Alex Eve
@amjeve.bsky.social
Developmental biologist and Executive Editor of Development @dev-journal.bsky.social. Part of the Node @the-node.bsky.social and The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social. Own views.
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Alex Eve
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📢Call for papers. Submit your latest research to our upcoming special issue – The Extracellular Environment in Development, Regeneration and Stem Cells
Guest Editors: Alex Hughes and Rashmi Priya
📅 Deadline: 1 March 2026
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#DevBio
Guest Editors: Alex Hughes and Rashmi Priya
📅 Deadline: 1 March 2026
journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/ex...
#DevBio
Don't miss your chance to contribute to Development's next special issue, which takes a non-cell-centric approach to devbio, stem cells & regeneration. We hope to capture papers that discuss how secreted factors, external forces and the shape of spaces instruct development.
#DevSIextracellular
#DevSIextracellular
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As part of our #biologists100 activities, celebrating 100 years of #NotForProfit #Publishing with @biologists.bsky.social, we'd love to hear about your experience of the Company with a virtual message in a bottle 🔁
www.biologists.com/100-years/me...
www.biologists.com/100-years/me...
November 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
As part of our #biologists100 activities, celebrating 100 years of #NotForProfit #Publishing with @biologists.bsky.social, we'd love to hear about your experience of the Company with a virtual message in a bottle 🔁
www.biologists.com/100-years/me...
www.biologists.com/100-years/me...
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Development Editor Peter Rugg-Gunn will be attending the upcoming Westlake x Nature Stem Cell 2025 conference, 'Stem cells across the lifespan Embryogenesis | Aging | Therapy,' which starts next week in Hangzhou, China.
Speak to Peter about your next Development paper.
Speak to Peter about your next Development paper.
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Development Editor Peter Rugg-Gunn will be attending the upcoming Westlake x Nature Stem Cell 2025 conference, 'Stem cells across the lifespan Embryogenesis | Aging | Therapy,' which starts next week in Hangzhou, China.
Speak to Peter about your next Development paper.
Speak to Peter about your next Development paper.
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📣 Paper alert!
I am delighted that our paper exploring the impact of Neanderthal-derived variants on the activity of a disease-associated craniofacial enhancer has been published in Development today!
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
I am delighted that our paper exploring the impact of Neanderthal-derived variants on the activity of a disease-associated craniofacial enhancer has been published in Development today!
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
November 10, 2025 at 11:11 AM
📣 Paper alert!
I am delighted that our paper exploring the impact of Neanderthal-derived variants on the activity of a disease-associated craniofacial enhancer has been published in Development today!
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
I am delighted that our paper exploring the impact of Neanderthal-derived variants on the activity of a disease-associated craniofacial enhancer has been published in Development today!
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
For an accessible summary of this work, check out the press release on @the-node.bsky.social
thenode.biologists.com/neanderthal-...
As well as this blog post from the University of Edinburgh
www.ed.ac.uk/news/dark-ge...
thenode.biologists.com/neanderthal-...
As well as this blog post from the University of Edinburgh
www.ed.ac.uk/news/dark-ge...
November 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
For an accessible summary of this work, check out the press release on @the-node.bsky.social
thenode.biologists.com/neanderthal-...
As well as this blog post from the University of Edinburgh
www.ed.ac.uk/news/dark-ge...
thenode.biologists.com/neanderthal-...
As well as this blog post from the University of Edinburgh
www.ed.ac.uk/news/dark-ge...
If you're organising a meeting, workshop or conference for
#devbio, regeneration or stem cells, please make sure to promote it using @the-node.bsky.social Events Calendar. It's free to add your event and anyone can do so - you just need to register for an account.
#devbio, regeneration or stem cells, please make sure to promote it using @the-node.bsky.social Events Calendar. It's free to add your event and anyone can do so - you just need to register for an account.
