A big thank you to Professor Carol Brayne for giving our A.V. Hill Lecture on 'Reflections on dementia research and ageing societies' on Monday. @camneuro.bsky.social @darwincollegecam.bsky.social

Professor Keith Seffen from @eng.cam.ac.uk @corpuscambridge.bsky.social will talk about 'Putting the “S” into mechanics' in our next lecture: 10 November 2025, 18:00 – 19:00 Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Cambridge. BOOKING: www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org/events/event...

We look forward to welcoming Professor Carol Brayne CBE on Monday for her lecture: Reflections on dementia research and ageing societies. @camneuro.bsky.social @darwincollegecam.bsky.social Monday 27 October 2025, 18:00 – 19:00 BOOKING: www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org/events/event...

The Kelvin Club is hosting an afternoon in memory of Oliver Heaviside on Tuesday, 28th October in Peterhouse Theatre from 3pm. @peterhousecam.bsky.social See image for details.

Now on YouTube, watch Professor David Tong's Larmor Lecture on ''Our Chiral Universe". @trincollcam.bsky.social @cambridgemaths.bsky.social YouTube: youtu.be/h3LNu64b39A

Professor Carol Brayne CBE, will talk about 'Reflections on dementia research and ageing societies'. @camneuro.bsky.social @darwincollegecam.bsky.social 27 October 2025, 18:00 – 19:00, Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Cambridge . Booking: www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org/events/event...

A big 'Thank you' to Professor David Tong for his insighful lecture on the ''Our Chiral Universe". @cambridgemaths.bsky.social @trincollcam.bsky.social And to the audience who attended and asked some wonderful questions to David, as well as filling all 440 seats to capacity.

Professor David Tong from @trincollcam.bsky.social @cambridgemaths.bsky.social will give our first lecture on 'Our Chiral Universe'. Larmor Lecture - 13 October, 18:00–19:00 Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Cambridge. Booking: www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org/events/event...

A proud moment🎉 Cavendish alumnus Prof John Clarke awarded the #NobelPrize2025, with Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis. They opened the door to quantum technologies based on superconducting qubits, putting quantum phenomena to work in real devices. buff.ly/lnm99ls

Congratulations to alumnus Prof John Clarke, who has been jointly awarded The Nobel Prize in #Physics – making this Cambridge's 126th Nobel win 🏆 👏 Read about his work and his long connection with Cambridge: bit.ly/42PUIh1 #Science @cambridgephysics.bsky.social @darwincollegecam.bsky.social

We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Jane Goodall. Jane was a much-loved member of the conservation community in Cambridge and worldwide. She completed her PhD at @darwincollegecam.bsky.social and was an Honorary Fellow at @newnhamcollege.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIzR...

Our Travel Grants are now open for application. Deadline for applications is 01 Nov 2025 Deadline for references is 08 Nov 2025 For more information and to apply: www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org/funding/trav...

Tickets are now available for The PdOC Research Showcase 2025 on 10th November 2025 at West Hub, Cambridge. @westcamhub @CamPostdocs Book tickets here: www.tickettailor.com/events/thewe... Sponsored by the Cambridge Philosophical Society

2025 Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lecture, entitled "Gravitational Waves, Black Holes and Experimental Tests of Gravitational Theory", by Professor Thibault Damour at 5 pm GMT on Monday 10 Nov at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge. Book Now: tinyurl.com/chamblinlect...

The Kelvin Club is hosting an afternoon in memory of Oliver Heaviside on Tuesday, 28th October in Peterhouse Theatre from 3pm. @peterhousecam.bsky.social See image for details.

The next Research Café: Science Communication will take place on 30th September 2025 @ 11:30am-2:30pm at @West Hub, Cambridge. We have limited places, sign up here! For details and to sign-up: www.tickettailor.com/events/thewe...

