A lovely way to mark National Gardening Day 🌱 Our Friends of the Garden visited @pembroke1347.bsky.social Garden with Head Gardner Sarah Claydon – and picked up plenty of inspiration 🪴 Including a creative sustainability idea: using expired Friends’ membership cards in dead hedging.

Living Water: Poetry, Art and the Fight for Clean Rivers is now open at Cambridge University Library. 🎟️ FREE entry 📍Cambridge University Library and @pembroke1347.bsky.social Find out more about the exhibition 👉 https://bit.ly/4lHHtHh

Watch the livestream of Michael Kuczynski's Memorial Service from Great St Mary's: www.youtube.com/@GreatStMarys Download a copy of the Order of Service: www.pem.cam.ac.uk//sites/defau... The service starts today, Saturday 7th March, at 2.00 pm (GMT).

Good luck to Pembroke MPhil student, Isabel Sánchez Arroyo, who’s been named in @curufc’s squad to face Oxford in the Varsity Match this Saturday! The women's match kicks off at 12.00 pm, at StoneX Stadium in North London, and is followed by the men’s match at 3.00 pm. #LightBlues #VarsityMatch

A memorial service for Michael Kuczynski will be held in Great St Mary’s at 2 pm on Saturday 7th March, followed by refreshments at Pembroke. All are welcome to attend. To confirm your attendance or to register for the link to the livestream, please complete this form: forms.office.com/e/EyJF17sV1Y

📢 We recently hosted the 'Cambridge Debt Roundtable on The Global Law of Debt' organised by Dr Narine Lalafaryan (@pembroke1347.bsky.social) around a new research project of the same name, led jointly by Dr Lalafaryan and Professor Jared Ellias (@hls.harvard.edu): 🔗https://bit.ly/49Ksve4

📢 Dr Narine Lalafaryan (@pembroke1347.bsky.social) has been extensively cited by the @houseoflords.parliament.uk Financial Services Regulation Committee in its report 'Private Markets: Unknown Unknowns'. This follows Dr Lalafaryan's oral evidence in July 2025. Read more:🔗https://bit.ly/49vZt1C

Snow made one of its rare visits to Cambridge today, to the delight of returning staff and resident postgraduate students! ❄

Enjoyed seeing this today. @pembroke1347.bsky.social as depicted by Rudolph Ackermann in 1815.

Happy New Year from Pembroke College! Wishing you everyone a happy and healthy 2026! #HappyNewYear #PembrokeCollegeCambridge #CambridgeUniversity

Congratulations to Pembroke Fellows Professor Gabor Csanyi (2007, Engineering), Professor Vikram Deshpande (1999, Engineering) and Professor Dame Clare Grey (2011, Chemistry), who have been recognised as Highly Cited Researchers 2025 by Clarivate. 1/2

Merry Christmas to all our students, staff, Fellows, alumni and friends! A festive message from our Master, Professor Rosalind Polly Blakesley: youtu.be/DA4Th7G5N54 We wish you a joyful and restful festive season.🎄

Meet the people at the heart of this year’s University of Cambridge Christmas film ❤️ Watch the Gospel Choir Society's full performance of 'Oh Happy Day' on our YouTube channel 👉 https://youtu.be/WzmwvYHVF8A

Merry Christmas to everyone in Cambridge and around the world 🎄 Vice-Chancellor Professor Deborah Prentice and Chancellor Lord Chris Smith share their Christmas and New Year wishes, alongside a joyful performance from the University’s first-ever Gospel Choir society.

