Journal of Experimental Biology

preLights @prelights.bsky.social is @biologists.bsky.social online preprint community, uncovering exciting preprints, engaging with authors & contributing to scientific discussion It is recruiting new preLighters to contribute to the community Interested? Apply by 22November⬇️ tinyurl.com/39mmbxvs

Last week we celebrated #OAWeek and in an article on the @biologists.bsky.social website, the Company considered the costs of publishing and who should bear the costs Find out more at biologists.com/stories/true...

Thank you Melville Wohlgemuth for sharing your experience of fee-free #OA publishing @jexpbiol.bsky.social via our #ReadAndPublish agreement @uazresearch.bsky.social Read Melville’s paper: doi.org/10.1242/jeb.... Is your institution participating too? bit.ly/3O7BxGi

JEB is proud of its commitment to #OpenAccessPublishing #OAWeek and since 2019 has grown #OpenAccess from 1% to 55% of all published research papers. We prioritise ensuring all authors can publish with us irrespective of funder mandates or financial situation journals.biologists.com/jeb/pages/op...

The theme of this year’s Open Access Week #OAWeek is The Cost of Knowledge. In their article, 'Why is publishing so expensive?' Katherine Brown, Craig Franklin and Michaela Handel outline the costs behind trustworthy online publication doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

During International Open Access Week #OAWeek, JEB is proud of the @biologists.bsky.social #ReadandPublish agreements that allow researchers working in participating institutions to publish their research #OpenAccess for FREE! Find out more at www.biologists.com/library-hub/...

A very happy Hagfish Day to all who celebrate! Here are some handsome specimens of Eptatratus mcmillanae that we filmed a few miles off the coast of St. Croix, USVI in 2022. Wait for the knot-tying at the end.

Find out about Trystan Sanders' JEB Travelling Fellowship in Chris Carter’s lab, the University of Tasmania, Australia, where he investigated protein turnover in tropical rock lobsters tinyurl.com/ya53b3re Trystan has now published the research in JEB doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

New piece of mitochondrial research out in @jexpbiol.bsky.social! 🦠🧬🪰 Led by Avi Chakraborty and Enrique Rodriguez, our work explores how mitochondrial genetics shape stress responses, from development to adulthood. @cloeucl.bsky.social @fcamus.bsky.social

Fat is an efficient energy store, so why don't more animals use it to power vigorous, high-intensity aerobic activity? In their recent Review, Müller and McWilliams examine why this phenomenon seems to be limited to migratory birds, bats and some insects doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

It’s International Open Access Week #OAWeek and JEB is proud to support Open Access publishing, providing authors with opportunities to make their research available under a CCBY license for FREE at the point of publication Find out more at journals.biologists.com/jeb/pages/op...

Read & Publish agreements are a good example of publishers working together with librarians to get the most for researchers and the scientific community. Thank you to the librarians at over 1,000 institutions in 57 countries for their continued support and partnership. #OAWeek

In their recent Commentary, Blewett & co highlight the contributions of experimental biology to aquatic toxicology and discuss considerations for designing new experiments that advance our understanding of an organism's response to environmental toxicants doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

Three of our journals @dev-journal.bsky.social, @jcellsci.bsky.social & @jexpbiol.bsky.social offer Travelling Fellowships of up to £3k to graduate students and post-docs wishing to make collaborative visits to other laboratories. Next deadline: 23 October More at www.biologists.com/grants/trave...

An echidna day is always a good day!

Issue 19 has now closed. The front cover, by the Schuster Lab, Bayreuth University, shows two archerfish hunting for prey above the water's surface. journals.biologists.com/jeb/issue/22...

