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Special Issue In Vitro Models of Human Disease to Inform Mechanism and Drug Discovery Edited by Vivian Li, Austin Smith and Joseph Wu Submission deadline: 6 October 2025
📢Call for papers
Submit your latest research to our upcoming special issue on #InVitroModels of #HumanDisease.
Submission deadline: 6 October 2025
Editors: @vivianlilab.bsky.social, @ausmith.bsky.social & Joseph Wu
journals.biologists.com/dmm/pages/in...
#CallforPapers
The Company of Biologists 100 logo to the left and QR code to the right. Portrait of Helen Zenner to the left, text to the right 100 extraordinary biologists Helen Zenner Helen Zenner, Community Manager of FocalPlane and JCS Online Editor, combines her passion for microscopy, cell biology and science communication with her background in working in interdisciplinary research teams to support and connect the microscopy community. #100biologists #biologists100
This week, we are highlighting Helen Zenner, Community Manager of @focalplane.bsky.social and @jcellsci.bsky.social Online Editor, as an extraordinary biologist. #100biologists
@helenzsci.bsky.social
New #Spotlight episode!
@ryanharrison13.bsky.social, Stefan and @reinierprosee.bsky.social talk with Katelyn Cooper, first author of a groundbreaking preprint—the first in-depth analysis of the LGBTQ+ climate in the biological sciences.
#LGBTinSTEM #preprint 🏳️🌈🔬
Who “belongs” in biology?
The first comprehensive analysis of the LGBTQ+ climate in the biological sciences! #LGBTinSTEM #preprint 🏳️🌈
#preLight prepared by @ryanharrison13.bsky.social, Stefan & @reinierprosee.bsky.social ⬇️👀
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*Paid internship opportunity*
@biologists.bsky.social is looking for a 3-month intern this summer to work across the Node, @prelights.bsky.social and
@focalplane.bsky.social
If you're interested in #SciCommm & #publishing, and have the right to work in the UK, apply by 5 June 👇
Would you like to be @the-node.bsky.social's new Community Manager?
Find out here what this exciting role involves and how you can apply to join the team.
thenode.biologists.com/would-you-li...
Application deadline 19 May
#SciComm #DevBio #StemCell
If you missed Sadaf Farooqi's talk at #Biologists100 in Liverpool last month you can have a read of our interview with her here. Her work on obesity genetics and appetite has paved the way for many new treatments - and it's not often you find chicken korma and Eton mess in scientific studies!
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🧪Join us as the new Community Manager to run @the-node.bsky.social . A great opportunity for someone with a love of developmental and/or stem cell biology, #sciencecommunication and engaging with researchers.
📆 Apply by 19 May at
biologists.com/about-us/wor...
#DevBio job opportunity!
Development (@dev-journal.bsky.social) is looking for a new Community Manager to run our community site, the Node (@the-node.bsky.social) – a great opportunity if you love devbio, #stemcells, #scicom and community engagement. Happy to chat informally about the role.
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New #spotLights episode! 🎙️
We’re kicking off our #biologists100 series (led by @jontytownson.bsky.social) with @richardsever.bsky.social.
We discuss the recently launched #openRxiv, the importance + future of preprints & how early-career researchers benefit.
Listen now 🎧⬇️
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Another neat factoid at #EMBOclimateResilience, this time form @abbasz.bsky.social: "Global healthcare, if it were a country (Healthcareistan) would be the 5th greatest carbon emitter."
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People in Gaza collect water
Doctors working in Gaza have made urgent pleas, saying that they feel abandoned by the world amid renewed Israeli airstrikes.
Justice in healthcare means actively supporting the people of Gaza and helping to rebuild the health system, say
@mohammadrazai.bsky.social et al
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This article is a really useful compilation of advice for improving your data skills and workflows - including how to use generative AI to help you learn to code
08.04.2025 09:31 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Interested in how cells respond when squeezed? Check the review paper just published by Laura Faure, @valeriaventurini.bsky.social and myself on this. Really thorough and clear revision by Laura and Valeria!
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Win £250!
Share your ideas on a more sustainable future for scientific events!
Please spread the word to anyone who you think might be interested.
Closing date: World Bee Day! (that's 20 May, but you knew that didn't you)
#Sustainability
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I really enjoyed interviewing Sadaf and Charlie. Read Charlie's interview here to learn more about his career and research: t.co/IpMW1RuJQy
#Biologists100
Fascinating keynote talks on climate and biodiversity from this morning at #biologists100. I had the absolute pleasure of interviewing Jane Francis, director of @bas.ac.uk, to talk about fossil plants, Antarctica and changing climates - do give it a read!
