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Official account of the University of Reading. Partnering for the Planet to help make the world a better place.
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It's #DinosaurDay so did you know that you can dig for dinosaurs at Reading? 🦖 Students from UoR BioSci can visit our field school in Canada’s Dinosaur Provincial Park to learn everything they need to know about palaeontology. Yes, we're jealous rdg.ac/49ntXkT

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Step inside the time machine as Dr Ciara O’Donovan transports us 230 million years into the past to the Mesozoic Era, to find out how dinosaurs came to rule the world. 🦖 Watch the full children's lecture at: rdg.ac/43p3iE8 #DinosaurDay

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“While we are sleeping, they come out and are very happy, mating, visiting relatives, walking on our faces. The moment we wake up, they go back inside the pore,” On the face of it, a gruesome new Uni of Reading expert comment from CNN... 👇 us.cnn.com/2025/05/30/hea…

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Is today hotter or colder than normal? 🌤️ A new tool, developed with Professor Ed Hawkins, shows whether today's temperature is hotter or colder than average comparing real-time temperature data with historical temperature readings. Read more: rdg.ac/45AMpaH

Is today hotter or colder than normal? 🌤️

A new tool, developed with Professor <a href="/ed_hawkins/">Ed Hawkins</a>, shows whether today's temperature is hotter or colder than average comparing real-time temperature data with historical temperature readings.

Read more: rdg.ac/45AMpaH
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As Europe's largest and most active volcano #MountEtna continues to experience a strombolian-scale eruption, Uni of Reading's Dr Stuart Black provides his expert view on the most urgent concerns and potential impact on climate and the environment. Read now rdg.ac/43Rp7ey

As Europe's largest and most active volcano #MountEtna continues to experience a strombolian-scale eruption, <a href="/UniofReading/">Uni of Reading</a>'s Dr Stuart Black provides his expert view on the most urgent concerns and potential impact on climate and the environment.

Read now rdg.ac/43Rp7ey
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Inspiring the local community with world-class research at our Community Festival. Check out the latest movie from Connecting Research, as snakes, space and skeletons take centre stage, then head to our Blog for more exciting research for curious minds. ⏯️ research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/

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To mark 10 years of the NUIST–Reading Academy, Uni of Reading joined colleagues in #China for a Climate Symposium celebrating global collaboration, climate education and research impact. Enjoy a highlights reel, as UoR continues to lead climate conversations around the world.

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As the UK Sustainable University of the Year (The Times), and the Uni ranked 3rd in the World for #SDG12 in the THE Impact Rankings 2024, we’re proud to add our voice to the #WorldEnvironmentDay campaign to #BeatPlasticPollution. What are we doing? rdg.ac/3yGNP5a

As the UK Sustainable University of the Year (The Times), and the Uni ranked 3rd in the World for #SDG12 in the THE Impact Rankings 2024, we’re proud to add our voice to the #WorldEnvironmentDay campaign to #BeatPlasticPollution.

What are we doing? rdg.ac/3yGNP5a
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Smart packaging could slash household food waste by 63%. Uni of Reading is helping test Bump by Mimica's "Bump Tag", a smart packaging that reacts to real conditions to show when food is truly no longer fresh (not just when dates say so). 👀: rdg.ac/3XboWY1

Smart packaging could slash household food waste by 63%.

<a href="/UniofReading/">Uni of Reading</a> is helping test <a href="/BumpByMimica/">Bump by Mimica</a>'s "Bump Tag", a smart packaging that reacts to real conditions to show when food is truly no longer fresh (not just when dates say so). 

👀: rdg.ac/3XboWY1
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At Uni of Reading we don’t just talk sustainability, we deliver it. Achievements include: 🌱 Slashed waste per person by 31% 🔄 Boosted reuse & repair by 160% 🚯 Diverted 99% of waste from landfill 📦 Started recycling polystyrene #WorldEnvironmentDay 🌍 rdg.ac/4kDug0A

At <a href="/UniofReading/">Uni of Reading</a> we don’t just talk sustainability, we deliver it.

