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In their recent Review, Joseph Mack and Alexa Bely discuss the physiology of regeneration in invertebrates including its energetics and the environmental factors that affect it

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Screenshot of first page of PDF of the Review Article, Regeneration physiology of invertebrates, by Joseph Mack and Alexa Bely. The publication information states: © 2025. Published by The Company of Biologists | Journal of Experimental Biology (2025) 228, jeb250750. doi:10.1242/jeb.250750. The first sentence of the Abstract states, 'One of the great puzzles in biology is to understand the mechanisms underlying animal regeneration'.
November 21, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Did you know that our authors can publish a translation of their abstract in an additional language in their JEB paper?

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Three swimming short-finned pilot whales filmed by a tag camera mounted behind the blow hole of a member of the pod. Photo credit: the Marine Mammal Research Program lab at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and Pacific Whale Foundation.
November 20, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Most #hummingbirds use their elegant beaks to sip nectar, but male green hermits stab each other in the neck with their sharp, straight weaponised bills when duelling during the mating season

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A green hermit (Phaethornis guy) at the Catarata del Toro, Costa Rica. Photo credit: Mike Baird, CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/), via Wikimedia Commons.
November 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Screenshot of first page of PDF of the Research Article, Daily energetic expenditure and energy consumption of short-finned pilot whales, by William T. Gough, Brijonnay C. Madrigal, Augusta Hollers et al. The publication information states: © 2025. Published by The Company of Biologists | Journal of Experimental Biology (2025) 228, jeb249821. doi:10.1242/jeb.249821. The first sentence of the Abstract states, 'Diving is one of the most important behaviors undertaken by marine mammals'.
November 18, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Knowing how much a population of animals consumes is essential for identifying when species are at risk & in a new JEB paper William Gough &co reveal that Hawaiian short-finned pilot whales eat 88000 tonnes of squid a year, which is a drop in the ocean

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Swimming short-finned pilot whales filmed by a tag camera mounted behind the blow hole of a member of the pod. Photo credit: the Marine Mammal Research Program lab at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and Pacific Whale Foundation.
November 18, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Issue 21 has closed and issue 22 is open

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The cover image by Jan Lenaert shows a green hermit (Phaethornis guy) in flight
The cover of Journal of Experimental Biology, Volume 228, issue 21, published November 2025. The cover image by Jan Lenaert shows a green hermit hummingbird hovering to feed at red and yellow flowers with green leaves behind the bird. The bird is captured with its wings extended forward as it approaches a flower. The Company of Biologists 100 logo is in the bottom left corner.
November 17, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Read this month's Editors' Choice 'Kinematics of strikes in venomous snakes' by Silke Cleuren & colleagues

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Black and white photo of a hump-nosed pit viper (Hypnale hypnale) biting a cylinder of warm medical gel. Photo credit: Silke Cleuren.
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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In their Commentary, Shaughnessy & Breves discuss recent discoveries which have reinforced the nearly 50-year-old model for how marine fishes excrete salt through 'ionocytes' and provide hypotheses for how ion regulation evolved in fishes

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A screenshot of the PDF of the Research Article, Salt-secreting ionocytes in marine fishes: new dimensions and evolutionary implications of a fundamental model, by Ciaran Shaughnessy and Jason Breves. The publishing information states: © 2025. Published by The Company of Biologists | Journal of Experimental Biology (2025) 228, jeb251075. doi:10.1242/jeb.251075. The first sentence of the Abstract reads, 'To reside in marine habitats, marine fishes must actively eliminate the excess Na+ and Cl− they acquire from their environment'.
November 12, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Screenshot of first page of the Research Article, Neuromuscular coordination of movement and breathing forges a hammer-like mechanism for woodpecker drilling, by Nicholas D. Antonson, Stephen Ogunbiyi, Margot Champigneulle, Thomas J. Roberts, Franz Goller and Matthew J. Fuxjager. The publishing information states: © 2025. Published by The Company of Biologists | Journal of Experimental Biology (2025) 228, jeb251167. doi:10.1242/jeb.251167. The first sentence of the Abstract states: Drilling and tapping behaviors in woodpeckers have long garnered significant attention, given their extreme, high-impact nature.
November 11, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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When downy woodpeckers pound wood with their beaks they hold themselves rigid like hammers & grunt like tennis stars to stabilise their core muscles at the moment of impact

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A downy woodpecker (Dryobates pubescens) about to drill on a hardwood tree in Rhode Island, USA. Photo credit: N. M. Moody.
November 11, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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If you're an ECR within 5 years of your first faculty position, don't miss your chance to apply for one of our Kickstart Travel Grants or ECR Visiting Fellowships. The applications are due 28 November
Social media postcard that says: Are you an early-career researcher within five years of your first appointment to a faculty position? You could be eligible for our new grants for junior faculty staff. The Journal of Experimental Biology logo is in the bottom left corner. The Kickstart grant logo, two hands shaking, is in the bottom right corner.
November 10, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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In March 2024, Andrea Fuller hosted the first @biologists.bsky.social Global South Workshop in Kruger National Park, SA, bringing together ECRs from the Global South & international experts in comparative physiology and biomechanics

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The delegates at the 2024 Global South Workshop standing in front of the Skukuza conference centre. Photo credit: Frank O'Donnell.
November 7, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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JEB has been hosting its Symposium for almost 50 years & this year, as part of @biologists.bsky.social 100th Anniversary #biologists100, the symposium, 'Sensory perception in a changing world', was open to anyone at the Biologists @ 100 meeting. Find out more

