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5th May, 2026

Art students at Gray’s call for abolishing AI use

Students are calling for a ban on AI use in Gray’s School of Art at Robert Gordon University (RGU). On April 8th, first-year student Molly Duncan published an open letter calling for the school to abolish the use of AI. This comes amid increased use of generative artificial intelligence at Gray’s...

Court votes to replace 12 schools with four faculties

The University of Aberdeen will continue pursuing plans to transition from a 12 school structure to a four faculty model after the plan gained...

Scottish Parliament candidates react to Aberdeen University crisis

MSP candidates struggled to commit to tackling Scotland's higher education funding crisis at a panel debate. An Aberdeen University hustings event for Scottish Parliament hopefuls...

Withheld university survey reveals staff morale plummeted by 35%

A 2024 staff survey has revealed a 35% decline in a staff satisfaction metric. The results of the survey were excluded from the latest...

St Fittick’s Park industrialisation “fundamentally not about just energy transition,” say...

by Hannah-Rose Lloyd & Innes Paton. St Fittick’s Park, the last greenspace in Torry, will be reduced in size by...

Nuart street art festival returns to the Granite City

by Hannah-Rose Lloyd. The award-winning Nuart Street Art Festival returns to Aberdeen from April 22nd to 26th, bringing a programme...

Police investigate hate crime as antisemitic leaflets distributed in Aberdeen

Antisemitic flyers were distributed near a park last week in the latest incident of racist material distributed in Aberdeen. Flyers...

City centre ambassador scheme criticised for employing only two people

by Hannah-Rose Lloyd. Aberdeen City Council has introduced only two city centre ambassadors under a 12-month trial, in partnership with...

Compulsory redundancies possible in next months as 21 PhD courses axed

By Amelia Boag, Fred Byrne & Innes Paton. Senior management yesterday rejected a deal that would have seen a pause...

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International

“Even though I’m far from Ukraine, I still feel everything that happens there”

Sofiia, soon to take on the role as UoA Ukrainian Society president, is a third year computer science student. Originally from the eastern city...

UK reveals Russian submarine surveillance operation in the North Atlantic

During a press conference in April 2026, UK Defence Secretary John Healey announced the UK Armed Forces had monitored a month-long Russian spying mission...

Viktor Orbán faces landslide defeat

After a controversial 16 years as prime minister of Hungary, Viktor Orbán conceded defeat on April 13th 2026.  Orbán was...

Beyond borders reporting under threat

By Niharikaa Singh The release of American journalist Shelly Kittleson after her abduction in Iraq has drawn attention to a...

Kirsty Blackman MP rails against UK government ban on student visas...

By Fred Byrne and Emily Reid An Aberdeen politician has spoken out against the UK government’s ban on student visas...

Hidden in plain sight

The city of Aberdeen has a long and torrid history of involvement in the Atlantic Slave Trade. This was...

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Criomagan

How to be happy and live forever

By Lottie Leech Find time for self-care. Allot at least three 15-minute intervals a day to comfy nest building around your living area. Get creative...

Art students at Gray’s call for abolishing AI use

Students are calling for a ban on AI use in Gray’s School of Art at Robert Gordon University (RGU). On April 8th, first-year student Molly...

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Court votes to replace 12 schools with four faculties

The University of Aberdeen will continue pursuing plans to transition from a 12 school structure to a four faculty...

TikTok… Has Time Run Out?

The United States has recently made international news by banning TikTok. Although this has now been lifted as of...

Your Crime is Your Trademark

I think we have all heard of Banksy by now, whether you are familiar with his art or you...

Public Disorder

There have been a lot of protests recently. In the UK alone, there have been tens of thousands of...

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Features

What meeting an old sailor taught me about life

by Valentina Negrea. It may be behind us, but I suspect I’m not the only one whose mind is still anchored at Aberdeen’s 2025 Tall...

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...

‘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...

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Opine

TikTok… Has Time Run Out?

The United States has recently made international news by banning TikTok. Although this has now been lifted as of the 25th January, it is...

Your Crime is Your Trademark

I think we have all heard of Banksy by now, whether you are familiar with his art or you joined in with the thousands...

Public Disorder

There have been a lot of protests recently. In the UK alone, there have been tens of thousands of...

Quiet on Set Please!

I love a night in: fluffy socks, a film or TV show, a snack assortment… It was during my...

Skirting Equality

A 2022 Freedom of Information statement from the Metropolitan Police states that although trousers are more practical, women may...

The internet is not a safe place… or is it?

A few days ago, the Online Safety Bill passed out of the House of Lords after much debate and...

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Arts

The High Life – Review

By Becca Cooper  Opening night of The High Life saw a full house at His Majesty’s Theatre, Aberdeen. Based on the 1994 BBC sitcom by...

What is food in a changing world? – Review

By Zinat Moslemzadeh At Aberdeen’s Music Hall, the room was already alive with quiet conversation as a group of women gathered in one corner, their...

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...

North City Signal

The term ‘Aberdeen’s creative industry’ has often felt as if it was an oxymoron in recent years. With less...

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...

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Life & Style

Runways, Revival and Raising for a Reason

Saturday the 21st of February saw the annual Aberdeen University Charity Fashion Show take on the Beach Ballroom. The catwalk transformed students into works...

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,...

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...

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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

Are Mental Health and Psychiatric Conditions Actually Better Classified as Immune-Gut Disorders?

For most of us, getting “butterflies” or even a stomachache before an important exam is nothing unusual, but what if this feeling actually reflects...

Helping Our Pollinators This Spring: Easy, student-friendly ways to support bees, butterflies, and biodiversity

Spring has sprung! The birds are singing, flowers are blooming, and the butterflies and bees are flying around. Pollinators are so important to our...

We’ve had pain all wrong!

In English, ‘pain’ is simply ‘pain’. Whether we’re trying to describe the sharp sting of a paper cut, surgery,...

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...

Aberdeen 2040 Strategy and AUSA’s Climate Emergency: Aligning Campus Action with...

Responsibility for climate change is often placed on individuals, while the systems shaping our choices remain the same. Aberdeen University...

(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...

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Satire

How to be happy and live forever

By Lottie Leech Find time for self-care. Allot at least three 15-minute intervals a day to comfy nest building around your living area. Get creative...

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...

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...

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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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