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Light and shadows and angles at Potterrow, a scene begging for a B&W shot (so obviously I took one!)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/55255652228/in/photostream/lightbox/

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #architecture #photography #photographie #BlackAndWhitePhotography #shadows #ombres #Potterrow #EdinburghUniversity

Light, shadows, angles

https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/55254615927/in/photostream/lightbox/

Modern university buildings around Potterrow, on a fine, spring day

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #architecture #photography #photographie #ContemporaryArchitecture #Potterrow #EdinburghUniversity #shadows #ombres #BlackAndWhitePhotography

Moon rising over Bristo Square

https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/55242950113/in/photostream/lightbox/

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #Dusk #Crepuscule #EdinburghByNight #photography #photographie #Moon #Lune #architecture #Moonrise #NightPhotography #batiment #immeuble #BristoSquare #EdinburghUniversity

I see the rear of the Teviot also got an upgrade during the recently finished refurbishment
https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/55139382167/in/photostream/lightbox/

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie #StreetPhotography #EdinburghUniversity #Teviot #BlackAndWhitePhotography

Library
https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/55140446703/in/photostream/lightbox/

Lowering sun & surrounding buildings creating interesting mix of light and shadows around Edinburgh University Library

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie #StreetPhotography #Library #Bibliotheque #BlackAndWhitePhotography #GeorgeSquare #EdinburghUniversityLibrary #EdinburghUniversity

Edinburgh Makar Michael Pedersen has written a poem to mark the 300th anniversary of the University of Edinburgh’s medical school. A short film of the poem, animated by students from Edinburgh’s College of Arts, is available to watch via The Scotsman

https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/books/watch-michael-pedersens-poem-to-mark-300th-anniversary-of-edinburgh-university-medical-school-5492523

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Edinburgh #EdinburghUniversity #MedicalSchool #HistoryofMedicine

Edinburgh Uni chief accused of “shifting the burden” onto Scottish students

THE Edinburgh University Student Association (EUSA) has challenged suggestions from the university’s principal,…
#Edinburgh #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #Scotland #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #Britain #EdinburghUniversity #educationcuts #freetuitionfees #GreatBritain #PeterMathieson #ScottishGovernment #scottishstudents #TuitionFees #Universitychiefs #Universitycuts #UniversityofEdinburgh
https://www.europesays.com/uk/685769/

https://www.europesays.com/uk/685769/ Edinburgh Uni chief accused of “shifting the burden” onto Scottish students #Britain #Edinburgh #EdinburghUniversity #EducationCuts #FreeTuitionFees #GreatBritain #PeterMathieson #Scotland #ScottishGovernment #ScottishStudents #TuitionFees #UK #UnitedKingdom #UniversityChiefs #UniversityCuts #UniversityOfEdinburgh

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics #Codebases

calcQPI: A versatile tool to simulate quasiparticle interference

Peter Wahl, Luke C. Rhodes, Carolina A. Marques

Paper:
SciPost Phys. Codebases 61 (2025)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhysCodeb.61

calcQPI-v1.0:
SciPost Phys. Codebases 61-r1.0 (2025)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhysCodeb.61-r1.0

#BonnUniversity #StAndrewsUniversity
#RoyalCommissionExhibition1851 #EdinburghUniversity

“This study shows conclusively that the HPV vaccine prevents the changes that can develop into cancer.”

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://theorkneynews.scot/2025/11/05/this-study-shows-conclusively-that-the-hpv-vaccine-prevents-the-changes-that-can-develop-into-cancer/

Edinburgh University begins compulsory redundancies and closes Institute for Academic Development.

(Apologies for the Tab link) https://thetab.com/2025/10/31/excl-edinburgh-university-begins-compulsory-layoffs-with-department-set-to-be-axed

In the final months of writing my thesis I relied on IAD resources for information that I simply could not find through my department or school.

Feeling for the staff facing compulsory redundancy; wtf at the UofE so symbolically disregarding academic development.

#EdinburghUniversity #UofE #Academia #PhDLife

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

Stochastic resetting and large deviations

Martin R. Evans, John C. Sunil
SciPost Phys. Lect. Notes 103 (2025)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhysLectNotes.103

#EdinburghUniversity

Now that´s reflection...

Blogpost on taking time to reflect, build education community, and work toward better education in general. This is my second study-trip with my Educational Leadership cohort, and I take so much home from these. New ideas about co-creation, education models, and what goes right and very wrong with reflection.

https://rebeccanordquist.edublogs.org/2025/10/03/now-that-is-reflection/

#higherEd #reflection #UtrechtUniversity #education #ProfessionalDevelopment #Edinburgh #EdinburghUniversity @faculteit_diergeneeskunde

Bristo Public School: the thread about “one of the worst” schools in and its journey to further and higher education (by way of a car park)

Preamble. The schools of the “School Board” era of public education (1872-1918) have for some reason a particular fascination for me, one which is more profound where they are either no longer in use as schools or have disappeared entirely. This thread began as a couple of lines for my own notes about each of the “Lost Board Schools of Edinburgh” but rapidly snowballed into an intention to cover each, in alphabetical order, on its own and in rather more detail, but not so much that they can’t be posted quite frequently.

Bristo Public School was located on Marshall Street in that old district of the city known as Easter Portsburgh. It opened in 1877 with a capacity for 600 children at a time when the Edinburgh School Board was rapidly trying to expand education provision in the city at the same time as dealing with a legacy of inherited and substandard properties. The School Board was formed as a result of the Education (Scotland) Act 1872 which made education compulsory for children aged between 5 and 13 in Scotland (but not free). The school occupied a site where once had stood the General’s Entry lodgings of Robert Burns’ paramour Clarinda – Agnes Maclehose – and took its name from the adjacent Bristo Street, itself an old Edinburgh place name dating back to the early 16th century.

The land was acquired from the Edinburgh Improvement Trust as part of an early civic improvement and slum clearance scheme that swept away some older closes and built a westward extension of of Marshall Street between the Potterrow and Bristo Street. Construction was intended to begin in 1875 but was delayed on account of the original cost estimate of £8,760 being far in excess of what the Board had budgeted per capita. The final cost, including purchasing the land, ended up at £26 10s per head, a huge sum for the time compared to other new schools. In the meantime, the School Board leased premises at 4 Nicolson Square to open a temporary school. The purpose-built Bristo School was designed by the architect to the Board, William Lambie Moffat, in the Collegiate Gothic style that was then in favour for schools and was extremely similar to his Leith Walk School.

Serving a densely populated neighbourhood, in its early days Bristo School was frequently overcrowded. Just three years after opening it had 840 pupils, some 40% more than it was designed to take, and the adjacent Marshall Street Halls had to be taken over in 1885 as an annexe and a new school was begun at South Bridge to provide additional capacity. Matters came to a head in 1896 when the school suffered a negative inspection on the grounds of the overcrowding and the substandard nature of the annexe and the Scotch Education Department cut its grant. On investigation the School Board found that almost half of the pupils actually lived closer to another of their schools than Bristo and so by redistributing them closer to home it was possible to both deal with the overcrowding and close the annexe.

The capacity crisis may have been solved but the school continued to cause the Board problems. On account of its north facing position, cramped plot and being surrounded all around by tall tenements, it was particularly dark inside and had a very small playground which was also very dark. The lack of natural light and ventilation – very important to Edinburgh’s Victorian school designers – soon saw it labelled as “insanitary“. Furthermore it lacked any hall and the arrangements of its classrooms were unsuitable to cope with class sizes; there were too many small spaces. As early as 1900 the School Board were exploring options to replace it and an extension was added to the rear as an interim solution at a cost of £4,350, further decreasing the playground space. In 1909 it was reported that as a result of the poor lighting within the building that it had the highest proportion of children with “defective eyesight” in the city. A special experiment was carried out from 1930 onwards whereby entire year groups were transported to Liberton Playing Fields by tramcar, one day per week in the spring and summer, to have their education outside, far removed from their usual oppressive and dark surroundings.

In 1925 the school found itself caught up in the Sciennes School Strike saga and it was observed at this time that it was under capacity. By 1927 its roll was in steady decline on account of slum clearance in the district which transferred much of the populace to new housing schemes in the southeast of the city. By 1933 the population of school age children in the Southside was declining at 10% per annum and there were 1,228 vacant places in its schools. As a result Bristo, described by Edinburgh Corporation’s Education Committee as “one of the worst” of its schools, was closed in 1934. The remaining scholars were transferred to Sciennes and South Bridge. In 1935 it was proposed to re-open the school by transferring pupils from the condemned St Ignatius’s Roman Catholic (RC) school in Glen Street and St Columba’s RC – the former Causewayside School – into a new Intermediate RC school for the district. Nothing came of these plans except sectarian controversy until final approval in 1939 but war quickly intervened and put them on hiatus again, this time permanently. Instead, after closure it was used for a variety of purposes including evening classes, a day centre for the long-term unemployed and hosting community groups such as the Boys’ Brigade.

