Congratulations to Lewis, Ruth, Louis and Jon, our fabulous University Challenge team, who have equalled the achievements of last year's Darwinian quizzers in reaching the semi-finals! You can catch up on last night's thrilling quarter-final on iPlayer. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Don't miss Darwin's last University Challenge quarter-final match tonight, taking on Merton College, Oxford, for a place in the semi-finals! Join the watch party in the College cafe, tune in on BBC2 at 8.30pm, or catch up on iPlayer. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

A year after completing her PhD in mathematical modelling, Darwin alumna Naomi van den Berg is applying her skills to cancer research - and has published her theory of how tissue metabolism shapes the immune response to cancer in the journal Cancer Cell. www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/news/darwin-...

We're looking forward to celebrating the first in-person graduation of 2026 with a wonderful group of Darwinians tomorrow! Tiffany Lai explains how she combined a PhD exploring the healing of human skin with an expanding side hustle in science illustration. www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/news/graduat...

🙌 A great evening at the Climate Kitchen 🌱 as part of #CambFest 🍽️ Brilliant to see science & food experts come together to rethink sustainable eating now and for the future. 🙏 Thanks to all speakers & @darwincollegecam.bsky.social#CambFestfor hosting us. 🔗 More events https://bit.ly/4bFY49P

Great to see Ruth Ní Mhuircheartaigh running away with the Irish mythology round on the eve of St Patrick's Day! Congratulations to Ruth, Louis, Lewis and Jon on a spectacular quarter-final win in last night's University Challenge. The team now have to play one more quarter-final match to proceed.

The path from new ideas to real-world impact isn't automatic. But Darwin Fellow Karishma Jain has smoothed it. At the Doctoral Training Centre in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, she has embedded entrepreneurship in the student experience, resulting in 14 companies. www.cam.ac.uk/stories/inno...

Darwin's quizzers will take on University of Warwick tonight in their quarter-final match - don't forget to tune in at 8.30pm on BBC2 to cheer on Louis, Lewis, Ruth and Jon, our brilliant University Challenge team! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

When Darwin's Mia Freischem takes to the Tideway in next month's Boat Race, she'll be one half of the first pair of sisters ever to row against each other at the event, competing with her sister Lilli, who has been selected for the Oxford crew. www.thetimes.com/sport/rowing...

Pole-dancing in the Bradfield Room while educating the world about DNA may be a first... Congratulations to Darwin PhD student in Chemical Engineering Dina Haddad, winner of the international competition Dance Your PhD! www.ceb.cam.ac.uk/news/dance-y...

Massive congratulations to Darwin's Mia Freischem (PhD Surgery), who will be representing Cambridge in the Women's Blue Boat at The Boat Race on Saturday 4th April!

From Glastonbury to the Royal Opera House, the Kennedy Center to the BBC, Richard Morrison of The Times will explore how song has become a cultural and political battleground, in tomorrow's final Darwin College Lecture 2026. See you there! www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/news/darwin-...

We are delighted that Professor Nigel Peake has been elected as the next Master of Darwin College. “I feel hugely honoured and immensely excited to have been elected as the next Master of Darwin. The College is a remarkable and very special place.’’ www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...

Join us to hear Issa Boulos explore the impact on Palestinian musical identity of the emergence of regional radio in the 1930s and 40s. He talked to us about his lifelong musical curiosity, a golden age for Middle Eastern music, and travelling with an oud. www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/news/darwin-...

A welcome splash of colour through the drizzle, as the Pride flag flies above College to mark the end of LGBTQ+ History Month.

Small Grants for Big Ideas launches today, providing seed funding for projects which promote solutions to global challenges. Darwin students, alumni and Fellows are all encouraged to get involved. Find out more on our website: www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/.../small-gr...

Professor Conny Aerts, pioneer of asteroseismology and Professor of Astrophysics at KU Leuven, will join us this Friday to explain how the 'songs of the stars' can reveal the secrets of their composition. www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/news/darwin-...

Opera singer, musicologist, and historian of music and gender - we're thrilled to welcome Dr Carola Darwin to give this week's Darwin College Lecture, celebrating the contribution of women to the musical landscape of 1900s Vienna. www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/news/darwin-...

Happy Valentine's Day to couples everywhere brought together by Darwin!

On #DarwinDay a former Darwin Research Fellow has published a very 21st century update to the naturalist's work. Adrian Woolfson claims that humanity is facing a "second Genesis", in which we are ourselves the creative force. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...

Very much looking forward to welcoming Dr Matthew Gordley to give the fourth of this year's eight lectures on Song! Matthew will join us on Friday to explore the role of song in the ancient world, from hymns of praise to poetry of resistance. www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/news/darwin-...

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...