As Japan's newly elected prime minister Sanae Takaichi celebrates her historic victory, Darwin's @jnilssonwright.bsky.social spoke to the Today programme about how younger voters have responded to the former heavy metal drummer's new style of politics. From 49mins. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

We're expanding our horizons with this issue of the Darwinian. Discovering planets beyond our solar system, developing robots for Martian exploration, or overseeing the UK's practical use of space, the Darwinians featured here are out of this world. www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/u...

With serendipitous timing, research publicised today explores babies' innate sense of rhythm. If the story piqued your interest, come along to hear Ibrahim Baltagi look in more depth into how music shapes our development, this evening at 5.30pm. www.sciencenews.org/article/babi...

Wonderful to see RheEnergise celebrating the success of its site in Devon, using underground hydropower to store and release renewable energy. Congratulations to alumnus and co-founder Tamás Bertényi, and remembering the late Richard Cochrane. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Join us tomorrow evening as Darwin Fellow @jnilssonwright.bsky.social explores East Asian populism in this term's Erasmus Seminar.

Join Dr. Ibrahim Baltagi this Friday as he shares with the Darwin College Lecture Series his belief in the importance of music at every stage of human development. www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/news/darwin-...

Professor Hans Slabbekoorn's Darwin College Lecture on Notes and Noises in Nature is now available to view on our YouTube channel. Join us tonight as Dr Carole Pegg discusses Mongolian throat-singing, and its connections to landscape and identity. youtu.be/tV3YqDR93nc

Congratulations to Darwinian Jack Peden, who has been awarded the Helios Prize [email protected] for research into the production of hydrogen and carbon nanotubes from methane, a process which has the potential to produce a sustainable fuel for real-world use. www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/news/darwin-...

In this week's Darwin College Lecture, Dr Carole Pegg will explain her journey from acclaimed folk singer to expert in Mongolian throat-singing, and how its rhythms reflect the landscape in which it has emerged. www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/news/darwin-...

Tune in tonight to watch Darwin's University Challenge team take on @sheffielduni.bsky.social in their first quarter-final match, at 8.30pm on BBC2!

If the return of the Darwin College Lecture Series has sharpened your curiosity about past seasons, the CUP bookshop is offering a generous discount on the books from previous years throughout the current series. And what a fabulous display!

It's that time of year again! Join us this evening, and every Friday this term, for an extravagant exploration of Song. Find out more about how the theme emerged, and what to expect from our diverse array of speakers, in this lovely interview with this year's organisers, Fiona Karet and Edwin Rose.

This Friday sees the return of the Darwin College Lecture Series, exploring the concept of Song! Ahead of his lecture, Hans Slabbekoorn told us how, from birdsong to the calls of marine life, the soundscape of the natural world is key to its diversity. www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/news/darwin-...

Excited to celebrate the 6 Feb release of FINDING HARMONY: A KING’S VISION on Amazon Prime, featuring Cambridge alumni HM King Charles III, a Trinity College alumnus; and our Director Prof Emily Shuckburgh, a Trinity alumna and Fellow of @darwincollegecam.bsky.social. @cam.ac.uk

Darwin Vice-Master and Professor of Health Data Science Professor Angela Wood spoke to the Times about new research indicating that routine vaccinations for flu and shingles may provide lasting protection against dementia and heart disease. www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

European botanists travelling with Captain Cook sought and recorded names and uses of the plants they found from Indigenous Māori and Polynesian people, in an information exchange which has now been newly digitised, thanks to Darwin Bye Fellow Dr Edwin Rose. www.smithsonianmag.com/history/newl...

Ants have faced an evolutionary trade-off between individual protection and developing larger, more complex societies, according to research by Darwin PhD student Arthur Matte which has received international attention. www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/news/the-ant... www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/s...

Theoretical psychologist and Darwin Bye Fellow Dr Nicholas Humphrey has been announced as the winner of the Dennett Prize 2026, awarded by the International Center for Consciousness Studies. www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-nich...

Nothing like a little sprinkling of snow to take the edge off the first Monday back after the festivities! Happy new year to you all and stay warm...

Congratulations to Richard Morrison, music critic and culture writer at The Times, who has received an MBE for Services to Music. Richard will give the final lecture of the forthcoming Darwin College Lecture Series, How Song Shapes Society, and Society Shapes Song, on Friday 13th March.

Fabulous photo - congratulations @eshuck.bsky.social !

Congratulations to our Director Professor Emily Shuckburgh on her investiture as a CBE. Happy holidays to all and very best wishes for 2026 from the Cambridge Zero team.

What a perfect way to wish a happy, head-scratching holiday season to Darwinians past and present, near and far. Thank you to Darwin alumnus, super-quizzer, star and researcher of the BBC's University Challenge Harrison Whitaker for this very special Christmas Quiz! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

A lovely interview from the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social with Darwin Research Fellow Charlotte Wright on her use of genomics to reveal the evolutionary history of moths and butterflies. sangerinstitute.blog/2025/12/11/f...

Thank you to everyone who has supported our Telephone Campaign so far, and to this team of delightful Darwinians who have been calling alumni across the world over the past two weeks. Our callers remain in action until the end of the weekend, so if your phone rings do say hello!

Receiving the Nobel Prize in Physics last week, Darwin alumnus Professor John Clarke explained the Cambridge genesis of his research, and his route to University of California, Berkeley. His lecture can be viewed here: www.nobelprize.org/ceremonies/s...

