Alex Eve

In this issue, Chen et al. present the first population genomics analyses of Indian Ocean hydrothermal vent animals, using eight populations of the scaly-foot snail (Chrysomallon squamiferum) distributed across three mid-ocean ridges. They show an asymmetric south-to-north gene flow driven by deep currents and aided by ghost populations. Their results also identify source-sink dynamics and dispersal barriers essential for conservation planning in the context of upcoming deep-sea mining. The scaly-foot snail is an iconic vent-endemic species famed for the iron-infused sclerites on its foot and functions as a flagship species in deep-sea conservation efforts.

NEW Issue is out!👇
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As the world is being plunged into the abyss, we bring you some abyssal scaly-footed snails from the deep ocean.
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Plus it's #MolluscMonday

Reconstructing the world’s ant diversity in 3D Antscan provides open access to high-resolution micro-CT scans of 800 different ant species and a revolutionary blueprint for large-scale digitization of small organisms.

Scientists, artists, and educators now have free access to more than 2000 high-resolution 3D ant models covering most ant genera, created from micro-CT scans. Read more about the revolutionary Antscan project in a new @natmethods.nature.com study @economo.bsky.social www.oist.jp/news-center/...

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

Very excited to be attending #SYStem2026 next week in beautiful Vienna, Austria!

Feel free to come and chat with me about all things @dev-journal.bsky.social.

I’ll also be carrying a few of our gorgeous poster articles, including this one on human PSC-derived organoids: doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Ready for #SYStem2026 next week?
Our Reviews Editor @saanjbati.bsky.social is also attending the whole meeting and will be available at the ‘Meet the editor’ session on 12 March 2026 during the coffee breaks to talk about @dev-journal.bsky.social and @the-node.bsky.social
@imbavienna.bsky.social

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Alien to land; at home in the sea.
This beautiful creature is a blood-belly comb jelly.
Jaw dropping display at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

I'm not on many social media platforms, but LinkedIn is by far the worst for constant AI slop being shown on my feed, including text, images and videos.

Happy to chat about publishing your next paper in @dev-journal.bsky.social, contributing to @the-node.bsky.social and the charitable activities of @biologists.bsky.social.

I'll be speaking in the mentoring session about how Development and our publisher support early-career researchers #ECRs.

spotLights Ep 17: Teodora talks RPE ageing & mechanics #biology #science #preprints YouTube video by The Company of Biologists

Highlighting preprint stories from within the preLights community 📽️

Here, Teodora narrates her preprint showing that functional decline in the ageing retinal epithelium results from a change in the mechanical balance of the tissue due to natural cell loss!

#Short ⬇️
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Interested in helping your community find the most interesting #preprints?

Apply to join our academic team at Development as a new Preprint Editor.

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We will compensate Preprint Editors for their time (contingent on fulfilling the objectives) are there are also funds available to support relevant travel. Please feel welcome to apply; we are looking for a small group who, between them, have expertise that will cover the scope of the journal.

Interested in helping your community find the most interesting #preprints?

Apply to join our academic team at Development as a new Preprint Editor.

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Preprint Editors – Development's next step into the preprint landscape Summary: This Editorial announces a call for Preprint Editors in Development to help expand the journal's relationship with preprints by curating our ‘In preprints’ articles.

New from @dev-journal.bsky.social: we're launching a new initiative and hiring Preprint Editors to help navigate the growing world of preprints in developmental & stem cell biology

Join our community & shape the future of research

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Glob-glob! Absolutely magical sea anemone larva (about 7 mm) from The Lombok Strait, Indonesia 🇮🇩

The Dream of the Butterfly

Are you a budding science writer? ✍️

Then enter our science writing competition! Entries can be fiction or non-fiction. For more info and how to enter visit our website:
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Deadline 31st March

Excited to have started my new lab in Human Genetics at Pitt Public Health!

