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New paper on leveraging the AI Act in the EU to advance pro-justice approaches to technological development, moving beyond mere compliance and foregrounding social justice and environmental sustainability is now published.
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The EU AI act in development practice: a pro-justice approach - AI and Ethics
With the adoption of the EU AI Act, organisations must address compliance obligations, including with ambiguous aspects of the Act, such as risk management and fundamental rights impact assessments. I...
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November 28, 2025 at 12:27 PM
New paper on leveraging the AI Act in the EU to advance pro-justice approaches to technological development, moving beyond mere compliance and foregrounding social justice and environmental sustainability is now published.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
How can stories help us live well with water in a warming world?
Join Professor @stewartjmottram.bsky.social @eeiathull.bsky.social as he takes a deep-dive into the centuries-long relationship between literature and water.
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Join Professor @stewartjmottram.bsky.social @eeiathull.bsky.social as he takes a deep-dive into the centuries-long relationship between literature and water.
Book your place: www.hull.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
How Literature Helps us Live Well with Water
Professor Stewart Mottram explores how stories - from Chaucer to climate fiction - shape our relationship with water and help us face a warming world.
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November 28, 2025 at 11:21 AM
How can stories help us live well with water in a warming world?
Join Professor @stewartjmottram.bsky.social @eeiathull.bsky.social as he takes a deep-dive into the centuries-long relationship between literature and water.
Book your place: www.hull.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
Join Professor @stewartjmottram.bsky.social @eeiathull.bsky.social as he takes a deep-dive into the centuries-long relationship between literature and water.
Book your place: www.hull.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
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Very excited to soon be starting my Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship @oxford-anthro.bsky.social on women doctors in sub-Saharan Africa.
If anyone knows any amazing historical or contemporary women doctors working in east and west Anglophone Africa, I would love to know!
If anyone knows any amazing historical or contemporary women doctors working in east and west Anglophone Africa, I would love to know!
Filling a significant gap in the literature, Early Career Fellow @thandekacochrane.bsky.social combines history, anthropology, feminist theory and decolonial studies to offer a unique analysis of the role of women doctors in Africa.
media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/tcoc... @oxford-anthro.bsky.social
media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/tcoc... @oxford-anthro.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Very excited to soon be starting my Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship @oxford-anthro.bsky.social on women doctors in sub-Saharan Africa.
If anyone knows any amazing historical or contemporary women doctors working in east and west Anglophone Africa, I would love to know!
If anyone knows any amazing historical or contemporary women doctors working in east and west Anglophone Africa, I would love to know!
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Now available online! www.cambridge.org/core/books/h... 🌿📚💚🪲
November 28, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Now available online! www.cambridge.org/core/books/h... 🌿📚💚🪲
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A new report led by the @britishecologicalsociety.org & @nationaltrust.org.uk highlights that an ecosystem approach is the best way to make sure that ecosystems continue to function for people & nature, & a more effective way of boosting biodiversity.
Find out more: www.york.ac.uk/anthropocene...
Find out more: www.york.ac.uk/anthropocene...
November 28, 2025 at 9:22 AM
A new report led by the @britishecologicalsociety.org & @nationaltrust.org.uk highlights that an ecosystem approach is the best way to make sure that ecosystems continue to function for people & nature, & a more effective way of boosting biodiversity.
Find out more: www.york.ac.uk/anthropocene...
Find out more: www.york.ac.uk/anthropocene...
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Congratulations to @rightslab.bsky.social for receiving the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Higher and Further Education for their excellent work on tackling modern slavery! We are so happy to be working so closely with you at @slaveryinwar.bsky.social
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Slavery from space: using satellites to tackle modern slavery - Royal Anniversary Trust
There are an estimated 50 million people in forms of modern slavery, forced labour and human trafficking, and this exploitation is spread across the world’s […]Read more
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November 27, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Congratulations to @rightslab.bsky.social for receiving the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Higher and Further Education for their excellent work on tackling modern slavery! We are so happy to be working so closely with you at @slaveryinwar.bsky.social
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#OpenAccess from @ejisbisa.bsky.social -
Alignment as a process: Explaining the trajectory of the Sino–Russian relationship - https://cup.org/4p1n54R
- Maria Papageorgiou & Valentina Feklyunina
#FirstView
Alignment as a process: Explaining the trajectory of the Sino–Russian relationship - https://cup.org/4p1n54R
- Maria Papageorgiou & Valentina Feklyunina
#FirstView
November 25, 2025 at 3:20 PM
#OpenAccess from @ejisbisa.bsky.social -
Alignment as a process: Explaining the trajectory of the Sino–Russian relationship - https://cup.org/4p1n54R
- Maria Papageorgiou & Valentina Feklyunina
#FirstView
Alignment as a process: Explaining the trajectory of the Sino–Russian relationship - https://cup.org/4p1n54R
- Maria Papageorgiou & Valentina Feklyunina
#FirstView
Congratulations to Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Erika Jiménez, @amecys.bsky.social's 2025 Book Prize Winner! www.amecys.org/terminal-deg...
