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 🧪 🦋

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...

‘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 www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/how-...

📢 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... #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 🧪

"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)

Otto Warburg's grant application: "I need 10,000 marks".

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. #BritishScienceWeek

📣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

The Division for the History of Science and Technology is running another ECR workshop series in the second half of 2026. I really enjoyed taking part in the first series, which covered an impressively broad list of topics, from writing book reviews and grant proposals to...

Are you a researcher in the field of history of science, technology and medicine? There's still time to submit your paper for the #NotesAndRecords essay award. Submit your research by 28 February 2026: buff.ly/dedMm93 #HistSci #HistSTM #HistMed

Tipper was incredible - not only was she a Research Assistant in the DFRL at @rigb.org in the early 1920s, but simultaneously worked at the Royal School of Mines AND assisted GI Taylor at @cambridgephysics.bsky.social

Congrats to @rigb.org’s chair, SRC!

Fantastic news: our historic lecture Theatre is set for a major refurbishment later this year, thanks to support from The Wolfson Foundation! The works will include new seats, restoration of the iconic lecture desk, state-of-the-art audio-visual infrastructure and accessibility enhancements.

The last of the red leaves 🍂 📍 Kanazawa Castle Park, Ishikawa, Japan

From flaming raisins to robots and rockets, the institution’s Christmas Lectures have educated and entertained for two centuries go.nature.com/3Yeu8v3

Had the best day at the Nature and Science Museum in Tokyo today. A productive time researching Ayrton as well as getting sidetracked by everything else! 🐋 🦕 🌱 🚀

At Cambridge I worked with @whipplemuseum.bsky.social and @chuarchives.bsky.social to explore why Bacon’s cell ended up in space 🚀 from Grove’s letter we see that the basic principles were the same - tho the composition of the Bacon’s nickel membrane was kept under the official secrets act 🤫

Oxford, you’ve been an absolute treat! Thanks for having me @bodleian.ox.ac.uk - I’ll be back 👀 @stannescollege.bsky.social

📢 JOB ALERT 📢 Come work with me! @rigb.org is hiring an Archivist, full time, 2 year, fixed-term contract, hybrid working possible. Please share widely! More details 👇 www.rigb.org/about-us/wor...

I definitely recommend *chequing* out the finer details of this note if you have one! Lots of lovely little science details (even if the xmas lectures year turned out to be wrong…) And rumour has it the men in the front row of the audience are from the Bank of England 🤔

Nice little break from transcribing letters: found these doodles of Faraday @rigb.org and Herschel in a letter from novelist Maria Edgeworth (1802-1869) in 1844 @bodleian.ox.ac.uk, writing about Faraday’s Xmas lectures on electricity - pretty solid likenesses to be honest!

Not quite sure how I’ve been here nearly a week already?! @bodleian.ox.ac.uk’s Rad Cam looking lovely in the sun ☀️

To celebrate 200 years of Royal Institution Discourses, our friends at @rigb.org have released a newly-digitised version of a 1970 Discourse given by Kathleen Lonsdale FRS on 'Women in Science'. Listen to this fascinating lecture now: #WomenInSTEM www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzlA...

The wonderful @rigb.org Demo Team getting the recognition they deserve ✨ 🧪

We are so proud of our amazing Demo Team for being recognised as "global leaders in spectacular science demonstrations" with the 2025 @royalsociety.org Hauksbee Award. 👏 We can't wait to show you what they have in store for the 200th anniversary of the Christmas Lectures!

This is not only a serious issue for historians and not only a serious issue for academics (although it is that). It's a development that's also deleterious for the GLAM sector, for example, and part of a much larger trend nationally and internationally to restrict and dismantle access to archives.

