Research at Reading
News and updates about research at the University of Reading, UK.
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- Putting out birdfeeders, giving horses hay or feeding ducks peas (not bread!!) are extensions of an ancient connection between human & animal that you can read about in a new book, with a chapter by Dr Juliette Waterman.🫴🦆 @juliettewaterman.bsky.social #readingatReading #BookSky 🔗 rdg.ac/3FfJidy
- Discover how plant-based oils offer sustainable alternatives to fish oil! At the #CommunityFestival2025 Dr Atefeh Amiri Rigi will share how camelina oil is used to enrich chocolate milk with essential fatty acids. 📍 Palmer 109 📅 12.30pm, 17 May 🔗 rdg.ac/3AUYDdZ
- Memory loss as we age is normal; everyone forgets things now and then! But what are the indicators of something worse? #Dementia researcher Samrah Ahmed's talk at the @uniofreading.bsky.social #CommunityFestival could help you spot the warning signs. 📍Palmer G10 📆16.15, 17 May 🔗 rdg.ac/3AUYDdZ
- Big #cities are busy, expensive and chaotic - so why do so many of us live in them? That's the question #economist Lukas Makovsky is pondering in his children's talk at the @uniofreading.bsky.social #CommunityFestival 2025 🌇 Find out the answers this Saturday, Palmer G10 at 2pm 🔗 rdg.ac/3AUYDdZ
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- This #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek, Claudette Maharaj, Director of TRIYBE, highlights how Black hair serves as a powerful symbol of identity, culture and resilience and delves into the profound connection between Black hair and mental well-being.
- Last chance for @pintofscience.uk tickets for our Tuesday 20 May event, where you can broaden your mind on how invisible radiation reveals buried history and the 'thinking' power of plants! ☢️🌱 #Pint25 📍Park House, 7.30-9.30pm But hurry, they're almost gone: rdg.ac/44xGZwC
- 'Our river, our future' Henley-on-Thames is a stunning riverside town, but flooding is on the rise. Professor Chris Merchant (of @unirdg-met.bsky.social) will be giving a talk and Q&A at Greener Henley for #GreatBigGreenWeek 2025. 🗓️11 June, 7-9pm 📍Leander Club, Henley 🔗rdg.ac/42W0FJC
- Roman coins contain tales of empire, war and prosperity, all hidden in the very metals of which they are made! 💰 Come to Kathryn Murphy’s talk at the Community Festival this Saturday, in Palmer G10 at 14.45 to learn more about recycling & rebellion @remade-uor.bsky.social 🔗 rdg.ac/3AUYDdZ
- AI tech is transforming the way we work! This Saturday at #CommunityFestival2025 Dr Fabio Oliveira from Henley Business School will demonstrate how #AI avatars train essential skills in multiple languages. Come to Palmer 109 at 13.15 and see the potential! 🔗 rdg.ac/3AUYDdZ
- This #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek Prof McCabe @unirdg-psych.bsky.social reveals how Slough teens found healing through beekeeping! They discovered meaningful social bonds & well-being boosts – proving #community projects can transform #mentalhealth 🐝 Read the full story: rdg.ac/3S1Zm5C
- Does your child attend a Heritage Language School? Sharon McIlroy will explore the crucial role these little-known schools play in our increasingly diverse communities. Come to the #CommunityFestival2025 and hear Sharon's talk at 16.15 in Palmer Building 109. 🔗 rdg.ac/3AUYDdZ
- How reliable is eyewitness evidence? What are the conditions that impact our ability to identify faces? Dr Thomas Nyman from @unirdg-psych.bsky.social will explore these questions at the #CommunityFestival2025. Come to his talk “Faces in the dark” at 14.45, Palmer Building, 109. 🔗 rdg.ac/3AUYDdZ
- Did you know that early humans hunted woolly mammoths? Join us at the @uniofreading.bsky.social #CommunityFestival2025 this Saturday (15.30, Palmer Building, room 109) to hear archaeology PhD students Frankie Tait & Anna Wagner reveal the secrets we learn from bones. 🔗 rdg.ac/3AUYDdZ
- Come and hear literature professor Paddy Bullard talk about #JaneAusten and her close ties to our very own town at the @uniofreading.bsky.social Community Festival! Join us on campus this Saturday 17 May at the Palmer Building, Room G10 at 3:30pm 🔗 rdg.ac/3AUYDdZ
- Get involved in the UoR Bioblitz stand at the @uniofreading.bsky.social #CommunityFestival2025! Take a stroll around our gorgeous award-winning campus, search out and identify various plant species and you could even win a prize! 🔗 rdg.ac/3AUYDdZ
- Today is #EuropeDay and in the spirit of unity and collaboration, we’re celebrating our ongoing work with universities, institutions, and communities across the continent! @horizoneu.bsky.social @ec.europa.eu
- Can you sift through the sands of time to find tiny fossils? Come along to the Natural History Museum's (@nhm-london.bsky.social) stand at the #CommunityFestival2025 to get hands on with history! Learn more about our partnership with the NHM research.reading.ac.uk/uor-nhm-part...
