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International Society of Developmental Biology @isdb.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

An interesting paper by @katecavanaugh.bsky.social shows that aged embryos have higher contractility than younger ones, which impedes their spreading and attaching during implantation. Potential to help with embryo screening! 👉Also, she's on the job market right now!👈 👇👇👇 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Zak Swartz @zakswartz.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Shining stars! 🌟 🎉 Our latest preprint is out, led by postdoc Beverly Naigles and research assistant Brian McGonagle, two amazing members of the lab and @mblscience.bsky.social community. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Lowe Lab @lowelab.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Please repost !! SANTA CRUZ DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY CONFERENCE 2026. Deadline to register your abstracts for the meeting is Monday June 1. Please get those abstracts in ! scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu

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Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting

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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Did you know that fully half of the talks at the Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting this year will be chosen from submitted abstracts? It's true! Great opportunities for trainees and PIs, too! @socdevbio.bsky.social @rashmi-priya.bsky.social @lowelab.bsky.social scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu

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Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting

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Christopher Thomas @ovarylab.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

How does an ovarian follicle remodel in space and time to release an egg? 💥🥚 We have an exciting PhD project combining follicle culture, advanced imaging and quantitative analysis to understand the cellular dynamics of ovulation. 🔬 Co-supervised by me and @guignardlab.bsky.social. Please share! 🌱

An ovarian follicle poised for ovulation, with the oocyte at its centre. Cell membranes are shown in orange and DNA in blue.

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Nat Clarke @natclarke.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I'm hiring! I have 2 open positions: 🔬 Postdoc 🧪 Research associate We study how animal multicellularity evolved by exploring the molecular logic of cell adhesion using cell biology, 'omics, and tool-building in non-model organisms. Come join us! Details and application links 👇 Please repost

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MadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

9pm Switzerland time, y'all! I'll be talking about how neurons are like onions. Tiny onions. Sort of. Look, you'll have to be there 🧪🧅🐟

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Yiqun Wang of @ucsandiego.bsky.social will round out the #SDBPostdocSeminar with her talk "Asymmetric mRNA partition mediated embryonic patterning in spiralian development revealed by spatial transcriptomics" Image: Tubulin, membrane, nuclei & total RNA in a 12-cell stage marine slipper snail embryo

Tubulin, membrane, nuclei & total RNA staining in a 12-cell stage marine slipper snail embryo

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MadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Be there or be a square animal cap! 🧪 #DevBio

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Akankshi Munjal @akankshi.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

🐟!JOB ALERT!Duke, Durham, NC!🐟 We are looking for a research tech (our current tech is starting grad school this Fall (Yay!)). The candidate will contribute to our ongoing research projects on tissue morphogenesis using zebrafish. Please RT🙏 www.munjallab.com/join-us

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Opportunities — Principles of Tissue Morphogenesis (Munjal Lab)

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

✨Crepidula fornicata (slipper snail) 🐚 A classic model for spiral cleavage! 🧬 Crepidula embryos reveal how early cell divisions shape body plans and establish left-right asymmetry in spiralian animals 📸 Image by Jake Leyhr #ModelMonday

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Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Calling all #ctenophore researchers and artists! Joe Ryan is organizing the Ctenopalooza Ctwo meeting, which we will host at MBARI in California August 23-25. 🦑🧪🌊 www.mbari.org/event/ctenop... Come swap notes with fellow enthusiasts about the latest news in comb jellies.

A photo of a large red comb jelly on a black background.

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Congrats to the 2026 SDB Award Winners! Conklin Medal: Lee Niswander SDB Lifetime Achievement Award: Alexandra Joyner Hamburger Outstanding Educator Prize: Roberto Mayor Hay New Investigator Award: Jeffrey Farrell SDB Trainee SciComm Award: Nicholas Desnoyer bit.ly/4afnjiC

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Barone Lab @baronelab.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

New year, new lab member! Shubham Das @shubham-das.bsky.social arrived two weeks ago and he is already imaging. :) whoop whoop! Shubham will explore mechanics of polar lobe formation in spiralian embryos. Welcome!

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Agathe Chaigne @agathechaigne.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

My lab is hiring a postdoc (ERC funded)! If you're interested, get in touch!