Discover #DevBio and #StemCell biology conferences, meetings, training courses & workshops on our Events Calendar 🗓️ 👀
Missed one? Sign up & add relevant events here: thenode.biologists.com/events/
Missed one? Sign up & add relevant events here: thenode.biologists.com/events/
November 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM
If you're organising a meeting, workshop or conference for
#devbio, regeneration or stem cells, please make sure to promote it using @the-node.bsky.social Events Calendar. It's free to add your event and anyone can do so - you just need to register for an account.
#devbio, regeneration or stem cells, please make sure to promote it using @the-node.bsky.social Events Calendar. It's free to add your event and anyone can do so - you just need to register for an account.
Never thought much about this. For me, lunch is always lunch. Dinner and tea are largely interchangable. It is also possible to skip lunch altogether and have dinner (but oddly not 'tea'?) at lunch time (e.g. for a Sunday roast).
I have been living in the UK for several years, and still can't wrap my head around the fact that half the country calls lunch "dinner" and dinner "tea", while the other half of the country calls lunch "lunch" and dinner "dinner" with the exception of school lunches, that are called school dinners
November 5, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Never thought much about this. For me, lunch is always lunch. Dinner and tea are largely interchangable. It is also possible to skip lunch altogether and have dinner (but oddly not 'tea'?) at lunch time (e.g. for a Sunday roast).
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Development that lasts a life time. Check out the 2025 special issue of @dev-journal.bsky.social on Lifelong Development: the Maintenance, Regeneration and Plasticity of Tissues
journals.biologists.com/dev/issue/15...
journals.biologists.com/dev/issue/15...
Volume 152 Issue 20 | Development | The Company of Biologists
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November 5, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Development that lasts a life time. Check out the 2025 special issue of @dev-journal.bsky.social on Lifelong Development: the Maintenance, Regeneration and Plasticity of Tissues
journals.biologists.com/dev/issue/15...
journals.biologists.com/dev/issue/15...
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Tricky questions and challenging discussions, but I hope we communicated the importance of basic developmental biology research and social context when it comes to the #futureoffertility #ivf Available wherever you get your podcasts! 🎤 www.lnk.to/AQOSFertilit...
What is the future of fertility?
Professor Brian Cox and our expert panel explore the science of fertility.
Biology has come a long way, but when it comes to fertilisation, pregnancy, and development, our knowledge is still surpr...
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November 5, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Tricky questions and challenging discussions, but I hope we communicated the importance of basic developmental biology research and social context when it comes to the #futureoffertility #ivf Available wherever you get your podcasts! 🎤 www.lnk.to/AQOSFertilit...
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Beyond the beginning – development that lasts a lifetime
Read this #LifelongDevSI Editorial by Meritxell Huch (@merihuchlab.bsky.social), Mansi Srivastava and Alex Eve (@amjeve.bsky.social).
doi.org/10.1242/dev....
Read this #LifelongDevSI Editorial by Meritxell Huch (@merihuchlab.bsky.social), Mansi Srivastava and Alex Eve (@amjeve.bsky.social).
doi.org/10.1242/dev....
Beyond the beginning – development that lasts a lifetime
Traditionally, developmental biology has been considered the study of the embryo, and significant events such as metamorphosis or birth signify the pinnacle of development. However, we now better appr...
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November 3, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Beyond the beginning – development that lasts a lifetime
Read this #LifelongDevSI Editorial by Meritxell Huch (@merihuchlab.bsky.social), Mansi Srivastava and Alex Eve (@amjeve.bsky.social).
doi.org/10.1242/dev....
Read this #LifelongDevSI Editorial by Meritxell Huch (@merihuchlab.bsky.social), Mansi Srivastava and Alex Eve (@amjeve.bsky.social).
doi.org/10.1242/dev....
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We are highlighting Austin Smith, a @biologists.bsky.social Director, @dmmjournal.bsky.social Guest Editor and former @dev-journal.bsky.social Editor, as an extraordinary biologist. #100biologists
@ausmith.bsky.social
@ausmith.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 3:49 PM
We are highlighting Austin Smith, a @biologists.bsky.social Director, @dmmjournal.bsky.social Guest Editor and former @dev-journal.bsky.social Editor, as an extraordinary biologist. #100biologists
@ausmith.bsky.social
@ausmith.bsky.social
Thanks to everyone who participated in the first writing challenge from the Node.
