CamBRAIN | The Cambridge Neuroscience Society

WELCOME BACK! Join us for an aptly themed Let's Get Social Neurotalks next week to kick off the new year.

Social robots, and how flies use touch to make social decisions with Alva Markelius and @flofightscience.bsky.social

🗓️Tues 14 October
🕓7pm-9pm
🗺️ Cambridge Tap

Fantastic opportunity coming up to meet both the Cambridge neuro community AND international names across diverse aspects of neuroscience. Register now 👇

Don't miss your chance to present your work to an international neuroscience audience right here in Cambridge - all topics welcome!

TONIGHT! Join us for an Under the Sea themed Neurotalks! From octopus and squid to sea fireflies, our speakers will share some of the unusual organisms they work on and what their lives are like beneath the waves 🌊🐟🐙🐠🦑

🗓️ Wed 11 June
🕓7pm-9pm
🗺️ Cambridge Tap

@anna-neuro.bsky.social

Join us next week for an Under the Sea themed Neurotalks! From octopus and squid to sea fireflies, our speakers will share some of the unusual organisms they work on and what their lives are like beneath the waves 🌊🐟🐙🐠🦑

🗓️ Wed 11 June
📷 7pm-9pm
🗺️ Cambridge Tap

Neurotalks tonight!

Join us Wednesday for Neurotalks on Fighting Brain Tumours. Francesca Cozzi and Jessica Taylor from @cruk-ci.bsky.social will discuss how they disrupt the brain, how we can predict what tumours will do, and ongoing research into treatments 💊

Tonight! 🪲🐦🐛🧠🐞🦜

Nelson from MRC LMB will explain how song birds learn their songs 🐦

Stas from MRC LMB will discuss how tardigrades move and why its useful to study unusual animal models like this 😎

Chu-Cheng from Zoology will tell us about how crickets sing with their wings

Join us for Neurotalks on The Secret Lives of Bugs and Birds. Our speakers will discuss the mysterious lives of tiny creatures, from tardigrades to songbirds and crickets, and how they sense and communicate in their worlds. 🗓️ Wed 16 April 📷 7pm-9pm 📷

Join us for Neurotalks on The Secret Lives of Bugs and Birds. Our speakers will discuss the mysterious lives of tiny creatures, from tardigrades to songbirds and crickets, and how they sense and communicate in their worlds.

🗓️ Wed 16 April
📷 7pm-9pm
🗺️ Cambridge Tap

Jingkang and Stephen from Psychology will explain why we are so good at paying attention to speech, and how bilingualism influences this.

@rmc-law.bsky.social from CBU will explain how we find meaning in words, and can use them to imagine things we've never even experienced.

Join us tonight for Neurotalks on Understanding Language.

How do we ascribe meaning to sounds, and pick out the important bits in a noisy world? Join us to find out!

🗓️ Wed 12 March
🕐 7pm-9pm, or as late as you like
🗺️ Cambridge Tap, upstairs

Join us this Wednesday for Neurotalks on Understanding Language.

How do we ascribe meaning to sounds, and pick out the important bits in a noisy world? Join us to find out!

🗓️ Wed 12 March
🕐 7pm-9pm, or as late as you like
🗺️ Cambridge Tap, upstairs

Happening tonight!

Join us for a discussion on the science and philosophy of free will, challenging our understanding by learning about legal, evolutionary and neuroscientific research. The event is free, but registration required:

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3 March 2025 at 6:30pm
St John's Old Divinity School

Rebecca from CBU explains the importance of motivation for everything we do -including making connections- and what happens when it's lost

Julia from Psychiatry shares how psychosis can change how we form and desire connections

Blanca from Psychology discusses how we make connections and what it means for us as individuals