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Journal of Experimental Biology is the leading journal in comparative physiology
How do plankton swim faster in turbulent water? Michelle DiBenedetto & co reveal that tiny common slipper shell larvae tilt their bodies into the water's flow to hitch a lift and surf to double their average speed
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We believe that, as our future leaders in biology, it is vital to provide
#ECRs
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Supporting early-career researchers
On these pages we highlight the range of resources that we offer to early-career researchers.
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2025 has been a year of celebration for
@biologists.bsky.social
as we marked its 100th anniversary
#biologists100
& in this final Editorial of the year we remember all of the celebrations for our
#NotForProfit
publisher & the fabulous communities we work with
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In their recent Review, Glass & co discuss how temperature influences bee flight and identify five 'missing pieces' that can help researchers build better models to understand how climate change will affect bee physiology
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Higher levels of carbon monoxide could protect cells from injury when animals frequently travel to places with low oxygen levels. Kezar & co show that naked mole-rats have high levels of carbon monoxide, but it doesn't go up when the oxygen drops
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Thanks to
@jexpbiol.bsky.social
for featuring our lovely friends in the 2026 calendar.
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Outside JEB keeps the JEB community informed and we want to thank the writers who are standing down at the end of 2025:
@kristinamuise.bsky.social
, HenryCerbone, ElinaBarredo, Alexandra Schoen and Barbara_Nuic
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JEB and
@biologists.bsky.social
was proud to sponsor the 39th annual ANZSCPB meeting at University of the Sunshine Coast with Keynote lectures by
@taylorjmdick.bsky.social
, Christofer Clemente
@cjclemente.bsky.social
, Blake Dickson, Phil Withers & Essie Rodgers
5 days ago
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Are you going to
#SICB2026
? Then come to our Meet the Editors session to pick up your limited-edition JEB t-shirt & hear about the things we do for our authors and our research community
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How dehydrated are desert creatures during hot summers? After collecting blood samples from stripped mice in the Succulent Karoo for more than 17years,
@carsten-schradin.bsky.social
&co reveal the extent of the animal's dehydration, but eating succulents helps
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Issue 23 has closed and issue 24 is open
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The front cover, by Alexander Clark, shows a great horned owl (Bubo virginianus) Read the accompanying research at
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Calling JEB ECRS: don’t miss this fabulous opportunity to attend this fantastic workshop! If you are eligible, apply now for a funded place to participate and join the discussion!
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7 days ago
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10 days ago
As we reflect on the past 100 years, one thing becomes clear: the impact we have had on the communities we serve is only possible because of our inspiring and motivated staff. Read more about the people behind the Company here:
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In her Outside JEB article, @KristinaMuise reports on Jonasson & co's Biology Letters paper showing that some migratory bats are lured toward wind turbine blades by the moonlight reflecting off of them, causing the bats to run into the blades
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10 days ago
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2025 has been a year of celebration
#biologists100
for
@biologists.bsky.social
, JEB's
#NotForProfit
#Publisher
. In this Perspective, Saanjbati Adhikari reviews the history of the fantastic @Co_Biologists Travelling Fellowships scheme 🔁
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Come join us at our Meet the Editors session at SICB 2026 and learn about everything we do for our authors. This is your first chance to get the limited edition 2026 JEB t-shirt, so make sure to grab one before they run out
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Older buff-leaf hawkmoth caterpillars and pupae make alarming squeaks when attacked, but they blow air out of different spiracles depending on their developmental stage to make the sounds
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13 days ago
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Manu Prakash is this week's
@biologists.bsky.social
#100biologists
Read his extraordinary 2016 JEB paper showing how waterlily beetles generate bumps in the water as they bounce along because they cannot break free of surface tension when water-skiing
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14 days ago
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As the world gets warmer, it's important for scientists to understand how much heat animals can take. Iacarella & co suggest that the current way of testing this in fish might be overestimating the water temperature they can withstand
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We are also highlighting Claire Moulton, previously our Publisher and
@biologists.bsky.social
's first ever CEO, who led the creation of The Forest of Biologists, as an extraordinary biologist this week.
#100biologists
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Human long-distance runners struggle with dehydration after losing 2% body mass, but common lizards still run well after losing 30% of their body mass. However, cold (20C) lizards are only half as fast as 35C lizards, so temperature impacts them more
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Read this month's Editors' Choice, Daily energetic expenditure and energy consumption of short-finned pilot whales
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19 days ago
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Are you heading to the
#SICB2026
meeting in Portland, Oregon? If so, make time to meet the JEB Editors, Sunday 4 January 12:15-13:15 in Room A106 of the Oregon Convention Center
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Issue 22 has closed and issue 23 is open
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The cover, by Dale DeNardo, shows a western diamond-backed rattlesnake. Changes in their evaporative water loss, osmolality & activity across seasons are driven primarily by changes in precipitation
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This year
@biologists.bsky.social
has been celebrating 100 years of
#NotForProfit
#Publishing
by recognising 100 extraordinary biologists and today we recognise the father of comparative physiology, August Krogh
#100biologists
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24 days ago
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24 days ago
We are also highlighting August Krogh,
@jexpbiol.bsky.social
author and 1920 Nobel Prize winner, as an extraordinary biologist this week.