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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

SAVE THE DATE! Stoked to organize the 2026 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting with @rashmi-priya.bsky.social, @lowelab.bsky.social, and Shelbi Russell. Come learn about Biomedicine, Biomechanics, and the Biosphere, August 24-28, 2026. Registration dates, etc., coming soon! Please RT

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Nat Clarke @natclarke.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Interested in cell adhesion, evolution of multicellularity, or developing tools for emerging marine models? My lab at UM is hiring a postdoc, and the application is now open: 🔗 tinyurl.com/28jvu4aa If you know anyone looking for a postdoc, please pass this along!

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Post Doctoral Associate - Biology

Current Employees: If you are a current Staff, Faculty or Temporary employee at the University of Miami, please click here to log in to Workday to use the internal application process. To learn how to...

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Maik Bischoff @maikbischoff.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

So excited to share this as a new junior PI: My brand-new lab website! 🎉🪰🌀 www.bischofflab.com Please pass it on to young, motivated researchers looking for PhD positions 😊 And for the #FluorescenceFriday community: don’t miss the SciArt Gallery! #CellBio #DevBio #PhDjob #PhDposition #Science

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Lowe Lab @lowelab.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Save the date for the next Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting next summer.

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Prakash Lab @ Miami @vprakashlab.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

We’re hiring! 🚨 Assistant Professor (TT) in Theoretical or Computational Biological Physics @univmiami.bsky.social 😀 Come build the future of interdisciplinary biophysics with us! Apply by Dec 15 → tinyurl.com/5n9bk836 #Biophysics #PhysicsJobs #AcademicJobs #UMiami

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kuba sędziński @kuba-sedzinski.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

We are looking for: PhD Student (starting as Research Assistant) and Postdoctoral Researcher in Stem Cell Biology and Mechanobiology. Please RT💕 🔗 About our lab: renew.science/principal_in... 🎓 PhD position: jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=15... 🧪 Postdoc position: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Ascidians (Ciona intestinalis)🪸Our distant chordate cousins! 🌊 Simple sea squirts that reveal how vertebrate body plans evolved 🧬 A key model for notochord formation, neural induction, and cell lineage mapping 📸 Video by MBL Embryology 2019 #ModelMonday #DevBio #EvoDevo

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Laurent Formery @laurentformery.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I am very happy to announce that the Echinox Lab will open in the BIOM unit at @obs-banyuls.fr in January 2026!! 🥳 We will use several echinoderm species to study animal body plan evolution. 🔽 Check our brand new lab website if you want to learn more about our future research www.echinox.org

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Barone Lab @baronelab.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

First sea stars in our brand new facility at @stanfordhopkins.bsky.social ! ⭐

Juvenile sea stars inside specialized tanks

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Hopkins Marine Station - Stanford University @stanfordhopkins.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

The Hopkins Internships - Summer Undergraduate Research Funds Poster Fair at Hopkins showcased undergrads’ summer research on kelp, fisheries, neural activity & more. Funded internships give students a launchpad into real science alongside Stanford faculty, postdocs & grad mentors.

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Julian Catchen @jcatchen.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Our EEB department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is hiring an assistant professor in evo-devo. See go.illinois.edu/EEBAsstProf for details. Please share!

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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Pathway to Independence – an interview with Joaquín Navajas Acedo. In this interview, @mads100tist.bsky.social talks about about his research vision, zebrafish and the importance of community: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

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Barone Lab @baronelab.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

We had a great lab outing among the redwoods...such a treasure!

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Barone Lab @baronelab.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

This postdoc position is still open! Apply if you want to come work with us on asymmetric cell divisions in spiralian embryos! postdocs.stanford.edu/prospective/...

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Open Postdoctoral position, faculty mentor Vanessa Barone | Office of Postdoctoral Affairs

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Laurent Formery @laurentformery.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

I am honored and beyond happy to share that I have been awarded an @inserm.fr #ATIP-Avenir fellowship to start my own lab to study body plan evolution in #echinoderms 🤩 Stay tuned for more exciting updates coming soon!!

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Barone Lab @baronelab.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Brittle stars spawning attempted at the mini-course!

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Barone Lab @baronelab.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Students of our mini-course imaging kelp with @brookeweigel.bsky.social!

