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Ojime bead in the form of a skeleton with a background of ghosts from woodblock print by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, both 19th century Japanese
Credit: Ashmolean Museum

FrightFriday, 25 Nov at 7pm
Book your free ticket now for this Ashmolean & TORCH LiveFriday event
Dolittle the cockatoo
Goffin's cockatoos - including one called Dolittle, pictured - have been filmed making the same tool from different materials
Credit: Bene Croy

Skilful cockatoos make the same tool from different materials
Research suggests that the birds can anticipate how the tools will be used
Merton Sunrise
Early morning sun over Merton College
(Image Credit: Steven Langton / Graduate Photography Competition)

Graduate students belong both to a department and a college
Colleges provide a multidisciplinary, supportive community of fellow students and academics
Children taking part in the city's Light Night Festival
Children taking part in Oxford's Christmas Light Festival
Credit: John Cairns

Christmas Light Festival, 25-27 Nov
Welcome winter in some of the University’s museums and collections
St Edmund Hall
The Front Quad, St Edmund Hall.
(Credit: St Edmund Hall)

The 8th annual International Guidance Counsellors’ Conference
Bookings close on 25 Nov for the conference to take place on 17 and 18 Feb 2017

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Lip-reading

Science Blog
Could this Oxford-developed software help solve the tricky problem of lip-reading?

Events

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23Nov- 26Nov

Callaloo Conference

Pembroke College
23 Nov 2016 to 26 Nov 2016
26Nov

Shakespeare and the Brain

St Edmund Hall

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Oxford Somme

Remembering #TheOxfordSomme: 18 Nov 2016
We publish the names of over 300 students, fellows, alumni and college staff who lost their lives in the battle
Fright bat

The research behind FRIGHTFriday
Explore the TORCH projects involved in Friday’s frightful event
Job of the week

Job of the week
Postdoctoral Research Assistant of the Simons Collaboration on the Nonperturbative Bootstrap, Mathematical Institute: £31,076 - £38,183 p.a.
Trump Russian doll

Oxford in The Conversation
James McDougall: No, this isn’t the 1930s – but yes, this is fascism
Iris Project

Save the date: 7 Feb 2017
Professor Robert Winston will open The Iris Festival of Ancient and Modern Science
Miles Young

Alumni Voices: Miles Young (New College, 1973)
New College's Warden reflects on Oxford and his thirty year career with Ogilvy and Mather
Immigrant art

Artistic Engagement in Immigration Detention Centres
Professor Mary Bosworth talks about her research
View from All Souls Quad

Oxford Today: Finishing Radcliffe Square
How the Codrington Library accidentally completed Radcliffe Square in 1716
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Featured Podcast
Access All Areas: Poetry and the Underworld, Simon Armitage's fourth public lecture
African boys playing football

Help us to help children to walk
Support the OxReach crowdfunding initiative - the Africa Clubfoot Training Project
Patricia Scotland QC

Baroness Scotland will deliver the annual Romanes Lecture on 5 Dec
Reserve your place now to attend her lecture on ‘The Commonwealth of Nations’
Oxford Graduate Funding Top Tips

Graduate Funding Top Tips

Our students are here to help you understand the process of applying for graduate funding at Oxford
Trump and Clinton

US Elections 2016
Oxford's Chancellor Lord Patten asks if Trump will bring down the West?
EU flag

EU referendum
Oxford guarantees EU students home fees rates for 2017/18
EU and UK as jigsaw pieces

Britain and the EU: Analysis
Professor Katrin Kohl: Modern Languages in the UK – all change after the EU Referendum?

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