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New report recommends how Scottish and UK governments can ensure AI use creates trust and deliver real benefits, including setting up a citizens’ assembly.
Recommendations are based on an event led by our School's @OliverEscobar & Morgan Currie
https://t.co/zSf023qyby

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The Workers’ Observatory, a charity co-founded by SPS’s Dr Karen Gregory, has secured long-term funding to continue its work, bringing researchers and workers together to campaign for better conditions in the gig economy.
https://t.co/jeSUr5CBQ1

https://t.co/htkxhRiECy

[SKAPE @skape_ed]

We will now be joined on 11 June by Niall Kerr: Senior Analyst for Energy and Environment at the Scottish Parliament Information Centre

Net Zero: Governance Through Goal Setting and Competing Knowledge Claims

Register: https://t.co/ze4opzxwae

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AI Futures Seminar Series
Keynote Lecture
Tues, June 16 • 2 PM - 5 PM

Prof. Nick Couldry
AI as Order of Capture: How and Where Do We Resist and Rebuild?

Prof. Paola Ricaurte Quijano
Building Feminist Decolonial AI in Latin America

Info and booking:
https://t.co/Vn81lyQsKA

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Dr Lukas Lehner - highly commended in the international Wiley Research Heroes Prize, recognising the societal impact of his work. Lukas was honoured in the Impact Beyond Academia category for research on job guarantees.

https://t.co/eJrnsDhydl

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Researchers at the University of Edinburgh are calling for urgent reforms to better protect and support children affected by parental domestic homicide, following a major new study examining the long-term impact on young people across the UK and Ireland.

https://t.co/jNkkAAZ7c6

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As the rise of artificial intelligence forces mathematicians to rethink what makes their field reliable and valuable, an international group of researchers has warned that AI is putting fundamental values of the discipline under threat.

https://t.co/hd8eKZqDlb

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University of Edinburgh experts strengthen pandemic preparedness

Researchers will help the world prepare more effectively for future pandemics by addressing one of the major lessons of COVID-19 - pandemics affect far more than healthcare systems alone.
https://t.co/iTR3kZP8FS

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Fully-funded PhD Scholarship | University of Edinburgh

One scholarship remains on Professor Andrew Hoskins' UKRI-funded WARSHARE project - "The New War Front: Digital Participation in War" starting September 2026.

Find out more:
https://t.co/h4oCVos6hM

[Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs @JSADJournal]

“This Supposed Conflict of Interest”: Analysis of Industry Framings of Partnership and Conflict of Interest in WHO Public Consultations on Alcohol Policy (new in @JSADjournal 87/3)

by Emma Thompson et al

@spidermaani @uoessps @SPECTRUMRes @UK_PRP @LSHTM

https://t.co/9pbIt5t2WC

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@theasainfo @Baxstrom

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Starting tomorrow - Friday 29 May

People Fest (29-31 May) is the UK Association of Social Anthropologists’ festival of public anthropology. It is in Edinburgh this year to celebrate the 80th anniversary of Social Anthropology at the University.

Info:
https://t.co/cDvrnkT6yl

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British Academy Lecture 2026
Living and writing anthropology: experiments in anthropological non-fiction
Thursday 14 May • 5 PM - 7 PM
Professor Emma Tarlo: 'Living and writing anthropology: experiments in anthropological non-fiction

Registation:
https://t.co/Eh5xVUnmFC

[The Alwaleed Centre @alwaleed_centre]

Join us on 15 May at 2:30pm when Dr Rhea Rahman presents and discusses her new book, ‘Racializing the Ummah: Muslim Humanitarians Beyond Black, Brown, and White’ with our Deputy Director Dr Kholoud Al-Ajarma. Register here: https://t.co/MfMwza9whX @uoessps

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The decline and fall of Welsh Labour

2026 Scottish Election Study Annual Lecture
Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre
Monday, May 25 • 6 PM - 7:30 PM

Join Professor Richard Wyn Jones for an insight into the future of Welsh politics.

Book your place:
https://t.co/Gyghfoy3iT

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Economic insecurity linked with frailty in later life, study finds

Older people who experience unstable finances, poor housing and fuel poverty are at increased risk of more rapid physical and mental decline as they age, a study suggests.

https://t.co/ciDyMK98WD

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AI fails to make inroads with cybercriminals, study finds

Cybercriminals have been struggling to adopt AI in their work, reports a first-of-its-kind study that analysed a dataset of 100 million posts from underground cybercrime communities.

https://t.co/m5qkDhGT0q

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Dr Kirsten Jenkins joins RSE’s new Research Leadership Scheme to support Scotland’s green future

Kirsten – a Senior Lecturer in Energy, Environment and Society – will receive support under the scheme as part of the next generation of research leaders.
https://t.co/iM9gPgbdwp

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Electric car-sharing scheme shows vehicle-to-grid technology is ready to scale

A new policy report finds that Utrecht’s vehicle-to-grid car-sharing project shows that EV batteries can deliver grid flexibility at scale and is a highly replicable model.

https://t.co/ARtuejnJt7

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Inaugural lecture
Professor Daniel Clegg
Wednesday, May 6
5:15 PM - 6:30 PM

Not having a (proper) job, comparatively speaking
Why is it that two similar capitalist economies can treat the exact same unemployed worker in completely different ways?

https://t.co/bYEzjapZBF