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

Our next extraordinary biologist is Zolelwa Sifumba, lecturer at Walter Sisulu University Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, South Africa, who was interviewed for @dmmjournal.bsky.social’s ‘The patient's voice’ series in 2025. #100biologists

What’s happening to the UK’s woods? We’re proud to partner with the Woodland Trust, who have published their State of the UK’s Woods and Trees 2025 report, putting woodlands back under the microscope to check up on their health and see what’s changed. bit.ly/3USkOeC Image: John Bridges WTML

In his Outside JEB article, @T_Dixit123 reports on Silva et al.'s Biology Letters paper showing that the brightly coloured claw of male fiddler crabs distracts birds from attacking their body, leaving the birds with nothing but a beak-full of inedible claw journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

In her Outside JEB article, Barbara Nuic reports on Metz et al.'s recent J. Thermal Biology paper showing that zebrafish have emergency heat capacity to protect themselves from sudden temperature peaks, even after weeks of heat journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Water anoles take a bubble of air down when they submerge, which they breathe like a tiny scuba tank, and now @lindseyswierk.bsky.social & co reveal that the reptiles may also be using the bubble like a gill, to breathe oxygen directly from the water journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Read this month's Editors' choice, Locomotion efficiency of elephants: mechanical work and energetics by Arthur Dewolf , Joakim Genin, Patrick Willems & Norman Heglund journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-...

Galapagos marine iguanas reduce their metabolism by 20.43% during El Nino when the Pacific warms & their seaweed supply dwindles, but Dubiner @telavivuni.bsky.social suggest that this reduction may help the reptiles cope if El Nino becomes more frequent journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

First official postdoc paper out in @jexpbiol.bsky.social! We compare different approaches to studying kinematics in a macaque ankle and note that the talocrural joint seems to contribute minimally to dorsiflexion of the foot during stance phase. journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

In his Commentary, Neil Metcalfe examines why it can be hard to detect trade-offs between two activities or processes competing for energy, despite energy supposedly being a limiting resource journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

We love this post @biologists.bsky.social about making the menu at your next event organic and sustainable

One of our awesome Deputy Editors-in-Chief, Sheila Patek, is this week's @biologists.bsky.social #100biologists, celebrating 100 years of #NotForProfit #Publishing

In her review, Laura Stidsholt @bioacousticsau.bsky.social discusses how bat-borne acoustic devices are changing echolocation research in wild #bats by recording sensory & foraging behaviour across different species, habitats & levels of disturbance journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

A bit late to sharing, but this amazing study from @vdisanto.bsky.social @scrippsocean.bsky.social is too good not to share🐟✨ Read about the amazing 6th sense that help blind fish navigate underwater caves in my Outside @jexpbiol.bsky.social 🌌🔦 journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Incredibly excited for my first cover! 🐟🧬👁️ We reviewed the data on fish color vision and quantified the magnitude and factors influencing plasticity in opsin gene expression! Thanks to @jexpbiol.bsky.social for highlighting our work, Isaac Szabo for providing the picture and my great advisor!🎉🎉

Check out my newest Outside JEB @jexpbiol.bsky.social article highlighting work from Pacheco-Fuentes et al. @cecooper.bsky.social where they monitored the drinking behaviour of over 500 Australian zebra finches during a drought season! @avianbiology.bsky.social 🐦🧪🪶🌏 tinyurl.com/3r8ukvbe

Issue 16 has closed & issue 17 is open journals.biologists.com/jeb/issue/22... The front cover by Kaloyana Koseva shows a bag hanging from its feet with forelimbs down. Laura Stidsholt reviews how bat-borne devices are revolutionising research into bat echolocation & behaviour

Time flies, so if you're an early-career researcher that is eligible to apply for one of our junior faculty grants, start thinking about your application now because the next deadline is 28 November @biologists.bsky.social www.biologists.com/grants/kicks... www.biologists.com/grants/ecr-v...

👀 Do you have an idea for a post on the Node that you have been postponing writing for a while? This is your chance to publish your piece at last for a chance to win £200. Submit your post by 30 September 2025. 📝 thenode.biologists.com/the-node-wri... #devbio #stemcell

We have received wonderful feedback from authors who have benefitted from Read & Publish agreements arranged by their institutional libraries. To read what authors have to say about fee-free Open Access publishing in JEB, visit www.biologists.com/library-hub/...

