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Washington Post Guild @postguild.bsky.social · 23d

Statement from Post Guild Leadership: The Washington Post Guild condemns the unjust firing of columnist Karen Attiah

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Evan Bardot (he/him) @ebardot.bsky.social · 23d

Don't threaten me with a good time!

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Evan Bardot (he/him) @ebardot.bsky.social · 23d

Very excited to be headed to Paris next month for the #GastrulationReloaded meeting! An awesome lineup of speakers on my favorite #DevBio topic (don't tell the rest of my @natcomms.nature.com remit). www.gastrulation-reloaded.conferences-pasteur.org/home

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Gastrulation Reloaded - Developing, engineering and evolving the body plan

www.gastrulation-reloaded.conferences-pasteur.org

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Jérôme Gros @jeromegros.bsky.social · Apr 15

Registration is now open!

Gastrulation Reloaded: Developing, engineering & evolving the body plan

📅 October 14–17, 2025
📍 Paris, France
🗓️ Abstract & early bird deadline: July 15, 2025

www.gastrulation-reloaded.conferences-pasteur.org/home

Exceptional lineup of speakers & many selected talks

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Maria Bustillo @mbustill.bsky.social · May 28

Thrilled - and so honored - to be among the most recent additions to this incredible group of scientists!

Leading Edge Fellows Program @leadingedgeprogram.bsky.social · May 27

We are thrilled to announce the 2025 Leading Edge Fellows! 40 outstanding postdoctoral fellows doing pioneering research in a wide range of biological and biomedical disciplines.

Learn more about these exceptional scientists:

www.leadingedgesymposium.org/fellows

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · Jun 22

Extremely honored to receive this prize from @socdevbio.bsky.social, which recognizes not only my love for developmental biology, but the extremely online I am 🧪 (protect science, protect people, viva la dev bio!)

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Evan Bardot (he/him) @ebardot.bsky.social · Jun 22

Terrific rallying cry of an @socdevbio.bsky.social award lecture from @mads100tist.bsky.social at #icdb2025! Our work and community are important, #DevBio matters, and it’s up to us to tell everyone why. Don’t give the enshittifiers an inch!

Joaquín delivering a mental award lecture.

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Evan Bardot (he/him) @ebardot.bsky.social · Jun 20

Hey #2025ICDB folks! Do you have questions about publishing with Nature Communications? Curious about editorial careers?

I’ll be outside the poster hall from ~3:45-4:15 today and tomorrow. Come find me, or drop me a message if this time doesn’t work for you!

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Evan Bardot (he/him) @ebardot.bsky.social · Jun 18

If you have a #devbio or #stemcell story looking for a journal, I’ll be here all week and am happy to chat. DM me or message me in the meeting app and we can set up a time.

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Evan Bardot (he/him) @ebardot.bsky.social · Jun 18

Excited to be in #PuertoRico for the #2025sdb #2025icdb meeting! Got some sun today and am ready for the science.

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the Node @the-node.bsky.social · Jun 18

Attending #2025SDB #2025ICDB this week?

Visit the @biologists.bsky.social booth (#4) to find out about writing for the Node, join the Node Network and pick up @dev-journal.bsky.social article collections, posters and the Node coasters (image credits: @ebardot.bsky.social & @gaparicio.bsky.social‬)!

The two designs of the Node coasters. Image credits: Evan Bardot (mouse embryo) and Gonzalo Aparicio (zebrafish retina). Text reads: Visit The Company of Biologists booth at SDB 2025 to pick up some free goodies from us and find out about joining the Node Network. Email: thenode@biologists.com. X: @the_Node. Bluesky: @the-node.bsky.social

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the Node @the-node.bsky.social · Jun 14

Attending #2025SDB #2025ICDB next week?

Visit the @biologists.bsky.social booth (#4) to find out about writing for the Node, join the Node Network and pick up @dev-journal.bsky.social article collections, posters and the Node coasters (image credits: @ebardot.bsky.social & @gaparicio.bsky.social‬)!

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Evan Bardot (he/him) @ebardot.bsky.social · Jun 12

My teammate Mimmi is based in HK and at the #isscr2025 meeting looking for great #stemcell stories in need of a journal. Track her down or DM me if you want to be put in touch!

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Nature Communications @natcomms.nature.com · Jun 9

Getting ready for the @isscr.org meeting this week? Editors across @natureportfolio.nature.com put together a Collection of highlights in #stemcell research from the past year. Get caught up before hitting the sessions!

www.nature.com/collections/...

A year of stem cell and developmental biology

In recent years, the field of stem cell and developmental biology has seen remarkable breakthroughs that have deepened our understanding of how organisms ...

www.nature.com

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The NewsGuild-CWA @newsguild.org · Jun 11

RELEASE: Jon Schleuss, president of The NewsGuild-CWA, sounds the alarm on police violence against reporters during the LA protests.

