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Accelerate Programme for Scientific Discovery
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Advancing the frontiers of science through the application of AI.
📢 New blog! @zhou-hy.bsky.social used LLMs to investigate whether disease research happens where it's most needed.

Analysing 300k papers revealed stark disparities in global health research distribution - 43% of clinical trials occur in low/middle-income countries.

Find out more: bit.ly/47RyL2L
November 11, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Introducing our first @acceleratescience.bsky.social Winter School for AI for UK undergraduates!🎉

📍University of Cambridge
🗓️13-16 Jan 2026
🤖 LLM workshops
💻 HPC access
🤝 Career insights, networking and mentoring

Find out more and apply by 21 Nov, 5pm: science.ai.cam.ac.uk/news/2025-10...
November 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Interested to find out more about research taking place in AI for Science? 🔬

Join us over pizza for our second @acceleratescience.bsky.social Lunchtime Seminar this term on 24 Nov, 12 - 1pm in Room SS03, William Gates Building!

Register to attend for free: science.ai.cam.ac.uk/events/accel...
November 4, 2025 at 11:14 AM
New AI clinic slots available to book in November and December! 🗓️

Open to all @cam.ac.uk PhD students, researchers and staff, our clinic offers free expert advice on any AI and machine learning questions.

Book a slot: training.cam.ac.uk/apsci/search
October 31, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Thank you to everyone who joined our Introduction to Diffusion Models in Generative AI workshop last week! 🤖

Are you based at @cam.ac.uk and interested to develop practical machine learning skills for research?

Sign up for an upcoming workshop: training.cam.ac.uk/apsci/search
October 28, 2025 at 12:09 PM
📢 New blog! FTorch software from @iccscambridge.bsky.social couples PyTorch ML to Fortran models and is now used globally in climate, weather and fusion research.

A September workshop with 40 researchers explored hybrid modelling challenges.

Find out more: bit.ly/48FYxsM
October 21, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Interested to find out more about research taking place in AI for Science?

Join us over pizza🍕for our first @acceleratescience.bsky.social Lunchtime Seminar this term, Mon 27 October, 12pm - 1pm in Room SS03, William Gates Building!

Register to attend for free:
science.ai.cam.ac.uk/events/accel...
October 15, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Excited to share details of our AI Café on 20 October organised with @cruk-ci.bsky.social! 🔬

Want to find out more about how AI is being used in cancer research? Join us to hear talks from researchers & discuss with an AI expert. Those new to AI are very welcome to attend!

Sign up: bit.ly/3KNwc9N
October 7, 2025 at 9:04 AM
📢 New blog! @charlesemogor.bsky.social uses machine learning to enhance anti-poaching across sub-Saharan Africa.

Working with @anil.recoil.org, @fletcherecology.bsky.social and @milindtambe-ai.bsky.social, he is developing models to help rangers patrol effectively.

Find out more: bit.ly/4mMs3Av
September 30, 2025 at 9:26 AM
We are thrilled to be attending the Cambridge Wearables Innovation Forum Launch today at Pembroke College, Cambridge! 🚀 @dynamicbrain.bsky.social

We look forward to chatting with attendees about how to use machine learning and AI to power scientific research on wearable health tech.
September 29, 2025 at 11:57 AM
📢Booking is now open for our training courses next term!

Courses are open to all PhD students and staff at the University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk, sign up now to develop your AI skills and apply them in your research.

Find out more and book: science.ai.cam.ac.uk/events
September 14, 2025 at 9:03 AM
📢 New blog! Isaac Sebenius, who recently completed his PhD @psychiatry-ucam.bsky.social developed MIND with supervisors @sarahmorganuk.bsky.social and Professor Ed Bullmore - a machine learning method transforming MRI brain scans into biologically validated networks.

Find out more: bit.ly/4gccUXm
September 9, 2025 at 1:24 PM
New AI clinic slots available to book on 9 and 10 September! 🗓️

Open to all PhD students and researchers, our clinic offers free expert advice on any AI and machine learning questions.

