Bangor Uni Sciences

When the dam broke: the 1925 disaster that reshaped a Welsh community and a country’s safety laws A century after a dam burst in Dolgarrog, killing 16 people, the Welsh village still lives with the legacy that reshaped UK safety laws and its own identity.

Geography academics at @bangoruniversity.bsky.social consider the legacy of a dam collapse. The 1925 disaster that reshaped a Welsh community and a country’s safety laws theconversation.com/when-the-dam...

In Our Time - Bird Migration - BBC Sounds Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how birds navigate and the risks and benefits of migration

This Thursday 9am #BBCRadio4 Melvyn Bragg talks to @bangoruniversity.bsky.social Prof Richard Holland about bird migration www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Are we the only University offering BSc Zoology with Ornithology? 🥰 www.bangor.ac.uk/courses/unde...

Hippos still roamed Europe during the last ice age DNA found in fossils from southwestern Germany suggests the populations survived in the region much longer than expected.

Hippos roamed Europe during the last ice age! New paper from @bangoruniversity.bsky.social scientists www.nature.com/articles/d41... #hippos

Image depicting an advert for a new Masters Programme, hands around a globe of animals and plants

Applications are OPEN! Incredible opportunity to study in 3 different univesities over 2 years #scholarships #erasmus #BangorUni www.bangor.ac.uk/courses/post... Please share!

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A group of Bangor University staff and students on a fieldtrip in a forest

Bangor University is Ranked *FIRST IN UK* for Agriculture and Forestry by @thetimes.com 2026 League table of Universities!
Feeling proud 🫡 #TimesUniversityLeague @forestryjfr.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social @royalforestrysoc.bsky.social #NorthWales

A graphic shows the spread of mentions in UCAS forms of celebrated Naturalists. Applications were all to Bangor University in Wales

The person who inspired me to study Natural Sciences. Yet again, the top 2 mentioned in applications are David Attenborough and Steve Backshall. Also placed @janegoodallcan.bsky.social @chrisgpackham.bsky.social, Megan Mccubbin @hamzayassin.bsky.social @thunberggreta.bsky.social Great work everyone!

Results better or worse than predicted?
Changed your mind about where to study?
Clearing is for YOU!
Call today, tomorrow or next week.
www.bangor.ac.uk/clearing Study and live in beautiful North Wales and focus on what you love 🏕️🚵‍♂️ #clearing #ucas #results #alevelresults

Results better or worse than predicted?
Changed your mind about where to study?
Clearing is for YOU!
Call today, tomorrow or next week.
www.bangor.ac.uk/clearing Study and live in beautiful North Wales, a place to clear your mind and focus on what you love 🦁 #clearing #ucas #results #alevelresults

How brilliant to be part of this £38million 100-year programme to help reintroduce lost rainforests of the Britain with Wildlife Trust. Thanks @avivaplc.bsky.social
& @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social @buforestry.bsky.social
@bangoruniversity.bsky.social bangor.ac.uk/news/2025-07... (📸Ben Porter)

Remembering a stalwart of the Bangor Bird Group. Enid Griffith supported the @northwaleswt.bsky.social @rspbcymru.bsky.social, Cambrian Ornithological Society, Alpine Garden Society & the @nationaltrust.org.uk. She supported @treborthbg.bsky.social & attended bird group lectures well into her 90s. 🫡

New Queen* in the hive today! A result of supercedure whereby bees select a new queen without swarming. Our Conservation MSc students get to learn about beekeeping and this is the first time we've seen this on a field visit.(*with dot) 👑👩‍🎓 @paulcross.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social

Boost for woodlands as research to tackle plant pests & diseases Key research to combat ongoing pest and disease outbreaks and emerging threats to protect our trees

A piece of research on forests led by
@woodecology.bsky.social and staff @bangoruniversity.bsky.social has been given funding by UK government #defra. When you study at Bangor you are learning from people making a difference! www.gov.uk/government/n...

