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We would like to wish our students, staff, alumni and supporters a very Happy Christmas! We hope you have a really wonderful day. 🎄🎅🏻🎁
December 25, 2025 at 8:00 AM
We would like to wish our students, staff, alumni and supporters a very Happy Christmas! We hope you have a really wonderful day. 🎄🎅🏻🎁
Our offices are now closed for the Christmas and New Year break. We will be open again from 9am on Monday 5th January 2026.
We hope everyone has a very festive and restful break!
We hope everyone has a very festive and restful break!
December 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Our offices are now closed for the Christmas and New Year break. We will be open again from 9am on Monday 5th January 2026.
We hope everyone has a very festive and restful break!
We hope everyone has a very festive and restful break!
The debate over whether UK farming can continue to feed us, be commercially viable and conserve our vulnerable natural environment will be addressed by a new research project combining history with business analysis and environmental science.
December 16, 2025 at 11:51 AM
The debate over whether UK farming can continue to feed us, be commercially viable and conserve our vulnerable natural environment will be addressed by a new research project combining history with business analysis and environmental science.
Did you know that we have a podcast made by our PGR students about postgraduate research. The episodes are a mix of personal perspectives and practical advice, from sharing perspectives as mature students to a panel discussion on careers in industry and academia.
Once you’ve finished your PhD, where do you go next?
In the final episode of this series of Exeter Postgraduate Researcher Podcast, @hls.exeter.ac.uk PGR Sylvie Agnello chairs a panel discussion on ‘Industry or Academia- which is right for me?’. Listen👉 www.podbean.com/ew/pb-a6qp7-...
In the final episode of this series of Exeter Postgraduate Researcher Podcast, @hls.exeter.ac.uk PGR Sylvie Agnello chairs a panel discussion on ‘Industry or Academia- which is right for me?’. Listen👉 www.podbean.com/ew/pb-a6qp7-...
Industry or Academia- which is right for me?
PGR Sylvie Agnello asks Dr Cédric Mesnage (Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Exeter) and Dr Ana Miguel Cruz (Regional Medical Advisor for a pharmaceutical company and an Exeter alumna) about th...
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December 16, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Did you know that we have a podcast made by our PGR students about postgraduate research. The episodes are a mix of personal perspectives and practical advice, from sharing perspectives as mature students to a panel discussion on careers in industry and academia.
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1 hour 8 minutes? You probably don't have the time. But in case you do, here is a recording of my @gsiexeter.bsky.social seminar at @exeter.ac.uk earlier this week in which I talk about overshoot, consequences and possible ways forward.
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GSI seminar 10DEC25 1080
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December 12, 2025 at 9:45 AM
1 hour 8 minutes? You probably don't have the time. But in case you do, here is a recording of my @gsiexeter.bsky.social seminar at @exeter.ac.uk earlier this week in which I talk about overshoot, consequences and possible ways forward.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpbH...
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Thank you @briantrumpet.bsky.social for your amazing contribution to our graduation ceremonies!
It's a wrap: that's the Winter 2025 graduations at Exeter University over - 9 ceremonies with c.2000 graduates. The students bring so much to Exeter life.
I've been doing the music with Graduation Brass here since 2008, and am up to 389 ceremonies, and still enjoy every one!
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I've been doing the music with Graduation Brass here since 2008, and am up to 389 ceremonies, and still enjoy every one!
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December 15, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Thank you @briantrumpet.bsky.social for your amazing contribution to our graduation ceremonies!
Our sports science student, Innes FitzGerald, isn’t just running for medals. She’s running for a future she believes in. As a European U20 athletics champion, she’s exploring how performance and sustainability can work together.
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December 4, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Our sports science student, Innes FitzGerald, isn’t just running for medals. She’s running for a future she believes in. As a European U20 athletics champion, she’s exploring how performance and sustainability can work together.
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@hls.exeter.ac.uk
Andrew Feather recently made headlines when he beat 4-time Tour de France winner & current World Champion, Tadej Pogačar. The amateur cyclist is making a big name for himself in the sport at the age of 41, with support from our experts through a service which is now open to all tinyurl.com/2szj6pfm
Exeter helps lawyer and father of two beat cycling greats in his 40s
Raising a family and working as a lawyer would keep most people busy enough, but not for one amateur cyclist who at the age of 41 is making a big name for himself in the
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December 4, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Andrew Feather recently made headlines when he beat 4-time Tour de France winner & current World Champion, Tadej Pogačar. The amateur cyclist is making a big name for himself in the sport at the age of 41, with support from our experts through a service which is now open to all tinyurl.com/2szj6pfm
In the wake of the #COP30 climate change conference more than 500 scientists have signed an urgent declaration, stating: “The planet’s future hangs in the balance.” The Dartington Declaration issues a plea to everyone around the world to “act now & act fast”
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December 1, 2025 at 11:44 AM
In the wake of the #COP30 climate change conference more than 500 scientists have signed an urgent declaration, stating: “The planet’s future hangs in the balance.” The Dartington Declaration issues a plea to everyone around the world to “act now & act fast”
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We're so pleased to have won two awards for our degree apprenticeship programmes at last week’s Tech South West Awards in the ‘Commitment to Diversity’ and ‘Supporting Talent’ categories!
