Out of business: dozens of venues call it quits
Last week, Revolucion de Cuba nightclub and Smoke and Soul restaurant shut their doors to Aberdonians.
They are the latest in a long list of businesses to cease trading in Aberdeen recently - including Decathlon, Vue Cinemas and the iconic Blue Lamp pub.
Rev de Cuba’s parent company, The Revel Collective,...
Out of business: dozens of venues call it quits
Last week, Revolucion de Cuba nightclub and Smoke and Soul restaurant shut their doors to Aberdonians.
They are the latest in a long list of...
Gettin’ Rowdy with The Gaudie recognised in national awards
by Innes Paton and Fred Byrne.
This newspaper’s audio supplement Gettin’ Rowdy with The Gaudie was nominated for the Political Podcast Awards.
2026 was the first...
Aberdeen sees unprecedented snow as Storm Goretti swept over North East
While you were away from campus, snuggled up in front of the open fire, opening your christmas presents, the unfortunate few that stayed in...
AUSA marks 25-year anniversary
The Aberdeen University Student’s Union (AUSA) is celebrating its 25th anniversary this coming week, marking the occasion with a...
Erasmus+ returns to UK in 2027
The UK Government has announced that it will be rejoining the Erasmus+ scheme in 2027.
The exchange programme will now...
Blue Lamp closure met with widespread disappointment
Gallowgate pub and music venue The Blue Lamp will close on 30 December after seven decades in business.
The pub...
Controversial activist addresses students eight years after university ban
Last Sunday, a few dozen people gathered at an unsanctioned rally featuring pro-Palestine activist Jackie Walker who was banned...
“Finally getting our money’s worth”: Greens opens at Hillhead Student Village
Almost two and a half years after the closure of Hillhead’s Co-Op, a new grocer opened its doors for...
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International
Washington Post cuts one-third of staff
The Washington Post has cut a third of its staff, citing a “broad strategic reset.” These cuts come after The Post’s billionaire owner and...
War in Ukraine now longer than Soviet fight against Nazi Germany
While significant international attention over recent weeks has turned to events in Greenland, Venezuela and Iran, the conflict in Ukraine continues. Now nearly into...
New Zealand general election – who’s, who?
Disclaimer: the writer of this article is a current member of the New Zealand Labour Party and was a...
42 lives lost in Spanish train crash
Two trains collided near the city of Adamuz, Spain Sunday 18th January. A high-speed train travelling from Malaga to...
U.S. government shutdown watch: funding for healthcare, among other departments, remain...
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bipartisan package of three spending bills. The package, which passed January...
“She was an amazing human being”
On January 7th Renee Nicole Good was fatally shot by an agent of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), sparking...
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Criomagan
Accepting the Grey Area
Situationship is a term every young person knows, but what does it actually mean? The idea of a situationship is to be with someone...
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...
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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...
Washington Post cuts one-third of staff
The Washington Post has cut a third of its staff, citing a “broad strategic reset.” These cuts come after...
AUSA anniversary ceilidh cancelled
The Aberdeen Student Union (AUSA) has been forced to cancel its celebratory ceilidh after the event did not sell...
War in Ukraine now longer than Soviet fight against Nazi Germany
While significant international attention over recent weeks has turned to events in Greenland, Venezuela and Iran, the conflict in...
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Features
“This is like my divorce album”
By Hannah Fortune and Emily Reid
How do you prepare for a tour? Do you adapt your stand-up between countries?
“Not really. I do find the...
Breaking the Silence: The witch camps of Ghana
One of the darkest chapters in Scottish history is undoubtedly the witch trials, where thousands of innocents, primarily women, were accused of witchcraft and...
Book launch: The seven incorporated Trades of Aberdeen
By Emma Barclay
In November I was lucky enough to attend the launch of Graeme Nicol, Alexander Sutherland and George Leslie...
Prezzo is back in Aberdeen and better than ever!
The Gaudie were invited to the newly reopened Prezzo on the second floor of Union square. The restaurant’s walls...
