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"For science, this is a challenging time"
Sir Paul Nurse Hon FRSB, director of the Crick Institute, on turning Europe's largest biomedical research centre into a giant testing facility. Can you summarise how the Crick shifted its focus since the pandemic began? When Coronavirus started to...
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Nature’s Calendar: A Year in the Life of a Wildlife Sanctuary
Colin Rees Johns Hopkins University Press, £24.50 In this absorbing book Colin Rees has documented his encounters with the incredible range of flora and fauna encountered on his forays into the Jugg Bay Wetlands Sanctuary and its surrounding areas. His...
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Scientists of the world unite!
Since the pandemic began Tom Ireland has been talking to bioscientists from around the world who have sprung into action to help to understand, track and treat COVID-19 June 5th 2020 In early March, as the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 started...
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"All I'm presenting is a range of possibilities"
Theoretical epidemiologist professor Sunetra Gupta talks to Tom Ireland about alternative models of how and when COVID-19 could have spread through the UK Sunetra Gupta is professor of theoretical epidemiology at Oxford University’s Department of...
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Gone with the wind
Dr Sara Goodacre explains how and why spiders ‘fly’ and ‘sail’ to pastures new 30th July 2020 Dispersal shapes the world around us. At local scales it determines the chance that two individuals will meet. Over larger scales it determines species...
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The Ecology of Malaria Vectors
Jacques Derek Charlwood CRC Press 2020, £63.00 I feel somewhat pipped at the post in writing this review: the foreword to The Ecology of Malaria Vectors already lays out the important position statement, that this book represents not only a future...
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Some Assembly Required: Decoding four billion years of life, from ancient fossils to DNA
Neil Shubin Oneworld Publications, £18.99 In Your Inner Fish Neil Shubin described how much of the human body reflects its deep evolutionary past. Now, in Some Assembly Required, Shubin expands upon this using both recent research and older examples to...
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200 students attend this year’s Bioscience Careers Day at Middlesex University London
into options available in plant research, academia and industry. Event delegates also had the opportunity to build upon their employability skills with a CV workshop and practice interviews. Students hearing from experts in the careers talks (Photo...
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Scientists of the world unite!
Since the pandemic began Tom Ireland has been talking to bioscientists from around the world who have sprung into action to help to understand, track and treat COVID-19 June 5th 2020 In early March, as the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 started...
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EU gives governments more flexibility on GM crops
The EU has given member states the option to ban cultivation of GMOs that have been recommended as safe to grow by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). The EU has given member states the option to ban cultivation of GMOs that have been...
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Biology Week 2015
An annual celebration of the biosciences, with events around the UK and beyond Biology Week 2015 was a huge success. If you would like to organise your own event for Biology Week 2017 contact Karen Patel. Saturday 10 October 2015 Visit to Erddig for...
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Buff-tailed Bumblebee Voted Favourite UK Insect
array of behaviours and traits. They also play a fundamental role in ecosystems, and human life on earth is dependent upon their continued existence. However, they are too often ignored, overlooked, or considered little more than a nuisance.” Whilst the...
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UK fascinated by flying ants
Hundreds of budding biologists across the UK have shared information about flying ant days around the UK this summer. Hundreds of budding biologists across the UK have shared information about flying ant days around the UK this summer on social media,...
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RSB launches poll to find the UK’s favourite insect
array of behaviours and traits. They also play a fundamental role in ecosystems, and human life on earth is dependent upon their continued existence. However, they are too often ignored, overlooked, or considered little more than a nuisance. “The RSB’s...
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Plaque celebrating Hodgkin and Huxley unveiled in Plymouth
This morning a plaque celebrating Sir Alan Hodgkin and Sir Andrew Huxley, who put electrodes into squid to further understanding of our nervous system, was unveiled by the Society of Biology at the Marine Biological Association in Plymouth. This...
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Starling survey reveals new murmuration hot spots
The Society of Biology and the University of Gloucestershire have teamed up to find out more about starling murmurations, in particular, why this behaviour occurs. The Starling Murmuration Survey launched on 17th October and has already received...
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Scientists concerned that culture of research can hinder scientific endeavour
explore the effects of the wide range of influences on science researchers. These include the expectations that they place upon themselves and feel are applied by others, the working practices that they develop or learn, and their available funding and...
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The Climate Casino: Risk, Uncertainty and Economics for a Warming World
William Nordhaus Yale University Press, £20.00 William Nordhaus Yale University Press, £20.00 The scientific community may have reached a consensus regarding the probable causes of recent and apparently ongoing climate change. However, the extent of...
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Dangers in A level sciences grading reform highlighted
As Ofqual announces the separation of marks for practical science from core A level grades, a leading partnership of scientific societies including the Society of Biology, SCORE, has expressed its disappointment and concern. As Ofqual announces the...
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Interdependence: Biology and Beyond
Kriti Sharma Fordham University Press, £16.99 Kriti Sharma Fordham University Press, £16.99 It is a rare treat to indulge in reading a work that switches between philosophical reasoning and empirical biology with eloquent mastery. This is just what...
