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2021 animal research national statistics released
welfare and culture of care. "The National Centres for the 3Rs has been a fundamental force in driving the development and update of innovative solutions to replace, refine and reduce the use of animals in research and testing. “The Royal Society of...
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Defra's plant health chief discusses the new Plant Biosecurity Strategy as part of the RSB’s new initiative
in the autumn of 2021. Professor Spence outlined the successes of the current Plant Biosecurity Strategy, but the need to update this in the light of emerging threats as well as regulatory and trade changes following Brexit. Key achievements include the...
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RSB welcomes Sir Ian Boyd as the next President at this year’s AGM
virtually with more than 150 members and representatives from Member Organisations in attendance. The meeting included an update from Dr Mark Downs CSci FRSB on overall activity of the Society, as well as a finance report from Dr Paul Brooker CBiol...
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From Evidence to Art
and journals. I’m self-trained and work entirely digitally. It’s an ideal medium for palaeoart, as it’s much easier to update images with new data and you can easily correct mistakes. Triceratops by Mark Witton. (Click image to enlarge.) "Few sciences...
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Member profiles: Tuberculosis, teaching and science education
have been an important part of my whole professional life. As a biology teacher in the 1980s my membership helped me update my subject knowledge and stay connected with other biologists. Articles from The Biologist informed my teaching and I often took...
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Education during COVID-19
of the Society is to support Biology education through primary, secondary, further and higher education. We will regularly update this page with useful resources and advice for students and parents, along with announcements from the educating sector....
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150 people join the biggest AGM ever as it moves to online
able to attend without travelling. The meeting included a summary of the RSB accounts to be approved by the attendees, an update from Dr Mark Downs CSci FRSB, and a question and answer session with the honorary officers. The meeting also covered future...
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Back to my roots
of Warwick to pursue a taught master’s degree in agronomy. I felt it would rekindle my interest in the subject and perhaps update my skills and knowledge of the topic. My inquiry was met with a surprising response that I hadn’t considered. The...
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HE STEM teaching and learning advice
that provides visual, interactive computational experiments for teaching and learning science. Advance HE regularly update their advice page with resources and events for the HE sector. e-BioPracticals is a collection of simulations and other resources...
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Scientists of the world unite!
begin to critique that rigorously in our own experimentation.’ “I think that can really accelerate things. Now we can just update Google Docs on the fly and another laboratory can publish an addendum as quickly as it takes to write on a screen; it’s...
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Scientists of the world unite!
begin to critique that rigorously in our own experimentation.’ “I think that can really accelerate things. Now we can just update Google Docs on the fly and another laboratory can publish an addendum as quickly as it takes to write on a screen; it’s...
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"It's almost like 'crowd-science' - which can really accelerate science"
that and rigorously criticise in our own experimentation”. I think that can really accelerate things. Now we can just update our Google Docs on the fly, and another lab can publish an addendum as quickly as it takes to write on a screen, it's really...
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How to… write a lab handbook
made sense to readers (and what didn’t), what sections were being read and ignored (and thus what sections we needed to update, re-emphasise or remove), and what we had forgotten to write. The result is a ‘living document: we make minor edits and...
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Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species
all interspersed with choice quotes from Darwin’s original paper. The book is pitched as a ‘re-telling’ but it is also an update; Radeva (a molecular biologist by training) explains how our understanding of evolution has itself developed since Darwin:...
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What is ethics dumping?
the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership), and the hope is that more universities and funders will update their ethics policies. Yet those who can do most to prevent ethics dumping are the researchers who should ask themselves:...
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More than 100 members attend this year’s AGM
The Law Society in London. The 2019 Annual General Meeting took place on 15th May at The Law Society in London and included updates from the RSB chief executive, approval of the 2017-2018 finances, appointments to the RSB Council and this year’s Charter...
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Animal Science Meeting 2018 Report
team, together with a representative from Marvell Consulting, led the third session of the morning and presented an update about the development of the new e-licensing system, which will replace the current ASPeL. The replacement for ASPeL will follow...
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Heads of University Biosciences come together to discuss widening participation and public engagement
the media; research in schools with the Authentic Biology programme; widening participation with STEM initiatives, and an update on the Research Excellence Framework 2021. In the morning, the audience heard from Dr Annalisa Alexander from Imperial...
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The mysteries of milk
The Lancet 387(10017), 475–490 (2016). 2) World Cancer Research Fund/American Institute for Cancer Research. Continuous Update Project Findings & Reports. Accessed October 2016. 3) Parkin, D. M. et al. The fraction of cancer attributable to lifestyle...
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Descriptive Taxonomy: The Foundation of Biodiversity Research
on the value of identification. A recommended text for those working in taxonomy and searching for an accessible update on current practices. Dr Paul Ashton
