Guide to STEM science, technology, engineering & maths kits to inspire children aged 7-12+ schoolreadinglist.co.uk/educational-... | #ukedchat #stemquad

New paper!🌏🪶🧪 We once again combine the powers of land use data with citizen science observations, finding that informal green spaces (IGS) may be providing resources for some bird functional groups that could be missing from traditional #urban green spaces. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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The buzz doesn’t stop after May…the #NoMowMovement continues!🌼 It’s time for #LetitBloomJune. Keeping even a tiny patch of garden to grow beyond May has amazing benefits for nature. Help the environment this summer by pledging to keep letting it grow.👇 www.plantlife.org.uk/campaigns/jo...

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Teach more than physics – teach critical thinking, resilience and the power of curiosity. We can support you in your journey to becoming a physics teacher with a £31,000 teacher training scholarship. This scholarship is open to applicants in England. 🔗 Find out more: https://bit.ly/49qxJwp

“Researchers found that breathing more air pollution during pregnancy, infancy and early childhood can slow lung development all the way up to early adulthood. The greatest impact was during adolescence, which is the time when lung growth accelerates.” #AirPollution

Oh, hi, fly! Who is this, please? Asking for Poppy @flygirlnhm.bsky.social

Our list of recommended revision books for independent school Common Entrance and entrance exams in KS3 year 8. schoolreadinglist.co.uk/common-entra... #kidlit #ukedchat

⏰Still time to sign up for our #EarlyCareer programme for physics teachers 📆Deadline: 31 May #MakePhysicsMatter https://loom.ly/7beEld0

The whole discourse about 'discovery learning v direct instruction' ignores the existence of early years. You can't sit a 2 year old down for long to instruct them so we use a blend of both while they play. You offer an environment + resources which lead to learning and support with adult input. ☺️

'I forgot what it feels like to be outside' – First (UK) rooftop intensive care ward opens. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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All together now! These Tree bumblebees are fanning their nest to keep it cool 🌡️ Most UK bumblebees nest on or underground in our gardens and green spaces. Tree bumblebees, however, prefer to nest high above the ground – bird boxes containing old bird nests are a firm favourite 🐦 🎥 Annette Knight

Oxford, the longest running continuous weather station in UK history, with temperature observations stretching back to 1815, has preliminarily broken its maximum temperature record for May yesterday by OVER 3ºC with a temperature of 33.7ºC. Unprecedented in its 211-year history.

Teacher workload is still a big problem, research shows, despite repeated government attempts to get a grip on the issue. School leaders tell us why

Le record national de chaleur de mai a été dépassé/égalé avec une facilité déconcertante par 24 stations. Depuis le 22 mai, 1364 records de chaleur ont été battus. Du jamais vu. Le nouveau record national sera surement la station de Perpignan (37.4°C). Attendons l'expertise de Météo-France.

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Public service announcement for those suffering from *the heat* in the UK: Move away from the cubes and opt for ice spheres instead SA:V (once a biology teacher always a biology teacher) @chatbiology.bsky.social

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Colorado's peach industry, worth $34 million in 2024, is under threat from cytospora canker, a fungal disease that has halved orchard lifespans and infected every surveyed orchard in the region.

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We’re excited to announce that STEM Learning and The Design and Technology Association are joining forces to launch the Primary D&T Roadshow. Starting at the National STEM Learning Centre on 23 June, read more about this collaboration in our blog: bit.ly/41vRH45 #primaryeducation #D&T #UKEd

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📚 Join us TONIGHT at 8pm ET for #TLSkyChat as we get ready for School Library Month! 🌸 How are you preparing to celebrate? Share ideas, resources, and ways you’ll highlight your library program this April! Find the Questions at tlskychat.com #Skybrarians #EduSky #TLSky #SLM #SchoolLibraryMonth

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Most biobased materials soften when they’re wet. A team led by Javier G. Fernández at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia has now shown that the opposite can happen: add a dash of nickel to chitosan, and the material grows stronger in water. #chemsky 🧪

This year, the JAXA Martian Moons eXploration (#MMX) mission will launch for Phobos 🛰️! The spacecraft is stuffed with instruments to study everything from composition to the radiation environment 🔭, and will return the first sample from the Mars region to Earth 🧪. Annnd our website was just updated!

Exclusive: Nearly three-quarters of teachers think their workload is ‘unmanageable’, according to the @tesglobal.bsky.social Teacher Wellbeing Report 2026, which also reveals the pressures staff are facing on SEND

Fascinating article. May be of interest to folks following @chatbiology.bsky.social

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

Independently self-replicating RNA! The key to transitioning from a soup of organic molecules to something resembling life was self-replication. This RNA molecule might be one of many that can do that and would have been the basis for the first cellular machinery. 🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Today is Friday, 13th, and we are missing 13 followers until we reach 1000 😱 Challenge for the end of the week: Can we reach a bluesky community of 1000 neuroethologists!? #Neuroethology 🧠🧪 Please share widely 🫶

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Not only did this pupil (and parent) build a working eyeball but they made it short sighted and constructed a corrective monacle too! #ITeachPhysics 🍎

Not only did this pupil (and parent) build a working eyeball but they made it short sighted and constructed a corrective monacle too! #ITeachPhysics 🍎

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Calling all science followers and educators, #eduphysics #eduscience I am looking for book titles for a 11y old who is dead keen on science to read before she joins secondary school in September, thanks everyone, PS please share even if you are not sure yourselves

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It’s almost time for #GardensHour A mini theme on wildlife in your gardens this week - doesn’t have to be this past week, it can be any time! Let’s see what hangs out in your outside spaces! All other posts about your gardens always welcome. See you at 9pm UK time.

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I’m running a short research survey exploring how primary teachers and student teachers are using tools like ChatGPT and Copilot in their day-to-day teaching, with a particular focus on primary science. forms.gle/bqPHtwq4mzBd... Please share! #eduskyprimary #uked

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