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@embo.orgOct 5, 2026, 2:05 PMReposted by @biologyopen.bsky.social

Don't miss out! Abstract submission is still open until 16 October for EMBO | The Company of Biologists Workshop "Membrane shaping and remodeling by proteins" in Sanya, China, 12–15 November 2026.

https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-membrane-shaping
#EMBOMembraneRemodeling #EMBOevents #conference 🧪

@biologists.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 9:00 AMReposted by @biologyopen.bsky.social

Applications close on 23 October for funded ECR places at our Workshop on Bridging Scales and Disciplines to Understand Robust Development, 18-21 April 2027 organised by Mauricio Rocha Martins @rocha-lab.bsky.social and Giulia Paci @giuliapaci.bsky.social

Apply at biologists.com/workshops/ap...

Bridging Scales and Disciplines to Understand Robust Development
Date: 18-21 April 2027

Location: Buxted Park, East Sussex, UK

Organisers: Mauricio Rocha Martins and Giulia Paci
@biologyopen.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 1:13 PM

This article is associated with a pedunculate oak planted in The Forest of Biologists. forest.biologists.com/landscape/?i...

Tree no. 19288. Pedunculate oak (Quercus robur)
@biologyopen.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 1:13 PM

Do anthropogenic disturbances affect the stress physiology and immunity of Liolaemus cuyumhue?

Maria V. Brizio and colleagues investigate a critically endangered lizard from the Monte Desert. doi.org/10.1242/bio....

Light micrographs of leukocyte types in L. cuyumhue.
@biologyopen.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 11:45 AM

This article was handled through our Fast & Fair peer review workflow. This initiative aims to provide authors with a first decision post review within 7 working days. Read more articles handled through our Fast & Fair peer review in our collection. bit.ly/4fiAxNE

Fast and Fair peer review, a new initiative offering high-quality peer review within 7 working days of submission.
@biologyopen.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 11:45 AM

Shouhui Pan and colleagues developed a set of innovative methods to separate, purify, and collect eggs for high-quality genomic DNA extraction from the soil-dwelling flatworm Luticola nematophagus. doi.org/10.1242/bio....

Images of eggs before and after treatment with urea and hydroxylamine hydrochloride.
@biologyopen.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 10:30 AM

Issue 9 has now closed.
On the cover: The tropical sea slug Elysia crispata is capable of stealing functional chloroplasts – kleptoplasts – from its prey algae. – from the paper by Paya et al.

Explore the full issue here: journals.biologists.com/bio/issue/15/9

The tropical sea slug Elysia crispata
@biologyopen.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 2:03 PM

This article was handled through our Fast & Fair peer review workflow. This initiative aims to provide authors with a first decision post review within 7 working days. Read more articles handled through our Fast & Fair peer review in our collection. bit.ly/4fiAxNE

Fast and Fair peer review, a new initiative offering high-quality peer review within 7 working days of submission.
@biologyopen.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 2:03 PM

Hannah Sylvester and colleagues show that culture and characterization of bovine blood-derived fibrocytes reveal a promising, accessible somatic cell source for induced pluripotent stem cell generation. doi.org/10.1242/bio....

@biologyopen.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 11:01 AM

Read their paper on the impacts of early-life thermal challenge on development, survival, and physiology in wild great tits doi.org/10.1242/bio....

@biologyopen.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 11:01 AM

Check out our #FirstPerson interview with co-first authors, Julie Fleitz and Clémence Furic, who both work in the lab of Sophie Reichert at the University of Turku, Finland. doi.org/10.1242/bio....

Julie Fleitz (left) and Clémence Furic (right).
@biologyopen.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 12:02 PM

Carlos Paya and colleagues reveal that in photosynthetic sea slugs, red light promotes growth, while blue light prolongs the functionality of stolen algal chloroplasts. doi.org/10.1242/bio....

Survival of E. crispata in starvation under different light spectra: white, red, and blue.
@biologyopen.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 8:09 AM

This article was handled through our Fast & Fair peer review workflow. This initiative aims to provide authors with a first decision post review within 7 working days. Read more articles handled through our Fast & Fair peer review in our collection. bit.ly/4fiAxNE

Fast and Fair peer review, a new initiative offering high-quality peer review within 7 working days of submission.
@biologyopen.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 8:09 AM

Isabelle Toussaint-Lardé & co investigate the impact of metamorphosis and size on the aquatic feeding kinematics of the Iberian ribbed newt. doi.org/10.1242/bio....

 Larval unidirectional flow system.
@biologyopen.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 8:02 AM

Thanks for letting us know - will get that fixed!

@biologyopen.bsky.socialOct 3, 2026, 11:02 AM

This article was handled through our Fast & Fair peer review workflow. This initiative aims to provide authors with a first decision post review within 7 working days. Read more articles handled through our Fast & Fair peer review in our collection. bit.ly/4fiAxNE

Fast and Fair peer review, a new initiative offering high-quality peer review within 7 working days of submission.
@jexpbiol.bsky.socialSep 29, 2026, 3:05 PMReposted by @biologyopen.bsky.social

. @biologists.bsky.social is offering 20 funded places for ECRs from the Global South to attend the Integrative Ecological Neurobiology in Changing Environments Workshop in Argentina, 1-5 August 2027

Application deadline: 6 Nov 2026

Don't miss out!

🔁
www.biologists.com/workshops/au...

Workshop
Integrative Ecological Neurobiology in Changing Environments
Organisers: Martin Berón de Astrada, Sebastián Eduardo Sabatini, Martín Tresguerres, Maria Soledad Yusseppone
Early-career reserachers apply for funded places
1-5 August 2027
@biologyopen.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 11:30 AM

Not just fillers: the emerging role of bone marrow adipocytes in bone and bone marrow homeostasis

Read the #FutureLeader Review by Giorgia Farinacci and Biagio Palmisano doi.org/10.1242/bio....

Schematic representation of red and yellow marrow distribution in human skeleton in child, adult and old.
@biologists.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 11:02 AMReposted by @biologyopen.bsky.social

ECRs - apply by 23 Oct for a funded place at our Workshop - Bridging Scales and Disciplines to Understand Robust Development, 18-21 April 2027, organised by Mauricio Rocha @rocha-lab.bsky.social and Giulia Paci @giuliapaci.bsky.social
Find out more and apply at www.biologists.com/workshops/ap...

Workshop - Bridging Scales and Disciplines to Understand Robust Development, early-career researchers apply for funded places
@biologyopen.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 2:04 PM

This article was handled through our Fast & Fair peer review workflow. This initiative aims to provide authors with a first decision post review within 7 working days. Read more articles handled through our Fast & Fair peer review in our collection. bit.ly/4fiAxNE

Fast and Fair peer review, a new initiative offering high-quality peer review within 7 working days of submission.
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