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The Company of Biologists
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Not-for-profit publisher of Development, Journal of Cell Science, Journal of Experimental Biology, Disease Models & Mechanisms and Biology Open. Host of community sites the Node, preLights and FocalPlane. Supporting biologists and inspiring biology.
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Ready for #SICB2026. Really looking forward to connecting with all of you over the next few days. Find us at stand 107/109 to talk journals, grants and more.
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January 4, 2026 at 6:48 PM
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Final few days to submit your paper to the Journal of Cell Science‬ special issue. Deadline 5 January.
jcellsci.bsky.social Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social · Nov 13
We're still accepting submissions for our 'Cell Biology of the Nucleus' special issue, which is being guest edited by
@abbybuch.bsky.social and Megan King (@luskinglab.bsky.social).
Submission deadline: 5 January
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#nucleus #notforprofit #freetopublish
January 2, 2026 at 9:41 AM
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Last but certainly not least, our final extraordinary biologist featured is Saanjbati Adhikari, a @dev-journal.bsky.social Reviews Editor, a Cross-Title Features Editor for our 100-year anniversary and a former preLighter @prelights.bsky.social. #100biologists
Headshot of Saanjbati Adhikari, to the left, text to the right 100 extraordinary biologists Saanjbati Adhikari Saanjbati Adhikari is a Development Reviews Editor and previously a Cross-Title Features Editor across our journals for the Company’s 100-year anniversary. Saanjbati started as a preLighter during her PhD at Queen Mary University of London, UK, where she investigated the molecular characterisation of Astrin. #100biologists #biologists100
December 31, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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2025 has been an amazing year as we celebrated our 100-year anniversary. Thank you to everyone who got involved. Read back on all that happened by visiting biologists.com/100-years
We look forward to continuing to support biologists and inspiring biology in 2026. Happy new year!
100 years
Celebrating 100 years 2025 marks the 100-year anniversary of The Company of Biologists. We have been celebrating this important milestone with numerous activities throughout the year, including a…
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December 31, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Our next extraordinary biologist is Andrea Murillo, @biologists.bsky.social Science Communications Officer, a @jexpbiol.bsky.social author and an Outside @jexpbiol.bsky.social contributing writer for three years.
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#100biologists
Headshot of Andrea Murillo, to the left, text to the right 100 extraordinary biologists Andrea Murillo Andrea Murillo, currently the Company's Science Communications Officer, published her first paper in JEB. Andrea was an Outside JEB writer for three years during her PhD at McMaster University in Canada, where she investigated the estrogen signalling pathway of the marine polychaete, Capitella teleta. #100biologists #biologists100
December 30, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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As our 100-year celebrations come to a close, a final reminder that we would love to hear from you on how The Company of Biologists has impacted your career. Share your story at biologists.com/100-years/me...
Message in a bottle Share your story on how The Company of Biologists has supported youin your career by sending us a virtual message in a bottle. The Company of Biologists logo to the left and a schematic of a bottle with a letter in it to the right.
December 29, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Did you know you can publish your paper #OpenAccess for free? Check if your institution is signed up to our Read & Publish initiative: www.biologists.com/library-hub/...
December 29, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Sign up to our content alerts and receive the latest articles in @dev-journal.bsky.social, @jcellsci.bsky.social, @jexpbiol.bsky.social, @dmmjournal.bsky.social and/or @biologyopen.bsky.social direct to your inbox. Find out more at journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/al...
December 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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To accelerate the publication process, @biologyopen.bsky.social are testing an initiative that prioritises fast but fair peer review. This approach pays reviewers while requiring them to complete high-quality reviews in a set timeframe. Apply to be a reviewer www.biologists.com/bio-fast-and...
Fast & Fair peer review. A new initiative offering high-quality peer review within 7 working days of submission.
December 25, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Our next extraordinary biologist is Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, a Nobel Prize winner and Emeritus Director of the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen, Germany. #100biologists
The Company of Biologists 100 logo to the left and QR code to the right. Portrait of Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard , to the left, text to the right 100 extraordinary biologists Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard is a Nobel Prize winner and Emeritus Director of the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen, Germany. She led efforts to establish zebrafish as a genetic model for vertebrate development, contributing many papers to the famous 1996 zebrafish issue of Development. #100biologists #biologists100
December 25, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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We have been busy celebrating our 100-year anniversary this year. Scroll through our timeline to view the key milestones over the years www.biologists.com/100-years/ti...
#biologists100
100 years timeline
Back to 100 years anniversary page
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December 24, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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We've got some fantastic 'Featured image' posts lined up for 2026, but we'd love to have recommendations (which can be self-nominations!) for more.
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focalplane.bsky.social FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · 16d
We’ve highlighted some wonderful images and researchers in our ‘Featured image’ series in 2025. To celebrate, we’re inviting you to vote for your favourite in our image competition!
#FluorescenceFriday
Check them out here: focalplane.biologists.com/2025/12/19/v...
Vote for your favourite 'Featured image' from 2025 - FocalPlane
Vote for your favourite 'Featured image' from 2025 - News
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December 19, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Come join us at our Meet the Editors session at SICB 2026 and learn about everything we do for our authors. This is your first chance to get the limited edition 2026 JEB t-shirt, so make sure to grab one before they run out

