#Fellowship of the Royal Society

[croziers-compass]

Does anyone else have record or data about which learned societies Francis Crozier was a part of?

I only have RAS and FRS in there. But I feel there was also RGS but I am struggling to confirm. If anyone has any other data, could you send it my way?

[theredandwhitequeen]

7 favorite comfort movies

I was tagged by @sugdenlovesdingle thanks. This was really hard, because my mind went blank.

1. Newsies. I saw this as a teenager when it came out and I just was obsessed with it. I had a poster on my wall of the movie and I watched it so many times.

2. The old guard. This was the movie that helped during 2020. It was the right movie at the right time. It’s amazing and fun.

3. Star Wars: A New Hope. I just love this movie so much. It was released a month after I was born, so it’s always my favorite

4. Lord of the Rings: fellowship of the rings. I love all three but this was started it. I love them so much.

5. Red, White, and Royal Blue: it’s just really lovely and sweet.

6. The Mighty Ducks series: I just love these and they made me happy. Can’t choose any one of them.

7. Dead Poets Society. I just love this movie. Robert Sean Leonard and Ethan Hawke were so pretty.

I’ll tag @nooneelsecomesclose17 @notwithout-mymuse @meandi-123 @beautifulhigh @haloud @grbggrl @christchex @portinastorm @omarandjohnny @tasyfa @rustandruin

[protoindoeuropean]

just a note, a "mountain" is a kind of relief, a form that appears on all kinds of surfaces, so describing them as mountains is perfectly fine. all mountains experience erosion and individual mountain peaks might sometimes (or often, idk) only exist because of these eroding factors. it is certainly true though that karst topography is special in that there, the erosion is more intense – in particular, chemical erosion, the dissolution of carbonate rock, which can create mountains like these, weirdly shaped rocks, huge caverns above- and underground and more

I’ve made this post like six times but it still fucks me up the China’s mountains just look like that. Like I spent decades thinking it was stylistic but no, they just have different mountains over there.

[yugiouch]

Watching moriarty the patriot and it's fun to see sherlock do his little experiments in the background because i know his ass only wrote the protocol after he was done. Idc if you have perfect memory you gotta have steps to follow before you make new ones!!!!

[ginandoldlace]

The King was granted red for his portrait so Sir David Attenborough, naturally enough, has been given a green background “as if he might be emerging from one of [his] many habitats”.

Fresh from the regal seal of approval for his portrait of Charles III, unveiled last month, the artist Jonathan Yeo has revealed his portrait of Attenborough, the “king of the natural world”.

Yeo was commissioned to mark 40 years of Attenborough’s fellowship to the Royal Society.

[scotianostra]

On August 13th 1888 John Logie Baird was born in Helensburgh.

John was the fourth and youngest child of the Rev John and Jessie Baird, he showed early signs of ingenuity by setting up a telephone exchange to connect his house to those of his friends nearby.

His first interest in television came in 1903 after he read a German book on the photoelectric properties of selenium.Baird sailed for Port of Spain, Trinidad in November 1919 and realising that the island teemed with citrus fruit and sugar, he set up a jam factory. Unfortunately the local insect life either ran off with the sugar or landed in the hot vats of boiling preserve.

Baird returned to the British Isles in September 1920, and after a brief spell in business in London, he started to experiment with television. In Hastings in 1924 he transmitted the image of a Maltese cross over the distance of 10 feet.Baird's first public demonstration of television was in 1925, in Selfridge's shop in London.

The breakthrough came in October 1925 when he achieved television pictures with light and shade (half-tones), making them much clearer.He demonstrated these to invited members of the Royal Institution in January 1926. The pictures measured only 3.5 x 2 inches.In 1928 Baird sent television pictures from London to New York by short-wave radio. He also demonstrated television in colour, and developed a video recording system which he called 'phonovision'.

In 1929 the BBC sent out experimental television transmissions. At first Baird had to pay the BBC to transmit his images. A year later the Baird company brought out the world's first mass produced television set, called 'The Televisor'.The BBC began using his system for the first public television service in 1932, before switching in 1937 to the Marconi-EMI version.

In July 1937 the Royal Society of Edinburgh awarded Baird an Honorary Fellowship.

At the age of 43, John Logie Baird married South African pianist Margaret Albu in New York. The couple had two children – Diana and Malcolm.

During the Second World War, Baird continued to fund his own research. His achievements included high-definition colour and 3D television, and a system for sending messages very rapidly as television images.

John Logie Baird died at his home in Bexhill-on-Sea on 14th June 1946, and was buried in Helensburgh.

In a National Library of Scotland poll John Logie Baird was voted the second most popular Scottish scientist from the past behind James Clerk Maxwell.

[smashorpass50plus]

trick or treat!!!

(I really like this blog, thank you for running it!)

David Attenborough, known for his broadcasting, biology, historical work, and his writing. He's known for a lot of natural history movies, such as The Blue Planet, Planet Earth, Frozen Planet, and many more. He's received many accolades, including

Order of Merit

most distinguisdhed order of St Micheal and St George

Order of the Companions of Honour

Toyal Victorian Order

Most Excellent Order of the British Empire

Fellowship of the Royal Society

Society of Antiquaries of London

Royal society for the encouragement of ARts, Manufactures, and Commerce

Linnean Society of London

Zoological society of London

Royal Scottish Geological Society

Fellowship of the Royal Society of Biology

All and all, an accomplished man at 98 years old

[no-side-us]

The Invisible Man, Ch. 15 - The Man Who Was Running

In the early evening time Dr. Kemp was sitting in his study in the belvedere on the hill overlooking Burdock. It was a pleasant little room, with three windows—north, west, and south—and bookshelves covered with books and scientific publications, and a broad writing-table, and, under the north window, a microscope, glass slips, minute instruments, some cultures, and scattered bottles of reagents. Dr. Kemp’s solar lamp was lit, albeit the sky was still bright with the sunset light, and his blinds were up because there was no offence of peering outsiders to require them pulled down. Dr. Kemp was a tall and slender young man, with flaxen hair and a moustache almost white, and the work he was upon would earn him, he hoped, the fellowship of the Royal Society, so highly did he think of it.

We finally meet Dr. Kemp, probably the most recognizable character from this story besides Griffin. And from this first, single paragraph alone, I think it's clear his character is a contrast to Griffin's.

If you go through it, everything about Kemp's situation is the opposite of what Griffin's was. Instead of Griffin's tiny inn parlor room with a small window in the middle of town, Kemp has a "pleasant little room" with three windows encompassing a lovely view of the entire town. Griffin has his three notebooks and "thousand and one bottles," compared to Kemp's library of scientific publications and variety of "minute instruments."

The writing even makes note that, unlike Griffin, Kemp has no need to pull down his blinds because there's "no offence of peering outsiders to require them pulled down."

The most ironic part of it is though that despite how much better off he is than Griffin, the resources, the comfort, the visibility, he's still working on a project he hopes will earn him a fellowship at the Royal Society. This is as compared to Griffin who has obviously managed to create complete invisibility despite his dire financial situation, and probably would have a fellowship if he were better off.

Though I don't want to say they're complete opposites. If anything, their similarities highlight their contrasts. Aside from the obvious fact that they're both scientists (or experimental investigators as the book calls it), they also both have a streak of superiority in them, presumably because their status as scientists gives them a perceived better understanding of things. Kemp has a "belvedere on the hill overlooking Burdock," where he can literally look down upon the whole town. Griffin sees the people of Iping as "stupid bumpkins" and fools who don't know any better.

They have other similarities too, but I'll get into it when they're revealed. Regardless, I think this chapter does well to introduce Kemp to us, and while it doesn't exactly endear him, it does provide a seemingly better version of Griffin in most respects, which is interesting.

[thiziri]

Princess Anne, as Vice President of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, and as Former Patron of Heart of Arabia Expedition, conferring RSGS Honorary Fellowship on Elaine Blaxter, Thomas MacDonell, Professor Nick Millea and on Dr Vanessa Collingridge at the Royal Scottish Geographical Society in Perth, on 16 January 2024.

