Hydrozoan jellyfish Scolionema sp. from Okinawa, 7 mm in diameter.

Check out our cover for Development! Beautiful 🐸 epidermal cilia by Micaela Lasser. 🤩

If you are a postdoctoral fellow and a Society for Developmental Biology member, don't miss this chance to showcase your research Worldwide!

Warmest congratulations & thanks to brilliant member of our team Caltech Wenqi Hu, collaborator Jason Rose 💙 Vento (not on X) & HDBR for a fantastic journey in bringing this unique resource. We hope it will be valuable as a reference point to build more powerful stem cell models

Curious about NIH fellowship programs? Whether you're a predoc, postdoc, or established investigator, there's a fit for you! 🔎 Learn more in our Focus on Fellowship series: youtube.com/watch?v=WmtcXO…

Supporting Fairness and Originality in NIH Research Applications grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/n…

Applications are now open for the 2026 SDB Science Communication Internship. Graduate student and postdoc members of the Society for Developmental Biology are eligible to apply. Deadline: August 15. Learn more: sdbonline.org/science_commun…

First copies of my book are here!! As a new faculty member, I realized that in addition to my research job, I also had a leadership job…and I wasn’t prepared for that. This book is the guide I wish I’d had then, with the goal of helping others now.   jenheemstra.com/book

🐌💫 Snail embryos never looked so fabulous! Tubulin (white), phospho-histone H3 (pink), and F-Actin (cyan) light up this early stage like a cytoskeletal disco ball. Image from Clemens Cabernard & Adam von Barnau Sythoff 🪩🧬 #FluorescenceFriday

Some journals are claiming that you need to pay big $$ for gold open access to comply with NIH's new public access policy. FYI that is total bs. You can comply by depositing the Accepted Manuscript into PubMed Central on the Date of Publication without embargo. Pass it on.

High visibility and high expectations mean there’s huge opportunity for failure. Trying take every “failure” as a learning opportunity. It’s hard but this is the reality; if you can’t recognize, address, and move past the missteps, you’ll never grow.

✨Animal evolution fans, rejoice! CRISPR-Cas9 is now in Corallochytrium (Teretosporea, which includes Ichthyosporea), ready to unlock secrets of animal origins! 🔬Led by Patricia Suárez Ara & Sebas Najle. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… The Royal Society #animalorigins #holozoans #protists

Fundamental discoveries in developmental biology & their impact on biomedical research. A set of 12 talking points highlighting dev biol discoveries can be downloaded from Society for Developmental Biology webpage as ppt slides & posters. bit.ly/3H86pbc

A big component of being successful is learning how to work with people, navigate personalities, and pick your battles. It's not a skill that can readily be taught, but self-awareness is a big component. The sooner we can teach trainees this, the more successful they will be 🌟

🐟 Zebrafish (Danio rerio): Clear as glass, zebrafish embryos let you watch organs form in real time. A powerhouse for studying organogenesis and regeneration, they’re also champions of transgenic expression of fluorescent proteins 🌈 image from Gopi Shah 🧪 #ModelMonday #DevBio

Abstracts are due by Monday, August 25th to be considered for a short talk at the SCGDB annual meeting this September in Minneapolis. More information and program highlights available at scgdb.org.

7-mm octopus baby from Okinawa. I found it drifting in stormy waves away from the reef. It was just a dot in an endless water.

🪱 C. elegans (Nematode). Every cell counts, literally. C. elegans has a fully mapped cell lineage from egg to adult. Key for understanding cell fate specification, apoptosis, nervous system wiring, aging, and stem cell regulation. Image taken by Swagata Dey #ModelMonday

The Department of BioSciences at Rice U invites applications for an open rank tenure-track position to begin July 1, 2026. We seek candidates with research programs in theoretical and computational neuroscience, including candidates 1/2 apply.interfolio.com/172558

The variability of early mammalian embryos never ceases to amaze me. Here a beautiful work on the emergence of PGCs in the cow from Carly Guiltinan biorxiv.org/content/10.110… But look at the embryo amidst the enormous trophectoderm! Could you find it w/o epiblast markers? #Amazing