How's this for an early morning view after the downpour? Thanks to our gardens team member Aaron for capturing college looking so atmospheric!

Big congratulations to our two newest full professors Melanie Rupflin and Sam Vinko, who have been awarded the titles of Professor of Mathematics and Professor of Physics in the University’s Recognition of Distinction awards for 2025! www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/news/profess...

New! research from our Tutorial Fellow Dong Liu and @oxengsci.bsky.social #ENLIGHT programme will boost UK energy security and cut waste by designing sustainable, high-performance graphite for next-gen reactors. #NetZero #CleanEnergy Read more 👉🏻 tinyurl.com/9b3bcahb

We love it when our recent graduates come back for their official graduation ceremonies... Especially when it's one of our former Junior Deans and MCR legends coming back to formally become a Doctor! Congratulations to Ngoni on officially receiving his DPhil in Engineering Science!!!

We are opening our doors for an Open Garden Day with @ngsopengardens.bsky.social and can't wait to show off our grounds! Join us 3 August: ngs.org.uk/gardens/trin...

It's that time of year again... our campsis trumpet vine is in full bloom and loving the dry, sunny weather!

Our dining hall transformation this year continues! Thanks to the wonderful photographer Fran Monks we have a new portrait greeting everyone who comes into our dining hall - it's an all-female take on the traditional Victorian portrait style, and we think the colours and composition are brilliant!

We are looking for a Career Development Fellow in ancient History - could it be you? If you'd like a mixture of research and teaching supported by a fantastic community of colleagues with access to great facilities and the best hall food in Oxford, consider applying: www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

HUGE congratulations to our former student and colleague Laura Cox for her wedding on Saturday, which looks like a fantastic (if toasty) occasion full of love and celebration! we wish her and her husband Conor (also a Trinity MCR graduate) so much happiness in their marriage! 🍾🥂💍❤️

Good morning! The dry and sunny weather hasn't dented the growth in our wildflower meadow, but a bit of rain overnight will have done it some good...

And that's a wrap on our first two in-person Open Days! And if you couldn't join us in person, or just want a bit more time to discover for yourself what life and study in college is like, we have good news: our *new* Virtual Open Day is live! visit www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/virtual-open-day

We are so proud that TWO of our college members won prizes in the @oxfordenvsust Sustainability Photographer of the Year awards! Congratulations to staff member Sara Reevell and MCR student Lars Bathe-Peters for capturing this year's theme 'It made me think'! www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/news/sustain...

Last Friday we held a leaving banquet for our President Dame Hilary Boulding, who has led the College with vision and energy and deserved a proper celebration and thank you from staff & fellows. While the weather was toasty, it's safe to say everyone who came enjoyed this very special evening!

We are so proud to have earned 'Beyond Gold' for the second year in a row at the University's Green Impact awards!! Thank you to all the teams in College who have helped us continue to make Trinity a sustainable place to live and work! www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/news/trinity...

Last week we took part in a fantastic event with our partners in @mplsoxford.bsky.social‬ to welcome a group of Year 5 students from local state primary schools for two days packed with exciting, hands-on scientific workshops as part of the Oxford Twinning Project! 👩‍🔬🌿🧪🔬🧮

Congratulations to two of our fantastic students who make Trinity such a welcoming and vibrant community: our MCR member and Junior Dean Jack Warburton has won the Stirling Boyd Prize and JCR student Isabelle Moore was voted the David Evers Prize winner by her peers!

Monday morning sunlight this morning in College - it's quieter now term is over but still lots going on as we prepare to welcome our summer school students and other summer visitors!

It's the last day of 8th week and the end of all the official events of term, so we are going back in time to share a photo of James Bridie’s ‘Susannah and the Elders’ performed in College in June 1948. This is the earliest photograph that we have of a Trinity Players production!

Our lovely MCR held their summer garden party at the weekend, and thanks to lots of great food, live music and perfect weather a great time was had by all!

Spot the difference! Then vs Now in college.... our President's Lodgings from the 1890s and again this week as we had some photos taken for our archives before our outgoing President departs!

The bees are absolutely loving our gardens and especially our flower meadow at the moment! Can you spot the purple poppy pollinator?...

Our Professorial Fellow @janinadill.bsky.social has given insight to #BBCInDepth in its reporting on the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza - read below!

Working in translation studies? One of our fantastic DPhil students has organised the Oxford Translation Day 2025 - a programme of workshops, readings, and discussions hosted at @stannescollege.bsky.social! occt.web.ox.ac.uk/event/oxford...

We've been noticing a visitor to college all this week, and rumour has it s/he may be a resident of @stjohnsox.bsky.social‬ - can anyone identify this adventurous fellow who has been exploring (and tasting) our border plants and chasing squirrels up our trees? 🤨

We recently held our college BBQ to coincide with a football tournament to honour the memory of Wayne Shorter, one of our staff members we recently lost to cancer and who was a keen football player and coach. All teams had a fantastic time - thanks to everyone who came!

Our Trinity Players staged a fantastic production to celebrate the 100-Year Anniversary of The Great Gatsby - the costumes, production and setting of our President's Garden made for a wonderful series of performances. We can't wait for what they put on next year!

Summer VIIIs brought some very exciting racing this year! our boat club women have nearly a completely new squad with only 4 returners, and did a fantastic job getting two boats to qualify! It was a tough year results wise, but things are looking up as they will hit the ground running next year!

Congratulations to the joint winners of our Richard Hillary Prize for creative writing! You can read the winning entries by Camilla Berarducci and LeeLou Lapteva in the news story on our website:

Huge congratulations to our recent graduate Bryan Ng on his graduation this weekend! Bryan finished his DPhil last year and since then has produced a spinout and a baby - who came to graduation in a matching mini DPhil gown made by grandma! Well done Bryan!

* Alpaca alert * Thanks to our JCR welfare team who arranged some four-legged woolly visitors to combat the fifth-week blues...! 🦙💚🦙💚

We had a fascinating exhibition of treasures from our library collections last week! among the items were a first edition of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813), and a commentary on the Gospels by Broickwy from 1539, which once belonged to King Henry VIII's library at Greenwich Palace.

We are * so proud * of recent DPhil graduate and former MCR President Kam Poon, who has been named the recipient of the 2025 Jon Weaver PhD Prize for the best PhD in polymer chemistry by the Royal Society of Chemistry and Macro Group!!! Read more:

Happy Friday! We love the sight of a red balloon against a blue sky over college...

It's a rainbow of poppies in our wildflower garden at the moment, and we are loving it!

The official event photos have landed so we can say it again: our Access team are Vice-Chancellor's Award winners!!! we are so proud to see them recognised for all their work engaging local schools and teachers! www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/news/college...

✨ What a night! ✨Thank you to everyone who joined our postgraduates recently for the MCR Gala—an evening full of fun, glam, and generosity raising funds for the British Heart Foundation supporting life-saving research and care. 💃🕺

HUGE congratulations to our Access team led by Head of Access Hannah Rolley, who were thrilled to be announced as winner of the 2025 Oxford University Vice Chancellor’s Award in the category of Excellence Across Oxford: local community engagement; what a well deserved recognition for a great team!

Last Thursday we collaborated with @oxfordphysics.bsky.social in a day to honour alumnus and scientist Henry Moseley. The day included a symposium, poetry, the unveiling of a new portrait of Moseley and the formal dedication of our Antony Gormley-designed door to Moseley’s memory! buff.ly/QtG86O2

Earlier this month we hosted the OURFC end of season dinner and awards ceremony! We were especially proud to see our very own finalist Eben Terry, captain of the Oxford Greyhounds, receive the Team of the Year award on behalf of the squad. Well done!!! 🏆💪🙌

New research led by our Senior Research Fellow Janet Pierrehumbert with the Allen Institute for AI shows that ChatGPT relies on examples and past experience to make decisions - much like humans.🧠 The study sheds light on how language models reason and respond. #AIResearch buff.ly/1FlG76E

We are so proud of one of our recent alumna Swathi Srinivasan, who has been named a 2025 Soros Fellow!! Swathi was an active member of our MCR and we are so pleased to hear about this award for all her work on health education! Read more: www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/news/swathi-...

Happy Monday! all the sun (plus diligent watering by our gardens team) means our wildflower garden is looking vibrant already!

Today is a big day in college as our historic back lawns are being returfed after a series of building projects lasting several years! We are so excited to see the green expanse again...

On the 80th Anniversary of VE Day, we remember and celebrate all those who served during the Second World War: www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/news/remembe...

Look at some of the colours on display this week in our gardens! We love this time of year so much...

What do the local elections tell us about the future of Labour and Conservative dominance of UK politics? our politics and polling expert @stevefisher.bsky.social has analysis with Sir John Curtice on last night's results: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

May Morning in Oxford is something special indeed - hours of singing, dancing and celebrating and still going strong at 8:30am outside College on Broad Street!

Spring is in the air again this week, so it's a great time to book into one of our garden talks and tours! We have a great range of horticultural topics and speakers, so join us and find out more: www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/events-at-tr...

New research from our Professorial Fellow @christophercbutler.bsky.social from @oxprimarycare.bsky.social with an international team looks to match primary care research with real-world care needs:

It's back to work as usual following the Easter closure, and back to college ahead of a new term for many of our students this week! Thank goodness for sun and our gorgeous gardens....