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Season’s Greetings from RSB!
As we look to 2023, we at the Royal Society of Biology take this opportunity to reflect on the work that we have carried out this year, working with and on behalf of the bioscience community, and specifically our individual and organisational members,...
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Industrial & Summer Placements
Industrial Placements Some universities have year long industrial placements built into their bioscience degree courses. Under the watch of an assigned supervisor they allow students to build upon skills learnt through their degree as well as learn new...
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Molds, Mushrooms and Medicines: Our Lifelong Relationship with Fungi
Nicholas P. Money Princeton University Press, £25.00 There is a growing awareness that we are interdependent and intertwined with the whole biosphere, rather than merely being a part of – or worse still, apart from – it. Yet many of us still have a...
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Southeast Asia
The RSB branch structure is changing in 2025. Our members in Southeast Asia have run a range of great online events. Read about our past events and find out about upcoming events near you on our events pages. Our members Download branch demographics to...
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RSB Policy Internships
The RSB annually hosts two policy internship positions for current PhD students who are funded by AHRC, BBSRC, EPSRC, ESRC, MRC, and NERC. The successful applicants each spend three months working at the RSB within our education or science policy...
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Feeding the machine
6th December 2024 Biological AI needs a fair and sustainable data supply. Oliver Vince and Glen Gowers explain how we can explore the planet’s biodiversity in a strategic and equitable way Biotechnology is the science of taking biological ‘components’...
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Membership Promotion Toolkit
A range of free resources are available for anyone to use, to promote the benefits of membership of the Royal Society of Biology (RSB). Hard copy and digital resources: To request hard copy resources, please fill in the membership requests form, no...
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Surviving ‘the politics factory’
Professor Sir Ian Boyd. Image by A.K.Purkiss. 21 February 2025 Professor Sir Ian Boyd gives an inside look at the challenges and absurdities that scientists face when working in government In his new book, Science and Politics, RSB president Professor...
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Partnerships
Acting as one voice for the biosciences, the Royal Society of Biology has key partnerships with several sister organisations outside of our wide Member Organisation base, supporting their pan-science work. Links to their websites, a short synopsis and...
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Yorkshire
The RSB branch structure is changing in 2025. Our members in Yorkshire have run a range of great local events. Read about our past events and find out about upcoming events near you on our events pages. Our members Visit the branch demographics to see...
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Back to the future
6th September 2024 Could ancient DNA, surviving in permafrost from hot periods in the past, help us save crops from drought and extreme heat in our ever-warming world? Anthropogenic atmospheric warming is resulting in major disturbances of the global...
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Omics for the environment
23rd February 2024 Multi-omics data, usually used for biomedical research, can help provide ecologists with a deeper understanding of the health of ecosystems Historically, environmental monitoring has focused on assessing the presence and toxic...
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Reports
Lambing time at Llysfasi 13 March 2024 We are standing in a chilly damp wind 265 metres up in the Clwydian Hills, looking down at the distant Llysfasi ‘campus’ over 100 m below. Despite the conditions we are totally engaged in listening to Dewi Wyn...
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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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Vertebrate Life (11th Edition)
F Harvey Pough, William E Bemis, Betty McGuire and Christine M Janis OUP, £144.99 Vertebrate life is almost as diverse as it is ubiquitous across most habitats around the globe, from small to large animals living in water or on the land. This is the...
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Reports
Branch Talks 2024 June 2024 Branch members have enjoyed four talks in the first half of 2024. The year was started off by Branch Chair Professor Iain Gordon with a talk based upon his recently published book The Equids: A Suite of Splendid Species....
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When is flying ant day 2024 and why do they appear
Scientists at the Royal Society of Biology discredit the claim that there is one annual day where flying ants emerge and highlight the surprising benefits they provide to the environment. Scientists at the Royal Society of Biology discredit the claim...
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My Lab Unlocked: Professor of Sustainable Biotechnology, Louise Horsfall FRSB
Professor Louise Horsfall on using microbes to generate in-demand materials, such as lithium, from waste Certain bacteria have the ability to form metal-based nanoparticles allowing them to survive in what might otherwise be toxic concentrations of...
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Early Career Lecturers in Bioscience
The Early Career Lecturers in Biosciences (ECLBio) is an advisory group to the Heads of University Biosciences (HUBS). The group feeds in the views of early career staff to HUBS and the Royal Society of Biology activities. Follow us on X (formally...
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CPD
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) can be defined as 'the process through which an individual maintains and extends the knowledge and skills necessary for lifelong professional competence'. Why do CPD? In a fast moving world, it is ever more...
