NEW RESEARCH: Work led by the Department of Biology reveals how ancient genetic doubling events gave evolution the raw material to create new brain cell types, shaping vertebrate brains for hundreds of millions of years🧠
Find out more about the research: https://tinyurl.com/y38k5jtz
👏 Congratulations to the winners, highly commended nominees and finalists from across the Division who have been recognised at this year's Vice-Chancellor's Awards.
Read more about this year's winners from across the University: https://hr.admin.ox.ac.uk/vice-chancellors-awards
Reminder: the Basics of SciFinder
An initial session on the CAS SciFinder Discovery Platform covering literature searching, saved alerts, projects, substance data, and AI research tools for chemistry and related disciplines.
📅 Tomorrow at 1pm
👉 Book: https://tinyurl.com/9rnnj7y8
EXPERT COMMENT: Global coral reef collapse is not inevitable.
Oxford Earth Sciences researcher Noam Vogt-Vincent discusses evidence that coral reefs could still recover later this century if we rapidly reach net zero.
Read more: https://tinyurl.com/y7zx2ces
Our congratulations to the Oxford scientists elected Fellows of the @royalsociety.
The new Fellows include researchers from across MPLS disciplines, including mathematics, biology, statistics, physics and computer science.
👏 Find out more at: https://tinyurl.com/3fstj3pj
Expert comment: New investments in nature are accelerating, but conservation science must remain central to decision-making.
Researchers from @biology.ox.ac.uk warn that without robust evidence, nature finance risks missing the mark.
Read more 👇
https://tinyurl.com/pn4rwbdv
In conversation: Professor Daniela Bortoletto, Head of Particle Physics at @oxfordphysics.bsky.social, talks to CERN Director-General Mark Thomson about overseeing CERN’s biggest upgrade in 20 years and what it means for the future of science.
➡️ Read more: https://tinyurl.com/3jthsjed
RESEARCH: Scientists at Oxford’s @compscioxford.bsky.social have helped achieve a world first by encoding the hepatitis D virus genome using 117 qubits on IBM’s Heron quantum processor.
The work opens new possibilities for quantum genomics and bioinformatics.
➡️ https://tinyurl.com/2prna5ev
Do you want to showcase the wonders of your science to the public?
Then join the Science Wonder Garden Party @begbrokescience.bsky.social this summer! ☀️
If you're interested in sharing your work through talks or hands on activities, register interest by 5 June.
👉 https://tinyurl.com/23jkf4ap
The OpenBind consortium’s first release of experimental data marks a milestone in efforts to improve how artificial intelligence (AI) is used in drug discovery.
Find out more ⬇️
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-05-12-openbind-releases-first-open-dataset-and-ai-model-for-drug-discovery