We study wound healing in diabetes & aging using adult zebrafish. Check out this movie showing neutrophil dynamics after injury.

Now recruiting research staff, grad students, and postdocs. DM me if interested.

Samantha Morris Associate Editor, Development Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, USA “I’m particularly excited about articles that incorporate some form of technology into them… We can now routinely use these technologies to generate and test exciting new hypotheses.” Key topics: computational and systems biology cell fate control and differentiation gene regulation quantitative biology and modelling tissue engineering and organoids

Our Associate Editor, Samantha Morris, will be attending the @fusionconf.bsky.social, Probing Human Disease using Single-Cell Technologies, in Mexico on 1 March.

Please speak to Sam about publishing your own #SingleCell studies in Development.

#SingleCellTech #FusionHumanDisease

Interesting move from CAS (if true, struggling to verify).

It's free to publish in @dev-journal.bsky.social and Read & Publish agreements between @biologists.bsky.social and institutes worldwide mean that many authors can also publish Open Access research in Development without paying an APC.

I want to go so bad!

Development presents... Wednesday 25 February – 15:00 GMT/UTC Chair: Polina Kameneva Joaquín Navajas Acedo (University of Basel) ‘Spatiotemporal emergence of somatosensory neuron diversity’ Carlo Donato Caiaffa (Universidade de São Paulo) ‘Decoding the role of HNRNPH2 in neural development using brain organoids and antisense oligonucleotides’ Clarisse Brunet (Institut Curie) ‘Decoding the gliogenic switch: how human brain organoids reveal the secrets of glial cell fate’ #DevPres @dev-journal.bsky.social theNode.biologists.com/devpres The Company of Biologists logo Development logo QR code

📢Register for our #DevPres webinar on neurodevelopment

The webinar, chaired by Polina Kameneva, features talks from Joaquín Navajas Acedo @mads100tist.bsky.social, Carlo Donato Caiaffa & Clarisse Brunet @clarissebrunet.bsky.social.

🗓️25 February, 15:00 GMT/UTC

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Speak to @ingridtsang.bsky.social if you'd like a copy of @dev-journal.bsky.social's 'Stem cell-based models of early human development' poster by @liliulab.bsky.social and @jun-wu-lab.bsky.social

You can read the article here: doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Axonal defasciculation is restricted to specific branching points during regeneration of the lateral line nerve in zebrafish

Read the first #OA article in #DevSIextracellular by Rohan S. Roy and A. J. Hudspeh (@rockefeller.edu) in our Stem Cells and Regeneration section: doi.org/10.1242/dev....

A medieval illustration of a hedgehog with grapes skewered on its spines

It was believed in medieval times that hedgehogs had spikes so they could roll over fruit to carry home to their children, which is not true but is a really cute idea

Reviews Editor Saanjbati Adhikari will be attending on behalf of @dev-journal.bsky.social!

Speak to @ingridtsang.bsky.social if you'd like a copy of @dev-journal.bsky.social's 'Stem cell-based models of early human development' poster by @liliulab.bsky.social and @jun-wu-lab.bsky.social

You can read the article here: doi.org/10.1242/dev....

For International Day of Women and Girls in Science, #IDWGS2026, we are featuring some of our 'Transitions in development' interviewees from the past year.

Browse our full series here: journals.biologists.com/dev/collecti...

James Briscoe Editor-in-Chief , Development The Francis Crick Institute, UK “Community journals such as Development play a crucial role. Every issue of Development has papers handled by academic editors who are leaders in the field, so it offers a curated collection of the latest developmental biology research selected by experts.” Key topics: cell fate control and differentiation computational biology and modelling gene regulation and stem cells neural development and patterning tissue engineering and organoids

Our Editor-in-Chief, @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social, will be speaking at 2nd Meeting on Early Embryogenesis and Epigenetics at @molgen.mpg.de from Monday 16 February.

Please speak to James about publishing your research in Development.

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