Join a full day of presentations and stimulating discussions with the academics and prize-winning PhD students in the Faculty of Natural Sciences and find out about our innovative work. Everybody is welcome! Please register as soon as possible (deadline is 17.00 on 9 September 2025).
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Welcome to the ECRI RCDS hackathon 2025 – Coding and Sustainability!
Tuesday 22 July 2025, 10.00-17.00, SK Campus
You are welcome to join us for the 2025 ECRl’s Research Computing and Data Science Programme hackathon. Last year, we experimented with profiling, optimisation, generative AI and GitHub’s Copilot. This year, we will continue the journey of AI-assisted coding with feature selection, optimisation and aim to develop sustainable code. You can leverage generative AI tools, good old Stackoverflow, or anything else you can think of – as long as your code runs within our Python test framework.
We’ll start the day with a guest talk on practical sustainable computing considerations. Afterwards, we’ll move on to a series of short-ish programming tasks. There will be lunch and prizes!
🌍 Participate in a Climate Fresk 🌍
Take part in this global innovative workshop where you’ll learn the fundamentals of climate change through an engaging card game. Collaborate with fellow participants to understand the causes and consequences of climate change while building a visual representation of global systems.
Sign up – Open to all Imperial students and staff
⚙️ Systems thinking & critical analysis: gain insight into complex, interconnected global issues.
💬 Climate & science communication: understand the foundations of climate science and develop the language to communicate key facts confidently
🧠 Reflective thinking: engage in structured reflection on your role in systems change
🤝 Collaboration & peer learning: work in diverse groups to solve problems, co-create meaning and negotiate shared understandings
🗣 Confidence in dialogue: develop your ability to speak about challenging topics with nuance and respect, listen actively, and contribute constructively in group discussions
📊 Evidence-based reasoning: strengthen your ability to interpret complex data and draw insights that inform decisions
Open to all members of the Imperial community
Dates for summer 2025:
The Able Network warmly invites all staff and postgraduate students to a special event in celebration of Disability Pride Month. The event takes place on Wednesday 16 July, 14.00–16.00, Enterprise Lab, South Kensington.
The event will welcome Steph Cutler from disability inclusion consultancy Making Lemonade, who will lead an engaging and thoughtful discussion on the topic of disclosing your disability or neurodiversity – a conversation that’s all about empowerment, choice, and creating inclusive spaces.
After the main talk, there will be a relaxed opportunity to stay, connect, and chat with fellow attendees. Whether you identify as disabled, neurodivergent, an ally, or are simply curious to learn more, you are very welcome to join.
SILFEST tickets are now on sale! Buy at our website: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/195107/silfest-2025/
We’re excited to invite you to a series of hands-on World of Food cooking workshops, where colleagues (staff and students) will share personal stories about the food and culture that matter most to them.
Each workshop will include collaborative cooking, storytelling from our colleagues, and of course, enjoying the meal we’ve prepared together.
These workshops are a celebration of our rich cultural diversity, the values we share, and the joy of coming together. Food has a remarkable ability to connect us on a fundamental level, and exploring what it means to each of us is a powerful way to build mutual appreciation and understanding.
You can sign up using the link below to participate in this year’s sessions. To ensure a fair process, each workshop has a registration deadline. After the deadline, participants will be selected through a lottery. Selected individuals will have 48 hours to confirm their spot. Any unconfirmed spots will be offered to those on the randomized waiting list.
All workshops will take place on Wednesdays in the Chemical Kitchen (Room 763, Chemistry Building, South Kensington):
Feel free to join individually or as a group – no cooking experience is needed, and everyone is welcome!
Spaces are limited, so be sure to register before the deadlines.
I’m excited to reach out to you as the newly appointed PhD student representative for the 3Rs-Hub Advisory Group at Imperial College London. As you may know, the 3Rs-Hub is dedicated to promoting the 3Rs (Replacement, Reduction, and Refinement) in animal research, and our mission is to create a collaborative environment where researchers like you can engage in discussions, share ideas, and work together to advance more ethical and efficient practices in animal research.
Whether your PhD involves animal work, or you are exploring alternative models and systems that can help reduce or replace animal testing, the 3Rs-Hub is a fantastic group for you to get involved in. We are building a community of like-minded students who are passionate about driving change, and we’d love for you to be part of this initiative.
Throughout the year, we will be hosting a range of informative events and networking opportunities aimed at fostering collaboration and furthering the application of the 3Rs principles in research. These events are not only an excellent chance to learn from experts but also a great way to socialize and connect with fellow researchers in the field.
If you are interested in joining the 3Rs-Hub community and contributing to this important work, please contact me at mm720@ic.ac.uk . We look forward to hearing from you and hope you’ll consider being part of this exciting initiative!
Thank you for your time, and I hope to see you at our upcoming events.
Best regards,
Michael Manolakakis
PhD Student Representative, 3Rs-Hub Advisory Group (https://3rshub.imperial.ac.uk/)
Imperial College London
mm720@ic.ac.uk