Reposted by Emma RawlinsAlex Eve @amjeve.uk · 23/07/2026Looking forward to the #2026SDB Satellite Symposium, 'Decoding the Human Embryo: Dissecting Developmental Processes in Our Species'. If you're interested in human development, register for @dev-journal.bsky.social and HDBI's meeting #HumanDev26. But be quick – registration closes tomorrow!biologists.comDEVHDBI2026: Human Development: Stem Cells, Models, EmbryosFor 2026, the journal has teamed up with the Wellcome-funded consortium the Human Developmental Biology Initiative (HDBI) to co-organise this event. 0155
Reposted by Emma RawlinsWolfram Pönisch @wolframponisch.bsky.social · 14/07/2026I'm looking for a postgraduate intern to join my group at @humantechnopole.bsky.social, modelling how pili dynamics drive bacterial motility and aggregation. Finishing a master's in physics, computational biology, or a similar field? Get in touch: careers.humantechnopole.it/job/Internsh...careers.humantechnopole.itInternship - Pönisch LabInternship - Pönisch Lab 0910
Reposted by Emma RawlinsEmília Santos @emiliapsantos.bsky.social · 14/07/2026🎨 job alert 🐠 Come join us! We have two positions open! These are part of our @erc.europa.eu funded project on the mechanisms underpinning convergence of colour patterns in cichlid fishes! Closing date: 16th August. Postdoc: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc... Technician: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...static.klipy.comCallipterus Cichlid Collecting ShellALT: Callipterus Cichlid Collecting Shell 09486
Reposted by Emma RawlinsAustin Smith @ausmith.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Postdoc position available now in the Smith Group lsi.exeter.ac.uk/groups/smith... to test the hypothesis that differentiation biases between human pluripotent stem cell lines may be eliminated by reversion to the naïve state. careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/79...lsi.exeter.ac.ukSmith Group - Living Systems Institute - University of ExeterUnderstanding pluripotency 01516
Emma Rawlins @labrawlins.bsky.social · 29/05/2026This week's lab cleaning was very satisfying and gave us a beautifully clean lab - good team work too! 080
Reposted by Emma RawlinsStem Cell Summer School @stemcellsummer.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Still time to apply! Deadline extended to 25th May! This is an enriching, immersive, interactive week of talks and discussions with leaders in the field. A brilliant oppportunity for PhD students, postdoc, new PIs. See our testimonials: www.stemcellsummerschool.org/testimonials Spread the word!stemcellsummerschool.orgTestimonials | Stemcellsummerschool 013
Reposted by Emma RawlinsDevelopment @dev-journal.bsky.social · 01/05/2026📣 One week left for early-bird registration. We have teamed up with the @wellcometrust.bsky.social -funded consortium Human Developmental Biology Initiative (HDBI) to co-organise our 2026 Journal Meeting. Register by 8 May for early-bird registration at biologists.com/meetings/dev.... #HumanDev26 044
Reposted by Emma RawlinsDevelopment @dev-journal.bsky.social · 28/04/2026John Gurdon (1933-2025) Sir John Gurdon was a towering figure in developmental biology, respected and admired throughout the world. In this Obituary, Jim Smith writes about his legacy. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/... 03815
Reposted by Emma RawlinsThe Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 25/04/2026One week until the early-bird deadline for @dev-journal.bsky.social Meeting in September on Human Development: Stem Cells, Models, Embryos. Check out the programme & great line-up of speakers at tinyurl.com/85aeazvs and secure your discounted registration by 8 May: tinyurl.com/a87am9d6 0105
Emma Rawlins @labrawlins.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Excited to be thinking about the upcoming EMBO workshop on quantitative tissue morphgenesis meetings.embo.org/event/26-tis...meetings.embo.orgQuantitative tissue morphogenesis - models, manipulations and mechanismsTissue morphogenesis, the formation of stereotypical tissue shapes and sizes, relies on the precise spatiotemporal regulation of many cellular behaviours including cell division, migration and re-arr… 060
Emma Rawlins @labrawlins.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Fantastic - congratulations @storerlab.bsky.social and the whole team! Great work! 010
Reposted by Emma RawlinsThe Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 09/04/2026One 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... 01615
