Our next extraordinary biologist is Sylvie Urbé, a @biologists.bsky.social Director and a @jcellsci.bsky.social Editorial Advisory Board member and author. #100biologists

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

🌱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...

Do you love the monthly #preprint lists on @the-node.bsky.social? Good news, our #preLighters have teamed up with the Node to nominate standout articles and share one-paragraph insights on why they’re excited. Check out their October highlights ⬇️ 👀 thenode.biologists.com/prelighters-...

Looking to publish your paper #OpenAccess? Check if your institution is signed up to our Read & Publish initiative and you can publish #OA for free: www.biologists.com/library-hub/...

We are highlighting Charles Swanton, former @jcellsci.bsky.social author and recent @dmmjournal.bsky.social interviewee, who was a plenary speaker at the Biologists @ 100 conference, as an extraordinary biologist. #100biologists @crick.ac.uk

Thank you Heidi Hehnly ‪@lovelessradio.bsky.social for sharing your experience of fee-free #OpenAccess publishing @dev-journal.bsky.social via our #ReadAndPublish agreement with @syracuseu.bsky.social Read Heidi’s paper: bit.ly/49KTBmN Check if your institution is eligible: bit.ly/3O7BxGi

This year we are celebrating our 100-year anniversary. Discover some of the most important milestones on our 100-year timeline: www.biologists.com/100-years/ti...

Thank you to organisers Renata Basto and Zuzana Storchova and everyone who joined us for this week's Workshop on Decoding Whole Genome Doubling: Insights From Evolution, Development and Disease. www.biologists.com/workshops/de... #BiologistsWorkshops

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

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/...

Incoming deadline - 7 November 2025 Apply for a @jcellsci.bsky.social @focalplane.bsky.social Training Grant to support your attendance at a #microscopy or #bioimageanalysis training course. Open to ECRs in #cellbio. For more info: www.biologists.com/grants/jcs-f...

One month left for early-career researchers to apply for a funded place at our Workshop 'Novelty, Co-option and Divergence During Gene Network Evolution' organised by James Hombría & Antónia Monteiro Deadline 5 Dec. biologists.com/workshops/ju... @isabelalmudi.bsky.social @jlopezrios.bsky.social

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...

Looking back at our September writing challenge ✍️ Check out our interview with Umaymah Ahmad, the winner of this edition! ⬇️ thenode.biologists.com/the-node-wri...

Thank you to The Scholarly Kitchen @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social for including our event carbon calculator in their article on hosting a sustainable event. Read the full article at scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/14/f...

We are highlighting Austin Smith, a @biologists.bsky.social Director, @dmmjournal.bsky.social Guest Editor and former @dev-journal.bsky.social Editor, as an extraordinary biologist. #100biologists @ausmith.bsky.social

Thank you Adam Downie @adamdownunder.bsky.social for sharing your experience of fee-free #OA publishing in @biologyopen.bsky.social via our #ReadAndPublish agreement with The University of Queensland. Read Adam’s paper: bit.ly/4hA9vm1 See if your institution is participating too: bit.ly/3O7BxGi

Join us 19 November to hear from two early-career researchers, Stephanie Tsai & Ben Cox, working on regeneration. Chaired by @dev-journal.bsky.social's Executive Editor, Alex Eve @amjeve.bsky.social. 📅 Wednesday 19 November – 16:00 GMT/UTC Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Save the date and register for abstract updates for @dmmjournal.bsky.social's 2026 Journal Meeting. 'Innovative Preclinical Models for Pediatric Cancer Research'. biologists.com/meetings/dmm... #DMM2026cancer

Applications are open for early-career researchers to apply for funded places at our Workshop 'Solving the Mysteries of Energy Expenditure Compensation' organised by Vincent Careau and Lewis Halsey. Deadline: 16 January 2026 biologists.com/workshops/ju... #BiologistsWorkshops #BiologistsWorkshops

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

Thank you Adam Maclean @adamlmaclean.bsky.social for sharing your experience of fee-free Open Access publishing in @dev-journal.bsky.social via our Read & Publish agreement with The University of Queensland. See all institutions: www.biologists.com/library-hub/... #OA #OpenAccess #ReadAndPublish

We are delighted to announce the renewal of our #ReadAndPublish agreement with JULAC which ensures that corresponding authors at participating institutions in #HongKong can publish an uncapped number of research articles #OpenAccess in our journals biologists.com/library-hub/...

Thank you @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social for featuring our Event Carbon Calculator in your article. Read more for many great #sustainability tips.

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/...

Read the 1st prize winning essay from our competition 'Innovative ideas for the future of sustainable events'. Read Liew Yao Rong’s essay and learn about his innovative approach that combines participants’ management, location and logistics: www.biologists.com/stories/peop...

We thank @giuliarossi.bsky.social for submitting her 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 www.biologists.com/100-years/me...

