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• Ptero Firma: footprints pinpoint when ancient flying reptiles conquered the ground

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/ptero-firma-footprints-ancient-flying-reptiles

  Study led by the University of Leicester links fossilised flying reptile tracks to animals that made them, revealing a 160-million-year-old invasion as pterosaurs came down from the trees and onto the ground.

• Blog 1: Advertising files: Guest post by Jenni Hunt

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2021/03/09/guest-post-by-jenni-hunt-advertising-files/

  Posted by vholmes in Library Special Collections on March 9, 2021 The University Archives The University Archives at the University of Leicester are, perhaps unsurprisingly, boxes and boxes of files relating to the history of the University of Leicester.

• Indexing the Press Cuttings Books

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2018/01/22/indexing-the-press-cuttings-books/

  Posted by Helen Ward in Library Special Collections on January 22, 2018 Among the items held in the University of Leicester Institutional Archives are a series of Press Cuttings.

• Emoji is the fastest growing language

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/19/emoji-is-the-fastest-growing-language/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 19, 2015 Emoji’s are ‘pictographs. Originally used in Japanese electronic messages, many characters have now been incorporated into Unicode  and the launch of Emoj.li.

• Election 2015: TV debates

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/04/20/election-2015-tv-debates/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 20, 2015 Democratic reflection App The Election Debate Visualisation (EDV) project a collaboration between The Knowledge Media Institute (KMi)  at The Open University and the University of...

• Human Trafficking

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/08/02/human-trafficking-2/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 2, 2019 30th July was  World Day Against Trafficking in Persons . The official UN website provides background on the need for the day and related United Nations publications.

• Epigenetics and global health case study

  https://le.ac.uk/vgec/topics/genetics-and-ethics-and-law/epigenetics/case-studies/epigenetics-global-health

  Epigenetics can help us understand global health trends, as epigenome is dynamic and frequently responds to environmental cues. For more information, take a look at our website.

• Andrew Dunn: Page 7

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/author/andrew_dunn/page/7/

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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/7/

  Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

• Pioneering African mental health study receives millions in funding from Wellcome

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/february/neet

  A Wellcome-funded study led by the University of Pretoria, in collaboration with the University of Leicester and others, aims to identify predictors of depression among NEET youth in Africa.