It was great talking to Giulia Paci with @preLights about her work and #preprints at the @Co_Biologists #biologists100 earlier this year.

https://youtu.be/0JQMPq0hSEY

And exciting that she is again talking (more science and less preprints) today for the @Dev_journal presents… seminar

https://thenode.biologists.com/development-presents-bsdb-postdoc-poster-prize-winners/development-presents/

JEB has been hosting its Symposium for almost 50 years & this year, as part of @Co_Biologists 100th Anniversary #biologists100, the symposium, 'Sensory perception in a changing world', was open to anyone at the Biologists @ 100 meeting. Find out more

https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/228/11/jeb250808/368162

Issue 10 has closed & issue 11 is open

https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/issue/228/10

The journal front cover shows giant barrel sponges at ∼20m depth on the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef off the Belize coast (Carrie Bow Cay) and accompanies a #biologists100 Review. Photo credit: Joseph Pawlik

In Ep 12 of #spotLights, Jonathan Townson talks to Daniel Booth about his lab's recent #preprints (cell division mechanisms & new bioimaging tools), presented at #biologists100. One was recently published @J_Cell_Sci !

They also explore the value of preprinting for early-career PIs and their teams.

Listen below
https://youtu.be/Uk5EBqmfFhY

At the @Co_Biologists #biologists100 conference, I worked with @preLights to interview some of the researchers presenting their #preprint. The first two have been published. (1/3)

G. P. Bidder III founded The Company of Biologists @Co_Biologists 100 years ago #biologists100 and on his 162 birthday we celebrate his legacy with this Review by Joseph Pawlik discussing the biology and physiology of giant barrel sponges

https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/228/10/jeb250082/367977

As part of our #biologists100 celebrations, marking 100 years of the JEB's publisher @Co_Biologists & inspired by the founder G. P. Bidder, we'd love to hear about about your experiences of the Company, from Travelling Fellowships to attending Workshops

https://www.biologists.com/100-years/message-in-a-bottle/

Sustainability was at the forefront of our minds when planning this year’s Biologists @ 100 conference.

Read about the steps we took to keep this vision real:

https://www.biologists.com/stories/100-years-celebrated-sustainably/

#spotLights hits episode 10!

Jonathan Townson talks to Helena Crellin (#BuckleyLab) about her #preprint introducing an optogenetic approach to study "how forces are propagated through complex tissues during development" in #zebrafish

Listen below!
https://youtu.be/6uce4whDt2M

Just released: a new #spotLights episode from our series recorded at #biologists100 (Liverpool, March 2025).

This one features Jenny Richens, discussing her latest preprint (now published @PLOSBiology), the process of getting there, and the value of preprinting before peer review.

Tune in now
https://youtu.be/eLwGRnBrIaU

It was great to meet @richardsever at #biologists100 in Liverpool. As part of a conference #spotLights series with @preLights, he very kindly agreed to answer a few questions on #preprints, and their past and future impact. Check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5O2mDnqDUI

What does openRxiv mean for bioRxiv/medRxiv?

How did biologists embrace preprints?

And what's the future of the scientific article?

Fun interview at #biologists100.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5O2mDnqDUI

Another #spotLights episode just aired!

We’re launching our #biologists100 conference series with @richardsever, discussing:

The launch of openRxiv
The role of preprints in supporting early-career researchers
What’s ahead for scholarly publishing & peer review

Recorded live in Liverpool, March 2025 by Jonathan Townson & Reinier Prosee.

Listen now
https://youtu.be/L5O2mDnqDUI?si=yruYx8PMhypuX5VF

Congratulations to the top 3 images from the Node–FocalPlane image competition!

1. "Cell-estial bloom" by Özge Özgüç

2. "Dancing actinotroch" by Allan Carrillo-Baltodano

3. "Who’s active?" by Julia Peloggia de Castro

@the_node @focalplane_jcs

We have extended the deadline for Biologists @ 100 conference attendees to apply for our sustainable travel incentives:

- Apply by 22 April to win £700 in our travel blog competition

- Apply by 30 May for up to £150 for international train journeys taken

100yearsconference.biologists.com/sustainability

There is almost one month left for early-career researchers to apply for a funded place at our Workshop 'Decoding Whole Genome Doubling: Insights from Evolution, Development and Disease' organised by Renata Basto and Zuzana Storchova.

Apply now:

https://biologists.com/workshops/decoding-nov-2025

Thank you to three of the societies we fund (British Society for Developmental Biology, British Society for Cell Biology and the Society for Experimental Biology) and everyone else who joined us for our Biologists @ 100 conference last week. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did!

Our 100-year anniversary activities continue throughout 2025.

Find out what's in store at https://biologists.com/100-years

#biologists100 #biology #community #science #research #

Reflecting on #biologists100 last week, I greatly enjoyed meeting past colleagues and getting to know the work of @Co_Biologists better. The experience reinforced for me the importance of society own journals and their work.

From the programme, I especially enjoyed the talks of Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz and Manu Prakash in the emerging technologies session, #microscopy is the future! (1/2).

The preList for the @Co_Biologists conference #biologists100 is out! With @preLights we compiled the cutting-edge research and exciting preprints that were presented last week Check it out here:
https://prelights.biologists.com/prelists/biologists-100-conference-prelist/

If I missed a #preprint you presented then you can still let me know here: https://forms.gle/X5qYDFiyuW246gBm7

After a joyous few days at #Biologists100 I return to... review requests, grant deadlines, paper resubmission, bulging inbox, aka real life. Not moaning, I feel energised - let's go!