University of Glasgow

Certain? Well, well, what did you find out?

Well, sir, there's two professors of forensic medicine staying here at the hotel in Moffat from Glasgow University, sir.

Yeah?

And they were invited to look at the remains.

It turns out that the Scots and indeed Gaelic languages are not just good for celebrating oysters, but also for finding them because some long-lost oyster beds on the west coast of Scotland have been rediscovered, and it's thanks to some linguistic sleuthing.

On the line to tell us all about it, uh, in English, I hope, is Dr. Anna McGregor, a marine biologist and senior lecturer in ecology and environmental change at the University of Glasgow.

Good evening.

Hey there.

So that's where we're sort of encouraging people to work through or outdoor learning, um, to s- to see, see these actually quite fascinating animals even though they're quite simple in terms of their biology, um, to sort of study them and s- and see what they need to survive.

We have indeed considered the oyster.

Dr. Anna McGregor, uh, marine biologist, senior lecturer in ecology and environmental change at the University of Glasgow, thank you very much.

Uh, just some news before we go.

Nursery from which came the steam engine of Watt, the discovery of latent heat by its professor Black, and the successful operation of telegraph cables by its professor and present Lord Chancellor, Lord Kelvin.

May the future of Glasgow University copy fair her glorious past.

Her atmosphere favors and stimulates steady, fruitful work.

At all Scottish, as at all American universities, we may rejoice that there is always found a large number of the most distinguished students who, figuratively speaking, cultivate knowledge upon a little oatmeal, earning money between terms to pay their way.

The heat lies latent and dead until we raise the temperature of the water to 212 degrees, and it is turned to vapor.

Then the powerful force is instantly imbued with life, and we harness it for our purposes.

The description of latent heat, which gave the writer the clearest idea of it, and at the same time a much-needed reminder of the fact that Watt was the discoverer of the practically constant and unvarying amount of heat in steam, whatever the pressure, is the following by Mr. Lauder, a graduate of Glasgow University and pupil of Lord Kelvin, taken from Watt's Discoveries of the Properties of Steam.

It is well to distinguish between the two things, discovery and invention.

I think it is the foundation of the structural collapse.

The University of Glasgow's fair work model is the blueprint we should be looking at here.

They committed to minimizing fixed-term contracts.

Okay.

Yeah.

Um, so that's when I got my master's, and then I was working at the special collections library at the University of Glasgow, where I was handling, uh, rare books and cataloging those.

So it was, again, uh, a kind of cataloging breakdown kind of, uh-

So what, what, what-

The first article I'll highlight reports a study that sought to address this uncertainty.

Researchers from the University of Glasgow evaluated the association between hemoglobin concentration and long-term mortality among 502,188 adults enrolled in the UK Biobank.

Hemoglobin concentrations were compared with the World Health Organization's sex-specific anemia threshold, and investigators examined deaths from any cause, cardiovascular disease, and cancer, over a median follow-up of 13.6 years.

They found a U-shaped relationship between hemoglobin levels and mortality, with the lowest risk occurring at hemoglobin concentrations 1 to 3 grams per deciliter above current World Health Organization anemia thresholds.

lower incision.

And then another guy who gets a lot of credit for this incision specifically, and sometimes it's even called the Fannin-Style-Kerr incision, is J. Monroe Kerr, who is a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Glasgow University.

And in 1926, he reported on 107 cases of women who underwent low transverse incision and found that zero of the women experienced uterine rupture in subsequent pregnancies.

Yes.

The names of the 47 men became part of the history of Moody's Burn and of Auchin Giech, and the story has continued to be passed down through generations.

The University of Glasgow has documented the continuing efforts of the community to remember the disaster, including annual commemorations on the 18th of September.

And that is important, because industrial disasters can disappear from national memory surprisingly quickly.

The headlines fade, the newspapers are thrown away, the politicians move on and the mine eventually closes.