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Would you like to be the Node’s new Community Manager?

If you're interested in #SciComm and passionate about #DevBio, apply to join the @dev-journal.bsky.social & @biologists.bsky.social team.

Find out more about what the role entails: bit.ly/4otQ2GL

#JobOpportunity

Two text bubbles in yellow and blue on the left and the Node logo on the right. Text reads "Honest conversations: creating frank conversations around less-discussed topics on the Node"

Our 'Honest conversations' series is a place for people to write about the ups and downs in their academic journey and create frank conversations around less-discussed topics.

Read the posts, keep the conversations going, and perhaps write a post yourself:
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FlyCROSS 2025–26: Call for early career scientists - the Node Do not miss this call for mentees from the Drosophila community. The Fly Board is excited to announce the second cycle of FlyCROSS (2025–2026). The goal

Are you an early-career researcher using Drosophila in your research?

Sign up to be matched with a mentor as part of FlyCROSS 2025-26.
Apply by 1 September 2025
thenode.biologists.com/mentees-flyc...

Ok nerds, let's have fun. Thought experiment: NASA asks @socdevbio.bsky.social to provide a single image to be shot into space to tell the universe about #devbiol. Just one image. What is it? Waddington's landscape? Antennapedia? Spemann/Mangold's two-headed tadpole? What? Respond and RT, pls.

Explore how the brain ages with our aging mouse brain data on the Allen Brain Cell Atlas!

Explore the most comprehensive and detailed single-cell dataset of the aged and young adult mouse brain.

🧠📈 knowledge.brain-map.org/abcatlas#AQE...

Group Leader - Genome Biology Unit Are you ready to lead groundbreaking research in Genome Biology? Join us at EMBL! We are seeking a motivated scientist to lead an independent research group addressing exciting and original biological...

To all post-docs: The Genome Biology dept ‪@embl.org
has an Independent faculty position. Fantastic place to set up your lab –great package: core funding, fantastic Ph.D. students, cutting edge core facilities & great colleagues. Closing date Sept 19th
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Group Leader – Molecular Systems Biology Unit Are you ready to lead groundbreaking research in Molecular Systems Biology? Join us at EMBL! We are seeking a motivated scientist to lead an independent research group, addressing original biological ...

Ready to lead pioneering research that bridges systems-level investigations of biological systems to molecular mechanism? The EMBL Molecular Systems Biology Unit in Heidelberg is hiring a Group Leader!

The 24th EMBO Young Investigator Network annual meeting took place in Heidelberg, 23–27 June with 48 programme members. @embolableadership.bsky.social ran a successful pilot of their Creativity Toolkit for Scientists #training and there was a discussion panel on responsible #ResearchAssessment. 🧪

📢 Final hours to register for the Plant Computational Biology Workshop 2025! 📢
Don’t miss your chance to take part in talks and hands-on sessions with other plant modelling enthusiasts🪴
Deadline tomorrow (31 July) - www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/computationa...
#ComputationalBiology #PlantSci

The deadline to register for MBL's fall course, Light Microscopy Bootcamp, has been extended to August 15!🔬

The course is engineered to empower graduate students to use light microscopy in their own research.

Read about the course and register: www.mbl.edu/news/focus-m...

#Postdocs! Two days left to submit an abstract for the Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoctoral Seminar Series! Deadline: Friday, August 1 bit.ly/3x1ptgb

Scientists used AI to help develop a "digital brain." 🧠📈

In the latest #LabNotes, hear how we used artificial intelligence to stitch together 95 million hi-res images to develop the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date.

🎧 alleninstitute.org/news/the-dig...

FocalPlane features... reproducibility in imaging - recordings - FocalPlane FocalPlane features... reproducibility in imaging - recordings - News

Helena also presented a fantastic webinar for our sister site @focalplane.bsky.social on 'How not to lie with image data':
focalplane.biologists.com/2024/11/08/f...

The Node at 15 - Then and now with Helena Jambor - the Node The Node is 15 years old this year! We thought it’d be fun to get in touch with prolific authors of the Node over the past 15 years, revisit the posts

The Node at 15 – Then and now with Helena Jambor

We got in touch with prolific authors of the Node over the past 15 years to revisit the posts they've written for us and see what they’re up to now.

Our second post features @helenajambor.bsky.social:
thenode.biologists.com/the-node-at-...

