking to you all over the next few days
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Extended deadline is 1 May to submit your research to @jcellsci.bsky.social special issue on Imaging Cell Architecture and Dynamics. journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/im...
“It is certainly a great pleasure to publish in Development, a journal that I have been publishing in throughout my career (from PhD to postdoc to group leader) and consider one of the major journals in the field. The Read & Publish agreement with Oxford is a huge help and speaks to the high esteem that the journals of The Company of Biologists are held.”
Thank you @petrosligoxygakis.bsky.social for sharing your experience of fee-free #OA publishing @dev-journal.bsky.social via our #ReadAndPublish agreement with @ox.ac.uk @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
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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.
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How do funding decisions shape the direction of biomedical research? Can we spot transformative discoveries years before they are recognised by prizes, policies, or the wider community?
Watch the #spotLights discussion feat. @kawillis.bsky.social & @jontytownson.bsky.social
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“Applying for a grant from the Fund for Innovations in Sustainable Conferencing offered by The Company of Biologists helped us structure the conference under a unified vision of environmental responsibility and ensure coherence with our everyday habits throughout the event—something we knew was shared by most attendees, as confirmed by the feedback we received.” Feedback received from an organiser who was awarded with a grant from the Fund for Innovations in Sustainable Conferencing
Organisers awarded with grants from our Fund for Innovations in Sustainable Conferencing use the funding to integrate sustainability in their events in a balanced and efficient manner. Learn more about our £2,500 grants at biologists.com/sustainabili...
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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A card announcing the call for papers stating 'Special Issue: The Integrative Biology of Reproduction Guest Editors: Etya Amsalem, Tony D. Williams and Kathryn Wilsterman. Submission deadline: 30 June 2026' with the Journal of Experimental Biology logo and the logo for the Special Issue containing an egg cell surrounded by eight sperm cells. The eighth sperm, on the top right, is penetrating the egg.
We are calling for Reviews, Commentaries or research papers for our upcoming Special Issue: The Integrative Biology of Reproduction, covering the entire reproductive process, from mate selection, mating and egg-laying or pregnancy through to parental care
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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....
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Social media card advertising the JEB Integrative Biology of Exercise Special issue. The card as a black background. The text (left justified) reads: Special Issue the Integrative Biology of Exercise Guest Editors: Erika Eliason, Christopher Guglielmo, Natalie Holt and Monica Daley Beneath the text is the JEB logo. On the right of the card is the 'Integrative Biology of Exercise' logo, including a flying goose, a trout making a turn and a dumbbell weight.
Check out the new articles posted in our special issue, The Integrative Biology of Exercise, drawing on work in vertebrates and invertebrates to illustrate the plasticity or evolutionary changes necessary for exercise or sustained locomotion
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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...
Catch up on Development presents… webinar on neural development
Our February webinar featured early-career researchers studying neural development. Here, we share the talks from Joaquín Navajas Acedo @mads100tist.bsky.social & Carlo Donato Caiaffa. #DevPres
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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
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Our preprint list highlighting new tools and techniques in imaging is now up on FocalPlane. Check it out, and let us know if we are missing any research that we should add to the list.
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Rethinking Cell Differentiation and Development: A Unicellular Perspective Date: 6-9 December 2026 Location: Buxted Park, East Sussex, UK Organisers: Elena Casacuberta and James Gahan Early-career researchers apply for a funded place
Apply for a funded early-career researcher place at our Workshop on Rethinking Cell Differentiation and Development: A Unicellular Perspective, organised by Elena Casacuberta & James Gahan @jgahan.bsky.social. Find out more www.biologists.com/workshops/de...
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Screenshot of PDF of the Journal of Experimental Biology Editorial, 'Why is publishing so expensive?', by Katherine Brown, Craig E. Franklin and Michaela J. P. Handel. The publishing information states: © 2026. Published by The Company of Biologists | Journal of Experimental Biology (2026) 229, jeb252490. doi:10.1242/jeb.252490. The first sentence reads: 'For many of us who work in scientific publishing, the title of this Editorial is a question we hear all the time when we’re out talking to academics'.
