Aberystwyth University
Welsh University of the Year 2024, The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide.
Cymraeg: @prifaber.bsky.social
- Forgotten meats such as liver, heart and kidneys could make a comeback as a new superfood. Our IBERS scientists have been exploring the reasons for the decline in demand for these meats as well as raising awareness of their high nutritional value. 🖱️ tinyurl.com/txfwh8jm @ibers.bsky.social
- 🍽️ No single tool can accurately measure people’s diets, but new research shows that combining different methods — from wearable cameras to analysing dietary biomarkers — could give the most reliable picture of what people eat. 🖱️ tinyurl.com/46hf5nta @aberdlsagb.bsky.social #DietTracking #diet
- Mindfulness is usually taught through stillness and silence, Dr Judith Roberts explores how, for some, 'full presence mindfulness' is easier to achieve in motion, like on a motorbike. 🖱️ tinyurl.com/5fvrk4sb #mindfulness #mentalhealth #psycology
- It was a pleasure to welcome the Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing, Sarah Murphy MS, here today. She heard about some of our women’s health research, including our collaborative projects with Hywel Dda University Health Board. @sarah4bridgend.bsky.social @hywelddauhb.bsky.social
- 📖 Newly composed poems are marking ten years since the initial steps were taken toward the re‑opening of Pantycelyn Hall. 🖱️ tinyurl.com/4j5r98vk
- In a new article, Dr Huw Morgan discusses the pressing need to understand and respond to what’s commonly known as 'space weather'. 🖱️ tinyurl.com/mrx26nz4 #spaceweather #eclipse #physics
- It was a pleasure to welcome Wales Office Minister Anna McMorrin MP here today. She visited our Smart Home Lab and the Old College, toured AberInnovation and IBERS, and heard about plans to develop the Green Futures Innovation Park. More: tinyurl.com/47s7rc56 @annamcmorrin.bsky.social
- We have announced a new strategic collaboration with David Game College to prepare international students for undergraduate study in the UK. More: tinyurl.com/34uzsvdf
- Bethany Clark has looked at why many people struggle to maintain their Veganuary commitments - here's why and what could help. 🖱️ tinyurl.com/2p827p2 #veganuary #vegan #healthyeating
- In this article, Professor Michael Woods remarks on how rural and environmental issues are high on the political agenda in the Welsh Senedd elections in May. 🖱️ tinyurl.com/v2y42bz9 #EnvironmentalIssues #Politics #Senedd #Wales
- We were proud to showcase our research into living and ageing well at an event in the Senedd today, thanks to the sponsorship of Peter Fox MS. @senedd.wales
- 👏 Congratulations to field glaciologist Dr Samuel Doyle who has been awarded the Polar Medal in the 2026 New Year’s Honours List for his outstanding research and leadership in Greenland. 🖱️ tinyurl.com/569tuv47 #glaciology #arctic #Greenland #PolarMedal
- 🌏 🌱🌊 Global sustainability ‘reset’ needed - scientists are calling for a ‘systems reset’ in how sustainable development is understood and pursued. Full story: 🖱️ tinyurl.com/fepbjnkd #sustainability #sustainabledevelopment @cordioea.bsky.social
- Dr Jessica Adams from IBERS has been appointed President of the British Phycological Society, the UK’s leading society dedicated to the study of algae. More: tinyurl.com/mu6j7brj @ibers.bsky.social
- 🐑 Research to help reduce inflammation in the uterus of livestock animals could help pave the way for developing new drugs to treat infertility in women, according to a new scientific review. 🖱️ tinyurl.com/mspuzjj7 #endometritis #fertility #infertility @aberdlsagb.bsky.social
- 👻 Dr Alice Vernon explores the eerie real‑world inspirations behind the BBC Ghost Story for Christmas, uncovering how a century‑old story of haunted sleep still resonates - perhaps uncomfortably - with modern audiences. @aberenglishdept.bsky.social
- Have a read of Dr Simon Rodway's new article explaining how developments in archaeology, genetics and early inscriptions are helping him to write the first complete dictionary of the ancient Celtic languages of Britain and Ireland. More: tinyurl.com/yuz6ntre
- 🦟 Drones and AI will be used in a new £2.5 million Aberystwyth University-led effort to wipe out malaria hot spots in Africa, supported by funding from the Gates Foundation. 🖱️ tinyurl.com/4tfk4c3f #malaria #EndMalaria #mosquitoes #zanzibar #africa #drone
- Season’s greetings from all of us at Aberystwyth University ❄️
- 🐈 A new study exploring the secretive lives of feral and free-roaming cats in Wales could shed light on wildcats’ return to the country. More: 🖱️ tinyurl.com/48eu32vv
- We’ve renewed our partnership with Aberystwyth Town Football Club - proud to continue supporting the Seasiders on and off the pitch. More: tinyurl.com/4zmz78tu
- The Dewis Choice project, which supports older people affected by domestic abuse, has won a prestigious award at the House of Lords. More: tinyurl.com/3nyr55tz
- We are delighted to have appointed the Chief Executive of the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society as a new Pro-Chancellor. More: tinyurl.com/5b62hwwn
- Aberystwyth University academics will investigate options for devolving broadcasting powers on behalf of the Welsh Government. www.aber.ac.uk/en/news/arch...
