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The Royal Society is a Fellowship of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.
Sep 12, 2018 10 tweets 8 min read
The UK could be #CarbonNeutral by 2050, meeting its #ParisAgreement targets, according to a new report from The Royal Society and @RAEngNews. Here are 8 technologies and approaches that could be vital (a thread) royalsociety.org/greenhouse-gas… Forestation – whether it’s replacing lost trees or creating new forests, this technique means more trees. Better management could remove as much as 12 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide per year.
May 9, 2018 21 tweets 20 min read
Announcing our newly elected Fellows - leading scientists from across the world ow.ly/Otqt30jUjZ5 #RSFellows Tracy Palmer is a professor of molecular microbiology @dundeeuni & one of the co-discoverers of the bacterial Tat protein secretion system ow.ly/sHRX30jUlWM #RSFellows
Oct 10, 2017 55 tweets 49 min read
Today, we are celebrating the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering & maths ow.ly/rR2u30fLxVd #AdaLovelaceDay For #AdaLovelaceDay, we’ll be highlighting the many wonderful #womeninstem that help us understand the world today ow.ly/ehEe30fLzDU
Sep 5, 2017 30 tweets 27 min read
We're announcing our 30th #scibooks winner on Sep 19. In the meantime, here's a run-down of our previous 29 winners ow.ly/KRmI30eUMJB Our first #scibooks winner in 1988 was @TheBMA 's Guide to Living With Risk @PenguinBooks ow.ly/KRmI30eUMJB