In 1938 the Clarinda Club – a local appreciation society of the poet Robert Burns – marked the school being built upon the site of her lodgings by unveiling a commemorative bronze plaque on its walls. During WW2 it served as training centre and headquarters for First Aid and Air Raid Precautions. Another more unusual purpose was established which was the Nursery Equipment Centre. This had first been established by the WVS (Women’s Voluntary Service) at Castlehill School and was set up to produce soft and wooden toys, clothing and playthings for young children at the public nurseries that had been set up to allow their mothers to undertake war work. These items were largely no longer being produced by industry during wartime. In 1941 part of the school also became a British Restaurant – a municipal wartime canteen – operating under the name Clarinda’s.

The Nursery Equipment Centre attracted a significant number of volunteers with disabilities which prevented them from undertaking war work and became something of a specialist centre in helping people adapt their lives to work. Such was the success of the scheme that it – and the school – was taken over by the government’s new Disabled Persons Employment Corporation as a work training centre for the disabled – a Remploy Factory – until purpose-built premises were completed at Sighthill.

When Remploy vacated the school in 1949 it was taken back by the Education Department and repurposed as the Bristo Technical Institute. This was a training centre for apprentices in engineering trades, either on day release from their workplaces or taken as evening classes. It taught specialist skills that could not gained on the job such as technical drawing, physics and chemistry and also basic certificates in maths and English to bring candidates up to standard. After 1959, much of this part of the city was threatened by the comprehensive redevelopment plans of Edinburgh University, which wanted wholesale demolition of the area but the old school survived where much did not. The institute closed in 1966 after the opening of the new Napier Technical College at a purpose-built campus in Merchiston, with most of the city’s pre-existing hodgepodge of technical further education being transferred to it. The building was then leased by Heriot-Watt College, which was at this time on nearby Chambers Street and about to gain university status, as its Department of Industrial Administration. Heriot-Watt University began its move to its new Riccarton campus in 1969 and left its Bristo Building around 1974. By this time the old school was the last remaining building on the western portion of Marshall Street and it was quickly and one old educational institution was unceremoniously demolished by another just shy of its centenary; Edinburgh University replaced it with a windswept car park that was perennially covered in puddles.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/georgeupstairs/6004096117/in/photolist-2kv1F4n-QgTH16-2jVXWem-a9yyAz-ai75jg-ai9SE1-25VNJbP-ai75ac-44cRz1-6aZhqo-4aECh1-2jvFhCR

The car park was meant to be a temporary measure, but I clearly remember parking there in the 1990s when my Dad would take me to the Museum on Chambers Street; the University scheme for which it had been cleared never came to fruition. This most wantonly destructive of Edinburgh institutions would not finally build upon the gap site until the 21st century. The final part of the development – the School of Informatics’ Bayes Centre – was opened on the site of Bristo School as recently as 2019. It was perhaps some small consolation that the site was at last returned to educational use again.

Want to read more about Edinburgh’s Lost Board Schools? The next instalment covers Canonmills Public School; where thrift and self-denial were taught

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Ah yes, 'Colonialism'...we're seeing the effects of that raw and unfiltered from a little slice of Hell on Earth than Israel has made...

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jul/27/edinburgh-university-could-unadopt-antisemitism-definition-after-report-into-its-colonial-links

#Colonialism #EdinburghUniversity #Genocide #Gaza

#Whiteness #Scotland #UK #EdinburghUniversity #History #Reparations

"British Culture"

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jul/27/edinburgh-university-outsized-role-creating-racist-scientific-theories-inquiry

#Whiteness #EdinburghUniversity #ScientificRascism #Slavery

Scottish graduates first to qualify as doctors through part-time study

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25292163.scottish-graduates-first-qualify-doctors-part-time-study/

#Education #Medicine #Health #EdinburghUniversity

#ViewFromABus - looking out of the upper deck as the bus goes down Southbridge, the dome of the Old College on the left.

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #OldCollege #OldTownEdinburgh #Architecture #History #Histoire #Southbridge #EdinburghUniversity #Ecosse #Scotland #Dome

Replicated blood-based biomarkers for myalgic encephalomyelitis not explicable by inactivity | EMBO Molecular Medicine
Researchers at Edinburgh University were involved in identifying biomarkers in blood that might help speed up diagnosis of Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome.

https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.1038/s44321-025-00258-8

#ME #CFS #Health #EdinburghUniversity

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

Choose your diffusion: Efficient and flexible ways to accelerate the diffusion model in fast high energy physics simulation

Cheng Jiang, Sitian Qian, Huilin Qu
SciPost Phys. 18, 195 (2025)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.18.6.195

#EdinburghUniversity #PKU #CERN

Edinburgh University has some Postgraduate Online Learning Open Days virtual sessions on today Thursday 22nd May.

https://app.geckoform.com/public/#/modern/21FO00qhsrvua100ij9gmgpctq

#Edinburgh #Postgraduate #MSc #EdinburghUniversity

Only belatedly learned that the external examiner for my Dundee University history PhD, Prof Stana Nenadic of Edinburgh University, died last autumn. She was a delight as an examiner: meticulous in her approach, with probing questions while still encouraging and a joy to chat to at my viva. RIP. https://hca.ed.ac.uk/professor-emerita-stana-nenadic #academia #Scotland #EdinburghUniversity #History #ScottishHistory

Edinburgh University returns indigenous Ainu skulls to Japan (BBC, 2025-04-30)

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c75dgqp5kw7o
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“Three skulls from Japan that were given to Edinburgh University in 1913 have been returned to the indigenous community where they originated.

“The remains of the #Ainu people - donated by Scottish anthropologist Dr Neil Gordon Munro - were held in the university's anatomy museum.

“Dr Munro lived and died among the Ainu while studying their culture in northern #Japan.”

#EdinburghUniversity #Anthropology

McEwan Hall & Bristo Square on a sunny, spring day https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/54486921672/in/photostream/

My graduation ceremony was there, a lifetime ago.

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #architecture #photography #photographie #BristoSquare #EdinburghUniversity #McEwanHall #rotunda

Edinburgh University staff given 'accent bias' training to tackle Scottish discrimination

https://news.stv.tv/east-central/edinburgh-university-staff-given-accent-bias-training-to-tackle-scottish-discrimination

#Edinburgh #EdinburghUniversity #University #Scotland #Scots

‪#SemIDEEV Vendredi 21 mars à 12h

➡️ Séminaire de Marion Herbette, University of Edinburgh

"How can a selfish chromosome escape genome-wide meiotic drive?"

➡️ https://www.ideev.universite-paris-saclay.fr/seminaires/2025/03/how-can-a-selfish-chromosome-escape-genome-wide-meiotic-drive/

#edinburghuniversity #chromosome #genome

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics Core

Mixmasters in Wonderland: Chaotic dynamics from Carroll limits of gravity

Gerben Oling, Juan F. Pedraza
SciPost Phys. Core 8, 025 (2025)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhysCore.8.1.025

#EdinburghUniversity #IFT

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

Difference equations: From Berry connections to the Coulomb branch

Andrea E. V. Ferrari, Daniel Zhang
SciPost Phys. 18, 045 (2025)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.18.2.045

#DESY #EdinburghUniversity #Oxford #SJC

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

Fractons on curved spacetime in 2 + 1 dimensions

Jelle Hartong, Giandomenico Palumbo, Simon Pekar, Alfredo Perez, Stefan Prohazka
SciPost Phys. 18, 022 (2025)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.18.1.022

#EdinburghUniversity #DIAS #ÉcolePolytechnique #CPHT #IPParis #CNRS #USS #CECS #ViennaUniversity
#FONDECYT

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

Fractons on curved spacetime in 2 + 1 dimensions

Jelle Hartong, Giandomenico Palumbo, Simon Pekar, Alfredo Perez, Stefan Prohazka
SciPost Phys. 18, 022 (2025)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.18.1.022

#EdinburghUniversity #DIAS #ÉcolePolytechnique #CPHT #IPParis #CNRS #USS #CECS #ViennaUniversity
#FONDECYT

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

Fractons on curved spacetime in 2 + 1 dimensions

Jelle Hartong, Giandomenico Palumbo, Simon Pekar, Alfredo Perez, Stefan Prohazka
SciPost Phys. 18, 022 (2025)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.18.1.022

