We have decided with great reluctance to cancel the remainder of our scheduled
#CamSciFest
programme.
We realise the cancellation will be a disappointment to many but the health and safety of our staff and visitors must come above all else.
#COVID_19uk
Missing
#CamSciFest
? We are! While we're all spending more time at home and unable to attend events, we will post online content related to Cambridge Science Festival 2020 events, that both went ahead and those that got cancelled. Follow this thread!
#ScienceAtHome
The sun sets on another
#CamFest
.
We'd like to thank the thousands of you that attended events over the last two weeks as well our to our coordinators - without you there would be no festival!
Here's to 2024...
@Cambridge_Uni
Today is day - the full programme for
#camfest
is now available and open for bookings! 🎉
With over 300 events it's hard to pick a favourite but here but here just a few highlights 👇
Bookings are now officially open!
With over 300 mostly free events for curious people of all ages, Cambridge Science Festival 2020 has something for everyone!
Browse the
#CamSciFest
listings and book online on our website now: .
#COVID2019uk
We've taken the difficult decision to cancel our hands-on events due to their unique nature and the numbers of people involved. Please check our website regularly, we will update all events as soon as possible:
So chuffed and so delighted to win
#SciTechAwards
STEM Initiative of the Year. Huge thanks to
@CambridgeIndy
@MathWorks
@Cambridge_Uni
, all our partners and researchers and especially everyone who comes to explore and discuss
#science
with us. Looking forward to 9-22 March 2020!
We've released some teasers of what to expect at
#CamFest
this year!
Read up ahead of the full programme launch at 9am on 28th February:
#Cambridge
@Cambridge_Uni
The joy of the Cambridge Festival is that it is free to all. We will not charge you to attend our events.
You can search for the event you would like to attend in the programme on our website where all booking information is provided:
We're looking forward to
#CamSciFest
2020! This year's theme is Vision.
The countdown is on:
1 week until the programme launches.
4 weeks until bookings open.
8 weeks until the festival starts!
Look out for updates here and on our website:
Now here's an exclusive! Join
@EdwinRose3
and Dr Lauren Gardiner
@IbuAnggrek
the first viewing of some of the treasures in the Martyn books and plant specimens collections held
@theUL
and
@CUHerb
. 🌿
BOOK HERE 👉
A huge thank you to all the knitters who have contributed neurons to our
#neuralknitworks
#csf2018
project. These lovely ones have just arrived and will join the Grand Arcade and Library woolly brains today!
On what would have been the last day of
#CamSciFest
, we send a huge thank you to everyone involved - speakers, researchers, coordinators, volunteers, venues and, of course, you our fabulous audience! Looking forward to 2021, watch this space!
We've had the most fabulous two weeks! Thank you to everyone who has explored, discussed and debated science with us over the past 14 days. Feet up now with a cup of tea, here's to 2019!
Have you discovered our Festival Zine yet? It's packed full of exciting activities to help you explore our wonderful world.
💻 You can download it from home 👉
📮 If you'd like a printed copy, email us at cambridgefestival
@admin
.cam.ac.uk
Cambridge Science Festival returns for its 25th outing
Over 350 events including
#ClimateChange
policy, healthcare safety + quality, adolescent
#MentalHealth
, what the next 25 years hold, can quantum computers change the world? Plus much more!
#CSF2019
Stitching Science from
@GurdonInstitute
- learn about the working parts of living cells through crochet! Beginner & advanced instructions provided with explanations about each cell part, based on research.
Share your creations:
@StitchingSci
#crochetcell
100,000 genomes, 21 petabytes of data, 70,000 patients, 1500 NHS staff and 2500 researchers with
@GenomicsEngland
@illumina
to improve our understanding of genetic disease
Watch this space! A new, exciting and thrilling Cambridge Festival is coming...
Full programme listing available SOON. Sign up to be the first to hear:
#camfest
Let the countdown begin! 🎉 In 4️⃣ weeks the programme for
#CamFest
2022 will be announced - and bookings will open!
Make sure you're signed up to our mailing list to be the first to know:
#Cambridge
@Cambridge_Uni
Thanks to all who have booked on the first day! Over 10,500 tickets gone as of lines closing at 3pm! Still plenty more spaces at fantastic events - keep booking online or call us weekdays from 11am
Cambridge Science Festival 2020 listings live on our website now! Search for
#CamSciFest
events by day, age suitability, accessibility, format and timing:
Bookings open 10 Feb.
ONE WEEK TO GO! 🎉 That's right, one week today the Cambridge Festival kicks off!
What are you most looking forward to? There's still loads of time to book on to any event that takes your fancy:
#CamFest
The Cambridge Festival- Four themes, ten days, 350 free online events, and more than 100,000 views across 175 countries. We speak to some of the academics and organisers who made this inaugural event such a success.
So what is on today? Take your pick from all these amazing events: We've kept a few spaces back at all events so pop along and take a chance - seats available on a first-come first served basis!
