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1/ Very excited to share the first publication from my lab! In this work, we developed an efficient strategy to precisely mutate mammalian histone genes in their native genomic context using CRISPR prime editing: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Identifying critical lysines in mammalian histone H3 with high-throughput CRISPR prime editing - Nature GeneticsThis study uses a precise and efficient clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) prime editing system to substitute lysine residues in histone H3, individually or in combinat...www.nature.com

Working on stem cell biology? Our expert Academic Editor, Aryeh Warmflash (@warmflashlab.bsky.social), handles articles on this topic so send your article our way. It's FREE to publish in JCS and we're not-for-profit. Find out more: journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/re... #stemcells #ISSCR2026

New in @dev-journal.bsky.social: how tissue shape tells cells what to become Using human stem-cell neuruloids, we show how that physical boundaries encode positional information that drives cell fate patterning in a model of trunk formation A thread 🧵 journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Boundary constraints can determine pattern emergenceSummary: A reaction-diffusion mechanism recapitulates pattern emergence in an in vitro model of neuromesodermal progenitors under a variety of boundary and geometrical perturbations.journals.biologists.com

Beautiful piece on how field-specific journals with high ethical standards, such as Development, don’t try to « Game » the impact factor system - and practical steps to move away from this inherently flawed metric as a researcher (see Box 2)

This is a wonderful opportunity, open to postdocs too! Together with @rocha-lab.bsky.social we’ll be organising one on “Bridging Scales and Disciplines to Understand Robust Development” next year. More info soon - registration will open in July!

Deadline extended- still time to apply! Please spread the word.

Developmental biology bringing together regenerative biology, neurobiology, mathematical modelling, evo-devo and much more to Edinburgh! 19-22 April 2027 Save the date!

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Reminder! Application deadline Friday 8th May

“Conferences were much more exciting as a young, early-career researcher, when every contact felt like an instant friend and every new city, a gift” My most recent blog post on the effect of age on travel perceptions occamstypewriter.org/mindthegap/2...

New Pre-Print Alert! Evolving initial conditions: an alternative developmental route to morphological diversity with Shannon Taylor and @jamesehammond.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Had so much fun at @bsdb.bsky.social a few weeks go and am very excited about all the upcoming stories I saw. Check out the #preprint list I've collated from the meeting, now on @prelights.bsky.social👇 prelights.biologists.com/prelists/bsd... And please do let me know if there are any I missed 👀

BSDB Spring Meeting: Molecules to Morphogenesis - preLightsprelights.biologists.com

Congratulations to the @dev-journal.bsky.social 2025 Outstanding Paper nominations, & special mention to the winner by Yang et al doi.org/10.1242/dev.... For the top three nominations and an interview with the winners see: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

I illustrated my way through the @bsdb.bsky.social Spring Meeting a couple weeks ago - here's my illustrated summary of the conference! I sketched (almost) all the speakers and glimpses of the science that made it such a great few days.

"Why is publishing so expensive?" It's a question I hear all the time, so we at @biologists.bsky.social thought we'd try to dispel some of the myths around publishing economics & provide transparency around our costs. Today, we publish editorials in all 5 of our journals - links in the thread below.

Cancer 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...

Why we won’t be funding open access publishing any more - Cancer Research UK - Cancer NewsThe open access movement was bold and promising, but ultimately disappointing. Now is the time to stop and call for a new way to make publishing work…news.cancerresearchuk.org

A unique opportunity to lead the most wonderful company in scientific publishing (I might be slightly biased here). The Company of Biologists are searching for a CEO. www.inspiredselection.com/jobs/jo00000...

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Huge congratulations to James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social for receiving the 2026 BSDB Waddington Medal, recognising an extraordinary career of discovery, mentorship, and leadership in developmental biology. bsdb.org/2026/03/24/2...

2026 Waddington Medal Winner - James Briscoe - BSDB - British Society for Developmental BiologyWe are very pleased to announce that this year’s Waddington medal winner is James Briscoe. His fundamental discoveries have helped shape our understanding of of how morphogens work, and he has played ...bsdb.org

It's out! Happy to present ITEC, a semi supervised algorithm with an extremely low error rate that can track cells in files of any size (think Terabytes!). We used it in many organisms, including zebrafish, to study how organs form and linked it to gene expression www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... +🧪

Absolutely terrible news. I knew Alan as he was a long-serving Director @biologists.bsky.social. Our research interests were very far apart but I loved chatting with him about running, gait analysis and GPS. He was a data nerd just like me. So sad. My thoughts are with his family.