[ereborcore]

seeing some discussion around how LOTR universally disapproves of power, and that a major theme is how power corrupts. this post is my two cents! tldr: i don't think LOTR is a good example of a text that condemns institutions of power, nor do i think tolkien meant it to be. it is instead the wrong kind of power that corrupts, not power itself.

the power of the ring corrupts, yes, but that's because it is the physical manifestation of an evil character's will, someone who wants to enslave the world. however, most of LOTR's characters hold power that they use for the good of those who follow them. all of our heroes are of high social standing - most of the fellowship is highborn, people who hold very high positions of power, even most of the hobbits: frodo, merry and pippin all belong to wealthy and influential families. it's the same for the secondary characters. theoden and eomer are royal stock who lead the rohirrim against tyrants, while eowyn rules their country in their absence and later joins the fight. faramir is gondorian nobility and a military captain.

gandalf and galadriel both actively deny the power of the ring, but this is not a renouncing of power itself. galadriel leads her people and still possesses the power to level fortresses, and gandalf is a respected advisor in societies across the land. gandalf is in fact granted even greater power when he is resurrected.

aragorn is the ultimate example. though the actions of frodo and sam are of course more important than the return of the king, aragorn pursues and obtains the highest possible position among men. but because aragorn is not evil, and is in fact able to resist the corrupting influence of the ring, he is allowed to possess a very high degree of power over middle-earth.

sam is interesting, because he is indeed the working class hero of LOTR, but look at where he ends up - he becomes mayor of the shire again and again, given political power because he too has proved himself the right kind of person to possess it!

power itself is not evil in tolkien's works. monarchs, who hold almost absolute power over their subjects, are not inherently evil, they are often great and good and morally pure; the wealthy and the noble are celebrated. but the characters must prove themselves worthy of these things in order to be granted them.

[maximumwobblerbanditdonut]

2024 Paralympics 🇫🇷 Versatility is the mantra of wheelchair fencing 🤺

Unlike their able-bodied counterparts, fencers at the Paralympic Games switch between weapons to compete in multiple disciplines, an aspect that presents various challenges. There are three different weapons used in fencing: the foil, épée and sabre - each of which has different compositions, techniques and scoring target areas. All weapons in general, are based on the same basic set of rules making it relatively easy to switch between foil, épée and sabre.

Why is everyone speaking French? 🇫🇷

Like its Olympic equivalent, the official language of wheelchair fencing is French. The referee will say “En garde” ( On Guard, come to the start line), “Prete”(or “Ready” if English), then “Allez” (literally “Go!”; or “Fence if English) to start bouts.🗡️ 🤺 ⚔️

The use of French dates back to the 19th century when Napoleon established fencing as a mandatory discipline in the military. Fencing grew in popularity in France and made its way to the first modern Olympic Games in 1896.

Wheelchair fencing was pioneered about half a century later by Ludwig Guttmann at the Stoke Mandeville Hospital in England UK 🇬🇧 after World War II as part of rehabilitation for patients with spinal cord injuries. It made its Paralympic debut at the inaugural Games in 1960.

Historical, Stoke mandeville games, 1955 two female competitors in wheelchairs taking part in the fencing competition, Stoke Mandeville hospital, Aylesbury, Bucks, England, UK.

Sir Ludwig Guttmann CBE* FRS** (3 July 1899 – 18 March 1980) was a German-British neurologist who established the Stoke Mandeville Games. In September 1943, the British government asked Guttmann to establish the National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Buckinghamshire. The initiative came from the Royal Air Force (RAF) to ensure the treatment and rehabilitation of pilots with spine injuries, "who often crashed on approach with their bombers damaged".

When the centre opened on 1 February 1944, the United Kingdom's first specialist unit for treating spinal injuries, appointed Guttmann its director (a position he held until 1966). He believed that sport was an important method of therapy for the rehabilitation of injured military personnel, helping them build up physical strength and self-respect.

Sir Ludwig Guttmann and the birth of the Paralympics.

An ever-present in the Paralympic sports programme since Rome 1960, wheelchair fencing is governed by the International Wheelchair & Amputee Sports Federation (IWAS).

The wheelchair fencing competition at the Paralympic Games is in full swing, taking place under the prestigious glass dome of the Grand Palais in the heart of Paris.

📹 Behind the scenes: the process of getting ready for wheelchair fencing 🤺 And yes, well done to the volunteers, well done to the technical Teams.

