Top tip for any trainee teachers out there on #edusky: don't pay full price for new ties! Pop into your local charity shop/thrift store and find some unique bargains instead. These were a quid each in our local hospice shop!

🌳 Deforestation and deadly heat A new study links tropical deforestation to ~28,000 heat-related deaths each year. Local warming from forest loss now accounts for over a third of climate heat mortality in affected regions. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #SciComm #ClimateCrisis 🧪

#PollinatorPals #WildflowerHour @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

#PollinatorPals #WildflowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

#PollinatorPals #WildflowerHour @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

#PollinatorPals #WildflowerHour @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

#PollinatorPals #WildflowerHour @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

📢 Endemic is a new book by James Harding-Morris 🎉It features a chapter on the Northern February Red Stonefly. The author was shown by Craig Macadam, one of Riverfly's founders & Conservation Director at Buglife, which has its ‘Hunt for the Northern February Red’ every year 👏 The book is out now!

Southern European butterfly spotted in UK for first time. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

illustration sneak peek from my new book: DINOSAURS. What is your favorite prehistoric period to visit at the museum? preorder book here: a.co/d/93CM294 #paleoart #sciart #dinoart

Of all places, *Primark* is hosting free beginner sewing workshops to encourage people to do more to repair/upcycle clothes instead of throwing them away. www.primark.com/en-us/love-i...

Friends of yours? @flygirlnhm.bsky.social

RIP Tom Lehrer

"We basically have 3 choices: mitigation, adaptation & suffering... The question is what the mix is going to be. The more mitigation we do, the less adaptation will be required & the less suffering there will be" - Prof. John Holdren Why are we letting our leaders choose suffering?!!

Would anyone like to test a question booklet I have made on Y12 probability?

Game playing and using building blocks can promote understanding and creative thinking in the classroom. This is a great little video by @head-in-the-clouds.bsky.social to whet your appetite 👇🏽

#biology #chatbiology #iteachbiology

House flies are annoying all over the world... but fascinating too! Build our House Fly paper model to find out about insect anatomy! Learn more here: buff.ly/Jlo4KhY #EduSky #insects #housefly #flies #iteachbio

The researchers trained a machine-learning model using mass and infra-red spectra for more than 80 white wines, gleaning volatile organic compounds, as well as things like ethanol concentration. www.chemistryworld.com/news/ai-mode...

ChemDraw turned 40 this week! 🎉 I worked with Revvity Signals to put together this graphic showing how the chemical drawing program has developed from basic beginnings to the integration of features to predict spectra and highlight structural features wp.me/s4aPLT-chemd... #ChemSky

There are some great teaching resources on the @doughnuteconomics.bsky.social education website: doughnuteconomics.org/themes/schoo...

Great case study on #DoughnutEconomics that's useful for KS4/5 Social studies, Economics, Business or Politics. It's also relevant to Science and Geography. Getting young people excited about the possibilities of other ways of doing things is incredibly rewarding! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Episode 004 Introducing metaphor to children when using LSP youtu.be/6ykyUyatyZ0?...

003 WHY use LEGO in the classroom? youtu.be/NvEheL0vJLw?... @chatbiology.bsky.social @chatchemistry.bsky.social @chatphysics.bsky.social #ChatBiology #ChatPhysics #ChatChemistry

Physics teachers. The latest edition of Classroom Physics is now available at the link below. The focus is on Atmospheric Physics 🙂 #PhysicsEd #iTeachPhysics #SciTeachUK spark.iop.org/sites/defaul...

WHY use LEGO® in the classroom? youtu.be/NvEheL0vJLw?...

002 LEGO® Bricks as metaphor 🧪🍎 youtu.be/HC8yrB_ENyU?... @chatbiology.bsky.social @chatchemistry.bsky.social @chatphysics.bsky.social

🧊 Antarctic sea ice is vanishing fast A new study finds summer sea ice is at record lows, disrupting ecosystems, spawning more icebergs, and amplifying ocean warming. Wildlife, research, & supply missions are all under threat. 🔗 theconversation.com/antarctic-su... #SciComm #ClimateCrisis 🧪

002 LEGO® Bricks as metaphor 🧪🍎 youtu.be/HC8yrB_ENyU?... @chatbiology.bsky.social @chatchemistry.bsky.social @chatphysics.bsky.social

The most gorgeous of larvae These are immature Simuliidae - black flies. They sucker on to a fast-flowing river bottom & filter feed. They have beautiful cephalic fans which are filtering fans @opwallscience.bsky.social @opwall.bsky.social #Honduras #FlyFriday

Migrant Hoverfly? Eupeodes corollae? @flygirlnhm.bsky.social

001 What is LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®?

001 What is LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®?

Friend of yours? @flygirlnhm.bsky.social Sawfly?

Newspaper coverage of climate change around the globe dropped 6% from May to June 2025 -- and by 28% compared to June 2024, despite increasing frequency and severity of climate-fueled extreme weather events. Read more from the @media-climate.bsky.social here: mecco.colorado.edu/summaries/is...

#Paleontology 🐟

Earwig! #PoppysEpisodes #365DaysWildpp

What are the odds this July’s Mediterranean heat is natural? About 1 in a billion! It's the most extreme Mediterannean heatwave on record, for this time of year. This is a thread, digging deep, adding context, so follow along… 1/

Flash flooding for second July in a row in Ruidoso NM, just over the border from Texas. Flood risk is already high due to the topography and the more climate change loads the atmosphere with water vapor, the more rain gets dumped, putting more people in harms way 😢

. Young people are struggling with climate anxiety, but there are ways to cope More and more people are changing their behaviour and take #ClimateAction to address Climate Change. Are you? More: www.aspenpublicradio.org/en... #ClimateAction

Aldi currently has play parachutes. Always a hit with toddler groups…

Found a box of Mrs F’s childhood LEGO at Easter and spent 3 days photographing bricks that lent themselves to #OneBrickMetaphor for #LEGOSeriousPlay Would you like free copies and a lesson on how to use them? Join us for #ChatBiologyLive www.eventbrite.com/e/secondary-...

Good day for ducks! Nice excuse to use LEGO® as a stimulus for discussing the Water Cycle! There are still tickets available for next week’s Secondary Science Festival Only £50 for a full day of CPD! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/secondary-...

..there's no doubt that: As climate change supersizes weather extremes, we need MORE info to keep people safe, not less. More experts, instruments, models, research, etc: much of which is being reduced or cut. Timely, accurate science helps assess risks + make informed decisions that save lives.

Tragedy in Texas hill country, where 4 months’ worth of rain in just four hours caused Guadalupe River levels to spike 30 feet in just an hour and a half - in the middle of the night. Two dozen are dead in the resulting floods and another 20 young campers still missing. apnews.com/article/texa...

This last minute freeze of funds will cripple summer classes and camps scheduled to begin soon, leaving poor working parents without options. Shameful. Illegal. Wrong.

"This book should be in every school library and will inspire readers." Chuffed to bits that the NEU have published this review of 'Scientists on Survival' in their members magazine. Order your copy here: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/scie...

Less than a week to go! Want to know WHAT role LEGO® could possibly have in the Science classroom? Let us help. There are still tickets available for next week’s Secondary Science Festival Only £50 for a full day of CPD! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/secondary-...

French nuclear power plant has to close during intense heat wave, because temperatures in the river that provides cooling water are too high.