This is one of my favourite views of Glaagow University. It's from the Hamiltonhill Claypits Nature Reserve on the Forth and Clyde Canal in the north of the city.
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Love these intertwined Celtic style creatures carved into stone over the entrance of the 1920s Glasgow University Union on University Avenue in Glasgow.
Glasgow University's looking particularly spectacular this evening.
The main buildings and Gothic tower of Glasgow University as seen from the neighbouring Kelvingrove Park. Designed by George Gilbert Scott, these buildings were constructed in the 1860s, although the tower, with its distinctive spire, wasn't completed until 1891, some thirteen years after Gilbert Scott's death.
#Philosopher of #religion who advocated a "non-realist #Christianity", Don #Cupitt, has died, age 90.
https://bsky.app/profile/profpaulmiddleton.bsky.social/post/3lg3udvu4p22u
Cupitt was the subject of my honours dissertation at #GlasgowUniversity. He kindly read it himself and wrote a letter responding to it, which I very much appreciated
Bluesky Social · Paul Middleton (@profpaulmiddleton.bsky.social)Former Anglican Priest, Philosopher of Religion, and Broadcaster, Don Cupitt has died, aged 90. Best known for his BBC series, Sea of Faith, he advocated for non-realist Christianity. His dispensing with metaphysical speculation sought to develop Christianity for a secular age.
A rather beautifully proportioned townhouse on the corner of University Avenue and University Gardens in the West End of Glasgow. Designed by J.J. Burnet, it was built in 1882.
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Glasgow University in the early morning light as seen from Yorkhill.
Love this pair of Renaissance style townhouses on University Gardens on Glasgow University's Gilmorehill Campus, which were designed by J.J. Burnet and were built in the 1880s. The attic windows are rather unusual, and seem to me to have more than a slight hint of Darth Vader about them!
Love the shape of this door handle, as well as the patina and wear on it. It's on one of John James Burnet's grand late Victorian townhouses on University Gardens in the West End of Glasgow.
"The past is another country"- this post from @thisismyglasgow reminds me that #GlasgowUniversity Union only began admitting women when they were forced to in 1979, just 8 years before I matriculated as a student at the university
https://mastodon.scot/@thisismyglasgow/113820754105482416
mastodon.scotThis Is My Glasgow (@thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot)In 1979, it admitted men for the first time, forcing the Glasgow University Union to accept female members the following year. This building is now used by the University's School of Humanities.
#glasgow #glasgowhistory #glasgowuniversity #architecture #glasgowbuildings
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In 1979, it admitted men for the first time, forcing the Glasgow University Union to accept female members the following year. This building is now used by the University's School of Humanities.
1 University Gardens on Glasgow University's Gilmorehill Campus. It was designed by Robert Ewan and was built in 1902. Originally a private townhouse, in 1922 it became home to the Queen Margaret's Union, at the time the University's female student union (created in 1890 as women were not allowed to join the all-male Glasgow University Union). In 1968, the QMU moved to its current locaton at the other end of University Gardens.
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By contrast, the UK as a whole has a Nobel Index of just 132.8, and the US has a paultry 85.2. Not bad for a wee country!
The Nobel Index is calculated as Scientific Nobel Prizes per million head of population times 100. See this link for more information: https://stats.areppim.com/stats/stats_nobelhierarchy_percapita.htm
stats.areppim.comScience Nobel Prizes Per Capitaareppim X-Y scatter chart and statistics of the number of science Nobel prize winners (chemistry, physics and physiology or medicine) per capita, 1901 to 2024, the per capita index calculated as the number of prizes divided by the population in millions and multiplied by 100.
This is Glasgow University's James Black Building. It's named after James Black, a physiologist who pioneered rational drug design. He is also one of Scotland's 12 winners of a Scientific Nobel Prize. This gives Scotland the second highest number of Scientific Nobel Prizes per capita of any country in the world (it has a Nobel Index of 222.2 just behind Switzerland, which has 223.8).
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Glasgow University's Boyd Orr Building. Designed in a Brutalist style by Dorward, Matheson, Gleave and Partners and built in 1972, it's names after the biologist John Boyd Orr, one of only two Scottish winners of the Nobel Peace Prize. He won it in 1949 for his scientific work on nutrition and his work as the first general director of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation.
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First that building #photo from July 2023 is after the deadbeat tenant stopped paying rent and stiffed the landlord, I believe. Please fact check.
Second the list you supply seems all #English What about #queensuniversitybelfast #StAndrewsUniversity #glasgowuniversity #edinburghuniversity #sruc and #StrathclydeUniversity? #uhi? #GlasgowSchoolOfArt?
Where did the #academics go and why were their employers late and last?
Looking out from Garnethill across the Woodlands area of Glasgow in this morning's sunshine. I just love it when you get views city like this across the city. They really are uniquely Glaswegian and it couldn't be mistaken for anywhere else in the world.
Glasgow new and old: The modern Crowne Plaza Hotel at the Scottish Events Campus on the banks of the Clyde, with the late 19th Century Gothic tower of Glasgow University in the background.
Good morning, Glasgow. Well, it's morning at any rate! It looks like it will be another wet and blustery start to the day, but there's better weather coming just over the horizon!
Somewhere up on Gilmorehill in tonight's fog is Glasgow University!
