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Dr M Goes Wild
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FISC level 6 field botanist, teacher and advocate for all things and people botanical! Aka Jonathan Mitchley!
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Like Australia. It's all about bums on seats. There's already a short fall of graduates - plant science majors walk straight into jobs
November 10, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Links to petitions for the suspended courses in Biosciences, University of Nottingham:

Plant Biology c.org/d8PQr9Rd9Z
Food Science & Nutrition c.org/Tp7gQBgYwD
Agriculture c.org/CDkdk95LxZ
Microbiology c.org/YXLh57RZyy
November 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Latest issue newsletter of Botanical University Challenge now on our website. Read all about the incredibly tense 2025 competition semi-finals and final.Then relax with the student Botany Festival. The Vegetable Orchestra. Workshops. Garden visits.

botanicaluniversitychallenge.co.uk/the-thymes/
Masthead of newsletter of Botanical University Challenge.
October 30, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🧪🌳🐝The amazing team names are a feature of Botanical University Challenge. Where do they come from? Team Pain in the Grass from University of Portsmouth explain in latest issue newsletter The Thymes. #BUC2026 botanicaluniversitychallenge.co.uk/the-thymes/
Team slides of Plantastic Five and Pain in the Grass, from Botanical University Challenge 2025.
November 3, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🧪🌳🐝What was the Third Student Botany Festival like? See the highlights video on our YouTube channel!

Lively, informative, scientific, FUN!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmfO...

#BUC2025 #plants #loveplants
November 8, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🌳🌿🐝What do students who participated in Botanical University Challenge think of it? And, if you are a university student in the UK or Ireland keen on plants, why should you participate in BUC2026?

Listen to their own words on YouTube!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8vX...
Word cloud. Words fun, inspiring, knowledge, learning, networking, community are major words.
November 7, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🧪🌳🐝🌿🌳🍅🍞🥦Botanical University Challenge to inspire the next generation of botanists.

University of Nottingham, UK, plans to close Plant Biology for new students from autumn 2026. Current students want to know more. Read more here:

www.change.org/p/reconsider...
screen grab of petition about closing Plant Biology at University of Nottingham UK. Picture of university buildings.
November 10, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Appalling
bucbotany.bsky.social Botanical University Challenge @bucbotany.bsky.social · 7d
🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🧪🌳🐝🌿🌳🍅🍞🥦Botanical University Challenge to inspire the next generation of botanists.

University of Nottingham, UK, plans to close Plant Biology for new students from autumn 2026. Current students want to know more. Read more here:

www.change.org/p/reconsider...
screen grab of petition about closing Plant Biology at University of Nottingham UK. Picture of university buildings.
November 10, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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This is exactly what the country needs in the upcoming decades as climate change really starts to decimate agriculture worldwide, fewer experts on plants. We are in the age of stupidity.
bucbotany.bsky.social Botanical University Challenge @bucbotany.bsky.social · 7d
🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🧪🌳🐝🌿🌳🍅🍞🥦Botanical University Challenge to inspire the next generation of botanists.

University of Nottingham, UK, plans to close Plant Biology for new students from autumn 2026. Current students want to know more. Read more here:

www.change.org/p/reconsider...
screen grab of petition about closing Plant Biology at University of Nottingham UK. Picture of university buildings.
November 10, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Really stupid decision.
bucbotany.bsky.social Botanical University Challenge @bucbotany.bsky.social · 7d
🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🧪🌳🐝🌿🌳🍅🍞🥦Botanical University Challenge to inspire the next generation of botanists.

University of Nottingham, UK, plans to close Plant Biology for new students from autumn 2026. Current students want to know more. Read more here:

