🌱🌾🌺🏵️🌳🌿🌏 Third student botany festival had undergrad & postgrad students from over 25 institutions, and botanical scientists. Gave students opportunity to talk with botanists they would not otherwise meet. Great for inspiration, contacts and realising there are #careerswithplants! #BUC2025

🌱🌾🌍🌏🌎🌳🌿🌲 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

Nurturing botany - what Botanical University Challenge is all about. Look for information in October about entering your team of degree-level students for #BUC2026. Institutions in UK or Ireland that havn't entered a team before, contact us for more information! botanicaluniversitychallenge.co.uk

🌱🌾🌍🌺🌿🌳🐝🌷3rd Student Botany Festival #BUC2025 was next to Cambridge Botanic Garden @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social. Excellent to make use of plants in it during workshops and just to admire!

Great suggestion for @inaturalist.bsky.social l (& other on-line systems). Add ID to others records! You do not have to be the national expert. Good advice on how to make use of your plant ID skill, however limited. Includes: can you distinguish a plant from an animal? Even that is useful!! #BUC2025

🌱🌾🌺🏵️🌳🌿🌏 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

🌱🌾🌺🏵️🌳🌿🌏Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025. After, 3rd Student Botany Festival. Included workshop on orchids. About 10% of the seed plant species, monocots, but so much diversity: colours, scents, sizes, habitats, lifestyles, fungal partners. Exciting to hear from an expert!

🌱🌾🌍🌺🌳🌲🌴🧪Why do people get into plants at university? Listen to James Ashford in his second year of B. Sc. Biology at University of Aberystwyth. Short answer: Fun and employment prospects. #BUC2025

🌱🌾🌍🌺🌏🌳🌎🐝Other ways people get into #botany are through family influence. Here Ellie Defty, now studying at University of Leeds explains how her mother's art led her to plants. One of the first team from Leeds to enter Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025 talking at 3rd Student Botany Festival.

🌱🌾🌍🌺🌏🌳🌎🐝How do people get into botany? Here's Sophie Ball, now studying Global Health at Royal Holloway University of London. She explains at 3rd Student Botany Festival what started her journey into plants. #BUC2025

🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🌿🌳🌲Botanical University Challenge 2025 winners are team Taxon Taxoff from University of Aberdeen. Their name has been inscribed on the trophy & is now on its way to them to treasure for a year. @newphyt.bsky.social @gpsep.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social #BUC2025

🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🌿🧪🐝🪳🌷 Name 2025 winning team of Botanical University Challenge has now been inscribed on the Sid Thomas Trophy. Team Taxon, Taxoff from University of Aberdeen, Scotland. For information about this trophy, see Issue 3, The Thymes, newsletter BUC. botanicaluniversitychallenge.co.uk/the-thymes/

🪷🌹🌻🌱🪴🌾🌳🌿🌍 Plants growing for natural dyes on roof National Theatre in centre London, UK. To be used in costumes and staging for plays. www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/s...

🌱🌍🌎🌳🎼🎶Making a whistle from sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus) twig. Botanical knowledge helps with successful design and construction! Maybe will feature in October issue The Thymes, newsletter of Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025 !

🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🌿🐝 Third Student Botany Festival after Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025. Introduction to insects! Why? Where do many live, hover, display, eat but plants? Pollination by insects! Carnivorous plants eat insects!!

🌎🌱🌾🌳🌴🌸🌻🪾Plant physical responses to put off animals considering them for lunch. The animals may now be extinct, but the plants still have protection. Really interesting! #BUC2025

🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🌿🐝 3rd Student Botany Festival, held last week at @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social had so much for student plant lovers. Wonderful glasshouses.

🌱🌍🌾🌺🌳🌿🪳 Final thought-provoking lecture ended 3rd Student Botany Festival. Inspirational finale. Jonathan Silvertown, University of Edinburgh, 'Separating plant myth from plant science'. jonathansilvertown.com #BUC2025

Glowing houseplants, not involving GM or other genetic changes. Would they be acceptable in UK or EU?

🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🌳🪳🌲Excitement at The Botanical Society of Scotland as the team 'Taxon, Taxoff' from University of Aberdeen win Botanical University Challenge against 30 other university student teams from Scotland, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Wales & England. #BUC2025 botsoc.scot/2025/08/27/b...

“Computer modelling predicts that levels of nature connectedness will continue to decline unless there are far-reaching policy and societal changes – with introducing children to nature at a young age and radically greening urban environments the most effective interventions.”

