There were SO many steps to climb to get to the top of the Chapel Tower to take this photo.
We politely request that you like this tweet to make it all worthwhile
Happy
#InternationalCatDay
to you and all your feline friends 😺 We never get bored of this photo of Mietziko and his owner
@MeteAtature
- they can often be spotted going for walks together in the grounds of St John's
#thisisjohns
📸 by
@camdiary
Congratulations to James Devine-Stoneman, John-Clark Levine, Rosie McKeown, and Matt Hazell for becoming the first St John’s students ever to win
#UniversityChallenge
. You were brilliant from start to finish, and we’re all very proud of you
#GoStJohns
Happy
#InternationalCatDay
to you and all your feline friends. This is Mietziko, she once lived with Amy Winehouse's cat but they didn't get on. These days she lives with
@MeteAtature
and you can often see them going for walks together around St John's 😻
St John's has launched the UK’s most generous programme to fully-fund the education and living costs
@Cambridge_Uni
for students from lower-income backgrounds.
The Free Places financial support package will cover tuition fees, accommodation costs, and other day-to-day costs
1/5
So many College rules are being broken:
1. No gathering in groups
2. No outside guests
3. Keep two metres away from each other
4. And, perhaps the most serious one, no walking on the grass!
Emma Manuel, the College Nurse who captured this damning footage, had a firm word.
Professor Sir Christopher Dobson, Master of St John's College, has died age 69.
He is survived by his wife, Dr Mary Dobson, their sons, Richard and William, and his beloved dog, Jimbo.
Full story and tribute to this extraordinary man:
We are bereft.
After an eventful two year hiatus, this weekend it was finally possible to celebrate the feast of the Epiphany in with two candlelit carol services in Chapel 🕯
📸 Stephen Stokes, Chapel Clerk
Congratulations to our students James Devine-Stoneman, John-Clark Levin, Rosie McKeown and Matt Hazell for qualifying for the final of
#UniversityChallenge
tonight! Great performance from you all. As Paxman said “You were well balanced, you were fast, you were great."
It’s the eve before Easter term begins and Cambridge is unnaturally quiet. St John’s will be waiting, as beautiful as ever, for when life returns to normal
#thisisjohns
#cambridge
Dr Ester Salgarella, Junior Research Fellow in Classics at St John’s, has made huge strides towards deciphering a 'mysterious' Greek script that could transform our knowledge of Crete’s Minoan civilization:
#thisisjohns
When you are graduating as a doctor from
@Cambridge_Uni
at 11 but you are going to see the Barbie movie at 12.
Congratulations to all of our students who celebrated the conclusion of their studies today!
#BarbieTheMovie
#thisisjohns
📸
@nordincatic
Don’t panic, the teddy of our alumnus and Hitchhiker’s Guide author Douglas Adams has not escaped – he’s on a rare day out to pay tribute on
#TowelDay
.
Adams would have been 70 this year and his bear is among 67 boxes of material on loan to us from his estate.
📷
@nordincatic
‘The show must go on’ was the attitude of all involved in our Advent Service after Director of Music
@ANethsingha
caught Covid & six choristers fell ill. Organ Scholar George, 20, stepped in to conduct the choir live on
@BBCRadio3
👏👇
📷Nordin Ćatić
Our Advent Carol Service returned to
@BBCRadio3
airwaves
🛑Just 10/16 choristers able to sing
🛑Director of Music
@ANethsingha
was self-isolating
🛑George Herbert, 20, Organ Scholar, became youngest person to conduct
@SJCChoir
during a broadcast
👏👏
Today, on
#towelday
we mark the life and work of our alumnus Douglas Adams. He was a writer with unique perspectives on life, the universe, and everything and was the first to recognise the humble towel as a vital piece of equipment for intergalactic space travel
#thisisjohns
A violent & comic story of revenge has been dramatised for the first time – in a language that has not been spoken for 2,000 years. The story was found written in Babylonian on a clay tablet in Turkey. Martin Worthington, Fellow at St John’s, made the film
#BabylonianRevengeFilm
"Even during both World Wars, The Cavendish Laboratory stayed open & redirected its efforts to help. So it was with a heavy heart that I initiated our full closure protocol."
Today we hear from our Fellow
@MeteAtature
of
@DeptofPhysics
👉
#thisisjohns
In the First World War, 565 students, staff, and graduates of St John’s College alone went to the battlefields -nearly a third of them never returned.
#RemembranceDay
#WW1Centenary
#thisisjohns
Arise, Sir Christopher! Master of St John’s honoured with a knighthood in recognition of his ground-breaking research into Alzheimer’s Disease. Prof Christopher Dobson has been knighted in the
#QueensBirthdayHonours
. Full story:
First Court erupted into applause for Dr Mary Dobson, wife of our late Master Professor Sir Chris Dobson, as she arrived to lead the👏 for our Class of 2020🎓
Thank you, Mary, for everything you have done for St John’s. The Dobson family have a special place in our hearts ♥️
A distinguished new Master has been elected to lead St John’s College.
Heather Hancock LVO DL has more than two decades' experience in senior leadership in the private and public sectors & currently chairs the Food Standards Agency.
Story:
#thisisjohns
The Bridge of Sighs illuminated in the Ukrainian national colours to show support for the nation following the Russian invasion.
Thank you to
@thecraneevent
&
@wearepinklamp
for donating their fee to Ukrainian charity, The Voices of Children:
#Ukraine
🇺🇦
Most of our staff are now working remotely but we have a core group in College looking after students and Fellows.
Emma Manuel, our College Nurse, took this photo as she is living on-site so she can help - from an acceptable distance!
Thank you to all of our staff
#thisisjohns
‘Exceptional musician’ Christopher Gray has been named as the Director of Music
@SJCChoir
Gray, DoM
@TruroCathChoir
@TruroCathedral
, will lead the world-famous College Choir which has launched the careers of many eminent musicians. 🎶
A splash of colour can be seen above the Great Gate at St John's as we have raised our Rainbow flag to mark the start of LGBT History Month.
This photo was taken this time last year by postgraduate student
@nordincatic
on a crisp and bright day in Cambridge 🌈🏳️🌈
Look back over a decade in the life of St John's.
From discovering hundreds of medieval skeletons under St John's, to celebrating our 500th birthday with a visit from The Queen - life is never dull!
📽️Watch the full version:
#DecadeinReview
#thisisjohns
After 18 long months, the Great Gate at St John's has finally reopened.
Our academics, students and staff can now get straight out of College and into the city centre.
🚪
The Reverend Canon Dr Victoria Johnson
@Vicky_ljohnson
, Canon Precentor
@York_Minster
, has been appointed as Dean of Chapel at St John’s.
She will manage services and worship, the activities of the choirs, and pastoral care provided by the Chapel.
✍️
"It isn't the end but it is the beginning of the end, it is a great relief to be vaccinated."
Professor Peter Johnstone nearly died after he contracted Covid-19 last year - he was kept alive by a ventilator and he was not expected to survive. Today he was vaccinated.
Arise, Sir Christopher! The Master of St John’s College was knighted by the Duke of Cambridge at Buckingham Palace for his contribution to science and higher education
@Cambridge_Uni
. Story:
#thisisjohns
The 🏳️🌈is flying above the Great Gate at St John's to mark the start of
#LGBTHistoryMonth
A full programme of events is taking place across Cambridge: 🌈🌈🌈
Now that
@ANethsingha
is leaving us to work
@wabbey
we are looking for a new Director of Music.
You will have responsibility for the music in our Chapel and for continuing to develop our internationally renowned
@SJCChoir
.
This would be your office.
Michaelmas Term has been rather unusual this year
@Cambridge_Uni
but the view remains as reassuringly beautiful as it has been for centuries. 📸 Sarah Adegbite, first year philosophy student
#thisisjohns
An updated statement on undergraduate admissions
St John's is delighted to welcome
▪️ all offer-holders whose Centre-Assessed Grades meet the offer conditions
▪️ offer-holders who meet their offers through appeal or via resits
Full statement:
St John's students, you are allowed to register to vote twice: once at home and once at your College address.
You can still only vote once but you can choose your location tactically if you wish.
You can stay at John's after the end of term in your accommodation until the GE
“Two and a half years ago if someone had told me that I would be awarded a place at Cambridge I wouldn’t have believed them."
Amir Kadkhodaei is one of our talented new
@Cambridge_Uni
undergraduates who will start arriving at St John's this weekend.
“The most important things I have been involved with in my career come from researchers who found that their experiments don’t work and have been fascinated by why they don’t work.”
Professor Sir Christopher Dobson, Master of St John's, 1949 - 2019.
"St John’s is delighted to be part of this pioneering programme. It will provide a new route for potential academic stars whose schooling has been set back through no fault of their own to get back on track."
@HeatherJHancock
, Master of St John's.
‘Incisively intelligent’ Fellow of St John’s dies aged 76
Historian Dr Peter Linehan, known for his legendary hospitality and loyal friendship, died today.
Read our tribute to the man who was a Fellow of St John's for more than 50 years:
The College flag is flying at half-mast as a mark of respect to those who lost their lives and all others that were affected by the attack on London Bridge. Our thoughts are with the
family and friends of those people who were killed and injured.
Eight fluffy grey cygnets on their first ever swimming lesson on the River Cam this morning. Cygnets are usually taught to swim on their second day after they have formed a close bond with the pen known as ‘imprinting’. The cob stayed close too.
📸
@EmJManuel
, College Nurse.
Sir Partha Dasgupta has been awarded one of the highest honours in the King's first New Year Honours - the Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire
Sir Partha has been singled out for services to Economics and to the Natural Environment
👏
In his final months, Sir Christopher Dobson was rarely seen without his shadow - Jimbo, the retired racing greyhound.
Now the late Master's family feature in a new film describing the joy Jimbo brought to Chris before his death.
📽️
Tributes paid to ‘unrelentingly kind’ former student who has died age 23 from a rare cancer.
Sam Fitzsimmons died at home less than two years after he was diagnosed.
His family & friends spoke to us about the life and legacy of the St John’s graduate:
From refugee to student, first year St John's College undergraduate Amir Kadkhodaei counts achieving his dream of coming to
@Cambridge_Uni
as 'a miracle'.
Full story👉
#thisisjohns
📷Nordin Ćatić