Don’t miss Hiroaki Suga’s #LMBSeminar on Monday 29th September at 11AM. Hiroaki, from the University of Tokyo, will discuss ‘De novo discovery of macrocyclic peptides and pseudo-natural products for therapeutic innovation’ Click here for more info: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

The PdOC Research Showcase 2025 will take place on 10th November 2025 at West Hub, Cambridge. For details and to submit an abstract: www.pdoc.cam.ac.uk/events/resea... Sponsored by the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Professor David Tong from @cambridgemaths.bsky.social will give our first lecture in October on 'Our Chiral Universe'. Larmor Lecture 13 October 2025, 18:00–19:00 Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Cambridge. For details and booking: www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org/events/event...

The Final Frontier: Black Holes in the Infant Universe 9 September - Ray Dolby Center in West Cambridge. Join Lord Rees, Prof. Natarajan, Prof. Sijacki and Prof. Maiolino for this exciting public talk. Details: sites.google.com/cam.ac.uk/mb... @cambridgeastro.bsky.social

Another chapter of my PhD at @unswbees.bsky.social is out!! 🎉 #OpenAccess with @nathwilliamb.bsky.social & Russell Bonduriansky in Biological Reviews @camphilsoc.bsky.social 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Recent (belated) paper on dam impacts in Biological Reviews! @camphilsoc.bsky.social 🐟🦐 Interested in how migratory fishes and decapod respond to fragmentation, dam removal, and fish pass installation? ✅Out on open access: doi.org/10.1111/brv.... 🖋️With Billy Lam, David Dudgeon, Jia Huan Liew

Registration is open for The 8th Biennial Cambridge Neuroscience Symposium, Interventions & Recovery in Cambridge, 10th - 11th September 2025. @camneuro.bsky.social For further details and registration, visit: neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/camneuro-eve... Sponsored by Cambridge Philosophical Society

Call for abstracts - West Hub Research Café The next Research Café on Science Communication will take place on 30 September 2025 (11:30 AM – 2:30 PM) at the West Hub, Cambridge. You are invited submit your abstract by 29.08.2025 here: www.westcambridgehub.uk/research-cafe

Congratulations to my superb PhD student Angèle Lombrey on publishing her first article in Biological Reviews @camphilsoc.bsky.social — no less! 😎🍾 Curious about individual differences in animal communicative behavior? 🐦🐬🦧Check out our open-access paper: 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

CPS Henslow Fellow Dr Tiffany Ki from @camzoology.bsky.social with Victoria Smith, Local Nature Reserves Ranger for Cambridge City Council conducting fieldwork on insect populations. Read more on Tiffany's research here: cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org/funding/hens...

Now published! 📝✅📢 Our review on flexibility in animal communication is out in Biological Reviews @camphilsoc.bsky.social (Open Access). Huge thanks again to my fantastic co-authors, especially @kirstyegraham.bsky.social. It was a delight to learn from them! 📖 Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/brv....

Our Travel Grants for November 2025 are now open for applications. Deadline for applications is 01 Nov 2025 Deadline for references is 08 Nov 2025 Apply here: www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org/funding/trav...

Watch Professor Malcolm Longair talk on 'The Mechanical Origins of Maxwell’s Equations' from our One-day meeting - The Unknown Maxwell. @eng.cam.ac.uk @cambridgephysics.bsky.social Watch on YouTube: youtu.be/mrOd1726NWQ

A big thank you to @ukri.org for hosting this year's Cambridge Philosophical Society summer visit to the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source based at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) near Didcot in Oxfordshire.

Watch Professor Bill Baker of @eng.cam.ac.uk talk about 'Maxwell and the Geometry of Structural Equilibrium'. This part 1 of a 2 part talk: youtu.be/-KsYcQoGxWk Part 2. Professor Allan McRobie: youtu.be/7rTX_aN-hYs

Watch Professor Allan McRobie, Professor of Structural Engineering in @eng.cam.ac.uk talk about 'Maxwell and the Geometry of Structural Equilibrium'. Watch on YouTube: youtu.be/7rTX_aN-hYs

Did you know plants can change sex expression within a single generation, and reversibly at that?🌱 What else but #epigenetics might play a role in this? 🧬 Read more in the new study published at @camphilsoc.bsky.social's Biological Reviews ⬇️ 🔗 buff.ly/oL0JETy (TŽ)

