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Research Funding: The Impact of Covid-19

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/research-office/2020/09/23/research-funding-the-impact-of-covid-19/

Dr Louise Ker, Research Business Intelligence Officer, analyses preliminary data on the impact of the pandemic on research funding to date. We have been working hard on our behind-the-scenes data engineering this year, pulling together information from multiple University systems to explore and understand our research activity. Within Edinburgh Research Office, we hold information on […]


Characterization of an eye field-like state during optic vesicle organoid development

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/institute-genetics-cancer/2023/10/23/characterization-of-an-eye-field-like-state-during-optic-vesicle-organoid-development/

By Andrew Papanastasiou and Liusaidh Owen   Andrew Papanastasiou and Liusaidh Owen take us on a deep dive into their study at the MRC Human Genetics Unit.   The eye field, its development and challenges in understanding   The establishment or `specification’ of the eye field marks the first known stage of vertebrate eye development. […]


Feedback for applicants who did not get shortlisted for our Content Designer interviews

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/future-student-experience/feedback-content-designer-applicants-2024/

I recently recruited for a content designer to join our team. We saw common themes in the applications that didn’t make the cut and in those that we did shortlist. I want to share this feedback for candidates who didn’t get shortlisted for interview, and to provide advice for future applicants. First off, I want […]


Contributing to open-source Drupal as a non-developer – reflections and projections

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/website-communications/contributing-to-open-source-drupal-as-a-non-developer-reflections-and-projections/

Drupal is the content management system underpinning EdWeb (and EdWeb2). It’s open source meaning it’s built by the community for the community. I’ve been contributing my UX expertise to Drupal since speaking at DrupalCon in 2022. Drupal’s just for developers, right? Wrong. When I first encountered Drupal in my role as UX lead on the […]


Re-membering the Other: Mnemonic Sutures in Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959)

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/thefilmdispatch/re-membering-the-other-mnemonic-sutures-in-hiroshima-mon-amour-1959/

Lim Kai Tjoon analyses how in Hiroshima, Mon Amour, the past is not always an inaccessible aspect of our lives but an embodied experience in the present. Hiroshima, Mon Amour is a film saturated with the impossibility of perfect remembrance. Memory is illustrated as fractured, refracted, and contentious through the two unnamed characters, ‘He’ (a […]


​​​The Black Non-National: One International Student’s Perspective on Life in Edinburgh​...

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/studentstories/2022/06/07/the-black-non-national-one-international-students-perspective-on-life-in-edinburgh/

…by Sienna / from the U.S.A. / studying Clinical Psychology / 3rd year A free bird leaps on the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current ends and dips his wing in the orange sun rays and dares to claim the sky. But a bird that stalks down his narrow cage can […]


Genetic Non-Discrimination: A Long-Standing Concern Deserving a New Law?

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/mason-institute/2016/03/10/genetic-non-discrimination-a-long-standing-concern-deserving-a-new-law/

By Shawn H.E. HarmonThe possibility of improving outcomes and cost-effectiveness by tailoring therapies to patients’ genetic profiles (stratified medicine) is a dream of researchers and healthcare programmes, although at present relatively few tests are viewed as reliable.[1]  Counterbalancing these positives, genetic information can also be used to discriminate against individuals; information about otherwise healthy people’s […]


Sticking to the script? Superheroes, enhancement, and the challenge of steering technologies in socially desirable ways - Part 2

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/mason-institute/2016/03/03/sticking-to-the-script-superheroes-enhancement-and-the-challenge-of-steering-technologies-in-socially-desirable-ways-part-2/

Guest post by Michael Morrison (Oxford, HeLEX)[O]ur proper response to the inexorable march of progress that has brought us to this place and time in the history of civilization is to find a way to confront it responsibly. Not modestly. Non unself-conciously. Not with faith in a greater power than ours to descend from the […]


The Draft General Data Protection Regulation: current proposals [UPDATED 5 November 2013]

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/mason-institute/2014/09/09/the-draft-general-data-protection-regulation-current-proposals-updated-5-november-2013/

By Leslie StevensUPDATE, 5 November 2013: After much delay, the Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee of the European Commission considered and approved submitted amendments to the original draft of the proposed General Data Protection Regulation on 21 October 2013. The European Parliament aims to agree upon a finalised version of the Regulation by […]


2. Pavilion

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/lichenwalk/2021/08/11/2-pavilion/

The complexity of lichens and their forms   This is the audio for this halt. The text below is a transcription of the audio! The audios do not contain all the content written in the text to keep the audios engaging. If you want to have more details, check out the text.  Enjoy! Have you […]


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