About us
Cambridge Skeptics is a not-for-profit community organisation which is on a mission to promote science, positive skepticism and critical thinking skills via public engagement. We host monthly Skeptics in the Pub events with speakers on various subjects as well as social events. We also run events in conjunction with the Cambridge Science Festival.
Our events are open to everyone, whether you consider yourself to be a skeptic or not. If the subject matter is of interest, please come along and join the discussion.
Upcoming events
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- £4.00
Wired to Wander: The Secret Life of Neurons with Spatika Jayaram
The Blue Moon, 2 Norfolk St, Cambridge CB1 2LF, UK, Cambridge, GBConfirm attendance by booking through our box office:
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/cambridgeskepticWhat happens in your brain when you make eye contact, read a room, or lose yourself in deep focus? Beneath every social instinct and attentional shift lies an intricate web of neural circuits — ancient, precise, and surprisingly flexible. How do our biases factor into social attention and the social groups we pay attention to, or choose to avoid? In this talk, we'll explore how specific brain regions orchestrate who we pay attention to, how we respond to others, and why these systems sometimes go awry.
Spatika Jayaram is a Ph.D. student and Gates-Cambridge Scholar in neuroscience at the University of Cambridge. Her research examines mood disorders, and how they develop in the brain during adolescence. She was the runner-up in the international finals of FameLab in 2025, a worldwide science communication event held at CERN in Geneva, after winning the UK Nationals at the Cheltenham Science Festival.
8 attendees - £4.00
Mind of a Crow: What Corvids Reveal About Cognition with Prof Claudia Wascher
The Blue Moon, 2 Norfolk St, Cambridge CB1 2LF, UK, Cambridge, GBConfirm attendance by booking through our box office:
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/cambridgeskepticWhat does it mean to be intelligent? For centuries, humans viewed advanced cognition as a uniquely human trait. Research on corvids, however, has challenged that assumption. Crows, ravens, and other members of the crow family display an impressive range of behaviours, including tool use, future planning, social learning, and innovative problem-solving.
Join Prof Claudia Wascher for an exploration of the science behind corvid cognition. Using examples from her own research and the wider field, she will discuss how studying these birds helps us understand the evolution of cognition and challenges our assumptions about the diversity of minds in the natural world.
Prof Claudia Wascher is Professor of Behavioural Biology at Anglia Ruskin University. Her research focuses on animal cognition, social behaviour, and animal welfare, with a particular interest in corvids and other social species. Through studies conducted in both captive and wild populations, she investigates how animals learn, solve problems, cope with challenges, and interact with one another.
5 attendees
Past events
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