The Company of Biologists

This #PlasticFreeJuly, read how reducing the use of plastic was just one step that one of our grant recipients took to make their conference more sustainable biologists.com/stories/get-an… #Sustainability #grants

Our next extraordinary biologist is Norbert Perrimon, a @DMM_Journal Editorial Advisory Board member and author of one of @Dev_journal's most cited papers. #100biologists

Offering up to £3,000 to graduate #PhD students and #postdocs, our Travelling Fellowships help early-career researchers undertake collaborative visits to other laboratories. Next application deadline is 8 August 2025 biologists.com/grants/travell…

We offer a number of practical ways to help ECRs meet the unique needs and challenges you may encounter. We believe that, as our future leaders in biology, it is vital to provide you with the right support during these early stages of your academic career. biologists.com/about-us/early…

Read about our experience of hosting a webinar as part of the @UN Ocean Meeting on The Pavilion for People, an innovative online platform to gather people together: biologists.com/stories/hostin… @SustDev @CivilSociety_UN

Read about our carbon footprint calculator for events – our latest resource to help organise your scientific meetings, workshops and conferences more sustainably: biologists.com/stories/carbon…

Thank you Meghan Riddell @MeghanRiddellfor sharing your experience of fee-free #OApublishing in @Dev_journal via our #ReadAndPublish agreement with @UAlberta @uofalibrary Read Meghan’s paper bit.ly/4eTGvUX Is your institution participating? bit.ly/3O7BxGi

Closing the chapter: Goodbye from Joyce Our (former) Community Manager @joyz_yu bids farewell👋 to the Node community. Check out her (almost) final post: thenode.biologists.com/closing-the-ch…

📢Call for speakers We are looking for ECRs to speak in our mini-symposium run together with the popular membrane trafficking webinar series organised by @Fran_Bottanelli @felixmendu & @ishier_raote. focalplane.biologists.com/2025/07/14/foc… Apply by 24 August

The Node at 15 – Then and now with Joachim Goedhart We got in touch with prolific authors of the Node over the past 15 years to revisit the posts they've written for us and see what they’re up to now. First up is @joachimgoedhart: thenode.biologists.com/the-node-at-15…

Thank you to organisers Dustin Marshall and Craig White and everyone who joined us for this week's Workshop 'Why Are Cells the Size They Are?' biologists.com/workshops #BiologistsWorkshops

Issue 13 has closed and the Special Issue: The Integrative Biology of the Gut has opened The front cover (issue 13) shows a juvenile smallmouth bass in the Buffalo National River, which is a fish that can finetune its vision through life journals.biologists.com/jeb/issue/228/…

One month left to apply for a funded early-career researcher place at our Workshop 'Macro to Micro: Quantitative Plant Imaging Across Scales' organised by Mark Fricker, Alexander Johnson, Joseph McKenna and Markéta Šámalová biologists.com/workshops/febr… #BiologistsWorkshops

It's always a pleasure to meet up with our Directors and Editors-in-Chief, discussing strategy, future plans and ideas. Thanks to all for your enthusiasm and input.