Stories Archive - The Company of Biologists

21 April 2026 by Jeroen Dobbelaere Research funders have started to request lab sustainability measurements. Are they joining the sustainable wave or will it have an impact? Research labs are the places where scientific questions are tested, ideas are born and discoveries are made. Although the current lab environment is very different from the romantic textbook […] The post How to make labs more…

8 September 2025 by Léa Manke My journey to the Biologists @ 100 conference began early on Saturday morning. Clutching my thermos filled with coffee, I made my way to the major train station in Paris, France, Gare du Nord. A light drizzle was falling on the city, turning Paris into a shiny mirror of […] The post My journey from Paris to Liverpool in four trains appeared first on The Company of Bi…

5 September 2025 The Comparative Cartilage & Bone Biology (CCBB) conference took place at the Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls-sur-Mer, France, June 10-13, 2025. CCBB is a merging of two previous successful conferences: ‘Interdisciplinary Approaches in Fish Skeletal Biology’ (IAFSB: 6 editions since 2009) and ‘Comparative Cartilage Biology’ (CCB: 2019). CCBB united researchers from diverse f…

26 August 2025 By Ankita Thawani, Travelling Fellowship (Development) recipient Ever wonder how you can follow the smell of fresh pastries to the break room, dodge a ball flying at your face or get a reflexive jump scare when your friend yells “Boo!”? The answer lies between your ears, literally! We vertebrates have a complex […] The post From sea squirts to snack seekers: evolution of the verteb…

18 August 2025 by Jeroen Dobbelaere One of the key missions of universities and research institutes is to educate the future generations of teachers and researchers. Therefore, it is key to integrate sustainability in the ongoing training. Currently, many science curricula lack sustainability. More universities now offer specific sustainability courses, but an integration in all courses […] The p…

13 August 2025 The Company of Biologists is committed to improving equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in all our activities. We believe that diversity – in areas including but not limited to geography, race, ethnicity, gender and career stage – is essential to our work as a not-for-profit publishing organisation dedicated to supporting and inspiring […] The post Equity, diversity and inclusion…

15 July 2025 We are excited to release our event carbon calculator for academic events. We are keen to support biologists and organisers in the process of creating academic events and we encourage them to reflect on the CO2 emissions that these events will generate. We acknowledge the difficulty of developing a sustainable strategy with […] The post Carbon footprint calculator for events – our la…

26 June 2025 by Godwin Pius Ohemu Godwin Pius Ohemu is an MSc graduate in epidemiology from the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria, and holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Global Health Research from the University of Oxford, UK. As a member of The Global Health Network team, Godwin provides digital support for the AMR Knowledge […] The post Twelve talks, one mission: insights and lessons for tackl…

23 June 2025 The Company of Biologists works hard to support innovation that can accelerate sustainable development in the academic event industry. One of the latest projects we have supported through our Fund for Innovations in Sustainable Conferencing is The Pavilion for People, an exciting experiment that was part of the 2025 UN Ocean Conference. […] The post Hosting a webinar on The Pavilion …

12 May 2025 We were delighted to celebrate our 100-year anniversary with incredible biologists at our Biologists @ 100 conference in March 2025. We celebrated this unique moment with a careful approach to sustainability in every aspect of organising. We kept sustainability at the forefront of our minds when planning the conference and  thank everyone […] The post 100 years celebrated sustainably …