#csf2018
🚀 Lift off! The programme (and bookings) can now be viewed on our website:
Fixing the NHS, stopping wars, and the effects of AI on elections headline a packed programme which includes walks, talks, tours, exhibitions, film screenings and so much more!
#CamFest
may be over this year, but we're still busy here at HQ!
This week, we'll be sharing some of content from the last 10 days for you to catch up on, just in case you missed anything...
It's not long now before booking opens for our first wholly online festival! 🤩
Keep an eye on our news pages for all the latest info:
#camfest
#MondayMotivation
👋 Ayala Panievsky (
@panievsky
) is a
@Gates_Cambridge
scholar exploring the changing relationship between media & politics in contemporary democracies.
She'll be in conversation with
@maitlis
to discuss the effects of populism on the media:
@CamSociology
#CuriousPeople
series 1 starts 23 July!
You sent us your questions on all kinds of topics, including the universe, consciousness, cancer, how leaves grow and even washing machines! We got researchers from
@Cambridge_Uni
to answer them. Find out more:
Ever wondered why, when you do a load of washing that also involves a quilt cover, everything ends up inside the quilt cover at the end of the wash?
Luckily, Dr
@hughhunt
,
@Cambridge_Eng
has the answer! watch
#CuriousPeople
Ep 1, out now:
Are you passionately curious about health? Learn about some of the inspiring research from researchers across
@Cambridge_Uni
at the Cambridge Festival.
Sign up here to get Festival updates ➡
#camfest
@GilesYeo
Meet our new Cambridge Science Festival coordinator, Naomi Clements-Brod, who joined us this week. The festival team is delighted to have her on board!
#CamSciFest
⭐️Are you free between 31 March - 10 April?
⭐️Would you like to come and engage with world-leading
@Cambridge_Uni
research?
⭐️Come and volunteer at
#CamFest
!
We're looking for volunteers to come and help bring our festival to life.
Interested? 👉
And just like that our family weekend for 2024 is over!
We’ll be sharing our highlights over the next few days but in the meantime here are some bubbles with
@SarahBearchell
Only three days to go until bookings open for Cambridge Science Festival 2020!
Bookings open Mon 10 Feb from 11am. With lots of events for curious people of all ages, there's something for everyone!
Check out the
#CamSciFest
listings here:
Not all adolescents who experience childhood adversity develop psychopathology. Dr Anne Laura van Harmelen discusses what we can learn from these 'resilient’ adolescents to help all teens.
#CamSciFest
20 Mar,
#IWD2019
Tomorrow it's just one week to go before the Cambridge Science Festival starts. Looking forward to seeing you all and sharing some fabulous
#science
Book tickets:
Only 3 weeks to go until Cambridge Science Festival 2020 begins!
Have you booked your space at
#CamSciFest
events yet? Many already sold out, but lots with spaces still available and many drop-in events:
Have you ever wondered what goes on in the darkest depths of our oceans? 🐟
Join marine biologist
@helenscales
from the gorgeous
@ZoologyMuseum
as she brings to life the majesty and marvels of the deep blue sea.
BOOK HERE 👉
#camfest
#TheBrilliantAbyss
"We should focus on their amazing adaptations and drop the 'weird' from 'weird and wonderful'".
@JackDAshby
, Assistant Director
@ZoologyMuseum
chats about his love of Australian mammals and why they’re so amazing ahead of his
#CamFest
events.
Thank you to everyone who has discovered and shared
#Cambridge
#Science
with us over the past two weeks of
#CamSciFest
. Looking forward to seeing you all in 2020!
Hi everyone! I’m
@apuddleofmuddle
& today I’m going to be taking over the Cambridge Festival account to tell you about my research & about Modern Languages more generally. I’m a PhD student in French
@MMLL_Cambridge
@CorpusCambridge
, working on Hortense Mancini and her salon.
A powerful message on deep sea exploration from
@helenscales
at
#CamFest
this afternoon
Should we be leaving somewhere as special as the deep sea untouched?
Missed it, or maybe you want to dive back in again?! 🐳👇
#TheBrilliantAbyss
🧵1/ Our family weekend is back and bigger than ever! We're taking over the New Museums Site in the centre of
#Cambridge
to bring you talks, hands-on activities, science, stories, art, virtual reality and more!
Here's a few things to keep a look out for ⬇
It's day 1 of Cambridge Science Festival!
Check out all of today's
#CamSciFest
events here: …/monday-9-march-13382
Top tip: Is an event you'd like to go to fully booked? Get to the venue early, we get lots of no-shows and may be able to offer you a seat!
Ready to make a scientific breakthrough in one of the world's biggest research facilities? Become a researcher at the
@DiamondLightSou
, visiting different beamlines to make progress in Physics, Chemistry, Cultural Heritage & more projects in this game:
A giant banana, purple tomatoes, algae and insects: this year’s Cambridge Science Festival explores the future of food, asking what and how will we be eating in 100 years?
#CamSciFest