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Call of the Wild, MIT 2016

Some more materials have emerged from the ‘Call of the Wild’ symposium that several ConSciCom members participated in.

First day on the CONSCICOM project

Today was my first day in harness on the CONSCICOM project.

Going into Rooms and Saying Things: Academic Presentations

Giving presentations is a vital part of academic life. Yet the functioning of the academic presentation is little explored.

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People Power at the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford

On 20th November, Sally Frampton led the Oxford wing of Constructing Scientific Communities in running ‘People Power’, an evening event devoted to citizen science past and present, held in the Museum of the History of Science.

A drawing of Zulu chiefs from the periodical Intellectual Observer

People Powered Science

Science has escaped from the laboratory. It lives on our television screens and newspaper pages.

Engravings of various stylized nineteenth-century letters

People Powered Science II

At the beginning of the project I posted some thoughts on people powered science and how history might hold some lessons for contemporary citizen science practice.

Rogues and Wild Relatives: Purity and wildness in early-20th Century Genetics

Following up on last year's post about academic presentations and going into rooms and saying things, here's a recording of some things I said in a room.

Science Periodicals in the 19th and 21st Century: Special Issue of the Royal Society's Notes and Records

In November 2015, the project held a symposium at the Royal Society on The End of the Scientific Journal? Transformations in Publishing 1800-2015.

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Special issue, ‘Science periodicals in the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries’ organized and edited by Sally Shuttleworth and Berris Charnley

A special issue of Notes and Records, the journal of the Royal Society, has been published.

Sketchnote made by Makayla Lewis

Sydney Padua: Imaginary Engines- Lovelace, Babbage, and the Analytical Engine

One of the highlights of an amazing seminar series last term was a paper not from one of the world’s leading historians (though we did have two of those) but from animator and graphic artist, Sydney Padua.

Tables Turned at the Royal Society’s Twilight Science

Without much hesitation, science historians will tell you that nineteenth-century science was theatrical.

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The Conversationalist Podcast - Episode 4: Domestic Science in the 19th Century

You’re invited to join our science-themed cocktail party, where experts on the history of science tell us stories, fun facts, and random anecdotes about the development of scientific knowledge from the 19th century to today.

Ascroft’s illustrations were in fact a set of rather beautiful sunsets for the frontispiece of The eruption of Krakatoa and subsequent phenomena; report of the Krakatoa Committee of the Royal Society (1888).

The services of the sea serpent will not be required this year…

Katherine Harrington over at the Royal Society has just put up a fantastic post on The Repository (the Royal Society’s History of Science Blog).

Welcome to New Team Members

The Constructing Scientific Communities team welcomes three new team members in October.

Events

People Powered Science: Event at the Royal Society

Professor Sally Shuttleworth, Professor Chris Lintott and Dr Berris Charnley will be discussing 'People Powered Science: Citizen Science in the 19th and 21st Centuries" at a free event at the Royal Society on Thursday 21st May 2015.

The End of the Scientific Journal? Transformations in Publishing Symposium

In the early 21st Century the world of scientific publishing is changing swiftly. Online publishing, open access, big data, innovations in peer review and commercial pressures have created a scientific publishing environment.

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