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![Callum Shoosmith](https://apidyn.royalsociety.org/images/blogs/icon-speaker.jpg)
Callum Shoosmith
Publishing
4 mins
Welcome to the Royal Society Open Science editorial board—Science, Society and Policy
Royal Society Open Science is pleased to welcome each of its new editors this year. Here we hear from three recent additions to the Science, Society and Policy section.
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![Vida Milovanovic](https://apidyn.royalsociety.org/images/blogs/vida-milovanovic.jpg)
Vida Milovanovic
History of science
6 mins
Observing general relativity
How did a solar eclipse in May 1919 help to prove Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity? Vida Milovanovic tells the story.
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![Rupert Baker](https://apidyn.royalsociety.org/images/blogs/rupert-baker.jpg)
Rupert Baker
History of science
5 mins
Norwegian ice
Rupert Baker retraces the footsteps of James David Forbes FRS, who travelled to Norway in 1851 on a glacier-hunting expedition.
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![Katherine Marshall](https://apidyn.royalsociety.org/images/blogs/katherine-marshall.jpg)
Katherine Marshall
History of science
5 mins
Fossil wood
Katherine Marshall discovers a beautiful seventeenth-century treatise on petrified wood in the collections of the Royal Society Library.
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![Helen Eaton](https://apidyn.royalsociety.org/images/blogs/helen-eaton.jpg)
Helen Eaton
Publishing
4 mins
Connected interactions
Dr Ferenc Jordán, guest editor of the latest Philosophical Transactions B issue, tells us about the background and content of the new theme issue.
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![Virginia Mills](https://apidyn.royalsociety.org/images/blogs/virginia-mills.jpg)
Virginia Mills
History of science
5 mins
Electoral reform
Virginia Mills looks at the history of Fellowship elections to the Royal Society, including some recent procedural changes.
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![Hirra Ateeq](https://apidyn.royalsociety.org/images/blogs/hirra-ateeq.jpg)
Hirra Ateeq
History of science
4 mins
The Maharaja’s observatory
Initiated in 1837 by Swathi Thirunal Rama Varma, Maharaja of the Kingdom of Travancore, the Trivandrum Observatory had strong links with Fellows of the Royal Society, as Hirra Ateeq discovers.
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![Shalene Singh-Shepherd](https://apidyn.royalsociety.org/images/blogs/icon-speaker.jpg)
Shalene Singh-Shepherd
Publishing
4 mins
Unique functional diversity during early Cenozoic mammal radiation of North America
Dr. Alex Shupinski tells us about the research published in her new Proceedings B paper, a study that used functional diversity to describe how the structure of North American mammal palaeocommunities changed across the Cenozoic.
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Professor Richard Jones
News and views
3 mins
On the economic value of research
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![Ainsley Vinall](https://apidyn.royalsociety.org/images/blogs/ainsley-vinall.jpg)
Ainsley Vinall
History of science
5 mins
Fellow holidaymakers
Ainsley Vinall discovers how past Fellows of the Royal Society have spent their summer holidays.
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![Surayya Johar](https://apidyn.royalsociety.org/images/blogs/icon-speaker.jpg)
Surayya Johar
Publishing
3 mins
Royal Society Publishing Photo Competition 2024: X-ray photography and a new partnership
Entries are now open for the Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition 2024. Here we meet our newest judge, and Science Chair at The Royal Photographic Society, Hugh Turvey.
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![Sir Adrian Smith PRS](https://apidyn.royalsociety.org/images/blogs/adrian-smith.jpg)
Sir Adrian Smith PRS
News and views
3 mins
President of the Royal Society, Sir Adrian Smith, responds to election manifestos
With just under two weeks until votes are cast in the General Election, President of the Royal Society Adrian Smith PRS, reflects on the parties’ positions on science and priorities for the next government.