📢 Prof Renaud Morieux will give the 2026 Douglas Johnson Memorial Lecture organised by @frenchhistory.bsky.social & @asmcf.bsky.social "Dislocated Families: Women, War & Migrations in French India during the Age of Revolutions" 📅 12 Jan 2026 ⏲️ 5:30-7pm 🏢 Institut français, London Register below ⬇️

One month left to submit your abstracts for Fissures: Gender and Political Crisis, @pembroke1347.bsky.social (17–18 Sept 2026). See the full #CFP below. #Fissures2026 #medievalsky #skystorians #medieval #GenderHistory #PoliticalHistory

Members from across the Pembroke community gathered in the Cloister this morning to mark Remembrance Sunday. A poppy wreath was laid in front of the memorial to the Pembroke students, alumni and staff who died in World War I by one of our students, who had served in the Danish Army

Congratulations to Professor Constantine Yannelis, who has been awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize from @leverhulme.ac.uk, for his work on financial economics, human capital investment, corporate finance, applied microeconomics and student loans.👏 www.pem.cam.ac.uk/college/news...

The new students all signed the Matriculation Book in the Old Library today and officially became Members of Pembroke. ✒ This is a timelapse of the 2025 Matriculation photo, taken on Library Lawn, just before lunch.

At @pembroke1347.bsky.social, we recently hosted a Summer Academy for The Elephant Group, a charity which works with high achieving Year 12s to access higher education. We had a great discussion about the breadth of a History degree, and explored 17th Century pamphlets! #skystorians #earlymodern

Welcome to all the Pembroke Freshers who moved in today!

Professor Polly Blakesley was installed as the 55th Master of Pembroke yesterday. The admission ceremony was held in the Chapel, in the presence of the Fellowship. Photo: Keith Heppell

Pembroke is flying the College flag today to mark the admission of Professor Polly Blakesley as its new Master. Professor Blakesley will be Pembroke’s 55th Master, and the first woman to hold the role. A short admission ceremony will take place this evening.

Ready to take the next step in your career? 💭 Discover how Cambridge could be the right move for you – just like for our researchers Prof Constantine Yannelis, @profsanderlinden.bsky.social and Dr Derya Cavga. Explore over 150 vacancies on our new jobs website today 👇 bit.ly/45ANWNS

If you’re looking for something to do in London tonight, Sameera, one of my most brilliant students ever, has a wonderful stand-up comedy show at the Camden Fringe, Etcetera Theatre at 9pm. camdenfringe.com/events/what-...

Tune in to The One Show tonight to watch Pembroke graduate Di'Mario Downer (2022) talk about what it means to be a Stormzy Scholar, and the difference receiving the scholarship made to his time as a student. 📺 BBC One, 7 pm. Catch up on @BBCiPlayer. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... 📷 Louis Browne

Congratulations to the 39 Pembroke graduands who received their degrees in person today, and the further eight who received them in absentia. After the graduation ceremony, Lord Smith was clapped out of the Senate House to mark his final graduation ceremony as Master and welcome him as Chancellor.

"Three cheers for the Master and Chancellor!" Cambridge University's new Chancellor, Lord Smith, received a round of applause and warm congratulations at graduations at Senate House today. Find out more about Lord Smith and the role of Chancellor 👇 bit.ly/45l2elq

Pembroke warmly congratulates our retiring Master Lord Smith (1969) on his election as the 109th Chancellor of @cam.ac.uk. Read more: www.pem.cam.ac.uk/college/news...

Lord Chris Smith has been elected as the new Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. Lord Smith said “To be elected as Chancellor of the University I love is a huge honour. I’m thrilled." Read more about Lord Smith and the Chancellor election 👉 www.cam.ac.uk/about-the-un...

Part of today spent thinking and writing about this, the Breviary of Marie de St-Pol, made in Paris round 1330-1340, for the Foundress of @pembroke1347.bsky.social. A wonderful jewel-like manuscript.

Find out more about the role of Chancellor, who can vote and how to vote here: www.cam.ac.uk/about-the-un... #CambridgeUniversity #CambridgeAlumni #CambridgeGraduate #Cambridge

Congratulations to the 130 Pembroke students graduating today!🎓🎉

Undergraduate Barham Dinner in Pembroke tonight, ahead of General Admission (undergraduate graduation) on Wednesday.

