#BiologyLetters New recommendations to accelerate the scientific description of cryptic species could enhance their consideration in ecological assessments and conservation/protection programs. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #ecology #environmentalscience #taxonomyandsystematics

New in #PhilTransB - a theme issue exploring one of science’s deepest questions: how life can emerge from non-living matter. Edited by @ricardsole.bsky.social and colleagues. Read: buff.ly/7iz4tGu

It is often argued that the origin of life must be related to "phase transitions" This concept is often misused, or even abused. In a new paper with @ricardsole.bsky.social we discuss which types of transitions might be involved and some relevant models. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

Do you want to raise the profile of your research, and share it with over 10,000 members of the public? The call for proposals to exhibit at the 2026 #SummerScience Exhibition is still open: https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/summer-science-exhibition/call-for-proposals-2026/

How do bacteria choose what type of defences to use against phages? We explored that question in the last paper I worked on as a postdoc at the Uni of Exeter @uniofexeteresi.bsky.social with Stineke van Houte, Stefano Pagliara and Edze Westra (not on Bluesky) doi.org/10.1098/rstb...

New in #ProcB - Selective breeding enhances #coral heat tolerance even over small spatial scales #OpenAccess #Conservation royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

#BiologyLetters A new study sheds light on how cellular adaptations promote mutualism between leaf cutter ants and a fungal cultivar. Read more here: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #Cellularbiology #evolution

🥳 Super excited that today the first paper of my PhD has been published in Royal Society Open Science: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.250061 Can learning from rewards and punishments change how people approach (or avoid) in-group vs. out-group members? Read the thread below! 🧵 1/6

We're marking #IYQ2025 with an exciting event featuring leading voices in quantum research including Anton Zeilinger, Jim Al-Khalili, Artur Ekert, and Helen Margolis - as they explore the discoveries that shaped our past and the breakthroughs shaping our future. 🔗 iop.eventsair.com/qst2025/

New in #PhilTransB - a theme issue exploring one of science’s deepest questions: how life can emerge from non-living matter. Edited by @ricardsole.bsky.social and colleagues. Read: buff.ly/7iz4tGu

Are you a researcher in the field of history of science, technology and medicine? The #NotesAndRecords essay award is now open for entries until 28 February 2026. Visit our website find out more: buff.ly/dedMm93 #HistSci #HistSTM

From policy to practice: Progress towards #data- and #code-sharing in ecology and evolution #ProcB @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social @eivimeycook.bsky.social tell us more in our blog royalsociety.org/blog/2025/09...

📢 City lizards are more social ! Thrilled to share the first paper from my PhD, out now in #BiologyLetters @royalsocietypublishing.org ! We show that urban lizards are more social than their non-urban counterparts 🦎🏙️🌳🧪 doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... @behavecobie.bsky.social

In memory of Jane Goodall, English primatologist and anthropologist and the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees. Take a look at her 1985 article published in #PhilTransB 'Conditions of innovative behaviour in primates': royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

"I am increasingly concerned over threats to the values that allow science to flourish." Read the full statement from the President of the Royal Society Sir Adrian Smith: royalsociety.org/news/2025/10...

Does more H20 mean more mosquito-borne disease risk? What about in an area that typically receives little rain? (~6 in/year)? royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

In a new study from #BiologyLetters, a team of palaeontologists have revealed how bone growth was maintained in the earliest chondrichthyans, a group now represented by sharks, skates and ratfish that lack the capacity to ossify their tissues. buff.ly/LzT9xZY | #DevelopmentalBiology #Palaeontology

Will Subscribe to Open help unlock #OpenAccess? Research Professional News has published a feature on Subscribe to Open and the future of open access, featuring an interview with Royal Society Publishing Director Rod Cookson: www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...

New in #ProcB - Selective breeding enhances #coral heat tolerance even over small spatial scales #OpenAccess #Conservation royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

New paper out today lead by @tsengzj.bsky.social where we test the 150-year-old hypothesis that the unique jaw torus in Nimravus is an adaptation to resist bite forces using FEA🦁🔪our results highlight some functional advantage of the torus, which are amplified at larger gape doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...

#RSOS in @economist.com | Prevalence of left-handers and their role in antagonistic sports: beyond mere counts towards a more in-depth distributional analysis of ranking data: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Watch #BiologyLetters author Avery Maune talk about new research revealing that urbanization can reshape social behaviour in the common wall lizard (Podarcis muralis): cassyni.com/events/3Hp2U... #AnimalBehaviour #ethology

Excited to share the first paper from my PhD! We looked at what traits help Aneides salamanders excel at climbing using museum specimens, CT scans, SEM, and more! No claws or toe pads, so how do they do it? In short, with long limbs, big feet and grippy toes! 🦎🧪 DM for PDF doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Rethinking Thecodonty: the influence of two centuries of comparative dental anatomy on our understanding of tooth evolution. A new #Review article from #BiologyLetters. buff.ly/YwcWNzq | #DevelopmentalBiology #Palaeontology #Evolution