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A social media card with the Journal of Experimental Biology logo in the top left and the logo for the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology 2026 conference on the right. The card states: Meet the Editors at #SICB2026 Sunday 4 January, 12:15 - 13:15 Room A106, Oregon Convention Center. Beneath this are photos of the editors attending. From left to right: Craig Franklin, Sheila Patek, Monica Daley, Matt McHenry and Jarren Kay
December 23, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Explore emerging research with field leaders @keystonesymposia.bsky.social #SystemsImmunology to #Immunoengineering, this January in Vancouver! keysym.us/KSSysImmune26 #KSSysImmune26 hubs.la/Q03VtR690
From Systems Immunology to Immunoengineering | Keystone Symposia
Join us at the Keystone Symposia on From Systems Immunology to Immunoengineering, January 2026, in Vancouver, with field leaders!
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December 23, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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In their Editorial, Claire Moulton, Amelia Glazier and Katie Ward look back on an extraordinary year, as @biologists.bsky.social celebrated their 100-year anniversary.

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The winning microscopy images from the Node–FocalPlane image competition, held at the Biologists @ 100 conference in March 2025. Left, ‘Cell-estial bloom’, the first-place winner, from Özge Özgüç, showing a live human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC) colony labelled for lamin B, marking the nuclear lamina. Centre, ‘Dancing actinotroch’, the second-place image, from Allan Carrillo-Baltodano, showing an actinotroch larva of a phoronid worm, stained for actin (phalloidin, yellow) and acetylated tubulin (magenta). Right, ‘Who's active?’, the third-place image, from Julia Peloggia de Castro, depicting a lateral view of a zebrafish embryo at 9 h post fertilisation. MitoTracker was used to stain active mitochondria (magenta to yellow intensity scale), and an EGFP transgenic tag marks cell membranes (cyan).
December 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Thank you Paula Iturralde @paumau39.bsky.social for sharing your experience of fee-free #OA publishing @jexpbiol.bsky.social via our #ReadAndPublish agreement with @mpdl.mpg.de. Read Paula’s paper: bit.ly/4b2WKPq

See if your institution's participating and you can publish free #OA bit.ly/3O7BxGi
"As a scientist, I firmly support open access publishing because it not only allows everyone to access and read scientific work but also enables replication and transparency in research. I am deeply grateful to the Journal of Experimental Biology for its fee-free open access option, which is essential for researchers with limited funding. Coming from Latin America and studying at a Latin American institution, this was crucial in helping my latest publication reach a wider audience. I would also like to thank the journal for its careful and detailed review process and for selecting my paper for the ECR Spotlight. I strongly believe that science must be shared with a broader public, and initiatives like this help make that possible."
December 23, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Issue 23 has closed and issue 24 is open

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The front cover, by Alexander Clark, shows a great horned owl (Bubo virginianus)

