27 Jan 2025
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born #OnThisDay in 1756. The @royalsociety was made aware of his prodigious talents as early as 1770, when his extraordinary performances as a musician were described by Daines Barrington in a paper published in #PhilTrans: ow.ly/i7cc50QpS21
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25 Jan 2025
Robert Boyle FRS was born #OnThisDay in 1627. He is regarded as one of the founders of modern chemistry and was a founding member of @royalsociety. Read more about him, including some of his work published in #PhilTrans, in our archive: ow.ly/HPrq50QpRLb #HistSci
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19 Jan 2025
Born #OnThisDay in 1736 was James Watt FRS. The Scottish engineer is best known for his revolutionary steam engine. Read more about him in the Royal Society journals archive, including his papers published in #PhilTrans ow.ly/XJIV50UB4OR #HistSci
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9 Nov 2024
#OnThisDay in 1816, Sir Humphry Davy presented the first of four papers to the Royal Society, introducing a safety lamp developed with his assistant Michael Faraday to protect coal miners from fire-damp explosions. ow.ly/U5sy50U0qAz | #DavyLamp #PhilTrans #HistSci
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9 Nov 2024
Astronomer #CarolineHerschel's 'Account of a new comet' was first read at the Royal Society #OnThisDay in 1787. It was the first time the scientific work of a woman was fully credited in any scientific journal throughout the world. ow.ly/QsVT50DYOOl #HistSci #PhilTrans
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6 May 2024
Out today! Two papers on #migratory #insects as part of @royalsociety PhilTrans issue about #insect monitoring methods (royalsocietypublishing.org/t…)
Monitoring insect #biodiversity using #radar: doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.01…
Diel timing of insect migration: doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.01…
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18 Apr 2024
Coming up tomorrow, our next #HistSci seminar, 19 April at 2:30pm (Europe/London): a roundtable discussion of the ambitious digitisation programme, Science in the Making @dbelteki @anmcl001 #HistSTM #HSTM #PhilTrans ow.ly/Ohne50Rf5h0
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3 Apr 2024
The naturalist and ornithologist George Edwards FRS was born #OnThisDay in 1694. Take a look at some of his wonderful scientific illustrations in our journals archive: ow.ly/T25650Iy5ep #PhilTrans #HistSci
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16 Mar 2024
Born #OnThisDay in 1750, astronomer Caroline Herschel was the first woman to publish scientific findings in Philosophical Transactions. Read her account of a new comet in #PhilTrans: ow.ly/QsVT50DYOOl #HistSci
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6 Mar 2024
Henry Oldenburg, the German-English diplomat turned scientific intelligencer who served as the first editor of the Philosophical Transactions of the @royalsociety, is @LindaHall_org's #ScientistOfTheDay.
lindahall.org/about/news/sci…
#histsci #histSTM #PhilTrans #rarebooks🗃️📜
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27 Jan 2024
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born #OnThisDay in 1756. The Royal Society was made aware of his prodigious talents as early as 1770, when his extraordinary performances as a musician were described by Daines Barrington in a paper published in #PhilTrans: ow.ly/i7cc50QpS21
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25 Jan 2024
Robert Boyle FRS was born #OnThisDay in 1627. He is regarded as one of the founders of modern chemistry and was a founding member of @royalsociety. Read more about him, including some of his work published in #PhilTrans, in our archive: ow.ly/HPrq50QpRLb #HistSci
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21 Jan 2024
In this new Editorial, Professors John Dainton and Richard Dixon reflect on the theme issue publishing model in response to concerns regarding the quality and integrity of content published in such issues. ow.ly/CIuB50QqW9k #PhilTrans #STEMpublishing
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19 Jan 2024
Born #OnThisDay in 1736 was James Watt FRS. The Scottish engineer is best known for his revolutionary steam engine. Read more about him in the Royal Society journals archive, including his papers published in #PhilTrans ow.ly/x5mf50MuHpB #HistSci
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10 Jan 2024
In this new Editorial, Professors Richard Dixon and John Dainton reflect on the theme issue publishing model in response to concerns regarding the quality and integrity of content published in such issues. ow.ly/L0S950Qpa54 #PhilTrans #STEMpublishing
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3 Nov 2023
Interested in new ways to look at #collectivebehaviour in animals? My talk on the ontogeny and evolutionary history of collective behaviour:
youtu.be/z74fnbj4S_Q?si=QIIq…
For detail, see our @RSocPublishing #Philtrans special issue with @KateLaskowski
royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
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11 Aug 2023
Anyone at #Behaviour2023 want a copy of our @RSocPublishing #PhilTrans special issue?
Includes our #OpenAccess review: "A multi-scale review of the dynamics of collective behaviour: from rapid responses to ontogeny and evolution"
royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
#Collectivebehaviour
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10 Jul 2023
PhD paper by @maddydejong (co-supervised with @chapple_lab) reveal long term effects of developmental temperature on offspring phenotype in an egg laying skink. With @lesley_alton, @Craig_R_White & @OBryanMoira. #BobWongLab #PhilTrans
royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
📸 Jules Farquhar
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6 Mar 2023
"The Noble Engagement of Dispersing the true Lustre of [God's] Glorious Works, and the Happy Inventions of Obliging Men all over the World, to the General Benefit of Mankind." #OnThisDay in 1665 the first issue of @RSocPublishing #PhilTrans was published: royalsociety.org/journals/pu…
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20 Feb 2023
🌟New paper alert!🌟
Excited that our paper exploring the effect of ageing individuals on social network structure is out today in the @RSocPublishing #PhilTrans special issue on Collective behaviour through time.
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royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
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