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University of St Andrews - Scotland's first university

Top in the UK - The Times and Guardian University Guides 2024

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The St  Andrews Chronicles, one of the most important manuscript histories of Scotland, is going on public display for the first time in its 500-year history, at the University's Wardlaw Museum.

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November 15, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Read how St Andrews rowers and Saints Sport's coastal rowing programme helped power Team GB to sprint success in the 2025 World Rowing Beach Sprint Finals in Antalya, Türkiye.👇

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November 14, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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"A total solar eclipse is a fully immersive shared experience — the light dims, the temperature drops, a breeze rustles, wildlife reacts, planets appear..."

Dr Deborah Kent shines a light on eclipse expeditions in this week's Research Spotlight.

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November 14, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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🏆 Green Gown Award WINNER! Huge congratulations to the St Andrews Nature Networks project for winning in the Nature Positive category. 🌿 Check out the project here👇
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November 7, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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Join us today for our online undergraduate Visiting Day from 12-5pm. 🫶

Explore the admissions process, hear from current students, meet with academic School representatives and discover what St Andrew has to offer our undergraduate community. 👇

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November 5, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Congratulations to our alumna Jasmine Mitchell, medicine graduate star baker, and now Champion of the Great British Bake Off! 🍰 ⭐ 🏆

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November 4, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Hiding in plain sight. New research has uncovered a surprising evolutionary mechanism behind some animals’ trick of hiding in plain sight from predators.

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November 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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"I am passionate about discovering more about nature and the fascinating ecology of the natural world. I absolutely love the creative challenge of a messy dataset!"

Read Dr Ali Johnston's Research Spotlight on our Staff News page. 👇

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November 4, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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"The implicit assumption seems to be that one parent has a lesser career and can look after the children, whilst the other does their work. For me, as a woman scientist, that does not fit."

Read our Research Spotlight on Dr Jess Hope. 👇

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October 31, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Hidden receipts, unknown printers and gold-tipped funeral poems. The University of St Andrews is celebrating 30 years of its global book hunting project, the Universal Short Title Catalogue (USTC) @apettegree.bsky.social 📖🌍🥳

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October 28, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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Professor Tom Shakespeare from London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine will give the 2025 Irvine Memorial Lecture, entitled 'Disability: what it is, and why it concerns everyone’. All welcome.

📍Booth Lecture, St Andrews
📅 Mon 3 Nov
🕰️ 5.30pm

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Irvine Memorial Lecture 2025: Professor Tom Shakespeare CBE FBA
The Irvine lectures were founded in 1954 by St Salvator’s College Council in memory of Sir James Colquhoun Irvine, Principal
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October 27, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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What is rights retention? What’s the difference between CC BY and CC BY-NC? How can I pay these publishing charges?

Find answers to these questions, and helpful tips, information guides, and videos at our Open Research blog. 👇

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October 24, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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The University has renewed its partnership with Rusacks St Andrews, extending a collaboration that celebrates the heritage, community, and competitive spirit at the Home of Golf.

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October 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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No place like foam - students gathered on Lower College Lawn for the annual Raisin Monday foam fight - one of the University's much-loved traditions!

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October 21, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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The Tabula Project preview opened last night at St Andrews Botanic Gardens.
Starting today, 3 online roundtables will explore how we rethink our perceptions of the climate crisis with artist & Greener Vision CEO Claire Haigh.
Learn more + register: https://ow.ly/2Vfm50XaTw8
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October 14, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Net zero will reshape how we live—so how do we move forward fairly and urgently?
Roundtable – Tues 14 Oct
Speakers: Lord Deben, Alex Sobel MP, Fiona Howarth, Prof Jillian Anable.
Opens with art from The Tabula Project.
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The Tabula Project | Energy Ethics
The Centre for Energy Ethics and Greener Vision are partnering on an exhibition of The Tabula Project, with a series of events and activities to explore innovative approaches to addressing anthropogenic climate change.
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October 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Professor Christopher Smith from St Andrews Classics has been appointed as Chair of the National Library of Scotland

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October 13, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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🔬 Governing the Unseen: U.S. Nuclear Waste Futures & the Geocultural License to Operate
Join Dr Vincent Ialenti & Prof Mette High for a fireside chat on the future of U.S. nuclear waste policy.
🗓️ 9 Oct | 🕐 4–6pm | 💻 Online
🔗 https://ow.ly/UsUl50X74mR
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October 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Professor Lars Kotthoff has been appointed as the Johann and Gaynor Rupert Chair in Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the University of St Andrews.

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October 3, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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‘The Foreign Secretary’s objectives should be...focused on containing 🇷🇺 expansionism in Europe, mitigating the direct effects of Middle Eastern conflicts and keeping the Balkans peaceful,’ says Dr Marc De Vore, @uniofstandrews.bsky.social

#BigAsk #BritainsWorld
What should be the top priorities for Britain’s new Foreign Secretary?
The Big Ask | No. 39.2025
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September 26, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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New research from the School of Psychology and Neuroscience has revealed the brain’s built-in distance tracker, and its link to early Alzheimer's diagnosis.
DOI 10.1016/j.cub.2025.08.011

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September 19, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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St Andrews top in Scotland and second in the UK in the @theguardian.com University Guide 2026 🎉

Maths, History, and International Relations take the top spot in the new rankings with a further 16 subjects ranking in the top 10 🎉

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Five smiling students in St Salvator's Quad at the University of St Andrews.
September 13, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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The Guardian University Guide 2026 – the rankings
The Guardian University Guide 2026 – the rankings
Find a course at one of the top universities in the country. Our league tables rank them all subject by subject, as well as by student satisfaction, staff numbers, spending and career prospects Continue reading...
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September 13, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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Our School of Physics & Astronomy hosted the @univofstandrews first Advanced Materials industry day, bringing together academics and researchers with businesses, funders & government.

Check out our video to find out more...

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September 11, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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New #research from @distantworlds.space with
@nasawebb.extwitter.link @stsci.edu @umich.edu @cornellupress.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social & MIT identifies signs of atmosphere on TRAPPIST 1e, an Earth-sized #exoplanet located 40 light years away

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September 9, 2025 at 1:30 PM