In their recent Review, Edwards & co reveal that the fluctuations in stress hormones are predictable across the ovarian cycle of vertebrates, suggesting these hormones may support reproduction rather than always inhibiting it, as previously thought doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

In their ECR Spotlight, Samuel Stea tells us about their research, investigating how the brain converts learned information into changes in behaviour, & how you can learn something valuable from every outcome, even when its not the one you want doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

Thank you Lars Tomanek for sharing your experience of fee-free #OA publishing @jexpbiol.bsky.social via our #ReadAndPublish agreement with California Polytechnic State University Read Lars’ paper: doi.org/10.1242/jeb.... Is your institution participating too? bit.ly/3O7BxGi

Looking to attend a #microscopy training course? Don't miss the 16 October deadline to apply for a grant of up to £1,000 from @jcellsci.bsky.social and @focalplane.bsky.social Find out more at www.biologists.com/grants/jcs-f...

In their recent Commentary, Ken Lohmann & colleagues discuss magnetoreception, suggesting there are multiple mechanisms which animals may use to detect the Earth's magnetic field and use it for navigation doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

Read this month's Editors' Choice paper, Aggressive conflict used as landmark information in homing desert ants, by Antonio Bollig & colleagues doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

Thank you Cleverson Lima for sharing your experience of fee-free #OA publishing @jexpbiol.bsky.social via our #ReadAndPublish agreement with University of Kentucky @ukresearch.bsky.social Read Cleverson’s paper: doi.org/10.1242/jeb.... Is your institution participating too? bit.ly/3O7BxGi

In his Conversation, Stefan Schuster tells us about archer fish, which hunt prey above the surface by squirting jets of water to knock them down and predict precisely where the morsel will land to intercept it before other fish arrive doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

Issue 18 has closed & issue 19 is open. The front cover, by Alexandra Reinhardt, shows a nudibranch (Hermissenda crassicornisas) as it crawls across a chiton & conspecific eggs towards an orange cup coral it hopes to prey upon journals.biologists.com/jeb/issue/22...

Looking for a trusted home for your research? JEB has been publishing ground-breaking research for more than 100 years & is ranked in the top quartile by Journal Citation Reports so send your next paper to JEB to ensure it stands the test of time 🔁 tinyurl.com/yc8ah7zh

In her ECRSpotlight, Hannah Clayton discusses how her love of the sea and time spent as an Army medic shaped her research on grey whales, what she would do with unlimited funding & gives her top tip for other early-career researchers doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

. @biologists.bsky.social is offering 20 funded places for ECRs from the Global South to attend the Integrative Ecological Neurobiology in Changing Environments Workshop in Argentina, 1-5 August 2027 Application deadline: 6 Nov 2026 Don't miss out! 🔁 www.biologists.com/workshops/au...

JEB is proud of its strong tradition disseminating science & now we offer researchers the opportunity to publish their abstract in their own language, or that of the region where the research was performed, to make their discovery even more accessible 🔁 journals.biologists.com/jeb/pages/jo...

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If you're an ECR or postdoc in need of funding to travel for an experiment or to learn a new technique, make sure you apply for a JEB Travelling Fellowship www.biologists.com/grants/trave... #PostdocAppreciationWeek #NPAW #PostdocAppreciation Find out more at doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

🚨 New paper out in @jexpbiol.bsky.social by Jeschke et al. "Bees exhibit behavioural flexibility to learned visual cues to prevent negative consequences during navigation in clutter" 🐝🧪 #InsectResearch #AnimalNavigation #AssociativeLearning #Cognition ↘️ doi.org/10.1242/jeb.... ↙️

When Conversation launched, we interviewed Caroline Williams, who outlined her successful strategy for a job application. Her advice is still relevant for postdocs today and you can find it here at doi.org/10.1242/jeb.... #PostdocAppreciationWeek #NPAW #PostdocAppreciation

One week left until a lot of important deadlines ⌛️

JEB is proud to promote postdocs through our Spotlight interviews, where ECRs talk about their research, the challenges they faced, what a typical day may look like & what they enjoy most about science #PostdocAppreciationWeek #NPAW #PostdocAppreciation journals.biologists.com/jeb/pages/EC...