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From animal welfare to childcare – Institute of Genetics and Cancer

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/institute-genetics-cancer/2024/12/06/from-animal-welfare-to-childcare/

I was at an athletics meeting with the Penicuik Harriers when I got talking to a couple of friends who were two years above me at school and they told me ... I have recently become a granny for the first time and have a beautiful granddaughter, so when I

The insider’s guide to vivas – Postgraduate Life

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/postgradlife/the-insiders-guide-to-vivas/

Accepting that there will be a couple of mistakes actually gives you confidence because you won’t be surprised or put on the spot by someone highlighting them in the viva

User friendly systems need users – thank you – Website and Communications Blog

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/website-communications/user-friendly-systems-need-users/

The past couple of weeks, I’ve been undertaking usability tests with our old and new content management systems, Polopoly and EdWeb. ... And in the past couple of weeks, one email resulted in nearly 20 volunteering and ultimately 8 came into the office

Persona training pilot – Website and Communications Blog

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/website-communications/persona-training-pilot/

UX. consultant Marianne O’Loughlin delivered the session for us, having worked with me over the past couple of months to pull the session together.

Tweaks to our Slurm utilities – Linux & Scientific Computing – Physics & Astronomy

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/sopa-scientific-computing/2023/05/26/slurm-utility-tweaks/

We’ve made a couple of minor improvements to the handy seff & sinfo-nodes Slurm utilities. ... We provide a couple of handy helper scripts called sinfo-nodes & sinfo-partitions, which wrap round Slurm’s core sinfo utility to give you handy summary

News – Equity for Pigs

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/equity-for-pigs/news/

I’ll be interviewing Prof. Francoise Wemelsfelder in a couple of weeks about her pioneering work on animal emotion and boredom; seeing these chaps made me think of her theories about

Getting Your First Lecturing Job – IAD4RESEARCHERS

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/iad4researchers/2020/05/04/getting-your-first-lecturing-job/

However, I reviewed the session, spoke to a couple of academics for up to date advice and we went ahead as planned.

Productivity in Unproductive Circumstances – IAD4RESEARCHERS

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/iad4researchers/2020/03/25/productivity-in-unproductive-circumstances/

There were a couple of templates in the session which I’ve turned into (very basic and not very pretty) downloads.

Introduction to the CRITICAL Team… – Climate Change Adaptation and Cultural Heritage

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/climate_culture/2021/05/21/introduction-to-the-critical-team/

21 May 2021. Introduction to the CRITICAL Team…. Over the next couple of months, the CRITICAL team will post introductory profiles and a self-reflective blog post outlining their position on

Preparing for fieldwork – Ellie Wood

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/ellie-wood/2019/09/05/preparing-for-fieldwork/

I wanted to be able to give Jack my list, as he’s never been to Tanzania, and he doesn’t have a couple of weeks contingency built into his trip