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"This is the beginning of the end for you" - what a consultant told Bee Macpherson at the start of her #menopause transition.

Of course we all know that's not the case - but how do we ensure women thrive at this time of life? Listen to our podcast here listen.podmasters.uk/HTFCleanAir?...
November 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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What's the ultimate breakup album?💔🎧

Charlotte Curran from @clsrleeds.bsky.social, whose PhD focuses on relationship ethics, has listed the top seven stand-outs for @theconversation.com.

Read the article:
theconversation.com/seven-albums...

Listen on Spotify:
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Seven albums to listen to during a breakup – from Lily Allen to Marvin Gaye
These breakup albums can help listeners to grieve previous relationships.
theconversation.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Delighted to announce a new paper, led by Mansi Mungee, which studies insect populations over the UK using weather radar and is covered by the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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#entomology #radar #biodiversity #insect #research #conservation #data #tech #sustainability
Night-flying insects over UK in decline, weather radar study reveals
Study of Met Office data one of first to show how nocturnal insects affected by factors such as light pollution
www.theguardian.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Radar technology has been around for decades, used to track & predict weather. Now scientists have made a breakthrough using it to monitor insects - paving the way for cost effective biodiversity tracking across huge areas @katatrepsis.bsky.social @ncas-uk.bsky.social www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...
Trillions of insects fly above us - weather radar reveals alarming declines
Scientists have made a breakthrough in monitoring insect populations across the UK using an unexpected tool: weather radar.
www.leeds.ac.uk
November 3, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Awaab's Law requires social housing associations to urgently address damp & mould that presents significant risk of harm to tenants. @douglasbooker.bsky.social (Civil Engineering) argues that it stops short of addressing other causes of poor indoor air quality.
theconversation.com/who-controls...
Who controls the air we breathe at home? Awaab’s law and the limits of individual actions
The ability to improve air quality in your home depends less on personal behaviour and more on who owns the building.
theconversation.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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"His work critiques the failures of contemporary capitalism to provide dignity, respect, and cohesion"- Dr Nick Robinson, @polisatleeds.bsky.social

Read the analysis of Sam Fender's 2025 Mercury Prize-winning album, People Watching, on @uk.theconversation.com⬇️

theconversation.com/sam-fenders-...
Sam Fender’s music offers a vision of masculinity that is complex, conflicted and deeply human
Fender’s music exposes the increasing struggle of everyday life in the UK.
theconversation.com
October 17, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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🌳 While the official #SaferParks: #StandUpAgainstStreetHarassment campaign comes to a close today, our work continues because everyone deserves to feel safe, welcome and respected in our parks. 💚
October 15, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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Sally Wainwright's new show, #RiotWomen, is turning menopause into punk rebellion, @bethjohnsontv.bsky.social from the School of Media and Communication writes. 🎸🎤

Read the full analysis on @theconversation.com ⬇️
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With Riot Women, Sally Wainwright is turning menopause into punk rebellion
By placing menopause at the centre of a punk-inflected drama, Wainwright opens a new televisual space for midlife women.
theconversation.com
October 14, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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📢 OUT NOW: Global Tipping Points Report 2025 📢
💡 Researchers in Leeds - inc @viktoriaspaiser.bsky.social - have joined experts across the world warning Earth is reaching the first of many climate #TippingPoints that will cause catastrophic harm without urgent action www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...
‘New reality’ as world reaches first climate tipping point
Researchers in Leeds have joined experts from across the world in warning that Earth is reaching the first of many climate tipping points that will cause catastrophic harm without urgent action.
www.leeds.ac.uk
October 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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🌳Parks are essential green spaces for exercise, socialising, relaxation, but 1 in 6 UK women feel unsafe in them even in daylight. That's why @annabarker.bsky.social @suzylamplughtrust.bsky.social & @keepbritaintidy.bsky.social have launched the #StandUpAgainstStreetHarassment campaign
October 7, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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ℹ️ Download & Display our posters in your parks and offices

📃Access Safer Parks guidance which explains how design and management can improve parks

