It's World Disability Day - marked by @UN, it's vital to recognise that people with disabilities are some of the most excluded in our society. That's why we're urging engineering organisations to take action in the workplace. Here's how: raeng.org.uk/WDD2020#EngDiversity
Congratulations to the winner of the 2020 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Prize, Dr Camilla Pang @millzymai for her book: Explaining Humans: What Science Can Teach Us About Life, Love and Relationships #scibooks
Sign up for one or both of our free publishing webinars taking place in November...
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Celebrating the life of American anesthesiologist Dr Virginia Apgar.
In August 1953 Apgar published a 5-point method for assessing a baby's health within 5 mins of birth. The Apgar Score is now standard practice in hospitals worldwide.
#WomenInSTEM#WomenInScience
ALT Virginia Apgar (July 6, 1959)
ALT Virginia Apgar, creator of the Apgar score using a stethoscope on the chest of a baby
“Mathematical science shows what is. It's the language of unseen relations between things. But to use & apply that language, we must be able to fully to appreciate, to feel, to seize the unseen, the unconscious.”
#AdaLovelace#quotex.com/MathsEdIdeas/status/93…#AdasArmy#maths
If you've an idea for a project to engage the public with engineers and engineering, apply for #RAEngIngenious funding! Grants of £3,000 - £30,000 available for proposals all across the UK - apply by 28 September: raeng.org.uk/ingenious
This weekend marks the #NHSBirthday and an important time to thank all of our incredible NHS staff across the country. If you haven't yet seen the @rankinphoto portrait collection featuring the stories of #OurNHSPeople, visit england.nhs.uk/rankin
ALT Montage of all 12 portraits of NHS staff taken by photographer Rankin.
The biodiversity leader - Elizabeth Mrema who was appointed executive secretary of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity - is fighting for nature amid a pandemic @mremaenature.com/articles/d41586-0…