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Happening now: Cambridge University REAL Centre 10th Anniversary Conference online.
Centre Director, Prof Pauline Rose, gives a warm welcome speaking about friendship as the starting point for rigorous research in education and development, building connections, inclusivity, and warmth.
https://www.educ.c…

The Guardian partners with Cambridge University to launch Secure Messaging in its app, protecting sources by making messages indistinguishable from other data (Katharine Viner/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/membership/20…

The Guardian partners with Cambridge University to launch Secure Messaging in its app, protecting sources by making messages indistinguishable from other data (Katharine Viner/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/membership/20…

@… I don’t know about Bristol, and I don’t have any particular insights, but I seem to remember that the negotiations between the Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries with Cambridge were difficult, too. In any case, it’s always interesting to look at the conditions:

@… I don’t know about Bristol, and I don’t have any particular insights, but I seem to remember that the negotiations between the Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries with Cambridge were difficult, too. In any case, it’s always interesting to look at the conditions:

SPECULOOS: five years hunting terrestrial planets around ultra-cool dwarfs
Sebasti\'an Z\'u\~niga-Fern\'andez (Astrobiology Research Unit, Universit\'e de Li\`ege, Li\`ege, Belgium), Michael Gillon (Astrobiology Research Unit, Universit\'e de Li\`ege, Li\`ege, Belgium), SPECULOOS consortium
https://arxiv.org/…

SPECULOOS: five years hunting terrestrial planets around ultra-cool dwarfs
The SPECULOOS (Search for habitable Planets EClipsing ULtra-cOOl Stars) project aims to detect temperate terrestrial planets transiting nearby ultracool dwarfs, including late M-dwarf stars and brown dwarfs, which are well-suited for atmospheric characterization using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and upcoming giant telescopes like the European Extremely Large Telescope (ELT). Led by the University of Liège, SPECULOOS is conducted in partnership with the University of Cambridge, the Un…

The Guardian has uploaded "coverdrop" to github, embedding a covert secure messaging channel into their phone app.
I've not looked at it, but I imagine it's mostly going to be for text messages, as media uploads don't fit the network profile (upload/download) of news consumption apps.

The FOMO about the 10-year University of Cambridge REAL Centre Anniversary Celebration Conference is *real*.
If you can't be there in person, join online.
Incredible lineup.
12 June 2025
https://www.eventbrite.co…