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• Tweeting #OWS

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/10/05/tweeting-ows/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 5, 2012 http://disc.library.emory.edu/ows/ A great new digital archive from Emory University.  Ten million tweets about Occupy Wall Street have now been collected.

• Spectator Archive

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/07/15/spectator-archive/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 15, 2013 Still in beta format: http://archive.spectator.co.uk/   Search free of charge the full text digital version of this weekly, right-wing magazine from July 1828 to December 2008.

• Big data

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/01/10/big-data/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 10, 2014 Accessing and Using Big Data to Advance Social Science Knowledge A useful project to follow  from the Oxford Internet Institute. Running 2012-14.

• The Gazette

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/04/29/the-gazette/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 29, 2014  New website for the Gazette.   The Gazette is the official public record for the UK which was originally established in 1665.

• First Draft Coalition launched

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/08/28/first-draft-coalition-launched/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 28, 2015 A   new group of social media journalists, whose members include Bellingcat , Eyewitness Media Hub , Emergent , Meedan , Reported.

• Canadian women directors

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/08/16/canadian-women-directors/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 16, 2022 Canadian women film directors database   Compiled by Margaret Fulford, a librarian at the University of Toronto.

• Satisfaction with working from home is distinct from job satisfaction, new study shows

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/november/working-from-home-satisfaction

  Research at the Universities of Leicester and East Anglia reveals that Influences on the job satisfaction of homeworkers are no different from those normal associated with it; but influences on their satisfaction with homeworking are distinct from these.

• Over £600,000 for University of Leicester to shrink AI algorithms for smarter spacecraft

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/july/shrinking-ai-spacecraft

  Multidisciplinary team from University of Leicester receives £690,000 funding from UK Space Agency and aims to develop and demonstrate streamlined machine learning algorithms suitable for limited spacecraft power and computing performance

• University cricketers highlight the need for blood donation

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/university-cricketers-highlight-the-need-for-blood-donation

  Players from the University of Leicester first and seconds cricket team and development squad dressed in their cricket whites to donate blood and help save and improve lives.

• History and campus

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/campus-history

  See how far we’ve come since we were first founded as Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland University College in 1921 - from getting our Royal Charter in 1957 to the discovery of Richard III’s remains in 2012.