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This March, we ran a spotlight series on how good safety practice for different digital communication tools. This is as part of the first of this year’s quarterly digital safety, wellbeing and citizenship themes. Read on to learn how to keep your details safe in your emails, social media channels, video conferences, and attachments.  Emails  Many people do not know that your university or employer are […]

Ecosystem Services from Urban Parks  When the last green open space turns into a business place, what tradeoffs from what nature gifts are we missing here? Ecosystem services are a framework to value nature better. Ecosystem services look through the full range of benefits from nature, not just from ecological benefits, but also social and economic benefits. These benefits […]

Claude and I have been working together to do more stuff since my first blog post about Claude. We’ve added a whole lot of new things to our prototype Survey of Scottish Witchcraft site including a chatbot to ask questions about the data (a challenge received by Lesley Greer), ‘stories’ …

By Lauren, from Scotland, studying Politics During the summer months, Edinburgh turns from a hub of student activity to a hub for festivals, big events, and music! Beltane Fire Festival Beltane Fire Festival is something that I’ve wanted to do in Edinburgh since I moved here but have never had the chance to. Every April […]

Notable changes this week include useful new resources for the network component and the start of preparation for updating the stable kernel series. Here are all the details… Apr 27, 2026