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@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
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@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
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November 27, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Congratulations to Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Erika Jiménez, @amecys.bsky.social's 2025 Book Prize Winner! www.amecys.org/terminal-deg...
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@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
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Congratulations to @rcmlondon.bsky.social on winning a prestigious Queen Elizabeth Prize! The Leverhulme Trust is proud to be supporting their work in nurturing the next generation of musicians.
We are honoured to have been awarded a Queen Elizabeth Prize for Education (@QEdPrizes), the highest national honour in UK higher and further education, recognising the exceptional work of our Centre for Performance Science.
Read more about our award: bit.ly/43SnP3L
#QEdPrizes
Read more about our award: bit.ly/43SnP3L
#QEdPrizes
November 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Congratulations to @rcmlondon.bsky.social on winning a prestigious Queen Elizabeth Prize! The Leverhulme Trust is proud to be supporting their work in nurturing the next generation of musicians.
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"How do you hold those huge swathes of grey in the stories that you tell about the past, and how do you tell them well?"
Eleanor Barraclough explains the nuance behind 'Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age' #WolfsonHistoryPrize. @profilebooks.bsky.social
Eleanor Barraclough explains the nuance behind 'Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age' #WolfsonHistoryPrize. @profilebooks.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 9:37 AM
"How do you hold those huge swathes of grey in the stories that you tell about the past, and how do you tell them well?"
Eleanor Barraclough explains the nuance behind 'Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age' #WolfsonHistoryPrize. @profilebooks.bsky.social
Eleanor Barraclough explains the nuance behind 'Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age' #WolfsonHistoryPrize. @profilebooks.bsky.social
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And so season 9 of the We Society podcast🎙️has come to a close. Which episode was your favourite & who would you like to be a guest in the future? We’d love to hear from you! Don't forget to catch up on any episodes you might have missed👂⬇️
The We Society
Beyond the politics, beyond our geography are the intangible connections that hold us together – The We Society. The We Society podcast is here to tell you about the thousands of ways the Social…
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November 26, 2025 at 12:22 PM
And so season 9 of the We Society podcast🎙️has come to a close. Which episode was your favourite & who would you like to be a guest in the future? We’d love to hear from you! Don't forget to catch up on any episodes you might have missed👂⬇️
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Dr Lucius Caviola was recently a guest speaker on the Prism podcast talking about his work on digital minds. Listen to the full episode here:
www.prism-global.com/podcast/luci...
www.prism-global.com/podcast/luci...
Lucius Caviola: A Future with Digital Minds? Expert Estimates and Societal Response — The Partnership for Research Into Sentient Machines
Lucius Caviola is an Assistant Professor in the Social Science of AI at the University of Cambridge's Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence and a Research Associate in Psychology at Harvard...
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November 26, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Dr Lucius Caviola was recently a guest speaker on the Prism podcast talking about his work on digital minds. Listen to the full episode here:
www.prism-global.com/podcast/luci...
www.prism-global.com/podcast/luci...
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Grain, tax and the birth of states. Great piece by @chrisnsimms.bsky.social www.newscientist.com/article/2505... in @newscientist.com on our research rdcu.be/eRGzT (with @drqueue.bsky.social) in @nathumbehav.nature.com. Understanding the origins of tax @newsagents.bsky.social for the budget.
Easily taxed grains were crucial to the birth of the first states
The cultivation of wheat, barley and maize, which are easily stored and taxed, seems to have led to the emergence of large societies, rather than agriculture generally
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November 25, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Grain, tax and the birth of states. Great piece by @chrisnsimms.bsky.social www.newscientist.com/article/2505... in @newscientist.com on our research rdcu.be/eRGzT (with @drqueue.bsky.social) in @nathumbehav.nature.com. Understanding the origins of tax @newsagents.bsky.social for the budget.
