Congratulations to CSER's Charlotte Hammer (@epihammer.bsky.social), on receiving a Springboard Award from the Academy of Medical Sciences!
She is investigating why infectious disease outbreaks are likely to escalate in regions affected by conflict, environmental degradation or humanitarian crises
EvEx is a major UKRI-funded programme bringing together universities and research organisations to develop ways for public & civil servants to access research and learning. The role combines research with designing policy‑facing initatives.
We are hiring!
CSER is looking for a Research Assistant/Associate to work on the Evidence Exchange (EvEx) initiative!
Deadline: 24 May 2026
Find out more and apply here ⬇️
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Are you a Postdoc at Cambridge and want to link with a College?
We (Jesus College) are offering eight College Postdoctoral Associates.
Three year appointment, with dining rights and connection to a fun and interesting community. jesus.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/coll…
Come join us!
Deadline: UK midnight (BST) 17 May 2026.
➡️ Find out more and submit here: www.cser.ac.uk/cccr-2026/
CCCR 2026 brings together the existential risk community, with a focus on the governance challenges shaping tomorrow’s world. The programme features in-depth sessions on addressing climate breakdown, developments in tech and AI & emerging health-security risks.
The call for poster submissions is now open for CSER’s CCCR 2026 conference!
Submissions are invited on:
🔵 Governing catastrophic climate risk
🔵 AI and emerging technologies
🔵 Geopolitics & nuclear weapons
🔵 The future of pandemic preparedness
🔵 Open session (any existential‑risk related work)
Proud supervisor moment! 🎉
It’s been a pleasure to supervise Kellerine Quah (soon to be Dr Kellerine Quah) for her MPhil dissertation back in 2023. That dissertation has now reached the wider world as a published article in @plosglobalpublichealth.org
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CSER's Alexandru Marcoci contributed to the team generating the human predictions of replicability, and is a co-author on 3 newly released preprints from the project and also first author on related work in Nature Human Behaviour.
The results from the SCORE project, a major international collaboration on research credibility & repeatability, are now out in a special collection in Nature!
Read more below⬇️
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New Meet the Researcher profile: Vanessa Burns! (@climatecolumn.bsky.social)
Vanessa’s work at CSER focuses on climate resilience, environmental governance and justice. She shares her journey from activist to political scientist and what keeps her optimistic about the future.
Hi Markku, the event is being run by Cambridge Festival - it would be best to message them via Eventbrite to ask about a possible recording!
Pleased to share that my paper "Extinction of the human species: what could cause it and how likely is it to occur?" was awarded Cambridge Prisms: Extinctions (the journal)'s Paper of the Year award for 2025!
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What will the world look like in 2050 and beyond?
Join Professor Martin Rees as he discusses his vision for the future of humanity and science as part of the Cambridge Festival.
📅 Thursday 2 April, 6–7pm
🌍 Cambridge Union, Cambridge UK
Register here: www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/world...
We are delighted to announce that the University of Cambridge has received a commitment of £190 million – the biggest individual donation to a British university in modern times – to establish the Rokos School of Government.
https://youtu.be/oruSfls6jRE?si=sXGlMPuzcXBybQBQ
A new pre-print "A Labour of Harm: Artificial Intelligence and Biological Weapons Acquisition" discusses how focusing on technological capability risks overlooks the human processes through which biological weapons are imagined
Read here⬇️
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What might we miss if discussions on AI and biological risk continue to focus mainly on lab/tech rather than on the actors, purposes, and processes that shape BW acquisition?
New work from @cser.bsky.social, @ghionis.bsky.social, L. Sundaram, T. Hobson, @nnconnell
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
🔵 Exploring climate truths through climate fiction - Reflect on the climate stories that stay with us, and consider how storytelling might help us to navigate difficult truths while still imagining better futures.
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Bookings are open now: buff.ly/nYLIzkq
🔵 The world in 2050 and far beyond with Professor Martin Rees - A discussion on humanity’s long-term future and the prospects for science in the decades ahead.
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🔵 Preparing for the next pandemic - Explore how pandemics begin, research on SARS-CoV-2 vaccines, and the factors influencing immune responses and vaccine effectiveness.
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Here are some of CSER's picks for the @cambridgefestival.bsky.social covering topics from global health & climate to long-term planetary risk!
🔵 Ness: Displaced - An immersive performance responding to environmental conditions on Orford Ness, a former nuclear test site.
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Developed by S. M. Amadae, Caro Carter and Kim Keskiivari, the course explores how nuclear weapons shape today’s security environment. Topics range from deterring conventional, nuclear and cyber attacks to shaping global power, alliances and crises.
Read more here: buff.ly/8X4xvIm
📢 New open online course examines nuclear weapons and global security.
S. M. Amadae, Director of CSER, has led the launch of a new open online course through the University of Helsinki, Nuclear Weapons: Planetary Risks and Human Consequences.
Meet the education team behind the MPhil in Global Risk and Resilience!
Our education team brings together expertise from AI governance to pandemic preparedness and disaster risk.
We'd like to welcome Catherine Rhodes as a visitor to CSER!
Catherine will be working on projects, including editorial work for a new handbook on global catastrophic risks & papers exploring various aspects of systems approaches to governance of GCRs
www.cser.ac.uk/team/catheri...
Congratulations to Alix de Saint-Aignan for being selected as a 2026 Gates Cambridge Scholar! 🎉
We're looking forward to welcoming Alix to the MPhil in Global Risk and Resilience at CSER in October.
For our Italian speaking audience:
SM Amadae spoke to Le Scienze about the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists's Doomsday Clock and how we can start to address the risks raised in this years announcement.
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www.lescienze.it/scienze-soci...
This term, MPhil students can choose from 5 electives, exploring some of the most pressing global risks from AI governance and biological risk to nuclear weapons, disaster risk and the role of finance in risk mitigation.
Learn more about each elective on our website: buff.ly/QO9Mqs3