Publications

Andrew Balmford

Bartlett, H., M. Holmes, S. Petrovan, D. Williams, J.L.N. Wood and A. Balmford. 2022. Understanding the relative risks of zoonosis emergence under contrasting approaches to meeting livestock product demand. R. Soc. Open Sci. 9: 211573

Paul Cartledge

Cartledge, P. 2021. Democratic crises, revolutions and civil resistance. In C. Atack & P. Cartledge (eds), A Cultural History of Democracy vol 1: Antiquity (London: Bloomsbury), chapter 8
Western-style democracy is under massive threat and attack from all parts of the globe - but King Charles III is fighting back, and so are we Classicists and ancient historians! The world of ancient Greece was not ours, except as the origin of the world's first democracies, and as an inspiration for what ‘the power of the people’ really could be - once again. My co-edited volume is vol. 1 of a 6-volume cultural history of Democracy from ancient to modern edited by Eugenio Biagini which we hope readers will learn from as well as enjoy.

Nicola Clayton

Garcia-Pelegrin, E., C. Wilkins and N.S. Clayton. 2022. Investigating expert performance when observing magic effects. Scientific Reports 12: 5141. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-09161-5
The research shows that jays, like humans, are fooled by some magic effects but not others. They are fooled by ones that use hands as barriers, in a similar vein to the way wings work. They are not fooled by effects that involve fingers and thumbs, because they don’t have an expectation about how fingers and thumbs work.

Can Cui

Cui, C. 2022. The saturation of the VSI in protoplanetary discs via parametric instability. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022MNRAS.512.1639C/abstract
The study of the saturation of a hydrodynamic instability that may operate in protoplanetary disks, based on three-wave interactions of inertial waves.

Maciej Dunajski

Dunajski, M. 2022. Geometry: A very short introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press
This book provides a fresh modern introduction to geometry, an ancient branch of mathematics with important applications. It takes readers from Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometries to curved spaces and the geometry of space-time inside a black hole, and outlines the role geometry plays in the broader context of science and art.

Paul Edwards

Howarth, Karen D., T. Mirza, S.L. Cooke, S.-F. Chin, J.C. Pole, E. Turro, M.D. Eldridge, R. Manzano Garcia, O.M. Rueda, C. Boursnell, J.E. Abraham, C. Caldas and P.A.W. Edwards. 2021. NRG1 fusions in breast cancer. Breast Cancer Research 23:3

Patricia Fara

Fara, P. 2022. Professor Ptthmllnsprts versus Old Bones. History Today July 2022: 84-89
The latest in a regular illustrated column on scientific history called ‘Great Debates.’ Future topics include Lysenkoism, the Antikythera Mechanism, Ada Lovelace and Newton’s critics.

Phil Faulkner

Feduzi, A., P. Faulkner, J. Runde, L. Cabantous, L. and C.H. Loch. 2022. Heuristic Methods for Updating Small World Representations in Strategic Situations of Knightian Uncertainty. Academy of Management Review 47(3): 402-424

Andrew Friend

Chen, Y., T. Rademacher, P. Fonti, A.H. Eckes-Shephard, J.M. LeMoine, M.V. Fonti, A.D. Richardson and A.D. Friend. 2022. Inter-annual and inter-species tree growth explained by phenology of xylogenesis. New Phytologist 235: 939-952. doi:10.1111/nph.18195

John Gibson

Lu, David C.-Y., A. Hannemann and J.S. Gibson. 2022. Effect of plasma on the activity of KCl cotransport in red cells from low potassium-containing sheep. Frontiers in Physiology 13: 904280. PMID: 35685289; PMCID: PMC9171837; DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2022.904280

Jonathan Goodman

A. Howarth, J. M. Goodman. The DP5 Probability, Quantification and Visualisation of Structural Uncertainty in Single Molecules. Chemical Science 2022, 13, 3507-3518. DOI: 10.1039/D1SC04406K
When chemists make new substances, do they really know what they are? If you want to make a new medicine, you must be certain. The DP5 probability analyses NMR spectra to work out whether the molecule people think they have made is actually the molecule that they have.

Ed Harding

Harding, E. 2021. Nitric Oxide Synthase Neurons in the Preoptic Hypothalamus Are NREM and REM Sleep-Active and Lower Body Temperature. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2021.709825/full

Bill Harris

Harris, W.A. 2022. Zero to Birth: How the Human Brain is Built. Princeton: Princeton University Press
Did you ever wonder about how your brain is made? This book is a step-by-step guide to what we know about the development of the human brain, from its earliest origins. The book highlights major scientific questions and the discoveries that have transformed our current understanding of how the most complicated thing in the world is built.

David Howarth

Howarth, D. 2021. ‘Westminster versus Whitehall: What the Brexit Debate Revealed About an Unresolved Conflict at the Heart of the British Constitution’ in Oran Doyle, Aileen McHarg and Jo Murkens, The Brexit Challenge for Ireland and the United Kingdom (Cambridge University Press, 2021).

