New series "Show and Tell" the Node using images to explain a paper/technique interesting to developmental biologists. Joyce Yu and Brent Foster also writing – aimed at anyone 8 and above! Start them young on the love of science :) #theNodeCorrespondents

In 2023, we started our featured image series where we highlighted some beautiful images and the microscopists that acquired them. Check out our overview blog post here: focalplane.biologists.com/2024/01/05/fea…

Many people identify as writers; many scientists don’t. This kills careers and is bad for science generally. Writing is a powerful and far-reaching tool, because when we write well, we make human connections. When we make human connections, we can change minds. 2/4

In my latest article for the Node I explore the advantages and challenges of online vs in-person conferences. From accessibility online to the irreplaceable energy of in-person meetings - can we blend both? #AcademicTwitter #scicomm #AcademicChatter thenode.biologists.com/online-vs-in-p…

Big yes only the purple square actually is "Pleeze don't do zat."

Please join us in welcoming the new Node correspondents — Alex Alex Neaverson, James James Zwierzynski and Shreyasi Shreyasi Mukherjee! 🙌🎉 Find out more about them and the content they plan to contribute as #theNodeCorrespondents ⤵ thenode.biologists.com/introducing-th…

Just came across this - a piece from the 90s in Current Biology about The Company of Biologists. I like to think we Development still get fewer complaints than other journals, though I've certainly had my share!

It’s important to know the right collective noun for various people working in research and science

Can't wait to see what James Zwierzynski writes for the Node this year - and totally agree that the placenta is woefully understudied!

Last year I spoke with Dr Ornelas-García about Mexican cavefish, challenges of non-model organism work + researchers' responsibility toward endangered spp conservation. A pleasure to talk to + to boot tolerated subsequent correspondence in broken Spanish #theNodeCorrespondents

Rita-Levi Montalcini was an Italian neurobiologist who lived an extraordinary life. Today would have been her 115th birthday. Read more about her life in my illustrated article on the Node ! thenode.biologists.com/who-was-rita-l…

Yet another full interview with one of the researchers kind enough to talk to Brent Foster and me last year about working with non-model organisms – @michalis_averof from @IGFLyon works on regeneration using Parhyale hawaiensis🦐 thenode.biologists.com/the-shrimp-par… #theNodeCorrespondents

Just as excited as Bart to share his lovely methodical work on Eomes in mouse extraembryonic mesoderm lineages, to which I'm very proud to have contributed some spicy KO cells. Always awesome to collaborate with your friends Bart Theeuwes Luke TG Harland Ita Costello :) 🐁

6 main figs and 5 supplementary figs .

"How we learned to build a gliding mammal" Read this #Behindthepaper story from Jorge Moreno 🪼 about his PhD work with @R_Mallarino, looking into the evolution of the sugar glider's patagium, a skin membrane that allows animals to glide through the air: thenode.biologists.com/how-we-learned…

Etymology of the day is ‘jargon’, from the old French ‘jargoun’, meaning ‘the chattering of birds’.

Biologists @ 100: a blueprint for interdisciplinary meetings Alexandra Bisia, one of our previous #theNodeCorrespondents, joined us in Liverpool for #biologists100. Here, she shares her conference experience hopping between different scientific tracks: thenode.biologists.com/biologists100-…

Part of my DPhil (PhD) work out in Nature Communications over the weekend! The Robertson lab, and Ita specifically, were instrumental in making this project what it is :) #eomesodermin #trophectoderm #trophoblast #devbio #development #developmentalbiology