His Croonian Prize Lecture moves generative AI beyond images, into protein switches, plant defences and new enzymes.
On YouTube, The Royal Society has 257,000 subscribers and 28,504,074 views in all, as of November 11, 2026. In the last 7 days it gained 1,000 subscribers and 104,360 views. Its most watched video of the last 30 days is "Pathogens and the power of evolution | The Royal Society", with 38,819 views. By YouTube subscribers it is No. 4,263 of the 5,393 channels on Trari, and No. 82 of 87 in category "Science and experiments". On Instagram, @theroyalsociety has 197,740 followers.
YouTube: The numbers today
▲ 2,000 in the last 30 days
▲ 416,739 in the last 30 days
Instagram: The numbers today
@theroyalsociety · The account on Instagram
0.07% of followers
Place on Instagram
| Among all channels on Trari | In the category Science and experiments | |
|---|---|---|
| By Instagram followers | 1,509 of 2,442 | 23 of 43 |
Ranked among the channels whose Instagram account is on Trari.
Instagram followers: Science and experiments
Latest posts
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| Post | Type | Posted | Views | Likes | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| You've heard of a #BlackHoles, those points of space whose gravity is so strong… | Reel | November 10, 2026 | 4,411 | 149 | 3 |
| The Earth is hit countless times every day by small meteors which burn up in our… | Reel | November 9, 2026 | 7,712 | 110 | 1 |
| Here's how cytogeneticist Barbara McClintock changed the way we understand… | Reel | November 8, 2026 | 8,292 | 408 | 3 |
| Want to blow your friends' minds with the power of probability? Professor David… | Reel | November 7, 2026 | 11,826 | 434 | 8 |
| As winter and flu season approach, emergency medicine doctor Dr Jingy Alom… | Reel | November 6, 2026 | 4,349 | 38 | 0 |
| Mary Somerville was the first woman to have a paper read to and published by the… | Reel | November 1, 2026 | 12,349 | 725 | 24 |
| What is #Halloween actually about? Mark Miodownik explains what gave rise to… | Reel | October 31, 2026 | 5,546 | 131 | 0 |
| Smallpox killed 300 million people in the 20th century, more than both world… | Reel | October 30, 2026 | 4,131 | 140 | 3 |
As of November 10, 2026
YouTube: What happened lately
James McGilligan explores precision timekeeping, while a cinema panel includes The X Files science advisor Anne Simon.
The video drawing the most views now
Life in the fast lane — What the past tells us about evolution under pressure | The Royal Society
- Video published
- November 10, 2026
- Video views so far
- 2,054
- Video views, pace per day
- 3,546
- Views in its first 10 hours
- 2,054
YouTube: Position on Trari and in the category
| Among all channels on Trari | In the category Science and experiments | |
|---|---|---|
| By subscribers | 4,263 of 5,393 | 82 of 87 |
| By views gained this week | 4,570 of 5,274 | 75 of 87 |
| By views gained in the last 30 days | 4,504 of 5,043 | 74 of 81 |
The ranking by views counts only channels whose weekly number is available.
- The channel's share of the category
- 0.0% of all views the category's channels gained this week
- Subscriber growth this week
- 0.4% on this channel, 0.0% on the category's middle channel
Subscribers in the category Science and experiments
Views gained this week in the category Science and experiments
YouTube: Subscribers, last 30 days
October 13, 2026: 255,000 subscribers → November 11, 2026: 257,000 subscribers
YouTube: Total views, last 30 days
October 13, 2026: 28,093,385 views → November 11, 2026: 28,504,074 views · average: 14,161 views a day
YouTube: The channel's latest videos
The last 15 videos uploaded to the channel, with today's numbers. Click a video to play it here.
Audience engagement
- likes per 1,000 views
- 19.3 in the category: 30.1
- comments per 1,000 views
- 1.8 in the category: 1.1
- a video's usual first day on this channel
- 1,265 views
- short vs long
- 9 short (up to 3 minutes), 3 long
average views per short video: 2,030
average views per long video: 14,298
YouTube: Most watched videos (not Shorts)
| Video | Uploaded | Length | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
Life begins at 40: the biological and cultural roots of the… | May 15, 2019 | 47:16 | 6,914,819 |
Understanding unconscious bias | The Royal Society | November 17, 2015 | 2:59 | 1,608,949 |
Why is biodiversity important - with Sir David Attenborough… | October 11, 2021 | 5:40 | 725,310 |
Climate change in 60 seconds | The Royal Society | December 11, 2014 | 1:40 | 618,280 |
Faster fusion | June 3, 2015 | 4:42 | 584,822 |
YouTube: Most watched Shorts
| Video | Uploaded | Length | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
Could your son have been your school teacher? #ai #chatgpt … | July 9, 2026 | 0:49 | 1,481,579 |
Chatbot makes up fake physics #ai #chatgpt #google #science | June 14, 2026 | 0:49 | 181,624 |
Happy birthday Carl Friedrich Gauss 🎉Hannah Fry #history #… | April 30, 2026 | 0:57 | 125,145 |
This is not the AI we were promised #ai #gemini #chatgpt | July 21, 2026 | 0:56 | 70,482 |
Happy 100th Birthday Sir David! 🎉#nature #birthday #science | May 8, 2026 | 1:56 | 53,890 |
Stories
His Croonian Prize Lecture moves generative AI beyond images, into protein switches, plant defences and new enzymes.
James McGilligan explores precision timekeeping, while a cinema panel includes The X Files science advisor Anne Simon.

























