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Throwback to Biologists @ 100: Focus on sustainability

Posted by , on 29 December 2025

Earlier this year, The Company of Biologists celebrated its 100-year anniversary with the Biologists @ 100 conference in Liverpool – bringing together researchers across a wide range of disciplines. To ...

Throwback to Biologists @ 100: Interviews from Liverpool

Posted by , on 18 December 2025

Earlier this year, The Company of Biologists celebrated its 100-year anniversary with the Biologists @ 100 conference in Liverpool – bringing together researchers across a wide range of disciplines. To ...

Creativity and Science Communication

Posted by , on 25 November 2025

Science communication isn’t just about podcasts or fairs—it’s about making research relatable. Jargon and narrow topics can create barriers, so the challenge is to blend scientific language with everyday expression, ...

The Kahneman Chronicles: Lessons from a Fly Lab

Posted by , on 26 October 2025

The Kahneman Chronicles #2: Loss Aversion and the Art of Quitting Daniel Kahneman (1934-2024) was a legendary psychologist who revolutionized our understanding of human decision-making and became known as the ...

Apply for a funded ECR place our Workshop on Novelty, Co-option and Divergence During Gene Network Evolution

Posted by , on 2 October 2025

Applications are open for 10 ECR funded places at The Company of Biologists Workshop on Novelty, Co-option and Divergence During Gene Network Evolution, organised byJames Hombría and Antónia Monteiro. The ...

The Kahneman Chronicles: Lessons from a Fly Lab

Posted by , on 27 September 2025

The Kahneman Chronicles #1: When a Nobel Laureate Fixed Our Lab’s Scheduling Disasters Daniel Kahneman (1934-2024) was a legendary psychologist who revolutionized our understanding of human decision-making and became known ...

The Invisible Cost: How Power Dynamics May Undermine Respect in Academic Labs

Posted by , on 24 September 2025

I’m a big fan of podcasts, and one of my favorites is Tim Harford’s “Cautionary Tales.” It tells true stories about disasters and what we can learn from them. One ...

In the apple eye of evolution: Camera-type eye regeneration

Posted by , on 23 September 2025

Behind the paper stories from “A genetically tractable non-vertebrate system to study complete camera-type eye regeneration“ We are all stepping into a story where evolution, development, and regeneration converge in ...

It’s about who you know, not what you know. Uh Oh.

Posted by , on 21 September 2025

When I attended my first networking event, I felt like I was sticking out like a sore thumb, but the thumb gets sorer and sorer and eventually the whole hand ...

Between Molecules and Milestones: Tales from Seattle to Heidelberg for grad school

Posted by , on 21 July 2025

We pick up where we left off with Anna-Lena Vigil, now a PhD candidate in the Crocker Group at EMBL, as her journey unfolds to moments beyond the bench that ...

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