BioOne is proud to announce the 2025 recipients of the BioOne Ambassador Award. Now in its eighth year, this prestigious award celebrates the next generation of excellence in science communication. Recipients are exceptional early-career researchers within the BioOne community who are accelerating the dissemination of their work to a broader audience and fostering public understanding and appreciation of science.

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem proudly congratulates Dr. Uria Alcolombri on being named one of the 19 Frontiers Planet Prize 2025 National Champions – and the only Israeli scientist to receive this honor in this year’s prestigious global competition.

An international team of malacologists discovered a new snail species, Anauchen picasso, in Southeast Asia that exhibits a highly complex and rectangularly angled shell shape, resembling a cubist-style painting. A. picasso is among 46 new species of microsnails discovered in Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. The discovery was published in the open-access peer-reviewed journal ZooKeys.