Sarah Lockwood

Lockwood, Sarah J. 2022. Protest Brokers and the Technology of Mobilization: Evidence from Africa. Comparative Political Studies 55(4)
This article seeks to understand why some communities protest to demand change, while other seemingly similar communities do not. Drawing on over 2 years of ethnographic fieldwork in South Africa, it identifies, for the first time, the critical role played by protest brokers – intermediaries who connect individuals desiring mobilization with groups of potential protestors. The article received an honorable mention for the Alexander L. George Award from the American Political Science Association, which recognizes outstanding new work within the qualitative tradition.

Thomas McClelland

McClelland, T. and M. Jorba. 2022. Perceptual Motivation. Review of Philosophy & Psychology 2022. DOI 10.1007/s13164-021-00608-8
Sometimes what we perceive directly motivates us to act. An itch, for example, motivates you to scratch. This paper offers an account of how such perceptions motivate us.

Lawrence Paulson

Paulson, L.C. 2021. Ackermann’s function in iterative form: a proof assistant experiment. Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 27:4: 426–435
Proof assistants are software tools for conducting symbolic logic on a computer. They have been developed and used by computer scientists to prove the correctness of hardware and software. This expository paper introduces this technology to logicians themselves through a small but remarkable example involving the well-known (to them) Ackermann's function.

Jaideep Prabhu

Prabhu, Jaideep. 2021. How Should a Government Be?: The New Levers of State Power. Profile Books

For a century, the most divisive question in political thought has been about the size of the state. Should it expand and take an active role in many areas of life? Or is that meddlesome and wasteful? Prabhu argues that this dilemma might have made sense in earlier decades. Now, with a world transformed by Covid-19 and a revolution unfolding in the technologies of organisation, a great upheaval is also coming in the essential business of government.

Andrew Preston

Preston, A. 2022. From Dong Dang to Da Nang: The Past, Present, and Future of America’s Thirty Years War for Asia. Diplomatic History 46. https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhab077

Graham Ross

Ross, Graham (conductor), Carolyn Sampson (soprano), The Choir of Clare College Cambridge, The Dmitri Ensemble. 2022. Ice Land: The Eternal Music. Harmonia Mundi HMM905330

Christoph Schran

Kapil*, V., C. Schran*, A. Zen, J. Chen, C.J. Pickard and A. Michaelides*. 2022. The first-principles phase diagram of monolayer nanoconfined water. Nature 2022. https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.14569

Sam Stranks

Doherty, T. A. S.; Nagane, S.; Kubicki, D. J.; Jung, Y.-K.; Johnstone, D. N. ; Iqbal, A. N.; Guo, D.; Frohna, K.; Danaie, M.; Tennyson, E. M.; Macpherson, S.; Abfalterer, A.; Anaya, M.; Chiang, Y.-H.; Crout, P.; Ruggeri, F. S.; Collins, S.; Grey, C. P.; Walsh, A.; Midgley, P. A.; *Stranks, S. D. Stabilized tilted-octahedra halide perovskites inhibit local formation of performance-limiting phases Science 2021, 374(6575), 1598-1605

Dorothy Thompson

Thompson, D. J. 2022. Alexander and Alexandria in life and legend. In Richard Stoneman (ed.), A History of Alexander the Great in World Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press): 14–41

Ed Turner

Howlett, K. and E.C. Turner. 2021. Effects of COVID-19 lockdown restrictions on parents' attitudes towards green space and time spent outside by children in Cambridgeshire and North London, United Kingdom. People and Nature. DOI: 10.1002/pan3.10291
This publication investigates the effects of the COVID lockdown on children's access to nature. We found that lockdown had more severe impacts on urban than rural children, highlighting the importance of the work we do in the Museum of Zoology and Clare College to support children's access to biology.

Toby Wilkinson

Wilkinson, Toby. 2022. Tutankhamun’s Trumpet: The Story of Ancient Egypt in 100 Objects. London: Picador
To mark the centenary of the discovery of Tutankhamun’s burial, Tutankhamun’s Trumpet takes a unique approach to the tomb and its treasure: one hundred artefacts interred with the king, arranged in ten thematic groups, are allowed to speak again as witnesses of ancient Egypt, its geography, history, civilisation, and legacy.

Sam Wimpenny

Wimpenny S. 2022. Weak, Seismogenic Faults Inherited from Mesozoic rifts Control Mountain Building in the Andean Foreland. Geophysics, Geochemistry and Geosystems. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GC010270.

Jim Woodhouse

Woodhouse, Jim. 2022. The acoustics of a plucked harp string. Journal of Sound and Vibration 523: 116669. DOI 10.1016/j.jsv.2021.116669.
A summary of this work can be found in section 7.4 of the e-book at euphonics.org.