Watch Professor John Mollon, Professor of Visual Neuroscience talk about 'Maxwell and the nature of primary colours' from Our recent One-day meeting: The Unknown Maxwell. @physicsoutreach.bsky.social @caiuscollege.bsky.social @eng.cam.ac.uk @camneuro.bsky.social YouTube: youtu.be/lHfuwP4Gzjo

A big thank you to Professor Philippa Hoskin and Tuija Ainonen at the Parker Library @parkerlibcccc.bsky.social @corpuscambridge.bsky.social for our CPS visit to this internationally renowned collection of medieval and renaissance manuscripts.

George Efstathiou, Professor of Astrophysics will talk about the The Fate of the Universe at the upcoming 'Light & Dark' Research Cafe on 19th May at the The Betty & Gordon Moore Library @cambridgeastro.bsky.social @cambridgephysics.bsky.social Details: moore.libraries.cam.ac.uk/moore-librar...

Calling all researchers working with Artificial Intelligence! Submit your abstract by 18 May 2025 for the upcoming Research Café: AI & Research on 19 June 2025 at West Hub. Submit here: www.westcambridgehub.uk/research-cafe Cambridge Philosophical Society is a sponsor of the Research Café.

Our Research Studentships - September 2025 are now open for applications. Deadline for applications is 30 Sep 2025. Deadline for references is 07 Oct 2025. For more information and to apply: cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org/funding/rese...

Fantastic to see our new paper out in Biological Reviews (@camphilsoc.bsky.social) on incorporating experimental approaches into movement ecology research. The project was amazingly led by Whitney Hansen, with a great group of co-authors! Paper 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Former President Professor John Mollon FRS @caiuscollege.bsky.social, an expert in visual perception gives his view on the recent news of a 'new' colour. Read more: cai.cam.ac.uk/news/explain...

#ICYMI you can now watch last week’s excellent Milstein Lecture from David Pellman on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/NN0uWbFb990

A big thank you to all the staff at the Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy for the CPS Department visit to the Wolfson Electron Microscopy Suite.

Find out why a saxophone like a violin... Professor Jim Woodhouse explains more in his talk 'Acoustics of musical instruments - why is a saxophone like a violin?' @eng.cam.ac.uk WATCH ON YOUTUBE: youtu.be/WzASSeV4pDA

Travel Grant - May 2025 Our Travel Grants are now open for applications, with a deadline for applications on 01 May 2025, and for references on 08 May 2025. For details and to apply, please visit: www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org/funding/trav...

A big thank you to @cambridgephysics.bsky.social and the Whipple Museum for the loan of all the wonderful Maxwell exhibits for our One-day meeting last Friday. And thank you to all the many attendees at the talks in @eng.cam.ac.uk

As someone currently doing their PhD at ARU funded by @camphilsoc.bsky.social I can't recommend this opportunity enough. I know it's a different field to mine but if you are interested in evolutionary biology, here's a great PhD for you! 🧪

We are delighted to advertise a 3 year fully funded PhD, generously funded by @camphilsoc.bsky.social on the evolution of the mammalian larynx, hosted @angliaruskin.bsky.social Full details here: findaphd.com/phds/project... Please pass it on!

The Unknown Maxwell, our One-day meeting is this Friday, 28th March. The talks will focus on just a few of the fields where he did seminal work, and in which current research is revealing interesting developments. BOOK NOW: www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org/events/event...

Last year The Cavendish Laboratory celebrated 150 years of scientific excellence. Our One Day Meeting celebrates James Clerk Maxwell, the first Cavendish Professor of Physics. The Unknown Maxwell - 28 March 2025, 09:00 – 17:30 Booking: www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org/events/event...

We look forward to welcoming Professor Jim Woodhouse @eng.cam.ac.uk this evening for his talk: Acoustics of musical instruments - why is a saxophone like a violin? 17 March 2025, 18:00 – 19:00 Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre BOOK NOW: www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org/events/event...