David W Laist Johns Hopkins University Press, £33.50 David Laist's work on right whales is an astounding purchase. The majority of the 22 chapters offer a comprehensive history of whaling in the North ...

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 ...

ice retreats can law fill the gap? Climate Policy 2019. 3) Van Soest, R. W. M. et al. World Porifera Database. Accessed at http://www.marinespecies.org/porifera on ...

Membership of the Royal Society of Biology (RSB) is open to learned societies, membership organisations, corporate bodies and councils operating in the biological sciences, as well as to schools and ...

Trocchio, a professor at the University of Lecce, who took care of the press room at the time, did not like the technical jargon I had used – and rightly so. He used a word that we would never have ...

Gary Hogben reports on efforts to protect leatherback turtle eggs in Costa Rica The Biologist 66(1) p14-17 It’s 3am. I am sitting in a small rain shelter, attached to a fenced enclosure, on the ...

his belief that science is ‘too important not to be part of popular culture’. The RSB is also delighted that Professor Neil Gow CBiol FRSB and Professor James Prosser OBE FRSB, a member of the RSB ...

Former ecologist Emma Smart talks to Emma Wrake AMRSB about her recent arrest at an Extinction Rebellion protest, and why more and more scientists are joining the activist group Earlier this month, ...

The first seed guide for Amazonian rainforests written by field leaders. Both authors have worked intensively for years using several grants to complete this project, with one author collecting seeds ...

Gould Professor Stephen McClean Professor Robert James Professor Amanda Harvey FRSB Professor James McEvoy MRSB Alison Snape FRSB Secretariat Zoha Tauseef AMRSB Observers Professor Gerry McKenna FRSB ...

recent announcement of £280 million for universities to help research continuity during the COVID-19 response. Dr Mark Downs CSci FRSB, chief executive of the Royal Society of Biology said, “We ...

I was pleasantly surprised when I initially thumbed through the 500-plus pages of this book. The layout is clear and concise, and is a single-author textbook, which means you are not faced with ...