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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...

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‘...

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)...

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).

Thursday 12 March 2015

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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.

Tuesday 23 January 2018

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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...

"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...

"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...

"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.

Sunday 29 June 2014

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Discovering Killer Plants

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

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

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

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

Monday 3 December 2018

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Full video from Contagion Camerata

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

Friday 16 February 2018

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Join us for a Contagion Camerata

Local students have been working with Dr John Traill (University of Oxford) to compose musical pieces about science...

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...

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...

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.

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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...

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

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

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

Saturday 6 May 2017

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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...

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,...

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...

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.

Tuesday 2 December 2014

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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...

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...

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.

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.

Tuesday 12 September 2017

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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...

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.

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.

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.

Wednesday 5 October 2016

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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)...

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.

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.

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.

Wednesday 4 January 2017

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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,...

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

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

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

Friday 8 September 2017

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...

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

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

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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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

Monday 3 June 2019

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Wisdom of the Crowd -- video of the event

This is a video from our event Wisdom of the Crowd

Wednesday 29 November 2017

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

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

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

Thursday 9 March 2017

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“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’...

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,...

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...

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.

Thursday 15 September 2016