Prof Simon McIntosh-Smith was interviewed by The Wall Street Journal about the imminent arrival of Bristol's new supercomputer.🖥️⚡️

Isambard-AI will be one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world and harnessed for scientific discovery!

👉 bit.ly/3VvUPvd

Simon McIntosh-Smith

A new species of pterosaur has been found on the Isle of Skye!

Read Sky News coverage of the incredible discovery. 👇

Bristol student Mike Cawthorne has discovered a 200-million-year-old flying reptile in Somerset! 🐊

Known as kuehneosaurs, these gliding winged-reptiles were amongst the ancient crocodile residents of the Mendip Hills.

Read BBC Online's coverage here: bit.ly/3S8hjPE

Bristol's Dr Jakob Vinther is part of a team which have unearthed fossils of giant predator worms more than half a billion years old.

The animals, named Timorebestia, meaning ‘terror beasts’ in Latin were discovered in North Greenland!

Read IFLScience's coverage 👇

New research from a study of 600 healthy pet dogs has found feeding dogs raw meat increases their risk of excreting E. coli that cannot be killed by a widely used antibiotic.

Read the Newsweek story 👉

It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Professor Sir Eric Thomas, our former Vice-Chancellor & President.

In his 14 years at Bristol, Sir Eric had a major impact on the University’s success and his influence can still be seen throughout the campus today. (1/2)

Bristol University to receive £225m to create UK's new supercomputer bbc.in/3Mtcz54

It’s just been announced that we will receive £225m to create the UK’s most powerful supercomputer. 🖥️

Isambard-AI will harness the huge potential of AI in fields such as climate research and drug discovery when it opens next summer! 🌍

👉bit.ly/40lXNCT

Bristol Uni researchers Alex Farnsworth🌻 Dr Eunice Lo Hannah Wakeford and Prof Paul Valdes have used the first-ever supercomputer climate models to show how Earth could be uninhabitable for almost all mammals in 250m years🌍

Read the The Guardian’s story👉bit.ly/46nksQY

New research by University of Bristol Business School and Channel 5 News highlighted the startling rise in gambling messages in the UK media coverage during the Premier League opening weekend⚽️

Watch the full report 👉 youtube.com/watch?v=uSUlYT…

Looking for an expert to comment on Rupert Murdoch’s retirement and how much influence press barons still have?

Check out Simon Potter’s article in The Conversation and get in touch👉bit.ly/3EMFxIN

#Succession #pressbarons
Arts Matter Bristol Historians @ Bristol now on Mastodon too

Who’s excited for the final season of Sex Education on Netflix? You might spot some familiar locations...

Maeve gets studious in the Wills Memorial Library and the new canteen at Cavendish College is actually our School of Chemistry 🤯

#SexEducation

Coverage in The Guardian of CAPC, Bristol Marie Curie Research Centre, Cardiff research showing an increase in prolonged #grief disorder among those bereaved during the #COVID19 pandemic.

Lucy Selman Emily Harrop Marie Curie UK Research and Innovation Bristol Palliative and End of Life Care Research University of Bristol Health Sciences at the University of Bristol

theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

Prolonged Grief Disorder more common among people bereaved during the #COVID19 pandemic, study led by Lucy Selman @CAPC Emily Harrop finds.

theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

Tune into BBC Points West now to hear all about the new AI #supercomputer coming to National Composites Centre next year. The national facility is set to be the most powerful in the UK.

This will be the site of our new AI supercomputer research facility, due to open next summer! 🖥️

Isambard-AI is expected to be the most powerful supercomputer in the UK and will serve as a national resource for AI discovery. 🙌

👉bit.ly/488GKrv

Professor Awais Rashid, Head of Cyber Security and the Director of REPHRAIN National Research Centre, spoke to BBC Newsnight last night to warn of plans set out in the #OnlineSafetyBill which risk our privacy. 🔎

You can watch his interview from 26:34 mins in on BBC iPlayer.

bit.ly/3LaVGLM

“Britain’s next election could be a climate change culture war.” #ClimateChange #CultureWar #LowEmissionsZones

Read Ed Atkins author of ‘A Just Energy Transition’, in The The Conversation: ow.ly/kLfy50PmIn7