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Pepe Urbano
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Developmental biologist playing with microscopes | Postdoc at
@PDN_Cambridge
| PhD at
@CABD_UPO_CSIC
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Two more days left to apply for a funded ECR place at our Workshop on Novelty, Co-option and Divergence During Gene Network Evolution, organised by James Hombría and Antónia Monteiro.

Apply by 5 December biologists.com/workshops/ju...
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December 2, 2025 at 9:09 AM
November 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Muere Antonio García-Bellido, descubridor de las fronteras invisibles dentro de los seres vivos. social.elpais.com/s92ea13
Muere Antonio García-Bellido, descubridor de las fronteras invisibles dentro de los seres vivos
El biólogo, fallecido a los 89 años, deja un legado científico que roza las alturas de los nobeles Santiago Ramón y Cajal y Severo Ochoa
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November 11, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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2 post-doc positions open in the lab to do research on inter-organ signalling in regeneration and cancer in flies and mice.
August 11, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Why would anyone want to be a scientist?

Check out our new Essay from Martin Schwartz: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
August 15, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Divergent origin of the insect cephalic endoskeleton and the trachea from a homologous metameric structure: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
Divergent origin of the insect cephalic endoskeleton and the trachea from a homologous metameric structure
Barcenilla-Merino et al. describe in Drosophila the genetic and developmental mechanisms that form the tentorium, the insect’s cephalic endoskeleton to which the masticatory muscles bind. They show th...
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August 7, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Incredible images created by our scientists using advanced microscopes are helping to drive biological discovery 🔬

Read more about our Microscopy Bioscience Platform⬇️
www.cam.ac.uk/stories/camb...

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June 30, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Still time to join our team! We're exploring how lactation and early nutrition shape lifelong health
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🚨 I’m looking for two enthusiastic scientists to join our team at Cambridge to explore the molecular mechanisms of lactation, early nutrition, and their long-term impact on health.

Apply here:
👉 RA: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51988/
👉 Postdoc: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51984/

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Research Assistant (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Assistant (Fixed Term) in the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk
August 4, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Great job opportunity at the #CABD

🫂 Apply or share with your community

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🚨🚨#Hiring!

3 year #postdoc position open in my lab @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social to study the interplay between DNA damage responses and #preimplantation embryo development. Fully funded by EARLYFATE #ERCCoG

📆 Apply by 23rd May 2023

🔗Details below

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May 14, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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🚨🚨#Hiring!

3 year #postdoc position open in my lab @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social to study the interplay between DNA damage responses and #preimplantation embryo development. Fully funded by EARLYFATE #ERCCoG

📆 Apply by 23rd May 2023

🔗Details below

@sebioldev.bsky.social

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April 23, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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🔥 OBAMA: “IMAGINE IF I HAD DONE ANY OF THIS… I say this not on a partisan basis. This has to do with something more precious — who are we as a country, and what values do we stand for?” 🇺🇸
April 4, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Transitions in development – an interview with Maria Almuedo-Castillo

In this interview, Maria Almuedo-Castillo talks about her research career so far, her transition into being a group leader, and her insights into navigating the academic profession:
https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.204551
January 8, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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“Estamos supermaltratados, pero esto es un nivel superior”, dice un catedrático que pidió una de las ayudas para investigación en IA que se convocaron en julio del año pasado. “Cuando un Gobierno decide promocionar algo y luego no lo hace, nos fastidia”
“Estamos supermaltratados”. El Gobierno deja en el aire una ayuda millonaria a la investigación en IA para cientos de académicos
El Ministerio de Ciencia explica que estudian “diferentes escenarios ante la posibilidad de no poder sacarla adelante”
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December 6, 2024 at 12:30 PM
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Currently Reviews Editor @jcellsci.bsky.social, Sara Morais da Silva @saramds.bsky.social has had years of #DevBio research experience, and then tried out careers in teaching and industry. How did she end up as a science editor? Read this interview to find out:
thenode.biologists.com/choose-what-...
November 29, 2024 at 10:35 AM