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New research in Proceedings B identifies caregiving as a primary cause of the gender gap in science and explores potential solutions.

Dr Kate Hendry, Guest Editor of the Philosophical Transactions A theme issue ‘The marine system of the West Antarctic Peninsula: status and strategy for progress in a region of rapid change‘, tells us about her experience of working with the journal.

We welcome Michelle Tseng and Fanie Pelletier as our new ecology Associate Editors for Proceedings B.

Phil Hurst discusses the decision to collect gender data for Royal Society journals with the aim to identify and respond to potential biases in the peer review process.

Dr Leor Zmigrod, an experimental psychologist at the University of Cambridge, explores how diversity plays an important role in the peer review system.

Ximena Bernal, Purdue University, USA, and Michelle LaRue, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, join the editorial board of Proceedings B

A recently published Proceedings B article ‘Temperature drives Zika virus transmission: evidence from empirical and mathematical models’ looked at the thermal performance of Zika virus and its possible host range. Dr Courtney Murdock, College of Veterinary Medicine, Athens, Georgia tells us more about the paper.

We are pleased to welcome two new Associate Editors to the Proceedings B editorial board: Chelsea Wood (University of Washington) and Kristian Forbes (University of Arkansas).

We are pleased to welcome Anna Marie Roos, from the University of Lincoln, as the new Editor of Notes and Records of the Royal Society, where she is a reader in the history of science and medicine.

he authors of a recent Proceedings B article on the evolutionary history of brown bears used genetic analyses to show the phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary history of Himalayan and Tibetan bears, thus shedding light on the possible identity of the yeti.

We spoke to lead author, Lauren Powell, from Evolutionary Anthropology Research Group, University of Durham about findings in her article Re-evaluating the link between brain size and behavioural ecology in primates.

Open Biology talks to Chandana Kondapalli, a Post-doctoral Research Scientist at Columbia University, about the first article she published during her PhD.