In March 2024, Andrea Fuller hosted the first @biologists.bsky.social Global South Workshop in Kruger National Park, SA, bringing together ECRs from the Global South & international experts in comparative physiology and biomechanics Read all about it here: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

JEB has been hosting its Symposium for almost 50 years & this year, as part of @biologists.bsky.social 100th Anniversary #biologists100, the symposium, 'Sensory perception in a changing world', was open to anyone at the Biologists @ 100 meeting. Find out more journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

As part of our @biologists.bsky.social #biologists100 celebrations, we interviewed animal physiologist and JEB author Hans-Otto Pörtner about his experience co-chairing the IPCC addressing the most pressing issue facing our planet: climate change journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

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...

Issue 20 has closed and issue 21 is open journals.biologists.com/jeb/issue/22... The front cover showing two giraffes accompanies Seymour and Snelling's Theory & Modelling article discussing how the animals' long legs have raised their hearts to reduce the cost of pumping blood to their heads

If you're interested in the integrative biology of the gut, don't miss our fantastic special issue dedicated to the topic, edited by Carol Bucking, John Terblanche and Matthew Regan journals.biologists.com/jeb/issue/22... Read their introductory Commentary journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

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

Did you know that when you peer review for JEB, @biologists.bsky.social will protect a tree in Great Knott Wood, the Lake District, as part of its #ForestOfBiologists initiative to foster biodiversity? Every time you peer review for us we help the planet

Bats use their echolocation abilities to find prey, but also to find each other and avoid obstacles. Iturralde-Pólit &co show that the warm, dry air that comes with climate change, alters these calls, potentially costing the bats more energy to make them journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

We are celebrating 100years of #NotForProfit #Publishing with @biologists.bsky.social #biologists100 in 2025 with a dedicated collection of articles. In this Perspective we look at the impact that research published in JEB has had on conservation & engineering journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Snake bites are terrifying & now Silke Cleuren, Alistair Evans & co @monashuniversity.bsky.social reveal the full details of viper, elapid & colubrid bites with the first high speed movies all 3 families sinking their fangs into transparent medical gel journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

In their Perspective, Andrew Biewener, George Lauder and Stephanie Pierce discuss how field stations provide unique facilities & access to non-laboratory locations & organisms. They highlight the fundamental contributions of Harvard's Concord Field Station journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Being bigger isn't always better. @lkuchenmuller.bsky.social and co show that rainbow trout deliver less oxygen to the heart to power it as the temperature rises and it gets worse the bigger they get journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

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/...

This week has been special for us, marking 100 years of supporting biologists and inspiring biology. We celebrated our achievements at @zoologymuseum.bsky.social last night. We want to thank all our staff, whose continual inspiration and daily support for one another make our work possible.

We are delighted to announce that Emily Baird (Stockholm University) and Philipp Lehmann (University of Greifswald) have joined the team of JEB Monitoring Editors Find out more about them in our News article journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

The next deadline for ECRs, within 5 years of their first faculty position, to apply for JEB's next round of Kickstart Travel Grants and ECR Visiting Fellowships is 28 November, so don't miss the chance to apply for helpful funding biologists.com/grants/#jeb

Issue 19 is closed and issue 20 has opened The cover of issue 19 of volume 228 shows an Euchomenella heteroptera praying mantis (photo by Marlena N. Wood) camouflaged as a twig, posed next to a twig and dead yellow leaves journals.biologists.com/jeb/issue/22...

2018: preLights @prelights.bsky.social is launched, a preprint highlights service run by the biological community & supported by the Company. A dedicated team of ECR ‘preLighters’ select, highlight and comment on preprints that are of particular interest to the biological community. bit.ly/4mTr4yt

2024: We host our first Global South Workshop, dedicated to supporting a wider selection of research communities around the world by hosting a Workshop in the local area. Read how it went bit.ly/4pQTrQp

2010: The Company of Biologists Workshops begin. Read how, over the last 15 years, the Workshops have encouraged cross-disciplinary collaborations, supported early-career researchers (with funded places) and contributed to biological research. Find out more bit.ly/3KClWkK

1926: The British Journal of Experimental Biology is transferred to the Company, and in 1930, BJEB is renamed Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social. Read JEB’s 100-anniversary article collection: bit.ly/4nYbzWI

1925: On this date, 100 years ago, The Company of Biologists is founded by George Parker Bidder III. Throughout today, we will be posting some of our key milestones. Read more about the past 100 years at bit.ly/3WnTVA1.

It is with great sadness that we heard of John Gurdon’s passing this week. Not just one of our 100 extraordinary biologists, but truly one of a kind, he was a pioneer, whose vision and personality inspired biologists worldwide.

In her recent Conversation, Lauren O'Connell discusses the biology of poison frogs including how they get their incredible toxicity and the amazing way these frogs take care of their tadpoles journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

In his Review, Edgar Walters discusses how our understanding of human pain is informed by functional and mechanistic comparisons of nociception and pain-like aversive states across vertebrate and invertebrate species journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-...

