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Biology Open @biologyopen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Isabelle Toussaint-Lardé & co investigate the impact of metamorphosis and size on the aquatic feeding kinematics of the Iberian ribbed newt. doi.org/10.1242/bio....

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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

. @biologists.bsky.social is offering 20 funded places for ECRs from the Global South to attend the Integrative Ecological Neurobiology in Changing Environments Workshop in Argentina, 1-5 August 2027 Application deadline: 6 Nov 2026 Don't miss out! 🔁 www.biologists.com/workshops/au...

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Organisers: Martin Berón de Astrada, Sebastián Eduardo Sabatini, Martín Tresguerres, Maria Soledad Yusseppone
Early-career reserachers apply for funded places
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Biology Open @biologyopen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Not just fillers: the emerging role of bone marrow adipocytes in bone and bone marrow homeostasis Read the #FutureLeader Review by Giorgia Farinacci and Biagio Palmisano doi.org/10.1242/bio....

Schematic representation of red and yellow marrow distribution in human skeleton in child, adult and old.

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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

ECRs - apply by 23 Oct for a funded place at our Workshop - Bridging Scales and Disciplines to Understand Robust Development, 18-21 April 2027, organised by Mauricio Rocha @rocha-lab.bsky.social and Giulia Paci @giuliapaci.bsky.social Find out more and apply at www.biologists.com/workshops/ap...

Workshop - Bridging Scales and Disciplines to Understand Robust Development, early-career researchers apply for funded places

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Biology Open @biologyopen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In guinea fowl, walking and running form a continuum of center-of-mass dynamics in which the rotation sense of the velocity loop indicates the walk-run divide. Read the article by Monica A. Daley and Aleksandra Birn-Jeffery doi.org/10.1242/bio....

The hodograph of walking rotates counterclockwise, both grounded and aerial running rotate clockwise, and the enclosed area crosses through zero between them.

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Biology Open @biologyopen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Madalena Vaz Santos and colleagues use a metabolic network analysis of human primordial germ cell-like cell development in vitro to reveal a distinct profile compared with iPSCs and non-hPGCLCs, most evident at the proteome level. doi.org/10.1242/bio....

Volcano plot of the proteome comparison between hPGCLCs and iPSCs and between non-hPGCLCs and hPGCLCs; proteins organized by P-value and increased (red) or decreased (blue) expression.

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Biology Open @biologyopen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Naser Alshamsi and colleagues reveal that evolutionarily conserved neurotrophin family ligands control neuronal number through Toll receptors during visual circuit development in Drosophila. doi.org/10.1242/bio....

Expression of spz-family ligands in the optic lobe.

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Biology Open @biologyopen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Altered juvenile hormone dynamics mediate earlier foraging in Nosema-infected honey bees. Read the article by Huarong Lin and colleagues: doi.org/10.1242/bio....

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Biology Open @biologyopen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Kelsey Hooper and colleagues contribute to understanding how UNC-6/Netrin might interact with distinct guidance receptors to mediate specific guidance events. doi.org/10.1242/bio....

Roles of UNC-6 regions in dorsal VD/DD and ventral AVM axon guidance.

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Snezhka Oliferenko @alebenoit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

People!!! This workshop will be ACE - please share, please apply!

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Jonathan Townson @jontytownson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’ve been involved in a couple of reviews and gratified that the handling editor thought they were worth paying for. After a recent #preprint on Fast&Fair, I took the opportunity to write my next preLight on the scheme and my experience of it (2/4): prelights.biologists.com/highlights/e...

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Expanded implementation of Fast & Fair paid peer review reduces time to first decision without reducing review quality in a biology journal; Fast & Fair peer review: a pilot study demonstrating feasib...

Paying peer reviewers: It's not Science Fiction

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Biology Open @biologyopen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Madeline Daniel and colleagues identify the time in which lysosome-related organelles are created during embryonic development and characterise how they are maintained. doi.org/10.1242/bio....

tages of intestinal development during embryogenesis. The intestine is clonally derived from the E cell and the number refers to the number of E descendants. The anterior is on the left in embryos oriented horizontally and the anterior is at the top in embryos oriented vertically.

