Day 7: Greatest Store in the World Today’s movie is a lesser known 1999 British film about a poor family struggling to get by. When their van burns down they find themselves suddenly homeless for Christmas and decide to hide out in a department store, Scottley’s, and avoid the ever-watchful Mr Whiskers until they can […]

I am walking with my eleven-year-old daughter, Iona. We have been waiting for a good time to do this for a while and today it is just the two of us at home, so it is the perfect opportunity. It is a foggy Saturday morning at the start of December and some of the houses […]

We are delighted to share that Lukas Aumayr, postdoctoral researcher at the Blockchain Technology Laboratory, has received the 2025 Bitcoin Research Prize for the paper “BitVM2: Bridging Bitcoin to Second Layers,” co-authored with Robin Linus, Lukas Aumayr, Zeta Avarikioti, Matteo Maffei, Andrea Pelosi, Orfeas Thyfronitis Litos, Christos Stefo, David Tse, and Alexei Zamyatin. The announcement […]

In preparation for the retirement of the Virtual Visit platform in October 2025, the team ran a project to understand how prospective students orientate themselves with Edinburgh and the campus. I share key findings and how updating programme profiles with Google Maps content can help with orientation.   Dec 2, 2025

The University of Edinburgh published a press release in September 2022 announcing that the Digital Islam Across Europe team had been successful in securing funding from CHANSE for the project. The full release can be read here: https://www.ed.ac.uk/news/2022/experts-assess-digital-impact-on-muslim-lives Sep 15, 2022

Over the coming weeks and months, there will be edge switch upgrades occurring on each floor of the Forum and the Bayes Centre. Scope: Wired connections in offices will be affected. WiFi, phones and doors will not be affected. This is being done to ensure the security, reliability, and modernity of our network. On each […]