Plants, Sustainability & Science Education🌱🌎🍎 Join us with @chrisgraham.bsky.social for a session at the Secondary Science Festival at Bedford College on 8th July. For more info & to book, use the QR code. 📲 @cleapss.bsky.social @fieldstudiesc.bsky.social @stemlearning.bsky.social

Are you looking to build your confidence in microscopy? Join us in partnership with @associationscied.bsky.social on 04/06 for a twilight event (1/3). Suitable for teachers with all levels of experience🔬🌱🧑‍🏫 For more: www.ase.org.uk/events/build... @stemlearning.bsky.social @royalsocbio.bsky.social

Check out the new L3 certificate in sustainability: teach.ocr.org.uk/level-3-cert... I’m developing the teaching resources for it for OCR and I’m teaching it at Hills Road Sixth Form College in Sept 2025. I love the spec they’ve come up with - such a useful qualification for students. #EduSky

🌱It's International Plant Appreciation Day!🌿 Support the plants & community that inspire you. Please consider making an unrestricted gift—it provides flexible support, ensuring resources go where they’re needed most: crm.botany.org/makeadonation Share your plant story! #LetsGoPlants #IamaBotanist

Have a look at this newsletter for what I’ve been doing to support students learning how to use microscopes. 🔬 Lots of other great stuff too. 🌳

Looking for guidance teaching #Microscopy? 🔬🌱 Chris' latest article also featured in @associationscied.bsky.social School Science Review is available here with a presentation to download: www.saps.org.uk/growth-hub/t... #plantsci @chrisgraham.bsky.social @stemlearning.bsky.social

In case you missed it the amazing @chrisgraham.bsky.social will be joining us for #ChatBiologyLive 🙌🏻

Looking forward to meeting some of my biology education heroes in person for the first time, catching up with others and meeting new people. Excited to have the opportunity to talk. 💚🌳💚

The #CANBill simply says that we will - do what we say we’re going to do - be informed by experts and by the people. I, and many, will feel a massive betrayal if this doesn’t pass its second reading today. @teamlabouruk.bsky.social @conservatives.bsky.social @libdems.org.uk @greenparty.org.uk

One of the many really interesting points that Hannah writes about in her book ‘Not the end of the World’. There is lots that needs to be done but there is hope. Hope that comes from data like these, past successes and the growing awareness of a need for action and participation in this action.

Does this image mean that we need to reduce global emissions by about 60% to stop increasing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere? Does this count as ‘Net Zero’? It’s from: drawdown.org/drawdown-fou... What would figures look like for 2024? #Sustainability

Check out the Wild Check report from the FAO (www.fao.org/newsroom/det...). There are some great examples and data about the importance of plants and it shows how connected we are to ecosystems even though we usually feel quite separated from the rest of nature. #ITeachBio🧬 @saps-news.bsky.social

I’m exploring setting up savings accounts for my children (8, 9, and 11) and would like to choose a bank/building society with strong sustainability credentials. Does anyone have any advice?

Just read @hannahritchie.bsky.social ‘s book in 2 days (unheard of for me!). So quick because: 1) it’s very easy to read 2) it’s fascinating and I couldn’t put it down 3) we’re at the grandparents house and they’re entertaining the children. Lots to reflect on - highly recommended 💚🌳💚

Can’t wait for this. Hoping it will give me more ideas for enthusing my students about the nature around them. 💚🌳💚

Let’s hope that this and other efforts lead to a real focus on sustainability and nature connectedness in education in the next stages of the process 💚🌳💚

In honor of National Tree Week in the UK here’s one of my favourite autumn sights. I give you the elegant branches of a naked hornbeam. Such a pleasing and distinctive pattern and shape it warms my heart when I see one.

Great PhD opportunity at @uniofexeter.bsky.social & Natural England to help tackle one of the current big questions in UK conservation - “How does gamebird release and management affect the population stability and recovery of UK bird species?” www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin....

"Education has a responsibility to make the future as bright as possible for our students. A big part of that is about addressing the climate & biodiversity crisis..." @chrisgraham.bsky.social seconded to SAPS Find out more about #BiologyForABetterTomorrow here: buff.ly/3Z5Q6le 🌱💚🌏 #plantscience

We're delighted to see this series 'Biology for a Better Tomorrow' - a digital series from the RSB highlighting, in this video, the vital role of plants in biology. Featuring our very own Chris Graham and Dan Jenkins! #Bioscience #BiologyForTomorrow

We are so excited to announce that Chat Biology Live is a go! All the event information can be found here: https://buff.ly/3UZMlv7 Please share as much as possible Tickets will be on sale soon, we hope as many of you can join us as you can! #EduSky #iTeachBio 🧬 #SciTeachUK

Thanks Kathy 💚🌳💚

This is me: Sustainability and education: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Teaching classification and evolution using plants: www.saps.org.uk/growth-hub/t... Ideas for plants throughout biology: www.saps.org.uk/growth-hub/g... Ecological literacy: contentwithpurpose.co.uk/rsb/biology-...

