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First ever recipient of the RSB’S Apprentice of the Year Award announced
The RSB has announced the recipient of the first ever Apprentice of the Year Award, in recognition of outstanding individuals and the contributions apprentices make to the workforce. The RSB has announced the recipient of the first ever Apprentice of...
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Hullabaloo At Home 2020
The Royal Society of Biology outreach and engagement team have produced activities to enable you to take part in Hullabaloo At Home. You can get involved with the festival weekend from the comfort of your own home - just choose one of the easy to...
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Zoological Society of London
The Zoological Society of London (ZSL) is an international conservation charity. ZSL engages with millions of people through two zoos, ZSL London and ZSL Whipsnade Zoo, each year. ZSL are actively involved in conservation efforts and, through...
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Zone 3: Scientists At Work
Welcome to Zone 3 of Science at Home! This zone is full of interviews and short films about what it is like to be a scientist. We've got researchers from all areas of science talking about the research they are doing, their career paths, achievements,...
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Pinch point
Alli Cartwright is one of a small number of conservationists captive-breeding the endangered white-clawed crayfish – helping this keystone species battle invasive competitors and the ‘crayfish plague’ December 4th 2020 Walking into the room of...
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Mark Logan MP joins members to discuss funding, education, and international research and development
Mark Logan MP, for Bolton North East and member of the House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee, joined RSB members online on 24th February to discuss a wide range of topics, including current inquiries, future funding models, and...
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My Lab Unlocked: The Hoskisson Lab
Professor Paul Hoskisson FRSB and his team study how bacteria evolve to produce useful compounds, such as antimicrobials, in response to their environment. March 2021 The majority of my research is focused on how and why the bacteria Streptomyces...
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Member profiles: Hormones, genetics and brewing beer
Our latest member profiles explore the working lives of neuroendocrinologist Dr Rebecca Dumbell CSci MRSB; director of the MRC Human Genetics Unit at the University of Edinburgh Prof Wendy Bickmore CBE FRSB, and brewer David Ryder MRSB These profiles...
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My Lab Unlocked: Professor Petra Oyston at Porton Down
Professor Petra Oyston FRSB explains the unique projects and working life at the UK's Defence Science & Technology Laboratory (Dstl) March 2021 I am exceptionally proud to work at Dstl. The Dstl site near Salisbury, known historically as Porton Down,...
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Lizards of the World: Natural History and Taxon Accounts
Gordon B Rodda Johns Hopkins University Press, £111.00 Lizards, and reptiles more broadly, are often the brunt of any taxonomic joke. ‘Solitary’, ‘innate’ and ‘sluggish’ are all words associated with lizards, but these are simply the opinions of people...
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Member profiles: tree-climbing fish and technician support
Our latest members include the Indonesian bioengineer Adhityo Wicaksono MRSB and Lucy Hudon MRSB, an advocate for science technicians September 15th These profiles appeared in the Autumn 2021 issue of The Biologist (Vol 68 No 3) A Day in the Life:...
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Big numbers aplenty as Policy Lates tackles the complexities of food
Attendees of the latest RSB Policy Lates discussion heard a variety of staggering and sobering statistics on the need to reform the way we grow and consume food. Attendees of the latest RSB Policy Lates discussion heard a variety of staggering and...
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Policy Profile: Helen Mitchell MRSB
The RSB education policy officer and teacher on helping shape how biology is taught across the UK How would you describe your role at the RSB and what you do? Within the education policy team, I focus on curricula and supporting the Society’s...
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Policy Profile: Alessandro Coatti MRSB
The RSB’s senior science policy officer on the many intersecting policy issues in animal science February 21st 2022 What do you do at the RSB? Within the science policy team we tend to have specialist areas that we focus on, and mine is primarily...
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RSB statement on the invasion of Ukraine
The Royal Society of Biology abhors the attacks of the Russian Federation against Ukraine and its people. The Royal Society of Biology abhors the attacks of the Russian Federation against Ukraine and its people. We know that amongst the entire...
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Defra's plant health chief discusses the new Plant Biosecurity Strategy as part of the RSB’s new initiative
The first event in RSB’s new plant health initiative, funded by Defra, saw almost 200 people join to discuss the development of the new GB Plant Biosecurity Strategy. The first event in RSB’s new plant health initiative, funded by Defra, saw almost 200...
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Something in the air
Tom Ireland speaks to ecologist Dr Fabian Roger about using airborne DNA to detect species living nearby Dr Fabian Roger is an ecologist and postdoctoral researcher interested in new methods to discover and monitor biodiversity. In recent work, he and...
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Hunting for 'holes of hope'
Above: the characteristic holes or 'plaques' indicating bacteriophage infection of a plate of bacteria. Courtesy of Ninjatacoshell via Wikimedia commons. Bacteriophages found by members of the public are helping create libraries of viruses that could...
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The lynx effect
The Lynx UK Trust is submitting its second application to trial the reintroduction of this striking wild cat to a forest in central Scotland May 31st 2021 Walking through a forest in the early light you see a flash of fur in the shadows between the...
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Breaking down barriers
A better understanding of how bacterial biofilms form is vital to prepare us for future pandemics and the worsening of the antimicrobial crisis, writes Susana Direito May 31st 2021 In the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918-1919 the majority of the estimated...