@naomioreskes.bsky.social gave this *excellent* interview at @rigb.org back in May. A great primer on a lot of big problems in science - trust, disinformation, freedom - and why the onus is on scientists 🧪

Congrats to the two incoming Freer Fellows! 🥳

@naomioreskes.bsky.social's brilliant @rigb.org lecture: how military secrecy delayed plate tectonic theory for 3 decades - a narrative that remains ever relevant to science today... ⚒️ 🧪 #histsci #skystorians #science #academicsky #STS #geoscience @miguelohn.bsky.social

Toroid is love, Toroid is life. 🧪

Very exciting workshop in Reykjavik in October, organized by @oscarw.bsky.social. Please spread the word and/or consider submitting an abstract. #philsci #philsky #hps philevents.org/event/show/1...

Nothing quite like ordering up a mystery box of “glass slides” from the JJ Thomson collection at @trincolllibcam.bsky.social and finding this 🤩 Slides from Thomson’s 1921 discourse“chemical combination & the structure of the molecule” at @rigb.org in perfect condition 🧪 ⚛️ beats PowerPoint any day…

John Tyndall, Irish physicist, mountaineer & science popularizer, was born #OTD c. 1820. We've published 13 vols. of his letters thus far, 14 this fall & 15-21 in the works: bit.ly/4fluhVd @upittpress.bsky.social @rolandjackson.bsky.social @ri-science.bsky.social @royalsociety.org #HPS #histsci

The next Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP) conference will be held at the University of Cambridge, U.K, on 15-18 July 2026. #philsci philosophy-science-practice.org

Our autumn programme of science talks is available for booking! 🍂 We'll reopen the newly refurbished Ri building with a spectacular calendar of talks, packed with popular speakers and fascinating topics. www.rigb.org/whats-on?typ...

We know we're not supposed to have favourites, but COME ON youtube.com/shorts/-l9nB...

Taylor also gets the award for best Xmas lecture intro song… 🧪 🎵

Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

I had so much fun at The Royal Society’s Summer Exhibition a few weeks ago! The quantum tech room was especially cool. Is the historian-equivalent of touching grass *actually talking* to living scientists? Maybe. Obviously stopped by Faraday’s colloids that @ri-science.bsky.social loaned too… 🧪

Weighing in at 827 pages and 2 1/4 inches, our Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the 19th Century is HERE! Huge thanks to @oupphilosophy.bsky.social and our 50+ authors. Restoring women to the philosophical canon is a matter of justice, but it is also better scholarship!

Conference highlight: VIP at 8G #BSHS2025 #histci

Always fun to get the chance to talk about weird physics! Now to relax and enjoy the rest of #BSHS2025 from the audience… #HPS #histsci 🧪

For a deep dive into this fascinating story, take a look at this blog written by historian @katysduncan.bsky.social 👇 www.rigb.org/explore-scie...

✨ Physics & Glass ✨ Now on at the Whipple Museum, Physics & Glass is a tribute to the art of the scientific glassblower. Glass has been one of the most important materials in the history of physics, and this display highlights some of the most intricate pieces in the Whipple’s collection.

The only possible way to round off the @ri-science.bsky.social Geophysics conference was to stick the attendees in Faraday’s lab 🤷🏻‍♀️ Thank you all so much for coming! @miguelohn.bsky.social @alisabokulich.bsky.social

A wonderful talk tonight by @naomioreskes.bsky.social at the @ri-science.bsky.social on how Navy secrecy of oceanographic data impeded rise of plate tectonics.

the Socials Manager *definitely* has a supercut of me saying “Brobdingnagian” wrong 87 times 🥲 I will never know peace again

Rethinking the Origins of Plate Tectonics - #historyofscience lecture Mon May 12 @ri-science.bsky.social. @naomioreskes.bsky.social on how military secrecy stalled our understanding of the earth for decades. @katysduncan.bsky.social @miguelohn.bsky.social blog.history.ac.uk/2025/05/hist...

On Monday, the Royal Institution is hosting a workshop on the #histsci of geophysics, with a livestreamed keynote by @naomioreskes.bsky.social on plate tectonics. Read @katysduncan.bsky.social on how she and @miguelohn.bsky.social put the event together, and see who's presenting here: