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RSB Ambassadors
What is an RSB ambassador? RSB ambassadors are enthusiastic, active and engaged members of the Royal Society of Biology who act as the key contact for the RSB within their workplace. Ambassadors showcase the benefits of membership, promote the work of...
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Reports
Building a new woodland 27 April 2024 Members of the Northern Branch had an interesting, guided tour at Low Burnhall Woods, hosted by two volunteers from the Woodland Trust. Low Burnhall Woods is a patchwork of habitats comprising of ancient woodland,...
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Reports
gives the finder a financial reward; acoustically to follow the behaviour of individual smolts as they head towards the sea and can be misled by changes in water levels to head the wrong way to almost certain predation), counting, fish trapping, scale...
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Ahab’s Rolling Sea: a Natural History of Moby-Dick
sea, believes that should change. He explores how Moby-Dick was created from Herman Melville’s own amazing experiences at sea and the scientific literature available at the time, as across the pond Darwin was working on On the Origin of Species. King...
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‘I'm supporting an institution that is supporting biology’
The RSB’s new president, Professor Sir Ian Boyd, talks to The Biologist about his experiences as a government chief scientific adviser and his ideas for supporting and promoting UK science September 12th 2022 In May Professor Sir Ian Boyd took over...
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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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A cultural phenomenon
fantasy One Million Years B.C. more than those of the palaeontological literature. A cryptozoological tradition in which sea and lake monsters are interpreted as post-Cretaceous plesiosaurs is dependent on a 19thcentury view that these animals swam with...
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Accelerating Evolution
Artificial gene drives are a way of spreading genetic changes through a population quickly – for example, to make large numbers of wild mosquitos infertile or unable to carry malaria. Bruce Whitelaw and Gus McFarlane explain how this technology works,...
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Echinoderm Aquaculture
Nicholas Brown and Stephen Eddy (Eds) Wiley-Blackwell, £153.00 Nicholas Brown and Stephen Eddy (Eds) Wiley-Blackwell, £153.00 Sea urchins are consumed in various parts of the world, sometimes as a high-status dish in high-end restaurants, sometimes as...
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Sex, Drugs and Sea Slime
Ellen Prager The University of Chicago Press, £9.50 Ellen Prager The University of Chicago Press, £9.50 Many people may buy this book on impulse having just read the title. It is indeed a treasure trove of facts, relating to the awe-inspiring but less...
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A worm's world
As well as being ubiquitous on land, nematodes are the most abundant multicellular animals on the ocean floor and can teach us a lot about marine environments, explains Laetitia Gunton The Biologist 64(3) p18-21 "If all the matter in the universe...
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Breach of the Peace
Arctic marine mammals evolved in one of the world's quietest oceanic environments. Dr Lauren McWhinnie and Dr William Halliday report on how increasing shipping noise in the region is affecting the way they communicate and forage The Biologist 64(6)...
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How to…Beachcomb
physalis) live out of sight of land, travelling at the whim of winds and currents. They inhabit the interface between sea and air, half above and half below the water, with poisonous tentacles dangling beneath the surface to catch prey. These species...
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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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‘‘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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Echinoidea: with bilateral symmetry - Irregularia
Heinke A G Schultz De Gruyter, £200.00 When most people think of sea urchins, they picture a rounded, symmetric and circular animal with five-fold symmetry that lives in the sea. Although it is certainly correct that all sea urchins live in the sea,...
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War on the world
Tom Ireland explores the potential for environmental disaster in eastern Ukraine – and how the pollution and degraded landscapes of war drive further conflict May 23rd 2022 The Novhorodske phenol factory lies roughly 35km north of the city of Donetsk...
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The imitation game
Jennifer Mather looks at how cephalopods can perfectly camouflage themselves and create stunning visual displays with their skin – all without colour vision The Biologist 65(6) p10-13 Pictures courtesy of Craig Foster, Seachangeproject, South Africa...
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Pregnant pygmies
Dr Richard Smith introduces an exclusive extract from his new collection of marine biology research, photography and tales of discovery, The World Beneath, which includes the first images ever taken of a male pygmy seahorse giving birth December 4th...
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Hatching a plan
Gary Hogben reports on efforts to protect leatherback turtle eggs in Costa Rica The Biologist 66(1) p14-17 It’s 3am. I am sitting in a small rain shelter, attached to a fenced enclosure, on the Atlantic coast of Costa Rica. The rain from a tropical...
