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· Apr 25
We are pleased to announce that #ChatBiologyLive has partnered with @thesciencehub.bsky.social as part of their Secondary Science Festival with Physics Partners 🎉
New date: Tues 8th July
Tickets and more info here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/secondary-...
New date: Tues 8th July
Tickets and more info here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/secondary-...
It is @greencareersweek.bsky.social 💚
Check out our post full of useful links and an environmental careers story from @head-in-the-clouds.bsky.social
Did you have a #GreenJob before teaching? How are you celebrating this week? Let us know below!
#GCW2025 #GreenCareers #GreenSkills
Check out our post full of useful links and an environmental careers story from @head-in-the-clouds.bsky.social
Did you have a #GreenJob before teaching? How are you celebrating this week? Let us know below!
#GCW2025 #GreenCareers #GreenSkills
Green Careers Week
From Biology Field Trip to a Green Career When I was at school, my original plan was to study Accountancy. It seemed sensible and a financially secure career path. Then came my A-level Biology field trip. It was one of those rare weeks of blistering sunshine on the coast of Wales, and I loved every minute of it. Being outdoors, surrounded by nature, collecting data with the sea breeze in my hair (I had more hair back then) — I was completely in my element.
chatbiology.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:01 PM
It is @greencareersweek.bsky.social 💚
Check out our post full of useful links and an environmental careers story from @head-in-the-clouds.bsky.social
Did you have a #GreenJob before teaching? How are you celebrating this week? Let us know below!
#GCW2025 #GreenCareers #GreenSkills
Check out our post full of useful links and an environmental careers story from @head-in-the-clouds.bsky.social
Did you have a #GreenJob before teaching? How are you celebrating this week? Let us know below!
#GCW2025 #GreenCareers #GreenSkills
Don't forget if you are getting pumpkins to carve this half term why not make one biology themed so you can enter our competition! 🎃🏆
October half term is here which means its time for this years #ChatBioPumpkinCarvingComp! 🎃
Click the link to see this years entry categories and check out pics of last years entries for inspo!
Submission form link and deadline to be shared shortly - let us know your ideas! #ChatBiology
Click the link to see this years entry categories and check out pics of last years entries for inspo!
Submission form link and deadline to be shared shortly - let us know your ideas! #ChatBiology
Back by Popular Demand: #ChatBioPumpkinCarvingComp!
Spooky season is officially upon us, and it's time to get ready to put the BOO in BOOtany, the AHH in AHHnerobic, and the FRIGHT in FRIGHTochondria. For the second year running, we're pleased to announce our Chat Biology pumpkin carving contest! Let's get those creative juices flowing this half-term and carve a pumpkin with a biological twist. Enter yourself, a class effort, or share with your students (maybe even as a half-term challenge!) and submit their entries - just like last year, there will be a vote for the winning entry and a small prize for the winner!
chatbiology.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Don't forget if you are getting pumpkins to carve this half term why not make one biology themed so you can enter our competition! 🎃🏆
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October half term is here which means its time for this years #ChatBioPumpkinCarvingComp! 🎃
Click the link to see this years entry categories and check out pics of last years entries for inspo!
Submission form link and deadline to be shared shortly - let us know your ideas! #ChatBiology
Click the link to see this years entry categories and check out pics of last years entries for inspo!
Submission form link and deadline to be shared shortly - let us know your ideas! #ChatBiology
Back by Popular Demand: #ChatBioPumpkinCarvingComp!
Spooky season is officially upon us, and it's time to get ready to put the BOO in BOOtany, the AHH in AHHnerobic, and the FRIGHT in FRIGHTochondria. For the second year running, we're pleased to announce our Chat Biology pumpkin carving contest! Let's get those creative juices flowing this half-term and carve a pumpkin with a biological twist. Enter yourself, a class effort, or share with your students (maybe even as a half-term challenge!) and submit their entries - just like last year, there will be a vote for the winning entry and a small prize for the winner!
chatbiology.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM
October half term is here which means its time for this years #ChatBioPumpkinCarvingComp! 🎃
Click the link to see this years entry categories and check out pics of last years entries for inspo!
