Dear All,

Thank you for your work this week.

Thank you to those who are more hirsute for Movember.

Please welcome to LTW our new captioning intern recruits: Julia Coney, Maeve Burrell, Kiran Balamurugan, Natalie Penry,Myles Tande, Lauren Hood, Caitlin Roger, and welcome back Dmitri Goverdovsky.

You may have seen a flurry of news about the proposed demolition of Argyle House. This news happens every couple of years, but there seems to be some momentum behind it this time. The coverage highlights the number of tech firms and fictional police forces which will lose their base as well as a lot of interesting stories of the history of the site. The thread about Argyle House; “preposterously large and a potential rival to the Castle rock” – Threadinburgh  A diverse history featuring Burke, Hare, Meyer Oppenheim and the DWP. If you have pictures of the place  (interior or exterior) , this is a good time to upload them to Wikimedia Commons for posterity.  Before the building is demolished around us, now is the time to clear out anything you have around your desks which you haven’t used in the last 6 months. Keep hold of your hoodies though, as winter is coming.

While our LST teams are doing interesting things with battery powered desks, ISG is also in the news for our pursuit of space hoggers ‘Don’t be a space hog’: Outcome of library seat saving crackdown revealed and the news that Sir Peter Higgs has donated his Noble Prize medal to our trophy cabinet collection. Higgs’ Nobel Prize medal donated to university where he made history | The Herald

Karen has been blogging An appeal to HE suppliers – The witterings and musings of a learning technologist

Some reflections on AI Agents – The witterings and musings of a learning technologist

If you are coming to the festive meal in December, remember to pay the festive lunch balance to the helper elves (Colin, Edward, Kevin, Ari, Jonathan, Cassie, Lesley, Joanne) in your section. It’s not too late to join, just let us know by selecting your menu options via our web form Don’t forget to submit your festive menu choices!!

Have a good weekend,

Friday 14th November / Melissa Highton by blogadmin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 3.0