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Trump is pushing students towards Britain – ministers, don’t let your immigration obsession stand in the way | Polly Toynbee Beleaguered UK universities have a golden opportunity. If the government passes it up, it risks billions in revenue, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Trump is pushing students towards Britain – ministers, don’t let your immigration obsession stand in the way | Polly Toynbee

Introducing the Creator’s Courtyard 🚀🎭
Whether you’re an artisanal maker, F&D business, early-stage startup, or creative project, we’re inviting 20 incredible local brands to showcase their work at a curated marketplace at TecTonic on 29 May.
Register Interest - tectonic.scot/creators-cou...

EVENT | Sharpening the cutting edge: How do we get more innovation to happen in city centres?

We will be joined by @aligg.bsky.social of Glasgow City Innovation District, Cllr Pete Marland of Milton Keynes City Council and Estelle Blanks of @newcastleuni.bsky.social .

Register 👇
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It's me, inviting you to join us next Tuesday for a JS meetup 👇

Something a wee bit different to kick off the week. MGM UK TV have contacted Lost Glasgow about a new TV series for the BBC, about buildings that are meaningful to people. If anyone is interested in getting involved, details in the image with contact information.

This is me trying to get better at recording and editing promo videos 👇

We will be in Glasgow on Tues, livestream on the website and YouTube, then Edinburgh the following week.

It was thanks to inspiration from @olil.bsky.social that I finally automated posting of daily events through to Bluesky, so go check out his meetup!

Yesterday I worked up a small tool to post events of the day through to the @scottishtechnology.club Bluesky feed. So if you want to find tech events in Scotland you can get them via email every Monday or by following along here 👇

BlueQubit raises $10M to take Quantum software into real-world applications Integrating quantum computing into real-world computer applications is an ongoing problem, as the platforms are architected fundamentally differently. BlueQubit, a San Francisco-based quantum software startup founded by Stanford alumni, thinks it might…

BlueQubit raises $10M to take Quantum software into real-world applications

Tech for Good Scotland - Third Sector Lab Next event: Thursday 30th January, 10am-12pm Hosted at BJSS, 180 West George Street, Glasgow, G2 2NR Book your free ticket Tech for Good Scotland is a free networking event for people working in the t...

Tech for Good Scotland is back to Glasgow on 30 January with two excellent speakers 🤌

thirdsectorlab.co.uk/techforgood/

Sora = another game changer from OpenAI

Defo .. catch up soon

Completing another year of supporting the growth of Glasgow's tech community. GDG Glasgow DevFest Scotland provided deep insights into the applied use of AI including approaches to sustainable coding and deeptech system design. Great catchup with @jamiemchale.com

Great catch up in person Jamie and the chat about the Scottish meetup platform you are developing.. Before you head home, need to intro you to Cleyra and José from the GDG team

enjoying #devfestscotland today with some phenomenal talks 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

👉 if you want to follow the speakers, you can do so in this starter pack

go.bsky.app/NjfUiQU

It's all a bit 'Windows in the West' today (except, in my case, it's more 'Sojourn in the South').

Avril Paton's 1993 watercolour, of 35 Saltoun Street on the corner of Roxburgh Street in Dowanhill, from her attic flat, in Athole Gardens, has become an icon of the city.

A hand-drawn autumnal scene with a parked motorbike, rabbits, and a pudu with the words "Steam Autumn Sale Nov 27 - Dec 4 at 10am Pacific" written across it.

Hello to the Bluesky community!

We're trundling on in with an announcement; the Steam Autumn Sale starts next Wednesday, November 27th with deals on games of all types - from games that are blue, to games that are about skies, and everything in between.

GlasgowPHP - Relaunch Meetup!, Tue, Nov 19, 2024, 6:30 PM | Meetup After a long break, GlasgowPHP is excited to relaunch with our first meetup back! Whether you're a regular from our past events or new to the community, we invite PHP devel

It's the GlasgowPHP relaunch event tonight - 6:30pm at Barclays Eagle Lab. Details in their meetup group:

www.meetup.com/glasgowphp/e...

Record-breaking donation behind £30 million Scottish innovation hub for health-tech, 5G, AI and space “We are hugely grateful to Charles for his very generous contribution to this project and are delighted to recognise this through the naming of the new building” – Sir Jim McDonald, principal and vice...

Great to announce the news of the new tech startup and innovation hub within the Glasgow City Innovation District ... We're going to preserve the iconic Level 8, bar and rooftop space. www.scotsman.com/business/rec...

Now 19mill and counting

Tech investor Xavier Niel urges Europe’s AI start-ups not to cash out French billionaire warns that if region misses AI boom it will be ‘a very small continent abandoned for a few generations’

Tech investor Xavier Niel urges Europe’s AI startups not to cash out

“If Europe doesn’t do this right, it will become a very small continent abandoned for a few generations”
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Love a scaling tech business

Disgruntled X users make the switch to Bluesky Welcome back to Week in Review. This week, we’re breaking down Bluesky’s big surge in users, Elon Musk co-leading Trump’s “Department of Government Efficiency,” and Mark Zuckerberg’s latest foray in extreme wife-guy behavior. Let’s go. Bluesky is seeing a…

Disgruntled X users make the switch to Bluesky

The is the first Album I bought... Cycled from Troon to Kilmarnock Woolworths to get it in 1978.

Great to have been invited by Edinburgh Innovations to the Parliament to discuss how we enhance the co-creation of technology solutions for Scotland's future growth

MaRS Discovery District is North America’s largest Innovation District and it was an honour to welcome Nina Gazzola (MaRS's SVP - Innovation Hubs) to the Glasgow City Innovation District. Was great to share insights from growing each of our respective City Innovation Ecosystems. www.marsdd.com