Submission form link and deadline to be shared shortly - let us know your ideas! #ChatBiology
Click the link to see this years entry categories and check out pics of last years entries for inspo!
Submission form link and deadline to be shared shortly - let us know your ideas! #ChatBiology
October half term is here which means its time for this years #ChatBioPumpkinCarvingComp! 🎃
Click the link to see this years entry categories and check out pics of last years entries for inspo!
Submission form link and deadline to be shared shortly - let us know your ideas! #ChatBiology
Click the link to see this years entry categories and check out pics of last years entries for inspo!
Submission form link and deadline to be shared shortly - let us know your ideas! #ChatBiology
Back by Popular Demand: #ChatBioPumpkinCarvingComp!
Spooky season is officially upon us, and it's time to get ready to put the BOO in BOOtany, the AHH in AHHnerobic, and the FRIGHT in FRIGHTochondria. For the second year running, we're pleased to announce our Chat Biology pumpkin carving contest! Let's get those creative juices flowing this half-term and carve a pumpkin with a biological twist. Enter yourself, a class effort, or share with your students (maybe even as a half-term challenge!) and submit their entries - just like last year, there will be a vote for the winning entry and a small prize for the winner!
chatbiology.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM
October half term is here which means its time for this years #ChatBioPumpkinCarvingComp! 🎃
Click the link to see this years entry categories and check out pics of last years entries for inspo!
Submission form link and deadline to be shared shortly - let us know your ideas! #ChatBiology
Click the link to see this years entry categories and check out pics of last years entries for inspo!
Submission form link and deadline to be shared shortly - let us know your ideas! #ChatBiology
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This week we have the tiebreakers for the Biology Week Spelling Bee sponsored by @rsb.org.uk
There have been loads of phenomenal scores from across the UK! It’s definitely the high mean score since the competition started!
#Biolobee @chatbiology.bsky.social
There have been loads of phenomenal scores from across the UK! It’s definitely the high mean score since the competition started!
#Biolobee @chatbiology.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 1:05 PM
This week we have the tiebreakers for the Biology Week Spelling Bee sponsored by @rsb.org.uk
There have been loads of phenomenal scores from across the UK! It’s definitely the high mean score since the competition started!
#Biolobee @chatbiology.bsky.social
There have been loads of phenomenal scores from across the UK! It’s definitely the high mean score since the competition started!
#Biolobee @chatbiology.bsky.social
Happy #ChatBiology day! @head-in-the-clouds.bsky.social is looking forward to #BiologyWeek and the final of the #Biolobee 2025 🐝
Have you tried any activities to help students learn vocabulary? And, if you are taking part, how are your Spelling Bee's going?
Share and comment below #SciTeachUK
Have you tried any activities to help students learn vocabulary? And, if you are taking part, how are your Spelling Bee's going?
Share and comment below #SciTeachUK
Biology Week 2025: Words, Spelling, and a Little Fun
So, only four more sleeps … Biology Week is fast approaching, and the finale for participants of the Royal Society of Biology-funded National Spelling Bee for 2025 is upon us! At a first glance at the competition words the pupils needed to learn, it seemed nothing had changed from last year — until my eyes landed on Endozoochory. That’s ENDOZOOCHORY.
chatbiology.com
October 7, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Happy #ChatBiology day! @head-in-the-clouds.bsky.social is looking forward to #BiologyWeek and the final of the #Biolobee 2025 🐝
Have you tried any activities to help students learn vocabulary? And, if you are taking part, how are your Spelling Bee's going?
Share and comment below #SciTeachUK
Have you tried any activities to help students learn vocabulary? And, if you are taking part, how are your Spelling Bee's going?
