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Advancing the frontiers of science through the application of AI.
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📢Booking is now open for our training courses next term! Courses are open to all PhD students and staff at the University of Cambridge
@cam.ac.uk
, sign up now to develop your AI skills and apply them in your research. Find out more and book:
science.ai.cam.ac.uk/events
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Introducing our first
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Winter School for AI for UK undergraduates!🎉 📍University of Cambridge 🗓️13-16 Jan 2026 🤖 LLM workshops 💻 HPC access 🤝 Career insights, networking and mentoring Find out more and apply by 21 Nov, 5pm:
science.ai.cam.ac.uk/news/2025-10...
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Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery (C2D3)
13 days ago
Grant writing workshop – ECRs and PhD students in data science and AI Fri, 16 Jan 2026 1:30 PM - 4:15 PM Are you thinking about applying for a grant or fellowship?
www.c2d3.cam.ac.uk/events/grant...
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Interested to find out more about research taking place in AI for Science? 🔬 Join us over pizza for our second
@acceleratescience.bsky.social
Lunchtime Seminar this term on 24 Nov, 12 - 1pm in Room SS03, William Gates Building! Register to attend for free:
science.ai.cam.ac.uk/events/accel...
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New AI clinic slots available to book in November and December! 🗓️ Open to all
@cam.ac.uk
PhD students, researchers and staff, our clinic offers free expert advice on any AI and machine learning questions. Book a slot:
training.cam.ac.uk/apsci/search
10 days ago
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Thank you to everyone who joined our Introduction to Diffusion Models in Generative AI workshop last week! 🤖 Are you based at
@cam.ac.uk
and interested to develop practical machine learning skills for research? Sign up for an upcoming workshop:
training.cam.ac.uk/apsci/search
13 days ago
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📢 New blog! FTorch software from
@iccscambridge.bsky.social
couples PyTorch ML to Fortran models and is now used globally in climate, weather and fusion research. A September workshop with 40 researchers explored hybrid modelling challenges. Find out more:
bit.ly/48FYxsM
20 days ago
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Interested to find out more about research taking place in AI for Science? Join us over pizza🍕for our first
@acceleratescience.bsky.social
Lunchtime Seminar this term, Mon 27 October, 12pm - 1pm in Room SS03, William Gates Building! Register to attend for free:
science.ai.cam.ac.uk/events/accel...
26 days ago
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Excited to share details of our AI Café on 20 October organised with
@cruk-ci.bsky.social
! 🔬 Want to find out more about how AI is being used in cancer research? Join us to hear talks from researchers & discuss with an AI expert. Those new to AI are very welcome to attend! Sign up:
bit.ly/3KNwc9N
about 1 month ago
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The "Differentiable Systems and Scientific Machine Learning" workshop at the 1st
@euripsconf.bsky.social
is accepting submissions!💡 Submission deadline for the call for papers is Friday Oct 10th. Find out more and submit your
#EurIPS
paper here:
differentiable-systems.github.io/workshop-eur...
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about 1 month ago
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📢 New blog!
@charlesemogor.bsky.social
uses machine learning to enhance anti-poaching across sub-Saharan Africa. Working with
@anil.recoil.org
,
@fletcherecology.bsky.social
and
@milindtambe-ai.bsky.social
, he is developing models to help rangers patrol effectively. Find out more:
bit.ly/4mMs3Av
about 1 month ago
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We are thrilled to be attending the Cambridge Wearables Innovation Forum Launch today at Pembroke College, Cambridge! 🚀
@dynamicbrain.bsky.social
We look forward to chatting with attendees about how to use machine learning and AI to power scientific research on wearable health tech.
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ai@cam
about 2 months ago
Referrals to children’s
#MentalHealth
services have almost doubled since
#COVID
, but support often comes too late. To change this, Dr Anna Moore is developing
#AI-supported
pathways to spot needs earlier and guide timely intervention. Read more on the blog ⬇️
www.ai.cam.ac.uk/blog/from-pr...
