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Catch up on Development presents… webinar on gut development - the Node Our September webinar featured three early-career researchers working on gut development. Here, we share the talks from Surojit Sural (Columbia University) and Swarnabh Bhattacharya (Dana-Farber Cance...

Catch up on Development presents… webinar on gut development

Check out the talks of Surojit Sural @surojitsural.bsky.social & Swarnabh Bhattacharya @iamzico.bsky.social

Also, register for our upcoming #DevPres on 15 October: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Applications are open for 10 ECR funded places at The Company of Biologists Workshop on 'Novelty, Co-option and Divergence During Gene Network Evolution', organised by James Hombría and Antónia Monteiro.

📅 Deadline: Friday 5 December
Further information: www.biologists.com/workshops/ju...

Developmental Biology and Disability.

“Developmental biology is fundamentally beautiful. We are no less beautiful for our variation. Instead, perhaps we are more so. Perhaps we are remarkable. Perhaps we are full of wonder.”

Insightful post by Bethan ⬇️👀
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Read Olga Zueva's first post on the Node about the paradox of doctoral training below ⬇️

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See this? This = implanting mouse embryo. Usually this happens inside its mother and is invisible to us, but we can actually watch implantation ex vivo with the hope of understanding why implantation goes awry in embryos of older women. A 🧵...

Society for Developmental Biology Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoctoral Seminar Series Friday, October 10, 2025, 3:00pm - 4:00 pm Eastern Time Austin Seroka (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center) Transcription factor code specifies vagal motor innervation of organ targets during development Heather Dingwall (University of Pennsylvania) Mechanisms underlying the evolution of human sweating and fur loss

The next #SDBPostdocSeminar will be held Friday, October 10 at 3 pm Eastern Time with Austin Seroka @austinseroka1.bsky.social from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and Heather Dingwall @dingwallaby.bsky.social‬ from @upenn.edu. Register today and join us. bit.ly/4nIlJed

🪱 Ready to take your C. elegans skills to the next level? Join our #EMBOCelegans course!

🎯 Learn hands-on genome editing, AI-driven imaging, microfluidics & uncover development, physiology & evolutionary insights.

📍 EMBL Heidelberg
📅 23 – 29 Mar 2026
👉 Apply by 8 Dec: s.embl.org/cel26-01-bl

PhD students Our PhD programme attracts the brightest scientific minds and is an opportunity for talented people to embark on their career in biomedical research.

Motivated graduates with backgrounds in biological or biomedical sciences, physics, chemistry, mathematics, engineering and/or computer science are invited to apply to our 4-year fully funded PhD programme.

Apply by 05 November 2025

www.crick.ac.uk/careers-and-...

Are you interested in a PhD in the area of "Mechanisms of translational control during embryogenesis?" Apply now for a PhD @mpi-cbg.de! Overview of all participating RGLs: imprs.mpi-cbg.de/5761/researc...

We're so glad you enjoyed reading, and stay tuned for Part 2 of The Kahneman Chronicles.

Limb regeneration guide for axolotls - the Node A recent paper from Otsuki and colleagues investigates the molecular mechanisms driving limb regeneration in axolotl

Limb regeneration guide for axolotls 📋

Laura Turchi (@turchil.bsky.social) highlights a recent paper by @leootsuki.bsky.social and team on The Node ⬇️👀

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The Kahneman Chronicles: Lessons from a Fly Lab

Entertaining post from @sameerthukral.bsky.social kicking of a series imagining what would transpire if Daniel Kahneman—the “grandfather of behavioural economics”—took a sabbatical and worked in a fly lab. 🪰

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Remember her name?

Inspired by a podcast on how women have been overlooked in science, Fatima Lozano shares the story of Hilde Mangold and the discovery of the “organizer”, which got her supervisor Hans Spemann the Nobel Prize in 1935. ⬇️👀

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Join us 15 October to hear from two early-career researchers, @osvaldoics.bsky.social & Yinan Wan, working on development across scales.

Chaired by @dev-journal.bsky.social Executive Editor @amjeve.bsky.social.

📅 15 October, 09:00 BST (UTC+1)

Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

I wrote something on developmental biology and disability and put it up on the node last night:

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I've been nervous to share because some of it veers a bit personal but they are thoughts that won't stay quiet. Would love to know what people think about it!

Workshop: Novelty, Co-option and Divergence During Gene Network Evolution. Organisers: James Hombría and Antónia Monteiro. 14-17 June 2026, Buxted Park, East Sussex, UK. Early-career researchers apply for funded places.

Calling early-career developmental biologists!