Share and comment below #SciTeachUK
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It was great meeting so many like-minded educators at #ChatBiologyLive a great buzz about the place and I certainly felt reinvigorated and reminded why we do what we do. Cannot wait until next year’s offering! #ChatBiology
September 30, 2025 at 7:25 PM
It was great meeting so many like-minded educators at #ChatBiologyLive a great buzz about the place and I certainly felt reinvigorated and reminded why we do what we do. Cannot wait until next year’s offering! #ChatBiology
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WOW! Another gem of an article here:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
@chatbiology.bsky.social #ChatBiology
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
@chatbiology.bsky.social #ChatBiology
Human skin DNA fertilised to make embryo for first time
US scientists testing the technique say it could help people overcome infertility and potentially allow same-sex couples to have a genetically related child.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 30, 2025 at 7:59 PM
WOW! Another gem of an article here:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
@chatbiology.bsky.social #ChatBiology
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
@chatbiology.bsky.social #ChatBiology
We are back for 2026! 🎉
Some updates from us about our new format and a look back at Chat Biology Live 2025 💚
If you joined us what were your favourite takeaways from the day? Share and comment below
Some updates from us about our new format and a look back at Chat Biology Live 2025 💚
If you joined us what were your favourite takeaways from the day? Share and comment below
Chat Biology Returns!
We are back for 2026 with a slightly new format - we will be sharing our posts on here, as well as on our social channels, for people to join in our usual chats. Sign up here to receive our posts in your inbox and follow our socials to join in the discussions. A Quick Recap - Chat Biology Live July 2025 (and 2026...
chatbiology.com
September 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
We are back for 2026! 🎉
Some updates from us about our new format and a look back at Chat Biology Live 2025 💚
If you joined us what were your favourite takeaways from the day? Share and comment below
Some updates from us about our new format and a look back at Chat Biology Live 2025 💚
If you joined us what were your favourite takeaways from the day? Share and comment below
🚨Just a week to go until #ChatBiologyLive at @thesciencehub.bsky.social festival with Physics Partners and @RSC.org will be there too along with our amazing exhibitors!
Still time to get tickets and a free copy of @cmooreanderson.bsky.social book!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/secondary-...
#SciTeachUK
Still time to get tickets and a free copy of @cmooreanderson.bsky.social book!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/secondary-...
#SciTeachUK
July 1, 2025 at 7:31 PM
🚨Just a week to go until #ChatBiologyLive at @thesciencehub.bsky.social festival with Physics Partners and @RSC.org will be there too along with our amazing exhibitors!
Still time to get tickets and a free copy of @cmooreanderson.bsky.social book!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/secondary-...
#SciTeachUK
Still time to get tickets and a free copy of @cmooreanderson.bsky.social book!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/secondary-...
#SciTeachUK
Thanks for your input tonight, please keep sharing!
Excitingly, it's only 2 wks until our first ever #ChatBiologyLive as part of the @thesciencehub.bsky.social Secondary Science Festival 📣
So many great sessions and an opportunity to engage with our awesome exhibitors!
#SciTeachUK #iTeachBio🧬
Excitingly, it's only 2 wks until our first ever #ChatBiologyLive as part of the @thesciencehub.bsky.social Secondary Science Festival 📣
So many great sessions and an opportunity to engage with our awesome exhibitors!
#SciTeachUK #iTeachBio🧬
June 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Thanks for your input tonight, please keep sharing!
Excitingly, it's only 2 wks until our first ever #ChatBiologyLive as part of the @thesciencehub.bsky.social Secondary Science Festival 📣
So many great sessions and an opportunity to engage with our awesome exhibitors!
#SciTeachUK #iTeachBio🧬
Excitingly, it's only 2 wks until our first ever #ChatBiologyLive as part of the @thesciencehub.bsky.social Secondary Science Festival 📣
So many great sessions and an opportunity to engage with our awesome exhibitors!
#SciTeachUK #iTeachBio🧬
Just 2 questions for you tonight!
Q2 focuses more on transition 🌉
What are you sending your prospective biology students away with or suggesting they do over the summer?
#ChatBiology #SciTeachUK #iTeachBio 🧬
Q2 focuses more on transition 🌉
What are you sending your prospective biology students away with or suggesting they do over the summer?
