Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
@cser.bsky.social
Cambridge University interdisciplinary research centre dedicated to the study and mitigation of risks that could lead to human extinction or civilizational collapse.
Curious about the MPhil in Global Risk and Resilience?
Watch a recording of our virtual open day with course Co-Directors Alexandru Marcoci and Charlotte Hammer! The session covers the course structure, core and optional modules, how to apply and more.
Link to video below⬇️
Watch a recording of our virtual open day with course Co-Directors Alexandru Marcoci and Charlotte Hammer! The session covers the course structure, core and optional modules, how to apply and more.
Link to video below⬇️
December 22, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Curious about the MPhil in Global Risk and Resilience?
Watch a recording of our virtual open day with course Co-Directors Alexandru Marcoci and Charlotte Hammer! The session covers the course structure, core and optional modules, how to apply and more.
Link to video below⬇️
Watch a recording of our virtual open day with course Co-Directors Alexandru Marcoci and Charlotte Hammer! The session covers the course structure, core and optional modules, how to apply and more.
Link to video below⬇️
📢 New job alert: The Centre for Pandemic Risk Management are recruiting a PDRA to lead a project applying machine learning & bioinformatics approaches to the prediction of pandemic risks.
Deadline: 7 January 2026
Find out more and apply here: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/about/vacanc...
Deadline: 7 January 2026
Find out more and apply here: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/about/vacanc...
Vacancies - CRASSH
Come and work with us - the latest vacancies at CRASSH
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December 18, 2025 at 3:46 PM
📢 New job alert: The Centre for Pandemic Risk Management are recruiting a PDRA to lead a project applying machine learning & bioinformatics approaches to the prediction of pandemic risks.
Deadline: 7 January 2026
Find out more and apply here: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/about/vacanc...
Deadline: 7 January 2026
Find out more and apply here: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/about/vacanc...
CSER is looking for an Assistant Professor in Global Risk and Resilience!
The role holder will lead research relevant to the study of global risk and resilience and contribute to teaching, assessment, and admissions for CSER's MPhil.
Deadline: 8 February 2026
Apply and learn more: bit.ly/4j3PZyT
The role holder will lead research relevant to the study of global risk and resilience and contribute to teaching, assessment, and admissions for CSER's MPhil.
Deadline: 8 February 2026
Apply and learn more: bit.ly/4j3PZyT
December 17, 2025 at 11:18 AM
CSER is looking for an Assistant Professor in Global Risk and Resilience!
The role holder will lead research relevant to the study of global risk and resilience and contribute to teaching, assessment, and admissions for CSER's MPhil.
Deadline: 8 February 2026
Apply and learn more: bit.ly/4j3PZyT
The role holder will lead research relevant to the study of global risk and resilience and contribute to teaching, assessment, and admissions for CSER's MPhil.
Deadline: 8 February 2026
Apply and learn more: bit.ly/4j3PZyT
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An honour to provide a paper for the Bulletin's 80th anniversary, on the challenges AI poses for catastrophic risk the coming decade. An exercise in navigating uncertainty and the collingridge dilemma, with the stakes likely rising with each passing year.
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Stopping the Clock on catastrophic AI risk
AI is already sufficiently robust that it introduces new global risks and exacerbates existing threats. Its development is being driven by some of the most powerful companies on Earth, and the technol...
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December 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
An honour to provide a paper for the Bulletin's 80th anniversary, on the challenges AI poses for catastrophic risk the coming decade. An exercise in navigating uncertainty and the collingridge dilemma, with the stakes likely rising with each passing year.
thebulletin.org/premium/2025...
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Write an essay to win £500 📝
Just over a week to go to enter your essay proposals to the Gordon Duff Prize.
This opportunity is open to all University of Cambridge members.
Deadline for proposals: 19 December 2025
Find out more: https://loom.ly/xZZOdOc
Just over a week to go to enter your essay proposals to the Gordon Duff Prize.
This opportunity is open to all University of Cambridge members.
Deadline for proposals: 19 December 2025
Find out more: https://loom.ly/xZZOdOc
December 11, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Write an essay to win £500 📝
Just over a week to go to enter your essay proposals to the Gordon Duff Prize.
This opportunity is open to all University of Cambridge members.
Deadline for proposals: 19 December 2025
Find out more: https://loom.ly/xZZOdOc
Just over a week to go to enter your essay proposals to the Gordon Duff Prize.
This opportunity is open to all University of Cambridge members.
Deadline for proposals: 19 December 2025
Find out more: https://loom.ly/xZZOdOc
🎄The CSER team started the holiday season yesterday with our Christmas lunch!
