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Join us at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2025!

📅 1–6 July 2025

📍 The Royal Society – 6–9 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AG

🧪 Our stand is in the Wellcome Trust Lecture Hall

#PhycoFutures @royalsociety.org

Day 4 ending on #phycologyfriday with more sample ID, and lectures on green algae cladophorales, coralline algae and maerl!

Day 3 included great talks on brown algae and red algae by Dr Juliet Brodie, and a trip to the marina to collect a variety of other samples! And ending with a lovely group BBQ!

Day 2 involved sorting through our field samples, a trip out into the sound to look at Kelp forests with an ROV, and lectures on non-natives! (And a little nosey at some mangroves!)

Day 1 was an introduction to seaweeds, pressing seaweeds and a trip to Renney rocks to collect some samples!

Homebound after an amazing few days in Plymouth on the Seaweed ID course ran by @bps-algae.bsky.social and @plymouthuniccc.bsky.social. Ending #phycologyfriday on a very high note!

Last chance to submit your algae photos to the Hilda Canter-Lund Photography competition 📸 Entries close today !!

The competition is open to all and free to enter with a prize of £250! Enter here: brphycsoc.org/hilda-canter...

Featuring a 2022 winner “Frozen bubbles“ by Lucie Novovesk

Don’t forget to submit your algae photos to the Hilda Canter-Lund Photography competition before the 9th of May 📸

The competition is free to enter with a prize of £250! Enter here: brphycsoc.org/hilda-canter...

Post featuring previous winner of the 2024 macro category - Audrey Sarin “Cathedral”

Submissions are now open for the 2025 Hilda Canter-Lund photography award 📸

The award is open to everyone ! Submit your phycological photos by the 9th May for the chance to win £250 🌱

Image featuring one of the 2024 winners, Welcome to funky town by Michaela Hittorf

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Award ceremony at #BPS25 dinner at The Deep with BPS President Saul Purton announcing the Irene Manton Prizes for best talk going to Hannah Thomas of Uni Reading, and best poster to Priyadharshini Elanchezhian of SAMS.

First morning of #BPS25, the 73rd winter meeting of the British Phycological Society at Hull.

Hello Bluesky ! We are the British Phycological Society (BPS) 🌱🔬
A charity devoted to the study of algae, founded in 1952.

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