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History of Climate Change: From the Earth’s Origins to the Anthropocene
Antonello Provenzale (translated by Alice Kilgarriff) Polity, £25 Climate change dominates not only the environmental headlines but also the general media, as environmental disasters begin to strike with greater frequency and intensity. Mostly such...
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Science in the spotlight: Autumn Budget 2024 and debate in the House of Lords
Science, technology, and innovation have recently been at the heart of the political agenda. The Royal Society of Biology was pleased to provide a briefing for a debate on the contribution of science and technology to the UK economy in the House of...
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Awards, medals, and a new digital series at the RSB’s Biology Week Awards Ceremony 2024
The Royal Society of Biology celebrated its highly anticipated annual awards ceremony last night as one of the flagship events of Biology Week. Held at the Royal Geographical Society in South Kensington, London, the event was attended by over 100...
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Black History Month: Remembering Alan Powell Goffe
Above: Dr Alan Powell Goffe at his desk at Wellcome. 3rd October 2024 A pioneering Black virologist whose life was cut tragically short When microbiologist Alan Goffe drowned in the summer of 1966, aged 46, the world lost a brilliant biologist who had...
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Black History Month: Biologist and activist Margaret Collins, AKA 'the termite lady'
Margaret Collins in 1991 pictured outside the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, in Washington D.C. Image courtesy of Herbert and Veronica Collins with thanks to Vernard Lewis. The Biologist explores the USA’s first Black...
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Reports
Annual update September 2024 In the year following our first AGM, in September 2023, we have run several online events including two during Biology Week in October 2023. The first was a fascinating talk by Sasi Suksavate, about how the use camera traps...
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My Lab Unlocked: Hypoxia Researcher Professor Sonia Rocha FRSB
Professor Sonia Rocha on the link between oxygen and inflammation Our team investigates mechanisms controlling gene expression in response to low oxygen and how these interface with inflammation. Oxygen is essential for the vast majority of...
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The Queen of Pain
23rd February 2024 Understanding the fascinating ways our brain creates and modifies our perception of pain is the key to better pain relief, says Professor Irene Tracey To most people, pain is a simple four-letter word that means ‘it hurts’. For the...
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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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The Queen of Pain
23rd February 2024 Understanding the fascinating ways our brain creates and modifies our perception of pain is the key to better pain relief, says Professor Irene Tracey To most people, pain is a simple four-letter word that means ‘it hurts’. For the...
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Current Activities
ASG meetings The ASG meets quarterly, either in person or online, to share updates on animal science related activities, to carry out horizon scan of upcoming issues, and to collect evidence and views on current science and policy topics (e.g....
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Honorary Fellows S-Z
Our Honorary Fellows listed by surname: A - F G - K L - R S - Z Lord Sainsbury of Turville Hon FRSB Lord Sainsbury of Turville read history and psychology at King's College, Cambridge, and then joined J Sainsbury plc in 1963. He received an MBA from...
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Sowing the seeds of plant science
The Biologist looks at how a series of DEFRA-sponsored studentships are helping to build resilience and capacity in the UK plant health sector This year the RSB is again partnering with DEFRA to offer 12 plant health undergraduate studentships. The...
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ASG Resources
An overview of reports, statements, libraries and website links related to animal research in the UK. [Please note that this page is currently under review and will be updated soon to include more recent resources and links to relevant third-party...
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Bridging the gaps
What can educators and their institutions do to close the worrying gap in attainment between different groups of students in STEM? September 5th 2022 In 2017-2018, 80.9% of white students were given a first or 2:1, compared to 67% in racially...
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Renaming Krebs
Biologists should be consistent and descriptive in our terms for biological phenomena – and phase out confusing eponymous names for good 13th December 2021 Many years ago I recall our A level biology curriculum covered metabolic pathways that were...
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Time to put ‘Krebs’, ‘Calvin’ and other such monikers to bed?
Biologists should be consistent and descriptive in our terms for biological phenomena – and phase out confusing eponymous names for good 13th December 2021 Many years ago I recall our A level biology curriculum covered metabolic pathways that were...
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Who was... Kathleen Carpenter?
Catherine Duigan explores the life and times of Dr Kathleen Carpenter (1891–1970), a pioneering scientist known as 'the mother of freshwater ecology' Photos of Kathleen courtesy of the Aberystwyth University Archives. The Biologist 65(3) p22-25...
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How the cat got its stripes
Ever wondered why your cat looks the way it does? Dr Jill Johnson explores how various genes combine to make moggies from ginger to blue, striped or blotched, wearing tuxedos or socks, and even, occasionally, with six toes May 27th 2022 In the UK about...
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Mind-blowing research
The use of psychedelic substances as treatments for conditions like depression will revolutionise mental health care and represents the biggest innovation in psychiatry since the 1950s, says Professor David Nutt September 8th 2021 Professor David Nutt...
