UofGNews @uofgnews.bsky.social · 07/10/2026New analysis of radioactive traces from nuclear weapons testing trapped in the teeth of stranded whales has helped scientists reconstruct their life stories. Read more about the research, led by Dr Kieran Tierney of SUERC: Centre for the Isotope Sciences, here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin... 011
UofGNews @uofgnews.bsky.social · 06/10/2026A new art exhibition inspired by the strangeness of quantum physics is coming to Glasgow on October 20th. Superposition was created by Scottish artist Dr Gregor Harvie in collaboration with researchers from @uofgphysastro.bsky.social. Read more here: www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/2660662... 000
UofGNews @uofgnews.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Researchers and students from @uofgengineering.bsky.social are planning to boldly go where no dram has gone before with the launch of a new project to distil whisky in space. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin... 010
UofGNews @uofgnews.bsky.social · 30/09/2026A team of engineers led by Prof Shanmugam Kumar of @uofgengineering.bsky.social have adapted a medical imaging technique to give 3D-printed materials the ability to sense where they are being damaged and track how that damage develops in real time. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin... 011
UofGNews @uofgnews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026An international team of physicists led by researchers from @uofgphysastro.bsky.social have developed a new method of deducing the precise colour of laser light by using an image that rotates as the laser’s frequency shifts. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin... 043
UofGNews @uofgnews.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The Lovelace-Hodgkin Symposium is set to return to @glasgow.ac.uk on Tues 13 Oct! Academics, artists, musicians and filmmakers will be part of the event, on the theme ‘Making the Invisible, Visible: AI, Stories, Power & Participation’. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin... 000
UofGNews @uofgnews.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"What makes Scotland an attractive place to build data centres?" writes Prof Ana Basiri, director of our Centre for Data Science & AI, in an article for @scotsman.com on the challenges and opportunities of the fast-growing tech sector. Read more here: www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...scotsman.comWhy Scotland is such a good place to build data centres (and why we should embrace it)Data centres can help grow Scotland’s economy and create skilled jobs but we need to make sure they have a positive impact on the environment 121
UofGNews @uofgnews.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Congrats to Prof Margaret Lucas and Prof Colin McInnes of @uofgengineering.bsky.social, who will receive Baird of Bute Awards tomorrow for their contributions to innovation and aviation. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin... 051
UofGNews @uofgnews.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Congrats to GLAsense, a multidisciplinary team of @glasgow.ac.uk students, who won the Innovation Award at this year’s SensUs competition for their novel concept for a new approach to monitoring Parkinson’s disease. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin... 030
UofGNews @uofgnews.bsky.social · 07/09/2026New research led by Dr Adam Smith of @uofgges.bsky.social in the 'natural lab' of the Isle of Jura casts new light on how what water carries plays an important role in determining how streams carve through landscapes. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin... 020
UofGNews @uofgnews.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Congratulations to Prof Robert Hadfield of @uofgengineering.bsky.social, who will be presented with an IEEE Council on Superconductivity Award next week for his pioneering work to develop advanced detector technologies. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin... 011
UofGNews @uofgnews.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Four leading @glasgow.ac.uk researchers are among 11 new members and associate members of the Scottish Science Advisory Council announced today. They are: Dr Jessica Enright, Prof Muhammad Imran, Prof Peter MacPherson and Dr Ellen Williamson. Read more here: scottishscience.org.uk/news-blog/ne... 010
UofGNews @uofgnews.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Giving robot companions animal-like or anime-style faces and voices could maximise their emotional appeal to users and improve future social robots, new research led by @uofgcompsci.bsky.social's @shaunmacdonald.bsky.social suggests. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin... 021
UofGNews @uofgnews.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Congrats to Dr Gilles Bailet, Dr Daniela Castro-Camilo, Dr Emma Gordon, Dr Raneem Knaj, Dr Ashley Lewis-Cole and Dr Samuel Owusu Achiaw, announced today as new members of the @royalsoced.bsky.social Young Academy of Scotland! Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin... 030
UofGNews @uofgnews.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Animated ‘virtual agents’ could help keep the roads of the future safer by alerting people behind the wheel of semi-autonomous cars to oncoming hazards, new research from @uofgcompsci.bsky.social suggests. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin... 022
UofGNews @uofgnews.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Don't miss this piece on Dr Paul Harvey from @uofgcompsci.bsky.social, whose research explores the art of getting systems to speak to each other. 022
Reposted by UofGNews University of Glasgow, Innovation & Economic Development @uofgied.bsky.social · 14/08/2026The University of Glasgow MedTech Innovation Fund is now OPEN for applications! Full details on our Linktree in bio, including links to Q&A sessions. @glasgow.ac.uk @glasgowcaledonian.bsky.social #MedTech #Innovation #Glasgow 042
