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13th April, 2026

Retired Aberdeen professor announced as local Reform UK candidate

A former Senior Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen has been announced as a Reform UK candidate for Aberdeen in the upcoming Holyrood election. Professor Emeritus James Wyllie was announced as the candidate for Aberdeen Central on April 1st, the day of the deadline to register as a candidate. After his...

New 10-day strikes as staff warn against restructuring plans

University and College Union (UCU) Aberdeen have announced strikes planned on April 13th, 14th, 22nd, 24th, and for a further week starting on April...

Racist leaflets distributed in latest hate incident

Racist flyers appear to have been distributed in Victoria Park last week, only a month after a viral hate poster sparked public outcry and...

Students demand university put an end to cuts

by Megan Shand. Recent plans from the University of Aberdeen (UoA) to cut costs have prompted some students to draft an open letter, voicing their...

Rowdy hustings in Old Aberdeen kicks off Scottish Parliament election season

by Fred Byrne & Oliver Kennedy. A lively hustings saw debate on Aberdeen’s pertinent issues, a debut for up-and-coming SNP...

At least 23 staff have quit Student Support jobs since 2022

by Emily Reid & Fred Byrne. At least 23 people have left their jobs in Student Support over three years,...

Register to vote in the Scottish Parliament elections!

You have until April 20th to register to vote for the upcoming Scottish Parliament election. Anyone aged 16 and...

“Students have their part to play,” asserts Aberdeen’s urban transformation guru

Urban regeneration expert Jonathan De Mello thinks students are key to revitalising Aberdeen’s city centre after a sustained period...

Voi shared e-bikes to be rolled out across the city

by Megan Shand. Aberdeen City Council have announced plans to roll out a new e-bike hire scheme across this city...

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International

President delivers State of the Union amid historic low approval rating

The Capitol building in Washington D.C. was the host of President Donald Trump’s State of the Union (SOTU) on Tuesday night. In a SOTU,...

“We just want a future for other generations”

Following the protests in Iran this January, I had the opportunity to speak with an Iranian man who now calls Scotland his home. For...

US-Iran talks continue despite regional military build-up

Not a year after President Donald Trump launched airstrikes against Iran, the prospect of further conflict between the two...

More questions than answers after recent release of Epstein files

By Scott Raffan On 30th January, the US Department of Justice released another 3 million pages about the activities of...

Musk’s X faces police raids, investigations in France, UK

By Spiro Kass French law enforcement authorities raided the offices of social media company X, which was taken over by...

Unfinished Bridge Collapse in China Kills Five

By Zyna Khwaja Five people were killed after the collapse of a railway bridge undergoing construction on Monday in Eastern...

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Criomagan

AD- Centre Stage presents: ‘For the Love of Vanya’

“Being alive is kissing a tree going 293 miles-per-hour through a windshield and then waking up to take your first baby steps again.” -...

North City Signal

The term ‘Aberdeen’s creative industry’ has often felt as if it was an oxymoron in recent years. With less visibility, funding, and opportunities when...

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Diary of a Wimpy Principal

By: 'Pious Pete' 1 November 2025 FINALLY been appointed as Principal. Sure, it’s only for two years, but I’m the boss....

Retired Aberdeen professor announced as local Reform UK candidate

A former Senior Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen has been announced as a Reform UK candidate for Aberdeen...

New 10-day strikes as staff warn against restructuring plans

University and College Union (UCU) Aberdeen have announced strikes planned on April 13th, 14th, 22nd, 24th, and for a...

Racist leaflets distributed in latest hate incident

Racist flyers appear to have been distributed in Victoria Park last week, only a month after a viral hate...

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Features

Aberdead?

  We’ve all heard it before. Scaberdeen. City of grey. ‘The Aberdream’ retorted sarcastically. To put it frankly, Aberdeen doesn’t get a good reputation as...

“Make Aberdeen a 9tease city”

The Gaudie sat down with a new Aberdeen original Band to discuss how their band was formed and how they find creativity whilst studying....

‘Ramadan Mubarak’, Aberdeen!

Ramadan celebrations began Tuesday 17th February and will conclude either on Wednesday 16th or Thursday 19th March, depending on...

Aberdeen ushers in the Chinese New Year

University of Aberdeen’s Confucius Institute hosted a dazzling Spring Festival Gala Show to celebrate the Chinese New Year. The...

Finding meaning in ordinary days

  By Arya Patel At university, most of my time is not spent doing anything remarkable. I move between New...

Year of the Rat by Harry Shukman

Year of the rat follows former journalist Harry Shukman as he goes undercover with Hope not hate. Shukman works...

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Opine

ChatGPT… please give me an opinion!

Last weekend I went down to the Warwick Economics Summit, a student-run conference looking to present to students the biggest debates in the world....

Get them out of their island

There comes a point in the life of any system that is falling apart when corruption stops being greed, incompetence, or excess and starts...

Efficiency: In defence of “young hoes”

If you’ve perhaps graced a certain side of the internet this last month, you may have noticed the emergence...

Accepting the Grey Area

Situationship is a term every young person knows, but what does it actually mean? The idea of a situationship...

Defending ‘hated’ female characters

Art imitates life. I see it everywhere. Whether it is through gender norms within TV shows, or gender norms...

I came for the secret history, I got Tesco meal deals

I would argue that everyone arrives at university carrying one extra suitcase. One has clothes and a vanity case....

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Arts

AD- Centre Stage presents: ‘For the Love of Vanya’

“Being alive is kissing a tree going 293 miles-per-hour through a windshield and then waking up to take your first baby steps again.” -...

North City Signal

The term ‘Aberdeen’s creative industry’ has often felt as if it was an oxymoron in recent years. With less visibility, funding, and opportunities when...

