Thanks Yoselin, so much enthusiasm for plants. Fantastic.
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Thanks Yoselin, so much enthusiasm for plants. Fantastic.
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🌍🌱🌻🌾🌿🌳🐞🪳🐌 And this is what the top of the Botanical University Challenge 2026 Day 2 leaderboard looked like at the end of today's contest. 14 teams through to next week's contest to find the 4 semifinalists! #BUC2026
Well done Bangor. Great to have you in the BUC family
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🌿🌾🌴⚘️🏵🍂🌻🐛🦋🐌🌍Anyone interested in hearing about a botanical hoax on the Isle of Rum (or Rhum) in Scotland in the early 20th century, was a question in #BUC2026, follow this link.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Are you ready?
Hopefully on the shelves in June.
Two weeks to the start of @bucbotany.bsky.social 2026. Remember this from last year?
It is much harder to answer questions about things that are not there, than things that are.
Sexy title or what!
Many years ago my PhD was on the first half of the problem. But why it has declined seems to have been overlooked.
But what happened to the radiate form? It spread rapidly across the UK last century, but seems to have declined dramatically since then. But why?
@prifaber.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social :)
A month until BUC 2026. What is this?
Screen grab showing International Space Station above a blue-cloudy Earth.
🌾🌱⚘️🌿🌼🦠🚀 #BUC2026 Impressive survival of moss spores, Physcomitrella patens (spreading earthmoss) on outside of International Space Station for 9 months! Vacuum, radiation, dry, too much light, cold. Over 80% germinated when back on Earth. www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
November and the Holly berries are ready for Christmas... Not
Mega puffball
Get some made. It's not difficult. Any proper northern bloke should know how to mek parkin. ;)
@uniofaberdeen.bsky.social @bucbotany.bsky.social The Sid Thomas BUC trophy 🏆 on its way to Aberdeen
Nice video. I don't want to boast, but my design is both simpler and superior. Perhaps we should put details in the Thymes. The most important aspect is time of year and twig selection.
There is a long tradition of making whistles from Sambucus. The process involves removing the pitch, rather different from those made with Acer twigs.
Team and trophy
And the winner of Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025 ia Aberdeen!!
Group photo of the student who represented Plymouth University in the Botanical University Challenge, coming in second place.
🌿 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
A week to @bucbotany.bsky.social and practicing for the plant based orchestra
Read the full study here: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
With @bsbibotany.bsky.social, @britishecologicalsociety.org, @gpsep.bsky.social, @newphyt.bsky.social, @drmgoeswild.bsky.social, @botanyjohninaber.bsky.social
Yes, some hard questions, some great teams. Some easier questions, a few silly questions. You have to love the students enthusiasm for all things botanical.
Congratulations Eden. See you in Cambridge for the finals
Well done to all the finalists and commiseration to the 4 wonderful teams who just did not make the cut.
Chair asking the questions in Botanical University Challenge 2025 Quarterfinal starts 14:00 GMT Weds 26 February. Chair is Prof Jennifer McElwain, 1711 Chair of Botany, Trinity College Dublin. Picture of her. Young woman with scientific equipment sitting on the black volcanic soil slope of Mount Etna.
🌾🌱🌍🍄🌺🌳🧪🐝Quarterfinal Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025 questions will be asked by Prof. Jennifer McElwain, 1711 Chair of Botany at Trinity College Dublin's School of Natural Sciences and Director of Trinity Botanic Gardens. @tcddublin.bsky.social
logos 8 universities and botanical institutes
🌾🌱🌍🍄🌺🐝 Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025 See the quarterfinalists! Teams Taxon, Taxoff, Botanists of the Barbican, The Fun-guys, Plantastic 4, Cotyl-Edens, Oxford RADworts, Claddagh Clovers and the Tree-mendous Team!! Watch from 14:00 26 February on YouTube. Revisit earlier rounds as well.
