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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…

@… 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:

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…

High-throughput Super-Resolution Imaging Chip based on Miniaturized Full-frequency Encoded-illumination
Xiaoyu Yang (State Key Laboratory of Extreme Photonics and Instrumentation, College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, ZJU-Hangzhou Global Scientific and Technological Innovation Center, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK), Haonan Zhang (State Key Lab…

High-throughput Super-Resolution Imaging Chip based on Miniaturized Full-frequency Encoded-illumination
A miniaturized full-frequency encoded illumination (mini-FEI) chip is presented for high-throughput super-resolution imaging using the spatial frequency shift (SFS) effect. A tunable full SFS scheme is achieved through propagating and evanescent wave. The multi-illumination modes are precisely and flexibly modulated by an encoded LED array. The light travels to the sample via a set of prisms, producing the super-resolution images with high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Mini-FEI super-resolution …

Certain kinds of gut microbes absorb toxic Pfas
“forever chemicals”
and help expel them from the body via feces,
new first-of-its-kind University of Cambridge research shows.
The findings are welcome news
as the only options that exist for reducing the level of dangerous Pfas compounds from the body are bloodletting and a cholesterol drug that induces unpleasant side effects.
The microbes were found to remove up to 75% of some Pfasfrom the gut of mice.

Efficient dataset construction using active learning and uncertainty-aware neural networks for plasma turbulent transport surrogate models
Aaron Ho (MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Cambridge, USA), Lorenzo Zanisi (UKAEA Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, Abingdon, UK), Bram de Leeuw (Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands), Vincent Galvan (MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Cambridge, USA), Pablo Rodriguez-Fernandez (MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Cambridge, USA), Nath…

Efficient dataset construction using active learning and uncertainty-aware neural networks for plasma turbulent transport surrogate models
This work demonstrates a proof-of-principle for using uncertainty-aware architectures, in combination with active learning techniques and an in-the-loop physics simulation code as a data labeller, to construct efficient datasets for data-driven surrogate model generation. Building off of a previous proof-of-principle successfully demonstrating training set reduction on static pre-labelled datasets, using the ADEPT framework, this strategy was applied again to the plasma turbulent transport prob…

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 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.

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…