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Are we becoming more like AI?

Professor of IT Matt Jones explores how everyday digital tools are already nudging us toward machine-like habits, and how deeper AI-human fusion could reshape what it means to be human...

👉 https://gres.hm/ai-assimilation

*also of @swanseauni.bsky.social

Gresham College sends its condolences to the family of renowned photographer Martin Parr, who died at the weekend. Just last week, we welcomed him to Barnard's Inn Hall for an entertaining lecture about his incredible photography, offering insights into his life and work. He will be much missed. 

Final hours to support Gresham College’s Christmas Challenge! 🎄

⏰ There’s still time to help Keep Free Education Alive This Christmas! Donate before 12 noon (GMT) today and your gift will be doubled.

👉 gres.hm/xmas-25

Support free education for all! ✨

#BigGive #DoubleTheDifference #FreeLearning

We’ve hit a milestone in the Big Give #ChristmasChallenge! 🎉

Thanks to your generosity, we’ve raised £42,215 — 75% of our goal, and every penny has been doubled. 💚

There’s still time to make twice the impact before 9 Dec.

Donate 👉 gres.hm/xmas-25

#FreeEducation #DoubleTheDifference

Hurry — only 24 hours left to have your donation DOUBLED in the Big Give #ChristmasChallenge! 🎄⭐

Your gift today helps us reach twice as many people with free education — just as we’ve done since 1597.

Donate now 👉 gres.hm/xmas-25

Doubling ends 12pm GMT, 9 Dec! ⏳

#BigGive #DoubleTheDifference

Promotional image for a talk on Hieronymus Bosch's art and era, featuring medieval-style figures and event details for December 10 at 6 PM with Sophie Oosterwijk.

Coming up this week:

Life, Death and Judgement in the Art and Times of Hieronymus Bosch (d. 1516)
Dr Sophie Oosterwijk FSA

Watch live online! https://gres.hm/hieronymus-bosch

#Greshamcollege #art #arthistory

One lecture changed everything for Ellen, who discovered Gresham College on YouTube at 17 and found a gateway to lifelong learning.

This Christmas, help others take that first step and keep our free lectures accessible to all.

Donate today 👉 gres.hm/xmas-25 🎄✨

#BigGive #DoubleTheDifference

This Christmas: Keep Learning Free for Everyone! 🎄✨

Join Gresham’s first Big Give #ChristmasChallenge — every donation is DOUBLED until 9 Dec thanks to our supporters, including Reed Educational Trust Limited.

Make twice the impact today! 💫

👉 gres.hm/xmas-25

#BigGive #DoubleTheDifference

Now halfway through the Big Give #ChristmasChallenge, we've raised £22,046 — every penny doubled to support free education. 💚

Donate 👉 gres.hm/xmas-25

Give before 9 Dec to double your impact – let’s reach £56,400! 🙌

Until 9 Dec, all donations to Gresham College will be matched £1 for £1 through the #ChristmasChallenge – doubling your impact at no extra cost.

Donate today 👉 gres.hm/xmas-25

🎁 Give before 12 noon GMT on Tues — your gift will be doubled!

#BigGive #DoubleTheDifference #FreeEducation #BigGive2025

During the Big Give’s #ChristmasChallenge, every donation made to Gresham College will be DOUBLED, at no extra cost to you.

🌳 £5 becomes £10 – doubling your impact and helping us continue to provide free education for all.

Donate 👉 gres.hm/xmas-25

#BigGive #FreeEducation #DoubleTheDifference

Gresham College’s first #ChristmasChallenge is LIVE! 🎄✨

This #GivingTuesday, we’re asking everyone who has benefitted from our lectures to help Keep Free Education Alive.

Through the #BigGive, all donations are DOUBLED up to £28,200 – make twice the impact today!

👉 gres.hm/xmas-25

#BigGive2025

We’re joining Big Give's #ChristmasChallenge!

From 2–9 Dec (starting 12 noon GMT tomorrow), every donation to Gresham College will be doubled — twice the impact for free education 💚

👉 gres.hm/xmas-25

#FreeEducation #PublicLectures #DoubleTheDifference #BigGive

24 hours to go! We’re taking part in Big Give’s #ChristmasChallenge!

From 2–9 December at 12 noon GMT tomorrow, every donation you make to Gresham College will be doubled. That means twice the impact to support free education 💚

👉 Donate here: gres.hm/xmas-25

#FreeEducation #DoubleTheDifference

Happy birthday #JimiHendrix! 🎶

Have you ever wondered... why did he play his guitar upside-down? 🎸✨

In his lecture, 'Just Ask The Axis: Jimi Hendrix Unpicked', Prof Milton Mermikides demystifies Hendrix's music, revealing the range of his extraordinary invention...

👉 https://gres.hm/jimi-hendrix

📅 This week at #GreshamCollege:

• Hecate – Prof Hutton 👉 https://gres.hm/goddess-hecate
• Becoming AI – Prof Jones 👉 https://gres.hm/ai-assimilation
• China under Xi – Prof Tsang 👉 https://gres.hm/china-future

🎥 Watch live!

Double the difference of your charity donations this Christmas. Between 2 - 9 December, donate whatever you can to a charity of your choice, and we'll do the... Big Give #ChristmasChallenge 2025 Campaign Video

The Big Give #ChristmasChallenge promo video has arrived!

This year, Gresham College launches its first-ever #BigGive fundraising campaign.

🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG-RmAZPrJk

Save the date: from 2–9 Dec, your donation can have double the impact in supporting free education for all.

📐 It’s #MathsWeekEngland 2025!

The theme, “Connection or Coincidence?”, has us revisiting Prof Alain Goriely's mind-bending lecture “The Deceived Brain: Coding and Illusion.”

Can maths explain why our eyes trick us? 👀

👉 https://gres.hm/coding-illusion

#Maths #STEM #Education

Applications are open for the next Gresham Professor of Physic!

We're looking for a candidate hailing from the fields of Medicine and/or Biological Sciences.

👉 https://gres.hm/physic

Here's a few words from our current Professor of Physic Robin May on what he's enjoyed most about the role...

🌊 Ocean: The Liquid Engine That Dominates Our Planet

Catch up 👉 gres.hm/liquid-engine

We call Earth a blue planet, but often focus only on what’s in the ocean. The real story is the water itself. Prof @helenczerski.bsky.social reveals how the ocean moves, drives life, and shapes our history...

Save the date — the #BigGive Christmas Challenge is nearly here!

From 2–9 December, every donation to Gresham College will be doubled thanks to the Big Give Christmas Challenge.

Mark your calendar, spread the word, and join us in making a lasting difference.

#GivingTuesday #DoubleTheDifference

China’s economy is booming – but its emissions are flat?

Environment Prof Helen Czerski gives her take on #COP30, highlighting how this year’s conference signals real, if slow, progress on climate action...

📺 Watch Helen's lectures: gres.hm/large-planet

@ucl.ac.uk @helenczerski.bsky.social

Catch up: The Economics of Work & Technology
👉 gres.hm/economics-work

Why do fears of tech replacing jobs keep proving wrong? Prof. Daniel Susskind shows how automation both substitutes and creates demand for new work.

*Also of ‪@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social‬
#AI #Technology#GreshamCollege

Life, Death & Judgement in the Art of Hieronymus Bosch (d.1516) — Dr Sophie Oosterwijk FSA explores Bosch’s surreal visions of sin, death and the afterlife in their true medieval context. 🎨

🎟️ Free, in-person tickets: gres.hm/hieronymus-b...

#ArtHistory

Catch up: Whither War; Whither the Law of War

👉 gres.hm/whither-war

Prof Sir Geoffrey Nice KC examines how we seek justice for war crimes, & how the ICC’s ‘universal jurisdiction’ is undermined when major powers remain outside it

Can the rule of law make the world safer?

From Mars with Love: Postcards from 50 Years of Exploring The Red Planet During the fifty years since the launch of the Viking spacecraft to Mars, our view of the red planet has changed from hostile desert to a world which was once covered in water, and which may just poss...

🚀 In-person tickets now open: From Mars with Love - 50 years of exploring the Red Planet 🌌

🎟️ gres.hm/mars-love

Join Prof @chrislintott.bsky.social to uncover how #Mars evolved from barren desert to a world that may once have hosted life...

@oxfordphysics.bsky.social
#astronomy

Image of Daniel Finkelstein delivering the 2025 RHS Public History Lecture at Gresham College, 4 November 2025

Many thanks to Daniel Finkelstein for his excellent RHS Public History Lecture, delivered yesterday evening @greshamcollege.bsky.social: 'Minor Criminal: The Trial of the Man Who Murdered My Grandmother'

Daniel's lecture, a study of the Belsen Trial of 1945, is now available to view bit.ly/4oo5oMi

🎟️ In-person tickets available: Donald #Trump and the Death Penalty

👉 https://gres.hm/trump-death

Prof Clive Stafford Smith examines Trump’s executive order to “restore the death penalty” - and what it means for 2,400 people on death row incl. the innocent among them...

#law #usa

#Onthisweek at #GreshamCollege:

🌏 China’s Economic Prospects – George Magnus
⚖️ Minor Criminal – Lord Daniel Finkelstein
❤️ DNR Forms – Prof Mark Taubert
💰 Limitarianism & Capitalism – Prof Ingrid Robeyns
👩‍💼 How Women Made the Global Economy – Dr Victoria Bateman

Tune in: www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on

🎟️ In-person tickets now open: gres.hm/photobiography

Join iconic photographer Martin Parr for a rare live lecture spanning 50 years of wit, colour & social insight behind the lens.

📸 In-person or livestream only - no recording!

#Photography #Photobiography