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Journal of Experimental Biology is the leading journal in comparative physiology
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When downy woodpeckers pound wood with their beaks they hold themselves rigid like hammers & grunt like tennis stars to stabilise their core muscles at the moment of impact

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A downy woodpecker (Dryobates pubescens) about to drill on a hardwood tree in Rhode Island, USA. Photo credit: N. M. Moody.
November 11, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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If you're an ECR within 5 years of your first faculty position, don't miss your chance to apply for one of our Kickstart Travel Grants or ECR Visiting Fellowships. The applications are due 28 November
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November 10, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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In March 2024, Andrea Fuller hosted the first @biologists.bsky.social Global South Workshop in Kruger National Park, SA, bringing together ECRs from the Global South & international experts in comparative physiology and biomechanics

Read all about it here:
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The delegates at the 2024 Global South Workshop standing in front of the Skukuza conference centre. Photo credit: Frank O'Donnell.
November 7, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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JEB has been hosting its Symposium for almost 50 years & this year, as part of @biologists.bsky.social 100th Anniversary #biologists100, the symposium, 'Sensory perception in a changing world', was open to anyone at the Biologists @ 100 meeting. Find out more

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A montage showing delegates and attendees at the JEB Symposium (clockwise from top left): Nathan Putnam, Michael Berenbrink, Hema Somanathan, Daniel Robert, Robyn Grant.
November 6, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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As part of our @biologists.bsky.social #biologists100 celebrations, we interviewed animal physiologist and JEB author Hans-Otto Pörtner about his experience co-chairing the IPCC addressing the most pressing issue facing our planet: climate change

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A photo of Hans-Otto Pörtner
November 5, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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As part of our #biologists100 activities, celebrating 100 years of #NotForProfit #Publishing with @biologists.bsky.social, we'd love to hear about your experience of the Company with a virtual message in a bottle 🔁

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Postcard saying: Message in a bottle Share your story on how The Company of Biologists has supported your career by sending us a virtual message in a bottle
November 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Issue 20 has closed and issue 21 is open

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The front cover showing two giraffes accompanies Seymour and Snelling's Theory & Modelling article discussing how the animals' long legs have raised their hearts to reduce the cost of pumping blood to their heads
Front cover of Journal of Experimental Biology, volume 228, issue 20, published October 2025. The image, by Zirk Janssen Wildlife Photography, shows a pair of giraffes, with the giraffe on the left leaning its head down to touch the bottom of the neck of the giraffe on the right.
November 3, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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If you're interested in the integrative biology of the gut, don't miss our fantastic special issue dedicated to the topic, edited by Carol Bucking, John Terblanche and Matthew Regan

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Read their introductory Commentary
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Social media card stating: Special Issue The Integrative Biology of the Gut Guest Editors: Carol Bucking, Matt Regan and John Terblanche. The Journal of Experimental Biology logo is in the bottom left hand corner. The Integrative Biology of the Gut logo (featuring a stylised gut overlaying an image of the environment, including the sun, a tree, hills, soil and bacteria) is on the right side of the card.
October 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Our next extraordinary biologist is Hans-Otto Pörtner, a prolific @jexpbiol.bsky.social author, who also presented as a plenary speaker at the Biologists @ 100 conference. #100biologists
The Company of Biologists 100 logo to the left and QR code to the right. Portrait of Hans-Otto Pörtner to the left, text to the right 100 extraordinary biologists Hans-Otto Pörtner Hans-Otto Pörtner is a comparative physiologist who served as one of the IPCC co-chairs overseeing the sixth assessment cycle between 2015 and 2023. This included overcoming the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Prof. Pörtner is a prolific author in JEB and was a plenary speaker at the Biologists @ 100 conference. #100biologists #biologists100
October 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Did you know that when you peer review for JEB, @biologists.bsky.social will protect a tree in Great Knott Wood, the Lake District, as part of its #ForestOfBiologists initiative to foster biodiversity? Every time you peer review for us we help the planet
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I was asked to #PeerReview a timely perspective article now published in @jexpbiol.bsky.social. As a result of this activity, a tree was protected in the #ForestOfBiologists. 🌳 Such a fun, bio-positive and important initiative from @biologists.bsky.social 🙌

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A screenshot of the mobile page of The Forest of Biologists initiative. You see a yellow banner at the top stating that a tree was protected because of peer review. Below this, you see the logo of the initiative, the amount of trees for published articles and for peer reviews, and three trees at the bottom.
October 30, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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Bats use their echolocation abilities to find prey, but also to find each other and avoid obstacles. Iturralde-Pólit &co show that the warm, dry air that comes with climate change, alters these calls, potentially costing the bats more energy to make them

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An elegant myotis bat. Photo credit: Juan Cruzado Cortés, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
October 29, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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We are celebrating 100years of #NotForProfit #Publishing with @biologists.bsky.social #biologists100 in 2025 with a dedicated collection of articles. In this Perspective we look at the impact that research published in JEB has had on conservation & engineering journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
Screenshot of PDF of the Perspective, Conservation and innovation: real-world solutions inspired by Journal of Experimental Biology, by Kathryn Knight. The publishing information states: © 2025. Published by The Company of Biologists | Journal of Experimental Biology (2025) 228, jeb251647. doi:10.1242/jeb.251647. The first sentence of the Abstract reads: Throughout 2025, we are celebrating the 100th anniversary of The Company of Biologists, the not-for-profit publisher of Journal of Experimental Biology and its sister journals – Development, Journal of Cell Science, Disease Models & Mechanisms and Biology Open'.
October 28, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Snake bites are terrifying & now Silke Cleuren, Alistair Evans & co @monashuniversity.bsky.social reveal the full details of viper, elapid & colubrid bites with the first high speed movies all 3 families sinking their fangs into transparent medical gel

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Black and white photo of a hump-nosed pit viper (Hypnale hypnale) biting a cylinder of warm medical gel. Photo credit: Silke Cleuren.
October 27, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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In their Perspective, Andrew Biewener, George Lauder and Stephanie Pierce discuss how field stations provide unique facilities & access to non-laboratory locations & organisms. They highlight the fundamental contributions of Harvard's Concord Field Station
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Screen shot of the PDF of the Perspective, The Concord Field Station at Harvard University: foundational contributions to organismal physiology and biomechanics, by Andrew A. Biewener, George V. Lauder and Stephanie E. Pierce. The publishing information states: © 2025. Published by The Company of Biologists | Journal of Experimental Biology (2025) 228, jeb251226. doi:10.1242/jeb.251226. The first sentence of the Abstract says, 'Progress in understanding animal function has been tremendously facilitated by research conducted at field stations that provide access to locations, organisms and equipment not otherwise available in more traditional urban universities or research institutions'.
October 23, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Being bigger isn't always better. @lkuchenmuller.bsky.social and co show that rainbow trout deliver less oxygen to the heart to power it as the temperature rises and it gets worse the bigger they get

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Rainbow trout swimming in a stream. Photo credit: Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
October 22, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Bat boxes offer a safe haven for bats, but they may not be so safe during heatwaves. The temperature inside can rocket to more than 50C during the day when bats are roosting if the box is located in full sun, placing bats at risk of fatal dehydration

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Big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus) roost in a Minnesota barn. Photo credit: Connor Long, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/), via Wikimedia Commons.
October 21, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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This week has been special for us, marking 100 years of supporting biologists and inspiring biology. We celebrated our achievements at @zoologymuseum.bsky.social last night. We want to thank all our staff, whose continual inspiration and daily support for one another make our work possible.
Photo of whale at Museum of Zoology and photo of 100 cake
October 17, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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We are delighted to announce that Emily Baird (Stockholm University) and Philipp Lehmann (University of Greifswald) have joined the team of JEB Monitoring Editors

Find out more about them in our News article journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
A photo of Emily Baird (left, photo credit: Simon Hastegård) and Philipp Lehmann (right, photo credit: Patrick Geßner)
October 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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The next deadline for ECRs, within 5 years of their first faculty position, to apply for JEB's next round of Kickstart Travel Grants and ECR Visiting Fellowships is 28 November, so don't miss the chance to apply for helpful funding

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October 17, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Issue 19 is closed and issue 20 has opened

The cover of issue 19 of volume 228 shows an Euchomenella heteroptera praying mantis (photo by Marlena N. Wood) camouflaged as a twig, posed next to a twig and dead yellow leaves

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The front cover of issue 19, volume 228 of Journal of Experimental Biology, published October 2025. The image on the cover shows a Euchomenella heteroptera praying mantis, taken by Marlena N. Wood. The praying mantis, camouflaged as a twig, is posed beside a twig and dead yellow leaves.
October 16, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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2018: preLights @prelights.bsky.social is launched, a preprint highlights service run by the biological community & supported by the Company. A dedicated team of ECR ‘preLighters’ select, highlight and comment on preprints that are of particular interest to the biological community. bit.ly/4mTr4yt
October 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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2024: We host our first Global South Workshop, dedicated to supporting a wider selection of research communities around the world by hosting a Workshop in the local area. Read how it went bit.ly/4pQTrQp
The delegates at the 2024 Global South Workshop standing in front of the Skukuza conference centre.
October 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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2010: The Company of Biologists Workshops begin. Read how, over the last 15 years, the Workshops have encouraged cross-disciplinary collaborations, supported early-career researchers (with funded places) and contributed to biological research. Find out more bit.ly/3KClWkK
October 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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1926: The British Journal of Experimental Biology is transferred to the Company, and in 1930, BJEB is renamed Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social. Read JEB’s 100-anniversary article collection: bit.ly/4nYbzWI
October 15, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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1925: On this date, 100 years ago, The Company of Biologists is founded by George Parker Bidder III. Throughout today, we will be posting some of our key milestones. Read more about the past 100 years at bit.ly/3WnTVA1.
Poster of the 100-year history of The Company of Biologists.
October 15, 2025 at 8:04 AM