In his ECR Spotlight, Colton Unger discusses how his uncle rewarded his participation in a psychology study with a tour of the preserved collection of human tissue, what he enjoys most about research & why patience is the most important lesson he's learned journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

In her Outside JEB article, Sarah Young-Veenstra reports on Roost et al.'s recent Conservation Physiology paper showing that light pollution stresses out baby orange-fin anemonefish and limits their growth journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

In her Outside JEB article, Elina Barredo reports on Aguilar-Gómez et al.'s recent PNAS article showing that introducing pumas from Texas has given the Florida subspecies of pumas some needed genetic diversity without compromising their identity journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Read this month's Editors' choice, Marine iguanas have lower metabolic rates during El Niño, by Shahar Dubiner and colleagues journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Apply by 24 October. Our Travelling Fellowships offer PhD students and postdocs up to £3,000 for undertaking collaborative visits to other laboratories. Find out more and apply at biologists.com/grants/trave...

Issue 18 of Volume 228 has closed and issue 19 is open The front cover of Issue 18, by Manfred Enstipp, shows a king penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) swimming at the surface of the water journals.biologists.com/jeb/issue/22...

Seals' whiskers are incredibly sensitive to fish wakes & other water movements & now it turns out that seals can probably tell in which direction a fish is escaping by sensing the vortices sent spinning off by the fleeing fish with their whiskers journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

In their Review, @arielcamp.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social and Sam Van Wassenbergh discuss the mechanics of how fish feed by creating powerful suction through the interplay between muscle function, skeletal force transmissions and fluid flow patterns journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Atlantic killifish are robust little fish, but now @tblanchard.bsky.social & co reveal that fluctuating temperatures while the embryos are developing in the egg can have beneficial and damaging consequences journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Ew, good question. Ask @lindseyswierk.bsky.social

In her ECRSpotlight, Amber Reinsborough discusses how she found her passion for animal physiology, her work on how an environmentally friendly de-icer affects insect larvae & the hardest challenge she's overcome in the course of her research journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

By looking at mice living near the Chornobyl reactor, Zbyszek Boratyński & co reveal how metabolic downregulation may provide an effective shield against radiation damage in contaminated environments journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Having won the 2024 Ig Nobel Prize in Physics, JEB author James Liao is this week’s @biologists.bsky.social #100biologists, celebrating 100 years of #NotForProfit #Publishing

Check out our recent Special Issue: The Integrative Biology of the Gut which covers the functional role of the gut, from the cellular level to its interactions with other organs & tissues, including its role in ecophysiological processes journals.biologists.com/jeb/issue/22...

In her ECR Spotlight, Nadine Schmidbauer tells us about her research into the factors that trigger the guts of Burmese pythons to prepare to digest dinner and why raccoons are her favourite animals journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

If you missed it (as I did!), check out @jexpbiol.bsky.social special issue: "Integrating Biomechanics, Energetics, and Ecology Perspectives in Locomotion" 17 commentaries and review papers that break down the traditional boundaries between these fields. journals.biologists.com/jeb/issue/22...

The smell of tasty treats can make our mouths start to water. Recently, Emil Rindom & co showed that just the sight and smell of food can prime hungry pythons, getting their bodies ready to digest a big meal journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

The @biologists.bsky.social founder, GP Bidder, researched ocean currents by sending messages in bottles. As part of @biologists.bsky.social #biologists100 celebrations, send us a virtual message in a bottle, telling us what the Company means to you www.biologists.com/100-years/me...

Our next extraordinary biologist is Tshepiso Majelantle, early-career researcher and postdoc at Witwatersrand University, South Africa, who attended @biologists.bsky.social's first Global South Workshop in 2024. #100biologists #NPAW2025

🚨New paper out by Harrap et al. in @jexpbiol.bsky.social " #Bumblebees learn to use antennal and tarsal taste to predict the presence of nectar rewards in flowers" ↘️ journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/... ↙️ #gustation #insects #cognition

Unlike other birds, penguins moult all their feathers at once. In their recent article, Enstipp & co show that, while this moult might be more costly for juveniles, adult king penguins still pay a price for keeping their plumage perfect journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Issue 17 has closed and issue 18 is open journals.biologists.com/jeb/issue/22... The cover shows a photo by Erin Levin of four Galápagos marine iguanas (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) perched on a black volcanic rock on a Galápagos beach

We are asking working dogs to help by carrying loads & now @jamescharles90.bsky.social & co have discovered that burdened spaniels trot faster & stride farther, unlike shepherds and Labradors that slow down & are better suited to carry burdens in the long term journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Thank you Danilo Giacometti for sharing your experience of fee-free Open Access publishing in Journal of Experimental Biology via our Read & Publish agreement with Brock University. See all participating institutions: www.biologists.com/library-hub/... #OpenAccess #OA #Research #JEB #Academia