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Congratulations to our own, @kitopie.bsky.social, and his colleague on this new @nathumbehav.nature.com paper on the role of cereal grains in the creation of early states! 🙌👏
Clink on the post below to access and enjoy 👇
Clink on the post below to access and enjoy 👇
The invention of agriculture (around 9,000 years ago) spurred the rise of early states? NO. Our research www.nature.com/articles/s41... (with @drqueue.bsky.social) in @nathumbehav.nature.com supports an alternative theory that States almost invariably formed in societies that grew cereal grains.
State formation across cultures and the role of grain, intensive agriculture, taxation and writing - Nature Human Behaviour
Opie and Atkinson conduct a global phylogenetic analysis of 868 cultures and find evidence indicating that cereal grain cultivation, not agricultural surplus, drove state formation. Their findings als...
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November 25, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Congratulations to our own, @kitopie.bsky.social, and his colleague on this new @nathumbehav.nature.com paper on the role of cereal grains in the creation of early states! 🙌👏
Clink on the post below to access and enjoy 👇
Clink on the post below to access and enjoy 👇
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We (with @drqueue.bsky.social) explain the process in @uk.theconversation.com theconversation.com/the-real-rea....
The real reason nation states first emerged thousands of years ago – new research
New findings add weight to the theory that nation states didn’t just spring up from any kind of farming – it had to be grain.
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November 25, 2025 at 1:46 PM
We (with @drqueue.bsky.social) explain the process in @uk.theconversation.com theconversation.com/the-real-rea....
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The invention of agriculture (around 9,000 years ago) spurred the rise of early states? NO. Our research www.nature.com/articles/s41... (with @drqueue.bsky.social) in @nathumbehav.nature.com supports an alternative theory that States almost invariably formed in societies that grew cereal grains.
State formation across cultures and the role of grain, intensive agriculture, taxation and writing - Nature Human Behaviour
Opie and Atkinson conduct a global phylogenetic analysis of 868 cultures and find evidence indicating that cereal grain cultivation, not agricultural surplus, drove state formation. Their findings als...
www.nature.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:11 AM
The invention of agriculture (around 9,000 years ago) spurred the rise of early states? NO. Our research www.nature.com/articles/s41... (with @drqueue.bsky.social) in @nathumbehav.nature.com supports an alternative theory that States almost invariably formed in societies that grew cereal grains.
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📢NEW PODCAST: Prof. Cristina Banks-Leite explores the realities of tropical forest restoration—from challenges like seedlings, land tenure & finance to why “success” can seem counter-intuitive. She highlights how better biodiversity metrics, acoustic monitoring & AI can reshape ecosystem recovery.
November 26, 2025 at 10:47 AM
📢NEW PODCAST: Prof. Cristina Banks-Leite explores the realities of tropical forest restoration—from challenges like seedlings, land tenure & finance to why “success” can seem counter-intuitive. She highlights how better biodiversity metrics, acoustic monitoring & AI can reshape ecosystem recovery.
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Our new paper is out today in Journal of the Royal Society Interface (link below). All about eggshell roughness: "Scratching beyond the surface: examining macroecological patterns in avian eggshell texture". Congrats first author Marie Attard, and thank you @leverhulme.ac.uk for the funding.
November 26, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Our new paper is out today in Journal of the Royal Society Interface (link below). All about eggshell roughness: "Scratching beyond the surface: examining macroecological patterns in avian eggshell texture". Congrats first author Marie Attard, and thank you @leverhulme.ac.uk for the funding.
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Carola is a favourite colleague here at Cambridge! Here are some more videos with her by @leverhulme.ac.uk and @expeditions.bsky.social together with some articles about Carola's #maths plus.maths.org/content/meet... #mathematics
November 26, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Carola is a favourite colleague here at Cambridge! Here are some more videos with her by @leverhulme.ac.uk and @expeditions.bsky.social together with some articles about Carola's #maths plus.maths.org/content/meet... #mathematics
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Two months ago, we met in an ancient woodland as drought broke into autumn storms to ask: How do we redesign finance for the living world? Through nature, play & systems thinking, new seed ideas emerged.
Our short film offers a glimpse—step in & tell us what resonates.
