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🐒 Sub-Saharan Africa has lost up to 50% of its primates since pre-industrial times, according to a major international study.

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#ProtectNature #Africa #AfricanWildlife #WildAfrica

🌱 Peatland restoration and growing biomass crops to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere can help achieve net zero targets, according to a new scientific report.

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#NetZero #ClimateAction #Peatlands #Biomass

🪐 The #ExoMars team at the University has welcomed the UK Space Agency’s renewed backing for the Rosalind Franklin rover mission, a flagship project that will see Europe’s first Mars rover launch in 2028.

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🔬 Livestock farmers and animal health officials in Wales are set to benefit from regional disease testing following investment to start the process of establishing a specialist diagnostic centre at the University.

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Tonight Lee Waters MS delivers the CWPS & WISERD Annual Lecture
“Devolution Generation: The Birth and Bedding in of the Senedd”

📅 27 Nov | 18:00 drinks | 18:30–20:00 lecture
📍 Main Hall, Department of International Politics
🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/54ecttea

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Ukraine peace deal will hinge on security guarantees – but Kyiv has been there before In 1994 Russia and Kyivs western allies signed the Budapest Memorandum guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty. It wasn’t worth the paper it was written on.

In 1994, Russia and Kyiv's western allies signed the Budapest Memorandum guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, but it wasn’t worth the paper it was written on, according to Dr Jenny Mathers.

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#peace #security #sovereignty

🩺 Ioan Mabbutt, 18, from Aberystwyth, has won a scholarship worth £2,500 to study Veterinary Medicine through the medium of Welsh.

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👩🏻‍⚕️ Health services users are being asked to share their experiences to help shape the future of nursing education in mid Wales.🧑🏾‍⚕️

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💉 It’s World Antimicrobial Awareness Week and the team from the Arwain DGC (Responsible Antimicrobial Use) project are at the Royal Welsh Winter Fair 2025 to discuss Antibiotic Stewardship with farmers and vets. Find them on the balcony above the Main Ring.

#AMR #WAAW #Mentera

🌿 A new research project will explore how herbal medicine shaped health in Wales before the NHS.

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#herbalmedicine #medicine #NHS #wales

Two smiling women stand in front of a building with COP30 Brasil Amazonia on it

It is the final day of COP30 in Brazil, which Hannah Hughes has been attending as part of her current research project. She is pictured below, with research collaborator Verônica Gonçalves (University of Brasilia). 1/2

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“University was the springboard to my independence, self-belief, growth and career.”

Diagnosed with a life-limiting condition at 16, Tina Evans achieved a BA from @aberuni.bsky.social, going on to work for the BBC, S4C, and reporting at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

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😊 We were delighted to present a cheque for over £5,000 to HAHAV Ceredigion, the University’s Charity of the Year 2024-25.

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#HAHAV

🎗️This White Ribbon Day, we invite you to join us and others in our community as we walk together in solidarity to help create a safer, fairer world for women and girls.
📅 22 Nov
🕑 2–4pm
📍Aberystwyth Bandstand
👉More details: buff.ly/UBElEOM

🌎 Today we celebrate our amazing international community – students from all over the world who bring their cultures, ideas and passion. Thank you for making Aber such a vibrant, diverse and welcoming place.

#InternationalStudentsDay #Welcome #Diversity

A Senedd exhibition about the impact of war and displacement in Wales which commemorates refugees has been opened by Culture Minister Jack Sargeant MS and the Llywydd Elin Jones MS.

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#senedd #wales #refugees #exhibition

Why the UK should look beyond growth to a ‘new economics’ that works for all Traditional economics can’t respond to global crises like inequality and climate change.

In a new article, Professor Jasper Kenter explains how traditional economics can’t respond to global crises like inequality and climate change.

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#economics #article #GlobalCrisis

🫧 Particles as different as soap bubbles and ball bearings can be made to arrange themselves in exactly the same way, according to a new study that could unlock the creation of brand new materials — including those with promising biomedical applications.

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Sunday Supplement - Prisons, Financing, NRW, COP 30, Nancy Pelosi - BBC Sounds Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a review of the Sunday papers.

🎙️Speaking from Brazil, Dr Hannah Hughes from our Department of International Politics joined BBC Radio Wales’ Sunday Supplement to share her insights from the heart of global climate negotiations.

📻 Missed it? Catch up on BBC Sounds to hear her reflections from COP30: tinyurl.com/2th5h854

#COP30

A team of researchers led by the University is conducting new research into the state of rural enterprise in Wales.

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@lpipruralwales.bsky.social

Brazil’s upcoming UN climate summit highlights how tricky climate pledges are to keep The Brazilian Cop30 presidency has a critical role to play as mediator and bridge builder to increase the collective ambition of governments.

In a new article, Dr Hannah Hughes explains how the Brazilian COP30 presidency has a critical role to play to increase governments' ambition.

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@interpolaber.bsky.social
#cop30 #brazil #climatechange #government

Introducing Jane Austen’s Paper Trail – a new podcast from The Conversation Our new podcast series tries to discover the real Jane Austen by delving deeper into her life, times and novels.

Dr Lucy Thompson from our Department of English and Creative Writing helps to take listeners on a journey through Jane Austen’s England in this new podcast series from The Conversation marking 250 years since the author’s birth.

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#TheConversation #janeausten #podcast #author

How 18th-century politician Charles Fox mastered personality politics long before Trump and Farage Charismatic, controversial and endlessly quotable, Charles Fox built a political movement around himself.

Writing in The Conversation, Dr Callum Smith discusses the charismatic, controversial and endlessly quotable, Charles Fox and how he built a political movement around himself.

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#TheConversation #politics #PoliticalMovement

Russia state media is actively silencing mothers’ opposition to the war in Ukraine, according to a new study by one of our academics.

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#russia #ukraine #media #study
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Writing in The Conversation, Professor Stephen Tooth explains how since Dolgarrog, the UK has had an excellent reservoir safety record but disasters do still occur.

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#resevoirsafety #climatechange #flood

We’re delighted that Aberystwyth has been named a UNESCO City of Literature – the first in Wales!

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@uwtsd.bsky.social
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A new group to promote efforts to prevent the abuse of power across the world has been launched by our academics.

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After the first world war, séances boomed – and dead soldiers ‘wrote’ home Never before had death affected so many people at once, and taken so many young men in the prime of their life.

Writing in The Conversation, Dr Alice Vernon explores how post first world war grief sparked a surge in séances — and how dead soldiers ‘wrote’ home.

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@alicevernon10.bsky.social
#history #WW1 #spiritualism #seance

Our IBERS researchers have joined forces with other leading plant scientists to catalogue the diversity of oats, helping plant breeders develop healthier, climate-resistant oats.

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#PlantScience #Oats #CropResearch

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Many congratulations to our Pro-Chancellor, Dame Elan Closs Stephens – the Learned Society of Wales’ new President.

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