Friday 27th March

Dear All,

Thank you for your work this week.

We waved goodbye to Tess and her role will be out to internal advert imminently.

The students have been occupying themselves finding places to occupy, and the union pickets will be flying and landing around campus next week, so make sure you have a real-time plan for any buildings you wish to enter.

With our last crate unpacked, it is time to say a special thanks to the teams of people in LTW who helped to make the move to Forrest Hill smooth (er) for all of us:

DLAM – Kat Neumann.
DO – Fiona Hendrie.
DSDT – Andy Todd and Laura Arnautovic.
EDE – Geoff Fortescue, Calum McPhail, Juan Martos Diaz, Mark Mather and Cassie Lefebvre.
LST – All of LST with an extra special thanks to Stephen Dishon.
WAC – Kirsten McLaughlan.

There is an ISG All-Staff event on Monday (with food) so be sure to book your place.

You may have seen our leader, Gavin in the press Edinburgh staff urge university to ditch OpenAI deal and I expect this event will be spicy Edinburgh Union debates the ‘lost purpose’ of higher education – Midlothian View

Fabulous to see Stewart included in the Medical School’s 300 faces 300 Faces – Stewart Lamb Cromar (@stubot) and Anna’s reflections on her journey so far My Wikimedia journey so far – Wikimedian in Residence

Gareth has been thinking about the context AI needs to be inclusive AI needs context to be inclusive

As we head towards annual review season, the Skills Discovery Tool has been updated to better reflect UoE structure, so be sure to update your department info in anticipation of LTW Mandatory Training Day: Update: Digital Discovery Tool – Digital Skills, Design and Training

You’ll be painting eggs and counting plagues in anticipation of Easter and Passover next week, and we all wish ‘get well soon’ to Mary.

Have a good weekend,

-Melissa