- Visit Alice Pollitt at the #CommunityFestival2025 to learn all about the crucial role platelets play in healing. Look at cells through a microscope, participate in a pipetting competition and play our ‘Friend or Foe’ game. 🔗 rdg.ac/3AUYDdZ
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- Can you trust your eyes? Join researchers from @unirdg-psych.bsky.social to test your eyewitness memory in virtual reality at the #CommunityFestival2025. Experience the challenges eyewitnesses face & understand what might affect the reliability of eyewitness evidence. 🔗 rdg.ac/3AUYDdZ
- Over the last 3 years, Tim Powell (timpowell.uk) has been our Creative Entrepreneur in Residence. At the end of the program, academics reflect on how Tim's expertise ignited their own creativity and took their research to exciting new places & audiences. 🔗 rdg.ac/3Z6skVK
- We who are about to roll the die, salute you! Unwind like a Roman by playing some Ancient Board Games at #CommunityFestival2025. It’s far less stressful than being a gladiator. 🎲Alea iacta est🎲 🔗 rdg.ac/3AUYDdZ
- What do crystals, worms and poo have to do with healthy ageing? Come and see how we use various research tools to understand and affect links between diet, gut microbiome and health! You could even grow your own crystal! #CommunityFestival2025 🔗http://rdg.ac/3AUYDdZ
- How can a soil be healthy and how does soil health influence food production and carbon storage? Learn about the science of soils by soil testing, worm hunting and the “bokashi” method - a way to turn food waste into soil food! 🪱 #CommunityFestival2025 🔗http://rdg.ac/3AUYDdZ
- Could *you* construct an ideal society? 🛠️ 🌇 Craft your perfect world using past visions of utopias in art & literature at @chloehouston.bsky.social's stand The Utopia Experiment at the #CommunityFestival2025 Find out more about the festival! 🔗 rdg.ac/3AUYDdZ
- Make a splash at the #CommunityFestival2025 with our flood simulator table and flood prediction fruit machine. Join Professor Hannah Cloke @hancloke.bsky.social and learn how flood defences and the choices we make about building houses can reduce the impact of floods! Book now: rdg.ac/3AUYDdZ
- Step into the past with us at the #CommunityFestival2025! Celebrate Jane Austen’s local ties in our pop-up schoolroom with period dress-up and playful learning for all ages, brought to you by students in English Literature & @readingmuseum.bsky.social. #JaneAusten250 Book now: rdg.ac/3AUYDdZ
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- Join us at the #CommunityFestival2025 to see live images of the #Sun through a solar telescope (weather permitting!). Learn how solar activity drives auroras, disrupts technology and impacts other planets. Book now: rdg.ac/3AUYDdZ @interplanetary.bsky.social @unirdg-met.bsky.social (Image: NASA)
- Reposted by Research at ReadingThe Warming Stripes have now been extended downwards into the ocean and upwards into the stratosphere! Collaborative paper which tells the story of how the stripes were developed, and discusses their extension across the Earth system, is now available in BAMS: journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...
- Matthew Worley’s ‘Zerox Machine’ gets up close and personal with the zines that emerged from the UK punk scene in all their rough-round-the-edges, DIY glory! #readingatReading #booksky 📖 rdg.ac/3YfBGxY
- This year marks 80 years of #Moomins! Sue Walsh writes for @uk.theconversation.com on what author Tove Jansson's beloved tales of these charming creatures can teach us about adventure and change. #booksky rdg.ac/4lT83Nd
- 📢Our annual Community Festival is fast approaching on Saturday 17 May! Register now to be the first to receive the festival programme and gain access to bookable workshops and activities taking place across the 4 festival zones. 🔗 rdg.ac/3AUYDdZ #CommunityFestival2025
- By refocusing on travel hubs like airports and stations, WHSmith is returning to its Victorian roots, proving that location and convenience still define its success in today's competitive retail sector, argues Dr Marrisa Joseph.
- We’ve really talked our way into it, haven’t we? And by it, we mean modern society. Historian Steven Mithen tracks human development from stone to software through the power of speech in 'The Language Puzzle' #BookSky #readingatReading 📖 rdg.ac/3EgmHNs
- In a world overflowing with misinformation, it is more important than ever to turn to deeply researched works. Our #readingatReading campaign explored recent books by @uniofreading.bsky.social researchers. Here are a few titles that captured our imagination.
- 🌊🌴Building bridges across oceans! Researchers Vishnu Nair & Emma Pagnamenta are enhancing speech and language therapy services in the Caribbean. Read how local-led capacity building is creating change. #GlobalHealth #Neurodiversity #SDGs #Inclusion #CapacityBuilding
- Does the #UN inadvertently bolster authoritarian regimes? A new book, co-authored by Dr Sarah von Billerbeck, examines how UN peacekeeping practices can enable #authoritarianism through capacity building and the creation of a permissive environment. #readingatReading #BookSky
- Long before BookTok or #BookSky, readers got their hot tips from the Book Society. ‘Recommended!’ by @nicola-wilson.bsky.social looks at how these proto-influencers shaped the tastes of the reading public for decades! In need of some new recs? 📖 rdg.ac/4jhqE3C #WorldBookDay #readingatReading
- What’s cooking behind bars? Co-authored by Professor Vicki Harman, this illustrated collection of recipes and reflections shares the lived experiences of women separated from their families by imprisonment. rdg.ac/42fcxVo #readingatReading #BookSky #WomenInPrison
- The Thames Valley AI Hub is hosting an event on AI & Healthcare, featuring a stellar line-up of panellists from across the University and industry. Join us for engaging discussion and exploration of the critical questions posed by AI in the health domain. rdg.ac/42ombXb
