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                    University of Leicester appoints Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Professional Services)https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/may/dvc-professional-services The University of Leicester has appointed a new Deputy Vice-Chancellor to lead the Professional Services teams at the University. 
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                    Global Entrepreneurship and Development Indexhttps://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/04/29/global-entrepreneurship-and-development-index/ Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 29, 2014 The Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index Free access to this annual index of nations ranked according to how conducive they are to entrepreneurial... 
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                    Nigerian Securityhttps://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/30/nigerian-security/ Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 30, 2015 Nigerian Presidential elections are due to take place soon. 
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                    Digital Terrorism and Hate onlinehttps://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/03/16/digital-terrorism-and-hate-online/ Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 16, 2018 A new report from the Simon Wiesenthal center finds the rise of alt-tech far-right digital websites and platforms. 
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                    Number of fact-checking sites worldwide increasing rapidlyhttps://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/03/13/number-of-fact-checking-sites-worldwide-increasing-rapidly/ Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 13, 2018 According to the latest annual report from the Duke Reporters Lab . They found that in 2018 the number has increased by 31 percent. 
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                    RSS feed from UNhttps://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/02/13/rss-feed-from-un/ Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 13, 2012 Get the RSS feed from the U.N. Dag Hammarskjöld Library http://un-library.tumblr. 
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                    Business and Management MOOCshttps://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/24/business-and-management-moocs/ Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 24, 2016 For a subject-based list take a look at the FT tracker for business and management In the UK a major service with content from the British Library and other major universities is... 
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                    R-shief: tracking Arab public opinionhttps://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/07/15/r-shief-tracking-arab-public-opinion/ Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 15, 2013 The new website is currently under development. It aggregates data from social media – Facebook, Twitter etc. to track public opinion from the Arab world. 
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                    Saturn’s high-altitude winds generate an extraordinary auroraehttps://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2022/02/08/saturns-high-altitude-winds-generate-an-extraordinary-aurorae/ Leicester space scientists have discovered a never-before-seen mechanism fuelling huge planetary aurorae at Saturn. 
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                    Black holes could grow as large as 50 billion suns research showshttps://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/black-holes-could-grow-as-large-as-50-billion-suns-research-shows Black holes at the heart of galaxies could swell to 50 billion times the mass of the sun before losing the discs of gas they rely on to sustain themselves, according to research by Professor Andrew King from the Department of Physics and Astronomy.