Employ.Ed Hidden Collections Intern – Week 1 TAGS: Annexe | Careers | Hidden | Intern | Projects The Library Annexe will be joined for the next 8 weeks by Nik Slavov, who is working for the University as part of the Employ.Ed on Campus summer internship programme, …Continue reading →

Science: Media Friendly? TAGS: BBC | broadcast | debate | dolly the sheep | greenwood | media | press | public engagement | radio | scientists | social impact | television | waddington Nowadays we are more than accustomed to scientists appearing on television and radio to talk about their research or engage in debates about the social, political and ethical implications of …Continue reading →

Research and Refugees – Edinburgh genetics during the 1940s TAGS: 1940s | c.h. waddington | charlotte auerbach | chromosome theory | Edinburgh | f.a.e crew | festival of museums | fly room | george clayton | h.j. muller | home guard | inheritance | institute of animal genetics | j.m. robson | mendel | mustard gas | mutation | roslin | second world war | t.h. morgan Last Friday I delivered a talk on genetics in Edinburgh during the 1940s as part of the Scotland-wide Festival of Museums, for which Edinburgh University Library and Collections took the 1940s …Continue reading →

New Strides, Old Stripes: Zebras and the tsetse fly TAGS: east africa | Edinburgh | genetics | genome | genomics | hagenbeck | james cossar ewart | sequencing | trypanosomiasis | tsetse | zebra It was announced last week that scientists have deciphered the genetic code of the tsetse fly, which offers hope of eradicating one of Africa’s most deadly diseases. The fly, which …Continue reading →

The simple art of reference writing TAGS: CRC | Edinburgh University Library | Karl Ferdinand Braun | Professor Godfrey Thomson | Professor Sir Godfrey Thomson | University of Edinburgh | William Henry Hadow As I am now coming to the end of my time in Edinburgh cataloguing the papers of Professor Sir Godfrey Thomson, references aren’t terribly far from my mind! But I …Continue reading →

‘Riding High on a Spiral’ This Friday 25 April is ‘DNA Day’, an international celebration of the day in 1953 when James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, Rosalind Franklin and colleagues at Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, …Continue reading →

Lab Books TAGS: a.n. whitehead | c.h. waddington | c.k. ogden | c.p.snow | dualism | I.A. Richards | institute of animal genetics | Literature | nature | two cultures | what scientists read I have recently been reading about the ‘What Scientists Read’ project, which aims to explore the influence of literature and the arts upon scientific thought and practice. The project has …Continue reading →

‘Towards a better understanding of human relations’ TAGS: experimental psychology | John Carl Flugel | Professor Sir Godfrey Thomson | Psychoanalysis This week’s letter from Thomson’s collection comes courtesy of psychologist and psychoanalyst, John Carl Flügel (1884–1955): The letter was one of many sent from eminent psychologists, mathematicians, scientists, and former students …Continue reading →

Europeana Cloud Plenary, Athens, March 18-19 The Europeana Cloud project hosted its annual plenary meeting at the Royal Olympic Hotel, Athens, on March 18-19. Norman Rodger (P & I) and Scott Renton (LDD) represented the University …Continue reading →

Picture Perfect! TAGS: drosophila | Edinburgh | genetics | institute of animal genetics | photographs | science | waddington Being lucky, as I am, to work with a wide variety of archival collections relating to the history of animal genetics in Edinburgh, it can be mightily difficult to select …Continue reading →