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Ada Lovelace day is the 14th of October this year and this will be our 10th year of celebrating that day! We are planning events and activities with a climate and earth sciences theme, running in the afternoon and early evening of that date. The day time events will be in the Main Library and […]
An Invitation At a time of mounting social and environmental crises, it becomes imperative for educators to reflect and reconsider the aims and purposes of education. Beyond its immediate functions to serve pre-established expectations or providing formal training in a competitive market, we consider education as a relational practice and a place of encounter within […]
About Edinburgh For anyone needing a visual, here is a movie (format .mov; 16Mb) showing the city of Edinburgh from the top of Blackford Hill. The latter is one of Edinburgh’s 7 extinct volcanos which is just 5 minutes walk from the University’s science campus, Kings Buildings, on the south side of the city of […]
By Josie Robertson As a PhD student in the Marioni group here at the IGC, I recently had the opportunity to contribute to an international study seeking to understand associations between DNA methylation and cells of the innate immune system on ageing and related health outcomes. DNA methylation patterns (called Epigenetic clocks) measured across our […]
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On 11 September 2025 Nick Daniels, Mel Batcharj and I attended the UCISA User Experience (UX) Community Day 2025 – organised by Emma Horrell and the UCISA committee. In this blog we share our reflections from the day. Sep 19, 2025
