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@oxengsci.bsky.socialOxford Energy Day brought researchers, industry, policymakers and civil society together to explore energy resilience from battery storage and renewables to policy, economics and social equity.
Read more: https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-energy-day-explores-pathways-to-more-resilient-energy-systems
@oxengsci.bsky.socialGreat to see Dr Alicia Torres Gomez (Oxford) and Dr Ashley van Bruygom (Loughborough) presented their Women in Sustainable Aviation initiative at #WISE2026, with their poster selected for discussion with The Princess Royal.
Read more: https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/wisa-presented-at-wise-conference-2026
@oxengsci.bsky.socialOn World Teachers’ Day, we’re celebrating the people who make a difference through teaching and mentoring.
Prof Stephen Morris, was one of five 2026 MPLS Teaching Award recipients.
Read more: https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/mpls-division-honours-teaching-excellence-with-2026-awards
@oxengsci.bsky.socialCongratulations to our student Adrian McIntosh, winner of the Gary and Bill Sanders Best Poster Award at CinC 2026!
His research uses deep learning to convert paper ECGs into digital signals.
https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/ibme-student-wins-best-poster-award-at-computing-in-cardiology-cinc-2026
@oxengsci.bsky.socialWhat if AI agents learn to coordinate without saying anything suspicious?
Oxford Engineering’s Witt Lab has developed a way to detect hidden collusion by analysing activity inside AI models.
Read more: https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/how-can-we-tell-when-ai-agents-are-secretly-colluding
@oxengsci.bsky.socialStarting Engineering Science at Oxford this October? 🎓 Our current students share what they wish they’d known before first year – from balancing work and life to making friends, getting enough sleep and discovering that Oxford wasn’t quite what they expected. We can’t wait to welcome you! 👋
@oxengsci.bsky.socialAround 170,000 people die from cardiovascular disease in the UK each year.
This World Heart Day, we’re highlighting Prof Abhirup Banerjee’s research at the MultiMeDIA Lab. Watch the video to find out more about their work.
Find out more about his work here: https://eng.ox.ac.uk/multimedia
@oxengsci.bsky.socialCongratulations to Professor Martin Booth, elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. His research spans optics, adaptive optics, advanced microscopy and laser-based microfabrication.
@oxengsci.bsky.socialCongratulations to Matthew Stokes, Dr Nafiz Chowdhury and Professor Thomas Povey on receiving the GPPS Best Paper Award – Propulsion! 🏆
Read more: https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-engineering-researchers-receive-gpps-best-paper-award
@oxengsci.bsky.socialJianou Jiang and Prof Budimir Rosic have combined machine learning with turbulence physics to develop a simple formula for describing turbulent energy near a surface.
@oxengsci.bsky.socialCongratulations to Professor David Howey and the Bboxx team on winning the Faraday Institution’s Battery Innovation Programme – Innovation Award. 🏆
@oxengsci.bsky.socialOxford researchers are investigating the 200-year-old cast iron of Chepstow’s Old Wye Bridge, the world’s largest pre-1830 cast-iron road bridge.
@oxengsci.bsky.socialResearchers at the Podium Institute have developed PoseDreamer, an AI-generated dataset of 500,000 photorealistic human images, each paired with detailed 3D body data.
Read more: https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/posedreamer-could-transform-the-study-of-human-movement
@oxengsci.bsky.socialA bold new chapter for UK AI research 💡
350+ people joined the BOLD launch, led by Oxford’s Prof Jakob Foerster and uniting Oxford, UCL & Imperial.
Supported by UKRI, BOLD is recruiting Fellows.
🔗 https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/british-open-ended-learning-and-discovery-lab-festival-launches
@oxengsci.bsky.socialWhat should you ask at an Oxford Open Day? 💭 Our Engineering student ambassadors share their tips – from asking about the course to finding out what student life is really like. 📅 Come and ask your questions in person at our next Open Day on Friday 18 September!
@oxengsci.bsky.socialOur AI4DH Lab team took 🥈 at the Oxford AI for Good Hackathon! Their AI approach aims to reduce the psychological impact of harmful content on human moderators.
@oxengsci.bsky.socialProf Eleanor Stride of Oxford’s Institute of Biomedical Engineering explains her team’s drug-delivery research on BBC Radio 4’s - Best Medicine.