The Darwin bridge is having a revamp, and will be out of action until the end of January, to allow rotten timbers to be replaced. Fear not, the islands will be fully accessible again well ahead of barbecue season!

Darwin PhD student and Gates Cambridge Scholar, Andrés Alfonso-Rojas has published research today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology which reveals that anacondas reached their giant size up to 12 million years ago, and have stayed that big ever since. www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/news/darwini...

How many types of butterfly can you recognise? 1000 species of butterfly and moth have been genetically sequenced, as part of a project to map the genome of all 11,665 species in Europe, co-led by Darwin Research Fellow Dr Charlotte Wright. www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/news/sequenc...

Darwin alumna Stephanie Metzger will discuss the health impacts and need for greater regulation of PFAS on Panorama tonight on BBC1. "Once they get into our bodies, they stick around and build up little-by-little until they start to interfere with our systems." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Everyone has a different route to Darwin. From returning to academia in your 60s after years in finance, to squeezing in a PhD as a doctor during a global pandemic alongside having two babies - you're all extraordinary. Congratulations to everyone graduating tomorrow! www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/news/

Darwin Fellow, climate scientist and Director of Cambridge Zero Professor Emily Shuckburgh on the importance of COP30, the progress made over the past decade, and the impact of Cambridge in responding to the climate crisis.

Darwin is thrilled to welcome its first cohort of students as part of the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Programme. Congratulations to Jacqueline, Abubakar, Esther, Samson, Ruquaiya and Isaac! We wish you all the best with your studies. www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/news/welcome...

Get ready to cheer on four of Darwin's finest again this evening, as our fabulous University Challenge team return to the screen for their second-round match! Catch them on BBC2 at 8.30pm.

Darwin alumna and President of the UK Space Trade Association Dr Alice Bunn will present the story of the International Space Station as it marks its 25th anniversary. Out of This World: 25 Years of the ISS will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 at 8pm on Saturday 1 Nov. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Professor @jnilssonwright.bsky.social, Darwin Fellow and Head of the Japan and Koreas Programme at the Centre for Geopolitics, contributed to this powerful documentary by the BBC World Service on the life of North Korean defector and human rights activist Timothy Cho. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...?

Ahead of this weekend's graduation, one couple told us how their fieldwork in Uganda combined their very different interests, and why you should never turn down a Darwin Bop. Thank you Sarika and Jürgen for letting us share your story, and congratulations! www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/news/graduat...

Wonderful opportunity to hear from Darwin Emeritus Fellow Professor Carol Brayne.

Many congratulations to Darwin Fellow and Director of @cambridgezero.bsky.social Professor Emily Shuckburgh, who has been announced today as the new Chief Scientific Advisor at the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero. www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...

Architects Jeremy Dixon & Edward Jones returned to Darwin yesterday to visit the Study Centre and Frank Young House which they created in 1994. They toured the buildings with our Architecture students, as well as the Master, Bursar, Dean and Emeritus Fellows. www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/news/revisit...

It's that time of year again, when we grab as many Darwinians as we can find and point a camera at them! Looking forward to seeing the final result.

Hosted by Darwin, this special roundtable brings together leading scholars and experts to explore the evolution and prospects of trilateral cooperation among the Republic of Korea, the United States and Japan. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cambridge-...

Enormous congratulations to Darwin alumnus Professor John Clarke, who has been jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics. John joined Darwin in 1965, as one of our first PhD students. He became an Honorary Fellow in 2023. www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/news/alumnus...

A school founded by two Darwin alumni has been awarded the World’s Best School Prize for Environmental Action, by T4 Education. The Arbor School was opened in Dubai in 2018 by Sa’ad Al Omari (PhD, Zoology, 2004) and Pirin Erdoğdu (PhD, Astronomy, 2004). www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/news/school-...

We are deeply saddened to hear of the death of Dame Jane Goodall, Honorary Fellow and world-renowned conservationist. The Master, Dr Mike Rands, said: "The world has lost an uncompromising, passionate voice for nature." www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/news/dame-ja...

Congratulations to Darwin alumna Katherine Moar, whose second play, Ragdoll, opens at London’s Jermyn Street Theatre on 9th October. Katherine talked to us about following up her acclaimed debut, Farm Hall, and juggling the roles of playwright and PhD student. www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/news/alumna-...

A human skull discovered in China has upended assumptions about the date at which homo sapiens began to emerge. However Darwin Fellow and evolutionary geneticist @aylwyn-scally.bsky.social told the BBC that, while plausible, the conclusions were far from certain. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Welcome to everyone joining Darwin for the first time, as a fabulous fortnight of Freshers activities kicks off to help our new students settle in! It's wonderful to also see prospective students touring the College today - we look forward to seeing some of them again this time next year.

A team led by Darwin Fellow Professor Flora Samuel, Head of the Department of Architecture, has been awarded a grant of £3.12 million to chart green transition on Anglesey. The grant will allow the team to build on their work to create a Public Map Platform. www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/news/anglese...

If you're finding Monday a struggle, we've the perfect solution. Darwinian Ella Mason (PhD Plant Sciences) will take on the challenge of BBC1's Pointless this afternoon at 5.15. So pop the kettle on and enjoy the excuse to hide from the wind and rain and cheer her on! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...