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November 26, 2025 at 11:08 AM
We're so pleased to have won two awards for our degree apprenticeship programmes at last week’s Tech South West Awards in the ‘Commitment to Diversity’ and ‘Supporting Talent’ categories!
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New research has confirmed that the HPV vaccination prevents cervical cancer.
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New research confirms HPV vaccination prevents cervical cancer
Two new Cochrane reviews show strong and consistent evidence that HPV vaccines are effective in preventing cervical cancer and pre-cancerous changes, especially when given to young people before they are exposed to the virus. Girls
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November 24, 2025 at 8:39 AM
New research has confirmed that the HPV vaccination prevents cervical cancer.
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Our researchers have published a new study that has found African lions produce not one, but two distinct types of roars - a discovery that is set to transform wildlife monitoring and conservation efforts. (1/5)
November 21, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Our researchers have published a new study that has found African lions produce not one, but two distinct types of roars - a discovery that is set to transform wildlife monitoring and conservation efforts. (1/5)
We've collaborated with @uniofleicester.bsky.social to send worms into space to look at the biological effects of spaceflight. A crew of tiny worms will be heading to the International Space Station which will help scientists understand how humans can travel through space safely tinyurl.com/5xhttr5y
‘Worms in space’ experiment aims to investigate the biological effects of spaceflight
Universities of Exeter and Leicester collaborate on mission to send nematode worms to the International Space Station A crew of tiny worms will be heading on a mission to the International Space Stati...
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November 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
We've collaborated with @uniofleicester.bsky.social to send worms into space to look at the biological effects of spaceflight. A crew of tiny worms will be heading to the International Space Station which will help scientists understand how humans can travel through space safely tinyurl.com/5xhttr5y
How did we inherit a whale's head and why did we bury it in a field next to campus? Find out more about the fascinating story that began on a Cornish beach and ended with a scientific discovery in ‘Whale: Secrets of a Stranding’, available now on BBC Sounds.
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University experts feature on BBC podcast exploring the life and legacy of an ocean giant
The story of a giant whale that died after becoming stranded on a Cornish beach, before being ‘inherited’ by the University of Exeter, has been told in a new BBC podcast. The Whale, Secrets of
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November 18, 2025 at 11:30 AM
How did we inherit a whale's head and why did we bury it in a field next to campus? Find out more about the fascinating story that began on a Cornish beach and ended with a scientific discovery in ‘Whale: Secrets of a Stranding’, available now on BBC Sounds.
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A new study funded by Alzheimer’s Society and led by Exeter has identified 3 medications that could be repurposed to treat or prevent Alzheimer’s disease. It found that a shingles vaccine, is the most promising existing medicine. Viagra and a MND drug also showed strong promise. tinyurl.com/4h36mhtu
Shingles vaccine most promising common drug to potentially prevent Alzheimer’s - research
A new study has identified three existing medications that could be repurposed to treat or prevent Alzheimer’s disease. The research funded by Alzheimer’s Society and led by the University of Exeter,...
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November 18, 2025 at 10:15 AM
A new study funded by Alzheimer’s Society and led by Exeter has identified 3 medications that could be repurposed to treat or prevent Alzheimer’s disease. It found that a shingles vaccine, is the most promising existing medicine. Viagra and a MND drug also showed strong promise. tinyurl.com/4h36mhtu
Our Images of Research competition allows ECRs & PGR students to communicate their research to a non-specialist audience.
We're pleased to announce this year’s winners are:
Early Career Researchers
Winner - Spawning Abalone: The Release of New Life, Susanne Vogeler www.exeter.ac.uk/imagesofresearch
We're pleased to announce this year’s winners are:
Early Career Researchers
Winner - Spawning Abalone: The Release of New Life, Susanne Vogeler www.exeter.ac.uk/imagesofresearch
November 17, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Our Images of Research competition allows ECRs & PGR students to communicate their research to a non-specialist audience.
We're pleased to announce this year’s winners are:
Early Career Researchers
Winner - Spawning Abalone: The Release of New Life, Susanne Vogeler www.exeter.ac.uk/imagesofresearch
We're pleased to announce this year’s winners are:
Early Career Researchers
Winner - Spawning Abalone: The Release of New Life, Susanne Vogeler www.exeter.ac.uk/imagesofresearch
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Published today in Earth System Science Data: The Global Carbon Budget 2025
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Global Carbon Budget 2025
Abstract. Accurate assessment of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and their redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biosphere in a changing climate is critical to bette...