📹 Passage en coulisses: les détails de la préparation d'une compétition d'escrime fauteuil🤺 Et oui bravo aux Volontaires. Bravo aux Équipes techniques

*CBE Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE)

**FRS Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the Fellows of the Royal Society of London.

#Paris2024 #wheelchairfencing #Paralympics #escrimepourfauteuil #SirLudwigGuttmann #NationalSpinalInjuries #Buckinghamshire #CentreatStokeMandevilleHospital

Posted 6th September 2024

[erathene]

Not-Yet-Written-Fics Game

AKA sh*t from my OneNote "Ideas" page that no-one asked for but maybe I'll write ✨someday✨

Thanks for the tag @fishing4stars 😘 I've also added the likelihood of these ideas actually making it onto paper 😂

The Game-of-Thrones-Style longfic idea: An unnamed OC is the only child of the king in a kingdom east of Rûhn. The king is a widower and remarries, and OC gains a stepmother and stepbrother. The king then dies, suddenly and in mysterious circumstances. Stepmother ensures that stepbrother takes the crown, not OC who is the rightful heir, and stepbrother then makes alliances with Mordor. OC flees, taking refuge in the West. Gandalf hears of these events and does not want Mordor to have more allies, so tries to convince OC to take back their crown. Cue angst and indecision over whether or not they can face their stepfamily and grief for their father to reclaim what is rightfully theirs. Alliances are made, probably with the Elves of Mirkwood, who help OC reclaim the throne and turn the kingdom away from darkness. All events take place during the War of the Ring. Probability of this being written: 1/10 due to the world-building and OCs required to fabricate a whole new kingdom.

The tenth walker idea: Elrond sends a historian / scribe along with the Fellowship to document the ring's destruction as an important event in the history of Middle Earth. Eventual Female!Bookworm x Aragorn pairing because I am the author and I get to decide. Protective!Aragorn would be just *chef's kiss*. Probability of this being written: 6/10, I like it but it would likely break my 'don't write movie scenes' personal rule of writing LOTR fics 😅

The LOTR/Wheel of Time crossover: Nynaeve is going through the Arches to become Accepted, and the final Arch leads to Middle Earth. I think there would be a lot of potential to explore how the One Power works/doesn't work in ME, and how it is received by people if it does. I also think there are some similar traits between Nynaeve and Aragorn (wisdom/chieftain, healer, foraging/tracking) which would also be fun to explore: are they friends or do they get on each other's last nerve? Also what sin or fear does Nynaeve have to face in ME that means she was sent there in the first place? There are just so many angles that could be examined in this, if I had the time (no pun intended..). Probability of this being written: 5/10, I feel like I don't know enough about the Wheel of Time fandom, as I've only watched the TV series.

The Silmarillion/Rings of Power idea: Either an OC or Reader fic, haven't decided. Sauron has been brought to Numenor as a prisoner, OC is a prison guard. Sauron is extremely talkative, OC is very wary of him and the way he speaks; it's persuasive, manipulative and not like other prisoners. Over time, OC watches Sauron talk his way out of the prison cell and into society, climbing the ranks until they comes across him again at the royal court. OC tries to convince someone, anyone, that Sauron should be back in the cell where he belongs, but nobody listens except Elendil. The fic examines the forming of the Faithful and the events leading up to the downfall of Numenor, featuring ROP resident Hot Men™ Elendil and Halbrand. Probability of this being written: 4/10, requires more silmarillion reading, though that might increase when ROP Season 2 is released.

Aaaand that's all I have! Let's send a no-pressure tag to @emmanuellececchi, @torturedhoesdepartment and @inkedmoth (sorry if you have been tagged already 😅). If anyone else sees this and wants to join in, I'd love to see what's rattling around in your brain!

[iamfearless-andthereforepowerful]

okay there is something i desperately need sage to answer 🙏 in the og novella, jekyll has 3 doctorates (i think)--one in medicine and two in law--and it can be assumed based off the timeline of the book that he studied two of them at the same time 😭 mans has no chill he is so extra and for what

he's also part of the fellowship of the royal society, which basically means he made some kind of big contribution to math/science/medicine, etc.

i NEED to know if any of this is canon in tgs please

[roga-el-rojo]

October - China Miéville

Hello friends,

For my next post, I’d like to celebrate a world-historic event which took place on October 24-25 (Julian calendar-wise) in 1917 with a fascinating historical breakdown that narrates this revolutionary period in its complexity and weirdness with great literary flair: “October: The Story of the Russian Revolution” by China Miéville

China Miéville is a New York Times-bestselling author of fiction and non-fiction. In 2015 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and in 2018 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for fiction, and received numerous prizes for his books. He has worked at several prestigious universities, is one of founding editors of the journal Salvage, and has been involved in socialist politics for decades.

