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🐑 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.

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#endometritis #fertility #infertility
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January 5, 2026 at 3:12 PM
👻 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.

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The Room in the Tower: the ‘real’ hauntings that inspired this year’s BBC Ghost Story for Christmas adaptation
Benson’s mother was Mary Sidgwick, whose brother Henry was a founding member and first president of the Society for Psychical Research.
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January 5, 2026 at 11:17 AM
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
January 2, 2026 at 4:18 PM
🦟 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.

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#malaria #EndMalaria #mosquitoes #zanzibar #africa #drone
December 29, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Season’s greetings from all of us at Aberystwyth University ❄️
December 25, 2025 at 9:02 AM
🐈 A new study exploring the secretive lives of feral and free-roaming cats in Wales could shed light on wildcats’ return to the country.

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December 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
We’ve renewed our partnership with Aberystwyth Town Football Club - proud to continue supporting the Seasiders on and off the pitch.

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December 22, 2025 at 2:09 PM
The Dewis Choice project, which supports older people affected by domestic abuse, has won a prestigious award at the House of Lords.

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December 19, 2025 at 3:22 PM
We are delighted to have appointed the Chief Executive of the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society as a new Pro-Chancellor.

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December 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Aberystwyth University academics will investigate options for devolving broadcasting powers on behalf of the Welsh Government. www.aber.ac.uk/en/news/arch...
December 18, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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.

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December 15, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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.

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December 12, 2025 at 2:16 PM
We're delighted that IBERS is a founder member of a new alliance of 35 of the UK’s foremost research agencies and institutes.

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December 10, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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...
December 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
🐒 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
December 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
🌱 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
December 5, 2025 at 10:27 AM
🪐 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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@esa.int
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December 4, 2025 at 3:53 PM
🔬 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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December 2, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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
November 27, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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
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.
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November 27, 2025 at 9:25 AM
🩺 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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@colegcymraeg.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 3:17 PM
👩🏻‍⚕️ 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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November 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
💉 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
November 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM
🌿 A new research project will explore how herbal medicine shaped health in Wales before the NHS.

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#herbalmedicine #medicine #NHS #wales
November 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM