Welcome to the People's University for Palestine in Cambridge.
Cambridge students (and local residents) have set up an encampment on the King's College, Cambridge University grounds on King's Parade. Events and rallies planned each day.
Rally at 12noon today. Come and support the encampment, follow @CambridgeForPalestine on Instagram and get involved. #StudentEncampment#StudentsForPalestine #FreePalestine#FreeGaza#CambridgeForPalestine#Cambridge4Palestine#Cambridge
WMBR News presents a special report on the encampment set up by the MIT Coalition for Palestine last Sunday near Kresge Auditorium on MIT's campus. We speak with members of the MIT community including pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel students about the protest and its goals, as well as antisemitism and free speech at MIT.
Climate activists smash windows of Cambridge Energy Institute
The group responsible, ‘This Is Not A Drill’, claimed that the IEEF researches “harmful tech” that aids the extraction of new fossil fuels. They also accused the University of “letting oil execs push their agenda” and failing to address their “dodgy industry ties”
@ScaredyCat I can't see £2 a night being the straw the breaks the camel's back when it comes to deciding where to go, particularly for business travelers. But then it is > 10 years since I stayed in a hotel...
@elphez Cambridge isn't exactly cheap in the first place. Smaller hotels will suffer whilst the bigger ones just swallow the price.
The 'reasoning' was so they could provide touch screen information booths - the sort of thing normal towns and cities provide as a service for visitors.
Congratulations 🎉 to Clara Wanjura, who won the annual thesis award of the German Physical Society's #DPG section for atoms, molecules, quantum optics, and photonics.
She won the award for her work on non-Hermitean topology in the group of Andreas Nunnenkamp at #Cambridge. Clara is now a postdoc in the theory division at the @MPI_ScienceOfLight in #Erlangen, where she started exciting research into #neuromorphic computing.
Antony Gormley's memorial to Alan Turing has been unveiled in #Cambridge.... In the end whether you like or not will depend on whether you think a memorial should be directly representational (i.e. look like Turing) or whether an artist should respond in their own way to the subject.
In fairness no #publicart is going to please everyone, but at least its good to see public art actually being done.... even if its effectively on private land (in the grounds of Kings College).
@ChrisMayLA6 I'm all for non-representational art, especially since it forces us, in a way that statues don't, to ask ourselves if it's "good" or not, and why. That's much more interesting than just determining whether or not it's a good likeness.
The only thing representative of the great kind man who saved freedom and democracy, possibly WW2's greatest hero, who was then 'rewarded' with bigotry and cruelty, disrespected and tortured, until he killed himself, is the name of the statue.
He's completely erased here. An uneducated opinion, a strong disappointment.
They British people rewarded Alan Turing with all the character and respect with which they treat trans people today, Tory and @UKLabour
Talks in Cambridge, UK, are often advertised at https://talks.cam.ac.uk and are open to the public. Quite a few are both in person and over zoom. From my circles: