Jon M Hale

@ochemistree.bsky.social when is this year’s launch?

All the scores are in…

6/7 winners have been decided in the @rsb.org.uk Biology Week Spelling Bee 2025. Four year groups went to tiebreaks! The highest score was 54 in two minutes, phenomenal! #Biolobee
@chatbiology.bsky.social

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

I imagine so, I like the phases of colours

Yeah, the interesting bit was that the purple leaving first, leaving an entirely green leaf. Unexpected.

Testing Transcendia for starch. Worked nicely @saps-news.bsky.social

A spider really enjoying the Biology Week Spelling Bee

Currently over 150 schools are signed up to the @royalsocbio.bsky.social sponsored #SpellingBee to celebrate #BiologyWeek2025

Any secondary schools in the UK, IoM or CI can take part and win prizes app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/dundee/bio...

#SciTeachUK #ChatBiology #Science #Biolobee

Cool, thanks hopefully the cooler evenings will be better for moths soon.

Nutmeg moth?

Is this one a many lined wainscot?

Thank you!

@mothiduk.bsky.social is this an oak eggar?

Biology Week Spelling Bee 2025 Online surveys is a powerful, easy to use tool for creating online surveys. Run by Jisc, online surveys is used by over 300 different organisations in the UK...

#SciTeachUK
Registration is open for this year’s @royalsocbio.bsky.social Biology Week Spelling Bee! It’s free for any teachers of students aged 11-18 years old to enter, there are prizes! app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/dundee/bio... please share widely!

You can also explore the Young Researcher Zone, where schools and colleges will be showcasing their exciting Royal Society-funded #PartnershipGrants projects, from daffodil diversity to the whiffs of worms! See more here: royalsociety.org/science-even... #SummerScience

One of the coolest exhibits at the @royalsociety.org Summer Science Event! LEGO model of @nanoporetech.com sequencing! Well done @jmhale.bsky.social #partnershipgrants

@ljcompton.bsky.social we’ve been funded!

Thank you

Thank you, that was me on the other place. I wasn’t sure which platform you’re using. Sorry.

@mothiduk.bsky.social could you help confirm some IDs, 5 in total

Accuracy?

I helped a neighbouring school with some microscopy today, daffodil chloroplasts
Genuine awe and wonder (sorry for the shaky hands)

You got to love this

Stomata in onion allium cepa bulbs Occurrence of stomata in fleshy bulb scales of onions (Allium cepa), in the modified leaves such as subterranean leaves are reported for the first ...

eurekamag.com/research/006... last night was upper epidermis. I never considered these as modified leaves. Every day’s a school day.

Look what I found tonight @chrisgraham.bsky.social @saps-news.bsky.social

Everyone should do it

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/2IZBEU...

Meet the young Angus plant detectives digging into daffodil DNA Webster’s High in Kirriemuir is one of the Scottish schools involved in a research project co-ordinated by the James Hutton Institute and University of Dundee.

www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/5193...

Let me tell you about the Daffodil DNA Project…

Not my dept anymore