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November 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Published today in Earth System Science Data: The Global Carbon Budget 2025
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Ahead of #WorldDiabetesDay tomorrow, we're delighted to announce new landmark research that uncovers why type 1 #diabetes is more aggressive in young children.
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November 13, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Ahead of #WorldDiabetesDay tomorrow, we're delighted to announce new landmark research that uncovers why type 1 #diabetes is more aggressive in young children.
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Today sees the publication of the Global Carbon Budget 2025 at COP30 in Brazil, and this year's report shows that fossil fuel CO2 emissions have hit an all-time high in 2025.
November 13, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Today sees the publication of the Global Carbon Budget 2025 at COP30 in Brazil, and this year's report shows that fossil fuel CO2 emissions have hit an all-time high in 2025.
As part of #COP30 our experts on tipping points have 3 challenges for world leaders:
• Minimise overshoot of 1.5°C with an accelerated phase-out of fossil fuels;
• Integrate tipping point risks into all governance, finance, and security frameworks; and
• Minimise overshoot of 1.5°C with an accelerated phase-out of fossil fuels;
• Integrate tipping point risks into all governance, finance, and security frameworks; and
Tipping points experts set three challenges for COP30
Experts in “tipping points” have set three challenges for world leaders meeting at the COP30 climate summit. An international team of 160 researchers recently published the Global Tipping Points Repor...
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November 12, 2025 at 8:51 AM
As part of #COP30 our experts on tipping points have 3 challenges for world leaders:
• Minimise overshoot of 1.5°C with an accelerated phase-out of fossil fuels;
• Integrate tipping point risks into all governance, finance, and security frameworks; and
• Minimise overshoot of 1.5°C with an accelerated phase-out of fossil fuels;
• Integrate tipping point risks into all governance, finance, and security frameworks; and
It was great to hear @pfriedling.bsky.social on BBC Radio 4 today discussing the carbon cycle as part of #COP30. Listen back at:
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The Life Scientific - Pierre Friedlingstein on carbon’s pivotal role in climate change - BBC Sounds
Pierre Friedlingstein on the pivotal role of carbon in predicting climate change.
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November 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
It was great to hear @pfriedling.bsky.social on BBC Radio 4 today discussing the carbon cycle as part of #COP30. Listen back at:
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Anyone looking for a short primer on the #CarbonCycle (🌳and 🌊) could do a lot worse than today's #TheLifeScientific programme on #BBCRadio4 with @jimalkhalili.bsky.social interviewing @pfriedling.bsky.social (@exeter.ac.uk) ...
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The Life Scientific - Pierre Friedlingstein on carbon’s pivotal role in climate change - BBC Sounds
Pierre Friedlingstein on the pivotal role of carbon in predicting climate change.
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November 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Anyone looking for a short primer on the #CarbonCycle (🌳and 🌊) could do a lot worse than today's #TheLifeScientific programme on #BBCRadio4 with @jimalkhalili.bsky.social interviewing @pfriedling.bsky.social (@exeter.ac.uk) ...
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In collaboration with the LGBT+ education charity Schools OUT, our experts have produced free educational resources championing the achievements of LGBT+ individuals working in maths and science for secondary schools and museums.
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Exeter to help UK school pupils learn about LGBT+ scientists
University of Exeter experts have produced free educational resources championing the achievements of LGBT+ individuals working in maths and science for secondary schools and museums across the UK. Th...
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November 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
In collaboration with the LGBT+ education charity Schools OUT, our experts have produced free educational resources championing the achievements of LGBT+ individuals working in maths and science for secondary schools and museums.
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Over the next two weeks, our climate scientists will be playing an important role at #COP30, the UN Climate Change Conference that is being held in Brazil.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Over the next two weeks, our climate scientists will be playing an important role at #COP30, the UN Climate Change Conference that is being held in Brazil.
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Our partnership with Exeter College is one that we're very proud of. In this article, our President and Vice Chancellor, Lisa Roberts, and Exeter College's Principal and CEO, John Laramy, explain more about the importance of this collaboration wonkhe.com/blogs/new-he... @wonkhe.bsky.social
New heights in tertiary partnerships
When universities and FE colleges collaborate amazing things can happen, to the benefit of the local area and beyond. Lisa Roberts and John Laramy share practice from Exeter
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November 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Our partnership with Exeter College is one that we're very proud of. In this article, our President and Vice Chancellor, Lisa Roberts, and Exeter College's Principal and CEO, John Laramy, explain more about the importance of this collaboration wonkhe.com/blogs/new-he... @wonkhe.bsky.social