Emily Skinner

Ecologist and MSc Species Identification and Survey Skills graduate 🌿🦇🦎

[Botanical University Challenge @BUCBotany]

Newsletter of Botanical University Challenge has a plant joke in each issue. This month: What is the clumsiest plant? Back in 2023 one team had a name very like this.
https://t.co/v9v6BAabo0
Got a better plant joke?

[Emily Skinner @EmilyEcologist]

I’ve noticed lots of violets flowering at the moment💜

These are some of the key features that help with differentiating the violets:
• Smell - any smell?
• Sepal shape - blunt or pointed?
• Spur colour - darker or lighter than petals?

#botany #bsbi #violet #flower #plant

[Botanical University Challenge @BUCBotany]

Final questions answered Round 2 Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025. 8 teams highest scores into Quarterfinal 26 February. Aberdeen, Plymouth, Reading, Kew, Eden, Oxford, Galway, Queen Mary London. Others so close behind! See it again on YouTube https://t.co/ny6gorpMTl

[Emily Skinner @EmilyEcologist]

In 2024 I set myself a challenge to record all the plant and animal species I saw each month for the year 🌱

Overall in 2024 I made 1374 records with a total of 632 different species. Now I just have to try and beat these numbers in 2025!

#bsbi #botany #ecology #wildlife

[UoR BioSci @ReadingBioSci]

➡️Reading is through to the semi-finals of @BUCBotany this Wednesday! We're so proud of our team, 'Stamen to that'

🌿Semi-finals line-up: York, Cambridge, RBG Kew, and @UniofReading

📸 Check out these pics from last year's final. Join the live stream this Wednesday. Go Reading!

[Bernoid @bernoid]

Finished :)

[Emily Skinner @EmilyEcologist]

Last week a couple juvenile pipistrelles found themselves stuck in our office 🦇 The Cambridgeshire Bat Group got them healthy before we released them back at the office this evening. Seem to still be getting the hang of flying! Handled under licence #wildlife #bat #nature

[Emily Skinner @EmilyEcologist]

@wildflower_hour Clustered Bellflower and Harebell for this week #nature #botany #wildflower

[Emily Skinner @EmilyEcologist]

Did my very first FISC test today! 🌷No photos from during the actual test but these are from a quick walk I went on beforehand as preparation. Field scabious with marbled white, six-spot burnet, clustered bellflower, greater knapweed @BSBIbotany #botany #wildflower #nature

[Emily Skinner @EmilyEcologist]

Perforate St John’s Wort, Tufted Vetch, Field Scabious and a bunch of cinnabar moth enjoy the Ragwort earlier today in a this grassland in Colchester, Essex @BSBIbotany #botany #wildflower #wildlife

[Emily Skinner @EmilyEcologist]

@wildflower_hour A few plants whilst walking around the pond in my local park in Colchester. Purple-loosestrife, Square-stemmed St John’s-wort, Water Mint and Marsh Woundwort #botany #wildlife #wildflowers

[CIEEM @CIEEMnet]

The MSc Ecological Survey Skills with Placement programme at the University of Reading stands out for the curriculum's strong focus on employability, providing students with practical skills highly sought after.

Read more about the winner now 👉 https://t.co/oVuXYmhv3x

[Uni of Reading @UniofReading]

Congratulations to @ReadingBioSci who've received the Higher Education Programme of the Year Award for its MSc Ecological Survey Skills with Placement programme, at the @CIEEMnet Awards.

And hear why Emily would recommend it too 👂

Learn from the experts https://t.co/mtfWrDtBco

[Dr M still going wild! @drmgoeswild]

Delighted @UniofReading @ReadingBioSci MSc ESSP has won the @CIEEMnet HE award, thanks to my teaching colleagues, the consultancies who take our placement students and skill them up for the jobs market and of course our lovely students for being so awesome! Dr M #CIEEMAwards

[Emily Skinner @EmilyEcologist]

Definitely a great course and highly recommend!!

[Dr M still going wild! @drmgoeswild]

Delighted to have been awarded the @CIEEMnet HE award for @UniofReading @ReadingBioSci MSc Ecological Survey Skills with Placement! Thanks to my teaching team, the consultancies who take our placement students and our lovely students for all being awesome! Pics to follow!

[Botanical University Challenge @BUCBotany]

Botanical University Challenge Art Competition 2024 for students! Still over a month to the deadline 30 June. Get your art media, phone or camera out. For more information and how to enter https://t.co/s0z5j6kwAV

[Botanical University Challenge @BUCBotany]

We’re delighted to announce the #BUC2024 Art & Photography Competition! Submit entries from Friday 22nd March. Categories of Photography (Survivor; Overlooked) & Art (Realism; Abstract). Full details & entry form at: https://t.co/DwbTWXLYqA @OBGHA @EllenCBaker @MPrag

[Dr M still going wild! @drmgoeswild]

Wishing the best of botanical luck to our awesome @UniofReading @ReadingBioSci @BUCBotany team "Stamen to That!"
Follow the link to watch the first round Weds 14th Feb 2pm GMT: https://t.co/fcpVmVAYYX

[Emily Skinner @EmilyEcologist]

Spotted myself looking at some buttercup here!

[UoR BioSci @ReadingBioSci]

Last Sunday marked the International Day of Women and Girls in Science

Let's take a moment to recognise all of the brilliant #WomeninSTEM that make the School of Biological Sciences and the @UniofReading thrive

📹 shows female scientists across multiple discplines and schools

[Dr M still going wild! @drmgoeswild]

Graduation is such a happy day meeting up with our #MScSISS graduates and hearing how well they are getting on after @UniofReading - here's just a small selection of @ReadingBioSci graduand happiness including @EmilyEcologist @jessinthewild - We're proud of you all!