Chiara Ceci

📚🐒⚖️ Una storia di scienza, fede e comunicazione che continua a parlarci 100 anni dopo.
🎙️ Oggi a Radio 3 Scienza si è parlato del processo Scopes e di come ancora oggi definisca il modo in cui discutiamo di evoluzione.
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Really looking forward to the @cipr.co.uk Annual Conference tomorrow! A great chance to exchange ideas, get inspired, and explore the future of strategic communications 💬✨ cipr.co.uk/CIPR/CIPR/Ne...

🖼️✨ Loved the Joseph Wright of Derby exhibition at the National Gallery. His use of light and shadow is mesmerising ❤️‍🔥 My favourites remain his great scientific scenes, where experiment becomes drama by candlelight 🕯️ www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/...

Gli umili eroi della terra: Darwin e il mondo segreto dei lombrichi – Pikaia Nel weekend a Down House si è svolto il “Worm Weekend”, un evento dedicato ai lombrichi e agli esperimenti di Darwin

Gli umili eroi della terra: Darwin e il mondo segreto dei lombrichi @pikaia.eu.web.brid.gy 🪱📚 pikaia.eu/darwin-e-il-...

Bird migration is changing. What does this reveal about our planet? – visualised Bird migrations rank as one of nature’s greatest spectacles. Thanks to GPS tracking, scientists are uncovering extraordinary insights into ancient and mysterious journeys – and new threats that are re...

Stunning data storytelling and a powerful look at how bird migration patterns are shifting with our changing planet.
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Ricordando David Kohn, maestro degli archivi darwiniani – Pikaia Ci ha lasciato lo storico della scienza e botanico David Kohn, dirttore del Darwin Manuscripts Project

Il mio ricordo di David Kohn, grande maestro degli archivi darwiniani pikaia.eu/david-kohn-d... @pikaia.eu.web.brid.gy

Conservationist Jane Goodall, renowned for chimpanzee research, dies at 91 While living among chimpanzees in Africa decades ago, Goodall documented the animals using tools and doing other activities previously believed to be exclusive to humans.

Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for her groundbreaking chimpanzee field research and globe-spanning environmental advocacy, has died. She was 91. https://to.pbs.org/4mIl8Ig

A review of nudges: Definitions, justifications, effectiveness In 2008, the behavioral economist Richard Thaler and the legal scholar Cass Sunstein published a book in which they advocated a novel approach to public policy based on the notion of a “nudge.” Rough....

Want to know more about nudges? This is the paper for you 👇 #BehaviouralScience

Epidemiology models explain rumour spreading during France’s Great Fear of 1789 - Nature Epidemiological methods are used to show that the Great Fear of 1789, a series of peasant insurrections in rural revolutionary France, was driven by deliberate political action rather than spontaneous...

Can epidemiology models explain how rumours spread? This analysis, using the Great Fear as a case study, provides a quantitative answer to "the unresolved debate between the role of emotions and rationality in explaining its diffusion." #BehaviouralScience

9 images in a grid of myself and other presenters at the CIPR East Anglia misinformation conference.

Brilliant day in Cambridge hosting the @cipreastanglia.bsky.social conference! Key takeaways: trust is local, act fast, prebunk, measure impact, and embrace new skills. Huge thanks to the speakers and my amazing team. As @shayonislynn.bsky.social said “Hope is a strategy – if we act deliberately”

Very excited for tonight’s @linneansociety.bsky.social President's Lecture by Dr Mark Watson @thebotanics.bsky.social on Survival of the Fittest: An Evolving Learned Society

This is a jewel of an exhibition. Do go if you can. A paeon to the vanishing art of quietly waiting, observing, noticing, recording and drawing, with pens and pencils, on paper.

Cabinets of Wonder | Archives of Disillusionment Launching our Exhibition 'Wonder', Dr Jane Wildgoose shares her comparative readings on collecting from The Wildgoose Memorial Library.

To launch our exhibition 'Wonder' on 30 Sept, Dr Jane Wildgoose will share her personal reflections on collecting.

She'll compare her wonder when first studying cabinets of curiosity with her later disillusionment, and her work now addressing human remains in collections.

Book now:

Dr Isabelle Charmantier

Join us for our next Linnean Lens as Dr Isabelle Charmantier explores Spolia Botanica - a rare 1729 notebook by young Carl Linnaeus. This charming document is also featured in our Naturalists Notebooks exhibition!

📅 9 Sept
🕑 2–3PM
📍 Online, free

Book here: buff.ly/BSBStKb

Erbari, archivi del tempo: cosa ci raccontano sul clima e sulla biodiversità – Pikaia Dalle collezioni di piante essiccate nuove chiavi per leggere l’evoluzione degli ecosistemi e gli effetti della crisi climatica

📚🌱 Ogni erbario è un archivio del tempo: conserva tracce invisibili di biodiversità e ci aiuta a capire come il clima stia cambiando gli ecosistemi
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Svelare l’invisibile: Darwin, i microscopi e un weekend speciale a Down House – Pikaia Domenica scorsa abbiamo partecipato a un evento dedicato alla microscopia per riscoprire la passione di Charles Darwin per l’invisibile

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Linnean Lens | The Spoils of Botany: Carl Linnaeus’ Early Swedish Flora Join us as we delve into 'Spolia Botanica', Carl Linnaeus' own notebook describing Swedish flora.