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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Make sure you don't miss the latest articles from our journals. Sign up to content alerts from @dev-journal.bsky.social, @jcellsci.bsky.social, @jexpbiol.bsky.social, @dmmjournal.bsky.social & @biologyopen.bsky.social at journals.biologists.com/bio/pages/al...

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Biology Open @biologyopen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Julie Fleitz and colleagues find that young birds can tolerate moderate short-term temperature fluctuations during early development. doi.org/10.1242/bio....

Nest temperature during early life across thermal treatment groups. Boxplots show the nest temperature (°C) for Cold, Control, and Heat treatment groups.

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Rink Lab @rink-lab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Read about PhD student Fabienne Dreier’s scientific journey, interests, and recent work optimizing an HCR protocol for planarians in her First Person Interview with @biologyopen.bsky.social. journals.biologists.com/bio/article/...

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Biology Open @biologyopen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Lara Feulner and colleagues suggest a role for H19 in maintaining endocardial and valve endothelial cell states during perinatal heart maturation. doi.org/10.1242/bio....

RNAscope staining for selected marker genes across E14.5, P1, and P7 time points.

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Biology Open @biologyopen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Baibhav R. Barbaruah and colleagues define ONSEN terminal regions as HSF-rich regulatory sequences that retain heat-responsive potential within a methylated chromatin context doi.org/10.1242/bio....

DNA methylation profiles of ONSEN terminal candidate regions and non-ONSEN LTR retrotransposons

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Biology Open @biologyopen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This #PostdocAppreciationWeek we are celebrating our #FirstPerson interviews. These spotlight the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Browse the collection: journals.biologists.com/bio/collecti...

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BiO: First Person interviews | Biology Open | The Company of Biologists

As a community journal, BiO is keen to support the next generation of biomedical scientists. Here, we present a series of interviews with the first authors

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Biology Open @biologyopen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Jannie Schoombie and colleagues stimulate airflow over a real albatross geometry to quantify the crosswind and downdraft limits beyond which soaring albatrosses can no longer sustain flight doi.org/10.1242/bio....

Top view of bill-body-wing-tail configuration of the grey-headed albatross CFD model.

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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Applications are now open for early-career researchers to apply for a funded place at our Workshop on Membrane Function: Insights from Cellular Diversity and Evolution, organised by Snezhana Oliferenko @alebenoit.bsky.social & Cunqi Ye. Find out more and apply www.biologists.com/workshops/ju...

Membrane Function: Insights from Cellular Diversity and Evolution
Date: 13 – 16 June 2027

Location: Buxted Park, East Sussex, UK
Organisers: Snezhana Oliferenko and Cunqi Ye

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preLights @prelights.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Paying peer reviewers: it's not Science Fiction As a postdoc involved in Fast & Fair peer review @biologyopen.bsky.social, @jontytownson.bsky.social reflects on what paid peer review could mean for the future of research publishing #NPAW2026 #preLight ⬇️ prelights.biologists.com/highlights/e...

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Paying peer reviewers: It's not Science Fiction

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Biology Open @biologyopen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Fabrienne Dreier and colleagues develop a protocol for multicolor in situ hybridization chain reaction in dissociated and intact planarian tissue. doi.org/10.1242/bio....

Quantification of the mean slit1_546 (B) and piwi1_647 (C) signal intensities of samples prepared with different mounting media in comparison to the tissue depth.

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Biology Open @biologyopen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Igor S. Limaev and colleagues find early muscle atrophy in #dysferlinopathy occurs independently of canonical proteasome and apoptotic pathways doi.org/10.1242/bio....

Ultrastructural characteristics of mitochondrial damage and impaired autophagy. Representative transmission electron micrographs of skeletal muscle from 3-month-old mice.

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Biology Open @biologyopen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Fast & Fair is our initiative to provide authors with faster peer review decisions without compromising quality. The goal is to deliver decisions, with reviews, within 7 business days from submission. #PeerReviewWeek #PRW2026 journals.biologists.com/bio/pages/fa...

