Developing news

Posted by the Node, on 29 November 2022

In the past couple of weeks, #ScienceTwitter was full of tweets starting with ‘If Twitter ends today, can we all agree that…’, professing their love for a particular model organism, and whether qPCR is essential for validation! Of course, Twitter hasn’t collapsed but the #devbio community, including ourselves, have been trying Mastodon as an alternative. Read on to find out some of the talking points that caught our attention.

To move or not to move?

Question: what is the trigger point at which we should all leave Twitter? Maybe when it functions as a platform upon which the amount of disinformation amplified exceeds the amount of information? Has that just happened?
— Buzz Baum (@BaumBuzz) November 20, 2022

Publishing on Mastodon

Who’s (who) on Mastodon

We’re at @the_node@mstdn.science, and we’re still building our community on Mastodon, but below are some of our favourites so far. Let us know who we should be adding to our list!

Don’t forget the other Mastodon!

We have just released Mastodon beta-26.
This release sums the work of the past 2 years and results in major changes in feature for the users.
I describe some of the new features below, but for more info, check https://t.co/6etC6mVmBc pic.twitter.com/NfNv1152se
— Jean-Yves Tinevez (@jytinevez) November 16, 2022

preLights in #devbio (and related topics)

To be or not to be a photoreceptor: cell fate choices in the developing zebrafish retina are deterministic and probabilistic.

How does the endothelium integrate mechanical force exerted by blood flow? Batta and colleagues show the importance for the guanine nucleotide exchange factor, ARHGEF18, in regulating endothelial cell alignment in the direction of flow.

Navigating a tense situation: the plasma membrane and actin cortex form an integrated system for rapid long-range tension propagation.

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Julien Delpierre says:

November 30, 2022 at 7:48 AM

Here is a thread gathering developmental biologists on mastodon.
https://mas.to/@ondinecleaver2022/109331723212317798

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