Our own Head of Collections, Isabelle Charmantier, is September's Linnean Lens speaker. And the item we're delving into is Linnaeus' own Notebook, Spolia Botanica.

Join us online, 2pm 9 September, as Isabelle shares the history of the work and beautiful pages from the book itself.

Why many Americans still think Darwin was wrong, yet the British don’t Fundamentalists don’t necessarily examine evolution and then reject it; they tend to start with the conclusion that it must be false and work backwards.

Evolution acceptance isn’t really about biology: it’s about identity, belonging, and the fundamental question of who gets to define truth. theconversation.com/why-many-ame...

“On the tendency of Species to form Varieties” paper by Wallace and Darwin originally published in the Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology. Read on 1st July 1858 at the Society.

Portrait of Darwin (1809-1882) commissioned by the Society in 1883 which can be found in the Society’s Meeting Room.

Portrait of Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913).

Today marks a special anniversary for us. On July 1, 1858, the theory of evolution by natural selection was first presented at a Linnean Society meeting. Papers written by Charles Darwin & Alfred Russel Wallace were read, shaping a groundbreaking idea still powering science today: buff.ly/uBdX7N1

A Meticulous Observer | The Fascinating Notebooks of Leonard Jenyns Step into the notebooks of a man who turned down Darwin’s Beagle voyage - and uncovered a lost world of Cambridgeshire wildlife.

Step into the notebooks of a man who turned down Darwin’s Beagle voyage - and uncovered a lost world of Cambridgeshire wildlife.

Join Richard Preece as he delves into the notebooks of Leonard Jenyns. Catch a glimpse of the shift in wildlife diversity.

Free tickets here:
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This photograph captures Sir David Attenborough seated outdoors on the rugged terrain of Skomer Island. Behind him, the ocean and coastal cliffs form a scenic backdrop under a clear sky. Sir David, dressed in a khaki jacket and light trousers, looks towards the camera with a gentle expression, exuding a sense of warmth, calm, and wisdom. Around him, puffins can be seen flying and perched on the rocky ground, illuminated in rays of golden sunlight as the sun sets behind the cliffs.

Happy 99th birthday to the man who gave voice to the wild. 🎉

Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace.

You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.

Darwin’s letters and books recognised as a UNESCO documentary heritage | Natural History Museum The documents will join other important archives such as the illuminated manuscripts of Charlemagne’s court.

Charles Darwin is best known for his work on evolution.

But he was a prolific scientist who studied much more. Now, over 20,000 of Darwin's letters, books and publications have been recognised as a UNESCO heritage.

Find out what this means 👇
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🌟 Exciting News! 🌟
The Cambridge #SciComm group has organized its first road trip! 🐢 On Sunday, 27th April, we'll visit Down House, the home of Charles Darwin. Interested? Get in touch!

Researchers analyzed over 140,000 bird vocalizations from all over the world to try to peck out some kernels of knowledge about bird calls and songs.

Birds are the virtuosos of the animal kingdom, capable of producing a remarkable range of sounds.

In today’s episode, what scientists are  learning about bird vocalizations from chirps and cheeps captured by birders around the world.

Listen here 🎧: https://buff.ly/3Mut28J

Nearly half of schools give families financial help, teachers say A survey of teachers in England suggests lots of schools are having to provide extra help for families.

💬 "Two thirds (66%) of senior teachers say their school provided food for pupils to eat outside school hours in the last 12 months."

Worrying new @teachertapp.bsky.social data reveals more about the level of extra support schools are having to provide for pupils.

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Nature lovers urged to take part in UK bird count amid fears over climate and disease Birdwatch survey comes as concerns grow over infection risks posed by garden bird feeders People are being urged to spend an hour this weekend counting the birds in their garden, park or local green space for the world’s largest survey of garden…

Nature lovers urged to take part in UK bird count amid fears over climate and disease

Five Hundred Years of Wonder | A Brief History of Naturalists' Notebooks A talk on naturalists' notebooks that have proven themselves essential tools for thinkers such as Gessner, Linnaeus, and Darwin.

Talk by Roland Allen on the history of naturalists' notebooks -essential tools for thinkers such as Gessner, Linnaeus & Darwin. The talk will outline the origins of the notebook, early importance to medieval Italy & its adoption by renaissance thinkers and more! @zibaldoni.bsky.social
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Unpaid internships ‘locking out’ young working-class people from careers UK charity calls for positions of four weeks or longer to be banned to help close social mobility gap

"The Sutton Trust wants unpaid internships lasting four weeks or longer to be banned, alongside enforcement of current minimum wage legislation."

Unpaid internships are acting as a major barrier to social mobility.

Our new research in @theguardian.com ⤵️

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