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A montage showing delegates and attendees at the JEB Symposium (clockwise from top left): Nathan Putnam, Michael Berenbrink, Hema Somanathan, Daniel Robert, Robyn Grant.
November 6, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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As part of our @biologists.bsky.social #biologists100 celebrations, we interviewed animal physiologist and JEB author Hans-Otto Pörtner about his experience co-chairing the IPCC addressing the most pressing issue facing our planet: climate change

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A photo of Hans-Otto Pörtner
November 5, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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As part of our #biologists100 activities, celebrating 100 years of #NotForProfit #Publishing with @biologists.bsky.social, we'd love to hear about your experience of the Company with a virtual message in a bottle 🔁

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Postcard saying: Message in a bottle Share your story on how The Company of Biologists has supported your career by sending us a virtual message in a bottle
November 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Issue 20 has closed and issue 21 is open

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The front cover showing two giraffes accompanies Seymour and Snelling's Theory & Modelling article discussing how the animals' long legs have raised their hearts to reduce the cost of pumping blood to their heads
Front cover of Journal of Experimental Biology, volume 228, issue 20, published October 2025. The image, by Zirk Janssen Wildlife Photography, shows a pair of giraffes, with the giraffe on the left leaning its head down to touch the bottom of the neck of the giraffe on the right.
November 3, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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If you're interested in the integrative biology of the gut, don't miss our fantastic special issue dedicated to the topic, edited by Carol Bucking, John Terblanche and Matthew Regan

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Social media card stating: Special Issue The Integrative Biology of the Gut Guest Editors: Carol Bucking, Matt Regan and John Terblanche. The Journal of Experimental Biology logo is in the bottom left hand corner. The Integrative Biology of the Gut logo (featuring a stylised gut overlaying an image of the environment, including the sun, a tree, hills, soil and bacteria) is on the right side of the card.
October 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Screenshot of the PDF of the Research Article, Variation in echolocation call emission of Neotropical insect-eating bats in response to shifting ambient temperatures, by Paula M. Iturralde-Pólit, Marcelo Araya-Salas, Holger R. Goerlitz and Gloriana Chaverri. The publishing information states: © 2025. Published by The Company of Biologists | Journal of Experimental Biology (2025) 228, jeb251076. doi:10.1242/jeb.251076. The first sentence of the Abstract reads, 'The sensory systems of animals are essential for them to respond to environmental cues and signals'.
October 29, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Bats use their echolocation abilities to find prey, but also to find each other and avoid obstacles. Iturralde-Pólit &co show that the warm, dry air that comes with climate change, alters these calls, potentially costing the bats more energy to make them

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An elegant myotis bat. Photo credit: Juan Cruzado Cortés, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
October 29, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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We are celebrating 100years of #NotForProfit #Publishing with @biologists.bsky.social #biologists100 in 2025 with a dedicated collection of articles. In this Perspective we look at the impact that research published in JEB has had on conservation & engineering journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
Screenshot of PDF of the Perspective, Conservation and innovation: real-world solutions inspired by Journal of Experimental Biology, by Kathryn Knight. The publishing information states: © 2025. Published by The Company of Biologists | Journal of Experimental Biology (2025) 228, jeb251647. doi:10.1242/jeb.251647. The first sentence of the Abstract reads: Throughout 2025, we are celebrating the 100th anniversary of The Company of Biologists, the not-for-profit publisher of Journal of Experimental Biology and its sister journals – Development, Journal of Cell Science, Disease Models & Mechanisms and Biology Open'.
October 28, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Follow the press coverage of our #snake bite story at cob.altmetric.com/details/1828... @monashuniversity.bsky.social
The Altmetrics donut for JEB research article, Kinematics of strikes in venomous snakes, showing the extent of social and traditional media outreach of the article. The donut has a value of 353, showing 42 features in news outlets, 4 blogs, 5 X users, 7 Bluesky users and 1 podcast.
October 27, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Screenshot of the PDF of the Research Article, Kinematics of strikes in venomous snakes, by Silke G. C. Cleuren, James P. Rule, Remi Ksas, Anthony Herrel, David P. Hocking and Alistair R. Evans. The publishing information states: © 2025. Published by The Company of Biologists | Journal of Experimental Biology (2025) 228, jeb250347. doi:10.1242/jeb.250347. The first sentence of the Abstract states: 'Venomous snakes owe their evolutionary success in part to the effectiveness of their strike'.
October 27, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Snake bites are terrifying & now Silke Cleuren, Alistair Evans & co @monashuniversity.bsky.social reveal the full details of viper, elapid & colubrid bites with the first high speed movies all 3 families sinking their fangs into transparent medical gel

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Black and white photo of a hump-nosed pit viper (Hypnale hypnale) biting a cylinder of warm medical gel. Photo credit: Silke Cleuren.
October 27, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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In their Perspective, Andrew Biewener, George Lauder and Stephanie Pierce discuss how field stations provide unique facilities & access to non-laboratory locations & organisms. They highlight the fundamental contributions of Harvard's Concord Field Station
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Screen shot of the PDF of the Perspective, The Concord Field Station at Harvard University: foundational contributions to organismal physiology and biomechanics, by Andrew A. Biewener, George V. Lauder and Stephanie E. Pierce. The publishing information states: © 2025. Published by The Company of Biologists | Journal of Experimental Biology (2025) 228, jeb251226. doi:10.1242/jeb.251226. The first sentence of the Abstract says, 'Progress in understanding animal function has been tremendously facilitated by research conducted at field stations that provide access to locations, organisms and equipment not otherwise available in more traditional urban universities or research institutions'.
October 23, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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October 22, 2025 at 4:14 PM