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 journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

We believe that, as our future leaders in biology, it is vital to provide #ECRs with the right support during the early stages of your academic career. We offer a number of practical ways to help you meet the unique needs and challenges you may encounter: www.biologists.com/about-us/ear...

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 journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

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 journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-...

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 journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Thanks to @jexpbiol.bsky.social for featuring our lovely friends in the 2026 calendar.

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 journals.biologists.com/jeb/search-r...

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

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 www.xcdsystem.com/sicb/program...

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 journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Issue 23 has closed and issue 24 is open journals.biologists.com/jeb/issue/22... The front cover, by Alexander Clark, shows a great horned owl (Bubo virginianus) Read the accompanying research at journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

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!

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: bit.ly/44nyx2r

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 journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

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 🔁 journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

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 www.xcdsystem.com/sicb/program...

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 journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

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 journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

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 journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

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

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 journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Read this month's Editors' Choice, Daily energetic expenditure and energy consumption of short-finned pilot whales journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

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

Issue 22 has closed and issue 23 is open journals.biologists.com/jeb/issue/22... 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

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

We are also highlighting August Krogh, @jexpbiol.bsky.social author and 1920 Nobel Prize winner, as an extraordinary biologist this week. #100biologists

@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

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 www.biologists.com/100-years/me...

My very last Outside JEB paper with @jexpbiol.bsky.social has been published, covering a fantastic article by Jonasson et al in @royalsociety.org that determined if two migratory bat species were attracted to moonlight reflecting off wind turbine blades 🦇🧪🌎 journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

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 journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

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 journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Mystery of how turtles read their magnetic map solved. Alayna Mackiewicz & co reveal that hatchling loggerhead turtles feel the magnetism 🔁 journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/... Read the full research at journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

@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 coms.app/BiologistsWS...

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 journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-...

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

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 journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/... For more information go to journals.biologists.com/jeb/pages/jo...

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 journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/... Read the full article at journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

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 journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-...

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 journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Issue 21 has closed and issue 22 is open journals.biologists.com/jeb/issue/22... The cover image by Jan Lenaert shows a green hermit (Phaethornis guy) in flight

Our next extraordinary biologist is Michael Dickinson, a McArthur Fellowship-winning neuroscientist who was a @jexpbiol.bsky.social Editor for 11 years. #100biologists

🌱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: biologists.com/sustainabili...

We thank Muktar Lawan @muktarlawan.bsky.social 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 biologists.com/100-years/me...

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: bit.ly/4977c7N See all institutions bit.ly/3O7BxGi

Read this month's Editors' Choice 'Kinematics of strikes in venomous snakes' by Silke Cleuren & colleagues journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

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

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 journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

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 www.npr.org/2025/11/07/n...

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 www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

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 journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...