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Celebrating the arts, sciences, and ideas that shape our world 🌍✨
https://www.festival.cam.ac.uk/
It's not just any Friday... Today marks the start of 10 days of FREE events for EVERYONE. Explore the full programme now: https://bit.ly/3UUqxki
#OpenCambridge
#Cambridge
#CambridgeUniversity
#HOD
#HeritageOpenDays
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Happy September and happy
#OpenCambridge
month! 😍 10 days of free events for all starts next week, so check out some of the drop-in events that are taking place:
www.cam.ac.uk/stories/open...
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Step inside College libraries, uniquely curated gardens and meet the makers of Cambridge
Open Cambridge starts next week
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/open-cambridge-2025-drop-in-events
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Just 2️⃣ weeks to go until
#OpenCambridge
opens its doors for 2025! Let us know what you’ve got planned and keep an eye out for Saturday Open Cambridge trails coming soon. 📨 Keep up to date by signing up to our mailing list:
https://bit.ly/3qh8THa
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28 days ago
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🗂️ Dive into the archives!
@chuarchives.bsky.social
is opening its doors for one day only—17 Sept, 11:30–3:30. Explore 600+ collections, watch cyanotype demos, and see how historic papers are preserved. More information 👉https://www.opencambridge.cam.ac.uk/events/churchill-archives-centre-open-day
about 1 month ago
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King's College Cambridge
about 1 month ago
King’s is once again taking part in Open Cambridge. This year, the College Library and Archives will host an exhibition to mark 250 years since the birth of Jane Austen. 🗓️ - Weds 17 September 🕛 - 10.30am - 4.00pm 🎟️ - Free, no booking required
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Jane Austen Open Day at King’s College Library
King’s is taking part once more in Open Cambridge, the initiative that offers special access to the extraordinary spaces and places in Cambridge that are normally closed to the general public or charg...
https://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/news/jane-austen-open-day-kings-college-library
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To mark two hundred and fifty years since the birth of novelist Jane Austen, @kingscollege.bsky.social Library and Archives are hosting an exhibition showcasing first and early editions of the author’s much-loved novels, alongside other treasures: https://bit.ly/4oA84Hf
#OpenCambridge
about 1 month ago
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Step into the past at Girton College’s Lawrence Room - a true
#Cambridge
hidden gem 🏛️ See Hermione Grammatike, a Roman-Egyptian mummy, plus treasures from Egypt, Greece and Cambridge’s own past:
https://bit.ly/4lqzQmL
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Did you know that the Whipple Museum of the History of Science (@whipplemuseum.bsky.social) is situated in a building which dates back to 1618 when it was built as the first Cambridge Free School?! Join them for a special day this September during
#OpenCambridge
:
https://bit.ly/4ftU7q6
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We are delighted to be welcoming Cambridge Samaritans to the
#OpenCambridge
programme. Join this online event to learn more about this vital service and discover Samaritans unique approach to supporting those in emotional
distress: https://bit.
ly/3Hq7IlP
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The gorgeous Wren Library (@trincolllibcam.bsky.social) is open for visitors this September as part of
#OpenCambridge
. Plan your visit: https://bit.ly/45bEGiZ
#Cambridge
#CambridgeUniversity
#Library
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Looking for free things to do this September? Explore the
#OpenCambridge
PDF programme which you can download and print at home. 🔗 Download and plan your September now: https://bit.ly/4mwJ3uL
#Cambridge
#CambridgeUniversity
about 1 month ago
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It's that time of year when we get to marvel at how gorgeous @parkerlibcccc.bsky.social @corpuscambridge.bsky.social is - I mean, that ceiling! 😍 Check out when you can visit during
#OpenCambridge
:
https://bit.ly/4oHWtpR
about 1 month ago
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We've been a bit quiet on here recently but we're back to tell that the
#OpenCambridge
programme is now live! With over 70 FREE events this September, what will you do: https://bit.ly/3mqB7ze
#Cambridge
#CambridgeUniversity
#Culture
about 1 month ago
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NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre
4 months ago
Whatever your life experience & background you ALWAYS have something that can make research better. Find out how - pop along to the Atrium
@royalpapworth.bsky.social
from 11am-2pm Mon 9 Jun & meet
#PPI
teams from across
@cambridgebiocampus.bsky.social
. No booking necessary. EVERYONE welcome
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⭐ A massive shout out to all our volunteers on
#VolunteerWeek
! ⭐ We couldn't run the festival without you!
4 months ago
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CRASSH
4 months ago
📔 Join us for a discussion of Richard Latham Lechowick’s new book, I Won’t Let Them Be Like Me: Ezidi Women’s Agency and Identity after the Sinjar Genocide' His talk traces personal narratives of transformation in self and society 23 May from 5-7pm Online & in-person at CRASSH
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Looking for something to do this week? Here are 4 events which caught our eye 👀👇
#Cambridge
#WhatsOnCambridge
#VisitCambridge
4 months ago
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📱 How many times does your iPhone travel around the world before it reaches your hand? 🚗 How many components make up a typical car? ✈️ And how many make up a Boeing 474? Explore the world of
#manufacutring
with
@timminshall.bsky.social
@ifmcambridge.bsky.social
:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg6x...
