@cellysally.bsky.social
Developmental & stem cell biologist, University of Edinburgh Digs repetition Also digs local coordination between cells in development and disease #SustainableConferencing #Music #Science #MoreScience Mastodon @CellySally@biologists.social
...oh, sheer delight
26.11.2025 11:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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/...
Wow! This one definitely needs a #PaperThemeTune. Congratulations to all authors!
youtu.be/PGNiXGX2nLU?...
How sustainable is your event? Find out with our new event carbon calculator The Company of Biologists logo to the left
🌱During #COP30, we invite you to explore what is the carbon footprint of an event and learn about easy steps to take to minimise it.
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Development that lasts a life time. Check out the 2025 special issue of @dev-journal.bsky.social on Lifelong Development: the Maintenance, Regeneration and Plasticity of Tissues
journals.biologists.com/dev/issue/15...
It was such a pleasure to host @joadelas.bsky.social at @edinuni-irr.bsky.social yesterday. What a great talk- fascinating insights into how Cis Regulatory Elements process spatial and temporal information to build complicated and beautiful things such as embryos. Bravo Joaquina!
31.10.2025 09:06 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I'm so sorry. What terrible shocking sad sad sad sad news. So sorry.
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30.10.2025 08:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Go to sleep in London, wake up in Edinburg! Great experience aboard the Caledonian Sleeper train.
Looking forward to a fun day full of science at the CRM. Thank you so much @cellysally.bsky.social for hosting me.
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Read the 1st prize winning essay from our competition 'Innovative ideas for the future of sustainable events'. Read Liew Yao Rong’s essay and learn about his innovative approach that combines participants’ management, location and logistics: www.biologists.com/stories/peop...
28.10.2025 08:15 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Thank you @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social for featuring our Event Carbon Calculator in your article.
Read more for many great #sustainability tips.
“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.”
Read this insightful post by Bethan on the Node.
thenode.biologists.com/developmenta...
#Disability
The Possible vs. The Actual: can #GenerativeBiology reveal fundamental design principles of complex life?
@philipcball.bsky.social closes #GenBio25 with a magnificent synthesis of the past two days of discussions, and guides us towards an agenda for the future of the field.
Good afternoon #GenBio25. @bensteventon.bsky.social uses a flock of sheep as an analogy for multi-level reciprocal interactions between cells and how to engineer them.
20.10.2025 12:53 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Who are our (cellular) neighbours? @matt-mala.bsky.social is addressing this question now at #GenBio25, using characters living on a conceptual ‘Cell Street’. Learn more in his @dev-journal.bsky.social Primer: doi.org/10.1242/dev....
20.10.2025 08:44 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Good morning from Generative Biology! @bernasozen.bsky.social starts by taking a closer look at metabolism in early embryogenesis.
Learn more about stem cell-based embryo models in her recent @dev-journal.bsky.social Review: doi.org/10.1242/dev.... and interview: doi.org/10.1242/dev....
Three short talks now at #GenBio25. @bracciolilab.bsky.social discusses the ability of cells to contribute to different lineages in a gastruloid model. Luca recently published an ‘In preprints’ article in @dev-journal.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1242/dev....
20.10.2025 10:57 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0We are looking forward to spending the next two days discussing INTERESTING THINGS at our workshop on Generative Biology: new approaches to study developmental design principles #GenBio25
Thanks to my excellent coorganisers @jcornwallscoones.bsky.social & @dbenzinger.bsky.social & all participants
BREAKING🚨: @Equinor has resubmitted its application to open the biggest undeveloped oil field in the UK - Rosebank.
In the next weeks, the UK gov will decide to reject or approve this disaster project.
Equinor hasn’t given up, and neither will we. We’re stepping things up.
An inspiration to so many of us. I can say with no hesitation that reading John Gurdon's papers as an undergraduate changed my life. I was reprogrammed from a slightly bored biochemistry student into a person with a life-long love of developmental biology. I have much to thank him for.
07.10.2025 17:15 — 👍 21 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0With storm Amy approaching, it’s an ideal time to get your SLiPERs on!
03.10.2025 15:38 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Hot off the press!
Cell-type-specific functionality encoded within the intrinsically disordered regions of OCT4
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Nice work from Val Wilson & co on neuromesodermal progenitors
SOX2/TBXT co-expressing cells are self-propagating bipotent NMPs
Increasing TBXT levels (not SOX2/TBXT ratio) switch NMPs from neural- to mesoderm-biased
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Ever thought about exploring Stem Cells in different fields of biomedical research while surrounded by the beauty of a Greek island? That's exactly what the European Stem Cell Summer School offers – an inspiring learning experience on the outstanding island of Spetses 🇬🇷 @stemcellsummer.bsky.social
21.09.2025 11:47 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0
An image analysis toolkit to streamline the study of cell fates in embryo development
Image made with @leicamicrosystems.bsky.social microscopy
📷 Matthew French et al @cellysally.bsky.social lab University of Edinburgh in @plosbiology.org
➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2025...
Very excited to have this back-end-of-an-embryo cell-neighbour-analysis image from our latest paper featured as today's Biomedical Image of the Day!
Congrats to first author and ace image-analyst Matthew French
bpod.org.uk/archive/2025...
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👀 Do you have an idea for a post on the Node that you have been postponing writing for a while? This is your chance to publish your piece at last for a chance to win £200. Submit your post by 30 September 2025. 📝
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#devbio #stemcell
A slide displaying an image of a whisky distillery plus a list of 22 specialist biological terms, some from the stem cell and developmental biology field. These include transcription factor, central doga, gastrulation, stem cell niche, mRNA, flow cytometry, chromatin, cell culture, and more.
The Scientific Distillery
Could you distil a complex scientific concept so that it can be explained in 30 seconds and be understood by a lay person, but *without* sacrificing scientific depth?
The delegates at #SCSS2025 were brilliant at this task 👏
