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YouTube video by Cambridge University Jane Goodall - Finding our way to a better future

We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Jane Goodall.

Jane was a much-loved member of the conservation community in Cambridge and worldwide. She completed her PhD at @darwincollegecam.bsky.social and was an Honorary Fellow at @newnhamcollege.bsky.social.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIzR...

Our Travel Grants are now open for application.

Deadline for applications is 01 Nov 2025
Deadline for references is 08 Nov 2025

For more information and to apply:
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Tickets are now available for The PdOC Research Showcase 2025 on 10th November 2025 at West Hub, Cambridge. @westcamhub @CamPostdocs

Book tickets here: www.tickettailor.com/events/thewe...

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2025 Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lecture - registration Speaker: Thibault Damour, IHES Title: "Gravitational Waves, Black Holes and Experimental Tests of Gravitational Theory" Event Timing: November 10th, 2025, 5pm UK time Event Address: Centre for Mathema...

2025 Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lecture, entitled "Gravitational Waves, Black Holes and Experimental Tests of Gravitational Theory", by Professor Thibault Damour at 5 pm GMT on Monday 10 Nov at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Book Now: tinyurl.com/chamblinlect...

The Kelvin Club is hosting an afternoon in memory of Oliver Heaviside on Tuesday, 28th October in Peterhouse Theatre from 3pm. @peterhousecam.bsky.social

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The next Research Café: Science Communication will take place on 30th September 2025 @ 11:30am-2:30pm at @West Hub, Cambridge.

We have limited places, sign up here!

For details and to sign-up:
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Hiroaki Suga University of Tokyo De novo discovery of macrocyclic peptides and pseudo-natural products for therapeutic innovation Monday 29th September at 11am (BST)

Don’t miss Hiroaki Suga’s #LMBSeminar on Monday 29th September at 11AM.
Hiroaki, from the University of Tokyo, will discuss ‘De novo discovery of macrocyclic peptides and pseudo-natural products for therapeutic innovation’
Click here for more info: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

The PdOC Research Showcase 2025 will take place on 10th November 2025 at West Hub, Cambridge.

For details and to submit an abstract:
www.pdoc.cam.ac.uk/events/resea...

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Professor David Tong from @cambridgemaths.bsky.social will give our first lecture in October on 'Our Chiral Universe'.

Larmor Lecture
13 October 2025, 18:00–19:00
Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Cambridge.

For details and booking:
www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org/events/event...

The Final Frontier: Black Holes in the Infant Universe

9 September - Ray Dolby Center in West Cambridge.

Join Lord Rees, Prof. Natarajan, Prof. Sijacki and Prof. Maiolino for this exciting public talk.

Details: sites.google.com/cam.ac.uk/mb...

@cambridgeastro.bsky.social

Sexual conflict as a constraint on asexual reproduction: an empirical review Theory predicts that facultatively asexual animals, which can leverage the advantages of both sexual and asexual reproduction, should outcompete obligately sexual and obligately asexual animals. Yet,....

Another chapter of my PhD at @unswbees.bsky.social is out!! 🎉 #OpenAccess with
@nathwilliamb.bsky.social & Russell Bonduriansky in Biological Reviews @camphilsoc.bsky.social
👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Global consequences of dam‐induced river fragmentation on diadromous migrants: a systematic review and meta‐analysis The global proliferation of dams has altered flow and sediment regimes in rivers, presenting a major threat to freshwater biodiversity. Diadromous species, such as fishes, decapod crustaceans and gas...

Recent (belated) paper on dam impacts in Biological Reviews! @camphilsoc.bsky.social

🐟🦐 Interested in how migratory fishes and decapod respond to fragmentation, dam removal, and fish pass installation?

✅Out on open access: doi.org/10.1111/brv....
🖋️With Billy Lam, David Dudgeon, Jia Huan Liew

Registration is open for The 8th Biennial Cambridge Neuroscience Symposium, Interventions & Recovery in Cambridge, 10th - 11th September 2025. @camneuro.bsky.social

For further details and registration, visit: neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/camneuro-eve...

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Call for abstracts - West Hub Research Café

The next Research Café on Science Communication will take place on 30 September 2025 (11:30 AM – 2:30 PM) at the West Hub, Cambridge.

