the community site for and by developmental and stem cell biologists
As @the_node celebrates their 15 year anniversary this year, we want to collect feedback from you, our community, to ensure the Node is still relevant and useful.
If you’ve ever visited the Node to read, write or interact with the developmental and stem cell biology community, please spare five minutes to take their survey:
Join us as the new Community Manager to run @the_node.
A great opportunity for someone with a love of developmental and/or stem cell biology, science communication and engaging with researchers.
Apply by 19 May 2025.
https://www.biologists.com/about-us/work-for-us/
#Jobs #Biologists #Community #Manager #Science #Communication #ScienceCommunication #ScienceMastodon
We offer professional internships for PhD students. Each year, we host a 12-week internship with a focus on data gathering & analysis. We're also looking for interns for our community sites @the_node ,
@preLights and @focalplane_jcs. Contact us at recruitment@biologists.com.
Read what our previous interns - Ryan, Erin and Emily - had to say about their experiences:
https://www.biologists.com/stories/ryan-harrison-recounts-his-professional-internship-at-the-company-of-biologists/
https://www.biologists.com/stories/professional-internships-for-phd-students/
https://www.biologists.com/stories/a-return-to-in-person-internships/
We bumped into #preLighter and former intern (also @the_node & @focalplane_jcs) Ryan Harrison. 🙌 #biologists100
Here, he presented a beautiful (pink 🤩) poster detailing his work on cell organisation & 3D shape emergence in a posterior neuruloid system. ✨
To accompany the Biologists @ 100 conference, @the_node and @focalplane_jcs are launching an image competition.
🔬Enter your best biological research images for your chance to win £250.
📷Shortlisted images will be presented at the #Biologists100 conference in March.
Entries are open to all researchers whether you are attending Biologists @ 100 or not. But if you'd like to join us to celebrate @Co_Biologists 100-anniversary, registration is open until 28 Feb.
Register for the final Development presents... webinar of 2024, chaired by Development’s Senior Editor Alex Eve. We will hear from Madalena M. Reimão Pinto and Gabriel Aughey on the topic of #GeneRegulation.
📆Wed 4 Dec 15:00GMT
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/9716740379156/WN_4Mwd6xviRPeGw5YwvqpvJA
Last few days to apply to become @the_node and @focalplane_jcs conference reporters at our Biologists @ 100 conference, 24-27 March 2025 in Liverpool, UK.
So if you are you keen to get more science communication experience, find out more and apply by 29 November:
- the Node conference reporter (developmental and stem cell biology): https://thenode.biologists.com/apply-to-become-a-reporter-at-the-biologists-100-conference/news/
- FocalPlane conference reporter (cell biology and microscopy): https://focalplane.biologists.com/2024/10/03/apply-to-become-a-reporter-at-the-biologists-100-conference/
Register for the final Development presents... webinar of 2024, chaired by Development’s Senior Editor Alex Eve. We will hear from Madalena M. Reimão Pinto and Gabriel Aughey on the topic of #GeneRegulation.
📆Wed 4 Dec 15:00GMT
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/9716740379156/WN_4Mwd6xviRPeGw5YwvqpvJA
In this Voices piece, two PhD students who identify as trans discuss their experiences navigating academia, issues prevalent in academia that trans people still face, and the support systems they've found that have empowered them on their journeys:
https://thenode.biologists.com/trans-perspectives-in-academia/discussion/
Please, show me your boundaries 👀
In this 'Show and tell' post,
Michalis Averof & co. introduce their toolkit of 11 membrane-localising tags, and encourage people to test them in their favourite research organisms:
https://thenode.biologists.com/please-show-me-your-boundaries/photo/
***Tomorrow Wed 20 Nov 15:00GMT***
Join us for our November Development presents... webinar, featuring prize winners from 2024 @_BSDB_ Spring meeting: @LebekTamina, @callumbucklow, @Gianteaterofant and @StanStrawbridge
Register now:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/9716740379156/WN_mKBVX5ImRIuFCzCWvOYgRw
Don’t eat me!! ⛔
In this 'behind the paper' post, Cecilia Pessoa tells us more about her work looking at the signals in hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells that stop macrophages from engulfing them:
https://thenode.biologists.com/dont-eat-me/research/
Together with Rose Penfold & Katherine Brown, our Community Manager Reinier Prosee organised an R2R workshop earlier this year focused on the challenges + opportunities surrounding early-career researcher initiatives within the publishing industry.
The outcomes of this workshop can now be found in a paper published in Science Editor.
If you’re interested in the future of academic publishing and supporting early-career researchers, take a look. ⬇️ 👀
📢Call for papers
We invite you to submit your latest research to our upcoming special issue – Lifelong Development: the Maintenance, Regeneration and Plasticity of Tissues, coordinated by Guest Editors Meritxell Huch and Mansi Srivastava.
Find out more and submit your articles by 15 May 2025:
https://journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/lifelongdev
#ICYMI: Have you seen the documentary 'The Fascinating World of Developmental Biology' created by @BSDB, our journal @Dev_journal and Cambridge Filmworks? It features TV presenter and author Alice Roberts, and a host of researchers working across the spectrum of #DevBio. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avrmIs3vPUQ&feature=youtu.be
EvoDevo Papers now at biologists.social
The botsin.space community, a popular Mastodon server for automated accounts (bots), will be retiring soon. They have been kindly hosting EvoDevo Papers for the past couple of years.
To avoid any downtime, I recently migrated the account to a new server, the biologists.social community managed by The Company of Biologists. I think it’s a great match, and I’m glad they agreed to host. The new address is:
@evodevo_papers@biologists.social
The migration went well and posting has already resumed. I’ve also taken the chance to tweak the website and refactor the code base to pave the way for novel features that I’m planning to implement. Just released v2.2.0 🎉
New PI diaries: Taking Stock and Figuring Out Lab Finances
It's been over a year since Margot Smit started her own lab as a #newPI. Read her final post in the Node's 'New PI diaries' series, all about lab finances.
We wish her luck as she continues her new PI journey!
https://thenode.biologists.com/figuring-out-lab-finances/careers/
Unbreak my heart with TAK ❤️
Check out our latest interview with
Daniel Baird and Oskar Thomson on their recent findings on the roles of TAK1 in heart development and their favourite amino acids!
Check it out! 👇
https://youtu.be/awHHInzk0-c?si=MN_l7Sp0tjdwvHGV
After a period of stress, the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi can transition from its mature adult form back to its larval state😮
🎥Watch the fascinating video of reverse development in this 'Show and tell' post by Joan-Josep Soto Angel and Pawel Burkhardt:
https://thenode.biologists.com/reverse-development-in-the-ctenophore-mnemiopsis-leidyi/video/
Register now for our November Development presents... webinar, featuring prize winners from the 2024 @BSDB Spring meeting: Tamina Lebek, Callum Bucklow, Hannah Bruce and Stanley Strawbridge.
📅Wed 20 Nov 15:00GMT
➡️https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/9716740379156/WN_mKBVX5ImRIuFCzCWvOYgRw
