Who can resist a selfie with #CharlesDarwin? One of our newest Bye-Fellows, Prof Mariana Rossi, has been at a conference on nanoscience and nanotechnology in Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz – Galapagos. She snapped this photo at the Charles Darwin Research Centre www.nssyconference.org

Congratulations to both!

Happy #WorldBeeDay! The UK is home to around 270 species of bees. Here at Christ’s College, we provide a diverse habitat for many of these species including the European honeybee (apis mellifera), seen here at home in our beehives. 🐝

Thank you to our fabulous choir and chaplain!

Join us for the traditional Ascension Day service this Thursday - 14 May - when the choir will sing anthems from the top of Great Gate. The 15-minute service begins at 08:15. All welcome in First Court.

From James Bond to the Bourne Identity ... the latest #DarknessVisible blog by Dr Edward Allen, Cambridge English Faculty, reintroduces the 2017 book published to mark the 350th anniversary of 'Paradise Lost' by #JohnMilton https://darknessvisible.christs.cam.ac.uk/paradise-lost-reloaded

Specialist work is underway to clean one of the most important monuments in the College chapel. Watch this space! 📷 Shared Conservation Service #ChristsCollegeCambridge #Cambridge #Conservation #CulturalHeritage #FinchAndBaines

New research on the shape of water by Fellow, Professor Chris Pickard

Student Charlotte Wood is working with the Natural History Museum to tell the story of an antelope ‘type specimen’ collected by King Rumanika of Karagwe www.christs.cam.ac.uk/news/royal-r... She will speak at the NHM on Sat 25 April, 11:30 www.nhm.ac.uk/events/inter... 📷 @nhm-london.bsky.social

Our wisteria has bloomed early and is looking fabulous! Thanks to our gardening team for keeping it in such good shape. 📷Geoff Robinson/BAV Media #WysteriaHysteria #Wysteria #ChristsCollegeCambridge #Cambridge #CambridgeUniversity #CambridgeCollegeGardens

In the latest Miltonic Mill blog, Pasquale Toscano reflects on disability in Sonnet 19 by alumnus #JohnMilton darknessvisible.christs.cam.ac.uk/milton-blog #Milton350 #UniversityOfCambridge #CambridgeUniversity #Disability @cam-english-fac.bsky.social

The annual Cambridge vs Oxford Boat Race on the Tideway is just days away. Christ's Mathilda Kitzmann will compete in the Women's Reserve Race (Blondie vs Osiris) this Saturday 4 April. Watch here www.channel4.com/programmes/t.... First race 14:21. 📷 Nordin Catic and Row360

Birds, dinosaurs and more from Prof Daniel Field, Fellow and Director of the Darwin-Hamied Centre for Biodiversity 👇

Don't forget that the clocks go forward in the early hours of Sunday morning (29 March) for the start of British Summer Time (BST). This is our chance to share a photo of our newly renovated clock in First Court.

Have your say for the chance to win prizes – takes 10 minutes! The survey is open to anyone who uses our libraries and services. Students have the chance to win an iPad Air and everyone could win one of ten £50 Love Cambridge gift vouchers. Survey open now: https://loom.ly/eK5MWvI

There's still time to see our English student Olivia as Red Riding Hood in 'Into the Woods' at the ADC until 28 March www.christs.cam.ac.uk/news/into_th... @artstheatrecamb.bsky.social

Congratulations!

Today is #PiDay which is a great time to remind everyone that Christ's has a distinctive circular lawn in First Court. #Pi Day - March 14 - celebrates the mathematical constant which is the ratio of the circle's circumference to its diameter.

Jointly authored by Christ's Fellow Prof Jenny Gibson with Dr Emily Goodacre 👇

What does Milton's paradise smell like? Sophie Read follows the scent of a soothing substance "somewhere between medicine and magic" through the universe of 'Paradise Lost' in a new blog on the #DarknessVisible website darknessvisible.christs.cam.ac.uk/balmy-milton @cam-english-fac.bsky.social

1/3 👩‍🏫 Life after Olympiads can mean turning what you learned into chances for younger students to grow. Neda 🇷🇸 #Serbia is a Class 2 GTF BIG Talent Scholar and European Girls’ Mathematical Olympiad Bronze medalist (2024), studying Mathematics at @christscollegecam.bsky.social, @cam.ac.uk

As the #MilanoCortina2026 Winter Olympics closes, we remember alumnus David Granger who competed in the 5-man #Bobsleigh event of 1928 held in St Moritz, Switzerland with his US team achieving a #Olympics silver medal 📷Lake Placid Olympic Museum

Apes, dragons and medieval figures adorn the 1505 illustrated copy of the statutes of #ChristsCollegeCambridge. Look out for the signature of College Founder, #LadyMargaretBeaufort on the opening page cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-CHRI... 📷 @camdiglib.bsky.social

Check out our newly-updated resource - Darkness Visible - for studying alumnus John Milton's 'Paradise Lost'. darknessvisible.christs.cam.ac.uk www.christs.cam.ac.uk/news/darknes... #ChristsCollegeCambridge #Cambridge #Milton350 #JohnMilton #UniversityOfCambridge #CambridgeUniversity

Five artworks from the 'Kinsugi People' project are on display in the Chapel antechapel - part of the Lent 'Repair' theme. Dr Carol Holliday who co-created the art with photographer Ryan Davies will speak at Evensong this Sun (15 Feb) at 18:00 www.christs.cam.ac.uk/news/repair-... 📷Holliday/Davies

We are proud to celebrate our alumnus on #DarwinDay 🪲