Our short film offers a glimpse—step in & tell us what resonates.
Imaginal Studios: Reimagining Nature Finance
YouTube video by Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery
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November 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Two months ago, we met in an ancient woodland as drought broke into autumn storms to ask: How do we redesign finance for the living world? Through nature, play & systems thinking, new seed ideas emerged.
Our short film offers a glimpse—step in & tell us what resonates.
Our short film offers a glimpse—step in & tell us what resonates.
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🎓✨ Calling all early-career researchers!
Thinking about applying for a Leverhulme Research Grant? Don’t miss this chance to get insider guidance from researchers with successful grant experience.
🧠💡 Join our upcoming webinar to learn:
✔️ What makes a strong application [1/2]
Thinking about applying for a Leverhulme Research Grant? Don’t miss this chance to get insider guidance from researchers with successful grant experience.
🧠💡 Join our upcoming webinar to learn:
✔️ What makes a strong application [1/2]
November 25, 2025 at 12:31 PM
🎓✨ Calling all early-career researchers!
Thinking about applying for a Leverhulme Research Grant? Don’t miss this chance to get insider guidance from researchers with successful grant experience.
🧠💡 Join our upcoming webinar to learn:
✔️ What makes a strong application [1/2]
Thinking about applying for a Leverhulme Research Grant? Don’t miss this chance to get insider guidance from researchers with successful grant experience.
🧠💡 Join our upcoming webinar to learn:
✔️ What makes a strong application [1/2]
Drawing on professional experience, Elizabeth Brown combines grassroots approaches with state-led prevention responses to enhance justice systems, reduce survivor trauma and foster societal change. media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/ebrown
#NoExcuse #violence #women
#NoExcuse #violence #women
Trauma-informed justice systems for survivors
Drawing on professional experience, Elizabeth Brown combines grassroots approaches with state-led prevention responses to enhance justice systems, reduce survivor trauma and foster societal change
media.leverhulme.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Drawing on professional experience, Elizabeth Brown combines grassroots approaches with state-led prevention responses to enhance justice systems, reduce survivor trauma and foster societal change. media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/ebrown
#NoExcuse #violence #women
#NoExcuse #violence #women
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Angelos Theocharis’s project @hassfacultyncl.bsky.social @newcastleuni.bsky.social examines the impact of the climate crisis on Indigenous cultural heritage through short 🎬 created by vulnerable communities in Asia.
Watch now: media.leverhulme.ac.uk/video/indige...
Watch now: media.leverhulme.ac.uk/video/indige...
Indigenous Visualities of Climate Crisis
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Angelos Theocharis’s project examines the impact of the climate crisis on Indigenous cultural heritage through short films created by vulnerable communities in South an...
media.leverhulme.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Angelos Theocharis’s project @hassfacultyncl.bsky.social @newcastleuni.bsky.social examines the impact of the climate crisis on Indigenous cultural heritage through short 🎬 created by vulnerable communities in Asia.
Watch now: media.leverhulme.ac.uk/video/indige...
Watch now: media.leverhulme.ac.uk/video/indige...
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If you've ever asked the question: 'What's the point of wasps?' you should watch our most recent #Nature Seminar, 'The Natural Capital of Wasps'. @waspwoman.bsky.social Seirian Sumner will convert you! youtu.be/ELI_8KkwJm0
The Natural Capital of Wasps. Seirian Sumner
YouTube video by Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery
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November 25, 2025 at 12:14 PM
If you've ever asked the question: 'What's the point of wasps?' you should watch our most recent #Nature Seminar, 'The Natural Capital of Wasps'. @waspwoman.bsky.social Seirian Sumner will convert you! youtu.be/ELI_8KkwJm0
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Up to 6x 2026-29 Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships in Humanities, University of Oxford. Come join our thriving research community for a postdoc in New Testament! Deadline 9 December; contact a senior Faculty mentor ASAP to discuss. nt4ox.link/Leverhulme26
Early Career Fellowship Opportunities
The Faculty of Theology and Religion welcomes applications for externally funded research fellowships, including the following:
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November 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Up to 6x 2026-29 Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships in Humanities, University of Oxford. Come join our thriving research community for a postdoc in New Testament! Deadline 9 December; contact a senior Faculty mentor ASAP to discuss. nt4ox.link/Leverhulme26