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Jan 2, 2025 | 
warontherocks.com | Fiona Murray
The term “dual-use” is something of a lightning rod in the startup world, sparking debates about its meaning and usefulness. In these virtual pages, Jake Chapman wrote that “reliance on dual-use technology is a trap,” arguing that timing issues, intellectual property controls, and commercial interests undermine the essential prioritization of defense needs. Others have worried that categorizing projects as dual-use excludes them from a range of funding sources or banking services.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
ft.com | Fiona Murray
The writer is a professor of entrepreneurship and associate dean of innovation at the MIT School of Management On both sides of the...
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Fiona Murray |Cormac Campbell
It was a phone call from a 13-year-old girl in Scotland in 2019 that eventually led to the capture of a social media predator described as one of the world's most prolific child sex abusers. Alexander McCartney from Northern Ireland pretended to be a teenage girl to befriend, then abuse and blackmail children around the world, often sharing images with other paedophiles. Some of the children were as young as four.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Fiona Murray |Cormac Campbell
Gridlock in Belfast 'now nearly as bad as during the Troubles - and some businesses thinking of closing'Jim Rodgers of the UUP, who has been on the council for the last 31 years, also said that some businesses have told him they are on the verge of …
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Fiona Murray |Cormac Campbell
Gridlock in Belfast 'now nearly as bad as during the Troubles - and some businesses thinking of closing'Jim Rodgers of the UUP, who has been on the council for the last 31 years, also said that some businesses have told him they are on the verge of …
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Cormac Campbell |Peter Coulter |Fiona Murray
WARNING: This article contains distressing details relating to extreme child abuse, suicide and strong language. Cimarron Thomas was 12 years old in 2018 when she used her father's handgun to kill herself. From West Virginia, USA, she played the violin, she loved elephants and chatting with her friends on Snapchat and was looking forward to her 13th birthday. But was being sexually abused and blackmailed online by a student from Northern Ireland, described as the UK's most prolific catfisher.
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Aug 5, 2024 | 
southernstar.ie | Fiona Murray
BY FIONA MURRAYA MOTHER and son work in a field, building a haystack together; a group of men lean on their sticks while watching cattle pass by during Castletownbere Fair Day; a fluffy gannet chick perches on a cliffside on the Bull Rock; and local people watch horse-racing in a field, as part of the annual Allihies August sports day.
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
bps.ac.uk | Fiona Murray
For nearly two decades, I’ve been an active, full member of the British Pharmacology Society (BPS) and regularly attend the BPS annual meeting. As a lecturer at the University of Aberdeen, I take pride in helping select our final-year student for the Undergraduate BPS Pharmacology Prize. In 2023, I was awarded funds from the BPS to help organise the 26th Scottish Cardiovascular Forum.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
nature.com | Nicola Smith |Fiona Murray
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) with no known endogenous ligand are termed orphans. Deorphanization of a GPCR involves identifying the ligand, which can be a painstaking exercise.
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Feb 11, 2024 | 
news.yahoo.com | Richie Montague |Fiona Murray
"It's a mystery. If I knew where poems came from, I would go there."These are the words of Belfast-born poet Michael Longley as he shares insights on the friendships and places that have inspired his work. Michael Longley: Where Poems Come From sees the writer discuss his work in an intimate new documentary for BBC Northern Ireland. Longley said that the filmmakers had delved "deep between the lines (of his poems) and illuminated them".
