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Quadram Institute @quadraminstitute.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

⏰ Closing soon! We're looking for a Senior Research Scientist to lead research activities around food data and tools in nutrition research 📊 💷 £47,450 to £52,560 🗓️ Apply by 30 September 2026 ➡️ buff.ly/XREczHX

Job advertisement for a Senior Research Scientist at the Quadram Institute to lead food data and nutrition research, listing salary £47,450–52,560, 1.5-year contract, and apply by 30 September 2026, overlaid on a wooden table scattered with fresh vegetables.

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John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

VACANCY - We’re seeking a Next Generation Infrastructure (NGI) Communications & Engagement Officer for one of the UK’s most ambitious research infrastructure investments okt.to/0gwysi Deadline - 6 October 2026 Contract - 72 months, full-time

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John Timmer @jtimmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ok, this "there are two separate brains" thing appears to be making the rounds, and I want to be absolutely clear: this is a press office overhyping some perfectly reasonable science that won't come as a surprise to most developmental biologists.

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epithelial mechanics fan club @epimechfc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Milinkovitch, M. C., Jahanbakhsh, E., & Zakany, S. (2023). The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Reaction Diffusion in Vertebrate Skin Color Patterning. Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology, 39(1), 145–174. #EpithelialMechanicsReview www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

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Rebecca Gelernter @nearbirdstudios.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I had the fascinating experience yesterday of attending the CT scanning of these incredible Ken Parker guitars! The next book I'll be contributing to is on the history, science, and art of guitars, and I'm really excited to get into it! You would not *believe* how light that electric guitar is!

Insanely thin, gently curved Parker Fly electric guitar known as the Potato Chip sitting on the bed of a CT scanner. It's so thin that the pickup comes through the front and back sides, which you can just see here. It's all black and looks like it fell off a spaceship.

Archtop acoustic guitar ("Lucky") on the scanner bed. It's about 12 years old, but the golden-brown textured finish makes it look much older. Instead of the usual spot in front, under the strings, the sound hole is at the top and front of the upper bout, with a narrow slate dividing the two holes. The neck is set in front of the level of the body so that it looks like it's floating, and the pick guard is mounted in a similar way. The tailpiece is a gently curved mixed-metal triangle with patterns like wood grain. It's an incredible almost retro-futuristic design.

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Melanie D. White @melaniedwhite.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! ✨ It's the glue that holds us together, but it looks like a pair of angel wings to me. 👼 This beautiful meshwork of extracellular matrix surrounds the developing tissues of a quail embryo, helping guide cells as they build the body. 📷 @wangjianxiong.bsky.social 🔬

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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Funded places are available for early-career researchers at our Workshop on Bridging Scales and Disciplines to Understand Robust Development, 18-21 April 2027, organised by Mauricio Rocha Martins 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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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Mechanics of compression-driven morphogenesis Read this Review from our special issue #DevSIextracellular by Jue Yu Kelly Tan and Chii Jou Chan. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Modulation of tissue dynamics by compressive stress during development. (A) Mouse ovarian follicle growth requires contractile theca cell activity and confinement by the extracellular matrix (ECM) to regulate intrafollicular pressure, which, in turn, balances granulosa cell division (yellow) and death (purple). Arrows indicate compressive stress. (B) The Drosophila leg disc is mechanically confined by the peripodial envelope, which induces compressive stress buildup (arrows) and eventually cell apoptosis at the distal tip. (C) Differential planar growth in the Drosophila wing imaginal disc pouch generates a heterogenous mechanical stress field (arrows), with tensile stresses in the peripheral cells (green) and compressive stress in the central cells (blue). These stresses regulate cell division patterns. (D) During Arabidopsis anther lobe formation, faster growth in the inner lobe (single arrows) causes pressure buildup, causing the lobe epidermis to stretch (double arrows). (E) In the zebrafish follicle, rapid expansion of the future micropyle precursor cell mechanically compresses the adjacent granulosa cells, inducing nuclear export of TAZ in the granulosa cells. This restricts micropyle precursor fate to a single cell through mechanical lateral inhibition. (F) In avian skin follicle patterning, dermal cell aggregation generates compressive forces on the overlying epidermis, inducing β-catenin translocation from the membrane to the nucleus and initiating feather follicle fate specification. (G) Cephalic furrow formation during Drosophila gastrulation serves as a pressure-relieving transient fold that dissipates excess compressive stress generated from tissue collisions between the head and trunk (germ band) extension. (H) Growth under confinement generates internal compressive stresses in Escherichia coli biofilms that drive surface buckling and wrinkle formation.

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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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Explore career opportunities at The Company of Biologists. Join a team passionate about science, publishing and community support.

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Sonya Neal @neal-lab.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Come be my colleague!! 🎉 We’re hiring an Assistant Professor in Developmental Biology at UCSD! If you’re doing exciting work in development or regeneration, come join us!! Please spread the word and apply! apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04591

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Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology

University of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now!

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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Fundamental limits on symmetry breaking by Turing-like activator-inhibitor mechanisms Read this Research Article from our special issue #DevSIextracellular by Daniel Muzatko, Bijoy Daga and @hiscocklab.bsky.social from @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

An atlas of symmetry-breaking activator-inhibitor circuits. (A-D) Predicted expression patterns for each type of inhibitory mechanism and corresponding regulatory circuit(s) from Fig. 4. Plots show spatial distributions of relative mRNA concentrations for the activator (blue) and inhibitor (red), alongside levels of signalling pathway activation (green). (A) Pathway activation is co-expressed (in-phase) with both the activator and inhibitor expression domains. (B) Pathway activation is either in-phase (B1) or out-of-phase (B2) with both the activator and the inhibitor. (C) Pathway activation is out-of-phase (anticorrelated) with the inhibitor, and is either: in-phase with the activator (C1), uniform across the tissue (C2) or out-of-phase with the activator (C3). (D) The two ligands of the two signalling pathways are either expressed out-of-phase with each other (D1) or co-expressed in the same location (D2).

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MadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Do you work with microscopy images and segment to quantify or track? Do you study cell biology? development? Gather round! Let me tell you about FOCUS-3D, a segmentation algorithm that is fast, accurate and can be used on any model. We used it here to study zebrafish development. 🧪 (thread)

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FOCUS‑3D: Robust, generalizable volumetric cell segmentation for three‑dimensional fluorescence microscopy

Understanding how cells establish spatial organization within tissues is a fundamental question in life sciences. While modern three-dimensional fluorescence microscopy captures large-volume tissue ar...

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MadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It's out! I will do a thread tomorrow, but for now: rejoice, my microscopy nerds and also learn about zebrafish notochord development! 🧪🐟

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Melanie D. White @melaniedwhite.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! 🔥 Neural crest cells are bringing the heat again! These migrating cells weave through the developing quail embryo, leaving beautiful patterns in their wake. 😍🧪🔬 📷 @siewzhuan.bsky.social 🔬

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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Our latest: We develop a dynamical landscape modelling framework based on time resolved single-cell data Applied to neural tube fate decisions it shows cell fate decisions as flip bifurcations, a circular topology & it predicts unseen signalling regimes @plosbiology.org doi.org/10.1371/jour...

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Dynamic Landscape Analysis of cell fate decisions provides predictive models of neural development from single-cell data

Applying dynamical systems theory to single-cell data can provide a detailed picture of the cellular states observed during cell fate decisions. This study presents a dynamic landscape analysis (DLA) ...

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Sitting in a talk by Lois Smith who developed treatments for retinopathy of prematurity, and I’m wondering how many kids and now adults are running around with normal vision who would have been blind, and don’t know about the science and people who made it possible for them to see normally.

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UEA Biological Sciences @biouea.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

BIO's annual Research Colloquium is taking place on Tuesday 8 September and we're excited to welcome Prof David Gems of the UCL Institute of Healthy Ageing as our main speaker. There'll also be talks from other staff members, a poster competition and an opportunity to meet our sponsors. #UEAScience

Photo of Professor David Gems, a man with darker hair, looking slightly to one side, caught as if mid-conversation.

