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1. Recycle your old running shoes

   The LJMU Sports Team has joined forces with JOGON on their mission to keep millions of training shoes out of landfill.

2. Deadline for home computing loan scheme

   Our current Home Computing Loan scheme for staff will come to a close in December, ahead of the launch of a brand new scheme in the new year.

3. Is this the world's oldest oven?

   Archaeologists have unearthed baked bread and food remains from 70,000 years ago in Shanidar Cave in Iraq and published the study of early culinary skills in the journal Antiquity.

4. Academic Registry online training sessions

   There are lots of academic staff training opportunities still available throughout the remainder of semester one.

5. Disability History Month at LJMU

   Disability History Month begins today (16 November – 16 December) and our Disabled Staff Network, EDI team and JMSU will be hosting an event on Friday 2 December.

6. Upcoming Professorial Inaugural Lecture Series

   The next series begins in November 2022 with Professor Trung Thanh Nguyen from LJMU’s School of Engineering.

7. Impact: LJMU low carbon centre showcases best university practice

   Low Carbon Eco-Innovatory selected by OECD to share learnings on impact on sustainability of Higher Education and research institutes.

8. New support for staff development

   The university will shortly be introducing a new system to support you in recording and tracking performance and development conversations.

9. Dance soiree to explore ‘Growing Old in the Soviet Union’

   Participants are invited to watch a 30-minute dance following the life trajectory of two Soviet citizens and then to give views about ageing and older people as part of an LJMU History and Wellcome Trust project.

10. Tyrannosaurus or Hadrosaur: How well can AI identify dinosaur footprints?

    Artificial intelligence comes out on top in machine v human challenge to identify fossil dinosaur tracks