Mothfire

Mothfire I like writing on paper. This was once paper, too. You’re wondering about the gaps, The fitful breath of it, these different...

Sex and the Necessity

By Amelia Boag McGlynn And just like that, hit HBO show ‘Sex and the City’ has experienced a booming resurgence...

How the Louvre lost £76 million in seven minutes

By Georgie Burns On the morning of October 19th, the art world watched in horror as four professional thieves, disguised...

Gallus: In conversation with Connor Burns

By Amelia Boag McGlynn The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is a staple of the comedy community, and an infamously hard nut...

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Life & Style

A Stylish Tribute to the Witches of Scotland

Are you a woman with strong opinions on political or cultural issues? Do you have noticeable scars, moles, or disabilities that your community might...

Uisge Beatha: The Water of Life in Aberdeen

‘Uisge beatha’ is a Scottish Gaelic term meaning ‘water of life’. The word itself travelled through tongues and centuries, shortening and softening, until it...

Don’t let the cold freeze you

Since winter is officially upon us, the sun abandons us earlier and leaves us among the darkness to finish...

First find it, then wrap it

With Aberdeen well and truly decked out in its Christmas attire, we’ve all got one thing on our minds:...

It’s beginning to look a lot like the Christmas Market

Since it’s that time of the year again, Aberdeen is currently going through the wonderful journey of being overwhelmed...

Brat and it’s the same but it’s an article so it’s...

Charli xcx released her sixth studio album brat on the 7th of June 2024 and captured everybody’s attention in no time.

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Gaming & Technology

The Machine That Found What No One Was Looking For

Barbara felt completely fine. No lump. No pain. No nagging feeling that something could be wrong. So, like most women, she squeezed in a...

Could Gut Bacteria be the Cure to Dementia?

The pathology of neurodegenerative diseases like dementia is highly complex and multifaceted. Alzheimer’s, the most common form of dementia, affects almost a million people...

Cutting-Edge Ultrasound Helmet Aspires to Treat Parkinson’s Disease Without Surgery

Millions of people around the globe are currently living with Parkinson’s disease, a multifactorial and incurable neurodegenerative condition that...

Stay Safe: A student’s guide to Strutsafe and other safety services

Going anywhere alone at night can be frightening; it doesn't matter who you are or where you’re going. Whether...

Introducing AVATAR: NASA’s pioneering organ chip experiment

In early September 2025, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced the launch of an innovative experiment called...

The Past, Present and Future of Neuralink

Neuralink, a company founded by Elon Musk, has successfully implanted their device (an implantable, brain-computer interface) into three human...

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Science & Environment

The Machine That Found What No One Was Looking For

Barbara felt completely fine. No lump. No pain. No nagging feeling that something could be wrong. So, like most women, she squeezed in a...

Aberdeen 2040 Strategy and AUSA’s Climate Emergency: Aligning Campus Action with the University’s Sustainability Goals

Responsibility for climate change is often placed on individuals, while the systems shaping our choices remain the same. Aberdeen University Students’ Association (AUSA), the elected...

(Re)-Introducing Old-New Marsupials to the Modern World

The pygmy long-fingered possum and ring-tailed glider were dead to begin with. It’s incredibly important that we establish this...

GLP-1s: Miracle weight loss drugs or a tool to combat the...

Weight loss drugs have become increasingly popular in recent years for the treatment of obesity and type 2 diabetes,...

The Animals We Lost in 2025

As we continue to transform our blue and green planet into a dreary collection of grey cities, biodiversity loss...

Groundbreaking Electronic Implant Restores Vision

Every six minutes, at least one person living in the UK will begin to lose their vision, according to...

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Satire

Diary of a Wimpy Principal

By: 'Pious Pete' 1 November 2025 FINALLY been appointed as Principal. Sure, it’s only for two years, but I’m the boss. Thirty-eight years here, who would...

UK cities ranked by if Hector Boys was formed there

By Marlee Silverman Loughborough: Don’t be an idiot, they are probably living in the dark ages, all Hector Boys-less and everything.    London: While...

Planet of the Seagulls

By Khreshnee Thayabaran This just in: Aberdeen residents woke Thursday morning to a terrifying political announcement. The city’s seagull population has...

Looking for love on campus

By Hannah Fortune In the run up to Valentine’s Day this year, the Aberdeen University Students’ Association (AUSA) offered a...

Interview with one of the good ones

By Marlee Silverman John Flesh, 22, is an ideal role model for feminist men. He tells us he likes to...

Winter Olympics to bring back nudity in honour of Heated Rivalry

By Marlee Silverman With all the hot press over the Canadian TV show Heated Rivalry, The 2026 Winter Olympics has...

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Sports

UoA rowers triumph over RGU

By Glen Lumsden On Saturday the 21st March 2026, Aberdeen University and Robert Gordon University clashed for the 31st time in the Aberdeen Boat Race....

Match report: Aberdeen Vs Motherwell

By Glen Lumsden Following several postponements due to the extreme weather the city of Aberdeen had faced in the past few weeks, Aberdeen faced Motherwell...

How Are UoA’s Top Teams Performing This Semester?

Looking towards the end of the semester, where do Aberdeen’s major sports teams currently stand? Aberdeen Men’s Tennis 1s sit...

Aberdeen Sports Societies Raising Money for Movember

The university’s Movember events and fundraising have begun. The uni’s sports teams have started their fundraising pushes, combining team...

This Week In Sports: New Sports Societies and Women in Sport...

From the 6th-12th October 2025, Scotland and Aberdeen University celebrated Women in Sport Week. The theme of this year...

Aberdeen F.C.’s First Win of the Season

Aberdeen F.C. decisively secured their first league win away at Dundee with a 4-0 victory. Prior to this they...

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