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Welsh University of the Year 2024, The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide.
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🎙️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
Sunday Supplement - Prisons, Financing, NRW, COP 30, Nancy Pelosi - BBC Sounds
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a review of the Sunday papers.
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November 10, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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A team of researchers led by the University is conducting new research into the state of rural enterprise in Wales.

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November 6, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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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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#cop30 #brazil #climatechange #government
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.
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November 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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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
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.
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November 4, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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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
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.
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November 4, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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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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November 3, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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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
November 3, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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We’re delighted that Aberystwyth has been named a UNESCO City of Literature – the first in Wales!

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October 31, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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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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October 31, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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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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#history #WW1 #spiritualism #seance
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.
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October 30, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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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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October 29, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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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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October 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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📖 New collection of short poems by one of our academics offers a fresh take on the work of one of Wales’ highest regarded poets.

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#poems #shortpoems #academic #wales
October 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Drawn into Landscape – Symposium 🌿

The School of Art invites you to Drawn into Landscape, a symposium in conjunction with Robert Newell’s exhibition Echoes Among the Rocks.

🕑 Wednesday 29 October, 14:00 - 17:00
📍 School of Art, Aberystwyth University, Buarth Mawr

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October 24, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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🌎 Congratulations to Professor Stephen Tooth who has received a prestigious international award for his research at a ceremony in the USA.

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@geosociety.bsky.social #GSA2025 #desert #drylands #geology #GSAconnects2025 #Connects2025
October 23, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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👻 Writing in The Conversation, Dr Alice Vernon from the Department of English & Creative Writing discusses how our hunt for ghosts reveals more about the living than the dead.

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#ghosts #ghosthunting #supernatural
Why we keep hunting ghosts – and what it says about us
From Victorian séances to TikTok, our hunt for ghosts reveals more about the living than the dead.
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October 21, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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🎓 Today we mark our Founders’ Day— celebrating the visionaries who laid the foundations for our institution on the west coast of Wales that has inspired generations across the globe to change lives for the better.
October 17, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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📖 A haunting novel inspired by the largely unknown history of Welsh witchcraft has been published by one of our lecturers.

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#novel #history #wales #witchcraft
October 17, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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The new UN body charged with providing evidence to tackle drug-resistant diseases needs to include lower income countries, according to an Aberystwyth academic.

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#UN #DrugResistant #Disease
October 16, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Writing in The Conversation, Dr Aviva Guttmann explains how Israel’s spies have a well-deserved reputation for ingenuity and ruthlessness, not so well known is that they often rely on other countries’ intelligence.

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How Israel’s famed intelligence agencies have always relied on help from their friends
Israel’s spies have a well-deserved reputation for ingenuity and ruthlessness, Not so well known is that they often rely on other countries’ intelligence.
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October 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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🧙‍♀️ Writing in The Conversation, Mari Ellis Dunning discusses how women in early modern Wales typically dressed in long skirts, large woollen shawls, and tall, black hats. Could they have inspired stereotypes of the witch?

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#witch #stereotypes #inspiration #wales
Black hats, cauldrons and broomsticks: the historic origins of witch iconography
Women in early modern Wales typically dressed in long skirts, large woollen shawls, and tall, black hats. Could they have inspired stereotypes of the witch?
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October 14, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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🚀 The search for life on Mars takes a leap forward today, as a key instrument for a major space mission begins its journey from the University to Italy for testing.

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#ExoMars #mars #MarsMission
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October 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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📺 The BBC's first test colour TV transmissions took place 70 years ago. Professor JamieMedhurst, from our Department of Theatre, Film and Television, spoke to Radio 4’s Today Programme to discuss this breakthrough in broadcast television.

Listen here (1hr 43 min in): www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Today - 10/10/2025 - BBC Sounds
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
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October 13, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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💻 The University has officially opened newly refurbished teaching spaces in the Department of Computer Science, marking a significant investment in the future of digital education.

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#ComputerScience #DigitalEducation #Teaching #Future
October 10, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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🫁 Our scientists are part of a £1.55m project to unravel long-term vaping risks and benefits on lung health for smokers.

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October 7, 2025 at 1:19 PM