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Visualizing with Vibes: Potential and Pitfalls

Joachim Goedhart compares data visualization using web-based apps versus genAI-based tools.

The Season’s Script: Tales of Metabolic adaptation #MetabolismMondays

All the world’s a metabolic dance, early career scientists are leading the way! Emerging perspectives in metabolism This week we’ll meet Dr Karin Van der Burg, a new faculty at ...

From Tip to Grain: Sculpting Barley Inflorescence Through the Regulation of Meristem Activity

Why do some grass species like rice have multiple grains developing on primary and secondary branches, while others like barley only have one 'spikelet' developing into a single grain?

Development presents… early embryogenesis

Hear from three early-career researchers studying early embyrogenesis.

FlyCROSS 2025–26: Mentor-mentee matching program

Posted by Shefali Shefali, on 25 June 2025

Call for Mentors from the Drosophila community. The Fly Board is excited to announce the second cycle of FlyCROSS (2025–2026), following a successful launch in 2024. The goal of FlyCROSS …

From Posters to Parades: Inside Woodstock.Bio² & Night Science Conference

Posted by NatanellaE, on 25 June 2025

A fever dream of science and spirit wrapped in the forests of Bohemia. Here’s an escalating list — starting with the standard (though nothing was standard about this) — and …

Lab meeting with the Silveira Lab

Posted by the Node, on 24 June 2025

This is part of the ‘Lab meeting’ series featuring developmental and stem cell biology labs around the world. Lab introduction Mariana S. Silveira: I am the head of LINDes, my …

MITOtalks and FocalPlane features… webinar on the cell biology of mitochondria

Posted by Helen Zenner, on 23 June 2025

The recent Special Issue from Journal of Cell Science focussed on the cell biology of mitochondria. To showcase some of the research in this issue, FocalPlane and MITOtalks have teamed …

#DanioDigest (May 2025)

Posted by Kevin Thiessen, on 21 June 2025

An easily-consumable recap of the latest happenings in the #zebrafish community and beyond! Use these links below to get to the section you want: Community news Zebrafish careers Publications Preprints …

Development presents… early embryogenesis

Posted by the Node, on 19 June 2025

Hear from three early-career researchers studying early embyrogenesis.

SciArt profile: Henning Falk

Posted by the Node, on 17 June 2025

In this SciArt profile, we find out more about Henning Falk, who did a PhD in developmental biology, and now enjoys creating science-related cartoons as a freelancer.

How Reptiles Took Over Land and Sea – An Interview with Dr. Caleb Gordon

Posted by Reem Abu-Shamma, on 17 June 2025

As mammals, we like to think of ourselves as dominant animals, and to some extent, that is true. Humans, specifically, have altered nearly every part of our planet and reshaped …

On the Shape of Life: meeting report, SFBD meeting 2025

Posted by Girish Kale, on 15 June 2025

Recently, I attended ‘Shaping Life 3’, the quadrennial meeting of the French Society of Developmental Biology (SFBD). The first of these meetings happened in 2016: that’s where my current PI …

Cellular Worlds – An Art Exhibition Inspired by Microscopic Universes

Posted by the Node, on 13 June 2025

We find out more about Ayelen Valko’s exhibition combining art and science, highlighting how the exhibition came about and the highlights and challenges along the way.

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