#EdinburghUniversity #DIAS #ÉcolePolytechnique #CPHT #IPParis #CNRS #USS #CECS #ViennaUniversity
#FONDECYT

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

Fractons on curved spacetime in 2 + 1 dimensions

Jelle Hartong, Giandomenico Palumbo, Simon Pekar, Alfredo Perez, Stefan Prohazka
SciPost Phys. 18, 022 (2025)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.18.1.022

#EdinburghUniversity #DIAS #ÉcolePolytechnique #CPHT #IPParis #CNRS #USS #CECS #ViennaUniversity
#FONDECYT

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

Fractons on curved spacetime in 2 + 1 dimensions

Jelle Hartong, Giandomenico Palumbo, Simon Pekar, Alfredo Perez, Stefan Prohazka
SciPost Phys. 18, 022 (2025)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.18.1.022

#EdinburghUniversity #DIAS #ÉcolePolytechnique #CPHT #IPParis #CNRS #USS #CECS #ViennaUniversity
#FONDECYT

Taken this day, 2015, the dome of Old College on a winter's night https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/23147078104/

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #EdinburghByNight #NightPhotography #photography #photographie #dome #architecture #OldCollege #Southbridge #EdinburghUniversity

🎓 PhD project in #OpenScience, please boost 🙏 Deadline 7 Jan.

Join the BioRDM team at #EdinburghUniversity to study Electronic Lab Notebooks 📖 in #BioScience! We work alongside bench biologists 'at the coalface'. This PhD will analyse how our colleagues use ELNs, how we and they together can improve their #metadata, and whether using an ELN really leads to more or FAIRer data sharing.

Fuding is competitive, for non-UK citizens.

➡️ https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/open-research-from-electronic-lab-notebooks-does-ai-help-biologists-to-record-their-science/?p179116

#PhD #ScienceJobs

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

Boundary vertex algebras for 3d N=4 rank-0 SCFTs

Andrea E. V. Ferrari, Niklas Garner, Heeyeon Kim
SciPost Phys. 17, 057 (2024)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.17.2.057

#EdinburghUniversity #WashingtonUniversity #KAIST
#ICTS #MinistryOfEducationKorea

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

Hydrodynamic fluctuations and topological susceptibility in chiral magnetohydrodynamics

Arpit Das, Nabil Iqbal, Napat Poovuttikul
SciPost Phys. 17, 042 (2024)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.17.2.042

#EdinburghUniversity #DurhamUniversity #CU
#Chulalongkorn

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

A coupling prescription for post-Newtonian corrections in quantum mechanics

Jelle Hartong, Emil Have, Niels A. Obers, Igor Pikovski
SciPost Phys. 16, 088 (2024)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.16.3.088

#EdinburghUniversity #NBI #NORDITA #StockholmUniversity #StevensInstituteTechnology
#BrancoWeissFellowship #NordForsk

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

A coupling prescription for post-Newtonian corrections in quantum mechanics

Jelle Hartong, Emil Have, Niels A. Obers, Igor Pikovski
SciPost Phys. 16, 088 (2024)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.16.3.088

#EdinburghUniversity #NBI #NORDITA #StockholmUniversity #StevensInstituteTechnology
#BrancoWeissFellowship #NordForsk

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

A coupling prescription for post-Newtonian corrections in quantum mechanics

Jelle Hartong, Emil Have, Niels A. Obers, Igor Pikovski
SciPost Phys. 16, 088 (2024)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.16.3.088

#EdinburghUniversity #NBI #NORDITA #StockholmUniversity #StevensInstituteTechnology
#BrancoWeissFellowship #NordForsk

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

A coupling prescription for post-Newtonian corrections in quantum mechanics

Jelle Hartong, Emil Have, Niels A. Obers, Igor Pikovski
SciPost Phys. 16, 088 (2024)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.16.3.088

#EdinburghUniversity #NBI #NORDITA #StockholmUniversity #StevensInstituteTechnology
#BrancoWeissFellowship #NordForsk

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

A coupling prescription for post-Newtonian corrections in quantum mechanics

Jelle Hartong, Emil Have, Niels A. Obers, Igor Pikovski
SciPost Phys. 16, 088 (2024)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.16.3.088

#EdinburghUniversity #NBI #NORDITA #StockholmUniversity #StevensInstituteTechnology
#BrancoWeissFellowship #NordForsk