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Melanie D. White @melaniedwhite.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! ✨🔬 A peek inside a developing quail embryo, where the brain and heart are already taking shape. A tiny embryo doing some seriously impressive developmental heavy lifting. 💪❤️ 📷 @vanderspuy.bsky.social

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John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

VACANCY - We’re looking for a Science Support Administrator (Maternity Cover), providing flexible and diverse support across our institute. okt.to/9l7F8e Deadline - 16 September 2026 Contract - 12 months, full-time

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Science Support Administrator (Maternity cover) | John Innes Centre

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Science Support Administrator to join the Core Administration Team to support the cutting-edge science of the John Innes Centre.

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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

A primitive endoderm-centric view of mammalian development In this Review, @rpkimyip.bsky.social, Denis Faerberg and @eposfai.bsky.social give an overview of mammalian primitive endoderm development, focusing on the mouse and, where appropriate, the human context. 🐭 doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Outline of primitive endoderm/hypoblast lineage development in mouse and human at the embryonic days (E) indicated. The primitive endoderm (PE) (mouse) and hypoblast (human) lineages emerge during pre-implantation development, forming single-layered epithelium lining the blastocoel cavity before implantation. The PE/hypoblast expands following implantation to form the visceral endoderm (VE) and parietal endoderm (ParE). In mouse, part of the VE (indicated by a dashed line) contributes to the embryonic gut, while the remaining VE contributes to the visceral yolk sac (YS); the ParE contributes to the parietal YS. In humans, the primary YS is formed from the VE and the ParE, which is then later replaced by a VE-derived secondary YS.

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John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

VACANCY - Funded by @European Research Council (ERC), we have three exciting opportunities for Postdoctoral Researchers to join the newly appointed Dr @hassansalem.bsky.social Group. These roles span: Developmental biology - okt.to/nq50wC 🧵

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Quadram Institute @quadraminstitute.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

We're looking for an enthusiastic and highly organised Grants Coordination Officer to support our researchers in securing external funding for internationally recognised bioscience research. 💷 £38,000 to £42,150 🗓️ Apply by 28 August 2026 ➡️ buff.ly/0Gh5tjd

A photo of inside the Quadram Institute with a teal quadrangle and the text "Grants Coordination Officer, to support our researchers in securing external funding for internationally recognised bioscience research. Salary: £38.00 to £42,150, Contract length: 1.5 years, Apply by 28 August 2026"

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John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

VACANCY - We’re looking for a Research Assistant to join the Penfield Group, working to understand the effects of temperature on plant reproductive development. okt.to/QvL4co Deadline - 18 August 2026 Contract - Until 7 August 2029, full-time

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Research Assistant (Penfield Group) | John Innes Centre

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Research Assistant to join the Penfield Group at the John Innes Centre, working on cutting-edge science in the field of Crop Genetics.

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Melanie D. White @melaniedwhite.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! 🏁🔥🧪 And they're off! These neural crest cells are racing past the somites on their journey to become ganglia. Beautifully captured by Yanina Alvarez 🔬#devbio

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The Sainsbury Laboratory @thesainsburylab.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

📣 VACANCY: Postdoctoral Researcher - Wenbo Ma group Exciting opportunity to investigate small RNA-based plant immunity, applied to crop disease resistance 🧬 🌱 📍 Norwich, UK ⏰ Apply by 1 Sept 2026 ✨️ 2 positions available www.tsl.ac.uk/working-at-t...

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Postdoctoral Researcher - Wenbo Ma group

The Sainsbury Laboratory (TSL), Norwich, United KingdomApplication review starts 1 September 2026

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John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

VACANCY - We’re looking for a Research Assistant to join the Penfield Group, working to understand the effects of temperature on plant reproductive development. okt.to/uLNCUA Deadline - 18 August 2026 Contract - Until 7 August 2029, full-time

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Research Assistant (Penfield Group) | John Innes Centre

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Research Assistant to join the Penfield Group at the John Innes Centre, working on cutting-edge science in the field of Crop Genetics.