Snails have a scraping ‘tongue’ called a radula. They use it to scrape up yummy algae. Here’s evidence of a snail dinner party. You can see how they sweep their heads left and right making tracks like a mountainside road. The wonder of nature! 💚🐌💚

So much in the programme. Basically, ASE conference is equivalent to months of high quality professional development, networking (and socialising) compressed into 3 days. If you can reach Nottingham in a day trip I recommend booking a day attendance to see for yourself! #ASEconf2025

I’m ‘topping the billing’ at the @associationscied.bsky.social annual conference this year! Looking forward to talking about the work I’ve been doing with SAPS (www.saps.org.uk). There will be dandelion seeds, zooming chloroplasts and more…what a way to start the conference.

One of my favorite things about autumn is finding these green islands in fallen leaves. 🍂 Their story is summarized here: www.indefenseofplants.com/blog/2015/10... I also love how the track starts narrow and gets wider as the caterpillar grows. So many wonderful stories in nature 💚

Biology teaching, plants, responding (however I can) to the climate and biodiversity crisis are my kind of things. If any, or all, of these are your thing too then you might like my article in Teaching Times here: www.teachingtimes.com/the-importan... #iTeachBio #GreenSky #Edusky 🌎🌳

Hello! 👋🏻 We are very excited to be part of this new community and hope you will join us for our weekly #chatbiology discussions on Tuesdays at 8:30pm! ⏰ We will be up and running next week so come join us to chat all things biology! 🌱🧫🧬🔬 In the meantime our website is here: chatbiology.com

My next step for sustainability at college is to run a CPD group about exploring ways we can include contexts related to sustainability within our A-level teaching. We’re advertising the groups tomorrow. Hopefully there are some enthusiastic colleagues keen to choose this option. #EduSky

Thrilled to be running our first ever ‘new staff induction’ sustainability session this afternoon as I start my new ‘1 day a week’ Sustainability Lead role. Feels like we’re really starting to embed sustainability at an organisational level. Lots more still to do though.

The nature writing starter pack keeps growing. Please share it so we can create more connections and a bigger community on Bluesky. More suggestions always welcome... go.bsky.app/NXoPc6D

New to BlueSky! Would love to connect with Sci educators, researchers and STEM/STEAM people! #SciTeachUK

Any tips on remembering (or having conveniently to hand) relevant hashtags to add to posts? #edusky #edsky #iteachbio #scienceteachinguk #sciteachuk #eduk ???????

Interesting section of the Teacher tap article today. Can we agree that an education in ‘Sustainability’ should be a key component of ‘basic skills’ given the predicament humanity finds itself in? #edusky #iteachbio #scienceteachinguk

Here’s one way to help open students’ eyes to the wonder of the biology in the world around them everyday and to increase their plant awareness. My article is published here: www.ase.org.uk/resources/sc... And available to all from the SAPS website here: s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/assets.saps....

Here for chat about: ☀️Sustainability 🪰Biodiversity 🌳Love of nature 📚Education 🔬The wonder of biology Particularly the cross over between them. How do I find my people? (Thankfully found some already but keen to make the most of BlueSky and share making the world a better place)

Just published! Hope you like it. Hope it helps encourage us all to work together for a brighter future for all. Very grateful for the opportunity to write it. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #ITeachBio

If anyone is going to the ASE conference this week and is interested in chatting about biology education, plants, sustainability, curriculum design etc. it would be great to meet. I’m talking at 14:15 on Thursday about getting more plants into classification and evolution. #iTeachBio #UKEd

Enjoying this Christmas tradition. So far… 🌳a good tone set by the leader ‘A year of two stories’ - a strong call for action. 🔴 fascinating sphere packing. 💚 thoughtful ‘No planet B’. 🫘 intriguing communicating lentils. … looking forward to the rest of it.

Just joined Bluesky. Looking for people to follow. Anything to do with nature, sustainability or biology teaching. Would be grateful for any suggestions to help me find my feet. Thanks in advance. 💚🌳🐞💚