Postdoc at the Royal Institution. Interested in all things old and science-y. Probably drinking coffee.
Katy Duncan 🍉
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‘By discussing the past, we get to appreciate not only the success of our best current science but also the effort that is required to study nature and its workings’, writes @vanessaseifert.bsky.social
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Super excited to have @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social join us at the Ri! Book your tickets* here👇
*big discounts for members, students etc.
#histsci #science #scicomm 🧪 🦋
Lovely little @rigb.org archive find - in the back of James Dewar’s pamphlet for his 1883 Juvenile Lectures on Alchemy & its relation to Modern Science is this wonderful pull-out timeline of physical and chemical philosophers… beginning with “Hermes??” and (of course) finishing with Faraday 🧪
What if extinction wasn’t forever?
Join historian of science Sadiah Qureshi as she explores de-extinction, rewilding, and how science is reshaping our understanding of loss, survival, and life itself.
📢 We are offering a bursary of £1500 which will part-fund a place on our MSc Science Communication.
The bursary is in memory of Professor Frank Burnet who established and was the first Director of the SCU and a key founder of the MSc.
Apply for the bursary
www.uwe.ac.uk/courses/fund...
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Happy birthday to David Attenborough! 🎉 One of the few to have ever come out on top against the unholy trinity of live tv, children, and animals… take a look back at his 1973 @rigb.org Xmas Lectures, & check out a never before seen transcript of the missing lecture 4!
www.rigb.org/explore-scie...
"It looks magic, but it's not, it's good science" 🦋
For 36 years, Bill Coates was the master of science demonstrations behind the Christmas Lectures. (1/2)
To celebrate Sir David Attenborough's 100th birthday, we have compiled all his greatest contributions to the Royal Institutio
What if extinction wasn’t forever?
Join historian of science Sadiah Qureshi as she explores de-extinction, rewilding, and how science is reshaping our understanding of loss, survival, and life itself.
Otto Warburg's grant application: "I need 10,000 marks".
Royal Institution
📣Interested in pursuing a postgraduate degree in the history of STM? Wishing to apply to our Hans Rausing Scholarship? Then this webinar is for you!
Pursuing a research degree in the history of STM
Thursday 12 March
17.00-18.00 (GMT)
Register via Eventbrite ⬇️
#histsci #histtech #histmed #histstm
In the early 19th Century, Eleanor Anne Porden, a published poet with a passionate interest in science, made these short notes about lectures she attended at the Royal Institution.
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Author Sadiah Qureshi explores our relationship with extinction, how our understanding of it has changed, an
