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Risky business
6th September 2024 Amid growing concerns about biorisk and biosecurity, the RSB has launched a new professional register to help biologists and employers prove and improve competency in this important area of bioscience The rapid worldwide rise in the...
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Animal Science Meeting 2023 Report
fever and Bluetongue outbreaks, infectious diseases of animals can cause huge economic damage and threaten global food security. Vaccines are widely used to control these diseases but, even when available, can sometimes have severe constraints or...
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RSB partners with CWP to present ‘Biology for a Better Tomorrow’
a thriving economy. Stories will uncover biology’s impact in areas such as biodiversity, sustainable agriculture and food security, clean water, circularity and waste management, climate action, clean energy, health and wellbeing, and education and...
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Nature and climate policy issues
Committee recommended prioritising work to promote linked action on climate and biodiversity; increase our focus on UK biosecurity; and raise the profile of biodiversity in policymaking across government following the publication of the Dasgupta Review....
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Travellers’ tales
the small, round sweets named after the great composer! Joshua W P Bateman, Swansea University (supported by UK Health Security Agency) Travelled to the Inhaled Particles and NanOEHConference 2023, Manchester Joshua gave a talk at the Inhaled Particles...
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Helping you tackle the world’s challenges
change, biodiversity loss and chemicals pollution, the rapid development of new technologies and the risks to global food security all demonstrate the importance of biology and have raised the public profile of biologists. The Society’s science policy...
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Sowing the seeds of plant science
at Fera Science. I was excited to find this studentship as I had developed a keen interest in plant disease and food security during my degree. Through the course of the studentship this grew into a fascination for viruses, not only their devastating...
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21st Century BioChallenges Activity Kits
to facilitate engagement with current issues in biochemistry, focusing particularly on topics related to health and food security. They have been developed by the Royal Society of Biology and funded by the Biochemical Society. Five topics related to...
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RSB urges newly appointed ministers to engage the science community
The RSB has written to the newly appointed minister for science and investment security, Nusrat Ghani, and secretary of state for education, Kit Malthouse. The RSB has written to the newly appointed minister for science and investment security, Nusrat...
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RSB’s MO Twilight Meeting concludes there is a need for learned societies to unite
day, saying: “In the modern sense, we address someof the bigger challenges we have, such as global issues like food security. In my previous job in Government, food security was always there as a big issue, even if government didn’t understand it, I...
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RSB welcomes newly appointed science minister – Nusrat Ghani
The government has announced today that Nusrat Ghani has been appointed the UK Minister for Science and Investment Security. The government has announced today that Nusrat Ghani has been appointed the UK Minister for Science and Investment Security....
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“If this doesn’t work, I’m not sure anything will”
to responding, not to the extremists, but to those who are hesitant. Have you or your colleagues ever felt like your security was threatened by the fact that you're making this vaccine that is at the centre of some quite extreme conspiracies? No, there...
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Member profiles: biology journalism, One Health and social media
CBiol FRSB AFHEA ARAgS FRCVS, Senior Lecturer (Education) in Animal Health & Welfare at the Institute of Global Food Security, Queens University Belfast I first discovered biology… Through my dad who was the Head of Science at a local secondary school....
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“If this doesn’t work, I’m not sure anything will”
to responding, not to the extremists, but to those who are hesitant. Have you or your colleagues ever felt like your security was threatened by the fact that you're making this vaccine that is at the centre of some quite extreme conspiracies? No, there...
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The Covid-19 catastrophe: What's gone wrong and how to stop it happening again?
and long-term health impacts are immense, especially for the poorest and most vulnerable in our society. While "national security means health security", as Horton contends, "SARS CoV-2 transcends states, borders, and sovereignty." A consequence of this...
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RSB at the British Science Festival: Can gene editing save the world?
will discuss the technique's potential to help in the fight against diseases, like malaria, and improve our global food security, today from 14:00 – 15:00. The discussions, which will take place at Swansea University, will also address the wider...
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Belfast to ‘eat for survival’ in The Hungry Games
Market, Belfast. Dr Penny Fletcher MRSB, events and public engagement manager at the Royal Society of Biology, said: “Food security for our growing global population is one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century. However, in the UK we still throw...
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UK celebrates plant power
if we are to meet the challenges facing society, including limiting the impacts of climate change, and providing food security for a world with a population expected to reach 9.6 billion by 2050. "On Fascination of Plants Day 2015, I encourage everyone...
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Seeing the Big Picture: Sir Mark Walport
John Beddington, often spoke about how to tackle the 'perfect storm' of increasing population, climate change and food security. What are your key priorities for your time in office? My priority is to provide advice that the Government needs in order to...
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Schools celebrate Biology Week with food waste assemblies
how we can reduce this huge wastage. The animation was produced by the Society of Biology in partnership with Global Food Security, and is accompanied by notes about why we waste food and how we can reduce this. Food waste has been a theme of Biology...