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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

This is the last call to early-career researchers applying for the 7 August deadline for the next round of JEB Travelling Fellowships Get your application in so you can visit an international lab to perform that essential experiment or learn a technique www.biologists.com/grants/trave...

About Travelling Fellowships
Three of The Company of Biologists’ journals – Development, Journal of Cell Science and Journal of Experimental Biology – offer Travelling Fellowships of up to £3,000 to graduate students and post-doctoral researchers wishing to make collaborative visits to other laboratories. These are designed to offset the cost of travel/accommodation and other related expenses. There is no restriction on nationality.

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John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

VACANCY - We’re looking for a Research Assistant to join the Penfield Group, working to understand the effects of temperature on plant reproductive development. okt.to/Yx9K5e Deadline - 18 August 2026 Contract - Until 7 August 2029, full-time

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Research Assistant (Penfield Group) | John Innes Centre

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Research Assistant to join the Penfield Group at the John Innes Centre, working on cutting-edge science in the field of Crop Genetics.

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John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

VACANCY - We’re looking for a Research Assistant/Lab Manager to join the @tinaschreier.bsky.social group, working on plant cell biology and C4 photosynthesis. okt.to/e9GALv Closing date - 18 August 2026 Contract - 36 months, full-time

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Melanie D. White @melaniedwhite.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Happy #FluorescenceFriday 🔥 The title may be new, but the spectacular microscopy isn't! Congratulations to the newly minted DR @vanderspuy.bsky.social on a well-earned PhD! 🔬

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John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

VACANCY - We’re looking for a Research Assistant/Lab Manager to join the @tinaschreier.bsky.social group, working on plant cell biology and C4 photosynthesis. okt.to/ewfnRI Closing date - 18 August 2026 Contract - 36 months, full-time

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Robert Haase @haesleinhuepf.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Blast from the past! Did you know you can create clean, readable notebooks for the ImageJ Macro language? A great way to build tutorials, teaching materials, and [mentally] reproducible image analysis workflows. 👨‍🏫📜🚀 github.com/haesleinhuep...

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Mike Piacentino @mikepiacentino.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Come join us! 🔬🐣 The Piacentino Lab at Johns Hopkins @hopkinsmedicine.bsky.social is recruiting a postdoc to study membrane lipids, cell migration, and invasion in neural crest and embryonic models! @socdevbio.bsky.social @ascbiology.bsky.social #devbiol #cellbio #lipids

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Melanie D. White @melaniedwhite.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! 🔥🧪🔬 A blaze of neural crest cells migrates through a developing quail embryo on one of embryonic development's most epic journeys. Beautifully captured by @vanderspuy.bsky.social 👩‍🔬🐣 #Devbio

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MadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

You know when you're deep into dissecting a mechanism for your project, and you've thrown everything at it and it still is not that? I call it "The Magic Gnome principle": there's maybe a invisible property or phenomenon yet to be discovered that's messing with it. This is a Magic Gnome 🧪

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Alfonso Martinez Arias @amartinezarias.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I am constantly surprise by the barrier that many postdocs looking for a job in the #biosci find when they have a #preprint. They are often told: don’t bother to apply until you publish your paper. WHAT DOES PUBLICATION SAY ABOUT THE WORK THAT THE PREPRINT DOESN’T brief 🧵

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Owen Osborne @owengosborne.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

🚨Job alert!!🚨 I'm recruiting a 3-year postdoc on amphibian host–microbiome interactions at @bangoruniversity.bsky.social - funded by BBSRC. Deadline: 8 July 2026 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRW850/p...

Panamanian Golden Frog (Atelopus zeteki). Photo credit: Brian Gratwicke

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the Node @the-node.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

A day in the life of a Transgenic Quail lab Samara Ranie @samarar.bsky.social, PhD student in Melanie White's @melaniedwhite.bsky.social lab, reveals a day in the life of a transgenic quail lab. 🥚🔬 thenode.biologists.com/a-day-in-the...

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A day in the life of a Transgenic Quail lab - the Node

Samara Ranie, PhD student in Melanie White's lab, takes us through a day in the life of a transgenic quail lab.

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