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We are excited to welcome everyone to Liverpool for this week’s Biologists @ 100 conference. We will posting across our social media channels all week and you can follow the action at #biologists100
24.03.2025 08:07 — 👍 80 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 3📣 We are advertising for a postdoc to join our team at the University of Edinburgh! Our lab studies gene regulatory mechanisms in development, and how genetic changes may impact these processes to alter development and shape human craniofacial form and function 🧬🧪
20.03.2025 09:22 — 👍 66 🔁 55 💬 6 📌 2I really enjoyed working on this interview article and am looking forward to Charles' talk at @biologists.bsky.social #Biologists100 conference in Liverpool next week!
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A picture of the staff at The Company of Biologists in a staircase.
🧪 @dev-journal.bsky.social has an opening for a Reviews Editor. If you love #devbio, and have an interest in publishing and #scicomms, this could be the role for you. Full details at bit.ly/42eiTpa
📆 Application deadline is 31 March 2025
#careersinpublishing #editor
Three images of Ryan, Erin and Emily during their internships at The Company of Biologists.
We offer professional internships for PhD students. We host a 12-week internship with a focus on data gathering & analysis yearly. We're also looking for interns for our community sites @the-node.bsky.social, @prelights.bsky.social, @focalplane.bsky.social. Contact us at recruitment@biologists.com.
05.03.2025 13:57 — 👍 15 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 0Are you a PhD student interested in #SciComm, community building and publishing? Are you in the BBSRC DTP/PIPS or equivalent schemes where an internship forms part of the PhD training?
Join us as an intern and work across the Node, @prelights.bsky.social and @focalplane.bsky.social!
More details:
Portrait of Hans-Otto Poertner
As part of our @biologists.bsky.social #biologists100 celebrations, we have interviewed JEB author Hans-Otto Poertner about his experience of co-chairing the @ipcc.bsky.social addressing the most pressing issue facing our planet: climate change
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“I have been privileged to conduct research at one of the top universities in the world, and I hope one day to be in a position where I can improve scientific education and research in Palestine.” Roza Masalmeh's journey from Palestine to Edinburgh: edin.ac/3XhStjB
@cmvm-edinburghuni.bsky.social
The Company of Biologists 100 logo to the left and QR code to the right. Portrait of Liz Patton to the left, text to the right 100 extraordinary biologists Liz Patton Liz Patton is the current Disease Models & Mechanisms Editor-in-Chief after serving as Editor since 2014. As MRC Investigator at The University of Edinburgh, UK, she uses chemical genetic approaches in zebrafish to investigate gene-drug interactions in melanocyte development and melanoma biology. #100biologists #biologists100
Today we are highlighting Liz Patton, the current Editor-in-Chief of @dmmjournal.bsky.social and an MRC Investigator at the @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, as an extraordinary biologist. To know more about DMM and Liz’s role, read this Editorial: doi.org/10.1242/dmm....
#100biologists
A timeline schematic of DMM's journey from 2005 until 2025.
This year, @biologists.bsky.social − publisher of Disease Models & Mechanisms− is celebrating its 100-year anniversary. In 2025, we discuss DMM's journey since its launch in 2008. https://doi.org/10.1242/dmm.052259
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A circle divided into five puzzle pieces. Four of these puzzle pieces each with an image of a pair of humans, mice, fish and fruitflies. On a separate puzzle piece, there are sex-specific symbols and pills for medicine.
In honour of #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience this week, we are revisiting timely #DMMEditorials from fantastic #WomeninScience who are part of our editorial team.
First, Monica Justice discusses the importance of including both sexes in research. https://doi.org/10.1242/dmm.050759
Text reads: "The Node-FocalPlane image competition. Shortlisted images will be displayed at Biologists @ 100, 24-27 March 2025, ACC Liverpool, UK. Submit your images by 24 February 2025". The image shows a mouse embryonic fibroblast labelled with phalloidin in green, green), acetylated tubulin in magenta and DAPI in blue.
To accompany the Biologists @ 100 conference, we're launching an image competition together with @focalplane.bsky.social!
Enter your best biological research images 🧪🔬 Shortlisted images will be presented at the #Biologists100 conference in March.
Details: thenode.biologists.com/enter-the-no...