Looking back at our September writing challenge ✍️
Check out our interview with Umaymah Ahmad, the winner of this edition! ⬇️
thenode.biologists.com/the-node-wri...
Check out our interview with Umaymah Ahmad, the winner of this edition! ⬇️
thenode.biologists.com/the-node-wri...
The Node writing challenge - the Node
During September, we ran a writing challenge on the Node, giving our contributors a chance to win £200. The winner of the challenge was Umaymah Ahmad with the post ‘It’s about who you know, not what y...
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November 3, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Thanks to everyone who participated in the first writing challenge from the Node.
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Our next extraordinary biologist is Hans-Otto Pörtner, a prolific @jexpbiol.bsky.social author, who also presented as a plenary speaker at the Biologists @ 100 conference. #100biologists
October 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Our next extraordinary biologist is Hans-Otto Pörtner, a prolific @jexpbiol.bsky.social author, who also presented as a plenary speaker at the Biologists @ 100 conference. #100biologists
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More extraordinary model systems for regeneration
In their #LifelongDevSI Perspective, José Garcıa-Arraras, Chunyi Li, Tania Rozario, Mansi Srivastava & @andrewilloughb.bsky.social introduce five research organisms with remarkable regenerative potential
doi.org/10.1242/dev....
In their #LifelongDevSI Perspective, José Garcıa-Arraras, Chunyi Li, Tania Rozario, Mansi Srivastava & @andrewilloughb.bsky.social introduce five research organisms with remarkable regenerative potential
doi.org/10.1242/dev....
October 30, 2025 at 3:40 PM
More extraordinary model systems for regeneration
In their #LifelongDevSI Perspective, José Garcıa-Arraras, Chunyi Li, Tania Rozario, Mansi Srivastava & @andrewilloughb.bsky.social introduce five research organisms with remarkable regenerative potential
doi.org/10.1242/dev....
In their #LifelongDevSI Perspective, José Garcıa-Arraras, Chunyi Li, Tania Rozario, Mansi Srivastava & @andrewilloughb.bsky.social introduce five research organisms with remarkable regenerative potential
doi.org/10.1242/dev....
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Join us 19 November to hear from two early-career researchers, Stephanie Tsai & Ben Cox, working on regeneration.
Chaired by @dev-journal.bsky.social's Executive Editor, Alex Eve @amjeve.bsky.social.
📅 Wednesday 19 November – 16:00 GMT/UTC
Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Chaired by @dev-journal.bsky.social's Executive Editor, Alex Eve @amjeve.bsky.social.
📅 Wednesday 19 November – 16:00 GMT/UTC
Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
October 28, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Join us 19 November to hear from two early-career researchers, Stephanie Tsai & Ben Cox, working on regeneration.
Chaired by @dev-journal.bsky.social's Executive Editor, Alex Eve @amjeve.bsky.social.
📅 Wednesday 19 November – 16:00 GMT/UTC
Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Chaired by @dev-journal.bsky.social's Executive Editor, Alex Eve @amjeve.bsky.social.
📅 Wednesday 19 November – 16:00 GMT/UTC
Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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We thank @giuliarossi.bsky.social for submitting her story. We are delighted this was such a pivotal experience, especially during the early-career stage.
If you would like to share your story, you can send us a message in a bottle at www.biologists.com/100-years/me...
If you would like to share your story, you can send us a message in a bottle at www.biologists.com/100-years/me...
October 27, 2025 at 11:11 AM
We thank @giuliarossi.bsky.social for submitting her story. We are delighted this was such a pivotal experience, especially during the early-career stage.
If you would like to share your story, you can send us a message in a bottle at www.biologists.com/100-years/me...
If you would like to share your story, you can send us a message in a bottle at www.biologists.com/100-years/me...
