👀 Have you spotted the new illustrations on our website? 💻 AI This image links the history of coding with the risks and rewards of AI, highlighting its human and material roots in early weaving technologies.

As part of the Postgraduate Open Days, the University will be running sessions from 10–14 November on choosing a College, funding opportunities and other areas of student support. Find out more and register here: www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/openday

Apply to be our new Postgraduate Co-ordinator, supporting the MPhil in Global Risk and Resilience! 📣 Closing date Wednesday 5th November

Have questions for our teaching team about the MPhil? Join our virtual open day on 3rd November at 4 pm! ⬇️ 🔗 www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/openday

“You don’t need to be a great leader to improve a complex system, you need curiosity, compassion, and courage.” Thank you to everyone who attended 'Conversations on Existential Hope'! If you’d like to learn more about the book 'Existential Hope', visit: www.sjbeard.com

EVENT: Transatlantic security in an age of uncertainty 📆 5 Nov, 5pm GMT RUSI Director-General Rachel Ellehuus examines key security and defence challenges for Europe, the transatlantic alliance and the global order. Register 👇 https://ow.ly/5UJ350XgbPt

👀 Have you spotted the new illustrations on our website? Created by illustrator and Falmouth Lecturer Phyllida Bluemel in collaboration with Dr Lauren Holt, Research Affiliate at CSER, the images explore how existential risk can be visualised and understood.

Earlier this month, we welcomed the inaugural cohort of MPhil students in Global Risk and Resilience! We look forward to supporting them as they begin an exciting year exploring the governance and mitigation of global catastrophic risks 🌍

❓ Thinking about applying for our MPhil in Global Risk and Resilience? Join our virtual open day on 3 November at 4pm (UK time) with Alexandru Marcoci and Charlotte Hammer to learn more about the course. Register here: www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/openday

CSER is looking for a Postgraduate Co-ordinator to support our new MPhil in Global Risk and Resilience! 📅 Deadline: Wednesday 5 November 🔗 Apply and learn more: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/postgra...

🚨 Don’t forget! It’s not too late to register for Professor Bruce D. Malamud’s seminar today! 🌋 IHRR Seminar Series 2025/26 – Hazard Interrelationships and Dynamic Risk Scenarios 🌋

📢 Deadline: 19th October 2025 We’re hiring a Teaching Associate to support the delivery of the MPhil in Global Risk and Resilience! Apply here: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/teachin...

The 2025 Global Tipping Points Report is out today: global-tipping-points.org. Bringing together 160 experts from 23 countries, it provides the latest update on where we stand relative to Earth’s critical climate and ecological thresholds, and on opportunities for transformative mitigation.

"We often talk about innovation, but what we really need are systems that can adapt, absorb, and imagine futures beyond the crises we’re already living through." Read about CSER's 2025 Gates Scholar, Pranav Ganta, in his interview with Gates Cambridge. 🔗 bit.ly/47fsJtn

Today, we’re welcoming the very first cohort of students joining our MPhil in Global Risk and Resilience!

Call for Papers now open for the Cambridge Disinformation Summit, 8-10 April 2026. Research on systemic risks from technology that affects information streams or the amplification or monetization of disinformation. Hosted with @mctd.bsky.social. Information: www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/events/cambr...

How can we address extreme risks?🚨 Kennedy Mbeva, Hughes Fellow and Research Associate at the Centre for Existential Risk at Cambridge, focuses his research on the governance of global catastrophic risk.🌎 Learn more about what that means⬇️ youtu.be/Nnig4ifEBOY?... @cser.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk

We’re looking forward to welcoming the very first cohort of our MPhil in Global Risk and Resilience next week! Ahead of the start of term, we’d like to reintroduce our education team. Find out more about the MPhil here: www.cser.ac.uk/education/mp... 🧵

New paper 'Food trade disruption after global catastrophes' highlights how fragile global trade networks are under extreme shocks, and why preparing resilient food systems is urgent. ⬇️

📢 We are hiring a Teaching Associate! The fixed-term role will support the delivery of the MPhil in Global Risk and Resilience. The post is suited for someone wanting to increase their teaching experience and shape a new postgraduate course.

A very warm welcome to our Class of 2025 who start their Gates Cambridge journey today! #gatescambridge25 @uniofcam.bsky.social @gatesfoundation.bsky.social

🌍 How are African countries managing the risks of a just transition? New article by Ken Mbeva looks at how investment rules like the AfCFTA Investment Protocol are shaping climate action, foreign investment, and sustainable development. ⬇️ africanlegalstudies.blog/2025/09/19/h...

Curious about global catastrophic risks? 📖Our reading list offers a starting point with key resources on areas such as biorisk, natural risk and AI. ⬇️ www.cser.ac.uk/work/cser-re...

Fairness and hope: A guest post by Dr SJ Beard, Research Affiliate at @cser.bsky.social and author of a new book, 'Existential Hope'

We’re hiring @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk for a postdoc in geopolitics of AI www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

🌿👉The Department's Dr Belinda Bell will be giving a talk entitled 'Climate change and asset owners: research-informed financial systems interventions'. Find out more here: www.landecon.cam.ac.uk/finance-for-...

Thank you to Professor Lorraine Daston for a fantastic lecture last night on how the insurance industry confronts catastrophic risk! A recording will be available soon on our YouTube channel.

