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A sense of place
Tale L Bjerknes and May-Britt Moser explain how specialised cells deep in the brain continuously create cognitive maps of where we are and where things happened The Biologist 66(1) p10-13 How do we remember events from the past? The question has...
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Spatialomics: Life in 3D
Image: A Visium CytAssist assay showing spatial gene expression (top layer) and protein expression (middle), courtesy of 10x Genomics Spatial omics is allowing biologists to reveal the finer details of human development, particularly in the developing...
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RSB recommends bringing everyday experiences to the classroom to engage children with science
Marianne Cutler, Director for Policy and Curriculum Development at ASE, said: “We recommend the report’s knowledge maps for biology, chemistry, and physics with their conceptual boundaries – focusing on what is age and development stage appropriate; and...
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Diving Beetles of the World: Systematics and Biology of the Dytiscidae
generic coverage deals with size, diagnosis, classification, diversity and natural history, with impressive distribution maps for each. The work highlights gaps in our knowledge and has a copious reference section contributing tofuture work. The book...
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The Atlas of Disease: Mapping Deadly Epidemics and Contagion from the Plague to the Zika Virus
Sandra Hempel White Lion Publishing, £19.99 (hardback) This is a lavishly produced and beautifully illustrated coffee-table book firmly ensconced in the ‘public understanding of science’ genre. The author, Sandra Hempel, an esteemed medical journalist,...
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“The experiments we're doing today are riskier than they've ever been”
Biosecurity and bio-risk expert Dr Filippa Lentzos discusses the 'explosion' of high-risk research, genetic surveillance, and science misinformation - and says bioscientists must do more to understand the ways their work could be misused or abused July...
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Will AlphaFold change bioscience research?
Above: A range of glycolytic enzymes visualised by David Goodsell, courtesy of PDB-101. Google-backed AI platform AlphaFold has predicted 3D protein structures from DNA sequences with such accuracy that some regard the protein folding problem as...
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All recordings great and small
Understanding changes in the natural world relies on good biological data. As James McCulloch explains, all contributions to this cause are precious May 31st 2021 With potentially millions of extant species worldwide, a large proportion of them...
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Iconotypes: A Compendium of Butterflies and Moths. Jones' Icones Complete
Richard I. Vane-Wright (Ed.) Thames & Hudson, £65.00 William Jones (1745-1818) is not well-known amongst the pioneering lepidopterists of the 18th and early 19th Centuries, but he surely deserves to be. Jones was a wealthy London merchant who, upon...
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Britain’s Insects: A field guide to the insects of Great Britain and Ireland
Paul D. Brock AES (Amateur Entomologists’ Society), £25.00 This photographic guide is a game-changer of a book, a truly significant contribution to the study of our insects and also excellent value for money. Within more than 600 information-packed...
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Three-second memory? Sounds fishy
The welfare of the seafood we eat is under studied, but research suggests fish may 'feel' more than we think The Biologist 63(4) p10 Animals' sentience and cognitive abilities, together with their degree of consciousness, have been debated by...
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“The experiments we're doing today are riskier than they've ever been”
Biosecurity and bio-risk expert Dr Filippa Lentzos discusses the 'explosion' of high-risk research, genetic surveillance, and science misinformation - and says bioscientists must do more to understand the ways their work could be misused or abused July...
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“This research has been in a deep freeze for decades”
Imran Khan talks to Tom Ireland about how psychedelic drugs can help us better understand mental health and consciousness – but only if the way we view and regulate these drugs changes. 12th December 2022 Pre-pandemic, Imran Khan was best known for his...
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“This research has been in a deep freeze for decades”
Imran Khan talks to Tom Ireland about how psychedelic drugs can help us better understand mental health and consciousness – but only if the way we view and regulate these drugs changes. 12th December 2022 Pre-pandemic, Imran Khan was best known for his...
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Ecology and Management of the African Buffalo
Edited by Alexandre Caron, Daniel Cornélis, Philippe Chardonnet & Herbert H.T. Prins Cambridge University Press, £39.99 Along with the African elephant, leopard, lion and black rhinoceros, the buffalo, Syncerus caffer, makes up one of the ‘big five’...
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Consultation Responses
The science policy team and education policy team develop responses to consultations on behalf of the Society, on topics including access to academic research, guidance on animal research, plant science, the funding and commercialisation of research,...
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Additional COVID-19 resources
The range of information sources on COVID-19 below are regularly updated, but if you have any more content, please contact us via email. Research and policy updates, news and expert opinion from the wider bioscience community Collaborative research...
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‘‘There were walls of fish, so many you could hardly see the corals”
Callum Roberts tells Tom Ireland how a network of protected areas of ocean can not only save marine biodiversity but help sustain the fishing industry in the long term The Biologist 66(3) p12-15 Professor Callum Roberts is an oceanographer and...
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British Moths
Chris Manley Bloomsbury, £35.99 Chris Manley Bloomsbury, £35.99 This beautifully presented book will prove useful to amateurs and serious recorders alike. The photos are clear and attractive, and cover more than 850 of the UK's larger moths ('macros')...
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Ground rules
As the International Year of Soils nears its end, Dr Tudor Dawkins and Dr Farnon Ellwood examine the nature and importance of soil and how farmers can keep it in good shape The Biologist 62(5) p26-29 The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)...