You are invited submit your abstract by 29.08.2025 here: www.westcambridgehub.uk/research-cafe

Individual variation in animal communication: from species averages to unique voices The comparative study of communicative behaviour in non-human animals, especially primates, has yielded crucial insights into the evolution of human language. This research, mostly focused on the spe...

Congratulations to my superb PhD student Angèle Lombrey on publishing her first article in Biological Reviews
@camphilsoc.bsky.social — no less! 😎🍾

Curious about individual differences in animal communicative behavior? 🐦🐬🦧Check out our open-access paper:
👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

CPS Henslow Fellow Dr Tiffany Ki from
@camzoology.bsky.social with Victoria Smith, Local Nature Reserves Ranger for Cambridge City Council conducting fieldwork on insect populations.

Read more on Tiffany's research here:
cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org/funding/hens...

Now published! 📝✅📢
Our review on flexibility in animal communication is out in Biological Reviews @camphilsoc.bsky.social (Open Access).
Huge thanks again to my fantastic co-authors, especially @kirstyegraham.bsky.social. It was a delight to learn from them!

📖 Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/brv....

Our Travel Grants for November 2025 are now open for applications.

Deadline for applications is 01 Nov 2025
Deadline for references is 08 Nov 2025

Apply here: www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org/funding/trav...

Watch Professor Malcolm Longair talk on 'The Mechanical Origins of Maxwell’s Equations' from our One-day meeting - The Unknown Maxwell. @eng.cam.ac.uk @cambridgephysics.bsky.social

Watch on YouTube:
youtu.be/mrOd1726NWQ

A big thank you to @ukri.org for hosting this year's Cambridge Philosophical Society summer visit to the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source based at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) near Didcot in Oxfordshire.

Watch Professor Bill Baker of @eng.cam.ac.uk talk about 'Maxwell and the Geometry of Structural Equilibrium'.

This part 1 of a 2 part talk: youtu.be/-KsYcQoGxWk

Part 2. Professor Allan McRobie: youtu.be/7rTX_aN-hYs

Watch Professor Allan McRobie, Professor of Structural Engineering in @eng.cam.ac.uk talk about 'Maxwell and the Geometry of Structural Equilibrium'.

Watch on YouTube:
youtu.be/7rTX_aN-hYs

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Did you know plants can change sex expression within a single generation, and reversibly at that?🌱 What else but #epigenetics might play a role in this? 🧬 Read more in the new study published at @camphilsoc.bsky.social's Biological Reviews ⬇️

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Watch Professor John Mollon, Professor of Visual Neuroscience talk about 'Maxwell and the nature of primary colours' from Our recent One-day meeting: The Unknown Maxwell. @physicsoutreach.bsky.social @caiuscollege.bsky.social @eng.cam.ac.uk @camneuro.bsky.social

YouTube: youtu.be/lHfuwP4Gzjo

A big thank you to Professor Philippa Hoskin and Tuija Ainonen at the Parker Library @parkerlibcccc.bsky.social @corpuscambridge.bsky.social for our CPS visit to this internationally renowned collection of medieval and renaissance manuscripts.

George Efstathiou, Professor of Astrophysics will talk about the The Fate of the Universe at the upcoming 'Light & Dark' Research Cafe on 19th May at the The Betty & Gordon Moore Library @cambridgeastro.bsky.social @cambridgephysics.bsky.social

Details: moore.libraries.cam.ac.uk/moore-librar...

Calling all researchers working with Artificial Intelligence!

Submit your abstract by 18 May 2025 for the upcoming Research Café: AI & Research on 19 June 2025 at West Hub.

Submit here:
www.westcambridgehub.uk/research-cafe

Cambridge Philosophical Society is a sponsor of the Research Café.

Our Research Studentships - September 2025 are now open for applications.

Deadline for applications is 30 Sep 2025. Deadline for references is 07 Oct 2025.

For more information and to apply:
cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org/funding/rese...

Fantastic to see our new paper out in Biological Reviews (@camphilsoc.bsky.social) on incorporating experimental approaches into movement ecology research. The project was amazingly led by Whitney Hansen, with a great group of co-authors!

Paper 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Former President Professor John Mollon FRS @caiuscollege.bsky.social, an expert in visual perception gives his view on the recent news of a 'new' colour.

Read more:
cai.cam.ac.uk/news/explain...