Accelerate Programme for Scientific Discovery

Artwork showcasing discussions held at the AI for Science Summit on 9 December.

Artwork showcasing discussions held at the AI for Science Summit on 9 December.

Thank you to everyone who joined us on 9 December for this year's AI for Science Summit! 🎉

The event explored AI's impact across science, from interpretable ML in healthcare to AI for weather prediction. Live illustration by Scriberia 🎨

More information: bit.ly/4q130vg

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Lunchtime Seminar Series by the Accelerate Programme, featuring talks by Anne Alexander and Srijit Seal, taking place on Monday 15 December, Seminar Room SS03 in William Gates Building, 12pm-1pm. Pizza lunch will be served.

Interested to find out more about research taking place in AI for Science? 🤖

Join us over pizza for our final Accelerate Programme Lunchtime Seminar this term, Monday 15 Dec, 12pm - 1pm in Room SS03, William Gates Building!

Register to attend: science.ai.cam.ac.uk/events/accel...

@srijitseal.com @camdighum.bsky.social

🚀 The AI Sciencepreneurship Bootcamp is back!

Join us on the 11–12 Feb to turn #AI innovations into tangible ventures that have real world impact. Learn from founders, sharpen your pitch & collaborate with #Cambridge innovators

Apply ➡ www.ai.cam.ac.uk/calls/ai-cams-ai-sciencepreneurship-bootcamp

@ceb.cam.ac.uk @axellaurell.bsky.social @egmitchell.bsky.social @crukcamcentre.bsky.social @qiuyu-lian.bsky.social @mrcepid.bsky.social @susiemclaren.bsky.social @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social @mmontagnese.bsky.social @slcuplants.bsky.social

Photo of a whale, brain scans, a city and a leaf to represent awarded Accelerate-C2D3 funded projects

We are delighted to announce the 2025 Accelerate – @c2d3.cam.ac.uk funded projects! 🎉

Projects will catalyse discoveries to accelerate scientific progress & create AI tools capable of delivering benefits for science & society.

Find out more: bit.ly/4rpvSiy

Are you a final year undergraduate student based at a UK university? Still time to apply to join our first ever @acceleratescience.bsky.social Winter School for AI on 13-16 January at the University of Cambridge.

Be sure to apply by the deadline at 5pm 21 November! 👇

How can we... Use LLMs to understand whether disease research happens where it's most needed? Read the blog post by Hongyu Zhou on the Accelerate Programme website. Image shows a photo of Hongyu with his quote.

📢 New blog! @zhou-hy.bsky.social used LLMs to investigate whether disease research happens where it's most needed.

Analysing 300k papers revealed stark disparities in global health research distribution - 43% of clinical trials occur in low/middle-income countries.

Find out more: bit.ly/47RyL2L

Accelerate Programme Winter School for AI, Inviting applications from Final Year Undergraduate Students in the UK, Deadline 17:00, Friday 21 November 2025

Introducing our first @acceleratescience.bsky.social Winter School for AI for UK undergraduates!🎉

📍University of Cambridge
🗓️13-16 Jan 2026
🤖 LLM workshops
💻 HPC access
🤝 Career insights, networking and mentoring

Find out more and apply by 21 Nov, 5pm: science.ai.cam.ac.uk/news/2025-10...

Grant writing workshop – ECRs and PhD students in data science and AI

Fri, 16 Jan 2026 1:30 PM - 4:15 PM

Are you thinking about applying for a grant or fellowship?

www.c2d3.cam.ac.uk/events/grant...

Accelerate Lunchtime Seminar Series event on Monday 24 November, Seminar Room SS03 in William Gates Building, 12:00-13:00, Register at the link

Interested to find out more about research taking place in AI for Science? 🔬

Join us over pizza for our second @acceleratescience.bsky.social Lunchtime Seminar this term on 24 Nov, 12 - 1pm in Room SS03, William Gates Building!

Register to attend for free: science.ai.cam.ac.uk/events/accel...

Flexible support from our AI clinic, We provide support for a wide range of queries, from getting started with AI in your research to troubleshooting complex software issues.

New AI clinic slots available to book in November and December! 🗓️

Open to all @cam.ac.uk PhD students, researchers and staff, our clinic offers free expert advice on any AI and machine learning questions.

Book a slot: training.cam.ac.uk/apsci/search

Accelerate Programme's Introduction to Diffusion in Generative AI workshop, image shows trainer and attendees during the course.

Thank you to everyone who joined our Introduction to Diffusion Models in Generative AI workshop last week! 🤖

Are you based at @cam.ac.uk and interested to develop practical machine learning skills for research?

Sign up for an upcoming workshop: training.cam.ac.uk/apsci/search

FTorch: Enabling modern machine learning in large-scale scientific software. Quote by Joe Wallwork of the Institute of Computing for Climate Science is shown on a blue background, and a photo of conference attendees is shown. Find out more on the blog.

📢 New blog! FTorch software from @iccscambridge.bsky.social couples PyTorch ML to Fortran models and is now used globally in climate, weather and fusion research.

A September workshop with 40 researchers explored hybrid modelling challenges.

