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2020-10-11 13:00: Bird migration: evolutionary genetics of migratory behaviour (Speaker to be confirmed)

2020-10-13 13:00: Replaying the tape of life: how predictable is evolution? (Katie Peichel (Bern))

2020-10-13 13:15: Philosophy, Fiction, and Videogames (Prof Derek Matravers )

2020-10-13 19:30: Phosphine and Photochemistry on Venus (Dr Paul Rimmer)

2020-10-20 13:00: Do fish have necks? How fish use the axial muscles and skeleton to power suction feeding (Ariel Camp (Liverpool))

2020-10-20 13:15: The Collapse of Complex Societies (Dr Sabin Roman)

2020-10-20 19:30: Influence of observations of total solar eclipses on cultures in old times (Dr Alexander Prokofiev)

2020-10-27 13:00: The late, great bilaterians: hunting down the first animals in the fossil record (Graham Budd (Uppsala))

2020-10-27 13:15: Peer-to-Peer Energy Markets: Understanding the Values of Collective and Community Trading (Dr Denise Wilkins)

2020-10-27 19:30: Why do galaxies die? (James Trussler)

2020-11-03 13:00: Convergent Evolution of a Social Symbiosis (Joe Parker (Caltech))

2020-11-03 13:15: Documenting a Child's Rule: Louis IX of France and the Vision for his Kingship, 1226-1235 (Dr Emily Ward ( Faculty of History))

2020-11-10 13:00: Bird migration: evolutionary genetics of migratory behaviour (Miriam Liedvogel (Max Planck))

2020-11-10 13:15: Climate migration: A mobile idea (David Durand-Delacre)

2020-11-10 19:30: The effect of impacts by small bodies on the ancient atmosphere of Earth (Catriona Sinclair)

2020-11-17 13:00: The complex consequences of simple sociality in wild populations (Josh Firth (Oxford))

2020-11-17 13:15: Smart assistive technology provision for older people living in England: the social and political dynamics (Dr Phoebe Stirling)

2020-11-24 13:00: How a year-round breeding tropical songbird copes with seasonal aridity (Chima Nwaogu (Fitzpatrick Inst))

2020-11-24 13:15: Wind power and the emergence of the green institutional investor (Dr Mercedes Galindez)

2020-11-24 19:30: The Dawn of a new Era: Exploring the Universe with Gravitational Waves (Dr Ulrich Sperhake)

2020-12-01 13:15: "Climate change is not a game... but what if it was?" (Dr Michela Leonardi )

2020-12-01 19:30: Formation and evolution of galaxies across the cosmic epochs (Professor Roberto Maiolino)

2021-01-19 13:00: Genome duplication, gene dosage, and evolution (Aoife McLysaght - University of Dublin)

2021-01-26 13:00: The mind of the bee (Lars Chittka - Queen Mary University of London)

2021-01-26 13:15: Literary Self-translation, Re-writing and the Stereo-effect (Dr Nebojša Radić, Language Centre)

2021-02-02 13:00: Extreme Weapons: A Natural History (Doug Emlen - University of Montana)

2021-02-02 13:15: Beyond the “empathy machine“: rethinking the role of digital realities in creating social change (Rosie A. Wright)

2021-02-09 13:00: Problem solving in slime molds (Audrey Dussutour - Universite Paul Sabatier)

2021-02-09 13:15: Data Flows: Monetizing Periods (Stefanie Felsberger)

2021-02-16 13:00: The links between sensory and motor systems: from cells to organisms (Natasha Mhatre - University of Western Ontario)

2021-02-16 13:15: Shaping the structure of the economy to fulfill political objectives: a constructivist and institutionalist political economy perspective on French institutional reforms (1958-69) (Clément de Rivas)

2021-02-23 13:00: Biotic Diversification in Southeast Asia and the Indonesian Archipelago in the Era of NGS (Frank Rheindt - National University of Singapore)

2021-02-23 13:15: Books, Botany and the Understanding of Nature in Eighteenth-Century Cambridge (Dr. Edwin Rose, Munby Fellow in Bibliography, University of Cambridge)

2021-03-02 13:00: Multiple determinants maintain diversity in nature (Swanne Gordon - Washington University)

2021-03-02 13:15: The role of the psychologist in prisons: An historical overview (Sophie Ellis (University of Cambridge))

2021-03-09 13:00: Nature’s information networks: from collective behavior to ecosystem dynamics (Andrew Hein - University of California)

2021-03-09 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Andrew Hein - University of California)

2021-03-09 13:15: A Return to Normalcy? Joe Biden and Donald Trump in Chinese Media. (Fangyuan Liu, MPhil Sociology student in Darwin College)

2021-03-16 13:15: Reimagining climate change education in formal school settings (Bethany Davies )

2021-05-04 13:15: How Early Christian Storytellers Exercised Creative License when Telling Tales about Jesus (Dr Julia Snyder,  Faculty of Divinity,  University of Cambridge)

2021-05-11 13:15: Human Religion:  Concern and Clarity in One Darwin Sentence (Glen Milstein, Ph.D.  Associate Professor  Department of Psychology  The City College of New York )

2021-05-18 13:15: Charles Malik in the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1982) (Chloe Kattar)

2021-05-25 13:15: Computing eclipses at the end of the Wars of the Roses: the life and works of Lewis of Caerleon.   (Dr Laure Miolo, Cambridge University Library Munby Fellow)

2021-10-12 13:00: Distribution and ecology of albatrosses and petrels; underlying drivers and implications for conservation (Richard Philips, British Antarctic Survey)

2021-11-09 13:00: Y haplotype diversity and male phenotypes (Judith Mank, University of British Columbia)

2021-11-16 13:00: Quantitative studies of rapid evolutionary adaptation (Dmitri Petrov, Stanford University)

2021-11-23 13:00: The functional consequences of extinction and the evolution of gigantism (Catalina Pimiento, Swansea University)