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Joyce Yu

I joined the Node as the Community Manager in April 2023. Prior to that, I was working in the Science Communications team at Alzheimer's Research UK. My scientific background was in cell and developmental biology, looking at Wnt signalling and planar cell polarity in fruit flies.

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Meet Joyce Yu, the new Community Manager of the Node

Posted by , on 20 April 2023

Hello everyone! I am Joyce Yu, the new Community Manager of the Node. Before joining The Company of Biologists, I was doing science communications at Alzheimer’s Research UK, a charity ...
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Community Manager, the Node

Posted by , on 23 April 2025

The Company of Biologists and its journal Development are seeking to appoint a new Community Manager to run its successful community website ‘the Node’ and the journal’s social media activities. Launched in 2010, the Node is the place for the developmental biology community to share news, discuss issues relevant to the field and read about the latest […]

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Recent comments by Joyce Yu

Hi Elizabeth, you can contact Jo by clicking the 'get in touch' link just beneath the first image of this post.
by Joyce Yu in Biological Research Trump Cards: from fruit flies to stem cells… who will come out on top? on January 9, 2025
Hi Kathy, if you click the Play button on the YouTube box at the top of this post, you should be able to play the video. Let us know if it's not working! (Here's the direct link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhZ9dGk9y-M)
by Joyce Yu in Ovulation filmed from start to finish for the first time on October 29, 2024
Added - thanks Evan!
by Joyce Yu in February in preprints on March 6, 2024
I'd also like to point the readers to this fantastic and honest interview with Kelly Stevens: "Prioritizing diversity will help all of us" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41556-023-01217-6
by Joyce Yu in Navigating a research career with a disability on September 6, 2023

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