Developmental & stem cell biologist, University of Edinburgh Digs repetition Also digs local coordination between cells in development and disease #SustainableConferencing #Music #Science #MoreScience Mastodon @CellySally@biologists.social
You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone... A good read, on the importance of curiosity driven research www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Discovery is not the opposite of application - Nature Reviews PhysicsRestructuring research funding as a choice between discovery and application gets the economics wrong, the evidence wrong and the people wrong.www.nature.comYet another important benefit of having not-for-profit publishers within the scientific publisher ecosystem. They can do interesting (sometimes risky) experiments, testing innovations that aim to benefit the scientific community rather than enriching shareholders. Up with this sort of thing!
Daniel GorelickPaying peer reviewers works. Expanded Fast & Fair experiment @biologyopen.bsky.social: • 5.5 vs 37.7 working days to decision with reviews • ~3 vs ~9 reviewer invitations per manuscript • no reduction in editor-assessed review quality • similar acceptance rates www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
SO INTERESTING! #PaperThemeTune: Careful With That Axolotl Eugene, by Pink Floyd www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RnF...
Pink Floyd - Careful With That Axe, Eugene (Live at Brighton Dome)YouTube video by Pink Floydwww.youtube.comWouter Masselink🚨 New preprint 🚨 Massive shoutout to first author @abinagui.bsky.social !!! The common view is that regenerative competence declines with age. We challenge this idea by showing that axolotl tail regenerative competence is emerges during a defined embryonic window. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Deadline extended- still time to apply! Please spread the word.
Stem Cell Summer SchoolStill time to apply! Deadline extended to 25th May! This is an enriching, immersive, interactive week of talks and discussions with leaders in the field. A brilliant oppportunity for PhD students, postdoc, new PIs. See our testimonials: www.stemcellsummerschool.org/testimonials Spread the word!
This video sums up just some of the reasons I feel proud to publish our work in Company of Biologists journals.
The Company of BiologistsThe Company of Biologists is a not-for-profit publisher that exists to support biologists and inspire biology. This video tells you more about our aims and activities.
Reminder! Application deadline Friday 8th May
Stem Cell Summer SchoolWe are delighted to announce that we are now open for applications for 2026 summer school Dates: 11th - 18th September 2026 Deadline for applications: 8th May See our website for info on how to apply.. and to check out our stellar speaker list! www.stemcellsummerschool.org/apply 🧪
Just look at this graph (Fig 5A,B from Koeber et al). Amazing. Congratulations to the Pollard lab and all authors. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"We want to see the academic publishing industry change in a way that benefits science, not just profits"
TheoCancer Research UK is fed up of paying too much for open access publishing so they are completely stopping funding this activity: news.cancerresearchuk.org/2026/04/01/w...
The ABC of my fave things in this paper: * ABOLISHING both silencing AND leakiness of SynNotch (check out the DTA-based demo of this 😍) while preserving high efficiency, in pluripotent & differentiating cells * BOOSTING signal during #PUFFFIN neighbour-labelling * CITING Robbie Burns (1786) 🏴
Mattias MalagutiDelighted to introduce KELPE: mESCs with two insulated genomic landing pads, which we use to generate new synNotch and PUFFFIN neighbour-labelling lines. They were named after kelpies, creatures from Scottish folklore, and they look pretty on a kelpie micropattern! #DevBio #SynBio
Absolutely beautiful work from @matt-mala.bsky.social and Aisling Fairweather with valiant input from undergraduate student Yana Slavova. This excellent paper deserves an excellent #paperthemetune Anyone got any suggestions?
Mattias MalagutiDelighted to introduce KELPE: mESCs with two insulated genomic landing pads, which we use to generate new synNotch and PUFFFIN neighbour-labelling lines. They were named after kelpies, creatures from Scottish folklore, and they look pretty on a kelpie micropattern! #DevBio #SynBio
Birthday party, cheesecake, jellybean, boom 😬 assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696e0e...
assets.publishing.service.gov.ukThis meeting will be so great. Only about a week until the early-bird deadline, 9th Feb. #DevBio
Vicki MetzisI am absolutely delighted to share the invited speakers for our upcoming @bsdb.bsky.social "Molecules to Morphogenesis" meeting! Registration and abstract submission is now open - join us! bsdb.org/meetings/ March 23-26, 2026 - UK