www.change.org/p/reconsider...
screen grab of petition about closing Plant Biology at University of Nottingham UK. Picture of university buildings.
November 10, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Botanical University Challenge #BUC2026 is starting! For teams of degree students at UK and Irish univerities or Botanical institutions. Team from University of Nottingham already signed up! First rounds February 2026. @suzieoftraken.bsky.social @herbarium.bsky.social @drmgoeswild.bsky.social
Building with a tower among trees, beyond a lake on a sunny day.
October 30, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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🌱🌾🌺🌷🌿🌍🪳 Result of team name competition announced at Botanical University Challenge 2025. Winner was Team 'Plantastic Five', University College Dublin. Runner-up Team 'Pain in the Grass', University of Portsmouth. All teams think of such great names! @drmgoeswild.bsky.social
Two young women from Team Plantastic Five, University College Dublin, and Team Pain in the Grass, University of Portsmouth. Team slides, QR code for video of event on YouTube.
September 30, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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🌱🌾🌺🌷🌿🌍🪳 Student Amy Beach, studying Plant and Soil Science at University of Aberdeen - and in team winning Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025 - on what got her into Botany. Influence of father, gardening and being around nature. @drmgoeswild.bsky.social
September 28, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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🌱🌾🌍🌏🌎🌳🌿🌲 What better way to explore a glasshouse full of exotic plants than with one of its curators? Part of workshop at Third Student Botany Festival 2025 in Cambridge University Botanic Garden @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social @drmgoeswild.bsky.social #BUC2025
Glass house full of plants and people looking at them. Photo by Laura Bennetto/BUC.
September 21, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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🌱🌾🌺🏵️🌳🌿🌏 Amazing number of enthusiastic students keen on #botany at Third Student Botany Festival; 94 from UK and Ireland. Thinking about #careerswithplants & here listening to @cieem.bsky.social @bsbicountries.bsky.social @spun.earth @drmgoeswild.bsky.social #BUC2025
Lecture theatre with audience. Photo Laura Bennetto.
September 17, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🧪🌳🐝 What was the result of Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025? 31 teams from UK and Ireland entered. Final overall winner was amazing team from University of Aberdeen who led in almost all the rounds. Runner-up was University of Plymouth team, so close behind.
Final outcome of Botanical University Challenge 2025. Logos of the 31 universities & institutions that entered teams. Background picture of part of Cambridge University Botanic Garden where the semifinals and final were held. Four semifinalists were Universities of Aberdeen, Reading, Plymouth and Eden Project University Centre. Overall winner was team from University of Aberdeen with team from University of Plymouth close runner up. Also logos of our Gold-level sponsor, Gatsby Foundation and Silver-level sponsors New Phytologist Foundation, The Company of Biologists, University of Cambridge & Cambridge University Botanic Garden. Also grateful to our many Bronze-level sponsors and many others who supported the competition and 3rd Student Botany Festival that followed with their help-in-kind, knowledge and assistance.
August 24, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄 #BUC2025 Final contest for 2025 champions in Botanical University Challenge coming up soon - 20 August! Who will ask the questions? Who will win? Streamed YouTube www.youtube.com/@BotanicalUn... All earlier rounds there already!
August 12, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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🌱🌲🌻🌾🌿🧪 #BUC2025 Botanical University Challenge 2025. See more about the 4 amazing teams in the semifinal - Reading, Aberdeen, Eden Project University Centre, Plymouth - and what they are studying. Which one will be the overall winner? Watch YouTube from 13:30 BST Weds 20 August.
August 13, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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A really fun way to get involved with plant science! Good luck to all the finalists, we will see you there!
bucbotany.bsky.social Botanical University Challenge @bucbotany.bsky.social · Aug 13
🌱🌲🌻🌾🌿🧪 #BUC2025 Botanical University Challenge 2025. See more about the 4 amazing teams in the semifinal - Reading, Aberdeen, Eden Project University Centre, Plymouth - and what they are studying. Which one will be the overall winner? Watch YouTube from 13:30 BST Weds 20 August.
August 13, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🌿31 teams entered Botanical University Challenge 2025 - and 4 are left for the semifinal on 20 August. Get ready to discover which is the final winner!
Map UK and Ireland with locations where 31 teams come from. Crests of institutions of the teams - and of the 4 in the final. Dates of the final starting 13:30 BST Wednesday 20 August Streamed YouTube @BotanicalUniversityChallenge
August 14, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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🌱🌾🌍🧪🍄🌺🥕Something different to do with vegetables; instead of a meal, make musical instruments! Activity at the 3rd Student Botany Festival in Cambridge University Botanic Garden 20 August. @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social
botanyjohninaber.bsky.social John Warren @botanyjohninaber.bsky.social · Aug 14
A week to @bucbotany.bsky.social and practicing for the plant based orchestra
August 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025, supported by many organisations to bring this contest together. We are also grateful to the many individuals who have generously given their time and expertise. @slcuplants.bsky.social @newphyt.bsky.social @biologists.bsky.social
List of all financial support and help in kind given to Botanical University Challenge 2025. Includes Gold level Gatsby; Silver level University of Cambridge, New Phytologist Foundation and The Company of Biologists; Bronze level Botanical Society of Scotland Ecology Co-op Private donor Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh SLR Consulting The Botanist Foundation The Wild Flower Society University of Bristol University of Cambridge, Plant Sciences University of Reading, Biological Sciences University of York Other funding and support; BSBI Castle Hill Ecology Crop Sciences Centre University Cambridge Durham University Edgehill University Field Studies Council Trinity College Dublin University College Dublin University of Aberdeen University of Leeds University of Plymouth Also many individual people who have generously given their time and expertise to this wonderful event.
August 15, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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🌱🌾🌍🧪🌿🍄🌺🐝 Botanical University Challenge semifinal & final #BUC2025 includes The Wall, where teams put 16 plant names into 4 groups, with reason for each. Try one at puzzgrid.com/grid/98717 See University of York team doing it in 2024. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrNw...
BUC2024 York Wall Smashing
YouTube video by Botanical University Challenge
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August 16, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🐝Remember 13:30 BST Wednesday 20 August - the semifinal and final of Botanical University Challenge 2025 start! Teams of students from Universities of Aberdeen, Reading. Plymouth and the Eden Project University Centre. Streamed live on YouTube!! #BUC2025
August 18, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🌿🧪🐝 Final Botanical University Challenge 2025 this Wednesday 20 August, starting live-stream 13:30 BST from @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social 4 teams - Unis Aberdeen, Reading, Plymouth & Eden Project University Centre. Which will win??
Pictures Cambridge University Botanic Garden. Botanical University Challenge streamed live from 13:30 BST Wednesday 20 August. QR code for livestream, see YouTube @BotanicalUniversityChallenge
August 18, 2025 at 11:35 AM