Professor Sarah Sharples CBE FREng
News and views
6 mins
Fitting in
Marcus Munafo
News and views
4 mins
Be careful: Work doesn’t love you back…
Graeme Gooday
History of science
7 mins
Medallist yet not a Fellow?
Did the award of a Hughes Medal to Hertha Ayrton in November 1906 imply overdue recognition for women in scientific research? Not quite, as guest blogger Graeme Gooday argues…
Sir Anthony Finkelstein CBE FREng FRS
News and views
6 mins
How university finances really work
Rupert Oulton
News and views
6 mins
Serving the academy beyond science
Keith Moore
History of science
4 mins
Spirited away
William Benjamin Carpenter FRS was a fierce critic of the 'epidemic delusion' of spiritualism - but the spirits came for him in the end, as Keith Moore relates...
Błażej Kuźma
Publishing
4 mins
Reading the flicker: what the Sun tells us about distant stars
Philosophical Transactions A has recently published a theme issue on 'Transferable mechanisms in the oscillatory processes of solar and stellar flares'. In this blog post, Guest Editor Błażej Kuźma explains how the Sun is helping us make sense of flares on stars we may never see close up.
Ann Campbell
News and views
6 mins
Increasing your visibility
Jonathan Flint
News and views
5 mins
Interacting with Industry
Louisiane Ferlier
History of science
5 mins
Under pressure
Louisiane Ferlier looks back to the days when Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ ran the Met Office.
Shewly Choudhury
News and views
5 mins
Getting to know your funder
Magdalena Skipper
News and views
6 mins