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Since 2022, a small group of Nursing and Medical students have been quietly building an exciting and innovative collaboration that is changing lives in and around Edinburgh for the better. They have recently been nominated for and even won several prestigious Scottish awards in recognition of their impact and commitment to their work, including the Newton Prize at […]
Filip Stefaniak, a Senior Researcher in the Bioinformatics and Protein Engineering Laboratory at the International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw (IIMCB), recently undertook a research stay in Kathryn Ball’s lab at the Institute of Genetics and Cancer. The visit was organised as part of the study visit programme of the RACE (RNA […]
In this blog post, Digital Accessibility Intern David Buik reflects on his part-time work as a Digital Accessibility Intern over the past academic year, discussing a few challenges he faced as well as his key takeaways and successes.
In this post, Dr Gavin McCabe, Professor Simon Riley, Dr Tobias Thejll-Madsen, and Tia Affleck discuss how Student-Led Individually Created Courses (SLICCs) are a fitting vehicle for the University’s transition to the Skills for Success Framework (SFSF). The authors demonstrate how, while the SLICCs already helped students focus on their futures, the transition to the […]
In his seminal 1935 paper, Taylor gave both practical and fundamental results [1]. For instance, in his equation (19), he gave a general expression for the dissipation per unit volume. We can convert this to dissipation per unit mass by dividing across by the density, putting $\varepsilon = W/\rho$, $\nu=\mu/\rho$, and it becomes more in […]
[crossposted from my project at: https://whocares.ed.ac.uk/blog/2026/i-can-not-do-thing] I Can (Not) Do That Things I wish people understood about disability When you ask a disabled person to “just do the thing,” there are usually four possible answers. A — I can do the thing Safely. Independently. Predictably. No adjustments needed. Example: “Yes, I can carry the box. […]
