Noelle Dwyer

Dear SDB Members, I am writing to clarify how to fully comply with the 2024 NIH Public Access Policy without paying the current $3,910 Article Processing Fee for Open Access for your paper accepted in Developmental Biology. Attached is a diagram showing the process. Once you receive the letter of acceptance for your paper in Developmental Biology, upload the accepted and unformatted version of your manuscript to the NIH Manuscript Submission system, NIHMS (nihms.nih.gov). Select “0 months” for the embargo. Once approved, you will receive a PCMID number for your manuscript. Your manuscript will then be publicly accessible, satisfying the NIH Public Access Policy requirement. If you choose the “Open Access” option, you will pay the $3,910 Article Processing Fee. If you choose the “Subscription” option, you do not pay any fee. Developmental Biology has traditionally not charged authors for any fees as it was subsidized by institutional subscriptions. Royalties from Developmental Biology's institutional subscriptions also support SDB’s programs. SDB encourages you to ask your library to subscribe to Developmental Biology. Save your funds and support the SDB, while also fully complying with the NIH Public Access Policy! Yours truly, Richard Behringer, PhD

Another Society journal doing the right thing! @socdevbio.bsky.social confirms that upon acceptance in @devbiol.bsky.social authors can upload the accepted and unformatted version of your manuscript to the NIH Manuscript Submission system, satisfying NIH and making it available to all

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The Martin lab @biology-unige.bsky.social has an open postdoctoral position in cell biology to study cell-cell fusion. For more information, please consult mocel.unige.ch/research-gro....

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We have a postdoc position available. Please forward to anyone who may be interested.

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SDB is sad to announce the passing of Gail R. Martin (1944-2026) after a short illness in San Francisco. Martin served as SDB President in 2007 and was the recipient the Conklin Medal in 2002 and the @FASEBorg Excellence in Science Award in 2011. bit.ly/4aIfu5d

Amen. So many non-specific antibodies, so much wasted money and time.

Worth reading for possible explanations and their suggested experiments in Discussion. Note that peer review time was defined as the time from submission to acceptance, so includes time spent on revisions. Would have liked to see that separated out.

Sorry for your loss, Mark! Gail was a giant in the field and such a good person.

Sad to hear about Gail's passing! She was a dev bio pioneer and role model.

Oriented cell divisions induce basal progenitors and regulate neural expansion across tissues and species A fundamental role for division orientation in progenitor output driving cortical and retinal growth is revealed.

Happy to announce that our latest paper is now out! Have you ever wondered how neural tissues control their size? In this paper, we show that cell division orientation is critical in both the cortex and retina. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Looks like a must read! So I'm wondering why GPSM2 single ko (randomized division angles) has no change in brain size, no SBH, (as per Konno '08 etc), but your double ko ("reversed orientation divisions") has bigger brain with SBH? And how does it compare to Insc ko (Postiglione '11)?

A protein complex in the extreme distal tip of vertebrate motile cilia controls their organization, length, and function - Nature Communications Here they combine in vivo imaging with proteomics to characterize a protein complex comprised of Ccdc78 and Ccdc33 that acts at the extreme distal tip of 9 + 2 motile cilia to control tip architecture...

Cilia alert! Stoked to have the new paper from Juyeon Hong about a new domain at the extreme distal tip of motile cilia! (The EDT, y'all!) It's out now @natcomms.nature.com.
Check it out!
#cilia

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Murphy Lab did our annual retreat this week. This year's theme was using AI (what it's good and bad for). I wanted to be open-minded to make sure we are not missing something we should be using it for, so we did a few exercises to test, and had presentations.

Thanks for this Coleen! Your conclusions align with my (limited) experiences so far, but I keep hearing some scientists saying it's useful for searches, so I wonder if it depends on the AI, or maybe they're better at prompts than me... or maybe you have to be expert on a topic to see the mistakes.

