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[:en]Welcome to the Aberystwyth University Blogging Service[:cy]Croeso i Wasanaeth Blogio Prifysgol Aberystwyth[:]

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[:en]If you wish to start a blog, please send an email to blogging@aber.ac.uk to discuss your requirements and we’ll advise you on how to get started. You can also view information about setting up a blog on the Web Services pages.

Latest posts from across the AU blogging network

  • LinkedIn Learning resources to help you prepare for your exams

    • The examination period can be a stressful time for most students. Here are some short videos and courses that we’ve pulled together from LinkedIn Learning to help you develop skills to prepare and revise more efficiently for your exams. A number of these skills will also be beneficial for your studies in general, in addition ...more

  • Upcoming LinkedIn and LinkedIn Learning Webinars (February and March 2022)

    • Would you like to learn how to improve your digital identity by making the most of your LinkedIn profile? Or perhaps you’d like to learn how, as a student or staff member, you can make the most of LinkedIn Learning? Take a look at the following webinars which will be delivered directly by LinkedIn and ...more

  • Popular LinkedIn Learning courses at Aberystwyth University

    • Productivity seems to be the order of the day, with LinkedIn Learning courses related to Microsoft 365 being the most viewed by staff and students recently. We’re all familiar with Microsoft 365 but how many of us take full advantage of the tools and functionality it offers?    The use of MS Teams really came into its ...more

  • International Women’s Day 2022 #BreakTheBias

    • Today we are celebrating International Women’s Day! IWD provides an important moment to celebrate the cultural, political and socio-economic achievements of women, and is a call to action for equality and gender parity, raising awareness against all bias. The theme this year is #BreakTheBias, focusing on tackling systematic barriers which hold back women’s careers and highlighting ...more

  • Develop your skills over the 12 days of Christmas!

    • All staff and students at Aberystwyth University have free access to LinkedIn Learning, a third-party E-learning resource. Activate your account before 10 January 2022 and you will automatically be entered into a raffle where you will have the opportunity of winning one of two £25 gift vouchers.  Take a look at the variety of courses and resources ...more

  • University Mental Health Day: Digital Wellbeing Resources

    • It's #UniMentalHealthDay today! A day to bring together the University community to make mental health a University-wide priority. An important element of the Jisc Digital Capabilities Framework is Digital Wellbeing, a term used to describe the impact that technologies and digital services can have on people's mental, physical, social and emotional health. Here are some ...more

  • We wish you an enjoyable Christmas break!

    • We are so lucky here in Aberystwyth with lovely rolling hills and great walks. It seemed fitting for our last team meeting of the year to escape the screens and get together outside before the Christmas break with a team walk and coffee catch up at Nant yr Arian. This term has been busy and has ...more

  • New Dissertation and News and Media LibGuides

    • Our Subject Librarians have published not one but two new LibGuides to help you with your studies and what comes after. Dissertation LibGuide Whether you’re planning ahead for your dissertation or part way through it and regretting every decision you’ve made, this guide can help you! In one easy-to-follow and simple guide, you will find all you need ...more

  • Public lecture to consider international politics in the context of climate change

    • Yr Athro / Professor Jan Selby The implications of climate change on international politics will be the subject of this year’s Kenneth Waltz Memorial Lecture, which takes place online on Thursday 14 October. Hosted by the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University, the Kenneth Waltz Memorial Lecture 2021 will be given by Professor Jan Selby of ...more

  • Climate change research festival at Aberystwyth University looks ahead to COP26 challenges

    • From left to right: Professor Julian Agyeman; Professor Sarah Davies (Aberystwyth University); First Minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford MS; EU Environment Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius; and Professor Milja Kurki (Aberystwyth University) Climate change experts will gather at Aberystwyth University for a week of events to discuss challenges ahead of the COP26 summit. First Minister Mark Drakeford, EU Environment ...more

  • Sting presents European web award to Aberystwyth led environmental project

    • Concrete tiles were attached to man-made sea defences in Borth, Ceredigion, in the summer of 2019, as part of the eco-engineering project Ecostructure. An innovative eco-engineering project that aims to turn sea defences and other artificial structures into thriving marine habitats has won a major European Union award. The Aberystwyth University led Ecostructure project was presented with the Better ...more

  • Beetle burgers or cricket snacks? Insect-based food on Aberystwyth research menu

    • Hop bars Crickets and beetles could become a common part of our diets, thanks to new academic research. Insects are a common feature of people’s everyday diets in countries around the world, such as Mexico, China and Ghana. These insect-based foods offer a more environmentally-friendly source of protein than many other food stuffs, and could help feed the ...more

  • Major grant for healthy oats project

    • One of the fields at Aberystwyth University where oats are grown for research purposes A research project to promote the development of oats as a healthy food product and a climate-resistant crop in Wales and Ireland has been awarded a major European grant. The ‘Healthy Oats’ project will benefit from a €2.18 million from the European Regional ...more

  • Fibre-optics used to take the temperature of Greenland Ice Sheet

    • As part of the project, scientists from Aberystwyth University set up special equipment on the Greenland Ice Sheet to drill deep into the glacial ice.  Scientists have used fibre-optic sensing to obtain the most detailed measurements of ice properties ever taken on the Greenland Ice Sheet. Their findings will be used to make more accurate models of ...more

  • Microbe build-up on Greenland could mean more ice loss says research

    • Greenland ice sheet The Greenland Ice Sheet could be under threat from microbes on its surface multiplying faster than they are washed away in a warming climate, according to new research from Aberystwyth University. The Greenland Ice Sheet is the largest mass of ice in the northern hemisphere. It covers an area about seven times the size of ...more

  • Speeding up Miscanthus breeding to combat climate change

    • Miscanthus growing in one of the fields at Aberystwyth University's Institute of Biological, Environmental & Rural Sciences Aberystwyth University scientists will investigate adopting a technique to speed up Miscanthus breeding in an effort to meet climate change targets as part of a £4 million UK government package to boost biomass production. Thanks to investment from the UK ...more

  • New health research to help save African penguins from extinction

    • African Penguins in Namibia - a hint of courtship ©J Kemper Research involving Aberystwyth University academics is investigating the part disease and pollution are playing in the decline in the African penguin population, a species which faces extinction within the next thirty to eighty years. The international project looking at the health reasons for the ongoing fall ...more

  • Rapidly warming Arctic could cause spread of nuclear waste, undiscovered viruses and dangerous chemicals, new report finds

    • Permafrost in the Arctic Rapidly thawing Arctic permafrost has the potential to release radioactive waste from cold war nuclear submarines and reactors, antibiotic resistant bacteria and potentially undiscovered viruses, an Aberystwyth University researcher has jointly found. Writing in Nature Climate Change, Dr Arwyn Edwards, from the Institute of Biological, Environmental & Rural Sciences, co-authored the newly published research paper ...more

  • Black History Month 2021

    • Black History Month is an annual event reflecting on the histories and cultures of black people throughout the world. It began in America but has been marked every October in the UK since 1987. For Black History Month 2021, Aberystwyth University Library has published a new list of recommended reading and resources which offer the ...more

  • Get to know your librarians

    • Subject Librarians provide information skills training, look after your reading lists and subject guides and offer support and advice on using the libraries, finding resources for your assignments and referencing. Aberystwyth University Libraries has 7 Subject Librarians, each with their own areas of expertise.   You are very welcome to arrange a MS Teams meeting with your Subject Librarian if you ...more
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