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Guest blogger Louise Devoy reflects on the first generation of paid female astronomers at Greenwich, who helped to prove that women could actively contribute to professional science.

Philosophical Transactions B recently published a theme issue on ‘Shifting seas: understanding deep-time human impacts on marine ecosystems’. In this blog, Guest Editor Dr Luke Holman (University of Copenhagen) tells us how this issue came about, and about some of the important research highlighted in this issue.

Philosophical Transactions B recently published a theme issue on ‘Acoustic monitoring for tropical ecology and conservation’. In this blog, Guest Editor Daniela Martínez Medina (Instituto Humboldt, Colombia) tells us how this issue came about, and how acoustic tools have been increasingly adopted in ecological research, enabling us to expand our capacities in assessing multiple biodiversity facets.

Insect pollinators like bees, hoverflies, and moths are vital to ecosystems but face growing threats from urbanisation. Emilie Ellis, from the University of Helsinki, tells us more about a new study across three cities that found that pollinator species richness declined by up to 43% in more urbanised areas. Moths and hoverflies were particularly vulnerable due to their complex life cycles and sensitivity to habitat loss and light pollution.

Early Fellows of the Royal Society had many questions about the geology, topography and meteorology of Iceland, as Ainsley Vinall discovers.

During Elizabeth Gould's brief career as an ornithological illustrator, she made a significant contribution to the natural history of birds, as Katherine Marshall discovers.

Louisiane Ferlier peruses the earliest books on navigation in the Royal Society’s collections.

Two eighteenth-century women, Elizabeth Fulhame and Mary Senex, had contrasting interactions with the Royal Society, as Virginia Mills discovers.

Jon Bushell reports on an unnerving medical incident during the Royal Society’s Halley Bay Antarctic expedition in 1957.

The Royal Society has spent over 360 years publishing innovative, multi-disciplinary scientific research from around the world. In this blog, we share the top cited articles of 2024, showcasing the breadth and impact of the research published across the Royal Society's journals. You can also visit our publishing metrics page to learn more about the journals and the advantages of publishing open access.

Female baboons who have strong relationships with their fathers during their juvenile years lead longer adult lives than females who had weak paternal relationships. Professor Elizabeth Archie from the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame tells us more about a new study that showed that, in baboons, even small paternal contributions to offspring care can have lifelong consequences for female baboons.

The Royal Society declared that women were eligible for election to the Fellowship in 1922 but, as Keith Moore notes, a fallow period persisted for another two decades.