#ChatBiology #SciTeachUK #iTeachBio 🧬
June 24, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Just 2 questions for you tonight!
Q2 focuses more on transition 🌉
What are you sending your prospective biology students away with or suggesting they do over the summer?
#ChatBiology #SciTeachUK #iTeachBio 🧬
Q2 focuses more on transition 🌉
What are you sending your prospective biology students away with or suggesting they do over the summer?
#ChatBiology #SciTeachUK #iTeachBio 🧬
It's that time of year again where we are all thinking about taster days and attracting those A level biology students 👥
So let's get a thread together of ideas and top tips for anyone who's doing it for the first time or people who want to try something new! 🔍
#ChatBiology #SciTeachUK #iTeachBio🧬
So let's get a thread together of ideas and top tips for anyone who's doing it for the first time or people who want to try something new! 🔍
#ChatBiology #SciTeachUK #iTeachBio🧬
June 24, 2025 at 7:30 PM
It's that time of year again where we are all thinking about taster days and attracting those A level biology students 👥
So let's get a thread together of ideas and top tips for anyone who's doing it for the first time or people who want to try something new! 🔍
#ChatBiology #SciTeachUK #iTeachBio🧬
So let's get a thread together of ideas and top tips for anyone who's doing it for the first time or people who want to try something new! 🔍
#ChatBiology #SciTeachUK #iTeachBio🧬
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What an amazingly insightful post! There are some great links to A-Level biology here @chatbiology.bsky.social @mrsjmasters.bsky.social @cmooreanderson.bsky.social @stemybanda.bsky.social
Since there is talk about bringing back ASBESTOS (this is somehow true), I thought it would be useful to describe just some what happens to you when you breath this stuff into your lungs.
In short, it’s terrible.
A 🧵
In short, it’s terrible.
A 🧵
June 21, 2025 at 8:42 PM
What an amazingly insightful post! There are some great links to A-Level biology here @chatbiology.bsky.social @mrsjmasters.bsky.social @cmooreanderson.bsky.social @stemybanda.bsky.social
If you enjoyed our eco chat on Tuesday why not book your ticket for #ChatBiologyLive on the 8th July as part of the @thesciencehub.bsky.social Secondary Science Festival in Bedford!
Speakers and exhibitors list here: share.google/l3I7BAzp9U85...
Speakers and exhibitors list here: share.google/l3I7BAzp9U85...
Thanks for all your contributions to the #chatbiology chat this evening. Next up we have a question @ministryofeco.bsky.social about encouraging our students to take meaningful climate action and we'd love to hear what has worked with your students or what you'd like to try:
June 19, 2025 at 5:58 PM
If you enjoyed our eco chat on Tuesday why not book your ticket for #ChatBiologyLive on the 8th July as part of the @thesciencehub.bsky.social Secondary Science Festival in Bedford!
Speakers and exhibitors list here: share.google/l3I7BAzp9U85...
Speakers and exhibitors list here: share.google/l3I7BAzp9U85...
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Overconsumption is out of control. Teaching kids in the classroom would be easier if it was in the curriculum but who's going to teach the parents? More importantly, who's going to stop the producers & make them pay?
Great opportunities for debate. Link to #SDG12.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Great opportunities for debate. Link to #SDG12.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Discarded clothes from UK brands dumped in protected Ghana wetlands
Garments thrown out by consumers from Next, George, M&S and others found in or near conservation areas
www.theguardian.com
June 18, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Overconsumption is out of control. Teaching kids in the classroom would be easier if it was in the curriculum but who's going to teach the parents? More importantly, who's going to stop the producers & make them pay?
Great opportunities for debate. Link to #SDG12.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Great opportunities for debate. Link to #SDG12.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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And kids love this game, made by young people, for young people:
PokokEd: www.sustainablepalmoilchoice.eu/pokoked-palm...
PokokEd: www.sustainablepalmoilchoice.eu/pokoked-palm...
