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1. Policy updates

   Updates to policies

2. The Forgotten Athletes: Jockeys' Health reinvented

   Jockey-turned-academic helps 400 riders with diet and performance

3. Macaque communication signals studied

   Experts in primate behaviour develop online resource to improve welfare

4. Fancy a Pint of Science?

   Academics and postgraduate students from across LJMU are set to share their research as part of the Pint of Science festival.

5. Long service awards

   The university has updated the Long Service Awards scheme to include celebration of reaching additional key milestones at 25, 35, 45 and 50+ years’ service.

6. A potential new threat to bumblebees identified by researchers

   Parasitic worm sold to gardeners causes rapid death in bumble bees

7. Tyrannosaurus or Hadrosaur: How well can AI identify dinosaur footprints?

   Artificial intelligence comes out on top in machine v human challenge to identify fossil dinosaur tracks

8. National Eye Health Week 18 - 24 September

   We are promoting the importance of good eye health, sharing important eye care advice to encourage adopting healthy habits and highlighting the need for regular eye tests.

9. The ‘Green Hell’ of our ancestors

   Tropical rainforests were once thought unliveable but scientists, including Liverpool John Moores University’s Professor Chris Hunt, are showing that our human ancestors lived in these conditions, and in fact the forests themselves are long-term documents of human action.

10. Improving animal welfare

    Happy Hamsters: Examining the effect of emotions on cognitive processes in pets