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Accelerate Programme for Scientific Discovery
ai@cam
about 2 months ago
🚀 Do you have an
#AI
idea that could have real-world impact? 🚀 We’re offering
@cam.ac.uk
researchers the chance to get up to £25k + 6 months’ support to bring bold concepts to life through our new AI-deas Sprint Programme. 📅 Deadline: 10 Oct
www.ai.cam.ac.uk/calls/ai-dea...
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📢Booking is now open for our training courses next term! Courses are open to all PhD students and staff at the University of Cambridge
@cam.ac.uk
, sign up now to develop your AI skills and apply them in your research. Find out more and book:
science.ai.cam.ac.uk/events
about 2 months ago
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ai@cam
2 months ago
🌳 Forests hold vital clues about our planet’s health. Dr
@emilyrlines.bsky.social
& her team are using
#AI
, drones & laser scanning to build millimetre-scale 3D models of forest canopies - right down to each leaf & twig - transforming how we monitor biodiversity. ➡️ Read more:
lnkd.in/e5Ff9xBn
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📢 New blog! Isaac Sebenius, who recently completed his PhD
@psychiatry-ucam.bsky.social
developed MIND with supervisors
@sarahmorganuk.bsky.social
and Professor Ed Bullmore - a machine learning method transforming MRI brain scans into biologically validated networks. Find out more:
bit.ly/4gccUXm
2 months ago
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New AI clinic slots available to book on 9 and 10 September! 🗓️ Open to all PhD students and researchers, our clinic offers free expert advice on any AI and machine learning questions. Book a slot:
science.ai.cam.ac.uk/events
3 months ago
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ai@cam
3 months ago
🚨 Calling all Cambridge researchers 🚨 Got a bold
#AI
idea? Our new AI-deas Sprint Programme offers up to £25k + 6 months’ support to turn your research into a working prototype with real-world impact. 📅 Deadline: 10 Oct Find out more & apply ⬇️
www.ai.cam.ac.uk/calls/ai-dea...
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📢 New blog! Find out how Richard Diehl Martinez, a PhD student from
@cst.cam.ac.uk
used funding from
@acceleratescience.bsky.social
to develop Pico - an open-source framework with less than 500 lines of Python code that democratises AI model training for researchers. Find out more:
bit.ly/41Pkv8f
3 months ago
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Accelerate Programme for Scientific Discovery
ai@cam
3 months ago
Have an idea to make University operations smarter with
#AI
? 💡 We’re offering £10k + expert support for
@cam.ac.uk
professional services teams. 📅 Deadline 29 Aug Find out more ➡️
www.ai.cam.ac.uk/calls/ai-for...
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Accelerate Programme for Scientific Discovery
Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge
3 months ago
🧠✨ Congrats to Dr Smriti Agarwal on her 5-year British Heart Foundation fellowship! Her AI-driven research with brain scans & health records aims to improve stroke outcomes. Big things ahead! The project started out with
@cambridgec2d3.bsky.social
Accelerate Science programme 🔬
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📢 New blog! Find out how Megan Ennion, a PhD student from
@camedfac.bsky.social
supervised by Ros McLellan used funding from Accelerate and
@cambridgec2d3.bsky.social
to study how AI tutors impact student learning psychology and behaviors. Find out more:
bit.ly/46It7ky
3 months ago
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Apply by 12 September to be considered for our funding call with
@cambridgec2d3.bsky.social
in 3 categories: 🪴 Early Career Seed Funding up to £5,000 for PhD students/postdocs 🤝 Up to £15,000 to convene networks & events 📚 Up to £25,000 for larger scale projects Find out more:
