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Ecophysiology and Climate Change PN Issue 118 / Spring 2020 Physiology News Ecophysiology and climate change: Shaping our understanding of animal form and function Help us improve diversity and inclusivity by updating your details on the member portal today! Log into the portal to update your details now: physoc.org/details TPS12405 - Diversity and inclusivity advert - text update V2REPRO.indd 1 13/08/2019 11:48:49 Physiology News Scientific Editor Keith Siew University College London We welcome feedback on our membership magazine, or letters and suggestions for articles for publication, including book reviews, from our Members. Managing Editor Please email Julia Turan at [email protected]. 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Welcome to the Spring 2020 edition of Physiology News Introduction Journal Insights 5 Editorial 24 The latest from our journals 6 President’s View: The Society’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic 7 Letters to the Editor Features 26 Ecophysiology and climate change: Shaping our understanding News and Views of animal form and function 32 Sex in studies:The first level of personalisation 8 Reports of The Society’s recent committee meetings 36 Time to win gold: Could chronobiology make the difference between winning and losing for elite athletes? 9 Physiology Feed 41 Hypoxia and comparative physiology in humans: Diversity in 10 The science and art of detecting data manipulation and fraud: haemoglobin and oxygen dissociation curve shifting Log into the portal to update your details now: An interview with Elisabeth Bik 44 The bustling world of hormone dynamics: Endocrinology Theme physoc.org/details 12 Transformative Agreements and the immediate future of Lead update Open Access 14 Experimental design and irreproducibility in pre-clinical research TPS12405 - Diversity and inclusivity advert - text update V2REPRO.indd 1 13/08/2019 11:48:49 16 An interview with Greg Clark, new Chair of the Science and Technology Committee Membership 19 An interview with John Cripps, our new external trustee 46 Amazing Body: Creating colouring-in physiology for hospital STEM for Britain 2020 patients 47 Hibernation, lightning breath, and graphene moustaches: Members imagine possible futures of the human body Events 48 Book Review: The Matter of Facts: Skepticism, Persuasion, and Evidence in Science by Gareth Leng and Rhodri Ivor Leng 20 The contribution of sport and exercise science to the Welsh economy: The Physiological Society hosts expert panel in 49 Obituary: Peter Bryan Conrad Matthews Cardiff Bay 50 Obituary: Michael Berridge 21 Three Steps to Career Success: A Webinar Series for Early 51 Obituary: David Arthur Jones Career Researchers 22 Mental health in academia: Changing research culture Cover image: As part of a long-term project on the Svalbard reindeer, the research team equip a lucky female reindeer with a GPS and activity collar, as well as a subcutaneous heart rate monitor, to retrieve valuable data. They use a hot flask to keep the computers warm in the bitter Arctic cold. Learn more about their research on p.22. Photo credit: L Monica Trondrud. This image is published under the CC-BY-SA 4.0 licence. 3 FutureFuture PhysiologyPhysiology 20202020 AA conferencevirtual conference for early for career early career researchers by researchersearly career researchersby early career researchers Career Networking development opportunities workshops FREE REGISTRATION For Members of The Physiological Society Present your research START www.physoc.org/futurephysiology2020 Future Physiology 6 – 10 July 2020 Virtual sessions daily [email protected] physoc PhySocTV +44 (0)20 72695710 @ThePhySoc @thephysoc www.physoc.org the-physiological-society Editorial Physiology in the time of coronavirus freely accessible in the furtherance of the about ecophysiology, the study of animal Keith Siew public good, in line with many other scientific form and function, reminds us of the Scientific Editor publications. Although the sense of urgency importance of this field in understanding how is warranted, the breakneck pace of research human actions impact animals. Additionally, and immense pressure to produce positive our exciting upcoming virtual early career results is not without concern. We must conference Future Physiology will focus on Julia Turan temper our desire to cut corners and avoid climate change, consisting of a week of oral Managing Editor the trappings of poorly designed experiments, communications, e-poster sessions, and particularly in the pre-clinical setting. A professional development workshops. Please welcome refresher from Michael Festing visit physoc.org/futurephysiology2020 (p.14), reminds us that designing rigorous to register. Amidst the coronavirus crisis, physiology statistically valid experiments is paramount, has been thrust to the fore with many if we are to avoid producing irreproducible Finally, in non-coronavirus related news, we awakening to the importance of physiology studies that give false hope and could are incredibly excited to announce that from in understanding this disease, its treatment ultimately cost lives. Sadly this is not the only this issue onwards Physiology News will be and prevention. Perhaps nothing exemplifies threat, as tragedy often begets opportunity, published under a Creative Common licence, this more than the re-emergence of plasma and those less honest driven by non-altruistic specifically CC BY-SA 4. For more information, therapy as a means to bestow passive tendencies may seize upon this moment to visit physoc.org/magazine. Under this immunity, a discovery awarded the first ever make a name for themselves. Elisabeth Bik, licence, anyone can use the text and images in Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1901 who we interviewed in this issue, will be the magazine provided they give appropriate for its use as treatment of diphtheria. on their case (p. 10). She keeps an eye out credit, provide a link to the licence, indicate for fraudulent data, and seeks to expose any changes they have made, and distribute In fact one of our authors, Michael Joyner, is authors and publications, to encourage ethical it under this same licence. We thought this leading such efforts with convalescent plasma publishing. Philip Lewis further explores change to be important on principle - the clinical trials in the United States of America. “science as a human endeavour” expanding on more Members who reuse our materials, in His co-authored article with Paolo Dominelli the discussion about sources of bias and flaws the classroom or otherwise, the better. (p. 41) about the oxygen dissociation in scientific publishing in a review of a book by curve in rare haemoglobin conditions is Member Gareth Leng and his son Rhodri Leng, Looking back to previous issues, Society staff especially relevant, given
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