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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’ …
Video presentations by our 2025/26 students who completed the Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia – Edinburgh Award. The Edinburgh Award is [...]
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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 […]
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