bit.ly/4k13yyh
3 months ago
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📢 New blog! Find out how Jakob Träuble from
@ceb.cam.ac.uk
used funding from Accelerate and
@cambridgec2d3.bsky.social
to help detect conditions like Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s years before symptoms appear. Find out more:
bit.ly/4mhdKEd
4 months ago
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Accelerate Programme for Scientific Discovery
ai@cam
4 months ago
🚀 AI for Ops Funding Call now open! 🚀 We’re excited to launch our latest funding call to support
@cam.ac.uk
professional services teams in using
#AI
to improve the efficiency of operational processes. 📅 Apply by 29 Aug! More info ➡️
lnkd.in/eXAmGHZs
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📢 New blog post! Find out how
@florianjaeckle.bsky.social
based at
@campathology.bsky.social
@cuh.nhs.uk
@hugheshall.bsky.social
is using AI to speed up diagnosis of coeliac disease developing an algorithm that correctly identified more than 95 cases out of 100. Find out more:
bit.ly/3Z3Q6C0
5 months ago
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New AI clinic slots available to book on 5 and 12 June. Open to all University of Cambridge PhD students and researchers, our clinic offers free expert advice on any AI and machine learning questions. Book a slot:
www.training.cam.ac.uk/event/5821418
5 months ago
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Looking to develop your career in AI for Science? We are recruiting Machine Learning Engineers to join the team, developing & delivering support for researchers
@uniofcam.bsky.social
using AI in their work. Find out more & apply by 22 June:
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51390/
6 months ago
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📢 Spaces available on our LLM Hands on Workshop at West Hub on Tuesday 10 June! 🔎 You’ll work in teams on real datasets, with support from Accelerate Science Machine Learning Engineers and researchers. Open to all University of Cambridge PhD students & staff, sign up now:
bit.ly/3YYssH2
6 months ago
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📢 New blog! Find our how Dr Sam Ip from
@dphpc.bsky.social
and
@ccge-cambridge.bsky.social
used funding from Accelerate and
@cambridgec2d3.bsky.social
to convene researchers to talk about distribution shifts in early cancer detection. Find out more:
bit.ly/3YZcw7f
6 months ago
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Accelerate Programme for Scientific Discovery
ai@cam
6 months ago
What value could
#AI
offer in university assessment and marking? Find out how Dr Deborah Talmi, experimental psychologist at the
@campsydept.bsky.social
, is leading our AI-deas project to develop a new framework for the role of
#AI
in
#studentevaluation
. ➡️
ai.cam.ac.uk/blog/the-fut...
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A reminder that our 2025 funding call with
@cambridgec2d3.bsky.social
is now live! We are holding a Q and A session about the call on Thursday 22 May from 15:00 - 16:00 - register to attend:
bit.ly/4jIKsNW
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6 months ago
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📢 New blog! Find out how Marta Correia
@mrccbu.bsky.social
uses AI to diagnose movement disorders such as Parkinson’s earlier. Marta took part the Accelerate-Cambridge Spark Residency & Machine Learning Academy to support her transition to working with Python. Find out more:
bit.ly/3ZicMOM
6 months ago
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This week
@lawrennd.bsky.social
was on
#BBCRadio4's
The Life Scientific - catch up now on his conversation with Professor Jim Al-Khalili about the role of AI.