Co-circulating pathogens of humans: a systematic review of mechanistic transmission models #EvidenceSynthesis #ProcB #OpenAccess royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Our Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowships are still open for applications. This scheme offers a first step into an independent research career for outstanding early career scientists who require flexible working circumstances. #RSGrants https://royalsociety.org/grants/dorothy-hodgkin-fellowship/

Our new paper is out in Royal Society Open Science! The metamorphic transition of the frog mouth: from tadpole keratinized mouthparts to adult teeth doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Join #NotesandRecords guest editors, Bernard Lightman, Efram Sera-Shriar and Yoshiyuki Kikuchi, in a live online seminar on 18 November to find out more about the complex cultural connections between Japanese and British science in the nineteenth century: cassyni.com/events/RGh39... #HistSci

🚨 New paper led by ‪@asatsa.bsky.social‬! We show that participation in Luhya mourning rituals overall increases well-being and cooperation among the bereaved, yet qualitative findings show they can also be perceived negatively by some community members royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

In this study fom #BiologyLetters, researchers studied freshwater #zooplankton (Daphnia) and found that poor diets influenced both average body size, eye size, and reproduction, as well as the variability of these traits across two generations. buff.ly/qlfba6z #Ecology

The final version of our review on biological filaments is out in Philtrans A (w/@jcammann.bsky.social Hannah Laeverenz-Schlogelhofer & Marco Mazza) - we have 417 references! Enjoy :) doi.org/10.1098/rsta... (see also other articles in this special issue on biological fluid dynamics) #biophysics

This study from #OpenBiology explores how embryos of a marine tubeworm, Galeolaria caespitosa, develop at different temperatures, using special imaging techniques to track key events in development buff.ly/pC98vJB | #DevelopmentalBiology

Social ties drive post-fission group choice in blue #monkeys #ProcB #OpenAccess #Behaviour royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

In many cases, crowding results in greater disease transmission. However, in monarch butterflies high host density can reduce per capita infection risk. This happens when caterpillars gobble up parasites on milkweed, removing them from the environment.🧪 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

Foraging and thermally induced phenotypic plasticity interact in the most northerly distributed freshwater fish: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #ecology #evolution

Artificial light at night (#ALAN) is a growing form of pollution that can disrupt ecosystems. In this study published in #BiologyLetters, researchers investigate how ALAN affects a parasitic interaction between flatworms and Daphnia waterfleas buff.ly/9QQPFRb | #Behaviour #Ecology

Linking performance to powerhouse: mitochondrial aerobic metabolism in blood cells reflects flight endurance of house sparrows (Passer domesticus): royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #BiologyLetters #ecology

Excited to announce our new paper "Testing adaptive hypotheses for an evolutionarily conserved trait through slow-motion videos of pollinators", published in Royal Society Open Science: doi.org/10.1098/rsos.251127. Thanks to co-authors Sally Song, Nicholas Bhandari, & @jeffreyconner.bsky.social!

Watch #BiologyLetters author Natsuko Rivera-Yoshidawe talk about the early stages of emergent collective behaviour of Myxococcus xanthus, a social bacterium and valuable model for studying the aggregative way to multicellularity: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

New #Review article from #OpenBiology: Implications of canonical histone H3.1 and histone variant H3.3 in cancer buff.ly/QL3q5FH | #CellularBiology #MolecularBiology

Living sharks have innumerable tiny scales, but their earliest relatives somehow grew larger bony plates. In our new Biology Letters @royalsocietypublishing.org, we work try and out how, arguing they grew by fusing and remodelling spines and scales. doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...

City lizards are more social. In a new paper in #BiologyLetters, social network analysis revealed that urban lizards have more social connections and stronger bonds than their non-urban counterparts. buff.ly/kqf2YfZ | #Behaviour #UrbanEcology

From policy to practice: Progress towards #data- and #code-sharing in ecology and evolution #ProcB @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social @eivimeycook.bsky.social tell us more in our blog royalsociety.org/blog/2025/09...

Our Career Development Fellowships are now for applications. This scheme provides talented early career scientists from underrepresented backgrounds in STEM with research funding and training opportunities to build a successful research career: #RSGrants royalsociety.org/grants/caree...

Certain sound features in a #baby's cry, known as nonlinear phenomena, help adults gauge the baby's pain level. These sounds trigger emotional responses in adults, altering their facial temperature as an automatic bodily reaction. Read more: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #JRSocInterface

New paper! 🦎 Urbanization reshapes the social behaviour of wall lizards Now out in #BiologyLetters @royalsocietypublishing.org 🔗 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @averymaune.bsky.social

Changing priorities about protective shelters: a review of a key method to investigate possible pain in crustaceans. A new review article from #BiologyLetters buff.ly/qMJcYwh | #Behaviour #Cognition #Neuroscience

Does sexual dimorphism reflect sexual antagonism? Covariation of female fitness with brothers’ sexual traits and their female homologues in neriid flies #ProcB #OpenAccess royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Watch #BiologyLetters author, Roza Kamiloğlu, talk about her research into whether there are fundamentally different kinds of laughter: cassyni.com/events/WjAa9...

Huntington's disease has been successfully treated for the first time following positive results from a global clinical trial, on which Professor Sarah Tabrizi FRS of UCL's Huntington's Disease Centre was lead scientific advisor: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...