We’re pleased to announce that our paper on ‘Disentangling the role of surface topography and intrinsic wettability in the prey capture mechanism of Nepenthes pitcher plants’ in collaboration with David Labonte, Adam Robinson and Walter Federle has been accepted for publication in Acta Biomaterialia. The corrected proofs are online here and remain open access until 13 January 2021. Meanwhile, our review paper on ‘Mechanical ecology – taking biomechanics to the field’, published as a pre-print earlier this year, is now in available in the final print version. A pdf can be found here.