Good luck to everyone receiving their A level results tomorrow! If you need to give us a call our Clearing hotline 📞 0333 241 6929 opens at ⏰ 8.30am. 🔗 plymouth.ac.uk/study/clearing

Good luck to everyone waiting for #AlevelResultsDay2022 to arrive. Hope you get the grades you need 🤞🏻. Don't worry if you don't get your grades, just give our #Clearing2022 line a call. University of Plymouth University of Plymouth Apply

Artificial grass is growing in popularity as an alternative to real lawns and this is harmful to the environment in a number of ways. Discover why and pick up some tips on how to create a wild lawn. plymouth.ac.uk/discover/why-a…

Plymouth shortlisted as University of the Year in the Times Higher Education Awards 2022 Our place on the shortlist acknowledges our international reputation for marine research and teaching, as well as decades of focus, investment, and impact. #THEAwards plymouth.ac.uk/news/plymouth-…

Generative Design - new short course Expand your skill set by creating, simulating and optimising your designs. 📅 Start dates: 27 February, or 3 July 2023 Find out more 👇 plymouth.ac.uk/study/cpd/gene…

We have been working with artist Dan Lewis to create striking visual representations of the plastic found on our beaches. This piece 'Sound Journey' uses hundreds of pieces of marine litter.

Research gives insights into 17th century life in Plymouth Work to analyse finds from an archaeological dig on Plymouth's waterfront has featured on the BBC series Digging for Britain hosted by Prof Alice Roberts💙

Are great white sharks warming to UK waters? With climate change warming seas, experts predict we could see these endangered ocean predators closer to our shores 🧵 plymouth.ac.uk/discover/are-g…

Our #SciEngShowcase is now underway! Join us and celebrate science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) subjects at the University. This free event is suitable for adults, families and children over the age of five. No need to book – simply turn up plymouth.ac.uk/whats-on/scien…

For this year's Science and Engineering Showcase, Dr Roy Lowry repeated the ping pong cannon experiment. Using liquid nitrogen, he propels over 1500 ping pong balls into the air.

Around 1,000 fish have been tagged in the English Channel as part of an ambitious project to preserve and enhance the habitats of some of the region’s key fish species. plymouth.ac.uk/news/tagging-p…

Our second-year Zoology students got to visit the beautiful #Dartmoor this week to look for palmate newts as part of their practical methods module. Palmate newts are the smallest newt species found in the UK and are distributed throughout most of the country.

Our Conservation Biology students are currently on their field trip to the stunning tropical forest of the La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica 🇨🇷 La Selva offers 1,600 hectares of wet lowland tropical forest that is home to thousands of species of plants and animals.

On campus, we are experimenting with reduced mowing regimes in several places, even leaving some locations to grow until late autumn. With seeds from Pollenize we have also sown some new wildflower areas to introduce a greater range of native flowering plants.

Delighted to announce the celebratory inaugural lecture of Professor Mairi Knight- The tangled bank: a view from geneland next week. 📆 18 May | 18:00 🔗 Book your free ticket plymouth.ac.uk/whats-on/profe…

19 yrs after our 1st publication⁩ on microplastic science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… it is heartwarming to see such unanimous global support at #INC2, Paris to minimise microplastic pollution 🇮🇩 🇬🇧🇪🇨 🇵🇦 🇺🇾 🇮🇳 🇱🇰 🇷🇺🇦🇺 🇵🇭 🇲🇾 🇳🇿 🇦🇷 🇨🇳 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇹🇭 🇨🇭 🇯🇵 🇧🇷 🇨🇱 🇵🇪 🇺🇬 🇨🇦 🇨🇴 🇪🇺 🇲🇨etc..Thank you!

Another day at the Offshore Shellfish mussel farm. Perfect seas - they’re going to have to drag me back to the office! 😁 University of Plymouth 💙 Applied Marine Ecosystems Research (aMER) Plymouth

Could Tropical forests be approaching a critical high-temperature threshold? 🌳🌡️ After July 2023 was confirmed as the warmest month on record, a new study has shown the world’s tropical forest canopies may be closer to critical high-temperature thresholds than previously known.

Professor Richard Thompson OBE FRS, Head of our International Marine Litter Research Unit, has been named in TIME's list of the 100 Most Influential People in global health. plymouth.ac.uk/news/microplas… #TIME100HEALTH

20 yrs after my 1st paper on microplastics, the science is clear microplastics are now widely distributed across the planet, causing harm & contaminating the food we eat the water we drink & the air we breathe. It’s time to change the way we design use and dispose of plastics!