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Your Life Is Manufactured Talk: How We Make Things, Why It Matters and How We Can Do It Better
YouTube video by Cambridge Festival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg6xuQ5CWJk&t=9s
4 months ago
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It was such a treat to welcome Philippe Sands back to
#CamFest
and if you missed his talk at the Cambridge Union, you can catch up on our YouTube now! ➡️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=96Vl...
#History
#SouthAmerica
#WW2
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Philippe Sands: On Impunity, Pinochet and Patagonia
YouTube video by Cambridge Festival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96VlfWBAQxo&t=887s
5 months ago
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Dr Kate Womersley
5 months ago
What can be done to improve women's mental health? For
@cambridgefestival.bsky.social
&
@cambridgeup.bsky.social
, I spoke with
@suzypuss.bsky.social
&
@rebecca99.bsky.social
about their careers, being patients, & new books Out of Her Mind & An Improbable Psychiatrist
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzDE...
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All In Her Mind - Cambridge Festival 2024
YouTube video by Cambridge University Press
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzDEfJqp3E0&t=261s
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Can you believe it has been a whole month since we finished
#CamFest
2025?! And yes, we're already planning 2026! 😵💫
5 months ago
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A new month and more public events taking place across
#Cambridge
. Here are our 6️⃣ picks 👇
5 months ago
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There's always so much going on across
#Cambridge
so let us make it easy for you by signing up to our monthly public events mailing! We'll send you our picks for the month, from exhibition, talks, music and film. Sign up now 👉
www.admin.cam.ac.uk/whatson/subs...
5 months ago
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Just us reminiscing about having THE Michael Rosen speaking at our Family Weekend 😍
5 months ago
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Cambridge University Botanic Garden
6 months ago
It's wonderful to have this photography exhibition at the Garden - come and be inspired by some beautiful images 📸
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🎧 Grab your headphones and get ready for some new podcasts! 🆕 New podcasts added ⬇️ ⛪ Divinity Divulged from the Faculty of Divinity. 🦋 Echoes from the Museum from
@zoologymuseum.bsky.social
6 months ago
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We're still reflecting on a record-breaking
#CamFest
, but here are some other events taking place in April which we think you should attend 👇
6 months ago
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Thank you for making
#CamFest
2025 one for the history books! 👋 We had over 45,000 visitors across the festival with over 10,000 just during our Family Weekend. 🚑 Over 1,000 people were trained in CPR thanks to East Anglian Air Ambulance. 🧫 Over 5,000 people joined us at our Big Biomedical Day.
6 months ago
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CRASSH
6 months ago
💫 Cambridge Festival Dronotope: The politics of timelines and data visualisation 👨👩👦 Exhibition for all 🗓️ 25 March-11 April 📍 CB3 9DP ℹ️
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Explore 3D timelines of drone technology, which change dynamically based on what data the user chooses to highlight
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6 months ago
🚨 New Blog! Roots of Resilience – Cultivating Africa’s Agricultural Future Through Science, Art & Collective Action 🌱 We just dropped the full recap of our Roots of Resilience 2025 event at the University of Cambridge — now live on our site! Read blog:
www.jrbiotekfoundation.org/roots-of-res...
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What a way to finish
#CamFest
2025! Congratulations to Spatika Jayaram for winning the FameLab Cambridge final. Spatika will now go on to the national finals later this year. 🥇 Also congratulations to our runner up, David Hardman and to all our FameLab finalists!
6 months ago
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Join us tomorrow at our Creative Encounters Retrospective Exhibition where we will revisit poetry and films produced over the last 3 years of the project. Creative Encounters pairs researchers with creatives to rethink the ways they communicate their research. 📆 5 April, 4pm-7pm, All Saints Church
6 months ago
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We've had the most amazing first couple of nights at the Cambridge Union with
@ai.cam.ac.uk
,
@thinklab.bsky.social
, Philippe Sands, Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter, Cambridge Sustainable Food and a climate debate with 150 school children! Two nights to go!
#CamFest
6 months ago
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🎭 A recently rediscovered play which has never been seen on stage before will be performed at
#CamFest
later this week. The play, written by a student at the Cavendish Laboratory in the 1920s, delves into the critical issues surrounding nuclear power. ➡️
www.cam.ac.uk/stories/redi...
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From family archive to stage: The remarkable journey of ‘Not for a cat’ play at the Cambridge Festival
The upcoming Cambridge Festival is set to feature the premiere of Not for a Cat: A Play for the Nuclear Age on 5 April, a play originally written in the 1950s by Wallace R. Harper, a student at the Ca...
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/rediscovered-cavendish-play
6 months ago
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We're excited to be welcoming Human Rights Lawyer, Philippe Sands to the Cambridge Union this afternoon. Spaces still available, so come and join us:
www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/phili...