Pokok-Ed - a game to chart the future of the palm oil revolution - Sustainable Palm Oil Choice
Pokok-Ed is an educational online game that lets players understand the viewpoint of oil palm smallholders.
www.sustainablepalmoilchoice.eu
June 18, 2025 at 8:40 AM
And kids love this game, made by young people, for young people:
PokokEd: www.sustainablepalmoilchoice.eu/pokoked-palm...
PokokEd: www.sustainablepalmoilchoice.eu/pokoked-palm...
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@chesterzoo has some excellent teaching resources for all ages on the issue of sustainable palm oil: www.chesterzoo.org/learning-res...
Choose #Sustainable #PalmOil and Save #Orangutans!
@LearnatCZ
Choose #Sustainable #PalmOil and Save #Orangutans!
@LearnatCZ
Learning resources | Chester Zoo
www.chesterzoo.org
June 18, 2025 at 8:39 AM
@chesterzoo has some excellent teaching resources for all ages on the issue of sustainable palm oil: www.chesterzoo.org/learning-res...
Choose #Sustainable #PalmOil and Save #Orangutans!
@LearnatCZ
Choose #Sustainable #PalmOil and Save #Orangutans!
@LearnatCZ
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Having the Sustainable Development Goals on display in the classroom and giving pupils the opportunity to read news articles and reports and then discuss which SDG’s are relevant (a colleague with Y5 - they were SO on it!)
June 17, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Having the Sustainable Development Goals on display in the classroom and giving pupils the opportunity to read news articles and reports and then discuss which SDG’s are relevant (a colleague with Y5 - they were SO on it!)
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I was using the #SDGs at an event today, always a great conversation starter. Fantastic to hear your display is still being put to good use 🤗
#chatbiology
#chatbiology
June 17, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I was using the #SDGs at an event today, always a great conversation starter. Fantastic to hear your display is still being put to good use 🤗
#chatbiology
#chatbiology
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Listen… hear what they’re excited or concerned about & work out how to turn anxiety into activism, show that adults have to feel their way too. ‘How you can save the planet’ is an inspiring handbook to share with them.
June 17, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Listen… hear what they’re excited or concerned about & work out how to turn anxiety into activism, show that adults have to feel their way too. ‘How you can save the planet’ is an inspiring handbook to share with them.
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Weekly conservation activity, morning mile, gardening, visiting experts, a magnifying post for examining treasures, visible Eco board with eye catching & inspiring displays, updates in the newsletter home, using the smoothie bike to reward keen greens, (plus Eco-Day, ForeverFashion / Trashion Show)
June 17, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Weekly conservation activity, morning mile, gardening, visiting experts, a magnifying post for examining treasures, visible Eco board with eye catching & inspiring displays, updates in the newsletter home, using the smoothie bike to reward keen greens, (plus Eco-Day, ForeverFashion / Trashion Show)
Thank you so much for every single contribution this evening. Please do go and check out all of the fantastic resources that @ministryofeco.bsky.social have to inspire you and your students and do carry on sharing ideas on the posts as we'll be keeping an eye on them over the coming week!
June 17, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Thank you so much for every single contribution this evening. Please do go and check out all of the fantastic resources that @ministryofeco.bsky.social have to inspire you and your students and do carry on sharing ideas on the posts as we'll be keeping an eye on them over the coming week!
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Kick sampling the local steam for the river trust 🏞️💚
June 17, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Kick sampling the local steam for the river trust 🏞️💚
Now for our third and final question from our #chatbiology chat this evening and it's a good one!
We'd love you to share creative ways to integrate environmental awareness in our every day school lives- this can be anything from assemblies to eco days- share your ideas below:
We'd love you to share creative ways to integrate environmental awareness in our every day school lives- this can be anything from assemblies to eco days- share your ideas below:
June 17, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Now for our third and final question from our #chatbiology chat this evening and it's a good one!
We'd love you to share creative ways to integrate environmental awareness in our every day school lives- this can be anything from assemblies to eco days- share your ideas below:
We'd love you to share creative ways to integrate environmental awareness in our every day school lives- this can be anything from assemblies to eco days- share your ideas below: