A groundbreaking connectivity trial led by researchers from @uofgengineering.bsky.social has demonstrated the potential of 5G communications technologies to enable remote healthcare in Nigeria. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

Researchers from @uofgengineering.bsky.social led by @weides.bsky.social are part of a @fermilab.bsky.social project to accelerate breakthroughs in quantum information science, backed by $125m in new investment. Read more here: news.fnal.gov/2025/11/ferm...

Artist and industrial designer Professor Dugald Cameron has donated two new paintings to @uofgphysastro.bsky.social and @uofgravity.bsky.social in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the first detection of gravitational waves. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

An innovative knowledge transfer partnership between researchers from @uofgengineering.bsky.social and Soapworks Ltd has scooped two prizes at a major national awards ceremony. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

Archaeologists from @uofgartshums.bsky.social and @n-t-s.bsky.social have uncovered more than 100 Jacobite projectiles at Culloden Battlefield. Led by NTS DerekAlexander and UofG's Prof Tony Pollard, the discoveries offer new insight into the final moments of the 1746 battle. ⛏️

Books tell stories beyond the text 📚 Join Dr Shanti Graheli of @uofgartshums.bsky.social & the Mitchell Library's Susan Taylor at a Books “Antiques” Roadshow at The Mitchell Library, part of a series of events for Being Human Festival. Drop in, bring a book and share its story 📷 Martin Shields

The Secret Letters of Mary Queen of Scots documentary features @uofglasgow.bsky.social @uofgartshums.bsky.social Prof Steven Reid in a gripping tale of espionage, encryption & royal intrigue. Follow the journey of amateur code breakers who cracked Mary’s messages. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Scientists @uofglasgow.bsky.social have harnessed a powerful supercomputer, normally used to study the universe, to develop a new machine learning model which can help translate the language of proteins @cvrinfo.bsky.social @uofgcancersciences.bsky.social @uofgcompsci.bsky.social ➡️ gla.ac/3WpA43G

Great to see Prof Hester Parr (@hesterparr.bsky.social) of @uofgges.bsky.social featured in this BBC News piece showcasing the Wintering Well project she leads with Prof Hayden Lorimer (@slipshodspeller.bsky.social) of the University of Edinburgh. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Researchers from @uofgengineering.bsky.social are partnering with colleagues at @unisouthampton.bsky.social on a £10M research programme to transform textiles into electronics. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

A new form of 3D-printed twisting metamaterial developed at @uofgengineering.bsky.social can mitigate the effect of impacts. It could lead to improved crash protection for vehicles in the years ahead. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

Researchers from @uofgphysastro.bsky.social have played key roles in a breakthrough new measurement of the differences between neutrinos and antineutrinos made by the international T2K and NOvA collaborations. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

Boxes of sunlight will be offered to people in Orkney to help with low winter mood as part of the Living with SAD project led by Prof @hesterparr.bsky.social of @uofgges.bsky.social and Prof Hayden Lorimer (@slipshodspeller.bsky.social) of Edinburgh Uni. More here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

Congrats to Prof Emily Draper (@profdraper.bsky.social) of @uofgchem.bsky.social, who has won a @leverhulmetrust.bsky.social Prize to help advance her groundbreaking work on the development of more sustainable devices. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

A new development in open-source mobile networks which enables near-real-time control of robotic arms could help doctors work on patients in remote locations in the years to come. Read more about the work, led by researchers from @uofgengineering.bsky.social, here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

Zachary Boyd (1585–1653) was a minister, poet & @uofglasgow.bsky.social academic who lived through one of Scotland’s most turbulent times. Now his library has been brought together for the 1st time in more than 370 years by UofG's Prof Adrian Streete 📸Martin Shields gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

Researchers from @uofgengineering.bsky.social are teaming up with Jiva Materials to develop environmentally-friendly, biodegradable circuit boards for use in wireless communication technologies. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

A new software tool developed by researchers from @uofgengineering.bsky.social which can accurately predict the performance of biofilters used by the water industry could help maintain the purity of tap water. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

ICYMI BBC Radio Scotland spoke to @uofglasgow.bsky.social @uofgartshums.bsky.social historian Dr Stephen Marritt about the legacy of William the Conqueror and its impact on Scotland. A timely reflection as the TV drama King & Conqueror comes out. Starts at 1:46:10: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

A new study led by Dr Antoniette Greta Grima (@geoniette.bsky.social) of @uofgges.bsky.social uses the power of supercomputing to model how massive slabs of ancient ocean floors are shaped as they sink hundreds of kilometres below the Earth's surface. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

Our Lovelace-Hodgkin Symposium kicks off at @uofgarc.bsky.social today! Experts from industry, academia and government will discuss the impact of AI on learning, teaching and research, and how the tech can be used responsibly in education. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

"We are not going to be able to control nature in the same way in the future," warns Prof Larissa Naylor of @uofgges.bsky.social in this article on the threat that climate change-driven coastal erosion poses to Scotland. Read the full piece here: theferret.scot/communities-...

What is the worst idea in human history? In this TEDx talk, Professor Todd Ehlers, head of @uofgges.bsky.social, makes a compelling case that burning fossil fuels to power our world was the worst mistake we ever made. Watch it in full below: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrfH...

Two recent studies shine light on the earliest known uses of blue pigment, an article in @science.org says. One of the studies involved @uofglasgow.bsky.social @uofgartshums.bsky.social Professor Karen Hardy www.science.org/content/arti...

Congrats to Prof Larissa Naylor of @uofgges.bsky.social, who was Highly Commended in the category of Biodiversity Champion Award: Established Professional at the CIRIA Biodiversity Challenge Awards 2025! Read more here: www.bigchallenge.info/2025-winners

Congratulations to Prof Konstantinos Kontis and Prof Douglas Paul of @uofgengineering.bsky.social, who have been elected as Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering (@raeng.org.uk)! Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

Cities and towns surrounded by large areas of woodland are more likely to have ticks in their urban greenspaces, according to a new @uofglasgow.bsky.social study. @saragandy.bsky.social Read more ➡️ gla.ac/3KdvkLD

TransiT, the UK’s national Digital Twinning Hub for #Decarbonising #Transport, has appointed a new Head of Data to help its research teams manage growing volumes of transport data More here: tinyurl.com/2eb3tk8u #TransportData #BigData #NetZero

Great to see the work of Dr Daniel Mitchell of @uofgengineering.bsky.social showcased by @transittwin.bsky.social!

A powerful software tool developed at @uofgphysastro.bsky.social capable of accurately modelling how cameras capture light could help democratise the development of new imaging systems for use in space. Read more here: gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

We're pleased to be launching the Turner Kirk Centre for Spatial Reasoning with the announcement of a large-scale research pilot, backed by the Scottish Government and the Turner Kirk Trust, to boost primary school pupils' maths performance. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

The Ada Scotland Festival, which aims to shift the gender balance of Scotland’s computing sector, is set to return with more than 20 events aimed at young women and non-binary people across the country from September 29. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

Professor Sir James Hough of @uofgphysastro.bsky.social and @uofgravity.bsky.social, one of our longest-serving and most distinguished researchers, will receive the Baird of Bute Innovation Award todayAport for his work in gravitational research. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

Hillwalkers setting out to bag a Munro are being asked for their help to bag a meteorite too, as scientists from @uofgges.bsky.social and the UK Fireball Network race to recover samples of a space rock which lit up the skies over Scotland this summer. Read more here: gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

A record-breaking development in laser technology from @uofgengineering.bsky.social researchers could help support the development of smaller, cheaper, more easily-fabricated optical and quantum technologies. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

Researchers from @uofgphysastro.bsky.social & @uofgravity.bsky.social are celebrating the 10th anniversary of @ligo.org's historic first detection of gravitational waves. Learn more the team’s role in the detection and their ongoing research: gla.ac/45Yeusr

Prof @hesterparr.bsky.social of @uofgges.bsky.social, Chair of the Working Group for Missing People in Scotland, spoke today alongside Victims Minister Siobhian Brown as they jointly launched the new National Framework for Missing People in Scotland 2025. Read more here: gov.scot/news/support...

A multidisciplinary team of @uofgengineering.bsky.social students have won recognition at the international SensUs competition for their innovative approach to kidney health monitoring. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

Displaced people seeking to start new lives in Scotland could be helped to settle in the country with the support of a new social robot being developed by Shaul Ashkenazi (@shauliash.bsky.social) at @socialai.bsky.social and colleagues. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

Glasgow is positioning itself as the UK’s 3D content creation capital. A new working group brings together UofG, @glasgowschoolofart.bsky.social, @cofgcollege.bsky.social and industry partners to support growth in immersive tech, animation and digital design. More: gla.ac/483GFHL

Congrats to Dr Rachael Boyd of the School of Mathematics & Statistics and Dr Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas (@ilyena.bsky.social) of @uofgcompsci.bsky.social, who have received @erc.europa.eu Starting Grants to support groundbreaking new research projects. Read more here: gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

Super excited to be part of this new initiative led by Prof Fredros Okumu, with Ifakara Health Institute, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, University of the Witwatersrand, Fundação Manhiça Mozambique, University of Eduardo Mondlane, KEMRI, University of Nairobi & the Technical University of Kenya

Researchers from @uofgravity.bsky.social and @uofgphysastro.bsky.social led the analysis of data from 128 gravitational wave detections made by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration. Read more about the results, published in a new preprint catalogue paper, here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

@uofgsocsci.bsky.social, in partnership with institutions in Africa and Europe, is establishing the first Mosquito Observatory in Africa 🦟 The Observatory will improve our understanding of mosquito-borne diseases in Africa. @drheatherferg.bsky.social Read more www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

New augmented-reality software developed by @shaunmacdonald.bsky.social of @uofgcompsci.bsky.social could teach old robots new tricks. The AZRA system aims to provide more pet-like experiences for people who are unable to keep real animals. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

A team of students from @uofgengineering.bsky.social's GU Orbit society have scooped the top prize at the UKSEDS Olympic Rover Trials. They won the national competition to design a robot Mars rover as well as two other prizes. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

Artificial intelligence experts will gather at @uofgarc.bsky.social to discuss the impact of the rapidly advancing technology on learning, teaching and research at the second Lovelace-Hodgkin Symposium on Oct 2-3. Read more and sign up for free tickets here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

Congrats to Prof Dezong Zhao from @uofgengineering.bsky.social, who has received a @leverhulmetrust.bsky.social Research Fellowship from @raeng.org.uk to help ensure self-driving cars can travel safely on public roads. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

Three Words for Forest - a filmed play exploring UK forests & climate crisis - gets new AHRC funding to expand access & spark dialogue. 🌲 @deeheddon.bsky.social

Dr Kaveh Delfanazari of @uofgengineering.bsky.social has received a prestigious @royalsociety.org Industry Fellowship to support his work on next-generation quantum electronic hardware in partnership with SEEQC. Read more here: gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...