Reposted by Emma RawlinsMark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 05/04/2026The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social has a more than 100 year history of supporting science through its journals, meetings, and fellowships. Help lead it into its second century! pls share www.inspiredselection.com/jobs/jo00000... 02637
Reposted by Emma RawlinsYoung Embryologist Network @yen-network.bsky.social · 01/04/2026This is not an April fool's! The YEN 2026 Conference is really happening on June 15th! We are excited to have Kay Elder, Diana Pinheiro and Christopher Thomas. We are looking forward to your abstract submissions! Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 0206
Emma Rawlins @labrawlins.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Excited to be part of the EMBO tissue morphogenesis workshop in September: meetings.embo.org/event/26-tis... ＃EMBOTissueMorphogenesismeetings.embo.orgQuantitative tissue morphogenesis - models, manipulations and mechanismsTissue morphogenesis, the formation of stereotypical tissue shapes and sizes, relies on the precise spatiotemporal regulation of many cellular behaviours including cell division, migration and re-arr… 050
Emma Rawlins @labrawlins.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Such beautiful work here - congratulations @mariapalcolea.bsky.social and the lab!! 182
Emma Rawlins @labrawlins.bsky.social · 25/02/2026The Rawlins lab thoroughly enjoyed meeting Hans Clevers when he visited @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social today! 050
Reposted by Emma RawlinsEwan St. John Smith @psalmotoxin.bsky.social · 24/02/2026In collaboration with Nora Bourbia @ukhsa.bsky.social we have a fully funded (UK/home fees) PhD studentship available @phar.cam.ac.uk: "Radiotherapy induced nerve damage and pain: can we prevent it?" Naked mole-rats will be involved! 073
Reposted by Emma RawlinsStem Cell Summer School @stemcellsummer.bsky.social · 22/02/2026We are delighted to announce that we are now open for applications for 2026 summer school Dates: 11th - 18th September 2026 Deadline for applications: 8th May See our website for info on how to apply.. and to check out our stellar speaker list! www.stemcellsummerschool.org/apply 🧪 032
Reposted by Emma RawlinsThe Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Delighted to announce that @dev-journal.bsky.social has teamed up with the @wellcometrust.bsky.social-funded consortium Human Developmental Biology Initiative (HDBI) to co-organise their 2026 Journal Meeting. Registration is now open at biologists.com/meetings/dev... #HumanDev26 0125
Reposted by Emma Rawlinsthe Node @the-node.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Register now for the 2026 Annual Meeting, themed 'Epigenetics of embryogenesis and placentation', from Loke the Centre for Trophoblast Research in Cambridge, UK! ⬇️ thenode.biologists.com/loke-centre-...thenode.biologists.comLoke Centre for Trophoblast Research in Cambridge launch registration for the 2026 Annual Meeting, themed 'Epigenetics of embryogenesis and placentation' - the NodeThe 2026 Loke CTR annual meeting theme, “Epigenetics of embryogenesis and placentation” brings together leading clinical and basic scientists to explore 021
Reposted by Emma RawlinsMill_lab @cilialab.bsky.social · 01/02/2026www.ukri.org/news/open-le... ‘You may be aware of recent pauses to some programmes. For our curiosity-driven research programmes, headroom in funding will increase, ….new opportunities opening later this year….levels of funding for curiosity-driven research will remain stable across this SR period’ukri.orgOpen letter from Ian Chapman to research and innovation communityUKRI Chief Executive outlines changes to UKRI investment approach, addressing concerns about research funding and the financial position of STFC. 142
Reposted by Emma RawlinsNordenLab @nordenlab.bsky.social · 23/01/2026We encounter some bureaucratic problems importing our fish...Does anybody have a transgenic zebrafish line that marks the basement membrane/ECM in the UK? Would need to mark optic cup and final eye for our purposes. And/or an ras-GFP/RFP line? Thanks for looking and reposting! 375
Reposted by Emma Rawlinscanaztekin.bsky.social @canaztekin.bsky.social · 17/12/2025🚨We are recruiting two PhD students 🚨 1) Quantitative & dynamic analysis of limb-regenerative signaling centers w/ @osvaldo-chara.bsky.social 📶🧮💻 🔗https://www.phd.tuebingen.mpg.de/80704/Quantitative-and-dynamic-analysis-of-limb-regenerative-signaling-center-interactions 1812
