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Bee article creates a buzz

Bee article creates a buzz

An article on urban beekeeping from the latest issue of The Biologist has attracted widespread attention from media outlets in the UK and abroad.
A level results

A level results show biology's popularity

This year's provisional A level results show biology is the most popular science in UK sixth forms and colleges.

 
Flying ants

Flying ants appear early

The UK's black garden ants (Lasius niger) are currently taking to the air in spectacular style
International Biology Olympiad

International Biology Olympiad: UK students take silver and bronze

UK 3 silvers and a bronze medal
Mountain Hay Meadow Conference

Making hay in Transylvania

The Society helped organise one of its more remote conferences in May thanks to senior science policy advisor Barbara Knowles FSB. The two day Mountain Hay Meadow Conference took place in Gyimesközéplok, Transylvania, in the Pogány-havas Region of Romania. Experts and practitioners from various fields (farmers, biologists, sociologists, economists, ethnographers, policy makers and NGOs in Romania and abroad) discussed how to improve the appreciation, conservation and sustainable management

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Meetings, money and David Willetts

Science and universities minister David Willetts met senior figures from five of the UK's leading scientific societies in June.

Organised by the Society of Biology, the meeting provided an opportunity for the Society, the Institute of Physics, the London Mathematical Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh to stress the importance of investment in science and technology. The meeting came before the Government’s spending announcements later in the

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BBO 2013 winners

Awards ceremony recognises young scientists

The achievements of over 130 students were recognised with medals and certificates in the British Biology Olympiad (BBO) and the Biology Challenge competition awards at the Royal Society, London, in June.

The four winners of the BBO (pictured above), an annual competition for post-16 students, will go forward to represent the UK at the International Biology Olympiad in Switzerland.

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