Burnet Rose (Rosa pimpinellifolia)

Dune Pansy (Viola tricolor subsp. curtisii)

Sand Soft-brome (Bromus hordeaceus subsp. thominei) and Sand Cat's-tail (Phleum arenarium) on right

Fabulous final day of fieldwork for MSc Conservation & Land Management students, assessing changes in dune vegetation communities at Aberffraw. Lots of wonderful plants, some swimming, and a bit of a grass-fest @paulcross.bsky.social @bangoruniscience.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social

A photo of Sir David Attenborough outside Bangor University wearing graduatuon robes

Today is the 99th (!) birthday of one of the world's greatest naturalists and one of Bangor University’s most famous honorary graduates- Sir David Attenborough! If Sir David has inspired your interest in the wonders of the natural world, show your support #SirDavidAttenborough or apply to join us! 😉

Bracken control, the field trials, with @paulcross.bsky.social

Great fun having MSc Conservation and Land Management students visiting our meadow today, learning all about vegetation surveying and invertebrate sampling. Star finds were Gooden’s Nomad Bee & Thistle Tortoise Beetle @paulcross.bsky.social @bangoruniscience.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social

Our postgraduate #Conservation students have completed a grand trip out, not bad eh? Join us! @bangoruniversity.bsky.social @studyinwales.bsky.social
bangor.ac.uk/study/postgr... @paulcross.bsky.social @juliajones.bsky.social (thanks Dr Freya St John for vid)

The botanic garden @bangoruniversity.bsky.social is a place of positivity and joy. Let curator Nat show you round and introduce this year's #nomowmay @treborthbg.bsky.social

Our @bangoruniversity.bsky.social 'MSc Conservation and Land Management' students are on a week's field course. You can't leave them alone for a second! 🤹😂 #learningthroughplay Join us and @paulcross.bsky.social! bangor.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Wood is a key low-carbon alternative to steel, concrete, and plastics, but the UK is the world’s second-largest wood importer having amongst the lowest forest cover of any country in Europe. New @bangoruniversity.bsky.social led study makes 3 recommendations.
bangor.ac.uk/news/2025-04... #forestry

Thanks to all the artists collaborating with *Nature* which is now listed as an official artist on #spotify @juliajones.bsky.social of @bangoruniversity.bsky.social helps decide how the royalties are spent. 11 million listens ...so far! #thestaves @georgethepoet.bsky.social #aliceboyd #penguincafe

Radio Wales Breakfast - With James Williams and Catrin Heledd - BBC Sounds Everything you need to know as you wake up.

Did you know Nature is an official artist on Spotify?
Professor Julia Jones from @bangoruniversity.bsky.social is helping guide how Nature spends her royalties. #EarthDay. (Listen from 1 hour 55mins)
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

One of our students Ros is on placement with the incredible @horstmanntrust.bsky.social Here she is with one of their ambassador birds. All our courses have the option to do a placement between year 2 and 3. A chance to spread your wings! @bangoruniversity.bsky.social vultures.ngo

Fully funded #PhD #1 This PhD will study rural to rural environmentally driven migration in Madagascar. Working with partners, (Malagasy con. NGO Madagasikara Voakajy supported by Chester Zoo’s Global Conservation Prog) @juliajones.bsky.social www.bangor.ac.uk/conservation... closing date May 5th

Listen now on @bbciplayer.bsky.social. 'Scarred', What is war doing to the wondrous black soil of #Ukraine? @thesoilassociation.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Scarred Ukraine is built on soil, but its soil is under threat.

Tomorrow 3.30pm on BBC Radio4 'Scarred'. Prof Christian Dunn from @bangoruniversity.bsky.social recently travelled to #ukraine to look at the effects of modern war on the environment and specifically agriculture. @bbcradio4.bsky.social (Available thereafter on iPlayer) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Bangor Uni always leads the way in #Forestry 😊 Postgrad. student Millie recently won the Tilhill Forestry prize for Silviculture. Millie studies alongside working for
@forestrycommission.bsky.social and is interested in horse logging. @bangoruniversity.bsky.social www.confor.org.uk/news/ftn-mag...

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What deer poo can tell us about the future of Britain’s woodlands Research reveals that fallow deer have an unexpected appetite for brambles, a plant often seen as a woodland nuisance.

Work on a research paper by staff at @bangoruniversity.bsky.social and Reading Uni has also been published in @uk.theconversation.com
theconversation.com/what-deer-po...