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When asked to name scientists, students mention the likes of Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, and Isaac Newton. And when asked to draw a scientist, students almost always draw a white man holding a test tube and wearing a lab coat. Professor Robin Costello from the University at Buffalo tells us more about a new study that parsed the effects of including visual depictions and humanizing information about scientists featured in undergraduate biology course materials.

In the second half of a two-part article, Kathryn Maxson Jones highlights further resources on the history of neuroscience and squid giant axon research in the Royal Society’s collections.

Our mission as a not-for-profit society publisher is to recognise, publish, and promote excellence in science. In celebration of outstanding scientific achievements and the researchers behind them, we are proud to present the top-cited articles from each of the Royal Society journals published in 2023.

As researchers navigate the use of AI tools in their work, we hope our policy helps in understanding how these uses should be described in scientific manuscripts.

In the first half of a two-part article, Royal Society Lisa Jardine Grant recipient Kathryn Maxson Jones describes the impact of squid giant axons on the history of neuroscience using the Society’s collections.

Today Defra has published a consultation on the new Land Use Framework for England which is an important first step for delivering much needed join-up between different land use related policies.

Researchers at the University of Oxford and Oxford University Hospitals have developed a new way to combine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with an advanced electrical mapping technique that could improve treatment for patients with persistent atrial fibrillation (AF), the most common abnormal heart rhythm condition. By merging detailed MRI with charge density mapping, which shows how electrical signals move through the heart during AF, doctors may be better able to identify exactly where to target treatment.

New research published in Royal Society Open Science presents a new framework to help understand the decisions and considerations that go into AI use in practice. We spoke to author Dr Denis Newman-Griffis to find out more about the framework.

Louisiane Ferlier looks at the three books donated to the Royal Society Library by mathematician Augustus De Morgan, all with intriguing inscriptions and insertions.

A new issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B is dedicated to the life’s work and memory of Professor Dame Georgina Mace DBE FRS (1953–2020). The issue, edited by Jon Bridle, Andrew Balmford, Sarah Durant, Richard Gregory, Richard Pearson and Andy Purvis, brings together a set of papers by leading researchers that can be traced back to – and were inspired by – Georgina’s work, a part of her legacy.

In order to maximise your latest research, it is crucial that your title, abstract and keywords draw and keep the readers’ attention. In this blog, our journal managing editors present their tips for ways in which authors can increase search engine optimisation and appeal to readers.