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Governments and Facebook
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/09/04/governments-and-facebook/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 4, 2013 Government requests for data from Facebook Which governments request information the most from Facebook? First report from Facebook covers 6 months from January-June 2013.
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POOC in participatory media
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/12/13/pooc-in-participatory-media/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 13, 2013 Media@McGill’s Participatory, Open, Online Course (or “POOC”) on The Participatory Condition Addresses the history, problems and possibilities of participatory media in contemporary...
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World Cities Culture Report 2012
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/08/16/world-cities-culture-report-2012/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 16, 2012 http://www.worldcitiesculturereport.com/ Produced by the Mayor of London; the biggest international survey of its kind.
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US Elections and African Americans
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/03/30/us-elections-and-african-americans/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 30, 2012 The NAACP has declared that certain US states have introduced practices which are restricting black voting rights in the report Defending Democracy: Confronting Modern Barriers to...
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Inspired by the Olympic Games
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/12/inspired-by-the-olympic-games/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 12, 2016 Get some facts and figures.
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UN Blue Book Series now online
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/11/25/un-blue-book-series-now-online/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 25, 2016 The UN Dag Hammarskjöld Library has digitized 19 books in this important series.
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Scientists deliver world-first lobster X-ray telescope mirror
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/april/svom-satellite-lobster-mirror
Space scientists at the University of Leicester have delivered a completely new type of super-lightweight X-ray telescope mirror to study the greatest explosions in the Universe since the Big Bang.
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Pioneering Leicester researcher ready for ‘mind-blowing’ space images
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/august/naomi-rowe-gurney
Raised in Newbury, Berskhire – on Watership Down, made famous by the fantasy novel – Naomi is also a pioneer as the first Black woman to receive a PhD from Leicester’s School of Physics and Astronomy.
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Trees in tropical logged forests release carbon at greater rate despite faster growth, study finds
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/september/carbon-trees
University of Leicester-led research focusing on the carbon dioxide produced by tree stems shows that individual trees in tropical forests impacted by logging produce more carbon dioxide per m2 of woody stem area than those in unaffected forests
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University of Leicester provides outstanding teacher training, says Ofsted
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/april/teacher-training
Ofsted, the government inspector of educational institutions has concluded that University of Leicester's initial teacher training courses are of the highest standard.