We are highlighting Jane Francis, Director of the British Antarctic Survey, UK, who also delivered a plenary lecture at the Biologists @ 100 conference, as an extraordinary biologist. #100biologists @bas.ac.uk

FocalPlane's #FeaturedImage was acquired by Aswathy G Krishnan and shows a neural rosette of a cerebral organoid derived from hiPSCs. In this post, we learn more about the image and Aswathy’s research: focalplane.biologists.com/2025/10/10/f... #Microscopy #Imaging #FluorescenceFriday

Disease Models & Mechanism's new special issue on infectious diseases is now closed! tinyurl.com/4zea2dc5 On the cover: 3D-volume render of tuberculosis granulomas in mice infected with E2Crimson-expressing Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Granuloma boundary in turquoise and infecting bacteria in red.

We're still accepting submissions for our next special issue: Cell Biology of the Nucleus Guest edited by @abbybuch.bsky.social and Megan King @luskinglab.bsky.social. Submission deadline: 3 November journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/nu... #cellbiology #nucleus #notforprofit #freetopublish

“Developmental biology is fundamentally beautiful. We are no less beautiful for our variation. Instead, perhaps we are more so. Perhaps we are remarkable. Perhaps we are full of wonder.” Read this insightful post by Bethan on the Node. thenode.biologists.com/developmenta... #Disability

As part of our commitment to Open Access, we support libraries, consortia and researchers. For #OAWeek, we share a recent webinar that includes tips and recommendations for navigating the editorial process and publishing #OA youtu.be/PjD5QQ-p0Xg #OAWeek25

Our next extraordinary biologist is Godwin Pius Ohemu, who attended the Biologists @ 100 conference and shared his conference experience in a guest blog. #100biologists

We hosted our first Workshop in a venue with sustainable accreditations! From zero single-use plastics to renewable energy and food redistribution, Fanhams Hall helped us lower our carbon footprint 🌍 Read how #sustainability shaped the event: www.biologists.com/stories/our-... #BiologistsWorkshops

Call for papers: In Vitro Models of Human Disease to Inform Mechanism and Drug Discovery Deadline approaching: Monday 3 November 2025 journals.biologists.com/dmm/pages/in... #Biology #Research #Disease #Discovery #Organoids #Tumours #Gastruloids #Assembloids

Early-career researchers, apply to attend our Workshop! Application deadline: Friday 24 October Find out more: www.biologists.com/workshops/ap... #BiologistsWorkshops #Biology #Workshop #Research #Network #Collaboration #Metabolism #Enzymes #Organelles #Cells #Physiology #Development #Metabolites

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.

Thank you to the organisers Constadina Arvanitis, @mariodelr.bsky.social, Helena De la Torre, @marianadeniz.bsky.social, María Fernanda Latorre Barragán and Licyel Lenny Paulas Condori. Find out more about this week's Workshop: biologists.com/workshops/gl... #BiologistsWorkshops

The next extraordinary biologist that we are featuring is Martha Susana Cruz-Xelhuantzi, a @biologyopen.bsky.social author who examined the cellular organisation & characteristics of the yeast, Debaryomyces hansenii, and interviewee in @biologyopen.bsky.social's 'First person' series. #100biologists

Thank you to everyone for their support over the past 100 years, and for helping us celebrate this year. You can catch up with all our 100-year content on our special anniversary page bit.ly/4naj8Jr

2023: The Forest of Biologists. We plant a tree for each Research Article or Review article and preserve ancient woodland for our peer reviewers. Find out more in our video:

2012: The first issue of Biology Open @biologyopen.bsky.social was published with the primary objective of publishing “good-quality, sound research, without attempting to judge impact or novelty”. Read the story of Biology Open: a conversation with past and present Editors-in-Chief. bit.ly/4gW1PtT

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

2010: Launch of the Node @the-node.bsky.social, our community site for and by developmental and stem cell biologists. Find out how the Node was born. bit.ly/3VOfCZZ

2008: Disease Models & Mechanisms @dmmjournal.bsky.social is an international peer-reviewed #OpenAccess biomedical journal, founded in 2008 with the goal to “foster a connection between the model organism scientists and the clinicians”. Read DMM's anniversary collection bit.ly/4mJwXOt

1953: The Company launches the Journal of Embryology and Experimental Morphology. In 1987, JEEM is renamed Development @dev-journal.bsky.social. Read their 100-year anniversary articles collection: bit.ly/42vDGED

1952: The Company becomes a UK-registered charity. Our charitable activities include the award of grants and Travelling Fellowships and close partnerships with @bscb-official.bsky.social , @bsdb.bsky.social and @sebiology.bsky.social.

1946: The Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Sciences is transferred to the Company. In 1966, QJMS is renamed Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social. Read JCS’s 100-anniversary article collection: bit.ly/46RvL5N