Read the accompanying research at journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
Front cover of Journal of Experimental Biology, issue 23, volume 228, published December 2025. The journal name and issue details are at the top of the cover. Beneath is an image of a great horned owl (Bubo virginianus) perched on a branch in a tree. The owl is looking straight at the camera. The Company of Biologists 100 logo is in the bottom left of the cover image.
December 15, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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We are featuring developmental biologist Chris Wylie as an extraordinary biologist this week. Chris is a former @biologists.bsky.social Director and the founding Editor-in-Chief of @dev-journal.bsky.social. #100biologists
The Company of Biologists 100 logo to the left and QR code to the right. Portrait of Chris Wylie to the left, text to the right 100 extraordinary biologists Chris Wylie Chris Wylie is a former Company Director and the founding Editor-in-Chief of Development (1987-2003). With a broad research background in developmental biology, Chris has made significant discoveries in Xenopus and mouse embryogenesis and was involved in the founding of key developmental biology institutes. #100biologists #biologists100
December 19, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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We believe that, as our future leaders in biology, it is vital to provide #ECRs with the right support during the early stages of your academic career. We offer a number of practical ways to help you meet the unique needs and challenges you may encounter: www.biologists.com/about-us/ear...
Supporting early-career researchers
On these pages we highlight the range of resources that we offer to early-career researchers.
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December 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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IReL is delighted to announce the renewal of its five-journal #ReadAndPublish agreement with @biologists.bsky.social. Building on the success of our previous partnerships, we have signed a new agreement that will run from 1 January 2026 to 31 December 2028: irel.ie/the-company-... #OpenAccess
The Company of Biologists Read & Publish Agreement Renewed for Three Years – IReL
IReL is a consortium of Irish research libraries, providing access to licensed e-resources, OA publishing agreements, and open science infrastructure.
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December 18, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Next, we are highlighting Renata Basto, a @jcellsci.bsky.social Editor who has published in @dev-journal.bsky.social, @jcellsci.bsky.social and @biologyopen.bsky.social, as an extraordinary biologist this week. #100biologists
Headshot of Renata Basto, to the left, text to the right 100 extraordinary biologists Renata Basto Renata Basto is a JCS Editor who has published in three of the Company’s journals. She is a CNRS Team Leader at the Institut Curie in France. Her team investigates the molecular mechanisms that, in response to centrosome or chromosome number deviations, can influence animal development or how they can lead to disease. #100biologists #biologists100
December 18, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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We’re delighted to announce a new agreement with Knowledge E @knowledgeeglobal.bsky.social, who will represent us as sole agent in the Middle East. This partnership will help support institutions and researchers with APC-free #OpenAccess publishing.

Read more: www.biologists.com/library-hub/...
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December 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Thank you @seanryderphd.bsky.social for sharing your experience of fee-free #OA publishing in @dev-journal.bsky.social via our #ReadAndPublish agreement with @umasschan.bsky.social

Read Sean’s paper: bit.ly/4pJD4F1

Check if your institution is participating too: bit.ly/3O7BxGi
“Publishing our work in Development under their Open Access Read & Publish agreement with UMass Chan Medical School was easy and efficient. With changing policies surrounding open access publication and reporting requirements, The Company of Biologists and the University have made compliance simple. I appreciate the professionalism and excellent quality of Development’s editorial and production staff, and I am grateful to have had the opportunity to publish our research there.”
December 17, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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I strongly encourage ECRs to apply for opportunities like the Travelling Fellowships from the ever supportive @biologists.bsky.social

They are a fantastic for learning new skills, building collaborative networks, and honing scientific writing.

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The Company of Biologists Travelling Fellowships programme: a commitment to support the next generation of scientists
ABSTRACT. Between 2008 and 2025, four of The Company of Biologists' journals – Development, Journal of Cell Science (JCS), Journal of Experimental Biology (JEB) and Disease Models & Mechanisms (DMM) –...
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December 16, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Learn about @biologists.bsky.social Travelling Fellowships in this Essay from Saanjbati Adhikari, part of our anniversary collection.
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
The deadline for the next round of Travelling Fellowships from JCS is 6 February 2026: www.biologists.com/grants/trave...
Sofía Masuelli, a student at the Institute of Histology and Embryology of Mendoza, Argentina, used a Travelling Fellowship from JCS to visit the Michael Levin lab and the Madeleine Oudin lab at Tufts University, USA.
December 16, 2025 at 3:02 PM