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Photography Competition Winners 2016
The theme for the photography competition in 2016 was Big to Small. The Society would like to congratulate the winners, who were celebrated at the Biology Week annual award ceremony. Photographer of the Year 2016: Winner Fighting Bulls by Robert Sommer...
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Photography Competition Winners 2014
The theme for the photography competition in 2014 theme was Home, Habitat and Shelter. The Society would like to congratulate the winners who were celebrated at the Biology Week Annual Award Ceremony. In the press The 2014 winners were featured in...
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Outbreaks and Epidemics: Battling Infection from Measles to Coronavirus
Meera Senthilingam Icon Books, £8.99 Health journalist and researcher Meera Senthilingam's book is a well-timed introduction to the study of infectious disease, and an account of humanity's attempts to come to terms with such diseases. Published just...
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The Wildlife Techniques Manual - Volume 1: Research; Volume 2: Management (Eighth Edition)
Edited by Nova J Silvy Johns Hopkins University Press, in association with The Wildlife Society, £129.50 Wildlife rangers and national park managers have a great ‘office’: environment outdoors with wide horizons, sometimes literally covering as far as...
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Barn Club: A Tale of Forgotten Elm Trees, Traditional Craft and Community Spirit
Robert J. Somerville Chelsea Green Publishing, £20.00 The Carley Barn, in Hertfordshire, was built from elm by hand in just one year using ancient skills. Barn Club describes how a group of around fifty craft people and willing apprentices, all...
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Plant Health Week takes root at RSB
10-16 May 2021 is National Plant Health Week in the UK, providing an opportunity to raise awareness of the importance of healthy plants. The initiative is part of the activity marking the International Year of Plant Health. 10-16 May 2021 is National...
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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: 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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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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Policy Profile: Lauren MᶜLeod MRSB
What do you do at the RSB? The RSB’s education policy team is focused on teaching and learning at primary, secondary and tertiary levels. Our work is led by input from a range of committees, our Member Organisations, and from a diverse range of people,...
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RSB members recognised in 2021 New Year’s honours list
The 2021 New Year’s Honours List recognises members and Fellows of the RSB for their biosciences and community work. The 2021 New Year’s Honours List recognises members and Fellows of the RSB for their biosciences and community work. Professor Wendy...
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School teacher of the year award for “the very best of biology teaching”
Paul Downie from Hyndland Secondary School, Glasgow, has won this year’s RSB School Biology Teacher of the Year Award. Paul Downie from Hyndland Secondary School, Glasgow, has won this year’s RSB School Biology Teacher of the Year Award. The award...
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My Lab Unlocked: Dr Antonia Sagona MRSB
Dr Antonia Sagona MRSB on how the Sagona lab studies and modifies phages to help diagnose and treat infections 20th August 2021 In my lab we work on genetically modified bacteriophages with properties that allow them to be used safely in a variety of...
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In Search of Mycotopia: Citizen Science, Fungi Fanatics, and the Untapped Potential of Mushrooms
Doug Bierend Chelsea Green Publishing, £18.00 In Search of Mycotopia is written in a descriptive, sometimes wry journalistic style, covering the author’s journeys around the globe in search of people and places dedicated to fungi. Containing twelve...
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Ants feasting on honeydew and cells destroying tuberculosis: the shortlist and winners of the RSB's Photography competition
The Royal Society of Biology’s annual photography competition attracts entries from amateur photographers around the world, with more than 1600 submissions received this year for the theme “interconnected”. The Royal Society of Biology’s annual...
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The parallel pandemics
Paediatrician Dr Thomas Williams looks at how measures designed to restrict the spread of COVID-19 are causing unpredictable disease dynamics in common childhood respiratory diseases such as RSV 9th December 2021 In recent years a paradox has emerged...
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Discovering British Wild Flowers
Deirdre A. Shirreffs Brambleby Books Ltd., £8.99 During the pandemic there has been an increase in interest in nature and the environment, as daily walks in the local woods or park became an important if oddly repetitive feature of life in lockdown....
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RSB members recognised in 2022 New Year’s Honours list
The 2022 New Year’s Honours List recognises a number of members and Fellows of the Royal Society of Biology for their bioscience and community work. The 2022 New Year’s Honours List recognises a number of members and Fellows of the Royal Society of...
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Coral Reefs: A Natural History
Charles Sheppard Princeton University Press, £28.00 (hardback) This is a very well presented and beautifully illustrated book written by a leader in coral reef research, who has several coral reef books already to his name. What is different about this...
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Education in Scotland
Education in Scotland is a devolved power, and the Royal Society of Biology's education policy team and the Royal Society of Biology in Scotland (RSBS) is keen to support and encourage the study of biology at schools, colleges and universities. The...