6 months ago
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Cambridge Reproduction
6 months ago
Tomorrow! Last chance to grab tickets for our final event of
@cambridgefestival.bsky.social
screening The End We Start From, starring Jodie Comer
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Our feet are sore but what a weekend! We welcomed thousands of you to
#CamFest
over our MASSIVE Family Weekend. Thank you for everyone who joined us in the sunshine and to all our amazing contributors ⭐
6 months ago
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It's been busy this week welcoming over 500 students from across the country to
#CamFest
. Students went on a alien hunt with
@mattbothwell.com
, travelled to Must Farm with
@cam-archaeology.bsky.social
and learnt to disagree well with The Woolf Institute. Read more ➡️
www.cam.ac.uk/news/student...
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Students from across the country get a taste of studying at Cambridge at the Cambridge Festival
Over 500 KS2 and KS3 students from as far away as Warrington got the chance to experience studying at the University of Cambridge with a selection of lectures
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/students-from-across-the-country-get-a-taste-of-studying-at-cambridge-at-the-cambridge-festival
6 months ago
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Cambridge Global Health Partnerships (CGHP)
6 months ago
Why is global health also local health and why should we care? Grab one of the final tickets to Raising the Bar for Global Health tonight to find out. 🎫
@cambridgefestival.bsky.social
global_health_local_health.eventbrite.co.uk
#globalhealth
#healthcare
#localhealth
#publichealth
#nhs
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Raising the Bar for Global Health: Why global health is local health
How global health issues affect us all and what we can learn and share to improve patient outcomes in the UK and around the world.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/raising-the-bar-for-global-health-why-global-health-is-local-health-tickets-1223362904379?aff=oddtdtcreator
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Cambridge Neuroscience
6 months ago
Tonight as part of the
@cambridgefestival.bsky.social
- join us for our flagship public panel discussion on all things consciousness....more info here -
www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/consc...
Really looking forward to it! Free and open to all at 18:00 at McCrum Lecture theatre
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Last few tickets remaining for tonight's event with
@ai.cam.ac.uk
,
@dianecoyle1859.bsky.social
and
@lawrennd.bsky.social
👇
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6 months ago
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6 months ago
Can't make it into town for one of our talks? No problem! 🙌
@cambridgefestival.bsky.social
are holding an online event with Professor Linda Gask
@suzypuss.bsky.social
and Dr Rebecca Lawrence
@rebecca99.bsky.social
to talk about their new books, both of which you can purchase on our website. 🔗👇
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The Conversation UK
6 months ago
How the bold, hopeful visions of self-determination in Britain’s eastern colonies curdled into a more militant nationalism by the end of the second world war.
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East of Empire: partitioning of India and Palestine unleashed the violent conflict that continues today
How the bold, hopeful visions of self-determination in Britain’s eastern colonies curdled into a more militant nationalism by the end of the second world war.
https://tcnv.link/bNF1n1V
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If you're in need of a plan tonight, why not check out one of these fascinating events 👇
@gurdoninstitute.bsky.social
@camvetschool.bsky.social
@campathology.bsky.social
@cambridgebiosci.bsky.social
#Health
#CancerResearch
#AI
#Medicine
6 months ago
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University of Cambridge Vet School
6 months ago
📢 Interested in AI in Medicine? Join us TONIGHT for a free LIVE podcast: ‘AI in Human and Veterinary Cardiology’ for
@cambridgefestival.bsky.social
📅 25 March – 7.30pm 📍 Queen’s Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, St Andrew's St, CB2 3AP 👉🏽
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/live-podca...
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Cambridge Reproduction
6 months ago
🎬 Final call for our last
@cambridgefestival.bsky.social
event! Join us next Tuesday for a screening of The End We Start From (2023, 102 min), with introduction from @helencharman and a post-film drinks reception. 🍷🎟️ Don’t miss out - grab your tickets now! ⬇️
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1082105208...
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Reproductive Justice in a Changing Climate: The End We Start From screening
Special screening of feature film, The End we Start From, starring Jodie Comer - adapted from the book by Megan Hunter
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1082105208809?aff=oddtdtcreator
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Welcome to
#CamFest
week 2️⃣! Here's a few highlights taking place this week 👇 TODAY// 🤰Reproductive Justice in a Changing Climate: screening of The Climate Baby Dilemma with
@cam-repro.bsky.social
(6pm Old Divinity School) 📱Voice Notes from Palestine + Panel Q&A (3pm,
@camedfac.bsky.social
6 months ago
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The
@chuarchives.bsky.social
Open Day is tomorrow! A perfect object here for
#WomensHistoryMonth
: a scrapbook, belonging to Barbara Rankin who worked as secretary to IVE pioneer, Robert Edwards, is helping to bring the incredible work of Jean Purdy to light. ⬇️
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MRC Biostatistics Unit
6 months ago
Really looking forward to our Data Quiz and Statistical Karaoke this evening for Cambridge Festival 2025 😀🙌🎤🎉 6.30pm, Hexagon Room, Frank Lee Centre All are welcome!
@cambridgefestival.bsky.social
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MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
6 months ago
Heading to
@cambridgefestival.bsky.social
tomorrow? Don’t miss us at CAST between 11AM-4PM (GMT). Discover the importance of molecular biology by matching mutated microscopic worms to the mutated gene that they contain! No booking needed—just come! More info:
www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/molec...
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