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SciArt Profile: Wen Lu
In this #SciArt profile, we showcase Wen Lu, who uses different visual styles to highlight biology's beauty, communicate science, and promote research and scientific events.
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Have you seen the latest adverts on our jobs board?
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Including doctoral positions at LSM @ LMU Germany
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A postdoc with Sophie Astrof @ Rutgers
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A postdoc with Caroline Hill @ The Crick
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A postdoc with Jesus Torres-Vázquez @ NYU Grossman School of Medicine
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"Reviewers usually provide insightful, thorough analyses that go beyond superficial comments to offer meaningful scientific dialogue."
Read this recent Editorial from Development's Editors reflecting on the value of peer review. #PRW2026
doi.org/10.1242/dev.205432
ALT Editorial headline in the journal Development: "The hard truth about how hard it is to publish in Development" with a long multi-author byline and two-column introductory paragraphs discussing peer review and publication challenges.
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The Vienna BioCenter PhD program in Molecular BioSciences will offer 30+ fully-funded positions in the Autumn Call which is now open. Have a look at what our campus has to offer: vbcphd.at
@IMPvienna @IMBA_Vienna @gmivienna @MaxPerutzLabs @univienna @MedUni_Wien
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Don’t miss the second webinar in our new series on cell migration, featuring talks from @Ankita_13Jha, Raphaël Clément and @KatrinaVelle.
🗓️Thursday 17 September at 15:00 BST (UTC+1)
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ALT FocalPlane features... emergent models and quantitative analysis of cell migration Thursday 17 September, 15:00-16:30 BST (UTC+1) Organised by Organised by Pablo J. Sáez and Valeria Venturini FocalPlane logo Picture of Ankita Jha (National Institutes of Health, USA) Decoding bleb driven signaling in cancer disease progression Picture of Raphaël Clément (L’Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille (IBDM), France) Navigating without neurons or muscles: Locomotion in Trichoplax Picture of Katrina Velle (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA) Naegleria amoebae seek confinement and crawl persistently through narrow spaces #FocalPlaneFeatures focalplane.biologists.com Image of Naegleria.
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🥁 Your front-row seat to VGZT Season 8 awaits!
Join Shi-Lei Xue and Riley McMahon for our opening session. 🧬
📅 Sept 18
⏰ 𝟵:𝟬𝟬 𝗔𝗠 𝗘𝗧 | 𝟲:𝟬𝟬 𝗔𝗠 𝗣𝗧
𝟮:𝟬𝟬 𝗣𝗠 𝗨𝗞 | 𝟯:𝟬𝟬 𝗣𝗠 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲
Scan the QR code on the poster to join us!
#VGZT
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For this year's #PeerReviewWeek, we want to thank all the reviewers that have participated in BiO's Fast & Fair - an initiative that aims to provide authors with faster peer review decisions without compromising quality.
ALT Biology Open's practice of compensating reviewers is rare and, in my view, contributes to a more respectful and high-quality review culture.
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🗳️ Vote for the New LASDB Logo!
We held a logo design contest — now help us pick our top 3 finalists.
✅ Registered emails only
✅ One vote per person
✅ Select 3 options
📅 Deadline: Sept 27, 2026
Link to view proposals an to vote at:
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Are you looking to make your next event more #sustainable? Use our event carbon calculator to gain an insight into its projected carbon footprint and view suggestions for how best to mitigate your emissions.
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🤩 Hope you're excited for our next guest, Dr. Yonatan Stelzer at @WeizmannScience!
The Stelzer Lab investigates how cell fate and identity are established during #embryonic development using single-cell and epigenomic approaches. 🧫
Check out his latest work: bit.ly/3UsGAsB
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Our beautiful ‘Featured image’ this #FluorescenceFriday was acquired by @NicolayENS. The image shows a #zebrafish larvae with macrophages and neurons depicted in different colours.
Learn more about Elena’s research: focalplane.biologists.com/20…
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Thank you to the organisers and everyone who joined us at this week's @Dev_journal #HumanDev26 meeting in Warwick. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did. Thanks too to @wellcometrust- funded Human Developmental Biology Initiative (HDBI) for the collaboration.
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From killing cells to shaping them: enigma of Caspase-3 beyond apoptosis
Saurabh Chand Sagar gives us a behind-the-scenes glimpse as he answers: What if caspases do much more than just kill cells?
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🌱 We’re delighted to have @the_Node
supporting VGZT Season 8. A huge thank-you for their generous sponsorship and commitment to connecting and supporting the developmental biology community!
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Excited to be part of the Virtual Gastrulation Zoom Talks, Season 8 organising team! @VGZT2020_21
Amazing speaker lineup exploring development across scales. Looking forward to the science and discussions with community! 🧬✨
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#VGZT #DevelopmentalBiology #Gastrulation
Give us a cheer if you’re an embryo enthusiast, morphogenesis nerd, or developmental biology fan! 👀🧬
Good news, VGZT Season 8 is officially underway! 🎉 Meet the organising team bringing this season to life in our poster. 💫
🌐 vgzt.org/
#VGZT #DevelopmentalBio
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We are looking to recruit an Editorial Administrator to work across our portfolio of five life-science journals, with a particular focus on Journal of Cell Science. Deadline 4 September. Find out more and how to apply at biologists.com/about-us/work…
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Are you a PhD student interested in #SciComm, disease biology and publishing? @DMM_Journal is seeking an intern through BBSRC DTP/PIPS or equivalent schemes Find out more and how to apply at biologists.com/about-us/work…
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I don’t belong here: Thoughts of a first-generation academic
Stefanie Williams discusses her experiences of belonging and the burdens that first-generation students face in academia, and how she is actively combating these thoughts and feelings.
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Are you a postdoc seeking work in the U.S. and Europe? Register for a virtual event featuring representatives from research institutions in both regions to hear about unique postdoc opportunities outside of academia: buff.ly/dKMtuLa
🗓️ Sep 21
⏰️ 12–1 p.m. EDT
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