UofGNews @uofgnews.bsky.social · 13/08/2026We welcomed The One Show to our Acre Road Observatory last night to watch the solar eclipse with us. Dr Iain Hannah from @uofgphysastro.bsky.social spoke to presenter Jennifer Reoch about the science behind the historic event. Watch the programme for yourself on iPlayer here: lnkd.in/e9HYYGZB 022
UofGNews @uofgnews.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Dr Ana Da Silva Felipe and @drtoniho.bsky.social of @cvrinfo.bsky.social will lead Glasgow's contribution to the international DETECTIVE consortium to improve the early detection of emerging viral threats and strengthen future pandemic preparedness. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...gla.ac.ukUofG helps secure €4.4 million EU funding to train the next generation of viral expertsThe MRC-University of Glasgow’s Centre for Virus Research (CVR) is playing a leading role in a major new European doctoral training programme. 1104
UofGNews @uofgnews.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Professor Colin McInnes of @uofgengineering.bsky.social has written a great new piece for @uk.theconversation.com on the developing technologies which may help us take interstellar travel from a sci-fi concept to a real-world application in the years ahead. Read it below! 132
UofGNews @uofgnews.bsky.social · 04/08/2026@glasgow.ac.uk and @unistrathclyde.bsky.social are partners in a new Leverhulme Doctoral Programme in Responsible Hybrid Intelligence announced today. Full story via the link: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin... 074
UofGNews @uofgnews.bsky.social · 22/07/2026A breakthrough new development in communications research led by a team from @uofgengineering.bsky.social may have solved a key problem with one of the enabling technologies set to underpin the 6G networks of the future. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin... 022
UofGNews @uofgnews.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Congrats to the @uofgchem.bsky.social Lunasonic project team, who have won £100,000 from Ofwat’s Water Discovery Challenge University to advance their research into how sound waves can remove harmful pollutants from drinking water. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin... 033
UofGNews @uofgnews.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Superconducting technologies could supercharge the decarbonisation of transport, saving gigatonnes of emissions in the future, a landmark new paper from Dr Wenjuan Song and Dr Mohammad Yazdani-Asrami of @uofgengineering.bsky.social suggests. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin... 023
Reposted by UofGNews University of Glasgow @glasgow.ac.uk · 10/07/2026Last chance to get your ticket for this special event on Monday! 075
UofGNews @uofgnews.bsky.social · 10/07/2026A study by an international team of Chinese and UK geoscientists shows that the unique topography at the summit of the Tibetan Plateau is shaped by processes going on deep in the Earth. www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin... #Geoscience #research @glasgow.ac.uk 020
UofGNews @uofgnews.bsky.social · 03/07/2026A pioneering food additive developed by scientists at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social and @glasgow.ac.uk that can stop people gaining weight has appeared on the EU’s Novel Food List, indicating its safety for human consumers. 👉 www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin... 010
UofGNews @uofgnews.bsky.social · 02/07/2026A breakthrough new development in biomedical engineering could help pave the way for tiny implantable devices capable of diagnosing, monitoring and treating a wide range of health conditions. 👉 www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin... 034
UofGNews @uofgnews.bsky.social · 23/06/2026The world’s oldest football is heading into the metaverse. Before appearing at the Scotland v Brazil game tomorrow, it was scanned at the @uofgarc.bsky.social to create a digital twin. Photo of @paulinemackay.bsky.social by Martin Shields More: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...gla.ac.ukThe world’s oldest football is being brought into the metaverseUniversity of Glasgow's world-leading 3D content creators begin the process of scanning the football to create a museum quality digital version. 010
UofGNews @uofgnews.bsky.social · 18/06/2026A team of Glasgow students has successfully completed a major systems-level qualification milestone for the OirthirSAT CubeSat, following a series of sinusoidal and random vibration tests conducted at the STFC Higgs Centre for Innovation in Edinburgh. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin... 001
UofGNews @uofgnews.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Lower-income postgraduate students will receive scholarships to study at @uofgmaths-stats.bsky.social thanks to a new partnership agreement with Martingale Foundation. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin... 011
UofGNews @uofgnews.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Quantcore, a pioneering @glasgow.ac.uk spinout from @uofgengineering.bsky.social which is developing advanced quantum hardware for use across a wide range of industries has been awarded a major prize by @iop.org. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin... 063
UofGNews @uofgnews.bsky.social · 15/06/2026As Glasgow gears up to host the Digital Mental Health and Wellbeing Conference later this week, Prof Alessandro Vinciarelli of @uofgcompsci.bsky.social writes for @scotsman.com on how AI might support people struggling with their mental health. Read here: www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...scotsman.comCan AI read your mind? How chatbots could be used for mental healthHow AI chatbots could transform how we detect, monitor, and support people struggling with their mental health 011