📣 The Alumni Festival 2025 programme is LIVE! alumni.cam.ac.uk/festival/eve... 😮 Witness an extraordinary historical experiment, as AI reanimates two former US presidents in a live debate 👑 Discover the controversial lives of the Duke & Duchess of York 💫 Journey into the history of our Solar System

We hope everyone attending the Pembroke May Ball tonight has a fantastic time! This year’s theme is SubRosa: Where masques conceal, secrets bloom. The headliner is @circawaves.bsky.social

A super-massive thank you to Eric Idle (1962, English) & Professor Brian Cox for starting May Week off with a (big) bang yesterday, via an 'Inelastic Collision'! They were joined by Anna Lapwood & the Chapel Choir for the Galaxy Song & a rousing rendition of Always Look on the Bright Side of Life.

Pembroke College is delighted to announce that Dr Sophia Goodfriend has been appointed as the Harry Frank Guggenheim Research Fellow for 2025-2028. The Fellowship is generously sponsored by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. www.pem.cam.ac.uk/college/news...

Good luck to the six PCBC crews rowing in the 2025 May Bumps! 🚣 The racing starts today and runs until Saturday. #RowOnPCBC #MayBumps2025

The Royal Society has named Academic Associate Dr Gita Khalil Moghaddam as one of the 13 top women changemakers in the UK. She is recognised for using her research to leverage AI to push the boundaries of diagnostics & set up spinout companies, including GlycoVue. royalsociety.org/-/media/abou...

Congratulations to alumna Blaise Metreweli CMG (Anthropology, 1995), who has been appointed the next Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). She will be the 18th Chief and the first woman to hold the position. www.pem.cam.ac.uk/college/news... Photo: UK Foreign Office/AP

Gábor Csányi Prof of Molecular Modelling has been elected as a Fellow of the @royalsociety.org He works in the field of computational chemistry developing algorithms to predict properties of materials & molecules from first principles @pembroke1347.bsky.social www.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...

Professor Vikram Deshpande is the 2025 recipient of the prestigious Nadai Medal in recognition of significant contributions and outstanding achievements which broaden the field of materials engineering. @pembroke1347.bsky.social @asmedotorg.bsky.social www.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...

Professor Norman Fleck is the 2025 recipient of the prestigious Timoshenko Medal in recognition of distinguished contributions to the field of applied mechanics. @pembroke1347.bsky.social @asmedotorg.bsky.social www.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...

Last week, we had route setters placing the holds on the climbing wall we've installed in the Auditorium tower. The left wall has a 5% overhang and 100 pre-programmed routes, which light up. The right wall has routes from levels 5a to 7c. The middle wall is a practice wall. 📷 Andrew Cates, Bursar

People who want to have a chuckle, come to this concert next week in Cambridge!! Mary Bevan, Nicky Spence and me. @pembroke1347.bsky.social @cambridgeup.bsky.social @intermusica.bsky.social @askonasholt.bsky.social

Did you know that two of the ten candidates running to be the next Chancellor of the University of Cambridge are Pembroke alumni? Lord Smith of Finsbury (1969), Master of Pembroke: tinyurl.com/4npu64m6 Dr Mark Mann (1999), engineer turned social innovation leader: tinyurl.com/494k3c6b 🧵

Today we are announcing the full list of candidates for the next Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. Explore the list of candidates and why they are standing 👉 cam.ac.uk/chancellor-candidates

Hear our fantastic Visiting Fellow Dr Stephanie Santos deliver the first CDH Open of term this Thursday 💡 ICT-mediated Labors and Infostructures of Feeling Thursday 22 May, 6-8pm The Nihon Room at @pembroke1347.bsky.social Register on our website: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/events/39753/

The fourth annual James Campbell Piping Competition is taking place in Pembroke Chapel today. The inaugural under-18s James Campbell Piping Competition will be held beforehand. It starts at 2.30 pm, is open to all and is free to attend. www.pem.cam.ac.uk/college/even...