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  1. University of Edinburgh: Native American remains return to mainland US in repatriation first. “More than 150 years after they were taken, the University has returned the skulls of six people from the Muscogee Nation during a formal ceremony in Edinburgh on Friday 23 January. The Muscogee (Creek) Nation is a self-governed Native American Tribal Nation who are descendants of the Mississippian […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/09/university-of-edinburgh-native-american-remains-return-to-mainland-us-in-repatriation-first/
  2. Higgs’ Nobel medal donated to the university | News | The University of Edinburgh
    "The late Professor Peter Higgs has gifted his Nobel Prize to the University of Edinburgh, where he first proposed an idea that would transform our understanding of the universe."
    ed.ac.uk/news/higgs-nobel-meda

    #PeterHiggs #UniversityOfEdinburgh #NobelPrize #Science

  3. ‘I thought paracetamol would cure me, but my symptoms were incurable cancer’

    Just 79 people a year are diagnosed with the same cancer as Roy, 31Neil Shaw Assistant Editor (Money…
    #NewsBeep #News #Health #Backpain #cancer #GB #Hospitals #ImperialCollege #paracetamol #Therapy #UK #UnitedKingdom #UniversityOfEdinburgh
    newsbeep.com/uk/253530/

  4. Edinburgh to host free festival on Scotland’s colonial past, languages and gaming

    A SERIES of talks and workshops on health, the creative arts and video games will be held during a festival on knowledge in September. A myriad of issues – including p…
    #Edinburgh #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #Scotland #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #AshCharlton #Britain #designinggames #freefestival #GreatBritain #RSE #Scotslanguage #socialinclusion #UniversityofEdinburgh #VideoGames
    europesays.com/uk/268610/

  5. The remains of three Ainu indigenous people, which had been kept at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, have been returned to Japan's Ainu Association of Hokkaido and will arrive back in Japan on Saturday. japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/05/ #japan #ainu #hokkaido #ukjapanrelations #universityofedinburgh #uk #indigenouspeople #museums

  6. CW: Transphobia, Edinburgh Uni

    Robyn Woof, Trans and Non-Binary Liberation Officer, has resigned from her positions at Edinburgh University following the appointment of Simon Fanshawe as Rector.

    “It’s impossible for me to achieve anything campaigning against transphobia through the university’s official processes so I am resigning in protest and will instead begin a campaign of direct action”

    studentnewspaper.org/breaking-

    #UoE #UofE #UniversityofEdinburgh #EdinburghUniversity #SimonFanshawe #Transphobia

  7. CW: Transphobia, Edinburgh Uni

    Robyn Woof, Trans and Non-Binary Liberation Officer, has resigned from her positions at Edinburgh University following the appointment of Simon Fanshawe as Rector.

    “It’s impossible for me to achieve anything campaigning against transphobia through the university’s official processes so I am resigning in protest and will instead begin a campaign of direct action”

    studentnewspaper.org/breaking-

    #UoE #UofE #UniversityofEdinburgh #EdinburghUniversity #SimonFanshawe #Transphobia

  8. CW: Transphobia, Edinburgh Uni

    Robyn Woof, Trans and Non-Binary Liberation Officer, has resigned from her positions at Edinburgh University following the appointment of Simon Fanshawe as Rector.

    “It’s impossible for me to achieve anything campaigning against transphobia through the university’s official processes so I am resigning in protest and will instead begin a campaign of direct action”

    studentnewspaper.org/breaking-

    #UoE #UofE #UniversityofEdinburgh #EdinburghUniversity #SimonFanshawe #Transphobia

  9. CW: Transphobia, Edinburgh Uni

    Robyn Woof, Trans and Non-Binary Liberation Officer, has resigned from her positions at Edinburgh University following the appointment of Simon Fanshawe as Rector.

    “It’s impossible for me to achieve anything campaigning against transphobia through the university’s official processes so I am resigning in protest and will instead begin a campaign of direct action”

    studentnewspaper.org/breaking-

    #UoE #UofE #UniversityofEdinburgh #EdinburghUniversity #SimonFanshawe #Transphobia

  10. CW: Transphobia, Edinburgh Uni

    Robyn Woof, Trans and Non-Binary Liberation Officer, has resigned from her positions at Edinburgh University following the appointment of Simon Fanshawe as Rector.

    “It’s impossible for me to achieve anything campaigning against transphobia through the university’s official processes so I am resigning in protest and will instead begin a campaign of direct action”

    studentnewspaper.org/breaking-

    #UoE #UofE #UniversityofEdinburgh #EdinburghUniversity #SimonFanshawe #Transphobia

  11. CW: Transphobia, University of Edinburgh

    Heard via Resisting Transphobia Edinburgh about these actions being organised against Simon Fanshawe, an anti-trans activist who helped set up the hate group LGB Alliance, being named Rector of Edinburgh University:

    - Open letter from students and staff: docs.google.com/document/d/1AR
    - Open letter from alumni: organise.network/actions/petit

    #SimonFanshawe #UoE #UofE #Edinburgh #UniversityOfEdinburgh #EdinburghUniversity #Transphobia #Petition

  12. CW: Transphobia, University of Edinburgh

    Heard via Resisting Transphobia Edinburgh about these actions being organised against Simon Fanshawe, an anti-trans activist who helped set up the hate group LGB Alliance, being named Rector of Edinburgh University:

    - Open letter from students and staff: docs.google.com/document/d/1AR
    - Open letter from alumni: organise.network/actions/petit

    #SimonFanshawe #UoE #UofE #Edinburgh #UniversityOfEdinburgh #EdinburghUniversity #Transphobia #Petition

  13. CW: Transphobia, University of Edinburgh

    Heard via Resisting Transphobia Edinburgh about these actions being organised against Simon Fanshawe, an anti-trans activist who helped set up the hate group LGB Alliance, being named Rector of Edinburgh University:

    - Open letter from students and staff: docs.google.com/document/d/1AR
    - Open letter from alumni: organise.network/actions/petit

    #SimonFanshawe #UoE #UofE #Edinburgh #UniversityOfEdinburgh #EdinburghUniversity #Transphobia #Petition

  14. CW: Transphobia, University of Edinburgh

    Heard via Resisting Transphobia Edinburgh about these actions being organised against Simon Fanshawe, an anti-trans activist who helped set up the hate group LGB Alliance, being named Rector of Edinburgh University:

    - Open letter from students and staff: docs.google.com/document/d/1AR
    - Open letter from alumni: organise.network/actions/petit

    #SimonFanshawe #UoE #UofE #Edinburgh #UniversityOfEdinburgh #EdinburghUniversity #Transphobia #Petition

  15. CW: Transphobia, University of Edinburgh

    Heard via Resisting Transphobia Edinburgh about these actions being organised against Simon Fanshawe, an anti-trans activist who helped set up the hate group LGB Alliance, being named Rector of Edinburgh University:

    - Open letter from students and staff: docs.google.com/document/d/1AR
    - Open letter from alumni: organise.network/actions/petit

    #SimonFanshawe #UoE #UofE #Edinburgh #UniversityOfEdinburgh #EdinburghUniversity #Transphobia #Petition

  16. New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

    Stability and asymptotic interactions of chiral magnetic skyrmions in a tilted magnetic field

    Bruno Barton-Singer, Bernd J. Schroers
    SciPost Phys. 15, 011 (2023)
    scipost.org/SciPostPhys.15.1.0

    #Heriot-Watt University
    #MaxwellInstituteforMathematicalSciences
    #UniversityofEdinburgh
    #EPSRC

  17. New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics #Lecture Notes

    A non-lorentzian primer

    Eric Bergshoeff, José Figueroa-O'Farrill, Joaquim Gomis
    SciPost Phys. Lect. Notes 69 (2023)
    scipost.org/SciPostPhysLectNot

    #UG #UniversityofEdinburgh
    #UB #MINECO

  18. SciPost Physics @physics

    New #openaccess publication #SciPost #physics

    Lifshitz symmetry: Lie algebras, spacetimes and particles
    José Figueroa-O'Farrill, Ross Grassie, Stefan Prohazka
    SciPost Phys. 14, 035 (2023)
    scipost.org/SciPostPhys.14.3.0

    #UniversityofEdinburgh
    #ESI @ERC #FNRS
    #LeverhulmeTrust

  19. SciPost Physics @physics

    New #openaccess publication #SciPost #physics

    Lifshitz symmetry: Lie algebras, spacetimes and particles
    José Figueroa-O'Farrill, Ross Grassie, Stefan Prohazka
    SciPost Phys. 14, 035 (2023)
    scipost.org/SciPostPhys.14.3.0

    #UniversityofEdinburgh
    #ESI @ERC #FNRS
    #LeverhulmeTrust

  20. SciPost Physics @physics

    New #openaccess publication #SciPost #physics

    Lifshitz symmetry: Lie algebras, spacetimes and particles
    José Figueroa-O'Farrill, Ross Grassie, Stefan Prohazka
    SciPost Phys. 14, 035 (2023)
    scipost.org/SciPostPhys.14.3.0

    #UniversityofEdinburgh
    #ESI @ERC #FNRS
    #LeverhulmeTrust

  21. SciPost Physics @physics

    New #openaccess publication #SciPost #physics

    Lifshitz symmetry: Lie algebras, spacetimes and particles
    José Figueroa-O'Farrill, Ross Grassie, Stefan Prohazka
    SciPost Phys. 14, 035 (2023)
    scipost.org/SciPostPhys.14.3.0

    #UniversityofEdinburgh
    #ESI @ERC #FNRS
    #LeverhulmeTrust

  22. SciPost Physics @physics

    New #openaccess publication #SciPost #physics

    Lifshitz symmetry: Lie algebras, spacetimes and particles
    José Figueroa-O'Farrill, Ross Grassie, Stefan Prohazka
    SciPost Phys. 14, 035 (2023)
    scipost.org/SciPostPhys.14.3.0

    #UniversityofEdinburgh
    #ESI @ERC #FNRS
    #LeverhulmeTrust

  23. Today I find myself at the #NationalRobotarium at #HeriotWattUniversity with colleagues from #UniversityOfEdinburgh and @EdinburghNapier #enu

    Incredible building, of course, but even cooler hearing about all the work folks are doing here in town and getting exciting ideas for research collaborations

    There's explainable AI, conversational agents, engineering new grips and joints, all sorts of stuff that could combine in very cool ways :D