🌾💷|An Aston University scientist is to help make crop monitoring easier & cheaper

💡 #Photonics expert Dr Sergey Sergeyev to improve tech placed on drones & flown over crop fields

🔮Tech provides info to help estimate yields

👉tinyurl.com/ym4hwa33

International Day of Light 16 May

🎙️| Listen to the new Aston Originals podcast for #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek

🚶Aston University's Clary Collicutt & Rachel Shaw discuss how good urban walking is for #mentalhealth

💃The Mental Health Foundation 2024 theme is 'moving more'

👉tinyurl.com/yckkjtd8

#MomentsForMovement

📺| Professor Kathy Daniels (Aston Business School) has appeared on BBC Midlands Today to discuss the fallout from Wednesday's rail strikes

🗣 'Simply, the two parties aren't speaking to each other'

#TeamAston

⏱️|Time is running out to train as one of the UK’s future decarbonisation experts

📅Deadline to apply for a PhD at #NET2Zero doctoral training centre is 13 MAY

🗣️Find out more from the Director Patricia Thornley 👉 tinyurl.com/mr2y5nka

🇨🇳| A book co-edited by Aston University's Mary Drozd is to be translated and published in Chinese

🤝She worked with Sonya Clarke from Queen's University

🦴Orthopaedic and Trauma Nursing was selected for its insights from highly regarded experts

👉tinyurl.com/ysupxeek

Listen to Dr Graeme Hayes (@AstonSap) as he talks about his The Conversation article with Steven Cammiss

The UK High Court recently dismissed the case against environmental activist #TrudiWarner , who was referred for contempt of court in March 2023

🗣️📅 |This month - free public lecture by Prof Manolya Kavakli

🕹️A #gamification expert, she's giving her inaugural lecture on 29 May

🤖Will examine complex relationship between us, computers & tech, and how digital can our improve lives & industry

👉tinyurl.com/4m5uae23

🇮🇳🇵🇭 |Our researchers to help unlock #RenewableEnergy and cut #rice straw emissions in India & the Philippines

🌾300m tonnes of rice straw are burned after harvest in Asia each year

♻️New international project with Straw Innovations & Vidyut Mohan

👉tinyurl.com/bdeeacbv

🧻 ➡️🏡|Your home could be heated by human #sewage

♻️EBRI - Energy & Bioproducts Research Institute project has won Ofwat money to transform sewage sludge into clean water & energy

🚽Energy extracted during sewage & water treatment could be used to power engines or heat houses

👉tinyurl.com/bddr7u8u

📲| Aston University business analytics expert to lead on ground-breaking research into AI-driven malware detection in 5G & 6G networks

🔎It'll include joint research efforts, knowledge exchanges, workshops & innovative development projects

👉t.ly/PrN64

#TeamAston

🗣| Gillette CEO to give memorial lecture to commemorate eminent Birmingham industrialist

🔎 Gary Coombe will explore the exciting future of sports marketing, including opportunities in Gaming & eSports

📍 Aston Business School

📅17 May

👉t.ly/h3IaE

#TeamAston

🆕|Read about Dr Daniel Nowakowski's EBRI - Energy & Bioproducts Research Institute state-of-the-art biochar and bioproducts work

👓👉tinyurl.com/5n6b3y4b article is by leading scientific instruments company Shimadzu

♻️Focuses on EBRI - Energy & Bioproducts Research Institute transformation of waste through pyrolysis & develops biobased products

🩺|The armed forces top medical officer visited AUEA this week

🪖 Major General Tim Hodgetts CB CBE is the armed forces surgeon general

👨‍🏫🩸During his visit Tim Hodgetts CBE QHS ran a practical session for T Level #health students.

👉tinyurl.com/3eyjenxh

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📱|Aston University's Stephen Pihlaja will help develop a toolkit for young women to cope with harmful social media content

🤝The project is being led by University of Portsmouth's Helen Ringrow with The Girls' Network

📑The toolkit will be ready in September 2024

👉tinyurl.com/5edxm679

🔮🤖|What to expect from the next generation of #chatbots ?

🖥️Prof Abdul Sadka of Aston Digital Futures Institute Engineering@Aston writes for The Conversation about #OpenAI ’s GPT-5 and #Meta ’s Llama-3

👉Read here: theconversation.com/what-to-expect…

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Happy 5th Birthday to the Sir Adrian Cadbury Building - the home of Aston Students' Union 🥳🎉

Thank you for being a part of the journey, we can't wait to celebrate many more years together!

Watch our video 👉youtu.be/-J7qUtLFDGo

🙌| Aston Business School officially has a new Dean!

💼 Professor Marian Garcia has extensive academic and executive leadership experience

👉t.ly/elJ2G

#TeamAston

🛣️|Aston University civil engineers helping to make road surfaces more sustainable

🤝Knowledge transfer partnership #KTP with road surfacing specialist #MilesMacadam to find more sustainable alternative to traditional fly ash

👉tinyurl.com/yc64rn2j

📰| In 2023, fraud was the most common offence against individuals... 6% of adults fell victim to it

✍ Read the latest POSTnote for a closer look at the social & psychological implications of fraud, with contributions from Rasha Kassem (Aston Business School)

post.parliament.uk/research-brief…