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We're now recruiting early career group leaders at the Crick to lead ambitious research programmes and explore bold scientific questions.

Hear our Director, Edith Heard, explain why the Crick is a unique place for curiosity-driven research.

Apply now ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

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...

thenode.biologists.com/catch-up-on-...

The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org

If you’re applying to your dream lab for an internship/PhD/postdoc, always send a second email 1-2 weeks after the first one if you don’t hear back.

I promise we will be grateful rather than annoyed. My email inbox is a disaster and I’m quite junior - and very few of us have secretarial support

Nobel Laureate Professor Sir John Gurdon dies aged 92 It is with great sadness that the University shares the news of the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon, founder of the Gurdon Institute.

Very saddened to hear of John Gurdon’s passing. I’ve been lucky enough to interact with him at multiple points through my career - from undergrad lectures, through his position as former Chair of @biologists.bsky.social’s Board of Directors, and as an author at @dev-journal.bsky.social.

Very sad news, John Gurdon has died.

A developmental biologist's developmental biologist, Nobel prize winner

His work is the foundation of much of today's dev & stem cell bio.

An inspiration to many, including me. Always asking questions & wanting the answers

www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...

$1.5 million program targets changes to academic incentives The incentive systems that drive academic research underlie nearly every story we write: publication counts for promotion, pressure to produce positive results, hitting certain metrics, and so on. …

Several organizations are now putting more than $1 million toward reimagining hiring, promotion and tenure at U.S. universities.

Until this morning, Mary E. Brunkow, winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine #Nobelprize , had no wikipedia page.

She now has one, thanks to the contributors. 👍☺️👏

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_E....

A small primer on the #NobelPrize awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi today. This prize was for combining two separate fields of immunology research - genetic research on IPEX and immunology research of regulatory T cells (#Tregs), with enormous impact on biology/medicine

This year's Crick @crick.ac.uk PhD programme is open for applications

- £27,715 tax-free student stipend per year for 4 years
- Tuition fees paid
- Student visa fee & health surcharges covered

Deadline 5 Nov

We have a project available. For all the details visit:

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

1. Take this seriously. Here is how you do it. Take a screenshot of the #HatchAct violation, whether it's on LinkedIn or other social media or on the actual US Government website. When you file your complaint, provide your personal contact information. If you're a furloughed fed, you're off-duty.

The Company of Biologists 100 logo to the left and QR code to the right. Portrait of Cathy Jackson to the left, text to the right 100 extraordinary biologists Cathy Jackson Cathy Jackson is a Biology Open Deputy Editor and an Editorial Advisory Board member at Journal of Cell Science. Cathy is a Research Director at the Institut Jacques Monod, France, investigating the molecular mechanisms regulating vesicular and lipid trafficking in yeast and mammalian cells. #100biologists #biologists100

We are highlighting Cathy Jackson, @biologyopen.bsky.social Deputy Editor and an Editorial Advisory Board member at @jcellsci.bsky.social, as an extraordinary biologist this week. #100biologists @ijmonod.bsky.social

a white cat is sitting on a box with the words where written on it . ALT: a white cat is sitting on a box with the words where written on it .

The fiscal year is over.

So how was the NIH appropriation committed?

A long thread with institute by institute results about where the money went.

Do You Work For the Federal Government? ProPublica Wants To Hear From You. We’re doubling down on our coverage of government agencies and federal policy. With your help, we can dig deeper.

Federal workers and contractors: We understand the difficult situations you may be weighing as you decide whether to reach out. All of our reporters take source privacy very seriously.

If you have information you can share with us, here's how to get in touch 👇

Worm peeps: nominate a newly minted PhD for the Sydney Brenner Thesis Award! #celegans

Once again, a shutdown appears likely after today 9/30.

Please get anything you need from ERA Commons and any communications you may need from SROs and POS.

Down the rabbit hole we go….

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...

A graph showing the fraction of annual grant funding committed for NIH for fiscal years 2015 to 2025. The fiscal year 2025 lagged behind but then caught up over the last two months.

The fiscal year ends tomorrow.

Here are results from NIH Reporter downloaded an hour ago.

The total amount of funding committed for FY2025 at this point is 99.0% of that for FY2024. The same difference could be due to a variety of technical factors.

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Pathway to Independence: a forecast for the future of developmental biology ABSTRACT. In 2022, Development launched its Pathway to Independence (PI) programme, aimed at supporting postdocs as they transition to their first independent position. In 2025, we welcome our third c...

It's online! In this series of perspectives @dev-journal.bsky.social, yours truly talks about the exciting open questions and many things to do in the field of dev bio and neuroscience #DevBio🧪 #PIsOfTomorrow journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

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

thenode.biologists.com/developmenta...

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

David Cross folks.

📣Attention all genetics & neurodevelopmental disorders experts!

A politically appointed GI surgeon has had a quick think about it & concluded all your work showing strong genetic contributions to ASD is wrong🤦‍♂️

If only he’d thought about this earlier he could have prevented you wasting your time…

Response on NIH public access policy | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

AAAS and the Science Magazine family of journals have responded to The National Institutes of Health APC RFI:
https://www.aaas.org/news/response-nih-public-access-policy

Don’t congratulate me 😂Submit to Biology Open & experience fast & fair peer review for yourself

Establishing a Fixed Time Period of Admission and an Extension of Stay Procedure for Nonimmigrant Academic Students, Exchange Visitors, and Representatives of Foreign Information Media Unlike most nonimmigrant classifications, which are admitted for a fixed time period, aliens in the F (academic student), J (exchange visitor), and most I (representatives of foreign information media...

Comment period ends on Monday for a proposed rule change that would terminate student visas after 4 years. It also puts limits on exchange visitors and reps of foreign media, and shortens the length of time at the end of the visa from 60 days to 30 days.

www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Next step is to prohibit HHMI grantees from publishing in any journal except those that are diamond open access. Then preprints will be meaningful because not followed up with a conventional journal publication that people use as a proxy for quality

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

New: After a long wait, the GRFP solicitation is live! Deadlines have been extended to early November, so applicants have a bit over a month to submit. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Reminder starting in October NIH NOFOs won’t be posted in the Guide for grants and contracts.

Tips on how to search for opportunities & set up a subscription for custom searches here: grants.nih.gov/news-events/...