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...

Big thank you to everyone who visited us at the Cambridge Archives and Collections Fair today in the Student Services Centre on the New Museums site. Wonderful to see so many of our wonderful collections being represented from across the University and Colleges.

We look forward to welcoming Professor Dame Clare P. Grey tomorrow for her talk on 'Towards a Net Zero World.' @pembroke1347.bsky.social 12 March 2025, 18:00 – 19:00, Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Cambridge BOOK NOW: www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org/events/event...

Watch Professor Lindsay Greer give his talk on 'To Bend or to Break? — new views on the hardening of metals' @sidneysussex.bsky.social @eng.cam.ac.uk @cambridgephysics.bsky.social Now on YouTube: youtu.be/wp0JmRFkV_s

Come and visit us next week at the Cambridge Archives and Collections Fair and find out more about the CPS archives. It's free and open to all. 12-4pm Thursday 13 March 2025 Student Services Centre, Bene't Street, New Museums Site, CB2 3PT. More: cambridgedissertationfair.wordpress.com

Professor Dame Clare P. Grey @pembroke1347.bsky.social will give our Honorary Fellows Lecture and talk about moving towards a net zero world with developments in battery technologies. Wednesday 12 March 2025, 18:00– 19:00 BOOK NOW: www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org/events/event...

Why is a saxophone like a violin? Find out from Professor Jim Woodhouse @eng.cam.ac.uk who will talk about the Acoustics of musical instruments on Monday 17 March, 2025 - 18:00 – 19:00. BOOK NOW: www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org/events/event...

A big thank you to Ed Turner, Curator of Insects in @zoologymuseum.bsky.social @camzoology.bsky.social, for a wonderful tour of the Museum collections and a behind the scenes look at the insect room for members of the Cambridge Philosophical Society.

Professor Dame Clare P. Grey will give our Honorary fellows lecture on 12 March 2025 and talk about developing and applying new tools to understand how materials for Li and “beyond-Li” battery technologies function. Booking and Details: www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org/events/event...

Maxwell's colour wheel (1855) will be one of the original artefacts on display at the The Unknown Maxwell - One Day Meeting, 28 March 2025, 09:00 – 17:30 Cambridge University Engineering Department @eng.cam.ac.uk Details and booking: www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org/events/event...

I've just had a wonderful evening at the @camphilsoc.bsky.social Sedgwick/Henlow dinner at @selwyn1882.bsky.social! It was fantastic catching up with everyone and sharing such great conversations. I'm already looking forward to the next one! 🥂 Ft. A picture of myself and my Fiancée in our outfits.

Our next lecture will be from Professor Tuomas Knowles on 'Protein self-assembly – understanding and controlling the machinery of life' @stjohnscollege.bsky.social @cambridgephysics.bsky.social Monday 3 March 2025, 18:00 – 19:00 BOOK NOW: www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org/events/event...

A huge congratulations to Professor Workman on this outstanding achievement. @icr.ac.uk www.theguardian.com/science/2025... Professor Workman delivered an excellent talk: youtu.be/8WUsk15moog at our One Day meeting last year.

Currently on display at the @whipplemuseum.bsky.social @cambridgephysics.bsky.social Maxwell's model of Saturn’s rings (1857) will be one of the exhibits on display at The Unknown Maxwell. 28 March 2025, 9:00am – 5:30pm BOOK NOW: www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org/events/event...

Join us next Monday 17 February 2025 for our next lecture from Professor Stephen John @pembroke1347.bsky.social on Why there’s no such thing as “the” scientific advice. BOOK NOW: www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org/events/event...

Join us for our next lecture from Professor Stephen John @pembroke1347.bsky.social who will talk about 'Why there’s no such thing as “the” scientific advice.' 17 February 2025, 18:00 – 19:00 Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Cambridge BOOK NOW: cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org/events

A big thank you to Professor Lindsay Greer @sidneysussex.bsky.social for his excellent lecture 'To Bend or to Break? — new views on the hardening of metals' and for all his insightful demonstrations.

Did you know that James Clerk Maxwell, President of the CamPhilSoc 1875-1877 invented color photography? The original glass plates will be on display at 'The Unknown Maxwell' on 28 March BOOK NOW: www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org/events/event... @eng.cam.ac.uk @cambridgephysics.bsky.social