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Most #hummingbirds use their elegant beaks to sip nectar, but male green hermits stab each other in the neck with their sharp, straight weaponised bills when duelling during the mating season

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A green hermit (Phaethornis guy) at the Catarata del Toro, Costa Rica. Photo credit: Mike Baird, CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/), via Wikimedia Commons.
November 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Published! Gough et al: Daily energetic expenditure and energy consumption of short-finned pilot whales. Drones+tags+diet reveal pilot whales need ~142 squid/day
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November 18, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Knowing how much a population of animals consumes is essential for identifying when species are at risk & in a new JEB paper William Gough &co reveal that Hawaiian short-finned pilot whales eat 88000 tonnes of squid a year, which is a drop in the ocean

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Swimming short-finned pilot whales filmed by a tag camera mounted behind the blow hole of a member of the pod. Photo credit: the Marine Mammal Research Program lab at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and Pacific Whale Foundation.
November 18, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Issue 21 has closed and issue 22 is open

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The cover image by Jan Lenaert shows a green hermit (Phaethornis guy) in flight
The cover of Journal of Experimental Biology, Volume 228, issue 21, published November 2025. The cover image by Jan Lenaert shows a green hermit hummingbird hovering to feed at red and yellow flowers with green leaves behind the bird. The bird is captured with its wings extended forward as it approaches a flower. The Company of Biologists 100 logo is in the bottom left corner.
November 17, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Our next extraordinary biologist is Michael Dickinson, a McArthur Fellowship-winning neuroscientist who was a @jexpbiol.bsky.social Editor for 11 years. #100biologists
The Company of Biologists 100 logo to the left and QR code to the right. Portrait of Michael Dickinson to the left, text to the right 100 extraordinary biologists Michael Dickinson Michael Dickinson is a McArthur Fellowship-winning neuroscientist who was a JEB Editor for 11 years (2009-2020) and played a key role in three JEB Symposia. Michael is currently the ZaremProfessor of Bioengineering and Aeronautics at Caltech, USA, where he researches the biomechanics and neural control of insect flight. #100biologists #biologists100
November 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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🌱During #COP30, we invite you to explore what is the carbon footprint of an event and learn about easy steps to take to minimise it.
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How sustainable is your event? Find out with our new event carbon calculator The Company of Biologists logo to the left
November 14, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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We thank Muktar Lawan @muktarlawan.bsky.social for sharing his story. We are delighted this was such a pivotal experience, especially during the early-career stage. If you would like to share your story, you can send us a message in a bottle at biologists.com/100-years/me...
“A travel grant from The Company of Biologists brought me to Uruguay, where I met and learned from Leonel Malacrida, a renowned expert in hyperspectral imaging. This connection has been instrumental in shaping my research skills and career, as I can now apply the knowledge and techniques I acquired to my PhD research and share them with others in Africa.”
November 17, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Thank you Denise Dalbosco Dell'Aglio @ficusorganensis.bsky.social @ebablab.bsky.social for sharing your experience of fee-free #OA publishing @jexpbiol.bsky.social via our #ReadAndPublish agreement @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
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We are grateful to The Company of Biologists for publishing our article on behaviours reminiscent of orientation flights in Heliconiini butterflies in Journal of Experimental Biology. As an early-career researcher, I am very pleased by the Open Access publication. University of Bristol has a Read & Publish agreement which facilitates the publication process and allows us to share our findings with a wide audience without financial barriers. We are excited with the opportunity of sharing our science with everyone. Phot of Denise Dalbosco Dell'Aglio, University of Bristol, UK
November 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Read this month's Editors' Choice 'Kinematics of strikes in venomous snakes' by Silke Cleuren & colleagues

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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.
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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If your institution has signed a Read & Publish agreement with @biologists.bsky.social, then you can publish your paper #OpenAccess in JEB for free, so make sure you check out our list of subscribing institutions to make sure that you are not missing out on this great deal!

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Looking to publish your paper #OpenAccess? Check if your institution is signed up to our Read & Publish initiative and you can publish #OA for free: www.biologists.com/library-hub/...
November 13, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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In their Commentary, Shaughnessy & Breves discuss recent discoveries which have reinforced the nearly 50-year-old model for how marine fishes excrete salt through 'ionocytes' and provide hypotheses for how ion regulation evolved in fishes

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A screenshot of the PDF of the Research Article, Salt-secreting ionocytes in marine fishes: new dimensions and evolutionary implications of a fundamental model, by Ciaran Shaughnessy and Jason Breves. The publishing information states: © 2025. Published by The Company of Biologists | Journal of Experimental Biology (2025) 228, jeb251075. doi:10.1242/jeb.251075. The first sentence of the Abstract reads, 'To reside in marine habitats, marine fishes must actively eliminate the excess Na+ and Cl− they acquire from their environment'.
November 12, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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And listen to this great interview on @npr.org NPR's All Things Considered with @nickantonson.bsky.social talking about his research in JEB on how woodpeckers hold themselves rigid like hammers and grunt like tennis stars when drilling wood

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Woodpeckers and tennis players share similarities when preparing to strike
Scientists have investigated how woodpeckers use their muscles and their breathing to prepare to strike wood -- and they liken it to the way tennis players prepare to smack a ball.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Listen to Bob McDonald talking to @nickantonson.bsky.social
on CBC's Quirks and Quarks about his research published in JEB into how downy woodpeckers brace themselves and grunt when pounding wood with their beaks

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November 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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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
Social media postcard that says: Are you an early-career researcher within five years of your first appointment to a faculty position? You could be eligible for our new grants for junior faculty staff. The Journal of Experimental Biology logo is in the bottom left corner. The Kickstart grant logo, two hands shaking, is in the bottom right corner.
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

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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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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