Catherine Inglis

Senior pupils from James Gillespie's High School have qualified for the @VEXRobotics World Championship in St Louis, Missiouri - the only Scottish state school to qualify. But they only had 7 weeks to raise the £14k they need to get there. Can you help? gofundme.com/f/send-thistle…

Simulations to Safer Designs: Accelerating the Deployment of Advanced Nuclear Reactors case study published archer2.ac.uk/research/case-…

EPCC PhD student Kejia Zhang is researching multimodal story generation using generative AI for contextualised mathematics education. He aims to develop a learning system called MathsTale, which will enhance children’s engagement and learning experiences: edin.ac/4bf1x01

ARCHER2, the UK national supercomputing service, has delivered an eightfold return on investment to the economy according to independent analysis. Operated by EPCC, it has enabled more than £4.2bn in benefits to the UK economy since launching in 2021: edin.ac/47JGMHB

UKRI is investing £76m to boost compute and AI across the UK. EPCC at the University of Edinburgh will expand the Cirrus supercomputer and link it to the new national system, accelerating research from astronomy to healthcare and environmental science: epcc.ed.ac.uk/whats-happenin…

Don't forget to register for the Celebration of Science 2026!

I'm 3k in to the Cancer Research UK "Swim 10k in November" challenge! All donations, no matter how small, will help Cancer Research UK carry out their vital work, so if you would like to donate, you can find my fundraising page here: fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/catherine…

The Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) runs free online Research Software Camps (RSCs) every year, with each focusing on basic research software skills & good practices. The next RSCs runs from 10-21 Nov and will centre around careers & skills: edin.ac/49oxhiH

@edinhelp presume you are aware already but lights are out at Priestfield Road / Dalkeith Road - a bad crossroads for accidents as it is. Thanks!

Supercomputing cake day at work today: a most creative array of interpretations were put up for display and consumption! @EPCCed #supercomputer #uksupercomputer

Vacancy for an Early Years Practitioner at a fabulous primary school in central Edinburgh. myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/city-…

Fantastic news for EPCC - and computational science research around the UK!

The University of Edinburgh has been announced as the home of the UK's next national supercomputer. This endorses the University and its future as a world-leader in supercomputing and AI, recognising the strength and value of our expertise. edin.ac/4ehIPVD

Border Crossings: "Ten pioneering modern Scottish artists are the subject of a new exhibition at The McManus, opening later this month." Featuring Bill Gear, a distant relation of myself, @climategordon & @fiona_inglis. mcmanus.co.uk/news/new-exhib…

Scholarships available for EPCC MSc in HPC programmes: epcc.ed.ac.uk/whats-happenin…

CONNECTS-UK is conducting a survey to better understand the experiences, needs, and opinions of EU researchers currently based in the UK: ukro.ac.uk/news/survey-on…

Really enjoyed working at the EPCC outreach booth at the Edinburgh Science Festival at Dynamic Earth last month. You can read all about it here.

Still chaos now with cars going through green man and lots of frustration building in waiting cars

@edinhelp @PSOSSEEdinburgh urgent help needed with lights at Dalkeith Road / Holyrood Park Road. Northbound Dalkeith Road right turn onto Holyrood Park Road stuck on road, cars going through green man, kids going to school, daughter nearly run down on green man, please fix now!

Elise is running the EMF Junior 2k on 24/5 & raising funds for Simpson Special Care Babies who support the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Simpson Neonatal Unit, where she was so well cared for when she was born 2 months early in 2013. All support welcome! justgiving.com/page/elise-emf…