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Loke CTR PhD studentship - applications open! Closing 3 November

Posted by , on 6 October 2026

The Loke Centre for Trophoblast Research (Loke CTR) offers fully-funded 4-year PhD studentship for home or overseas students The Loke CTR provides a dynamic environment for PhD training in placental ...

Science and society

Posted by , on 23 September 2026

Did you know that Development publishes ‘Perspective’ articles that cover the intersection of developmental biology and stem cell research with society, including some useful resources for science communication with the ...

The final stretch that tests every PhD Student 

Posted by , on 4 September 2026

The recent deluge of Substack and Medium articles, promising strategies and frameworks to work effectively and to complete tasks with intentionality, would have some to believe that the ‘P’ in PhD stands for “productivity” and not Philosophy. As if these neatly ...

The Experiments We Never Run

Posted by , on 1 September 2026

Somewhere, there’s a paper that will not get written. Before there’s a scientific paper, someone has to be there to ask the right question, design the right experiment, watch it ...

Show and Tell: Start Exploring Single-cell Data

Posted by , on 31 August 2026

Bioinformatics can seem intimidating, especially when you're just starting out. But you don't need to be an expert to begin exploring single-cell RNA-seq data. In this short tutorial, I walk ...

I don’t belong here: Thoughts of a first-generation academic

Posted by , on 25 August 2026

As a university student working towards my bachelor’s degree, I didn’t even know what it would mean to add “Dr.” to my name. Six months into my postdoc, I regularly ...

The little beach hopper that could

Posted by , on 6 August 2026

How Parhyale hawaiensis went from mundane beach critter to lab celebrity across biology, chemistry and even physics.

Unboxing data

Posted by , on 24 April 2026

Thanks to community campaigns (#barbarplots) and opinionated papers (Drummond & Vowler, 2011; Weisgerber et al 2015) the dynamite plunger plot (a bar plot together with an error bar) has been ...

AlphaFold protein interaction modeling tutorial and workshop

Posted by , on 8 January 2026

This video is the culmination of several years attempting to: (1) Figure out best practices for modeling protein-protein interactions; (2) Understand the outputs of programs like AlphaFold and adjacent software ...

Apply for a funded ECR place our Workshop on Novelty, Co-option and Divergence During Gene Network Evolution

Posted by , on 2 October 2025

Applications are open for 10 ECR funded places at The Company of Biologists Workshop on Novelty, Co-option and Divergence During Gene Network Evolution, organised byJames Hombría and Antónia Monteiro. The ...

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