13 October 2025
As a company, we are committed to ensuring that sustainability is a consideration in everything we do. When organising our Workshops, we are always looking for new ways to minimise our environmental impact. Sustainable events require a well-thought-out strategy and collaboration with the right stakeholders. We actively seek partnerships with suppliers that we can work with to deliberately choose sustainable options and to ensure that services and products meet our sustainable goals. This isn’t always a straightforward process. It requires constant searches for criteria matching, data analysis, grading and a fair amount of trial and error.
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 lights while the sun was slowly rising. Arriving at the station, I saw the first cafes and brasseries opening while the waiters were urging the customers to place their orders. I arrived with enough time to buy myself a hot croissant and continue to passport control. Once passed, I comfortably settled in the waiting area munching my breakfast and reading my crime novel. Time went by in a blink and my train to London St. Pancras, UK, was called out ready for boarding. As I got on the Eurostar, the realisation settled in that in less than 3 hours, I would arrive in one of my favourite cities in Europe. …
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.
16 September 2025
by Saurabh Chand Sagar
My name is Saurabh Chand Sagar and I am a Drosophila cell and developmental biologist currently undertaking my doctoral studies at Banaras Hindu University, India. As an attendee of the Biologists @ 100 conference, I enjoyed the seamless integration of cellular science with its repercussions on physiological processes and behavioural patterns, further exploring these effects on climate change and biodiversity conservation. The Company of Biologists demonstrated its commitment to sustainability by minimising environmental impact through eco-friendly practices at the conference. …
5 September 2025
18 August 2025
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. …
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