UofGNews @uofgnews.bsky.social · 09/06/2026The meteorite which caused the extinction of the dinosaurs also created an underground environment suited to supporting new life which lasted for at least eight million years, research from SUERC and @uofgges.bsky.social reveals. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin... 093
UofGNews @uofgnews.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Researchers from SUERC Centre for the Isotope Sciences are co-authors of a study which casts new light on the history of the Earth’s driest region, the Atacama Desert in Chile. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin... 000
UofGNews @uofgnews.bsky.social · 27/05/2026A new method to distribute cryptographic keys using terahertz waves developed at @uofgengineering.bsky.social could help enable secure communication in the quantum-powered internet of the future. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin... 011
UofGNews @uofgnews.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Researchers from the @uofgphysastro.bsky.social and @uofgravity.bsky.social are celebrating the publication of a vast new treasure trove of gravitational wave detections, hailed as a milestone marking the coming of age of gravitational astronomy. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin... 030
UofGNews @uofgnews.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Prof Martin Lavery of @uofgengineering.bsky.social is leading the University's contribution to the University of Suffolk-led Quantum Optics Discovery (QOD) Lab, which was officially opened last week. Read more here: www.uos.ac.uk/about/news/2... 031
UofGNews @uofgnews.bsky.social · 21/05/2026A new implantable device developed by researchers at @uofgengineering.bsky.social which aims to maximise the effectiveness of light-sensitive drugs could improve outcomes for bladder cancer patients in the future. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin... 031
UofGNews @uofgnews.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Two vast paintings by artist Gregor Harvie, inspired by one of the most ambitious scientific theories proposed by physicist Lord Kelvin, will be unveiled at the @uofgphysastro.bsky.social Kelvin Building this June. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin... 011
UofGNews @uofgnews.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Prof Jonathan Taylor of @uofgphysastro.bsky.social is leading a £4m new project with colleagues from @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social and @sheffielduni.bsky.social to create detailed 3D images of the mechanical forces inside a living, beating heart. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin... 1123
UofGNews @uofgnews.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Congrats to Dr Mingshu Wang of @uofgges.bsky.social, as been named as the recipient of a fellowship from DAFNI, the Data & Analytics Facility for National Infrastructure. The fellowship will help support Dr Wang's work in geospatial data science. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin... 123
UofGNews @uofgnews.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Gravitational wave researchers at @uofgphysastro.bsky.social and @uofgravity.bsky.social, working as part of the LVK collaboration, have found a way to tune their detectors using a process akin to the pitch-correction used in music production. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin... 073
UofGNews @uofgnews.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Congrats to Prof Larissa Naylor of @uofgges.bsky.social, who has received the Royal Geographical Society's Cuthbert Peek Award in recognition of her research on coastal geography, geomorphology and the ecological and climate challenges facing society. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin... 021
Reposted by UofGNews University of Glasgow, Innovation & Economic Development @uofgied.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Delighted to see our champion student start-up Generation Mulligan covered in the papers and online today. Well done to Malcolm Weir and our wonderful Student & Graduate Enterprise team. 🔗🌳 Read the full story via the link in our bio. 📸 | Martin Shields Photography #Innovation #Enterprise 012
UofGNews @uofgnews.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Sophisticated new flight simulation software developed at @uofgengineering.bsky.social which can accurately model the performance of firefighting helicopters could help train pilots to tackle wildfires more effectively in the future. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin... 022
UofGNews @uofgnews.bsky.social · 05/05/2026New work from researchers at @uofgcompsci.bsky.social demonstrates how digital twins – digital replicas of the physical world – can test complex computer networks exponentially faster than traditional approaches. Read more below! 011
UofGNews @uofgnews.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Congratulations to Simon Fraser, an MEng Aeronautical Engineering student in @uofgengineering.bsky.social, who has won the PEGASUS student competition for his project 'An Experimental Framework to Investigate Icy Plumes on Saturn’s Moon Enceladus.' Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin... 021
UofGNews @uofgnews.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Congrats to @uofgcompsci.bsky.social PhD student Andrew Blair, who has been selected by the @britsciassoc.bsky.social to deliver a lecture on his research at the British Science Festival in September! Read more here: www.britishscienceassociation.org/news/announc... 032
UofGNews @uofgnews.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Researchers from @uofgengineering.bsky.social welcomed Martin Rhodes MP to the REACT Centre last week to view new sustainable electronics research and demonstrations of circular manufacturing and advanced e-waste recovery. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin... 021