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Applications are now open for Inside Out: New Frontiers in the Comparative Physiology of the Vertebrate Gut, a Workshop organised by Carol Bucking and Chris M. Wood that will examine the function of the vertebrate gastro-intestinal tract. Funded places are available for early-career researchers.

Professor Marie Dacke talks about her earliest experiences of working with dung beetles in South Africa, establishing a new field site in Sardinia, Italy, and the pivotal experiments that confirmed that dung beetles can navigate by star light.

Self-cleaning waterproof coating prevents ambushing antlion mouthparts from getting clogged with sand.

In this Review, Michael Ørsted, Lisa Bjerregaard Jørgensen and Johannes Overgaard present a framework to reconcile methodological measurements and mechanisms related to the physiology of heat stress tolerance limits, thermal injury and repair in ectotherms.

JEB and our publisher The Company of Biologists offer a number of practical ways to help you meet the unique needs and challenges you may encounter as an early-career researcher (ECR). Visit our dedicated ECR webpage to find out more.