December 10, 2025 at 11:46 AM
🎄The CSER team started the holiday season yesterday with our Christmas lunch!
We're pleased to welcome Vanessa Burns as a Teaching Associate on our MPhil programme!
Dr Vanessa Burns is a political scientist with research interests in resilience and adaptation to climate change, extreme climate change, environmental governance, and environmental justice.
Dr Vanessa Burns is a political scientist with research interests in resilience and adaptation to climate change, extreme climate change, environmental governance, and environmental justice.
December 2, 2025 at 10:33 AM
We're pleased to welcome Vanessa Burns as a Teaching Associate on our MPhil programme!
Dr Vanessa Burns is a political scientist with research interests in resilience and adaptation to climate change, extreme climate change, environmental governance, and environmental justice.
Dr Vanessa Burns is a political scientist with research interests in resilience and adaptation to climate change, extreme climate change, environmental governance, and environmental justice.
Last week our MPhil students took part in a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) simulation as part of the Governing Climate Catastrophe elective.
They debated how to respond to a hypothetical collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a major climate tipping point.
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They debated how to respond to a hypothetical collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a major climate tipping point.
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December 1, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Last week our MPhil students took part in a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) simulation as part of the Governing Climate Catastrophe elective.
They debated how to respond to a hypothetical collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a major climate tipping point.
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They debated how to respond to a hypothetical collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a major climate tipping point.
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November 28, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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📢 7 days to go!
A reminder that the funding deadline for the MPhil in Global Risk and Resilience is 2nd December 2025.
Find out more about the different funding options available on our website: www.cser.ac.uk/education/mp...
A reminder that the funding deadline for the MPhil in Global Risk and Resilience is 2nd December 2025.
Find out more about the different funding options available on our website: www.cser.ac.uk/education/mp...
November 25, 2025 at 11:11 AM
📢 7 days to go!
A reminder that the funding deadline for the MPhil in Global Risk and Resilience is 2nd December 2025.
Find out more about the different funding options available on our website: www.cser.ac.uk/education/mp...
A reminder that the funding deadline for the MPhil in Global Risk and Resilience is 2nd December 2025.
Find out more about the different funding options available on our website: www.cser.ac.uk/education/mp...
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With United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research @unidir.org, we are launching a series of technical briefs & webinars on emerging technologies & the #1972BWC
Register now for the 1 st webinar on efforts to address #dualuse challenges of #Al-Driven BioDesign tools.
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Register now for the 1 st webinar on efforts to address #dualuse challenges of #Al-Driven BioDesign tools.
bit.ly/4oLxlso
November 24, 2025 at 9:56 AM
With United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research @unidir.org, we are launching a series of technical briefs & webinars on emerging technologies & the #1972BWC
Register now for the 1 st webinar on efforts to address #dualuse challenges of #Al-Driven BioDesign tools.
bit.ly/4oLxlso
Register now for the 1 st webinar on efforts to address #dualuse challenges of #Al-Driven BioDesign tools.
bit.ly/4oLxlso
How much risk is too much for the world’s top insurers?
Did you miss Lorraine Daston’s lecture in September on how the insurance industry confronts catastrophic risk?
👀You can watch the full recording on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/BEqrapJURxI?...
Did you miss Lorraine Daston’s lecture in September on how the insurance industry confronts catastrophic risk?
👀You can watch the full recording on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/BEqrapJURxI?...
November 21, 2025 at 10:35 AM
How much risk is too much for the world’s top insurers?
Did you miss Lorraine Daston’s lecture in September on how the insurance industry confronts catastrophic risk?
👀You can watch the full recording on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/BEqrapJURxI?...
Did you miss Lorraine Daston’s lecture in September on how the insurance industry confronts catastrophic risk?
👀You can watch the full recording on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/BEqrapJURxI?...
Missed our recent MPhil in Global Risk and Resilience virtual open day?
The full recording is now available to watch!
📺 Watch the recording here: youtu.be/zPs39lmKMmI?...
❓ Have any further questions about the course? Get in touch with us at education@cser.cam.ac.uk
The full recording is now available to watch!
📺 Watch the recording here: youtu.be/zPs39lmKMmI?...
❓ Have any further questions about the course? Get in touch with us at education@cser.cam.ac.uk
PGOD 2025: Global Risk and Resilience
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November 20, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Missed our recent MPhil in Global Risk and Resilience virtual open day?
The full recording is now available to watch!
📺 Watch the recording here: youtu.be/zPs39lmKMmI?...
❓ Have any further questions about the course? Get in touch with us at education@cser.cam.ac.uk
The full recording is now available to watch!
