Tagged With: Biology: Changing the World
Changing the world
Barbara Knowles is senior science policy adviser at the Society of Biology and compiles its science policy newsletter. She also volunteers for an NGO in Transylvania which focuses on conserving and understanding biodiversity, landscape and high nature value farming. Scientists working in biodiversity conservation and sustainability science go through stages of despair and recovery while … Continue reading
Celebrating our Honorary Fellow Sir David Attenborough
To celebrate the place of Sir David Attenborough in the top ten biologists who’ve changed the world, Amy Whetstone, qualifications and skills officer at the Society of Biology, writes about the achievements of the man considered the face and voice of natural history programmes. There are very few people who are not familiar with the … Continue reading
Planes, Post-it notes and dinosaurs
Natasha Neill, executive officer at the Society of Biology, writes about attending the Big Bang Fair Eastern on the 8th July 2014 at the Imperial War Museum in Duxford. Seeing (and hearing) amazing biplanes flying past you as you take a quick break from the front lines of public engagement is a pretty good way … Continue reading