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Raise some festive cheer with Arthur Rank Hospice Charity at the end of an unusual year!
Find out more about how you can support your local Hospice at Arthur Rank Hospice Charity's Festive Fun Run this year.
A4 Plus launches new CRM System & candidate feedback survey
Recruitment is all about people, it’s about building relationships with clients and candidates and communicating effectively. With this in mind, A4 Plus has been busy working on ways to improve just that and one such change, quite a major one, has been to its candidate database.
Game combats political misinformation by letting players undermine democracy
A short online game in which players are recruited as a “Chief Disinformation Officer” and use tactics such as trolling to sabotage elections in a peaceful town has been shown to reduce susceptibility to political misinformation in its users.
Honour among thieves: the study of a cybercrime marketplace in action
Researchers at the Cambridge Cybercrime Centre have revealed what they’ve learned from analysing hundreds of thousands of illicit trades that took place in an underground cybercrime forum over the past two years.
Discovery of shape of the SARS-CoV-2 genome after infection could inform new COVID-19 treatments
Scientists at the University of Cambridge, in collaboration with Justus-Liebig University, Germany, have uncovered how the genome of SARS-CoV-2 - the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 - uses genome origami to infect and replicate successfully inside host cells. This could inform the development of effective drugs that target specific parts of the virus genome, in the fight against COVID-19.
Cambridge Zero launches first climate festival
Cambridge researchers offer sneak peek of blueprint for green future as part of free week-long climate festival.
RRS James Clark Ross departs for Antarctica
The RRS James Clark Ross departed the Port of Harwich last week (Thursday 5 November) beginning its five-and-a-half-month mission to deliver scientific and operational staff to Antarctica, and to resupply the UK stations in Antarctica for another year.
Further extension to the Furlough Scheme
The Government today (5th November 2020) announced that it is extending the Furlough Scheme even further, this time until 31st March 2021.
GCP plans briefing webinars on local projects
The Greater Cambridge Partnership's (GCP's) consultation on the Waterbeach to Cambridge project is currently open. Normally it would be holding public exhibitions where the public would be able to express their views on these plans. However, the Covid-19 outbreak means that cannot happen, so the GCP is planning a series of other communication exercises.
Opportunities for Science comms
The science communication landscape is one of many things that have been fundamentally upended by today’s pandemic. The role of that amorphous thing called ‘science’ in our lives has never been more public, more discussed or more appreciated. This is an opportunity for those marketing complex products but it’s also exposing the enduring tensions in science-based communications.
Influencing the education sector
The impact of Covid-19 has meant it is crucial for brands to understand consumer behaviour quickly in order to maintain their reputation.
Navigating - and surviving - a recession
If you’re a marketer old enough to have worked through the recession of 2007-8, you might think you know how the next two years will pan out. I don’t agree. In my view we need to look back almost a century, but we can actually survive, adapt and thrive.
Worker assistance systems: Understanding the human perspective
Worker assistance systems are becoming increasingly intelligent, interactive and supportive. But do they have a future on the shop floor?
Tertiary education: time to start thinking like a company
Covid is proving to be both a major threat and a major opportunity in tertiary education, but it seems to me no one is seizing it with real urgency.
Messaging, and how to get it wrong
I think we can all agree (politics aside) that navigating the messaging around Covid-19 was never going to be easy. Yes, the overarching messages were easy to deliver and understand…but when it boiled down to the nitty gritty, I think it’s fair to say the last six months has been pretty confusing for us all.
Memories of Kiwi farmers trading their way out of trouble
The UK has always had a successful agri sector – but the challenges right now are without precedent, from pandemic issues to Brexit. Could we be inspired by New Zealand’s history?
The ‘P’ Word – Plastic in the UK: practical and pervasive … but problematic
Plastics are ubiquitous in modern society, owing to their usefulness, durability and how cheap and easy they are to produce. This makes plastics both a blessing and a curse.
Birketts boosts Commercial Property Team with Partner appointment
Leading regional law firm, Birketts, is delighted to announce the appointment of Chris Hoxley as a Partner in its highly regarded Commercial Property Team.
Why real sounds matter for machine learning
When it comes to training and evaluating sound recognition systems that perform to a high standard within a range of diverse consumer products, you cannot rely on recordings downloaded from the internet.
Planning
Planning your talk is vital for success. But so is adapting. In this video, communication coach and thorough* planner Jon Torrens tells you how.*adequate
University Church plans a special service for Remembrance Sunday 2020
Great St Mary’s, the University Church, will hold an online Remembrance Sunday service on 8 November.
Bicycle Therapeutics reports third quarter 2020 financial results and provides corporate update
Bicycle Therapeutics plc (NASDAQ:BCYC), a biotechnology company pioneering a new and differentiated class of therapeutics based on its proprietary bicyclic peptide (Bicycles®) technology, today reported financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2020 and discussed recent corporate updates.
Technique to regenerate the optic nerve offers hope for future glaucoma treatment
Scientists have used gene therapy to regenerate damaged nerve fibres in the eye, in a discovery that could aid the development of new treatments for glaucoma, one of the leading causes of blindness worldwide.
Online gaming: how can gamers in Cambridge level up against global rivals?
From home consoles to tablets and smartphones, gaming has become ubiquitous with our connected devices. But as gaming gets ever more complicated, how can the UK ensure it keeps up?
Why it takes guts to protect the brain against infection
The brain is uniquely protected against invading bacteria and viruses, but its defence mechanism has long remained a mystery. Now, a study in mice, confirmed in human samples, has shown that the brain has a surprising ally in its protection: the gut.