Apply for a funded place at our #Workshop, Novelty, Co-option and Divergence During Gene Network Evolution.

Application deadline: 5 December

www.biologists.com/workshops/ju...

#DevBio #BiologistsWorkshops #Collaboration #Networking

In the apple eye of evolution: Camera-type eye regeneration - the Node Behind the paper stories from "A genetically tractable non-vertebrate system to study complete camera-type eye regeneration" We are all stepping into a

#ICYMI
Check out my new article at @the-node.bsky.social where Alice and Alejandro share #behindthepaper stories !

Come for the science, stay for learning about curiosity, philosophy, mentorship & joy of discovery!

#devbio #regeneration #stemcells #scicomm
#pax6 #cellbio #eye #organogenesis

Featured resource: Facebase - the Node Our ‘Featured resource’ series aims to shine a light on the resources that support our research – the unsung heroes of the science world. In this post, we learn about the data and functionalities avai...

Featured resource: Facebase

In this post, we learn about the data and functionalities available at Facebase @facebase.bsky.social, and hear about new initiatives they are developing.

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🚀 What changes when all voices are heard in science?

A new edition of #ERCMagazine explores how inclusion and diverse voices drive innovation, excellence, & fairer research

👉 buff.ly/AkSBLOb

#DiversityInScience #ScienceforSociety #InclusiveResearch #FrontierResearch

Celebrating the art in science: Images from the 2025 Image Competition Lund University. Now in its fourth year, the Lund Stem Cell Center Annual Image Competition has become a valued platform for sharing the visual stories behind our science. It offers a glimpse into the...

📸 Every image has a story! This year our 2025 Image Competition winners capture everything from the earliest moments of life to the vast universe within our own tissues.

Explore our digital gallery & follow along as we share more #SciArt this fall:
www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/cele...

Are you looking for work in a research group that is led by an ERC grantee? There more than 100 currently open for application on the #Euraxess website 👉 europa.eu/!gdXPfd

#ChooseEurope #jobs #research

Happy to have shared my first post on The Node, on how hidden power dynamics may prevent creative science from blooming.
@the-node.bsky.social
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preLights is a #preprint highlighting service—supported by @biologists.bsky.social—encouraging #ECRs to highlight and discuss preprints that spark interest or debate within the biological #community. #SciComm

Interested in joining? Our 'call for preLighters' is open for another week! ⬇️👀

🧵1/14 Preprint thread! Can we predict a cell’s fate based on its dynamics? 🔮 Our new study unveils a framework for watching development unfold in real-time, revealing how a cell's shape and movement encode info about its future fate. 🔬📄 Preprint: tinyurl.com/4shf8v4x

In the apple eye of evolution: Camera-type eye regeneration - the Node Behind the paper stories from "A genetically tractable non-vertebrate system to study complete camera-type eye regeneration" We are all stepping into a

#Behindthepaper stories: @accorsi-alice.bsky.social & @planaria1.bsky.social share how curiosity & passion driven research revealed that apple snails can regenerate full camera type eyes.

@the-node.bsky.social
@ucdavis.bsky.social
@stowersinstitute.bsky.social
#regeneration #applesnails #devbio

It’s about who you know, not what you know. Uh Oh.

In this new post on the Node, Umaymah Ahmad discusses the importance of speaking to others, asking questions and making connections.

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Regenerative Medicine, Closing Date: 09 October 2025

📣Job Opportunity: A postdoctoral research associate (PDRA) position that will focus on exploring the role of macrophages during salivary gland development in our Emmerson Lab.

Applications close 09 October 2025. Further information: edin.ac/42uTVlc

Single-cell genomics: from bench to bioinformatics

Applications are now open for our single-cell genomics course.

This course covers the complete end-to-end workflow of single-cell sequencing, from experimental design to data analysis.

📅 18 – 21 November
Learn more and apply 👇
www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/sin...

YouTube video by Society for Developmental Biology SDB Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoctoral Seminar Series - Sarah Colijn and Shyama Nandakumar

The September 12 #SDBPostdocSeminar with @sarahcolijn.bsky.social of Washington University in St. Louis and @shyama13.bsky.social‬ of the University of Pittsburgh has been posted. Thank you to moderators Rui Yan and Taylor Medwig-Kinney. Watch here: youtu.be/kGAtxCqFARk

✨ They say true beauty is on the inside… This zebrafish took that personally 🐟 🟢 Bone 🟣 tendon & ligament🔬Image by Hung-Jhen (Olivia) Chen #FluorescenceFriday #DevBio #Zebrafish