#100biologists
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@kristinamuise.bsky.social
, working with you has been a joy!! Thank you for all of the effort & creativity that you poured into each article, all 16 of them! I will miss the fascinating papers that you selected and fine tuning your message together. All the best for a wonderful future, Kathryn
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We'd love to hear about how
@biologists.bsky.social
has supported you. Has your article gotten media attention? Tell us all about your experiences having us help promote your research to a wider audience
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24 days ago
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Kristina Muise, MSc 🦇👩🔬
25 days ago
My very last Outside JEB paper with
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has been published, covering a fantastic article by Jonasson et al in
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that determined if two migratory bat species were attracted to moonlight reflecting off wind turbine blades 🦇🧪🌎
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Fatal attraction: migratory bats are lured to wind turbine blades
Wind turbines are important for global energy production because of their low greenhouse gas emissions. However, for unknown reasons, many migratory bats are colliding with the wind turbine blades, le...
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/228/23/jeb251576/369971/Fatal-attraction-migratory-bats-are-lured-to-wind
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Winters are warming faster than summers, which could affect hibernating ectotherms, but it turns out that wall lizards cope well with warm winters & mini winter heatwaves, although they suffer more DNA damage, so the effects of warm winters may be concealed
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Del Basto & co show that using brown fat to generate extra body heat has helped some mammals conquer the globe, but birds have had to come up with other strategies while marsupials are stuck where the climate doesn't get so chilly
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Mystery of how turtles read their magnetic map solved. Alayna Mackiewicz & co reveal that hatchling loggerhead turtles feel the magnetism 🔁
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Read the full research at
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@biologists.bsky.social
offers 10 funded places for ECRs (PhD, postdocs and PIs in the first 3 years of first appointment) to attend our Workshops along with 20 invited speakers, so don't miss this fabulous opportunity to join this incredible workshop on energy compensation
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In their recent Review, Joseph Mack and Alexa Bely discuss the physiology of regeneration in invertebrates including its energetics and the environmental factors that affect it
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Simon Maddrell was a towering presence in the field of insect homeostasis and Treasurer and Director of
@biologists.bsky.social
. We celebrate him today
#100biologists
#biologisrs100
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Did you know that our authors can publish a translation of their abstract in an additional language in their JEB paper? Check out our most recent article with a second language abstract here
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For more information go to
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about 1 month ago
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Most
#hummingbirds
use their elegant beaks to sip nectar, but male green hermits stab each other in the neck with their sharp, straight weaponised bills when duelling during the mating season
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Read the full article at
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Published! Gough et al: Daily energetic expenditure and energy consumption of short-finned pilot whales. Drones+tags+diet reveal pilot whales need ~142 squid/day
@marinemammalogy.bsky.social
@jexpbiol.bsky.social
@acs-ps.bsky.social
@uhmanoa.bsky.social
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Knowing how much a population of animals consumes is essential for identifying when species are at risk & in a new JEB paper William Gough &co reveal that Hawaiian short-finned pilot whales eat 88000 tonnes of squid a year, which is a drop in the ocean
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Issue 21 has closed and issue 22 is open
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The cover image by Jan Lenaert shows a green hermit (Phaethornis guy) in flight
about 1 month ago
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Our next extraordinary biologist is Michael Dickinson, a McArthur Fellowship-winning neuroscientist who was a
@jexpbiol.bsky.social
Editor for 11 years.
#100biologists
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🌱During
#COP30
, we invite you to explore what is the carbon footprint of an event and learn about easy steps to take to minimise it. 🟢Learn more with our free event carbon calculator:
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We thank Muktar Lawan
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for sharing his 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
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Thank you Denise Dalbosco Dell'Aglio
@ficusorganensis.bsky.social
@ebablab.bsky.social
for sharing your experience of fee-free
#OA
publishing
@jexpbiol.bsky.social
via our
#ReadAndPublish
agreement
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
Read Denise’s paper:
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Read this month's Editors' Choice 'Kinematics of strikes in venomous snakes' by Silke Cleuren & colleagues
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about 1 month ago
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If your institution has signed a Read & Publish agreement with
@biologists.bsky.social
, then you can publish your paper
#OpenAccess
in JEB for free, so make sure you check out our list of subscribing institutions to make sure that you are not missing out on this great deal! 🔁 to spread the news
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In their Commentary, Shaughnessy & Breves discuss recent discoveries which have reinforced the nearly 50-year-old model for how marine fishes excrete salt through 'ionocytes' and provide hypotheses for how ion regulation evolved in fishes
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And listen to this great interview on
@npr.org
NPR's All Things Considered with
@nickantonson.bsky.social
talking about his research in JEB on how woodpeckers hold themselves rigid like hammers and grunt like tennis stars when drilling wood
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Woodpeckers and tennis players share similarities when preparing to strike
Scientists have investigated how woodpeckers use their muscles and their breathing to prepare to strike wood -- and they liken it to the way tennis players prepare to smack a ball.
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/07/nx-s1-5596409
about 1 month ago
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Listen to Bob McDonald talking to
@nickantonson.bsky.social
on CBC's Quirks and Quarks about his research published in JEB into how downy woodpeckers brace themselves and grunt when pounding wood with their beaks
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When downy woodpeckers pound wood with their beaks they hold themselves rigid like hammers & grunt like tennis stars to stabilise their core muscles at the moment of impact
@nickantonson.bsky.social
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