Explore our campaign toolkit here: www.greenflagaward.org/safer-parks-...
Safer Parks: a new campaign to end street harassment
Keep Britain Tidy and the Green Flag Award are working with the University of Leeds and the Suzy Lamplugh Trust to support a new campaign: Safer Parks: Stand Up Against Street Harassment.
www.greenflagaward.org
September 17, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Here's how you can get involved ⬇️
☑️Register for free, 30-min online active bystander training open to everyone.
🌳Book tailored in-person or remote sessions for teams of park staff, built environment and safety professionals by emailing training@suzylamplugh.org (for groups of 70+)
September 17, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Everyone can help to create safer parks. That's why this initiative offers free training in the #5Ds to park staff to equip them with the skills to intervene safely. It uses scenarios from our research with women and girls to encourage bystander intervention to tackle harassment in green spaces.
September 17, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Harassment is a pervasive issue in public spaces, and our research shows that parks are no exception. It contributes to women and girls feeling unsafe in these vital public spaces, as does a lack of confidence that others will step in to help when it happens. essl.leeds.ac.uk/education-so...
Leeds research is catalyst for major Safer Parks campaign
This September, researchers at Leeds are partnering with Keep Britain Tidy, and the Suzy Lamplugh Trust to launch Safer Parks: Stand Up Against Street Harassment.
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September 17, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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We're excited to launch a major #SaferParks: #StandUpAgainstStreetHarassment campaign in partnership with @suzylamplughtrust.bsky.social @keepbritaintidy.bsky.social #GreenFlagAward to build a community of active bystanders and make our parks safer, more inclusive spaces for all
September 17, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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🏗️Tech developed by @drleonblack.bsky.social & Prof Theo Hanein at @universityofleeds.bsky.social will help recycle rubble in Ukraine into building materials. Lviv researchers, collaborating on the project, visited the University for training & knowledge exchange.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Leeds experts in rubble recycling scheme to help rebuild Ukraine - BBC News
University of Leeds experts are sharing technology to recycle debris from the conflict with Russia.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 23, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Using 10 years of satellite data from CryoSat-2, researchers have discovered 85 new subglacial lakes hidden beneath Earth's biggest ice mass. This discovery will help shape understanding of ice sheet dynamics and global sea level rise. @esa.int @envleeds.bsky.social www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...
85 new subglacial lakes detected below Antarctica
Using a decade of satellite data, researchers have identified 85 previously unknown lakes several kilometres under the frozen surface surrounding the South Pole.
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September 19, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Would you know how to intervene if you saw someone being harassed in public? @annabarker.bsky.social, @suzylamplughtrust.bsky.social & @keepbritaintidy.bsky.social have developed 'active bystander' training to make parks safer, more inclusive spaces 🌳

#saferparks #StandUpAgainstStreetHarassment
September 17, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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As children across England settle in to their new school life, research by @childofthenorth.bsky.social shows almost half of those on free school meals weren't 'school ready' - with big impacts for their life and education.
www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article... #natoppsummit #childrenfirst
Half of children on free school meals were not ready for school
Almost half of school pupils currently on free school meals will have started their formal education without the necessary skills to thrive, according to new research.
www.leeds.ac.uk
September 8, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Ultra-processed foods have become public enemy number one in nutrition debates - but are they as bad as we think? Read what research has to say in this @theconversationuk.bsky.social piece by Profs Graham Finlayson & James Stubbs theconversation.com/ultra-proces... #UPF #food #diet
Ultra-processed foods might not be the real villain in our diets – here’s what our research found
Chocolate and porridge are both popular but only one gets binged. Why? Our psychology plays a bigger role in overeating than food labels alone.
theconversation.com
August 20, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Researchers at @universityofleeds.bsky.social have launched online toolkit toothPASTE 🪥Funded by @nihr.bsky.social & @wy-icb-research.bsky.social it is co-designed with parents of autistic children to make dental care easier, kinder & more accessible. 🦷

www.leeds.ac.uk/main-index/n...
July 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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New fossils reveal the collapse of tropical forests during Earth’s “Great Dying” event 252 million years ago, was the primary cause of the prolonged global warming which followed, according to new @envleeds.bsky.social research.
www.leeds.ac.uk/main-index/n...
Post extinction lycopods.
July 3, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Creativity could be the key to addressing parents’ unmet needs in children’s early lives, suggests new collaborative research. Parents who took part in creative play programme developed by @theatrehullabaloo.bsky.social had reduced postnatal depression symptoms. www.leeds.ac.uk/main-index/n...
'It was such a relief': Prescribed play boosts parents’ mental health
A creative play programme has significantly improved new parents’ and carers’ mental health, according to research by the Universities of Leeds and Huddersfield.
www.leeds.ac.uk
July 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Indoor air expert and @universityofleeds.bsky.social researcher @cathnoakes.bsky.social has collaborated on a major new report led by @rcphysicians.bsky.social which highlights increasing health risks from air pollution. www.leeds.ac.uk/main-index/n...
June 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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You might have heard of #shakespeare being insulted as nothing more than an "upstart crow" - but who said it? And did they mean it, or was it an Elizabethan publicity stunt?
‪@notwithoutmustard.bsky.social‬ ‪‪@ahcunileeds.bsky.social‬ www.leeds.ac.uk/main-index/n...
'Upstart Crow' - who insulted Shakespeare, and why?
New research has cast fresh doubt on the origins of one of the most famous insults aimed at William Shakespeare, pointing the finger at a friend of the Bard.
www.leeds.ac.uk
June 18, 2025 at 12:50 PM