🌋 Excited to share my new essay in Aeon: one of the most underappreciated global risks isn’t an asteroid or supervolcano—it’s the eruptions we don’t see coming:

Applications for the next academic cycle at @uniofcam.bsky.social are now open. Provost Professor Eilis Ferran outlines the criteria you need to apply for a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. More here -https://www.gatescambridge.org. Just click on the apply tab at the top. #gatescambridge25

🌟 Cambridge Judge Business School at Cambridge Tech Week 2025! Join us at two events this month as we bring together leading voices to challenge assumptions and shape the future of innovation. 👉 Find event details and register: https://loom.ly/PhawfU8 #CambridgeTechWeek #CambridgeJudge #Tech

Excited to be invited to speak at Cambridge Zero's Safer Environments symposium on 6 Nov 🌍✨ I’ll be discussing zoonotic disease dynamics in forced migration alongside other colleagues tackling the intersections of infectious disease and climate - event details 👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/cambr...

📖Join us for the launch of "Can Deliberation Cure the Ills of Democracy?", the latest book by political scientist and author Professor James Fishkin. 📆Thurs 18 Sept 🕠5:30 - 7PM 📍Provost's Lodge, King’s College Register now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc... #Democracy @kingscollege.bsky.social

Thank you to James Bacchus for joining us at CSER last week to discuss his new book 'Democracy for a Sustainable World'. His talk explored the urgent need for participatory democratic governance to address global challenges. Find out more about his book here: bit.ly/4mPfYeB

🚨 Open Call for new Steering Committee Members 🚨 Are you working on #risks from #extremeEvents under #environmentalChange? Join us as Risk KAN Steering Committee member for the upcoming term: www.risk-kan.org/about-riskka... www.risk-kan.org @futureearth.bsky.social @wcrpclimate.bsky.social.

📣 Call for papers! We're inviting submissions for the virtual workshop 'After Sendai: Governing Catastrophic Risks in the Emerging Global Order' (11–12 May 2026) followed by a special issue edited by Kennedy Mbeva, Elena Kavanagh & Reuben Makomere More details here: shorturl.at/EVHGB

We're pleased to welcome Colum Finnegan as a research assistant! He earned his PhD in Philosophy from UCC, researching philosophy of mind & technology. Using mindshaping theory, he examined how digital platforms harm group cohesion. His current work explores whether LLMs show genuine mindedness.

The Next Turing Tests conference page is now live! Don’t miss your chance to hear leading experts discuss pressing questions with a serious interrogation of the past, present and future of AI. www.kingselab.org/the-next-tur...

We're pleased to welcome Alana Weir as a Teaching Associate on our MPhil programme! Alana's research interests include multi-hazard disaster risk, developing assessment methods and working across science, policy and practice to enhance disaster risk management. ⬇️ www.cser.ac.uk/team/alana-w...

We’re excited to be preparing for the arrival of our new MPhil students this October!🌟 Interested in joining the 2026/27 cohort? Applications will open on 3rd September 2025, learn more about the course here: www.cser.ac.uk/education/mp...

We are pleased to share some of the elective modules planned for the MPhil in Global Risk and Resilience 2025/26! Alongside core modules and a participatory futures and foresight exercise, students will choose at least two elective modules. Check out the current options for 2025/26 below ⬇️ 🧵1/2

Applicants wishing to hold a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at CDH or @crasshlive.bsky.social should submit their application by 12:00 noon on Friday 24 October 2025. Find out more: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/research/fel...

📚 ☕ Be it artificial intelligence, climate action, identity, spectral sonics or odour - this summer's CRASSH reading list courtesy of our researchers furnishes you with a truly multi-disciplinary list of things to delve into! buff.ly/ur7UO5i

Join us to hear from Lorraine Daston, exploring how the insurance industry confronts the uncertainty of catastrophic risks. 📆18 September, 5.30-6.30 pm 🌎Corpus Christi College, McCrum Lecture Theatre Register for in-person attendance here: bit.ly/4md1gO5

💥💥JOB💥💥 Are you the new Exec Director of the Oxford Climate Policy Monitor? climatepolicymonitor.ox.ac.uk The ED will help lead this new data resource to drive implementation of climate goals. Nurture our law firm network, build the tool, ensure impact. 🗓️Sept 5 ✍️ my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Meet Alexandru Marcoci, an Assistant Professor on our MPhil in Global Risk and Resilience! His research explores the impact of AI technologies on social and democratic institutions.

“Collapse isn’t just caused by structures, but also people. If you want to save the world then the first step is to stop destroying it." CSER research affiliate Luke Kemp spoke to @theguardian.com about this new book 'Goliath’s Curse', and the history & future of societal collapse. Link below⬇️

In our July Newsletter: *New paper: The state of global catastrophic risk research: a bibliometric review *CSER welcomes external applications for ‪@britishacademy.bsky.social‬ Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme * Save the Date: CSER public lecture with Lorraine Daston on 18th September 2025 & more⬇️

“We might debate which framing is more useful, but we should not lose sight of the realities where these problems are unfolding.” Ken Mbeva spoke to ‪‪@gizmodo.com‬ about climate change as an existential threat. gizmodo.com/is-climate-c...

Animal welfare, labour migration and zoonotic disease: revisiting the global health risks of interspecies' exploitation from the working paper co-developed with @iom.int migrationhealthresearch.iom.int/migrant-work...

New post: Existential risks & global challenges: migrant workers & interspecies exploitation. CSER Research Affiliate Dorien Braam ‪(@praxislabs.bsky.social)‬ explores how integrating migrant workers into disease surveillance & preparedness plans, can advance health equity & global health security