In 1917, Russia transformed from an autocratic monarchy to the first socialist state in world history. “October” explores the extraordinary months between the upheavals, including the intrigues, negotiations, conflicts, and catastrophes of the revolution. It features the works of Lenin, Trotsky, Kornilov, and Kerensky, as well as the byzantine squabbles of urban activists and their revolutionary tools like railroad Sublime to allow the revolution to succeed.

One can’t help appreciate Miéville’s gift when it comes to storytelling, which is expected from a master of New Weird Fiction. Applying this to history, however, is worth praising, particularly Russian Revolutionary history which is often dry and uninformed. He describes larger than life figures like Lenin in their context as the messy humans they are, while also pushing us to appreciate the role the masses make in history.

At the same time, I can’t help but disagree with Miéville’s political interpretations of several events, which is to be expected given his Trotskyist history. I can’t help but see the looming figure of “Stalinism” plague some of his reflections on the revolution’s real tensions and failures, which dampens its accuracy in my opinion.

However you feel about this reflection, I highly recommend everyone (especially folks on the Left) read this to understand the legend of Red October and hopefully inspire revolutionary instincts in us for the future

[torchwood-99]

1, 17, 18, 19 and 28 for the fanfic writer ask game!!

Compliment your writing!

Mean! Ok, I do a lot of it. And when the muse grips me I can churn out a lot of stuff, which means if there's one specific character I'm really digging, like I am now with Eowyn, it means I can dig real deep with them and really explore a lot of different takes/themes. And I do like going back and reading my own stuff, now and then (which I should, as it's written to my specifications.)

17. What trope is your favorite to write?

I loving taking the mick of my characters, affectionately or critically. I love getting to put my Austen cap on and play with the idiosyncrasies of society and human nature. Also, horror.

18. What trope have you not written yet, but want to?

I quite fancy doing a Modern Royalty Au for LOTR, modern Rohan Royals anyone? Might be fun.

19. What headcanon do you always include in your stories?

I headcanon a non-depressed Eowyn as a bit of an imp. Someone who loves to tease and make fun and get into mischief. This is inspired by how she teased Faramir when he proposed, about his "proud folk" of Gondor who will say he "tamed " a shieldmaiden of the North. She obviously has a lot of spirit, that she kept shut inside in the days of Grima, and that boiled over in the end when she rode for Pelennor, and when she's happy and in a healthier environment, she lets it out more easily, but in less deadly ways.

28. Which fic is closest to your heart?

I'm very fond of Living Legends - Chapter 1 - TeamGwenee - The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types [Archive of Our Own as I really, really love the idea of Eowyn helping bring down Minas Morgul, and her legend of killing the Witch King living on. As a Rohan girly, Fragments of a House - TeamGwenee - The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types [Archive of Our Own] is pure indulgence, as The Fellowship of the Gown - TeamGwenee - The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types [Archive of Our Own], which is ultimate fluff.

Thank you for the asks!!!

[spider-xan]

The F. R. S. at the end of Jekyll's list of degrees are post-nominal letters that stand for Fellow of the Royal Society, indicating that the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge had awarded him an extremely prestigious fellowship by election for his significant contributions to natural knowledge, most likely medical science in his specific case.

Of relevance to themes later in the novella is that depending on when during the possible 1850-1899 timeframe the story is set, Charles Darwin (1809-1882) could very well have been one of Jekyll's contemporaries in the fellowship, as Darwin himself was elected in 1839 - but more importantly, On The Origin of Species was published in 1859.

The thematic importance of this will become more evident later in the story when further details are revealed about Hyde's nature and physical appearance, but definitely keep the Theory of Evolution in mind - especially in its paradigm-shifting context as a bold, yet controversial new idea in the Victorian era - as you read the rest of the story.