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Barone Lab @baronelab.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Today Pieter and Sebastian @streichan.bsky.social showed the students how to build a light-sheet microscope! 🤯

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Barone Lab @baronelab.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

First day of our mini-course centered on advanced imaging of marine larvae! Everyone is excited spawning sea urchins! 🤓

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epithelial mechanics fan club @epimechfc.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

What do we see when looking at cells under the microscope? 👉Some are bigger than others, some are elongated and align with the neighbors & others seem to move. Cool, right? But wouldn't it be cooler to quantify these observations? I'm @juliaeckert.bsky.social. Let's explore some analysis software!‬

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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · 02/06/2025

Planning to apply for #research #funding from the ERC? From the next application rounds, expect changes to the: • proposal structure • evaluation process • extra funding you can request • eligibility for Starting & Consolidator #Grants (from 2027) More 👇 europa.eu/!RPHWvv

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Changes to the 2026 and 2027 Work Programmes

With the launch of the competitions for grants under ERC Work Programme 2026 in July of this year, several changes to the submission of applications and the evaluation of proposals will apply. The mai...

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Stephanie Woo @itsthewoolab.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

#wcsdb2025 Keynote speaker will be the fabulous Debbie Yelon (UCSD)! Other confirmed speakers are: Ahmad Nabhan (UCB) Alice Accorsi @accorsi-alice.bsky.social (UCD) Ben Vincent (UCLA) Dae Seok Eom (UCI) Emily Kolenbrander Ho @emkolen.bsky.social (Claremont McKenna) 2/4

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Barone Lab @baronelab.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Job Alert! We are recruiting one postdoc to work on spiralian embryos and their crazy polar lobes. More info about this HFSP-funded position on our website baronelab.org: scroll to the end, click on "this could be you"...start your adventure!

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Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2025

Great PhD opportunities at the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn in Naples (Italy). 6 fellowships are available to carry out interdisciplinary training. www.szn.it/index.php/it/bandi-e-con… Topics include the function of […]

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Barone Lab @baronelab.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Developmental Biology symposium at Hopkins Marine Station: we had such a wonderful day of brilliant talks and posters!

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Chema Martin @chemamd.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

‼️10 days left to register and submit your abstract!! Come and join us to help relaunch the UK EvoDevo meetings. An exciting day with friends and good science! Register and submit your abstract here 👉🏻 eshop.qmul.ac.uk/conferences-...

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UK EvoDevo | Queen Mary, University of London

The UK EvoDevo meeting is a one-day conference that brings together the UK-based community in evolutionary developmental biology.  The keynote speake

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Barone Lab @baronelab.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Paper alert! We closed the life cycle of the sea star Patiria miniata in the lab! doi.org/10.1002/dvdy...

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Barone Lab @baronelab.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Our paper on epithelial dynamics and scutoids in the sea star embryo doi.org/10.1242/dev.... was shortlisted for Outstanding Papers of 2024 prize in @dev-journal.bsky.social! Congrats to co-authors @lmescu.bsky.social, Antonio Tagua and Deirdre Lyons journals.biologists.com/dev/collecti...

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Outstanding Paper Prize 2024 | Development | The Company of Biologists

Each year, Development awards an Outstanding paper prize to the study that we judge to have made an exceptional contribution to the journal in the previous

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Michael Sars Centre @msarscentre.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

One month to go until #MSS2025 🙌 Chris Lowe @lowelab.bsky.social is on our exciting speaker lineup. He will present his latest work on the developmental patterning of the echinoderm adult body plan, and how it informs basic principles in #evodevo. Don't miss out! ➡️ tinyurl.com/yc4jxdvz

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Barone Lab @baronelab.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Fun alert! Jana represents the lab at the Hopkins Marine Station Basketball tournament!! All the way to the finals! Whoop whoop!

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Barone Lab @baronelab.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Good news alert! We are among the 2025 HFSP awardees! In a fun project developed together with @turlierlab.bsky.social and @chemamd.bsky.social we will study the polar lobe of spiralian embryos. Very excited about the opportunity to explore this unique mode of asymmetric cell division. Stay tuned!

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Barone Lab @baronelab.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

All ready to capture more marine beauty!

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