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• New species revealed after 25 years of study on ‘inside out’ fossil – and named after discoverer’s mum

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/new-species-inside-out-fossil-named-after-mum

  Study from University of Leicester describes a new species of fossil that is 444 million years-old with soft insides perfectly preserved and saw palaeontologist puzzled by bizarre fossil for 25 years

• Sub-Saharan Africa’s knowledge economy

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/01/26/sub-saharan-africas-knowledge-economy/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 26, 2015 Geonet is a new project from the Oxford Internet Institute.   It is mapping  ICT developments and analysing their potential for economic and social development.

• Company’s mission to revolutionise agriculture and eliminate global waste takes off at Space Park Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/september/messium-space-park

  Agri-tech start-up Messium joins the European Space Agency – Business Incubation Centre for the United Kingdom (ESA-BIC UK) programme at Space Park Leicester.

• Leicester’s Vice-Chancellor Professor Nishan Canagarajah appointed Chair of Trustees for The Conversation

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/november/conversation

  University of Leicester President and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Nishan Canagarajah, has been appointed Chair to the UK Board of Trustees to independent media network The Conversation. Professor Canagarajah previously joined the board in May 2020.

• Joe Orton: Leicester’s literary anarchist

  https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/natural-heritage/literary-anarchist

  Dr Emma Parker explores the cultural significance of literary anarchist and Leicester native Joe Orton, over a half a century since his death.

• UNESCO’s inaugural World Radio Day.

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/02/17/unescos-inaugural-world-radio-day/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 17, 2012 Held on 13th February.  Find general statements and news on the website: http://www.worldradioday.

• Macron’s railway reforms: the ultimate test for French trade unionism

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2018/04/19/macrons-railway-reforms-the-ultimate-test-for-french-trade-unionism/

  Posted by hconnolly in School of Business Blog on April 19, 2018   In this blog Dr Heather Connolly reflects on the on-going strike action in France.

• The EU’s most digitally advanced nations

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/09/the-eus-most-digitally-advanced-nations/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 9, 2015 Denmark is the most digitally advanced nation According to the new Digital Society and Economy Index   from the European Commission which  measures progress in EU nations.

• Scientists explore complex pattern of tipping points in the Atlantic’s current system

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/march/atlantic-tipping-points

  New mathematical modelling by University of Leicester of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation – a system of ocean currents – shows greater complexity than previously thought, revealing a hierarchy of irreversible ‘tipping points’

• Getting Away with Murder in Eighteenth Century England. The Surgeon’s Bain and the Power of the Crim

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2016/03/14/getting-away-with-murder/

  Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on March 14, 2016   The Murder Act of 1752 could have created a major new supply line for the hard-pressed anatomy teachers of England, Wales and Scotland.