🏆 Congratulations to Professor Geoffrey Hinton, alumnus of @Kings.College, who has jointly won the Nobel Prize in Physics for "foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks”.
Update: John Hopfield, who has also been jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, was a Guggenheim Fellow at the Cavendish in 1968-69, which takes Cambridge's total Nobels to 125!
Read the full story through the link in @CambridgeUniversity's bio 🔗
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To mark #BlackHistoryMonth, the King's Library team have collated a fantastic display of titles, all new additions to the collection this year 📚
As they put it, these are books for this month and every month. Check out the full list below ⤵️
Elsewhere, as part of their successful Speaker Series, the King's E-Lab will be hosting a fascinating event on 10th October examining Black female stereotypes, featuring speakers Kelechi Okafor and Afua Hirsch. Be sure to head to the link below to book your free ticket.
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From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation/ Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Born Palestinian Born Black / Suheir Hammad
Beyond the Bassline: 500 Years of Back British Music
Part of a Story That Started Before Me/ ed. George the Poet
The Dialectic is in the Sea/ Beatriz Nascimento
Love, Anger, Madness/ Marie Vieux-Chauvet
Representing Black Britain/ Sarita Malik
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity/ C. Riley Snorton
Jim Crow: Voices From a Century of Struggle/ Tynia L. Steptoe
As Black As Resistance/ William C. Anderson & Zoe Samudzi
What is Black Art?/ Alice Correia
Decolonizing Design/ Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall
Spatializing Blackness/ Rashad Shabazz
Advertising Empire/ David Ciarlo
Revolutionary Acts: Love & Brotherhood in Black Gay Britain/ Jason Okundaye
Colonised Minds/ Akira O′Connor & Erin Robbins
Collected Poems/ Sonia Sanchez
Africans Are Not Black/ Kwesi Tsri
Our Island Stories/ Corinne Fowler
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Last weekend we welcomed back over 300 alumni and guests for our annual reunion weekend🥂
It was a wonderful opportunity to catch up with old friends and share memories of King's, made all the more special by the weather behaving itself! ☀️
A special thanks to all the College staff who made this possible 💜
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🍯 Did you know that there are beekeeping societies at Cambridge? This year, the @kingsbeekeeping_ society at @kings.college collected 84 jars of honey which will go to everyone who helped out.
President Theo (4th year medic), gave us a quick rundown of a year in the life of a beekeeper:
“We started the season by purchasing two colonies from a beekeeper in the local region. After transporting them to the College apiary, we kept a close eye on their development. One of the hives was in the process of re-queening, and after two weeks we finally spotted the new queen and were able to mark her. The other hive grew quickly and started producing honey early in the season.
“The bees took well to our apiary, thanks to the new wildflower meadow and the flowers in the Fellows’ Garden.
We organised weekly inspections with Society members, and our day-to-day work was made a lot easier by our new shed which was built last autumn. I’d like to especially thank the Gardeners, the Maintenance team, the Senior Tutor and every other College member who helped make this possible. It’s been a massive help and I hope it will continue to help the Society in the future.
The harvest itself went very well. We were once again able to use the Old Garden Hostel kitchens to extract honey, and it was great to see a lot of Society members, including several King‘s alumni, return to Cambridge to help out.”
If you're a beekeeper at a College, the @kingsbeekeeping_ would love to hear from you 🤙
📸 King’s College Beekeeping Society
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