Reposted by Emma RawlinsJan Żylicz @jzylicz.bsky.social · 17/12/2025Do you want to play a key role in running a cutting-edge stem cell and embryology lab at reNEW @ucph.bsky.social ? We’re hiring a Lab Manager to support our team and help with stem cell and animal work. Apply before Feb. 1st : rb.gy/d5uf17rb.gyAcademic employee for Research Group, Dept. of Biomedical Sciences, reNEW 01412
Emma Rawlins @labrawlins.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Great meeting!!! Amazing talks and posters today also. 062
Reposted by Emma RawlinsStem Cell Podcast @stemcellpodcast.com · 10/11/2025We're very excited to welcome Dr. @sumrubayin.bsky.social from the @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social onto the next episode of the podcast! 🎉 Her lab studies the mouse #cerebellum to better understand the regulation of #neural stem cell behavior. 🧠 0148
Emma Rawlins @labrawlins.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Very cool - though would be even more amazing if they could do this for the sciences also! 031
Reposted by Emma RawlinsAlex Cagan @atjcagan.bsky.social · 07/11/2025Julie Ahringer from @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social @geneticscam.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk gives talk on decoding genome regulation during development. Exploring how chromatin accessibility changes throughout development enable single cells to become multicellular organisms. 03112
Emma Rawlins @labrawlins.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Consider myself fortunate to hear @kottond.bsky.social speaking at #RespGen25 today. 081
Emma Rawlins @labrawlins.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Not the most flattering picture, but a great conference! 010
Emma Rawlins @labrawlins.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Last chance to apply - closing Nov 3rd: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52936/ Consider coming to Cambridge to work on a highly collaborative project on lung stem cells and lung disease with @labrawlins.bsky.social and @jennydickens41.bsky.social 0115
Reposted by Emma RawlinsStem Cell Podcast @stemcellpodcast.com · 30/10/2025📢 New in @natbiotech.nature.com! Via live imaging of late-stage preimplantation human #embryos, Dr. Kathy Niakan at @loke-ctr.bsky.social has shown that abnormalities can arise at a later stage of development than previously thought. 🗒️: go.nature.com/4oIQj80 🎧: bit.ly/4qwoGke 072
Reposted by Emma RawlinsGiulia Boezio @giulia-boezio.bsky.social · 26/10/2025Thrilled to share my main postdoc work with @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social We used genomic barcoding + scRNAseq in chick & human embryos to reveal a lineage architecture that reshapes how we understand neural tube development & cell fate decisions 🧵👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...biorxiv.orgHierarchical lineage architecture of human and avian spinal cord revealed by single-cell genomic barcodingThe formation of neural circuits depends on the precise spatial and temporal organisation of neuronal populations during development. In the vertebrate spinal cord, progenitors are patterned into mole... 616648
Reposted by Emma RawlinsBarbara Marte @barbmarte.bsky.social · 21/10/2025new out in Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comJohn Gurdon obituary: Biologist who made cloning possibleHe showed that specialized cells retain the genes to form an organism. 0147
Emma Rawlins @labrawlins.bsky.social · 20/10/2025Applications close 3 Nov: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52936/ We are looking for 2 post docs to work between @jennydickens41.bsky.social and @labrawlins.bsky.social and with colleagues across the Cambridge and at GSK. Exciting, collaborative opportunity to dig into lung cell biology - please share! 033
Emma Rawlins @labrawlins.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Fabulous opportunity here - make sure you apply! 010
Emma Rawlins @labrawlins.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Excellent article on science communication in @dev-journal.bsky.social - thank you to all the authors! doi.org/10.1242/dev.... ⭐⭐⭐⭐doi.orgSpeaking science in a fractured world: making truth land when facts alone cannotABSTRACT. Scientific misinformation is a defining challenge of our time. As public trust in science declines and falsehoods spread faster than facts, the scientific community must rethink its role in ... 063
Reposted by Emma RawlinsRespiratory Genomics Conference 2025 @respgen25.bsky.social · 14/10/2025Tomorrow is our final day for conference registrations so head on over to our shop page if you'd like to secure your place! Tomorrow is our final day for conference registrations so head on over to our shop page if you'd like to secure your place! shop.le.ac.uk/conferences-...shop.le.ac.ukRespiratory Genomics Conference 2025 | shop@leA conference to engage and inspire the respiratory genetics/genomics community and promote networking colloborations. Early careers researchers are particu 023
Reposted by Emma RawlinsUniversity of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk · 13/10/2025Cambridge scientists have found a new way to grow human blood cells in the lab 🧫 A major step towards regenerative therapies, this could also help scientists with better understanding blood disorders like #leukaemia. New #research from @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social bit.ly/3J0mO23 🧪 43112
Emma Rawlins @labrawlins.bsky.social · 13/10/2025Exciting collaborative post doc opportunity to study lung disease mechanisms working with 2 friendly labs @jennydickens41.bsky.social @labrawlins.bsky.social and GSK colleagues www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52936/ 064
Emma Rawlins @labrawlins.bsky.social · 11/10/2025Delighted that Ziqi Dong's PhD paper is out for all to read! Hypoxia is fundamental to normal development, and fascinating! Thanks to all of our co-authors including @jamesnathanlab.bsky.social @jellevda.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S... 48227
Emma Rawlins @labrawlins.bsky.social · 09/10/2025Fantastic work from Roya, Simon and team using in vivo mouse and in vitro human organoid models to study mechanisms of lung disease: doi.org/10.1038/s414... Great to finally see this out - congratulations!doi.orgmTOR dysregulation induces IL-6 and paracrine AT2 cell senescence impeding lung repair in lymphangioleiomyomatosis - Nature CommunicationsLymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) is a rare disease in women where TSC2 deficient mTOR signalling aberrant LAM cells and fibroblasts form nodules causing lung cysts and respiratory failure. Here the authors examine how mTOR dependent IL-6 causes senescence in alveolar type 2 cells which may result in impaired lung repair. 020
Emma Rawlins @labrawlins.bsky.social · 09/10/2025Interested in a highly collaborative post doc project working on pulmonary fibrosis with @labrawlins.bsky.social @jennydickens41.bsky.social and GSK - then look no further... www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52936/jobs.cam.ac.ukResearch Associate: Human Lung Disease Mechanisms (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of CambridgeResearch Associate: Human Lung Disease Mechanisms (Fixed Term) in the Gurdon Institute at the University of Cambridge. 033
Reposted by Emma RawlinsGurdon Institute, University of Cambridge @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social · 08/10/2025It is with great sadness that we share the news of the death of our founder, colleague, mentor and friend, Professor Sir John Gurdon. His vision and dedication will continue to inspire generations of scientists. 🔗 www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/nobel-laurea... 16825
Emma Rawlins @labrawlins.bsky.social · 07/10/2025Saddened to learn of the death of John Gurdon today. He was the supreme scientist. And truly inspirational lecturer and speaker. The Gurdon Institute @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social has been a wonderful place to run a lab - and he will be truly missed. www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/nobel-laurea...gurdon.cam.ac.ukNobel Laureate Professor Sir John Gurdon Dies Aged 92 – Gurdon Institute 1323
Reposted by Emma RawlinsJames Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 07/10/2025Very sad news, John Gurdon has died. A developmental biologist's developmental biologist, Nobel prize winner His work is the foundation of much of today's dev & stem cell bio. An inspiration to many, including me. Always asking questions & wanting the answers www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...magd.cam.ac.ukProfessor Sir John Gurdon FRS (1933-2025) | Magdalene CollegeMagdalene College is deeply saddened to announce the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS, who served as Master of the College from 1995 to 2002. 7190100
