Sally Lowell

Just heard about this on the blooming six o'clock news! Wow! Amazing! Wow again! Did I mention that this is amazing! Hooray!

Poster for Stem Cell Summer School 2026. The info on the poster can also be found by following the link to our website.

We 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

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Interesting move from CAS (if true, struggling to verify).

It's free to publish in @dev-journal.bsky.social and Read & Publish agreements between @biologists.bsky.social and institutes worldwide mean that many authors can also publish Open Access research in Development without paying an APC.

When you share an office with the queen of the #axolotls (aidarodrigo.bsky.social) you also get to share the birthday joy! 🥳 Happy 2nd birthday to the OG axolotls (treats baked by Laura Arbanas and @cellysally.bsky.social’s daughter)

The lipidomic architecture of the mouse brain - preLights Lipids get the space they deserve: Fusar Bassini et al. pioneer a MALDI-MS imaging and computational analysis, bring membrane lipids and their spatial organization to the spotlight and provide evidenc...

At the Centre for Regenerative Medicine #UoE, ECRs discuss preprints + now publish their discussions on #preLights!

First #preprint they highlight brings membrane lipids & their spatial organization to the spotlight. @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social

#preLight ⬇️
prelights.biologists.com/highlights/t...

PUFFFIN: an ultra-bright, customisable, single-plasmid system for labelling cell neighbourhoods.
www.addgene.org/browse/artic...

Excited to announce that our #PUFFFIN plasmids are finally available on @addgene.bsky.social to make PUFFFIN neighbour labelling even more accessible. You can find the plasmids here www.addgene.org/Sally_Lowell/ and our paper here link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Big thanks @cellysally.bsky.social!

We are delighted to announce that @giuliapaci.bsky.social from @ucllifesciences.bsky.social has been awarded the 2026 BSCB Postdoctoral researcher medal

You can read about Giulia's work on how tissues withstand mechanical stress here:

bscb.org/postdoctoral...

Birthday party, cheesecake, jellybean, boom 😬

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Read our interview with Drenka on how she used a grant from our Fund for Innovations in Sustainable Conferencing to organise an engaging virtual workshop with low environmental impact, whilst maximising inclusivity: www.biologists.com/stories/remo...

There's still time to apply to be a 2026 @dev-journal.bsky.social Pathway to Independence fellow

For those about to apply for their first independent academic position, the programme offers

- mentoring
- leadership training
- profile rising
- networking

journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi...

This meeting will be so great. Only about a week until the early-bird deadline, 9th Feb.
#DevBio

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I'm an alligator

I think the latest cover helps to remind us that Development is not just a faceless brand of a journal eager to line shareholder pockets - it's a group of people who share a love for #devbio and, in my experience, really are trying to do their best for their community.

#not-for-profit

Our final prize-winning essay on 'Innovative ideas for the future of sustainable events' looks at a simple yet effective system to help academics decide which conferences to attend, based on sustainability criteria. Read the essay from
@katherinepaine.bsky.social: www.biologists.com/stories/sust...

Thank you!

Thanks 😊. And yes!

Honestly, this is pretty cool!

Identities of an embryology journal in a molecular age; or, How Development got its name ABSTRACT. Journals build identities to attract authors and subscribers. Name changes make the stakes explicit. This article explains how the plain Journal of Embryology and Experimental Morphology (JE...

A deep dive into the backstory of @dev-journal.bsky.social and why it changed its name (spoiler - it's not *just* because Journal of Embryology and Experimental Morphology was such a mouthful!). Many thanks to Nick Hopwood for researching and writing this. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

HELP! Please suggest a cool paper/preprint in your field in the last year or so.

For a course I teach, I am collecting papers on: cell/dev bio, microbio, neuro, maths/stats/CS/chem/phys applied to biology.

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Keeping up with the neighbours: local synchronisation of cell fate decisions during development - EMBO Reports Even before the advent of multicellular life, unicellular creatures would communicate with their neighbours to coordinate their behaviours. Multicellular organisms have the particular challenge of orc...

Hello, here is a review I wrote about how cells sometimes try to synchronise with surrounding cells so that they can do a good job of building tissues during development. It is called "Keeping up with the neighbours"

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#DevBio 🧪

Generative epigenetic landscapes map the topology and topography of cell fates | PNAS Epigenetic landscapes were proposed by Waddington as the central concept to describe cell fate dynamics in a locally low-dimensional space. In mode...

Very happy to share our 'Evoscape' paper, now published in PNAS ! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Sunglasses, by Black Country, New Road track by Black Country, New Road

I'll start you off with BlackCountryNewRoad, who I think are from Cambridge blackcountrynewroad.bandcamp.com/track/sungla...

This is an excellent and important point. On long train journeys one must listen to a soundtrack of bands from your destination town, it is decreed. You are heading to Cambridge so @steverus.bsky.social should be your guru. Expect much heavy psych.

Bravo

Tamina Lebek wearing an amazing hat topped with puffins and covered in images from her PhD

A white cake with jelly ice cubes and many small puffins

a felted puffin who lives on top of Tamina's PhD hat

A special #PUFFFIN -filled day as we celebrate the successful viva of Dr @lebektamina.bsky.social!

Many thanks to @aidarodrigo.bsky.social and @tristanrodriguez72.bsky.social for examining and huge congratulations to the brilliant Dr Lebek!

...oh, sheer delight

N2B27 media formulations influence gastruloid development Highlighted Article: This work explores the cellular and molecular sensitivity of the mouse gastruloid model system to variations in N2B27 media formulations, highlighting the need for careful media s...

I do like the @dev-journal.bsky.social "Research Report" format for shortish papers

This one is valuable. "Is it the N2B27?" is the stem cell biologist version of "Is it the magnesium?"

Congrats Tina Balayo @dias-andre.bsky.social David Turner & all authors
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...