AI-Generated Scientific Papers: Crisis? What Crisis? Picture a man in a deckchair, umbrella overhead, relaxing with a drink in hand—while surrounded by industrial wasteland and decay. This was the iconic 1975 album cover for Supertramp's Crisis? What Cr...

Important editorial in #eNeuro about paper mills using AI to generate fake or plagiarized papers. Anyone else worried about having your preprints or unpublished results taken, AI-rearranged, and scooping you? @sfnjournals.bsky.social www.eneuro.org/content/13/1...

Great session and wonderful questions, thanks for organizing it Pleasantine! @cilialab.bsky.social‬
#UKCilia2026

Excited to be sharing our work on Togaram1 mouse knockout and brain development in this e-Symposium Tuesday, January 13, 2026! 10:00 AM EST in the US = 15:00 GMT #cilia #centrosomes #devbio 🐭🧠🧪

Just over a week to our FIRST event for 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣6️⃣- 13/01/2026 15:00-17:30 GMT. What better way to fire up those neural circuits than dipping into the latest breaking #Cilia and #Centrosome science 🧪? Free and open to everyone- /1

By 2040, ~40% of the images from Hubble Space Telescope, and more than 96% from new and future space telescopes like SPHEREx, ARRAKIHS, and Xuntian will be contaminated by internet satellite constellations.

Read our new NASA article in Nature:
nature.com/articles/s4158…

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Completed - NASA Two technicians look up at NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope after its inner and outer segments were connected at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight

Holy moly: The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope construction is completed! That's fantastic news — much needed right now — and I am very much looking forward to when this beast launches. It has 100X the field of view of Hubble.

One. Hundred. *At the same resolution*.

www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

Enjoyed the sessions at #SfN25? Have an idea for a session, event, or professional development workshop?

#SfN26 Call for Proposals open Thursday, December 5.

Discover how you can contribute to the scientific dialogue & networking opportunities at Neuroscience 2026.

🔗 vist.ly/4fchn
#neurosky

Are you a postdoc or assistant professor on the job market? Reminder that our department is hiring! We are a scientifically diverse department looking for a colleague that is excited about science, teaching, and potential collaborations! Please apply by 12/5/25!

Assistant Professor in Biology and Neuroscience Program - Waltham, Massachusetts (US) job with Brandeis University | 12848464 The Department of Biology and the Program in Neuroscience at Brandeis University invite applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor positio...

Re-upping this - Neuropeeps! We have a TT Job in my wonderful department at Brandeis! First consideration to applications received by Dec 15 (but why wait?)

www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Bringing my umbrella to #SfN25!! ☔

I'll be here: Satellite social at #SfN25 to honor the legacy of Dr. Dennis O'Leary, Mon night 7pm. SAT37 - "Nature and Nurture in Neural Development" www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...

See you at #SfN25! Our poster by Hayley Dingsdale: genetic mosaic loss of Cep55 and Kif20b. PSTR 053.20 / A18 - Cellular context matters: Use of a genetic mosaic mouse model to identify autonomous and non-autonomous effects of cytokinesis gene mutations in the developing cortex. Sun Nov 16, 8a-12p

Whaaaaaat??? I may have to join you in screaming.... I already had to submit again after an (unfair IMO) admin withdrawal from a June submission... We cannot go on like this.

🍂 🏛️ 🧪 NIH Study Sections Rescheduled

Triaging of ~70% of applications for next 2 rounds

Thank you UVa for being the first places asking for grad school recomendations that did not include ANY of the silly ratings questions

Volume 138 Issue 20 | Journal of Cell Science | The Company of Biologists Journal of Cell Science publishes cutting-edge science encompassing all aspects of cell biology. It is published by The Company of Biologists, a not-for-profit organisation.

Our special issue on ‘Cilia and Flagella’ is now out! Huge thanks to all (authors + reviewers) who contributed, and to our wonderful Guest Editors (@cilialab.bsky.social + @lottepedersen.bsky.social) for pulling it together.
Happy reading!
#cilia #flagella

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7 basic science discoveries that changed the world Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...