#EdinburghNapierUniversity has #PhD #Studentships available in #ComputerScience: https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/scebe-research/available-phd-student-projects/

Topics include:
- **Characterising Automatically Generated Tex**t
- **Using Generative AI to Draw Diagrams**
**- Continual Learning in Black-Box Optimisation**
**- Adaptive Robot Behaviours in dynamic and outdoor settings**
**- Capture and Contextualisation of Cultural Heritage Data**
**- Query Performance Prediction for Neural Information Retrieval: Application to Conversational Search**

A link between #children learning how to play a musical instrument and improved thinking in later life is backed by a new study.

#Musicians were found to do slightly better in tests of their #CognitiveAbility than those who had not played an instrument.

The study was carried out by the #UniversityOfEdinburgh and #EdinburghNapierUniversity.

#Music

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-66569614?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Bbbc.news.twitter%5D-%5Bheadline%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D&at_link_type=web_link&at_campaign_type=owned&at_campaign=Social_Flow&at_bbc_team=editorial&at_medium=social&at_format=link&at_ptr_name=twitter&at_link_id=262025E8-4017-11EE-AEFF-BF41FE754D29&at_link_origin=BBCNews

An #EdinburghNapierUniversity student does a #YouTube channel talking about tech things, including her own research on "a translation system that didn’t rely on access to the cloud [which] produced 'good and fluent translations' with a training accuracy of 91% and a BLEU score of 73.5"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXnDZT0djYA

Tess is also a great teammate for Ticket-to-Ride :D

To round off #WorldImmunisationWeek check out the recent review from Filipa Henderson, Peter Barlow & colleagues that discusses advances in #vaccines for #chikungunya - an understudied #mosquito borne #virus with increasing global infections and impact 🦟

📰https://journals.biologists.com/dmm/article/16/4/dmm049804/301041/
@EdinburghNapier #EdinburghNapierUniversity

Participating in an activity challenge at work (walk/wheel/cycle/be kind/etc) and there's an associated #fundraiser.

If you want to support #MentalHealth charity and/or our student union's #FoodPantry (😭) and have some funds handy, you can contribute here: https://givestar.io/gs/3P66CJE

Thanks for your consideration! Good vibes also accepted :)

CC @EdinburghNapier #EdinburghNapierUniversity

Great fun today giving an invited talk for the NLP seminar series at Dublin City University :D

I'll put the slides up online sometime soon for anyone who wants to hear about our work on #LowResource #NLG at #EdinburghNapierUniversity and building up a dataset for #ScottishGaelic.

We represent #lifesciences across #Scotland. Follow to hear about #skills #skillsdevelopment, #funding, #networking and great science

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