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Fighting Disinformation Online: Building the Database of Web Tools
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/06/fighting-disinformation-online-building-the-database-of-web-tools/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 6, 2020 A new report from think tank Rand describes the building of the database which has links to useful sources for researchers on detecting spam, codes, credibility scoring,...
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Excitement builds for launch of James Webb Space Telescope
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/jwst-launch
MIRI, like much of JWST’s instrumentation, will be protected from the intense radiation of the Sun by a huge five-layer sunshade which will unfold remotely as the telescope journeys to its final destination, around Lagrange point 2 (L2), where the gravitational pull of the...
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Andrew Dunn: Page 213
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/author/andrew_dunn/page/213/
Academic Librarian.
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Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Lei
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/page/214/
Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester
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GEMMES
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/12/14/gemmes/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 14, 2018 An economic modelling tool designed by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) for understanding the effects of climate change on the economy.
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Researchers use NASA’s Webb to map weather of planet 280 light-years away
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/april/clouds-wasp-43b
Atmospheric modelling led in part by University of Leicester reveals true extent of clouds on distant world reveals WASP-43 b is cloudy on the nightside but mostly clear on the dayside, with equatorial winds howling around the planet at 5,000 miles per hour
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Engineering Building takes pride of place in East Midlands fbe Awards 2017
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/engineering-building-takes-pride-of-place-in-east-midlands-fbe-awards-2017
The refurbishment of the Engineering Building roof at our University has been crowned the overall winner at the East Midlands fbe Awards 2017.
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U.S. Women’s and Girls’ Magazines Web Archive.
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/06/04/u-s-womens-and-girls-magazines-web-archive/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 4, 2020 New from Columbia University, this collection of website snapshots of American womens magazines , At the moment there are 9 covering from 2017 onwards.
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Research explores what Google can tell us about the memory web in the brain
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/research-explores-what-google-can-tell-us-about-the-memory-web-in-the-brain
A new study by researchers from the Centre for Systems Neuroscience at our University, in collaboration with the University of California Los Angeles, has helped to untangle ‘the memory web’ by shedding light on how neurons in memory-related areas provide a long-term coding...
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Games and Gamification
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/co1112
Module code: CO1112 This module will teach Java programming for games through a series of practical workshops and GIS. It will also reflect critically on ‘serious’ gaming through a lecture and seminar series.