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A time of turmoil for young scientists

6 August 2020

Over the last few months, we’ve heard about lab shutdowns, cancelled fieldtrips and virtual PhD defences, but what about the students caught in the middle? 

A day in the life of a returning spider lab

14 July 2020

Alistair McGregor’s group at Oxford Brookes University, UK, uses Drosophila and the common house spider Parasteatoda tepidariorum to understand how different shapes and sizes of animals evolve.

When fieldwork meets a global pandemic

1 July 2020

“Eventually food transport was going to be stopped, so the field team were airlifted back to Cayenne.”

That was how lockdown started for members of Lauren O’Connell’s lab.

How to promote your research

28 April 2020

Publishing your paper is just the start of communicating your research to the world. Some researchers feel uneasy about self-promotion, but chances are your existing network is interested in what you’re doing – you just need to tell them!

What does the COVID-19 pandemic mean for The Company of Biologists?

The Company of Biologists' office

9 April 2020

On Monday 23 March 2020, the Prime Minister of the UK addressed the nation in what is thought to be the most-watched moment in British television history. The speech outlined new restrictions to help slow the spread of COVID-19 as we were all told: “You must stay home”.

The Company of Biologists commits to the Transformative Journal approach

4 August 2020

The Company of Biologists is the first not-for-profit publisher to commit to this approach.

Supporting communities at The Company of Biologists

6 July 2020

Throughout all fields of biology there are vibrant, active and engaged communities. Social media, email, video chat and webinars mix with personal interactions as the basis of collaborations.

Developing a scientific research question

18 May 2020

When writing a research manuscript, a fundamental step is to figure out the question. Many journals won’t accept a purely descriptive manuscript, which is why it’s so important to address a non-trivial scientific question or hypothesis.

An interview with preLighter Meng Zhu

A photo of Meng in the lab

21 April 2020

In February our preprint highlights service preLights celebrated its second birthday. To mark the occasion, we met with Cambridge-based preLighter Meng Zhu.

Why is stupidity in scientific research important?

26 March 2020

As relevant today as it was 11 years ago, Martin Schwartz’s essay on the importance of stupidity in scientific research has reached over 1 million people to date.

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