We look forward to working with Keir Starmer and the incoming government to strengthen the UK science ecosystem in the coming years.

Sir Patrick Vallance KCB has been appointed Minister of State (Minister for Science) in the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology Department for Science, Innovation and Technology.

I'm looking forward to attending #ISSCR2024 this week. If you want to chat about potential submissions to Development or find out more about any of The Company of Biologists charitable and publishing activities, come find me at booth 1111 in the exhibit hall or drop me a message.

We are delighted to announce that Professor Edith Heard has been appointed as our new director and chief executive! Edith, who is currently director-general at @EMBL, will succeed Paul Nurse in leading the Crick from the summer of 2025. 🔗 crick.ac.uk/news/2024-07-0…

Wow - big news! This is a fantastic appointment by the Crick, though a loss for EMBL... I had the pleasure of interviewing Edith some years ago: you can find out more about her science, her career and her interests outside the lab here: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/14…

Congratulations to group leaders Snezhka Oliferenko and Alessandro Costa (Costa Lab) on being elected as members of EMBO 🥳 crick.ac.uk/news-and-repor…

Congratulations to Edith and fantastic news for The Francis Crick Institute. We're looking forward to welcoming the Heard_Lab to London.

Highly recommend this by @Pselaphinae on the evolutionary origins of organs Proposes a framework for division of labour and subfunctionalisation for evolving organs Insightful, synthetic, & well written. Important implications for the single cell field annualreviews.org/content/journa…

Proud to see my PhD work published in The EMBO Journal! We developed PUFFFIN, a cellular neighbour-labelling system, and demonstrated its effectiveness both in vitro and in vivo. In mESCs, PUFFFIN revealed that cells synchronise exit from naïve pluripotency with their neighbours.

The The Francis Crick Institute is opening our doors to families this Saturday – come and have fun while learning about some brilliant science.

Just one week left! Book your place and join us to celebrate 10 years of our 'From Stem Cells to Human Development' Journal Meeting this September. Deadline is 26 July: biologists.com/meetings/human… #CoBHumanDev

The Francis Crick Institute crick.ac.uk/news/2024-07-2… so sad to say goodbye to my mentor, colleague and friend. He made research fun and exciting

Pumped to share our latest and first (!) work from Rashmi Priya @rashmi-priya.bsky.social lab The Francis Crick Institute! Using the powers of #zebrafish, we uncover how multiscale mechanochemical coupling drives morphological and functional maturation of the developing heart 🫀 Stay tuned for the🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

UK visa costs are some of the highest in the world. Reviewing and addressing these high costs is a necessary step in attracting and retaining international scientific talent.

Really great piece from Nana E. Mensah, Abib Duut and Mohammed Shaaban on the importance of equitable international collaboration.

Looking to catch up with dev bio that you might have missed in the past few months? Start with #InPrePrints from Development - summaries of preprints that have caught the eye of experts in the field journals.biologists.com/dev/collection…

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Latest on the role of protein turnover in species specific developmental tempo biorxiv.org/content/10.110… For a summary of the findings, check the thread by Teresa Rayon ...

I’m thrilled to share I’ve been selected as a 2025 Schmidt Science Fellow Schmidt Science Fellows Looking forward to starting my next research adventure, investigating how organs and organisms measure and regulate their sizes 🐟🧠🫁🫀 crick.ac.uk/news/2025-04-0…