Achievements include:
🌱 Slashed waste per person by 31%
🔄 Boosted reuse &amp; repair by 160%
🚯 Diverted 99% of waste from landfill
📦 Started recycling polystyrene

#WorldEnvironmentDay 🌍 rdg.ac/4kDug0A
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Congratulations to Reading PhD student, Fatima Pillosu from @UniRdg_Water who, alongside fellow ECMWF scientist Tim Hewson, has received the Royal Meteorological Society’s prestigious Hugh Robert Mill Award for Precipitation Research. Royal Meteorological Society Full story rdg.ac/3ZLiicT

Congratulations to Reading PhD student, <a href="/PillosuFatima/">Fatima Pillosu</a> from @UniRdg_Water who, alongside fellow <a href="/ECMWF/">ECMWF</a> scientist Tim Hewson, has received the Royal Meteorological Society’s  prestigious Hugh Robert Mill Award for Precipitation Research. <a href="/RMetS/">Royal Meteorological Society</a>

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To everyone in our Reading family and our wider community - colleagues, students, graduates, and everyone celebrating Eid al-Adha around the world, we wish you a very happy Eid.

To everyone in our Reading family and our wider community - colleagues, students, graduates, and everyone celebrating Eid al-Adha around the world, we wish you a very happy Eid.
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Is ozone heating the planet more than we realised? New research from Reading Meteorology reveals that ozone levels maybe weakening one of the Earth’s most important cooling systems, the ocean. Read up: rdg.ac/4mPOJ3O

Is ozone heating the planet more than we realised?

New research from <a href="/UniRdg_Met/">Reading Meteorology</a> reveals that ozone levels maybe weakening one of the Earth’s most important cooling systems, the ocean.

Read up: rdg.ac/4mPOJ3O
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At Uni of Reading we’re not just researching the planet’s biggest environmental challenges, we’re preparing our students to solve them alongside world-leading scientists. Discover our Geography and Environmental Science programmes now: rdg.ac/41JSu1e #WorldOceanDay

At <a href="/UniofReading/">Uni of Reading</a> we’re not just researching the planet’s biggest environmental challenges, we’re preparing our students to solve them alongside world-leading scientists.

Discover our Geography and Environmental Science programmes now: rdg.ac/41JSu1e

#WorldOceanDay
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Congratulations to Mary Melindji (BSc Quantity Surveying) & Rusul Ramdhan (BSc Architectural Engineering) who've reached the final of the Women in Property National Student Awards, which recognise the best Built Environment degree students in the UK 🏆 👉 rdg.ac/3HwbHwS

Congratulations to Mary Melindji (BSc Quantity Surveying) &amp; Rusul Ramdhan (BSc Architectural Engineering) who've reached the final of the Women in Property National Student Awards, which recognise the best Built Environment degree students in the UK 🏆

👉 rdg.ac/3HwbHwS
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What a wonderful day Year 7 spent at the Uni of Reading 🎓 Learning about University life and all of the opportunities available in the future🌟 #Aspiration #WorkHardBeKind Greenshaw Learning Trust

What a wonderful day Year 7 spent at the <a href="/UniofReading/">Uni of Reading</a> 🎓 Learning about University life and all of the opportunities available in the future🌟 #Aspiration #WorkHardBeKind <a href="/GreenshawTrust/">Greenshaw Learning Trust</a>
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A new UK probiotics guide cuts through the brand and marketing noise. Uni of Reading have helped develop a new guide, so doctors and patients can choose supplements backed by science, not by branding. Find out more: rdg.ac/3ZohgUj #UKProbiotics

A new UK probiotics guide cuts through the brand and marketing noise.

<a href="/UniofReading/">Uni of Reading</a> have helped develop a new guide, so doctors and patients can choose supplements backed by science, not by branding.  

Find out more: rdg.ac/3ZohgUj

#UKProbiotics
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Astratus Limited, a healthcare technology spin-out from research conducted at @uniofreading, has developed a rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing platform that could transform the £3.6 billion global antibiotic susceptibility testing market. Read: rdg.ac/3HBZw1F

Astratus Limited, a healthcare technology spin-out from research conducted at @uniofreading, has developed a rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing platform that could transform the £3.6 billion global antibiotic susceptibility testing market. 

Read: rdg.ac/3HBZw1F
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16 Years ago today : 10th June 2009 The University of Reading Student Union won the silver "Sound Environmental Impact Award 2008/09" for being the first university in the country to introduce a recycling vending machine. I installed this machine at University of Reading in

16 Years ago today : 10th June 2009
The University of Reading Student Union won the silver "Sound Environmental Impact Award 2008/09" for being the first university in the country to introduce a recycling vending machine.

I installed this machine at University of Reading in