Walking through the foot of the Mound today, I stopped to look at the exhibition celebrating 300 years of Edinburgh Medical School.
It was photographs of alumni of the medical school, and their stories. Some remarkable people. Just a few of the many who have graduated as doctors over 300 years.
They weren't all success stories. Charles Darwin failed to graduate.
And amazing that medicine as we know it is only 300 years old!
In collaboration with Edinburgh Science Festival, this outdoor photography exhibition tells the story of some of the people who have shaped Edinburgh Medical School’s past and present.
Oh, and a couple of links. This is the mosquito people https://thereecelab.com/on-tour
And this is the pollution visualisation https://airqualitystripes.info/
And another two great lectures today: one about air pollution and how to produce graphic representations that can be clearly understood and one about gravity that left my head swimming a bit by the end but was still really interesting.
Also, the Injecting Hope exhibition at the Museum about the development of the COVID vaccine was fascinating, once I realised the closed due to technical issues sign applied to the escalator, and it could still be accessed from the side gallery.
Just realised I've been forgetting to boost #EdSciFest again.
Yesterday was a fascinating panel discussion called "Who Wants to Live Forever?" (Takeaway soundbite: it's not about lifespan, it's about healthspan) and the day before I was at the Tam Dalyell Prize Lecture which was about a brilliant sounding project to get kids interested in STEM with a mobile mosquito lab.
Dr Susi Arnott
Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans
Patrick Hadfield
Daibhid Ceanneadeach