🌍🍄‍🟫🌱🌾🌳🌼🌺🌹🪷🧪 About our disconnect from nature - with a note of hope at the end! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

we used to take sambucus nigra... ;-)

🌾🌱🌍🌺🌳🧪 After finals Botanical University Challenge, students relax ready for 3rd Botany Festival. Evening included making musical instruments from plants! Here @botanyjohninaber.bsky.social explains making whistle from fresh sycamore twig! #BUC2025

🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🐝🌳🌿 Also competition for most popular team name in Botanical University Challenge, voted by audience. Winner was team Plantastic Five from University College Dublin, runners up team Pain in the Grass from University of Portsmouth! #BUC2025

Great to see the University of Aberdeen doing so well in this!

🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🧪🌳🐝 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.

One is often told that silage maize doesn’t grow ears and is not edible. It’s not strictly true.

🌱🌿🌾🌼🪷🌻🌍 A small botanical Challenge. What are the yellow things these wild animals found to eat in the English countryside? For an extra zoological point, what sort of animals?! #BUC2025

Adding flower diversity to the world's model plant, Arabidopsis.

🌾🌱🌳🌻🪷🌍🍄‍🟫 Careers showcase under olive trees after 3 young academics talked about their career paths. Third Student Botany Festival following Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025 @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social @cieem.bsky.social @newphyt.bsky.social @biologists.bsky.social

🌿 Join us in celebrating Plymouth’s fantastic achievement in the Botanical University Challenge, taking 2nd place in a very close national final yesterday! 🥈 You can watch the intense finals here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX_s... @bucbotany.bsky.social #BUC2025 #BotanicalUniversityChallenge #Botany

The purpose-designed dry garden within Cambridge University Botanic Gardens @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social Loving the 18 cm rain so far in 2025. The rest of the garden, not so happy. 3rd Student Botany Festival enjoying time with & about plants. #BUC2025

🏵⚘️🌱🌾🌴🌳🌺🌍🧪 3rd Student Botany Festival, following the drama of #BUC2025 yesterday, started with students excellently describing their plant enthusiams & career plans. Then panel about careers with plants outside academia. At the end, students clustered around from more advice.

I'm at the @bucbotany.bsky.social final today and it's been an absolute nail-biter. Always humbling to see plant ID questions juxtaposed with questions about horticulture, enzymes and genetics. Congratulations to Aberdeen for having the all-round skills to win it!

And the winner of Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025 ia Aberdeen!!

🌍🌱🌾🪴🌳🌼🪾Second semi-final Aberdeen 16 versus Eden Project 13 points, so final is Aberdeen versus Plymouth. Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025 Starts 16:00 today 20 August.

19 points each!The 4th tiebreaker between Reading and Plymouth in Botanical University Challenge Correct answer from Plymouth, so they are through to the final. #BUC2025

The calm before the storm. In half an hour, 13:30 BST 20 August, Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025 starts. Watch the stream on YouTube @BotanicalUniversityChallenge !!

🌱🌾🌷🌸🌳🧪🌍 Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025 Teams and audience refueling on plants before the first semifinal starts at 13:00 BST today 20 August. YouTube @BotanicalUniversityChallenge www.youtube.com/live/HJfxLRp...

WIND instruments, mostly...

We're proud to be the venue for the 2025 Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025 and Student Botany Festival. 🎉 Organisers have done amazing work👏 🎥 The semifinal & final kick off at 13:30 today, live on YouTube – don’t miss it! www.youtube.com/@BotanicalUn... Good luck to all the teams 🌱✨

🌍🌸🌻🌲🌱🌾🌳 Today is the day! Semifinal and final Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025 starts 13:30 today streamed on YouTube. Getting set up for contestants and audience at Cambridge University Botanic Gardens.

BSBI is proud to support @bucbotany.bsky.social #BUC2025! We're offering digital membership to quarter/semi/finalists. Heading to @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social tomorrow to meet the contestants, welcome them as #BSBImembers & offer some activities to help support their botanical journeys. Can't wait!

What a great way to meet interesting people and build your network

🌱🌾🌼🌴🍂🍄‍🟫🌍 Only one day to wait! Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025 semi-final and final start at 13:30 BST tomorrow. Time to get the snacks in and re-view earlier rounds on YouTube to get i to the vibe!

🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🌿🧪🐝 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??

🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🐝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

🌱🌾🌍🧪🌿🍄🌺🐝 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...

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