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The next generation of governance
27th May 2024 An RSB scheme allows early career scientists to shadow the work of trustees, with the aim of helping to diversify the boards, councils and committees of scientific organisations and charities You might not be surprised to read that...
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Cloning for conservation
27th May 2024 Revive & Restore’s lead scientist Ben Novak on the organisation’s mission to use cutting-edge biotechnology to help save and ‘resurrect’ important species Revive & Restore is a not-for-profit organisation promoting the development and...
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Cloning for conservation
27th May 2024 Revive & Restore’s lead scientist Ben Novak on the organisation’s mission to use cutting-edge biotechnology to help save and ‘resurrect’ important species Revive & Restore is a not-for-profit organisation promoting the development and...
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Tackling inequalities in research
The recent pandemic highlighted how clinical research excludes or overlooks the people most affected by the virus – exacerbating their mistrust in science 12th December 2022 Professor Winston Morgan FRSB is director of Impact and Innovation at the...
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Tackling inequalities in clinical studies
The recent pandemic highlighted how clinical research excludes or overlooks the people most affected by the virus – exacerbating their mistrust in science 12th December 2022 Professor Winston Morgan FRSB is director of Impact and Innovation at the...
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Spotlight on: Sustainable agriculture
The Biologist Vol 62(1) p30-31 Sustainable agriculture uses the principles of ecology to make farming as efficient as possible with minimal or even positive environmental impact. It is the production of food or other plant or animal products using...
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How to…Apply for a postdoc
Rebecca Nesbit looks at making the transition from postgrad to postdoc The Biologist 63(2) p30-31 How many people enter the final months of their PhD with the twin fears of whether they will get it done in time and whether they will actually get a job...
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War of the Worms
Parasitic worms blight the lives of billions of people worldwide. Stefano Colombo looks at the challenges of vaccinating against them The Biologist 64(1) p10-13 The idea of human bodies being hijacked by parasites might seem like something out of a...
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"If you've had your leg dragged under a motorbike, you'll sure as hell want this technology"
A pioneering vet and star of Channel 4’s The Supervet, Professor Noel Fitzpatrick is using his profile to try to unite the fields of animal and human biomedical research The Biologist 64(5) p26 Born in Laois, Ireland, Professor Noel Fitzpatrick...
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"I've never seen a dividing line between human and animal medicine"
A pioneering vet and star of Channel 4’s The Supervet, Professor Noel Fitzpatrick is using his profile to try to unite the fields of animal and human biomedical research The Biologist 64(5) p26 Born in Laois, Ireland, Professor Noel Fitzpatrick...
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Meet the Presidents
In May, Dame Julia Goodfellow will become the third president of the RSB, taking over from Dame Jean Thomas, who has been president since 2014. Tom Ireland caught up with the two distinguished scientists to discuss bioscience, Brexit and the Society's...
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RSB@10: The first decade & beyond
The Society of Biology, now the Royal Society of Biology, was founded 10 years ago this month. The Biologist convened a panel of key figures in the Society’s history to discuss why a unified voice for the biosciences was needed, what the organisation...
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The Motorcycle Diaries
For the last five years Janelle Kaz has combined her love of nature and motorcycles on a two-wheeled intercontinental conservation adventure. She gives The Biologist a taster of the latest leg of her trip, across Chile and Peru, where she meets groups...
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Nichola Raihani FRSB: The Social Instinct
Nichola Raihani FRSB talks to Tom Ireland about her new book, The Social Instinct – which explores how all life on Earth – from genes to nation states – is built upon cooperation 8th June 2021 Hi Nichola. Can you tell me a bit about your research...
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Conflicting ideas
Harmit Malik talks to The Biologist about his influential work on genetic conflict – and how reconstructing virus–host arms races from deep in our evolutionary history could help us design new antiviral proteins February 27th 2022 Earlier this year the...
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Conflicting ideas
Harmit Malik talks to The Biologist about his influential work on genetic conflict – and how reconstructing virus–host arms races from deep in our evolutionary history could help us design new antiviral proteins February 27th 2022 Earlier this year the...
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Big Biology Day is a BIG success
Biology Week 2013 was kick started by the Society of Biology East Anglia branch's Big Biology Day held at Hills Road Sixth Form College in Cambridge on the 12th October. This was the second year that Ian Harvey and Amanda Burton have run the Big...
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‘‘There were walls of fish, so many you could hardly see the corals”
Callum Roberts tells Tom Ireland how a network of protected areas of ocean can not only save marine biodiversity but help sustain the fishing industry in the long term The Biologist 66(3) p12-15 Professor Callum Roberts is an oceanographer and...
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Leaving Academia: A Practical Guide
Christopher Caterine Princeton University Press, £58.00 For most people who start on an academic career path, their future lies elsewhere – PhD students and postdocs vastly outnumber senior research staff positions. However, that transition to a new...
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War on the world
Tom Ireland explores the potential for environmental disaster in eastern Ukraine – and how the pollution and degraded landscapes of war drive further conflict May 23rd 2022 The Novhorodske phenol factory lies roughly 35km north of the city of Donetsk...
