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!

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 biological community.

As an organisation that has adopted the C4DISC Joint Statement of Principles, and a founding signatory of the Joint commitment for action on inclusion and diversity in publishing, The Company of Biologists recognises the current threats to the pursuit of EDI, and their negative impacts on many of our authors, reviewers, readers, editors, grant awardees and meeting participants.

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 Hub, a platform designed to advance antimicrobial resistance (AMR) research. Godwin attended the Biologists @ 100 conference; here he relays his experience at our DMM-hosted one-day programme on AMR. 

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 involved in helping us make this vision real.  We summarise below the ways in which sustainability played a key role at Biologists @ 100.

24 April 2025

It has been one month since we celebrated our 100-year anniversary alongside our biological community at the Biologists @ 100 conference, hosted in ACC Liverpool, UK, on 24-27 March 2025. We have many special things planned for this momentous year and this community conference was a major event in our 2025 plans. We are delighted that the conference was so well attended and we received excellent feedback, which we are proud to share. A huge thank you to everyone who was able to join us for our conference, who contributed in ways both large and small, to making this event a success.

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 has not happened. To integrate sustainability (including environmental, social and financial aspects), a general embedding will be needed.

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 minimal guidance, so we created an event carbon calculator to help gain insight over the main drivers of the CO₂ emissions generated by their event.

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 Pavilion for People was an online space created by utilising already existing technology in a new creative way, allowing people from all around the world to interact, share their ideas and make commitments for protecting the oceans.

29 April 2025

by Jeroen Dobbelaere

Some contributors to the carbon footprint such as energy use, business travel and ventilation may be more obvious to researchers. What is often less understood in a lab is the direct and indirect impacts of the materials used to conduct research. Using high grade materials requires a lot of different resources.

21 March 2025

In the light of climate change, biologists are working together to find a way of running scientific meetings in a more sustainable manner. We are putting a call out to everyone (biologists or not) to share with us their ideas to innovate event organisation to have a lower environmental impact.

Write an essay of maximum 1,000 words to detail how your idea will change scientific events organisation and will open the door to a new concept of organising events in the next 10 years.

The best ideas will be rewarded. The winning essays will be rewarded with £250 for first prize, £150 for second prize and £100 for third prize. The winning essays will be selected by our Sustainability Committee and will have the opportunity to feature on our website.