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Looking back on key highlights from 2024
2024 was an eventful and memorable year for the Royal Society of Biology. We take this opportunity to look back on some of the highlights. 2024 was an eventful and memorable year for the Royal Society of Biology. We take this opportunity to look back...
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Policy Lates
Policy Lates brings a panel of experts together for an informal debate on a contemporary science policy topic, with plenty of time for audience questions. If you have an idea for a Policy Late discussion, please get in touch, via policy@rsb.org.uk For...
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Member profiles
September 11th 2023 Our latest profiles explore the working lives of biology teacher Charles Gill MRSB; chair of the Southeast Asia branch Dr Alexander Waller FRSB; and Professor Dame Melanie Welham FRSB, new Trustee of the RSB A DAY IN THE LIFE...
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Member profiles
Our latest profiles explore the working lives of Dr David N Thomas FRSB, a professor of Artic ecosystems; science technician Laurence Dawkins-Hall FRSB; and RSB trustee Dr Jacqui Piner FRSB These profiles appeared in the Winter 2022 issue of The...
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Member profiles
Our latest member profiles explore the working lives of associate professor of biomedicine and pharmacology Dr Bernadine Idowu MRSB; DEFRA development programme manager Dr Jamie McFadzean MRSB; and professor of life sciences, Hilary Macqueen CSciTeach...
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Member profiles
Our latest member profiles explore the working lives of student environmentalist Gauravi Kaushik; research technician Adama Saccoh AMRSB; and tree health policy advisor, Dr Clari Burrell AMRSB These profiles appeared in the Summer 2022 issue of The...
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Member profiles: Tuberculosis, teaching and science education
Our latest member profiles explore the working lives of postdoctoral researcher Laura Jeffreys MRSB, award-winning teacher Richard Spencer MBE CSciTeach CBiol FRSB, and diversity and inclusion ambassador Ros Roberts CBiol FRSB These profiles appeared...
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Toasting ten
A year of activities and events marking a decade since the formation of the Society comes to an end this month 28th September 2020 From October 2019 to the end of September 2020 the RSB embarked on a special programme of activity marking 10 years since...
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The mysterious mesentery
Tom Ireland delves into a new paper on the mesentery, a connective membrane that was recently reclassified as an organ 28th September 2020 You might not be able to point it out on a diagram of the human body and you certainly can’t draw it: the...
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Member profiles: Science diplomacy, immunology and plant health
Our latest member profiles explore the working lives of science diplomat Ronit Prower MRSB, clinical immunologist Sarah Williams MRSB, and mycologist Charles Lane MRSB These profiles appeared in the October / November 2020 issue of The Biologist (Vol...
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Member profiles: Deep-sea worms, malaria and policy
Our latest member profiles explore the working lives of marine ecologist Laetitia Gunton MRSB, cell biologist professor Jake Baum FRSB, and science policy expert Nicola Marchant FRSB These profiles appeared in the June / July 2020 issue of The...
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Dame Bridget Ogilvie
Image courtesy of the British Society for Immunology Dame Bridget Ogilvie Hon FRSB explains how a dramatic encounter with parasitic worms inspired her journey from rural Australia to Cambridge, and a range of high-profile roles in UK science The...
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"I've jostled the system"
Image courtesy of the British Society for Immunology Dame Bridget Ogilvie Hon FRSB explains how a dramatic encounter with parasitic worms inspired her journey from rural Australia to Cambridge, and a range of high-profile roles in UK science The...
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Meet the Presidents
In May, Dame Julia Goodfellow will become the third president of the RSB, taking over from Dame Jean Thomas, who has been president since 2014. Tom Ireland caught up with the two distinguished scientists to discuss bioscience, Brexit and the Society's...
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Text & Data Mining
The Royal Society of Biology recognises the wealth of data within academic journal content and other scholarly resources and the potential for it to be used in innovative ways to further research. The Society considers that text and data mining has the...
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"It's almost like 'crowd-science' - which can really accelerate science"
Open Cell’s Thomas Meany on scaling up open-source COVID-19 testing assays – from a lab in a shipping-container to a dedicated space in The British Library. In 2018 Open Cell began transforming empty shipping containers in Shepherd’s Bush, West London,...
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Obituary: Dr Barbara Knowles FRSB MBE
The Royal Society of Biology joins the family and friends of Dr Barbara Knowles in sadness at her death and in celebrating her life. The Royal Society of Biology joins the family and friends of Dr Barbara Knowles in sadness at her death and in...
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Emerging Topics in Life Sciences: new journal launches
The Royal Society of Biology is delighted to announce the launch of a new journal, Emerging Topics in Life Sciences, jointly owned with the Biochemical Society. The Royal Society of Biology is delighted to announce the launch of a new journal, Emerging...
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150 people from around the world tune in for the first ever virtual Policy Lates event
More than 150 people joined a panel of experts online to discuss the challenges and potential solutions to antimicrobial resistance (AMR), as part of the RSB’s Policy Lates series. More than 150 people joined a panel of experts online to discuss the...
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The digital loophole
Adam McCarthy looks at how to link open and widely-shared digital genetic sequences with the ecosystems and nations where they are found in nature September 12th 2022 Adam McCarthy is the RSB’s policy intern and a PhD student at the University of...
