Professor Maarten Ambaum (Reading Meteorology) speaking to BBC South Today at the University of Reading Atmospheric Observatory about the huge floods in Dubai.

We're proud to announce 'University For Reading', a major new scheme to support community charities and projects across the Thames Valley

🆕 Charity of the Year Scheme
🆕 Staff Volunteering Scheme
➕ Community Fund now open

Full story: rdg.ac/3xBX6ej

#UniForReading

Make a total solar eclipse something you see in your lifetime, if you can. I took this sequence of images with a telescope during the 2017, it remains the top astronomical thing I've ever witnessed in my life, and I've seen a wide range of things in space over 15 years!

An Uni of Reading astronomer Dr James O'Donoghue has produced an animation of today’s #TotalSolarEclipse #TotalSolarEclipse 2024 #TotalEclipse

Ajay Singh Chaudhary's 📗The Exhausted of the Earth highlights links between personal and environmental depletion, but Tom Oliver of UoR BioSci has a positive response: take action theconversation.com/feeling-deplet… via The Conversation

Are ‘April showers’ 🌦️☔️getting heavier? Reading Meteorology's Dr Rob Thompson, our own Dr Rain, explains: theconversation.com/april-showers-… via The Conversation

📻BBC Radio Berkshire spoke to Uni of Reading Microbiology Lecturer Aidan Taylor, who is investigating the bacteria that causes food poisoning!

He was awarded £121,000 to study Campylobacter by the Academy of Medical Sciences

🙌Congrats Aidan

WAMS, The World Academy of Medical Sciences Connecting Research Reading Uni News

New 'Charity of the Year' scheme set to launch in April 📢

Local charities will be invited to apply for our new initiative where the university will support a single charity for the next academic year, through fundraising, awareness raising and more.

rdg.ac/3vbAMHP

.Reading Students’ Union Welfare Officer Ish Aa Sujau speaking to ITV News Meridian about student safety on nights out in Reading town centre.

Don’t let political drama distract from equality in research, writes Parveen Yaqoob. Minister Donelan’s attack has backfired, but the attitudes that drove it remain widespread.

researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-vie…

Dr Dominic Lees (Film, Theatre & TV) explores the legal implications of SORA, the new AI video tool launched by OpenAI reading.ac.uk/news/2024/Expe…

Feeling hormonal? On BBC Radio 4 now and BBC Sounds whenever, listen to Dr Andrew Bicknell of UoR BioSci talking hormones for In Our Time bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Running through your brain...

Mark Dallas, Associate Professor in Cellular Neuroscience, is bringing the latest neuroscientific research to joggers in an innovative and accessible way.

The University's research is helping to make a fitter, healthier Reading.

Learn more 👇

Dr Ellen Pilsworth Department of Languages and Cultures at Reading writes about how the social structures of Nazi Germany created a bystander society, for The Conversation

theconversation.com/how-the-social…

Expert comment: “Taylor Swift deepfake raises questions about AI” says Dominic Lees rdg.ac/3SE4pKK

#deepfake #taylorswift #AI

Proud moment for Uni of Reading Reading Meteorology Connecting Research as Prof Sir Brian Hoskins is awarded 2024 Japan Prize 🇯🇵

Prof Hannah Cloke responds to the Public Accounts Committee's new report into UK flood preparedness

Read more: rdg.ac/PAC

On BBC Radio 4 Today now Hannah Cloke of Geography and Environmental Science @ UoR Reading Meteorology on UK flood defences 🌊