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Biology Open @biologyopen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"I found the review process fair, transparent and quick, and appreciated the ease of editing proofs." #PeerReviewWeek Read Angelo's paper: doi.org/10.1242/bio.... Browse the Fast & Fair collection: journals.biologists.com/bio/collecti...

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Biology Open @biologyopen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"The submission and review process was fast, competent and fair." Authors continue to express their thanks to our Fast & Fair peer reviewers. In this initiative, authors are provided with faster peer review decisions without compromising quality. #PRW2026

The submission and review process was fast, competent and fair ... I would strongly recommend Biology Open to other researchers, especially those valuing ethics in publishing.

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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A huge thank you to all our peer reviewers. Each digital tree in the #forestofbiologists represents a real-life tree in Great Knott Wood that is being protected, thanks to the important work of our peer reviewers. Check out the full on forest.biologists.com/landscape. #PRW2026 #PeerReviewWeek

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Biology Open @biologyopen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

William K. Anderson and colleagues show that a novel transgenic zebrafish provides precise optogenetic control of a key signaling pathway in vivo. doi.org/10.1242/bio....

ransgenic screening strategy. Injected F0s were exposed to blue light or dark starting at 1.5-2 hpf. At 2 dpf, embryos were screened for phenotypes consistent with ectopic FGF signaling (lysis) and expression of the mCherry pineal gland marker. This strategy was repeated for F1 and F2 generations.

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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We are pleased to welcome Dan Shanahan as our new CEO. Dan brings extensive publishing expertise and market knowledge to the role, with a strong background in Open Access publishing and non-profit organisations.Read more at www.biologists.com/stories/welc...

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Welcome Dan Shanahan

The Company of Biologists is pleased to welcome Dan Shanahan as the new Chief Executive Officer, effective from 14 September 2026.

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Biology Open @biologyopen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

For this year's #PeerReviewWeek, we want to thank all the reviewers that have participated in BiO's Fast & Fair - an initiative that aims to provide authors with faster peer review decisions without compromising quality.

Biology Open's practice of compensating reviewers is rare and, in my view, contributes to a more respectful and high-quality review culture.

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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Applications are now open for our Workshop on Integrative Ecological Neurobiology in Changing Environments, taking place in Argentina. We offer 20 funded places for early-career researchers from the Global South to attend, alongside our invited speakers. www.biologists.com/workshops/au...

Workshop:
Integrative Ecological Neurobiology in Changing Environments
Date: 1-5 August 2027

Location: Mercure Iguazu Hotel Iru, Puerto Iguazu, Argentina

Organisers: Martin Berón de Astrada, Sebastián Eduardo Sabatini, Martín Tresguerres and Maria Soledad Yusseppone

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Biology Open @biologyopen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Regulation of oestrogen signalling by the receptor tyrosine kinase cKIT stabilises Barrett's oesophagus pre-malignant state Read the article by Kin Man Suen and colleagues doi.org/10.1242/bio....

Occludin is prone to translocate to the nucleus in the absence of cKIT upon disruption of the oestrogen receptor pathway.

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Biology Open @biologyopen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

In trisomy 21 neural progenitor cells, Laura Baxter and colleagues reveal #fasudil increases growth and reduced expression of inflammatory pathway genes doi.org/10.1242/bio....

LPS-challenged IMG cells showed increased nuclear expression of NF-κB, and fasudil and isoxsuprine at 50 µM both reduced nuclear localization of NF-κB (in red).

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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Early-career researchers can apply for a FUNDED PLACE at the @biologists.bsky.social Workshop, Integrating Physiology and Behaviour in Assessment of Ectotherm Heat Tolerance, 7-10 March 2027 Organisers: Michael Ørsted and Johannes Overgaard Application deadline: FRIDAY 11 Sept tinyurl.com/23rm6z69

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Biology Open @biologyopen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Neil A. Youngsen and colleagues find maternal obesity has major effects on liver methylation in male but not female offspring doi.org/10.1242/bio....

Volcano plots of RRBS DMRs between female [(i) n=4 versus 4] and male [(ii) n=5 versus 5] weaner offspring livers from chow versus Caf mothers.

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DMM Journal @dmmjournal.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Are you a PhD student interested in #SciComm, disease biology and publishing? Are you in the BBSRC DTP/PIPS or equivalent schemes where an internship forms part of the training? Join us as an intern and work with the DMM editorial team. Find out how to apply: www.biologists.com/about-us/wor...

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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Save the date - @dev-journal.bsky.social, @jcellsci.bsky.social and @dmmjournal.bsky.social are holding a meeting on #Metabolism 📅21 – 23 June 2027 📍St Mary’s Marylebone, London, UK Register your interest for #BiologistsMetabolism now www.biologists.com/meetings/met...

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Biology Open @biologyopen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A three-dimensional atlas of zebrafish eye development reveals the developmental trajectory of foveal analogue. Read the article by Syed and colleagues: doi.org/10.1242/bio....

Thickening of the PRL accompanies foveal and HAZ development in human and zebrafish retina.

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DMM Journal @dmmjournal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

*** Call for papers deadline extended *** Submit your latest #Paediatric #GeneticDiseases paper to be included in our next special issue. The deadline has been extended to 7 December 2026. Find out more today 👇️ tinyurl.com/3b8zscaz

Call for papers - Special Issue - Paediatric Genetic Diseases: Models, Mechanisms and Therapies. Edited by James Amatruda, Ross Cagan and Elaine Mardis. Extended deadline: 7 December 2026.

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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

We are looking to recruit an Editorial Administrator to work across our portfolio of five life-science journals, with a particular focus on Journal of Cell Science. Deadline 4 September. Find out more and how to apply at www.biologists.com/about-us/wor...

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Biology Open @biologyopen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Make sure you don't miss the latest articles from Biology Open by signing up to our table of contents alerts via journals.biologists.com/bio/pages/al...

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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Join us as Sustainability Officer to develop & share best practice for sustainable conferencing, manage & organise sustainability data collection, analysis and reporting, and lead the Company’s review of SGDs. Closing date for applications: 7 September. www.biologists.com/about-us/wor...

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Biology Open @biologyopen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Issue 8 has now closed. On the cover: Purple sea urchins (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus) residing in pits and covering themselves with rocks in the intertidal zone, from the paper by Lutek and Stark. Explore the full issue here: journals.biologists.com/bio/issue/15/8

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Volume 15 Issue 8 | Biology Open | The Company of Biologists

Biology Open (BiO) is an Open Access journal that publishes rigorously-conducted, high-quality research across the breadth of the biological and biomedical sciences.

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Biology Open @biologyopen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Keegan Lutek and Alyssa Y. Stark show that hydrodynamic loading maintains adhesive performance in sea urchins doi.org/10.1242/bio....

Experimental apparatus for testing the properties of tube foot stems, tube foot discs, and whole-animal adhesion.

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Biology Open @biologyopen.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Fernanda Vázquez-Fuerte and colleagues find that transgenerational immune priming is strongly influenced by the developmental stage at which offspring are challenged. doi.org/10.1242/bio....

Experimental design to assess transgenerational immune priming.

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Biology Open @biologyopen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Hunger defeats sleep: Shiye Zhu and colleagues reveal CREB hijacks octopamine synthesis via tyramine β-hydroxylase, forcibly awakening flies to seek food. doi.org/10.1242/bio....

Simplified neuronal circuits regulate starvation-induced wakefulness and locomotion.

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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Deadline is 31 August to register for the Innovative Preclinical Models for Pediatric Cancer Research meeting, hosted by @dmmjournal.bsky.social. Hear talks from an outstanding line up of speakers and apply to present a poster. www.biologists.com/meetings/dmm...

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Biology Open @biologyopen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Victoria Lockwood and colleagues find peak pressure values and detailed location patterns are identified in human hands during suspensory and vertical climbing activities doi.org/10.1242/bio....

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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

@jcellsci.bsky.social is looking to recruit an enthusiastic & motivated Reviews Editor. This is an exciting opportunity for a talented scientific editor to make a significant contribution to an important journal in the field of cell biology. Apply by 3 September. www.biologists.com/about-us/wor...

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