ex HOY ex science tutor now back to FT science teacher (20 years teaching) and also FT mum to boy/girl twins. Living w disability. @chatbiology team member
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Love @grahnort on Eurovision but why does the male presenter look like Balthazar Bratt, the bad guy from Despiccable Me 3 🤣🤣🤣
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Absolutely loved @projecthailmary movie this weekend! Glorious blend of biology and physics!
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Things to watch for GCSE Topics coming up - infection and response - inside the factory - throat sweets episode! Evolution - the fabulous @theAliceRoberts Xmas lectures from 2018!
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Hi everyone! We are planning science week and doing a theme of space - has anyone got any good experiments or ideas of people that might come into school for a visit? Thanks in advance! @chatbiology @ChatChemistry @ChatPhysics ??
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Biology A level teachers - looking at getting a kit to do electrophoresis with Y13 - we have tanks etc but which kits have you used and what is the best way to source cheaper micropipettes, some kits have them as optional? Currently looking at EDVOTEK cancer one @chatbiology
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I've written a blog on how even the very best of us can harbour scientific misconceptions.
substack.com/home/post/p-183…
ALT Killian Court at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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About to see the fab @xandvt and @DoctorChrisVT live at operation ouch at the Royal Festival Hall for the twins’ birthday!
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16 Dec 2025
What are your favourite Christmas end of term science activities for those last few lessons? @chatbiology @ChatChemistry @ChatPhysics
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11 Dec 2025
Immobilising yeast for enzyme practical with year 12! The cries of ‘that’s so amazing’ and ‘mine are so spherical, they are beautiful’ echoing around the lab 😁
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9 Dec 2025
Any ideas please? We are doing algal balls and photosynthesis w y13 however they are getting results that are getting more acidic w increasing light intensity rather than less acidic! @chatbiology #chatbiology @SAPS_News @RoyalSocBio
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4 Nov 2025
It's @Green__Careers Week!💚Check out our post of useful links plus an environmental careers story from @leysbiotutor
Post: chatbiology.com/?p=2444
Have you had a #GreenJob?
How are you planning to celebrate this week?
Let us know in the comments.
#GCW2025 #GreenCareersWeek
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28 Oct 2025
Don't forget if you are getting pumpkins to carve this half term why not make one biology themed so you can enter our competition! 🎃🏆
21 Oct 2025
October half term is here which means it's time for this year's #ChatBioPumpkinCarvingComp ! 🎃
The post includes this year's entry categories & pics of last year's entries for inspo
Submission form to follow soon - please share! #ChatBiology
chatbiology.com/2025/10/21/b…
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21 Oct 2025
October half term is here which means it's time for this year's #ChatBioPumpkinCarvingComp ! 🎃
The post includes this year's entry categories & pics of last year's entries for inspo
Submission form to follow soon - please share! #ChatBiology
chatbiology.com/2025/10/21/b…
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21 Oct 2025
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6 Oct 2025
Scientists win Nobel Prize for discovering why immune system does not destroy the body @NobelPrize @chatbiology bbc.com/news/articles/c2knwv…
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30 Sep 2025
We are back for 2026 🎉
Some updates from us about our new format and a look back at #ChatBiologyLive in our new post.
If you joined us on the day what were your favourite takeaways?
Share and comment below!
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25 Sep 2025
Which is the ‘best’ A level biology course and why? Contemplating changing exam board @chatbiology
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"It is nothing less than the dawn of a new age for families impacted by Huntington’s disease."
A new gene therapy to treat Huntington’s disease has shown positive data from the study which is being run at UCLH and other sites.
Read more: buff.ly/XCPmcnN
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15 Aug 2025
Professor Dame Carol Robinson is a scientist who was the first female professor of Chemistry at both Cambridge and Oxford Universities.
She left school at 16 and joined Pfizer, the pharmaceutical and biomedical company, as a laboratory technician. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002gz…
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