Book a slot: science.ai.cam.ac.uk/events
August 22, 2025 at 1:35 PM
📢 New blog! Find out how Richard Diehl Martinez, a PhD student from @cst.cam.ac.uk used funding from @acceleratescience.bsky.social to develop Pico - an open-source framework with less than 500 lines of Python code that democratises AI model training for researchers.

Find out more: bit.ly/41Pkv8f
August 19, 2025 at 8:54 AM
📢 New blog! Find out how Megan Ennion, a PhD student from @camedfac.bsky.social supervised by Ros McLellan used funding from Accelerate and @cambridgec2d3.bsky.social to study how AI tutors impact student learning psychology and behaviors.

Find out more: bit.ly/46It7ky
August 5, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Apply by 12 September to be considered for our funding call with @cambridgec2d3.bsky.social in 3 categories:

🪴 Early Career Seed Funding up to £5,000 for PhD students/postdocs

🤝 Up to £15,000 to convene networks & events

📚 Up to £25,000 for larger scale projects

Find out more: bit.ly/4k13yyh
July 31, 2025 at 8:38 AM
📢 New blog! Find out how Jakob Träuble from
@ceb.cam.ac.uk used funding from Accelerate and
@cambridgec2d3.bsky.social to help detect conditions like Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s years before symptoms appear.

Find out more: bit.ly/4mhdKEd
July 25, 2025 at 10:22 AM
📢 New blog post! Find out how @florianjaeckle.bsky.social based at @campathology.bsky.social @cuh.nhs.uk @hugheshall.bsky.social is using AI to speed up diagnosis of coeliac disease developing an algorithm that correctly identified more than 95 cases out of 100.

Find out more: bit.ly/3Z3Q6C0
May 30, 2025 at 11:59 AM
New AI clinic slots available to book on 5 and 12 June. Open to all University of Cambridge PhD students and researchers, our clinic offers free expert advice on any AI and machine learning questions.

Book a slot: www.training.cam.ac.uk/event/5821418
May 30, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Looking to develop your career in AI for Science? We are recruiting Machine Learning Engineers to join the team, developing & delivering support for researchers @uniofcam.bsky.social using AI in their work.

Find out more & apply by 22 June: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51390/
May 27, 2025 at 2:45 PM
📢 Spaces available on our LLM Hands on Workshop at West Hub on Tuesday 10 June!

🔎 You’ll work in teams on real datasets, with support from Accelerate Science Machine Learning Engineers and researchers.

Open to all University of Cambridge PhD students & staff, sign up now: bit.ly/3YYssH2
May 27, 2025 at 9:21 AM
📢 New blog! Find our how Dr Sam Ip from
@dphpc.bsky.social and @ccge-cambridge.bsky.social
used funding from Accelerate and
@cambridgec2d3.bsky.social to convene researchers to talk about distribution shifts in early cancer detection.

Find out more: bit.ly/3YZcw7f
May 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM
📢 New blog! Find out how Marta Correia @mrccbu.bsky.social uses AI to diagnose movement disorders such as Parkinson’s earlier.

Marta took part the Accelerate-Cambridge Spark Residency & Machine Learning Academy to support her transition to working with Python.

Find out more: bit.ly/3ZicMOM
May 15, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Looking for support using AI in your research? Sign up for a clinic session next week to meet with our Machine Learning Engineer for free expert support with any elements of deploying AI from how to get started to fixing implementation issues.

Book now: bit.ly/3F81bLo
May 14, 2025 at 1:39 PM
The next lunchtime seminar takes place on Monday 19 May from 12:00 - 13:00 with Moshe Eliasof, Research Associate from DAMTP sharing his research On Activation and Normalization Layers in Graph Neural Networks.

Register to attend: bit.ly/3S1mr8r
May 13, 2025 at 8:29 AM