Why is publishing so expensive? In this editorial we tackle this & other FAQs on publishing finances, providing context around the revenues & costs @ JEB & highlighting the people, workflows & tools that go into publishing a paper with us @biologists.bsky.social
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Special Issue Imaging Cell Architecture and Dynamics Guest Editors: Francesca Bottanelli and Giulia Zanetti Extended deadline: 1 May 2026 Journal of Cell Science Call for papers logo Image of a cell
We are accepting submissions for our upcoming special issue - Imaging Cell Architecture and Dynamics. This issue will be coordinated by @franbottanelli.bsky.social & Giulia Zanetti alongside our Editor @guijacquemet.bsky.social.
Extended deadline: 1 May 2026
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FocalPlane features… quantitative plant imaging across scales Thursday 30 April, 15:00 BST (UTC+1) Organised by Alex Johnson and Joe McKenna Image of Beatrice Lace (University of Freiburg) Multiplexing and Endogenous Fluorescence Discrimination Using FLIM in Plants Image of Simon Gilroy (University of Wisconsin–Madison) Do plants feel pain? How imaging has brought plant wound signaling into the human timescale. #FocalPlaneFeatures focalplane.biologists.com Image of a segmented root
We are excited to launch a new webinar series, Macro to micro: quantitative plant imaging across scales, organised by @ajcellbio.bsky.social and @joemckenna.bsky.social. Our first webinar will featured talks from @blace.bsky.social and Simon Gilroy.
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#SciArt Profile: Brittany Carr
In this profile, we meet @drbjcarr.bsky.social, an Assistant Professor at University of Alberta. Brittany uses acrylic, watercolour, gouache & ink to create pictures of the natural world & uses microscopy for ‘science’ art.
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James Briscoe presenting in front of an auditorium.
Congratulations to our Editor-in-Chief @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social on receiving the 2026 BSDB Waddington Medal. He has made a big impact on Development since becoming EiC in 2018, including introducing Associate Editors, launching the Pathway to Independence programme & developing the Node Network.
Integrating Multi-Modal, Multi-Scale Models of Cardiovascular Disease Mechanisms. Organisers: Jennifer Davis, Christine Mummery and Beth Pruitt. Date: 8 – 11 November 2026. Venue: Buxted Park, East Sussex, UK.
ECRs can apply for funded place at our Workshop 'Integrating Multi-Modal, Multi-Scale Models of Cardiovascular Disease Mechanisms', organised by Jennifer Davis, Christine Mummery & Beth Pruitt. Find out more & apply by 8 May at biologists.com/workshops/no...
Advert for BiO Global South travel grants, deadline 19 June 2026, with audience photo and a Biology Open logo
BiO is pleased to launch a new grant: BiO Global South Conference Travel Grants, to help ECRs based in the Global South attend international biological and biomedical science conferences.
Next application deadline: 19 June 2026.
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BiO joins Peer Community In as a PCI-friendly journal. Submit your PCI recommended preprint to BiO for a decision within five days. Find out more: peercommunityin.org/pci-friendly...
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Last chance today to collect a free @dev-journal.bsky.social charging cable, @the-node.bsky.social coaster or @biologists.bsky.social T-Shirt at @bsdb.bsky.social 2026. Visit our stand in the refreshment break (10.55-11.25) to sign up for a newsletter and gets yours...
Deadline is 30 March to apply to join the @dev-journal.bsky.social Preprint Editor team
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Have you seen our posters at @bsdb.bsky.social 2026? Choose from a range of At a glance posters from @dev-journal.bsky.social @jcellsci.bsky.social & @dmmjournal.bsky.social and stunning image posters from @dev-journal.bsky.social. Limited stock so visit our stand to collect yours today.
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As today is #WorldTBDay we urge you to read this powerful interview with Dr Zolelwa Sifumba highlighting how her experience as a #tuberculosis survivor, alongside her training as a medical doctor, complements her work as a patient advocate for TBProof in South Africa
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