We’re excited to announce that Naomi Moris @nmoris.bsky.social will join us in Oct

Don’t forget to register before the 15th August for a chance to give a short talk

Talk submissions can be received only after confirmation of registration (link 👇) so sign up ASAP if you’re interested in presenting

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EMBO Young Scientists’ Forum 2025 The EMBO Young Scientists’ Forum (EYSF) brings together young scientists (doctoral and postdoctoral) to engage with colleagues from across the continent and share their findings and interests with it…

This year's EMBO Young Scientists’ Forum (EYSF) will take place in Vilnius, #Lithuania from 24–26 Sep 2025. The EYSF brings together scientists across #Europe for #networking and scientific exchange – Apply now: meetings.embo.org/event/25-eysf 🧪

Abstract submission by 1 Aug
Registration by 15 Aug

Chile-EMBO Life Science Forum The EMBO Scientists’ Forum brings together renowned research leaders in life sciences. It is hosted annually in a European city and, for the first time, it is coming to Santiago de Chile. The event…

For the first time, the EMBO Scientists' Forum is coming to #Chile! This event will bring together #research leaders from Chile and #Europe – Join us for the Chile-EMBO Life Science Forum in Santiago de Chile, 10 October 2025. Register by 31 August: meetings.embo.org/event/esf-ch... 🧪 #LifeSciences

Only 3 days remain to register for THE #developmentalbiology #conference in Europe, the V4SDB Meeting 2025, taking place on the 5th-7th September 2025 in 📷⛰️!
Join us: v4sdb2025.img.cas.cz/registration...
#morphogenesis #stemcells #evodevo #organoids #modeling #embryogenesis

Course at EMBL-EBI. Managing a bioinformatics core facility. 8 – 10 December 2025. Hinxton, UK. EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute.

Just over two weeks left to apply for our bespoke 'Managing a core facility' workshop. It will run 8 – 10 December 2025 at @ebi.embl.org in Hinxton.

Apply by 17 August: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...

#corefacility #bioinformatics #operationalmanagement #impactpathways #teamleader #STEMmanager

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InSDB-ISD Joint Meeting 2025 - the Node The Indian Society of Developmental Biologists (InSDB) is hosting our 2025 meeting from December 14–17 at IISER Berhampur. This year will be a joint

🗓️Date for your diary

Register now for the joint @insdb.bsky.social and @intlsocdiff.bsky.social‬ conference at IISER Berhampur, India from 14-17 December 2025.

Registration deadline: 31 August
thenode.biologists.com/insdb-isd-jo...

#InSDB25 #InSDBISD25 ‪

I'll soon be advertising for a 3 year postdoc to join our lab at @edinuni-irr.bsky.social exploring #macrophages in salivary gland #development. Candidates should have a strong background in immunology/macrophage biology and/or developmental biology & key skills as below. Informal enquiries welcome!

Program Head – Developmental, Stem Cell, and Cancer Biology - Toronto (Region), Ontario (CA) job with The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) Research Institute | 673968 Provide leadership and mentorship to members of the Developmental, Stem Cell & Cancer and influence the scientific direction of the Research Institute

Great opportunity to join the vibrant developmental biology in Toronto (and boss around me and @wbderry.bsky.social).

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Exploring the Microcosmos through Foldscope-Frugal Science Microscopy in Focus - FocalPlane Exploring the Microcosmos through Foldscope-Frugal Science Microscopy in Focus - Education

Exploring the Microcosmos through Foldscope-Frugal Science Microscopy in Focus 🔬

Aarushi Verma shares how their team used Foldscope to introduce students to the microscopic world as part of the Lodha Genius Programme, an outreach programme hosted at Ashoka University.

And of course, our recent #sciart graphical abstracts wouldn't exist without @sonhita.bsky.social's workshop on visual storytelling we've hosted recently on preLights 🖌️

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Synergistic and independent roles for Nodal and FGF in zebrafish CPC migration and asymmetric heart morphogenesis - preLights ‘These signals, they’re made for jogging’: The authors of this study find that Nodal and FGF signals regulate early zebrafish cardiac morphogenetic events and lead to asymmetry in migration patterns t...

‘These signals, they’re made for jogging’:

Nodal and FGF signals regulate early zebrafish cardiac morphogenetic events and lead to asymmetry in migration patterns that result in cardiac jogging and cardiac looping.

Theodora Stougiannou #preLights the #preprint by @rburdine1.bsky.social's team.

Course at EMBL-EBI. Single-cell RNA-seq analysis with Python. 2 – 6 February 2026. Virtual course. EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute logo.

Join us virtually for 'Single-cell RNA-seq analysis with Python' from 2 – 6 February 2026: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...

This course covers the analysis of single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data using Python and command-line tools.

@ebi.embl.org
@events.embl.org

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#SingleCell #RNASeq

Microscopy preprints - new tools and techniques in imaging - FocalPlane Microscopy preprints - new tools and techniques in imaging - News

Our latest #preprint list is now up on FocalPlane. This week we focus on new tools and techniques in imaging🔬. Let us know if you’ve come across a recent preprint that we’ve missed.

focalplane.biologists.com/2025/07/25/m...

🐌💫 Snail embryos never looked so fabulous!
Tubulin (white), phospho-histone H3 (pink), and F-Actin (cyan) light up this early stage like a cytoskeletal disco ball.
Image from Clemens Cabernard & Adam von Barnau Sythoff 🪩🧬 #FluorescenceFriday