“We demand that every law enforcement agency open investigations into any officer violating the rights of journalists doing their jobs.”

Journalism is NOT a crime.

Quote graphic featuring a statement from NewsGuild-CWA President Jon Schleuss. The quote reads:

“Journalists play a crucial role in holding power to account, particularly during times of crisis and protest. When law enforcement targets reporters, it’s not just an attack on individuals; it’s an attack on every American’s right to a free press.

The U.S. government must defend that freedom, not undermine it. Journalism is not a crime.”

— Jon Schleuss, NewsGuild-CWA President

At the bottom, bold red text reads:
“Read the full statement on newsguild.org.”

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Evan Bardot (he/him) @ebardot.bsky.social · May 20

If a writing task is unimportant enough to have AI do it, then it isn’t worth being written - or read!

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Evan Bardot (he/him) @ebardot.bsky.social · May 8

We have a few exciting papers in the pipeline already and are taking submissions for the next 6 to 9 months (with flexibility if needed). My DMs are open for any questions, or you can email me. Please reach out and spread the word!

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Evan Bardot (he/him) @ebardot.bsky.social · May 8

Attention #devbio and #stemcell crew! @natcomms.nature.com is looking for submissions related to developmental organizers, self organization, and symmetry breaking. More details on the collection page. www.nature.com/collections/...

Organizers and self-organization in developmental biology

This collection highlights papers studying self-organization, symmetry breaking, and developmental organizers.

www.nature.com

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · May 3

If you're a grad student or an undergrad interested in research I need to you listen to me very carefully.

You cannot learn to write good research papers if you do not read good research papers.

Stop asking LLMs to summarize papers for you.

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the Node @the-node.bsky.social · Apr 27

Have you noticed the rotating header images on our site? They're winners of a competition we ran in 2021. Thank you @gaparicio.bsky.social @rorylcooper.bsky.social @zebrafish007.bsky.social @ebardot.bsky.social & Markus Schliffka for the images!

Give us a visit: thenode.biologists.com

Collage of the five different header images, shown from top to bottom.

Image descriptions:
1. Zebrafish lymphatics by Daniel Castranova. Lymphatic vessels shown in blue and neutrophils shown in orange in the head of a double transgenic juvenile zebrafish.
2. Catshark by Rory Cooper. Cleared and alizarin and stained hatchling catshark embryo.
3. Preimplantation mouse embryos by Markus Schliffka. Different stages of mouse preimplantation development from the zygote to the blastocyst, with nuclei in cyan and actin in grey.
4. Zebrafish retina by Gonzalo Aparicio. Retina from a 72hpf zebrafish embryo. Photoreceptor marker shown in red, while gfap:eGFP (a Muller cell marker) is shown z-depth pseudo-coloured.
5. Mouse embryo by Evan Bardot. Cleared E12.5 embryo labelled with antibodies against Cntn2 (green) and ColIV (magenta). Generated in Collaboration with James Muller.

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Richard Van Noorden @richvn.bsky.social · Apr 22

Evidence of US brain drain?

US scientists submitted 32% more applications for jobs abroad Jan-Mar 2025 than during same period in 2024.

US-based users browsing jobs abroad increased by 35%.

Data from Nature Careers global science jobs platform.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · Apr 15

"AI work is just as good as human work" is a statement that *always* flows from the direction of power. Employers to workers, producers to consumers, but not the reverse.

Because it's not a thing people actually believe, but an argument: slop is good enough for you; you are slop.

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atmosara.bsky.social @atmosara.bsky.social · Apr 5

#HandsOff protest in #NYC today. So many NYers showed up that we couldn’t move for 2 hrs—5th Ave was too packed the whole distance of the march. 120,000 people. Next time we’ll plan for a few dozen more blocks.

Proud of my city. But this is only the beginning—NYers will NEVER stop fighting 🗽🍎🥯🥡🍕💪

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Juliano Lab @julianolab.bsky.social · Mar 19

Amid chaos, some joy. Proud to share this study from @regen-bio-cie.bsky.social (Sergio Campos) surveying regeneration in diverse Hydra species, showing that Hydra oligactis lost foot regeneration ability, which can be rescued by a Wnt signaling pulse during injury. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Wnt signaling restores evolutionary loss of regenerative potential in Hydra

The regenerative potential of animals varies widely, even among closely-related species. In a comparative study of regeneration across the Hydra genus, we found that while most species exhibit robust ...

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@LaBonneLaB @labonnelab.bsky.social · Mar 13

Dear all, Because of your help shining light on this all 15 were reinstated today. This is a huge win for science - When We Fight We Win!!!

@LaBonneLaB @labonnelab.bsky.social · Mar 11

On Valentine’s day, 15 Assistant Professors at NIH who had started their research labs in the last 2 years were fired. Their scientific expertise was built over 10-12 years of training, most if not all of which was supported by NIH. The start up funds for their laboratories were paid by NIH

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