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Professor John Duncan FBA FRS will give our A.V. Hill Lecture on "The Organization of Goal-Directed Behaviour in the Brain" @mrccbu @CamNeuro
Monday 26 October 2026, 17:30 – 18:30, Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Cambridge
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Professor Malcolm Smith FREng FRS @Cambridge_Eng @CaiusCollege recent talk 'Under Control? The Hidden Technology of Automatic Control Past and Future' is now available to watch on our YouTube channel:
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We're excited to announce registration for our 2027 VMSG Annual Meeting in Cambridge is now open! See our webpage here: vmsg.org.uk/events/vmsg2027/
For this year we also have bursary support available to help attendees, deadline to apply 9th October!
The @CamPhilSoc is pleased to be one of the sponsors of the International Advances in Plant Virology 2027 conference in Cambridge. CPS President Prof. John Carr will speak. @camplantsci @AABVirology
Further details: tinyurl.com/3fb4zbza
Dr Advait Sarkar from @Cambridge_CL and Microsoft Research will be talking about artificial intelligence and critical thinking at Madingley Hall on Monday 9 November 2026, 6:30–8:30 pm
The talk costs £28; a two-course meal is available at additional cost
Bookings: 07799 886688
All the talks from our recent One-Day Meeting: Regenerating the British Countryside: From Evidence to Action are now available to view as individual videos:
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With thanks to Graham CopeKoga @CamPhilSoc for producing the video & to @Seb_EvdA & his group including Siyuan Wei, Jie Zhou, Olaf Kranse, Unnati Sonawala, Paul Goodman, Victor Hugo Moura de Souza & George Harpum for their support in documenting this work.
Crops for the future: How AI is helping plants fight against parasitic worms
Researchers at the Crop Science Centre, Cambridge use robots and AI to identify genes that allow for the development of naturally resilient crops. @camplantsci
Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=njR94PMq…
Professor Malcolm Smith will give our first lecture of the new term:
Under Control? The Hidden Technology of Automatic Control Past and Future @CaiusCollege @Cambridge_Eng
Monday 12 Oct 2026, 17:30
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A big thank you to @ASTRAZENECAUK for the wonderful guided tour of the AstraZeneca Discovery Centre (DISC) in Cambridge for CPS Fellows.
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2026 Templeton Prize laureate Simon Conway Morris shares a stunning example of evolutionary convergence: different species finding the exact same solution to see the world.
Watch Zoubin Ghahramani and Hannah Fry debate will improving machine uncertainty be one of the missing pieces to ever improving AI? @QueensCam @Cambridge_Eng
From weather forecasting to robotics, intelligent decision-making relies on understanding the unknown.
Our VP Research @ZoubinGhahrama1 explores with @fryrsquared why teaching systems self-doubt and probability can lead to safer, more reliable real-world decision-making. 🧠
Watch the episode ↓
Timecodes:
00:00 Introduction
01:06 The role of uncertainty
07:45 Correctness vs confidence
09:40 Historical perspectives
16:10 Bayesian thinking in AI
26:30 Uncertainty in the real world
36:42 Future research and AGI
Professor Malcolm Smith FREng FRS will give the first lecture in our new public lecture programme. @Cambridge_Eng @CaiusCollege
Under control? The hidden technology of automatic control past and future.
Monday 12 October 2026, 17:30 – 18:30
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Cambridge Night Science will be holding an event on the Tuesday 15 September, 2026, exploring the often overlooked side of scientific thinking and asking a question: where do new ideas actually come from?
Details: forms.gle/y7s2YARpnTyehDJL9
Our Travel Grants are now open for application.
Deadline to submit an application is 01 Nov 2026.
Deadline for references is 08 Nov 2026.
For details and to submit an application:
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The latest edition of our Biological Reviews is now out: Volume 101, Issue 4.
Issue details: doi.org/10.1002/brv.70156
The next Research Café is this Wednesday 17th June and spotlights Sustainability, a theme that spans every discipline, sector, and industry. @westcamhub @CamPostdocs
Tickets are limited!
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Booking is now open for our next One-day meeting in September as part of the Alumni Festival 2026. @CCI_Cambridge @YoursCambridge
Regenerating the British Countryside: From Evidence to Action
Friday 18 September 2026, 09:00– 17:00
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The next edition of our Research Café series spotlights Sustainability, a theme that spans every discipline, sector, and industry. Tickets are limited! @westcamhub @CamPostdocs
Sign-up here: westcambridgehub.uk/whats-on…
The Cambridge Philosophical Society is pleased to announce the winners of its William Bate Hardy Prize.
The prize is awarded jointly to Sir David Klenerman and Sir Shankar Balasubramanian. @christs_college @TrinCollCam
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ALT The William Bate Hardy Prize 2026 winners Sir David Klenerman and Sir Shankar Balasubramanian, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge. Image: Millennium Technology Prize.