📺 Watch the recording here: youtu.be/zPs39lmKMmI?...
❓ Have any further questions about the course? Get in touch with us at education@cser.cam.ac.uk
👀 Have you spotted the new illustrations on our website?
🌍 Systems
Inspired by planetary tipping point research, the segments represent processes, flows and structures that are important for keeping the biosphere stable.
🌍 Systems
Inspired by planetary tipping point research, the segments represent processes, flows and structures that are important for keeping the biosphere stable.
November 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
👀 Have you spotted the new illustrations on our website?
🌍 Systems
Inspired by planetary tipping point research, the segments represent processes, flows and structures that are important for keeping the biosphere stable.
🌍 Systems
Inspired by planetary tipping point research, the segments represent processes, flows and structures that are important for keeping the biosphere stable.
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🚨Event alert🚨
Have you registered your attendance for 'The Impact of UK Planetary Geoscience' conference at the Geological Society of London?
📅 27 Nov
🎟️ Reduced rates for @royalastrosoc.bsky.social Fellows
📝 Registration closes 26 Nov
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Have you registered your attendance for 'The Impact of UK Planetary Geoscience' conference at the Geological Society of London?
📅 27 Nov
🎟️ Reduced rates for @royalastrosoc.bsky.social Fellows
📝 Registration closes 26 Nov
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November 18, 2025 at 12:50 PM
🚨Event alert🚨
Have you registered your attendance for 'The Impact of UK Planetary Geoscience' conference at the Geological Society of London?
📅 27 Nov
🎟️ Reduced rates for @royalastrosoc.bsky.social Fellows
📝 Registration closes 26 Nov
ℹ️ geolsoc.org.uk/events/the-impact-of-uk-planetary-geoscience
Have you registered your attendance for 'The Impact of UK Planetary Geoscience' conference at the Geological Society of London?
📅 27 Nov
🎟️ Reduced rates for @royalastrosoc.bsky.social Fellows
📝 Registration closes 26 Nov
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Last month in collaboration with King’s E-Lab, King’s College, we hosted an international conference to mark the 75th anniversary of the famous Turing Test. If you missed it, you can catch up by reading the event summary and watching the recordings.
www.lcfi.ac.uk/news-events/...
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The Next Turing Tests: Legacy, current AI and what’s next - LCFI
Last month the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) in collaboration with King’s E-Lab at King’s College, hosted an international conference entitled the Next Turing Tests to mark th...
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November 13, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Last month in collaboration with King’s E-Lab, King’s College, we hosted an international conference to mark the 75th anniversary of the famous Turing Test. If you missed it, you can catch up by reading the event summary and watching the recordings.
www.lcfi.ac.uk/news-events/...
www.lcfi.ac.uk/news-events/...
📢 Funding deadline: 2 December 2025
Applying for the MPhil in Global Risk and Resilience?
💡 Funding available — including the Lord Martin Rees Scholarships (Home students) and the Commonwealth Shared Scholarship (Developing Commonwealth countries).
Find out more: www.cser.ac.uk/education/mp...
Applying for the MPhil in Global Risk and Resilience?
💡 Funding available — including the Lord Martin Rees Scholarships (Home students) and the Commonwealth Shared Scholarship (Developing Commonwealth countries).
Find out more: www.cser.ac.uk/education/mp...
November 13, 2025 at 11:39 AM
📢 Funding deadline: 2 December 2025
Applying for the MPhil in Global Risk and Resilience?
💡 Funding available — including the Lord Martin Rees Scholarships (Home students) and the Commonwealth Shared Scholarship (Developing Commonwealth countries).
Find out more: www.cser.ac.uk/education/mp...
Applying for the MPhil in Global Risk and Resilience?
💡 Funding available — including the Lord Martin Rees Scholarships (Home students) and the Commonwealth Shared Scholarship (Developing Commonwealth countries).
Find out more: www.cser.ac.uk/education/mp...
Who shapes the just transition? Examining intellectual hegemony in climate research
A new paper by Kennedy Mbeva, Chukwumerije Okereke & Reuben Makomere investigates the issue of intellectual hegemony in Just Transition scholarship.
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A new paper by Kennedy Mbeva, Chukwumerije Okereke & Reuben Makomere investigates the issue of intellectual hegemony in Just Transition scholarship.
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November 13, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Who shapes the just transition? Examining intellectual hegemony in climate research
A new paper by Kennedy Mbeva, Chukwumerije Okereke & Reuben Makomere investigates the issue of intellectual hegemony in Just Transition scholarship.