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6 months ago
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Looking for support using AI in your research? Sign up for a clinic session next week to meet with our Machine Learning Engineer for free expert support with any elements of deploying AI from how to get started to fixing implementation issues. Book now:
bit.ly/3F81bLo
6 months ago
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ICYMI our 2025 funding call with
@cambridgec2d3.bsky.social
is open for applications with 3 categories: 🪴 Early Career Seed Funding up to £5,000 for PhD students/postdocs 🤝 Up to £15,000 to convene networks & events 📚 Up to £25,000 for larger scale projects Find out more:
bit.ly/4k13yyh
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6 months ago
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The next lunchtime seminar takes place on Monday 19 May from 12:00 - 13:00 with Moshe Eliasof, Research Associate from DAMTP sharing his research On Activation and Normalization Layers in Graph Neural Networks. Register to attend:
bit.ly/3S1mr8r
6 months ago
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📢New blog now live! Find out how Alex Grafton, Research Associate
@eng.cam.ac.uk
is exploring how computer vision & machine learning can be used in neonatal intensive care units to ensure clinically significant events are noted & acted upon. Read more:
bit.ly/43huJ2p
6 months ago
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We are delighted to announce our 2025 funding call with
@cambridgec2d3.bsky.social
is now open! Funding of up to £25,000 is available for
@uniofcam.bsky.social
researchers pursuing applications of AI in research or real-world contexts. Deadline: 12 September 2025. Find out more:
bit.ly/4k13yyh
6 months ago
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Final spaces available on our upcoming courses! Book now:
bit.ly/4fG99J9
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6 months ago
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We recently launched AI core concepts, a free online training resource designed for researchers form all disciplines who want to use AI in their research. Check out the resources to: 🖥️ Build intuition about how AI systems work ⚙️Understand the process of building AI systems
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Accelerate Science Core AI Concepts
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7 months ago
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Looking to develop your AI skills next term? Sign up for our workshops!. 🧑💻 Learn more about LLMs and Diffusion Models 💡Develop your understanding including Docker & Publishing and Packaging Python 🙌 Get hands on experience with LLMs Find out more and sign up:
bit.ly/4fG99J9
7 months ago
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Accelerate Programme for Scientific Discovery
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
7 months ago
Check out this great video with Samia Mohinta (
@mohintasamia.bsky.social
), Data Scientist in the LMB’s Neurobiology Division to hear about how she uses AI to help map neurons in the brain! 🧠 Video:
@acceleratescience.bsky.social
youtu.be/68fQ7ZGTxAQ?...
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Computer Vision in Neuroscience - Dr Samia Mohinta
YouTube video by Accelerate Science
https://youtu.be/68fQ7ZGTxAQ?si=CihFEXVqqqIpRjLH
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Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery (C2D3)
7 months ago
Announcing a new 16 part lecture series: Language Models and Intelligent Agentic Systems Starting Monday 28th April 2025 11.30am-12.30pm, every Mon, Wed, Fri at CMS Organisers
lenniewells.bsky.social
, Jason Brown, Edward Young
www.c2d3.cam.ac.uk/events/LLM_s...
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Want to explore how to use AI in your research? Join our AI Café at the Department of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics on Thursday 24 April from 13:30 - 15:30 to hear talks from researchers and meet our team of AI experts to ask them about implementing AI. Sign up:
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7 months ago
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Our next lunchtime seminar takes place on Monday 28 April with a talk from Queenie Wong, PhD student at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience. Sign up now to confirm your place:
bit.ly/42C6ri5
7 months ago
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📢 New blog! Find out how PhD student Chun-Wun (Sam) Cheng is addressing limitations in image reconstruction and denoising for medical imaging with the long term aims of decreasing cost and increasing accuracy. Find out more:
bit.ly/3RPMX4s
7 months ago
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Due to popular demand, we have launched a further date for our AI and LLMs workshop. This is a free 1-day workshop to equip you with knowledge of large language models (LLMs) for use in scientific research. Sign up to join on 3 June:
www.training.cam.ac.uk/apsci/event/...
7 months ago
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This week we have been sharing our Core Concepts resources for researchers from all disciplines to: 👍 Build confidence with core AI concepts 📍 Identify AI applications 🔎 Get to grips with technical vocabulary 🪜 Discover practical next steps for implementation Find out more:
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Meet Samia Mohinta, a Data Scientist
@mrclmb.bsky.social
developing computer vision models in neuroscience that are: 🔬 Specialised for electron microscope images 🧠 Mapping structure & function in the brain
#ShapingAIforEveryone
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Computer Vision in Neuroscience - Dr Samia Mohinta
Find out how Dr Samia Mohinta, Data Scientist @LMBCambridge is developing vision models that are:• specialised for electron microscope images• mapping struct...
https://bit.ly/3R9TuH6
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