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We are highlighting Jane Francis, Director of the British Antarctic Survey, UK, who also delivered a plenary lecture at the Biologists @ 100 conference, as an extraordinary biologist. #100biologists @bas.ac.uk
October 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
We are highlighting Jane Francis, Director of the British Antarctic Survey, UK, who also delivered a plenary lecture at the Biologists @ 100 conference, as an extraordinary biologist. #100biologists @bas.ac.uk
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Our #FocalPlaneCorrespondent Sally Horton shares her #NeuroBioUK meeting report.
Sally talks about the collaborative atmosphere, highlighting it as a welcoming space for ECRs, & discusses research using microscopy to answer questions in neurobiology.
focalplane.biologists.com/2025/10/06/n...
Sally talks about the collaborative atmosphere, highlighting it as a welcoming space for ECRs, & discusses research using microscopy to answer questions in neurobiology.
focalplane.biologists.com/2025/10/06/n...
NeuroBio UK 2025: Insights, Innovation, and Inspiration in Neuroscience - FocalPlane
NeuroBio UK 2025: Insights, Innovation, and Inspiration in Neuroscience -
focalplane.biologists.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Our #FocalPlaneCorrespondent Sally Horton shares her #NeuroBioUK meeting report.
Sally talks about the collaborative atmosphere, highlighting it as a welcoming space for ECRs, & discusses research using microscopy to answer questions in neurobiology.
focalplane.biologists.com/2025/10/06/n...
Sally talks about the collaborative atmosphere, highlighting it as a welcoming space for ECRs, & discusses research using microscopy to answer questions in neurobiology.
focalplane.biologists.com/2025/10/06/n...
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“Developmental biology is fundamentally beautiful. We are no less beautiful for our variation. Instead, perhaps we are more so. Perhaps we are remarkable. Perhaps we are full of wonder.”
Read this insightful post by Bethan on the Node.
thenode.biologists.com/developmenta...
#Disability
Read this insightful post by Bethan on the Node.
thenode.biologists.com/developmenta...
#Disability
Developmental Biology and Disability - the Node
Hopeful monsters. Morphospace. Mutation. Natural variation. Mutagenesis screens. Polymorphism. Deformity. Phenotype. Disease. Adaptation. Anomaly.
thenode.biologists.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
“Developmental biology is fundamentally beautiful. We are no less beautiful for our variation. Instead, perhaps we are more so. Perhaps we are remarkable. Perhaps we are full of wonder.”
Read this insightful post by Bethan on the Node.
thenode.biologists.com/developmenta...
#Disability
Read this insightful post by Bethan on the Node.
thenode.biologists.com/developmenta...
#Disability
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Bat boxes offer a safe haven for bats, but they may not be so safe during heatwaves. The temperature inside can rocket to more than 50C during the day when bats are roosting if the box is located in full sun, placing bats at risk of fatal dehydration
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
October 21, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Bat boxes offer a safe haven for bats, but they may not be so safe during heatwaves. The temperature inside can rocket to more than 50C during the day when bats are roosting if the box is located in full sun, placing bats at risk of fatal dehydration
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
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Our next extraordinary biologist is Godwin Pius Ohemu, who attended the Biologists @ 100 conference and shared his conference experience in a guest blog. #100biologists
October 21, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Our next extraordinary biologist is Godwin Pius Ohemu, who attended the Biologists @ 100 conference and shared his conference experience in a guest blog. #100biologists
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Thanks @amjeve.bsky.social for the invitation to write this perspective in the 'In Preprints' series in @dev-journal.bsky.social .
What's the downside of acclimation to low temperature? Turns out you will perform worse in heat shock.
doi.org/10.1242/dev....
What's the downside of acclimation to low temperature? Turns out you will perform worse in heat shock.
doi.org/10.1242/dev....
In preprints: multiomics of low temperature acclimation in the era of intensifying temperature fluctuations
In a warming world, all life forms – endotherms and ectotherms alike – are finding their homeostasis being challenged. The environmental change is challenging at all stages of life. How different orga...
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October 20, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Thanks @amjeve.bsky.social for the invitation to write this perspective in the 'In Preprints' series in @dev-journal.bsky.social .
What's the downside of acclimation to low temperature? Turns out you will perform worse in heat shock.
doi.org/10.1242/dev....
What's the downside of acclimation to low temperature? Turns out you will perform worse in heat shock.
doi.org/10.1242/dev....
At #GenBio25, @davidbrueckner.bsky.social explains how heterogeneity within a system is necessary for some processes, such as symmetry breaking.
David was awarded an ERC Starting Grant last month - congratulations!
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David was awarded an ERC Starting Grant last month - congratulations!
bsky.app/profile/davi...
Super excited that our group will be supported by an ERC Starting Grant!
In project "InfoFate" we will study how cells use information in dynamical, neighborhood & mechanical signals to make decisions.
We'll have PhD and Postdoc positions available, please get in touch if interested!
In project "InfoFate" we will study how cells use information in dynamical, neighborhood & mechanical signals to make decisions.
We'll have PhD and Postdoc positions available, please get in touch if interested!
Why do some cells become neurons and others muscle?
Physicist Prof. David Brückner @davidbrueckner.bsky.social @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch receives a prestigious #ERCStartingGrant to uncover how cells make life-shaping decisions. @erc.europa.eu
www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/news/detail/...
Physicist Prof. David Brückner @davidbrueckner.bsky.social @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch receives a prestigious #ERCStartingGrant to uncover how cells make life-shaping decisions. @erc.europa.eu
www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/news/detail/...
October 20, 2025 at 3:02 PM
At #GenBio25, @davidbrueckner.bsky.social explains how heterogeneity within a system is necessary for some processes, such as symmetry breaking.
David was awarded an ERC Starting Grant last month - congratulations!
bsky.app/profile/davi...
David was awarded an ERC Starting Grant last month - congratulations!
bsky.app/profile/davi...
Jamie Davies brings purpose and agency to #GenBio25 comparing bioengineering, where agency is with researchers, and generative biology in organoid-like systems, where cells retain their agency. Meet the Davies lab on @the-node.bsky.social: thenode.biologists.com/lab-meeting-...
Lab meeting with the Davies Lab - the Node
Meet the Davies Lab, based in the Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, the University of Edinburgh.
thenode.biologists.com
October 20, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Jamie Davies brings purpose and agency to #GenBio25 comparing bioengineering, where agency is with researchers, and generative biology in organoid-like systems, where cells retain their agency. Meet the Davies lab on @the-node.bsky.social: thenode.biologists.com/lab-meeting-...
Returning to movements towards reconstituting signalling in vitro at #GenBio25 now, with Jean-Paul Vincent from @crick.ac.uk discussing how to engineer a diffusible Wnt gradient.
@dev-journal.bsky.social interviewed JP last year: doi.org/10.1242/dev....
@dev-journal.bsky.social interviewed JP last year: doi.org/10.1242/dev....
An interview with Jean-Paul Vincent
Jean-Paul (JP) Vincent is Group Leader at the Francis Crick Institute, London. His lab is interested in understanding how cells communicate to form organs during development. In 2024, he was awarded t...
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October 20, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Returning to movements towards reconstituting signalling in vitro at #GenBio25 now, with Jean-Paul Vincent from @crick.ac.uk discussing how to engineer a diffusible Wnt gradient.
@dev-journal.bsky.social interviewed JP last year: doi.org/10.1242/dev....
@dev-journal.bsky.social interviewed JP last year: doi.org/10.1242/dev....
Good afternoon #GenBio25. @bensteventon.bsky.social uses a flock of sheep as an analogy for multi-level reciprocal interactions between cells and how to engineer them.
a herd of sheep walking down a grassy path
ALT: a herd of sheep walking down a grassy path
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October 20, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Good afternoon #GenBio25. @bensteventon.bsky.social uses a flock of sheep as an analogy for multi-level reciprocal interactions between cells and how to engineer them.