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Congratulations Leah!
It’s FREE to publish in Journal of Cell Science – there are no page charges, colour charges or hidden fees. And if your institution has a Read & Publish agreement, you can publish immediate OA free of charge.
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Registration is OPEN for the 2026 Santa Cruz Meeting on Developmental Biology!!! #scdb26
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And my colleague Alejandra, Managing Editor of @biologyopen.bsky.social, is co-facilitating a workshop on incentivising peer review, drawing on lessons from BiO’s Fast&Fair initiative as well as other experiments in paying or otherwise rewarding peer reviewers.
Looking forward to #R2Rconf in a couple of weeks, where I’ll be taking part in a panel discussion on journal-independent peer review. Want to hear more about @reviewcommons.org, @prelights.bsky.social and other initiatives? You can still register and the rest of the programme looks great too!
Society for Developmental Biology logo Society for Developmental Biology 2026 Award Winners Edwin G. Conklin Medal Headshot of Lee Niswander Lee Niswander, University of Colorado Boulder Society for Developmental Biology Lifetime Achievement Award Headshot of Alexandra Joyner Alexandra Joyner, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Viktor Hamburger Outstanding Educator Prize Headshot of Roberto Mayor Roberto Mayor, University College London Elizabeth D. Hay New Investigator Award Headshot of Jeffrey Farrell Jeffrey Farrell, National Institutes of Health Society for Developmental Biology Trainee Science Communication Award Headshot of Nicholas Desnoyer Nicholas Desnoyer, The Sainsbury Laboratory
Congrats to the 2026 SDB Award Winners!
Conklin Medal: Lee Niswander
SDB Lifetime Achievement Award: Alexandra Joyner
Hamburger Outstanding Educator Prize: Roberto Mayor
Hay New Investigator Award: Jeffrey Farrell
SDB Trainee SciComm Award: Nicholas Desnoyer
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Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social is recruiting an enthusiastic and motivated Reviews Editor. An exciting opportunity for a talented scientific editor to make a contribution to an important journal in the field of #cellbiology. Deadline 2 Feb.
More at: www.biologists.com/about-us/wor...
But as you'll find out in this story, my links to the Company go way back - I published my first ever paper in @dev-journal.bsky.social soon after my then boss @mjafreeman.bsky.social joined the Board of Directors, and my joining the Company is all thanks to @the-node.bsky.social.
An organisation is only ever as good as the people who work in it. I've now been at @biologists.bsky.social for 14 years, and there's no way I'd have stayed so long were it not for the friendly, talented and dedicated people I get to work with every day. #biologists100
A deep dive into the backstory of @dev-journal.bsky.social and why it changed its name (spoiler - it's not *just* because Journal of Embryology and Experimental Morphology was such a mouthful!). Many thanks to Nick Hopwood for researching and writing this. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
At #CellBio2025 and want to find out more about how you can get your paper peer reviewed in 7 working days? This is what @biologyopen.bsky.social's Fast & Fair initiative is doing. @danielgorelick.bsky.social has all the details at the @biologists.bsky.social booth!
Are you a #devbio postdoc planning to go on the job market in 2026? Then this is the initiative for you! Offering training, networking, mentoring and profile-raising components, Development's PI Programme can give you that extra support you might need while navigating this challenging time...
And choose BiO for your next paper - if we send it for peer review, you can expect to receive your decision, with high-quality peer review reports, in around 10 days.
If you want to get involved, we’re always keen to recruit more potential reviewers - you can sign up here: www.biologists.com/bio-fast-and....
If you’re not aware of BiO’s Fast & Fair initiative, do listen to this podcast or find out more on the website (journals.biologists.com/bio/pages/fa...). We’re trying to tackle two big issues with the peer review process - how to make it quicker & how to recognise the crucial work of peer reviewers
Publication integrity has always been a big part of what we do @biologists.bsky.social but it’s more challenging than ever these days. Lots of people contribute to this work, but a special shout-out today to our awesome in-house integrity team. Thanks for all you do! #PublicationIntegrityWeek
One month left for early-career researchers to apply for a funded place at our Workshop 'Novelty, Co-option and Divergence During Gene Network Evolution' organised by James Hombría & Antónia Monteiro Deadline 5 Dec.
biologists.com/workshops/ju...
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Delighted to see other journals joining @dev-journal.bsky.social and @jcellsci.bsky.social in supporting Review Commons with handling of submissions to the platform.
Compared to other publishers, The Company of Biologists is small fry with fewer than 70 staff supporting 5 journals from a single office. But, for over 100 years now, it’s punched above its weight in innovation, prestige and community support.
…but the cover letter was often helpful to put the work in the bigger context.
Rita and Alejandro have pretty much covered it! Many years back, when I was handling papers myself, I used to read the article before I read the cover letter so I could make my own mind up about the study rather than be influenced by any spin from the authors…
It’s our 100th birthday today - and we’re still going strong after all this time! Here’s to the next 100 years of community-centric publishing and charitable support… 🎉
Are you enthusiastic about stem cell biology and developmental biology and looking to start a PhD in 2026? Funded opportunites now available. Contact for more infomation. Links below! @lovegrovelab.bsky.social @veronicabiga.bsky.social @manchester.ac.uk @ukri.org
Never considered myself extraordinary but very touched that my colleagues wanted to feature me in this series. Do check out the other much more extraordinary scientists we’ve featured over the course of the year
It’s no underestimate to say that he founded a whole field of biology - reprogramming - and his influence on the #devbio field and community has been enormous. He’ll be sorely missed, but his legacy will live on.
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.
I'm attending too! Please feel welcome to speak to me about your research and how the journal can better serve you. I'm taking part in the 'Ethics and Publishing' session on Thursday 25 September and I'm also bringing some @dev-journal.bsky.social goodies, including some of our popular posters.
It was fun to look back over a decade of 'From Stem Cells to Human Development' meetings at @dev-journal.bsky.social. This is one of the projects I most enjoyed during my time at the journal - and I really hope we helped to catalyse and support a community... journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
I understand the regulatory hurdles, and the importance of respecting individual choices, but surely we can do better than this to provide vital material to support research that should - amongst other things - improve the outcome of IVF treatments in the long term.
As someone who cares deeply about advancing our understanding of human dev, and who's been through IVF myself, I found this stat particularly depressing: "In the UK alone, more than 170,000 embryos were discarded in 2019, yet fewer than 1% – a total of only 675 embryos – were donated to research"