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• Social stress key to population’s rate of COVID-19 infection, study finds

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/november/covid-19-social-stress

  Mathematicians have analysed global COVID-19 data to identify two constants which can drastically change a country’s rate of infection.

• With Tommy Hilfiger’s ‘smart’ clothing range, data collection has reached dystopian levels

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2018/07/31/with-tommy-hilfigers-smart-clothing-range-data-collection-has-reached-dystopian-levels/

  Posted by hconnolly in School of Business Blog on July 31, 2018 In an article for The Independent, Dr Phoebe Moore discusses how ambassadors will be rewarded for walking past Tommy Jeans stores and how we are becoming a resource for surveillance and profit making   The...

• Super rare and venomous centipede found in University of Leicester academic’s home

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/january/centipede

  Explore the intriguing discovery of Scutigera coleoptrata, the fastest-moving centipede in the world, in Nottinghamshire, UK.

• Soundings: criminology and sociology at the University of Leicester: The School of Criminology and S

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/criminology/page/2/

  The School of Criminology and Sociology: follow us to find out who we are and what we do.

• Juno and Hubble data reveal electromagnetic ‘tug-of-war’ lights up Jupiter’s upper atmosphere

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2022/02/03/juno-and-hubble-data-reveal-electromagnetic-tug-of-war-lights-up-jupiters-upper-atmosphere/

  New Leicester space research has revealed, for the first time, a complex ‘tug-of-war’ lights up aurorae in Jupiter’s upper atmosphere, using a combination of data from NASA’s Juno probe and the Hubble Space Telescope.

• University of Leicester’s Centre for Hate Studies Finalist at Royal Television Society Awards 2024

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/december/harms-of-hate

  The University of Leicester's Centre for Hate Studies was a finalist at the 2024 RTS Awards.

• Glenfield’s Judith is first UK participant in women-only heart surgery study

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/march/heart-surgery-iwd

  The first patient in the UK to take part in a women-only cardiac surgery research trial underwent a life-changing heart operation at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust recently.

• National award for Josh’s out of this world bakes with National Space Centre

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/national-award-josh-bakes-space-centre

  Instagram series Mission Bake, a collaboration between Dr Josh Smalley and the National Space Centre, has won first place at the Sir Arthur Clarke Awards

• Partisanship, Propaganda and Disinformation: Online Media and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/08/29/partisanship-propaganda-and-disinformation-online-media-and-the-2016-u-s-presidential-election/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 29, 2017 The Latest report from the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University examines the role of traditional and new media during the 2016 presidential election campaigns.

• Attenborough Arts Centre’s Bob Christer presents in Berlin at international Falling Walls Engage Awards

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/november/bob-christer

  This November, Attenborough Arts Centre’s SENsory Atelier Programme Manager Bob Christer spent a week in Berlin representing the Atelier Labs programme as a selected winner as part of the international Falling Walls Engage Awards.