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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

  • 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

  • Is Aberystwyth’s Future Under Water? Stemming the tide of Climate Change.

    • Climate Change is a daunting subject to get to grips with and finding reliable information to help understand this most critical topic can feel overwhelming. Tackling Climate Change is the responsibility of everyone, and whether your background is in the arts, or in politics, or in the social, environmental or physical sciences, it is vital ...more

  • Welcome to the Librarians' Blog!

    • Direct from the Hugh Owen Library, it’s a big hello from your friendly band of librarians. We want to welcome you to the newly restored Librarians' Blog where you’ll find more on how your library supports learning, teaching, and research here at Aberystwyth University. The blog will be updated regularly so make sure you subscribe. And ...more

  • Meet the Team!

    • Over the last 18 months we have all been working online via Teams with students and other colleagues. It was great for us as a team to finally all meet up face to face, enjoy a walk along the prom and have an outdoor meeting to help plan our activities for 2021/22 (we even had ...more

  • Module co-ordinators: already know what you want on your new reading list?

    • This summer we will create and populate your new Aspire reading lists on request. If you email the content to librarians@aber.ac.uk before July 19th your reading list will be created and published before the reading list deadline. Please include Module code and title Which books are Essential - the Library will order an ebook or multiple print ...more

  • New Copyright LibGuide

    • As a student, do you want to know how copyright affects how you might prepare for and write your assignments? Perhaps you are a lecturer, and you want to know if showing a film or television programme during a lecture or seminar might be breaching copyright legislation? Or are you a researcher looking to protect ...more

  • New! Employability LibGuide

    • Our library services are not just here to help you get your degree. They can also help you get the job you want after you graduate!  Students practising presentations Aberystwyth University Subject Librarians have prepared a new Employability LibGuide. This is your guide to the books and resources that can help you write a winning CV, and to specialist advice and tools to help ...more

  • Cylchlythyr y Gadwrfa Mynediad Agored - Tachwedd 2017

  • Cylchlythyr Mynediad Agored - mis Awst

  • OA Repository Newsletter – July 2018

  • Cylchlythyr y Gadwrfa Mynediad Agored – Gorffennaf 2018

  • Cylchlythyr y Gadwrfa Mynediad Agored - Rhagfyr 2017

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