- Thanks to a donation from a charitable trust, students from Africa and refugees will have the chance to apply for a new bursary to study here. More: tinyurl.com/jmn35dxb
- Professor Richard Marggraf-Turley has been appointed Chair of the world-renowned Keats Foundation, a charity dedicated to promoting the life and work of Romantic poet John Keats. More: tinyurl.com/4czzsp56
- We're delighted that IBERS is a founder member of a new alliance of 35 of the UK’s foremost research agencies and institutes. More: tinyl.co/45cv @ibers.bsky.social @nro-group.bsky.social
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- The first complete dictionary of the ancient Celtic languages of Britain and Ireland is being written by our academics. You can read more in the Guardian here: www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
- 🐒 Sub-Saharan Africa has lost up to 50% of its primates since pre-industrial times, according to a major international study. 🖱️ tinyurl.com/3m5dr6jy @aberdlsagb.bsky.social #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. 🖱️ tinyurl.com/y97s5msf @ibers.bsky.social #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. 🖱️ tinyurl.com/d3m5ysah @esa.int @ukspaceagency.bsky.social @abercompsci.bsky.social
- 🔬 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. 🖱️ tinyurl.com/2pmsd5wy
- 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 @interpolaber.bsky.social
- 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. 🖱️ tinyurl.com/mpcexw9b #peace #security #sovereignty
- 🩺 Ioan Mabbutt, 18, from Aberystwyth, has won a scholarship worth £2,500 to study Veterinary Medicine through the medium of Welsh. 🖱️ tinyurl.com/msn2m5nw @colegcymraeg.bsky.social
- 👩🏻⚕️ Health services users are being asked to share their experiences to help shape the future of nursing education in mid Wales.🧑🏾⚕️ 🖱️ tinyurl.com/2s3v7j65
- 💉 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. 🖱️ tinyurl.com/43zd4kp5 #herbalmedicine #medicine #NHS #wales
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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. 🖱️ tinyurl.com/yc23bcfm #HAHAV
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- 🌎 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. 🖱️ tinyurl.com/4cdatrzp @andreahammel.bsky.social #senedd #wales #refugees #exhibition
- In a new article, Professor Jasper Kenter explains how traditional economics can’t respond to global crises like inequality and climate change. 🖱️ tinyurl.com/3v7j7rbh #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. 🖱️ tinyurl.com/vunvj9c2
- 🎙️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. 🖱️ tinyurl.com/2wu7xc98 @lpipruralwales.bsky.social
- In a new article, Dr Hannah Hughes explains how the Brazilian COP30 presidency has a critical role to play to increase governments' ambition. 🖱 tinyurl.com/4kuu7sum @interpolaber.bsky.social #cop30 #brazil #climatechange #government
- 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. 👂 tinyurl.com/52m4mc8v #TheConversation #janeausten #podcast #author
- 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. 🖱 tinyurl.com/2xynv8ww #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. 🖱 tinyurl.com/35fw7p67 #russia #ukraine #media #study @interpolaber.bsky.social @jgmaber.bsky.social
- 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. 🖱 tinyurl.com/45yrfjfk #resevoirsafety #climatechange #flood
