Currently over 150 schools are signed up for the Royal Society of Biology sponsored National #SpellingBee. Free to enter and prizes to be won. Open to all secondary schools in the UK, IoM & CI (global entries are possible but not eligible for prizes) app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/dundee/biolo… Please RT

Hope everyone is signing up for the BioloBee spelling bee

I trust the words of this guy Adam Robbins (on 🧵and 🦋)

Missed that my train was cancelled because I was reading Blake Harvard’s book.

Season 13 episode 5 of Revisionist History is essential listening for anyone who teaches about/is interested in vaccines and public health podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/rev…

I was going through a folder of graphs I've posted over the years, and I can safely say this is the worst

I no longer teach in schools with sixth forms, but am still going to be very interested in the T-Level results tomorrow

The second greatest competition for Royal Society of Biology #BiologyWeek is live! The Education Officer COMMITTEE 2025 INFOGRAPHIC COMPETITION asab.org/education-news Chat Biology please share Dr Jo Science PhD CSciTeach (Jo Montgomery) 🔬🧬🧪 pigs for primary schools?

Another competition for children to enter. Creating an infographic on an animal behaviour of their choice. Get those creative juices flowing! asab.org/education-news

Huge congratulations to Owen Phillips but I’m going to miss the Substack

Back in England and I have questions: 1. Why is it so cold? 2. What have you done with the Sun? 3. Why are all the grocery stores closed at 9 AM on a Sunday?

This 1998 paper is, without question, one of the most beautiful in the history of biology. It answers two questions: First, how does a potassium channel let in K+ ions while excluding Na+ ions? And second, how does it funnel 100 million of those ions through each second? These

One of the joys of being a science HoD is reading 24 different examiners reports

STEMYMissBanda Pritesh Raichura Adam Boxer Thank you! It’s definitely my most popular! dissectingtheclassroom.wordpress.com/2021/07/09/how…

NEW BLOG Celebrate todays researchED by reading this blog I wrote on the train So you've had a bad INSET day? What's next? #rED25 adam-robbins.com/2025/09/06/so-…