Over on our blog, Digital Resources Manager Louisiane Ferlier explores the presence of non-Fellows on our #ScienceInTheMaking platform, and how improving their discoverability is also improving visibility and representation: royalsociety.org/blog/2024/1…
Over on our blog, Digital Resources Manager Louisiane Ferlier explores the presence of non-Fellows on our #ScienceInTheMaking platform, and how improving their discoverability is also improving visibility and representation: royalsociety.org/blog/2024/1…
Over on our blog, Digital Resources Manager Louisiane Ferlier explores the presence of non-Fellows on our #ScienceInTheMaking platform, and how improving their discoverability is also improving visibility and representation: royalsociety.org/blog/2024/1…
In June we published never-before-seen correspondence from our archive between Lovelace and astronomer Sir John Frederick William Herschel, shedding new light on 19th century science. You can see it here on our #ScienceInTheMaking platform: makingscience.royalsociety.o…
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (Born #OnThisDay in 1632) was a pioneer of microscopy and the first to describe red blood cells and bacteria. Take a look at how some of Leeuwenhoek's original specimens have been photographed for our #ScienceInTheMaking platform: royalsociety.org/blog/2023/0…
For #PeerReviewWeek this week, we released over 1,600 historical peer review reports on our #ScienceInTheMaking platform for the years 1949-1954, a significant period that marked the arrival of female scientists into the refereeing process. Read more on our blog: royalsociety.org/blog/2024/0…
To celebrate #PeerReviewWeek, we've added over 1,600 historical peer review reports to our #ScienceInTheMaking platform, enabling researchers to retrace the history of scientific peer review and reflect on the innovative and technological advancements made over the years: ow.ly/ThN050TwoIu#HistSci
We have released over 1,600 historical peer review reports on our #ScienceInTheMaking platform today, available to view publicly for the first time. Discover what eminent scientists thought of Alan Turing's first foray into mathematical modelling for biology, and read Nobel Prize-winning chemist Dorothy Hodgkin's review of Crick and Watson's famous DNA paper: royalsociety.org/news/2024/0…
Quite remarkable on many different levels. Well done @royalsociety for developing the #Scienceinthemaking project that led to these letters being rediscovered
With the publication of over 10,000 letters from Sir John Frederick William Herschel FRS on our #ScienceInTheMaking platform, our Head of Library Keith Moore describes an exciting new acquisition that gives new insight into this scientific dynasty: royalsociety.org/blog/2024/0…
Over 10,000 letters by astronomer and photographic pioneer Sir John Frederick William Herschel FRS (1792-1871) have been digitised for the first time on our #ScienceInTheMaking portal. Travel through time to read about Herschel’s work in his own words: royalsociety.org/news/2024/0…
#OnThisDay in 1665, the Royal Society's secretary Henry Oldenburg published the first issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, the world's longest-running scientific journal. Explore this landmark of early science: #ScienceInTheMakingmakingscience.royalsociety.o…
#ScienceInTheMaking is our permanent archive portal launched in April, a digital gateway to over 400 years of scientific history, from the earliest illustrations of dinosaur fossils to revolutionary scribblings from Newton, Hooke and Halley. Take a look: makingscience.royalsociety.o…
We develop general training #protocols but we also tweak things for individual rats and their #personality. After a false alarm (FA) #FeiToto must wait 10secs before we give him the next sample. This seems like #ALifetimeOfWaiting for him. Will it reduce FAs? #ScienceInTheMaking
We are happy to announce the launch of our permanent digital archive portal #ScienceInTheMaking! Travel through 400 years of scientific history, from the earliest illustrations of dinosaur fossils to revolutionary scribblings from Newton, Hooke and Halley: royalsociety.org/news/2023/0…
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek was a pioneer of microscopy and the first to describe red blood cells and bacteria. As we celebrate his legacy, a look at how some of Leeuwenhoek's original specimens have been photographed for our #ScienceInTheMaking platform: royalsociety.org/blog/2023/0…
Ahead of this week's conference, Royal Society Digital Resources Manager Louisiane Ferlier has taken a look at how some of Leeuwenhoek's original specimens have been photographed for our #ScienceInTheMaking platform. Read more on our blog: royalsociety.org/blog/2023/0…
Prof Anita Guerrini looks at how some eighteenth-century parents decided to subject their children to the risk of smallpox inoculation in the belief that they were acting in their best interests. Read the blog post: ow.ly/2fwk50OFyU7#ScienceInTheMaking#HistSci