A tribute to academics of the past
I studied Biochemistry at Marischal College in 1996. I loved it. Two years ago, I heard the Professor John...
Young artist to paint Gaelic mural on Students’ Union building
A themed mural is set to be painted at University of Aberdeen as part of a mission to create...
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Opine
Accepting the Grey Area
Situationship is a term every young person knows, but what does it actually mean? The idea of a situationship is to be with someone...
Defending ‘hated’ female characters
Art imitates life. I see it everywhere. Whether it is through gender norms within TV shows, or gender norms pushed on characters through the...
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....
What Must Be Done?
The University of Aberdeen – our university – has reached a crossroads, along with the rest of the higher...
The human ‘brain-drain’ is going to destroy AI
The talk of the town at the minute is AI. AI is going to take our jobs. AI is...
The aestheticization of burnouts
We all love a good performance, ain’t that right? Who doesn’t enjoy Soul Sisters, The Nutcracker or All I...
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Arts
Sex and the Necessity
By Amelia Boag McGlynn
And just like that, hit HBO show ‘Sex and the City’ has experienced a booming resurgence in cultural relevance over the...
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 as construction workers, executed a...
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...
All roads lead to One Direction
Like many other girls in their twenties, the shocking news of Liam Payne’s death catapulted me back to my...
Mid-Autumn Festival at Cowdray Hall
University of Aberdeen’s Confucius Institute took Cowdray Hall for an afternoon of Chinese music featuring Yichun Feng, Lavinia Marin, Yuqiu Fang and the Edinburgh Chinese Community Orchestra.
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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...
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 off the last of our...
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.
A list of student deals you might have never been aware...
With Christmas looming and the dreaded Christmas shop as you scramble last minute to find a present for your...
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Gaming & Technology
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 is associated with more than...
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...
From Outer Space to the Deep Sea: How Satellites are Counting...
Antarctic krill are an essential part of marine life and support a plethora of species. Despite their importance, the...
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Science & Environment
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 is occurring at record rates,...
Groundbreaking Electronic Implant Restores Vision
Every six minutes, at least one person living in the UK will begin to lose their vision, according to the Royal National Institute of...
Can AI predict the unpredictable?
By the time classic symptoms of the neurodegenerative disease Parkinson’s appear, tremor, stiffness and slowness, up to 80% of...
Major Climate Tipping Point Reached as Rainforests Become Carbon Sources
Often referred to as the lungs of the earth, it is well known that rainforests are of great ecological...
Climate Calamity
“The apocalypse!” cried the UN chief and the ones before him. “Calamity,” “destruction,” and the “ultimate evil we must...
Could a Simple Blood Test Detect Alzheimer’s? The Biomarker Revolution Explained
What if a simple, quick and routine blood test could reveal the earliest signs of dementia years before symptoms...
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Satire
I love the way these hours are cut!
The Taylor Library will only be open until 5:00 p.m. and closed on Sundays! Despite the emails encouraging you to take up arms in...
The Gaudie: out of hours
Nothing screams terror quite like a room of humanities students in costume. The Humanities Ceilidh was full of good food and cheap alcohol, a recipe...
Which Old Aberdeen campus building are you?
By Minaal Imran
Ladies and gentlemen, take this free quiz and uncover your true campus building spirit, with 99.996457% scientific...
The five letter faith
By Khreshnee Thayabaran
They converse in five letter words. They eat five letter foods. And every morning from 6:00 A.M.,...
First year survival guide
By Minaal Imran
Welcome to university! Within 48 hours, you’ll be crying in a Lidl aisle over overpriced cheese and...
Interview with Michael Jackson
So how are you?
What have you been up to recently? Oh right sorry
Well this is getting...
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Sports
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 fourth of six in the...
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 efforts and events with individual...
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...
Aberdeen Student Opens Aberdeen’s Only Vaulting Club
Aberdeen University Psychology student Katie Henderson is an ex-international level vaulter. Last year, she started her own vaulting club....
Ethan Walker Interview
Whilst on a football scholarship in America, promising Aberdeenshire-based sportsman Ethan Walker tragically sustained catastrophic injuries in a car...
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