The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social has a strong commitment to sustainability including our sustainability hub www.biologists.com/sustainabili... & event carbon calculator www.biologists.com/sustainabili... Find out more about what our initiatives & the carbon footprint of your event

This week, we are also highlighting Carol Bucking, who recently co-edited @jexpbiol.bsky.social Special Issue: The Integrative Biology of the Gut, as an extraordinary biologist. #100biologists ‪

In his ECR Spotlight, @christiandrerup.com discusses how a childhood filled with visiting zoos and watching nature documentaries kindled his interest in biology, why he loves the variety of work that research provides & why cuttlefish are his favourite animal journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Read this month's Editors' Choice, Spectral preferences of mosquitos are altered by odors, by Adam Blake and Jeffrey Riffell journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

JEB @biologists.bsky.social now allows non-Western character names to be published alongside the English versions of authors’ names in the author list. For more information go to journals.biologists.com/jeb/pages/jo... Please repost to spread the word

Spiders use silk to make their webs, but they also make silken sacs which protect their eggs from drying out. Karkosiak & co recently showed that the spiders leave a layer of air between the eggs & the sac to slow the water down as it tries to leave the eggs journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

You can find the first JEB additional language abstract by Cameron Nemeth and colleagues in #Hawaiian accompanying their paper, The key to bubble-net feeding: how humpback whale morphology functionally differs from other baleen whales at journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

We believe research should be accessible to as many readers as possible so are proud to announce that authors can now include a translation of their abstract in an additional language in their JEB paper 🔁 For more information go to journals.biologists.com/jeb/pages/jo...

Issue 15 has closed and issue 16 is open journals.biologists.com/jeb/issue/22... The front cover shows a green turtle (Chelonia mydas) swimming in the ocean. Photo credit: Manfred Enstipp @biologists.bsky.social #biologists100

How can a small, black beetle keep cool in the searing heat of the desert sun? Roberts &co recently discovered that, due to their energy-efficient running, Namib Desert beetles actually run to cool off journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

JEB author Giovanni Cavagna died on 16 January 2025 at the age of 90 in Milan, Italy Mario Legramandi, Alberto Minetti, Gaspare Pavei and Matteo Pecchiari celebrate his life and career in their Obituary journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Scientists sometimes remove uncooperative individuals from their studies. Blumberg & co recently found that stubborn wild mice breathe in as much oxygen as those amenable to running, meaning removing troublesome individuals doesn't bias the results journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

We would like to hear stories from you, our community, on how The Company of Biologists has supported you over time and how that has positively impacted your careers. Tell us with a digital message in a bottle here: www.biologists.com/100-years/me... .

#elephants are incredibly economical movers, but it turns out that swinging their massive limbs uses 75% of the energy they consume when moving, which is an extraordinarily high cost compared to mice and men journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Rohini Balakrishnan was one of the first cohort of JEB Travelling Fellows in the 1990s & is featured now as a @biologists.bsky.social #100biologists, part of our #biologists100 celebrations Find out more about Rohini in our In the field Conversation journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Based on the 2025 Clarivate Journal Citation Reports, JEB is delighted to announce that it is now the 12th highest ranking journal in the field of zoology, placing JEB in the top quarter (Q1) of all zoology journals🔁

Pregnant people often struggle to sleep and now it turns out that disrupted sleep extends cockroach pregnancies by reducing the quality of the milk that feeds the developing young so they take longer to grow. Cockroaches need their beauty sleep too! journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

We are delighted to announce that Katie Gilmour, University of Ottawa, has taken over Pat Wright’s role as JEB Deputy Editor-in-Chief, responsible for initiatives supporting early-career researchers. Pat will continue as Monitoring Editor until the end of 2025 🔁

In the Summer of 2024, @biologists.bsky.social hosted a visual ecology workshop attended by scientists across the world. In a new Commentary, these visual ecologists have come together to identify new ways of tackling the unanswered questions in this field journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Flying insects depend on grappling hooks and sticky pads on their feet for successful landings, but it turns out that the grappling hooks are key for convergent lady beetle landings on vertical surfaces journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

If your passionate about #DevBio and #SciComm, make sure you apply for this fantastic opportunity to join @biologists.bsky.social as the next Node Community Manager