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iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
A new paper by Kennedy Mbeva, Chukwumerije Okereke & Reuben Makomere investigates the issue of intellectual hegemony in Just Transition scholarship.
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👀 Have you spotted the new illustrations on our website?
🌲 Environmental hazard
This image depicts a floodplain, representing an area of regulated, human-engineering that dominates organic forms. The human-made city form is mimicked in the circuit board in the top left corner.
🌲 Environmental hazard
This image depicts a floodplain, representing an area of regulated, human-engineering that dominates organic forms. The human-made city form is mimicked in the circuit board in the top left corner.
November 12, 2025 at 2:16 PM
👀 Have you spotted the new illustrations on our website?
🌲 Environmental hazard
This image depicts a floodplain, representing an area of regulated, human-engineering that dominates organic forms. The human-made city form is mimicked in the circuit board in the top left corner.
🌲 Environmental hazard
This image depicts a floodplain, representing an area of regulated, human-engineering that dominates organic forms. The human-made city form is mimicked in the circuit board in the top left corner.
The @fao.org has launched its new framework for early warning of animal health threats, developed by an international working group of experts.
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Framework for early warning of animal health threats
Increasing the number of countries that adopt and implement national disaster risk reduction strategies is a key indicator of the Priority Programme Area on One Health (OH PPA), which falls under the ...
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November 10, 2025 at 10:24 AM
The @fao.org has launched its new framework for early warning of animal health threats, developed by an international working group of experts.
openknowledge.fao.org/items/255461...
openknowledge.fao.org/items/255461...
New paper: “Lessons from 40 years of communicating volcanic risk during crises”, co-authored by CSER’s @laramani14.bsky.social, has been published in Nature Geoscience as part of the journal’s 40th anniversary special issue marking the 1985 Nevado del Ruiz eruption.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Lessons from 40 years of communicating volcanic risk during crises - Nature Geoscience
Since the 1985 Nevado del Ruiz eruption that killed over 23,000 people in Armero, Colombia, risk communication has become central to volcanic crisis management. Despite the development of effective to...
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November 10, 2025 at 9:52 AM
New paper: “Lessons from 40 years of communicating volcanic risk during crises”, co-authored by CSER’s @laramani14.bsky.social, has been published in Nature Geoscience as part of the journal’s 40th anniversary special issue marking the 1985 Nevado del Ruiz eruption.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
👀 Have you spotted the new illustrations on our website?
💻 AI
This image links the history of coding with the risks and rewards of AI, highlighting its human and material roots in early weaving technologies.
💻 AI
This image links the history of coding with the risks and rewards of AI, highlighting its human and material roots in early weaving technologies.
November 6, 2025 at 2:28 PM
👀 Have you spotted the new illustrations on our website?
💻 AI
This image links the history of coding with the risks and rewards of AI, highlighting its human and material roots in early weaving technologies.
💻 AI
This image links the history of coding with the risks and rewards of AI, highlighting its human and material roots in early weaving technologies.
As part of the Postgraduate Open Days, the University will be running sessions from 10–14 November on choosing a College, funding opportunities and other areas of student support.
Find out more and register here: www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/openday
Find out more and register here: www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/openday
Postgraduate Open Days | Postgraduate Study
Virtual Postgraduate Open Days, 3-14 November 2025 Join us for our Virtual Postgraduate Open Days and discover if Cambridge is the right place for you. The event takes place entirely online and featur...
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November 5, 2025 at 11:24 AM
As part of the Postgraduate Open Days, the University will be running sessions from 10–14 November on choosing a College, funding opportunities and other areas of student support.
Find out more and register here: www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/openday
Find out more and register here: www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/openday
Apply to be our new Postgraduate Co-ordinator, supporting the MPhil in Global Risk and Resilience!
📣 Closing date Wednesday 5th November
📣 Closing date Wednesday 5th November
CSER is looking for a Postgraduate Co-ordinator to support our new MPhil in Global Risk and Resilience!
📅 Deadline: Wednesday 5 November
🔗 Apply and learn more: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/postgra...
📅 Deadline: Wednesday 5 November
🔗 Apply and learn more: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/postgra...
November 3, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Apply to be our new Postgraduate Co-ordinator, supporting the MPhil in Global Risk and Resilience!
📣 Closing date Wednesday 5th November
📣 Closing date Wednesday 5th November
Have questions for our teaching team about the MPhil? Join our virtual open day on 3rd November at 4 pm!
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🔗 www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/openday
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October 31, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Have questions for our teaching team about the MPhil? Join our virtual open day on 3rd November at 4 pm!
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