Find out more: bit.ly/48FYxsM

Lunchtime Seminar Series advertisement on blue background, find out more via the registration link.

Interested to find out more about research taking place in AI for Science?

Join us over pizza🍕for our first @acceleratescience.bsky.social Lunchtime Seminar this term, Mon 27 October, 12pm - 1pm in Room SS03, William Gates Building!

Register to attend for free:
science.ai.cam.ac.uk/events/accel...

AI Cafe: CRUK, information about the event and QR code on a blue background. Click the link to find out more.

Excited to share details of our AI Café on 20 October organised with @cruk-ci.bsky.social! 🔬

Want to find out more about how AI is being used in cancer research? Join us to hear talks from researchers & discuss with an AI expert. Those new to AI are very welcome to attend!

Sign up: bit.ly/3KNwc9N

The "Differentiable Systems and Scientific Machine Learning" workshop at the 1st @euripsconf.bsky.social is accepting submissions!💡

Submission deadline for the call for papers is Friday Oct 10th.

Find out more and submit your #EurIPS paper here: differentiable-systems.github.io/workshop-eur...

@cst.cam.ac.uk @schmidtfellows.bsky.social @cambridgec2d3.bsky.social

How can we ... use machine learning to enhance anti-poaching measures? Features a quote and photo of Charles Emogor. Read the blog post to find out more.

📢 New blog! @charlesemogor.bsky.social uses machine learning to enhance anti-poaching across sub-Saharan Africa.

Working with @anil.recoil.org, @fletcherecology.bsky.social and @milindtambe-ai.bsky.social, he is developing models to help rangers patrol effectively.

Find out more: bit.ly/4mMs3Av

Accelerate Programme exhibition booth, featuring a table, banner and three team members.

We are thrilled to be attending the Cambridge Wearables Innovation Forum Launch today at Pembroke College, Cambridge! 🚀 @dynamicbrain.bsky.social

We look forward to chatting with attendees about how to use machine learning and AI to power scientific research on wearable health tech.

Referrals to children’s #MentalHealth services have almost doubled since #COVID, but support often comes too late.

To change this, Dr Anna Moore is developing #AI-supported pathways to spot needs earlier and guide timely intervention.

Read more on the blog ⬇️
www.ai.cam.ac.uk/blog/from-pr...

🚀 Do you have an #AI idea that could have real-world impact? 🚀

We’re offering @cam.ac.uk researchers the chance to get up to £25k + 6 months’ support to bring bold concepts to life through our new AI-deas Sprint Programme.

📅 Deadline: 10 Oct
www.ai.cam.ac.uk/calls/ai-dea...

Michaelmas Term Workshop Series of the Accelerate Programme, shows workshop dates and a QR code on a blue background. Find out more on our website

📢Booking is now open for our training courses next term!

Courses are open to all PhD students and staff at the University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk, sign up now to develop your AI skills and apply them in your research.

Find out more and book: science.ai.cam.ac.uk/events

🌳 Forests hold vital clues about our planet’s health.

Dr @emilyrlines.bsky.social & her team are using #AI, drones & laser scanning to build millimetre-scale 3D models of forest canopies - right down to each leaf & twig - transforming how we monitor biodiversity.

➡️ Read more: lnkd.in/e5Ff9xBn

How can we ... use AI to produce a roadmap showing how brain regions are related? Includes photo of author Isaac Sebenius on a blue background. Find out more on the blog.

📢 New blog! Isaac Sebenius, who recently completed his PhD @psychiatry-ucam.bsky.social developed MIND with supervisors @sarahmorganuk.bsky.social and Professor Ed Bullmore - a machine learning method transforming MRI brain scans into biologically validated networks.

Find out more: bit.ly/4gccUXm

Flexible support from our AI clinic. We provide support for a wide range of queries, from getting started with AI in your research to troubleshooting complex software issues.

New AI clinic slots available to book on 9 and 10 September! 🗓️

Open to all PhD students and researchers, our clinic offers free expert advice on any AI and machine learning questions.

Book a slot: science.ai.cam.ac.uk/events

🚨 Calling all ‪Cambridge‬ researchers 🚨

Got a bold #AI idea? Our new AI-deas Sprint Programme offers up to £25k + 6 months’ support to turn your research into a working prototype with real-world impact.

📅 Deadline: 10 Oct

Find out more & apply ⬇️
www.ai.cam.ac.uk/calls/ai-dea...

How can we... help researchers build better language models? Shows a picture of blog post author Richard Diehl Martinez, PhD Student in the Department of Computer Science and Technology. Find out more on the Accelerate Programme website.

📢 New blog! Find out how Richard Diehl Martinez, a PhD student from @cst.cam.ac.uk used funding from @acceleratescience.bsky.social to develop Pico - an open-source framework with less than 500 lines of Python code that democratises AI model training for researchers.

Find out more: bit.ly/41Pkv8f

Have an idea to make University operations smarter with #AI? 💡

We’re offering £10k + expert support for @cam.ac.uk professional services teams.

📅 Deadline 29 Aug

Find out more ➡️ www.ai.cam.ac.uk/calls/ai-for...