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Chris Lintott's new video on amateur scientists

Professor Chris Lintott’s video on citizen science, explaining how anyone can contribute to scientific knowledge features in ‘Citizen science is making scientists of everyone‘ (The Guardian 10 March 2015).

Dear Mr Darwin, a lecture at the Oxford Martin School

"Dear Mr Darwin", a lecture delivered by Professor Sally Shuttleworth, Dr Sally Frampton and Dr Geoff Belknap as part of the Oxford Martin School lecture series Trusting the crowd: solving big problems with everyday solutions.

Discovering Killer Plants

Dr Kira Allman filmed and edited this video with Dr Chris Thorogood of the University of Oxford’s Botanic Garden.

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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.

Recap: Connecting with the Crowd Conference (Natural History Museum, London)

We had a great time discussing citizen science and the historical and contemporary applications of crowdsourcing at the Connecting with the Crowd Conference at the Natural History Museum on 16 June 2017.

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 and the Victorian Public: A Magic Lantern Performance

The video recording of our Being Human 2016 event in Leicester (also a part of the Literary Leicester festival) is now available for your viewing edification.

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Sensing and Presencing Rare Plants through Contemporary Drawing Practice

Blog post contributed by Sian Bowen, Leverhulme Fellow & Reader in Fine Art at the University of Northumbria, www.sianbowen.com

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Wisdom of the Crowd -- video of the event

This is a video from our event Wisdom of the Crowd

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‘Work peculiarly fitting to a lady’: Elizabeth Beckley and the early years of solar photography

The important role played by female photographic assistants in American astronomical observatories at the end of the nineteenth century is now well-known.

“Why, Poison yours – but don’t make me a prey to Vaccination!” Songs of the Nineteenth-Century Anti-Vaccination Movement

Back in May Constructing Scientific Communities organised an evening event at the Royal College of Surgeons’ Hunterian Museum to help celebrate the opening of our exhibition there, Vaccination: Medicine and the Masses.

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Contagion Cabaret, Meet our Student Composers video

Interviews with local students who composed music around themes of contagion, medicine, and science.

Full video from Contagion Camerata

This is the full video from our Contagion Camera event from 2 February, 2018. See more at Contagion Camerata

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Keynotes from Mind Reading: Mental Health and the Written Word

Both literature and clinical medicine deal with issues such as subjective identity, selfhood, and the social and cultural determinants of health and well-being.

Edited photograph of Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s image of a nerve cell. Originally taken by Irene Tobón and posted on Flickr commons. Some rights reserved.

Videos from Mind Reading 2019: Adolescence, Literature, and Mental Health

See the videos from our conference, Mind Reading: Adolescence, Literature and Mental Health

Events

Join us for a Contagion Camerata

Local students have been working with Dr John Traill (University of Oxford) to compose musical pieces about science and medicine. For inspiration, the students attended the Contagion Cabaret at Oxford's Curiosity Carnival in September.

UK Disability History Month Event: Work, Time and Stress: Historical and Contemporary Perpsectives

The two talks will raise lots of ideas for discussion, including the impact of modern technologies in each period on the nature of work.

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