King's College, Cambridge

25/09/2026

King's art and architecture is iconic the world over. But can you name all 8 buildings or art pieces from an extreme closeup of a single detail?

Clues in the captions of each image. Answers and wides uploaded tomorrow (Saturday).



1️⃣ Yes it's supposed to look like this...

2️⃣ This odd chap stands guard above a doorway. He does not Provoke. He does not Protest

3️⃣ She has her back to that which she is holding.
Bonus points for naming her, where she is, and also for what specifically she is holding (not the obvious bit obvs).

4️⃣ This is a single example, but it is heavily featured.

5️⃣ Given the central item in this story, this little dude could just as easily accompany Snow White.
I'd like the specific window.

6️⃣ Quietly leaves the premises

7️⃣ V. familiar, definitely rings a Bell

8️⃣ If you're a student (or were one) you've been here. But probably not since Fresher's Week.

17/09/2026

Tariffs are "supposed" to improve a nation's economy.

However, they frequently do the opposite. And, at the moment, the damage Trump's tariffs are causing is spreading far beyond US borders.

Professor Maurice Obstfeld (KC 1975) breaks down tariffs, how they work, and why they often end up doing the opposite of what those who put them in place claim they will do.

Professor Obstfeld is Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

14/09/2026

How monogamous are you?
SPOILERS:
Less than a mouse.

Thanks to Dr Mark Dyble’s paper ‘Human monogamy in mammalian context’, you can find out exactly how you compare to much of the animal kingdom!

Mark’s study, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences, looks at reproductive monogamy in eleven mammalian species who are considered to be “socially monogamous”. We rank seventh out of the 11.

The article is open source, so do give it a read - Mark’s work is ace!

Link in bio

13/09/2026

12/09/2026

Did you know we have a Research Fellow in Rhythm?
Or that we saved a landlocked seal's life by letting it swim in our fountain?

King's is wonderful. It's weird. And it's full of people who are up to truly incredible things.

Catch up on what the King's community have been doing over the past 6 months (and once in 1884) in the latest issue of King's Parade. Free digital version is in our link in bio 🔗

21/08/2026

All year round, King's grounds are teeming with life. So much so, it takes an army of avid photographers just to capture a fraction of it. If you've taken any pictures of the critters of King's this year, please do share them with us!

📷 1 Hummingbird hawk-moth captured by Geoff Murphy and Ed Valletta just before the 2026 August wildflower meadow harvest

📷 2 King's' newest fox cub, Reynard Keynes, captured by .clarkson.photography in May 2026

📷 3 Peregrine Falcon losing its lunch (pigeon) on the Chapel. Bill Lawton Cambridge,UK Photographer August 2026

📷 4 Canadian Goose braving the icy waters of the Cam in late January 2026. Nick 'Peril' Harris

📷 5 Kingfisher by the Cam August 2025 .clarkson.photography

14/08/2026

So we had some trouble baling our harvest 😬

Last week Bryn and Cosmo the horses mowed and then sifted our meadow ready for baling this week. We're 2 horsepower down, but an army of gardeners and 1 'Rapid Rob' up.

To keep to our philosophy of the lowest negative impact on the meadow (and wider environment) we have once again ignored large, heavy tractors, instead opting for a push-along baler. However, owing to yet more heatwaves the process wasn't straightforward.

Note from Nick: this one was even harder to shoot than last week. Please send your love (and cold beverages) to our heroic gardening team.

07/08/2026

So we just mowed our lawn with horses...again.

Every year since 2020, King's has teamed up with the wonderful to harvest our wildflower meadow. And it's a fun couple of days out.

But it's more than just a spectacle. It's vital to maintaining our wildflower meadow and all the extra life that meadow brings to King's.

Next week the harvest will be baled, ready to be used to plant more wildflower meadows across Cambridge.

Let me know in the comments if you want to follow that process too. (This video took quite a lot out of me to film and edit, and I imagine next week will be the same).

06/08/2026

When University of Cambridge post-graduates receive their degrees, the streets of Cambridge become a kaleidoscope. But what do all the different coloured hoods mean?

This particular rainbow of recent King's graduates features a variety of degrees, but each graduate is linked.

Doctor Leow Kah Shin (Left) received his PhD in Land Economy, with a dissertation on “Essays on Real Estate Finance and Machine Learning”.

He is also a co-founder of Quantedge Capital, which established the Quantedge Foundation, which in turn launched the Quantedge-Cambridge Masters Scholarships (International) for students with refugee status or from areas of conflict.

The wonderful thing about these photos is that each of the other graduates featured were recipients of the scholarship Kah Shin helped to create.

Joelle came to Cambridge from Syria in 2025, graduating this summer with an MPhil in Architecture and Urban Studies.

Her dissertation was on “The River and the Museum: The Making of French Mandate Cultural Order in Antakya, 1926–1939”.

Joelle is also the founder of the The Water Commons Archives which documents critical spatial histories on water bordering systems in Syria and its neighbouring countries. She is continuing this work post-graduation.

Originally from Ukraine, Sophia received her LLM this summer and aims to work in international arbitration (cross-border disputes). In particular she hopes to contribute to the postwar reconstruction in Ukraine, specifically with regard to the justice system.

Also from Ukraine, Fedir received his MASt in Astrophysics this summer, having focused on studying the distribution of gas around galaxy clusters. Next year, he will be continuing this work with a PhD at King’s.