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Philosophical Transactions B recently published a theme issue on ‘Transforming cultural evolution research and its application to global futures’. In this blog, Guest Editor Professor Rachel Kendal (Durham University) tells us how this issue came about, and about some of the important research highlighted in this issue.

To celebrate LGBTQ+ in STEM day, we’ve spoken to members of the Staff Pride Network, Fellows’ Pride network, the Royal Society Diversity and Inclusion Committee, and the Diversity and Inclusion team, for their reflections on the day and what it meant to them to march in Pride.

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.

Louisiane Ferlier reports on the discoverability of non-Fellows in the Royal Society's Science in the Making resource.

To honour Black History Month the Royal Society met with Dr Mark Richards to hear why he believes the Career Development Fellowships supporting underrepresented groups will catalyse researcher career progression.

Alice Oates explains how the technique known as sonification can enhance astronomers’ ability to analyse large, complex datasets, and can also facilitate access to space sciences for blind and partially sighted people.

We’re delighted to welcome Jane Hillston as the new Editor-In-Chief of Proceedings A. Find out more about her research, her involvement in the journal and how she feels about the new appointment.

New research in Proceedings B identifies caregiving as a primary cause of the gender gap in science and explores potential solutions.

In our fourth and final article linked to Black History Month 2022, Rebecca Martin discusses how historians can expand their research practices to include a wider range of historically excluded voices.

In the third of our series of articles celebrating Black History Month 2022, Diana Davis looks at the life of South African veterinarian Dr Jotello Soga, highlighting his important work in combatting rinderpest, an infectious viral disease of cattle.

Continuing our series of articles celebrating Black History Month 2022, Suryakanthie Chetty tells the story of the first indigenous western-educated medical doctor in South Africa.

In the first of a series of articles to celebrate Black History Month 2022, Keith Moore finds links between a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Rosetta Stone, and the life of a remarkable French general.