Aberdeen University Zoology and Biological Sciences Society

We’re having another park clean this week, join us on Sunday in Sunnybank park at 11am!

🌻 Sunnybank is a community run park with a children’s play area, basketball court, and allotments. It gets a lot of use and needs help being kept clean. 🌻

🚯 We have our custom AUZBS high vis and litter pickers provided. We recommend gloves if you are going to pick up glass. Every little helps when it comes to cleaning up parks, so bring your friends and get stuck in! 🚯

We’re rounding off the year with another Animal Battle Royale, next Tuesday meeting upstairs at The Blue Lamp at 8 to start at 8:30.

The rules are as followed: Teams will be given a prompt for a scenario such as best marine fighter, best pet, best field assistant etc…
🦎
You have to create an animal for this scenario with different body parts (head + body + legs/wings).
🦎
Everyone shows their drawings and justifies their creation. The teams will then vote for their favourite!

Who’s excited for tonight?! 🤩

The coach will be picking people up at 6pm from SDR!

✨ School of Biological Sciences Ball ✨

Tickets are £50 and will be on sale in the zoology building foyer at the following dates and times:
Friday 8th 13:15-14:00
Tuesday 12th 18:00-19:00
Thursday 14th 13:15-14:00
Friday 15th 13:15-14:00

The ball will be on the 29th of March, buses will collect people from the Sir Duncan Rice library and drop off to the Ardoe house hotel, where a 2 course meal and wine will be served, after this ceilidh dancing will commence. There will be security, a live band and photographers.

Wanna hunt for trash of the week instead of Easter eggs?We’re having another park clean this week, join us on Sunday in Sunnybank park at 11am!

🌻 Sunnybank is a community run park with a children’s play area, basketball court, and allotments. It gets a lot of use and needs help being kept clean. 🌻

🚯 We have our custom AUZBS high vis and litter pickers provided. We recommend gloves if you are going to pick up glass. Every little helps when it comes to cleaning up parks, so bring your friends and get stuck in! 🚯

We’ve heard about all the strange ways in which animals court and reproduce, but what about the next stage... weird babies! The cycle of life can be a beautiful and odd thing, come along to an exclusive tour of the zoology museum focused on life after fertilisation and the interesting things that occur during gestation and in infancy.

It’s that time of year again… our AGM!
It’ll be held on Monday the 25th of March at 5pm in New Kings 3. Take a look at the roles and what they entail and consider being a part of our committee! We also need people to come along to vote so support your friends and the future of AUZBS by coming to the AGM.
Not only is it fun and engaging, being a committee member also provides you with opportunities and experience for your CV and the ability to make many new friends!

Still a chance to order a hoodie!

Hey guys we’d like to invite you to our social next Tuesday! Just a casual night out with some karaoke 😎🎤. We’ll be meeting at O’Donaghues pub on Justice Mill lane at 8pm for some drinks, then heading to Bardots next door at 10pm.

During Climate Week North East, join us on “Extinction Tours” of the University of Aberdeen’s Zoology Museum, guided by trained student volunteers from the University of Aberdeen Zoology & Biological Science Society.

Tour leaders will be looking at species at risk of extinction in both the upper and lower galleries, and discussing the major issues plaguing our global biodiversity. Our student volunteers are passionate and can’t wait to share their passion with you!

Tours will take place on Saturday 16th March and Wednesday 20th March.

Tours will begin on the hour at: 11.00, 12.00, 13.00, 14.00 and 15.00.
Each tour will last approximately 50 minutes.
Each tour group is restricted to 15, so booking is essential. Click the link in our bio to take you to the museums and special collections page.
Attendees will be asked to meet in the Zoology Museum foyer a minimum of 5 minutes before the scheduled starting time of their tour. A member of the tour team will be waiting to welcome you.

We’re selling some homemade baked goods on Thursday to fundraise for our annual trip to the Highland Wildlife Park. We’ll be outside SDR in the morning from 9:30am-12pm, and then in the Zoology foyer from 12:30-2:30pm. We take cash and card!

✨ School of Biological Sciences Ball ✨

Tickets are £50 and will be on sale in the zoology building foyer at the following dates and times:
Friday 8th 13:15-14:00
Tuesday 12th 18:00-19:00
Thursday 14th 13:15-14:00
Friday 15th 13:15-14:00

The ball will be on the 29th of March, buses will collect people from the Sir Duncan Rice library and drop off to the Ardoe house hotel, where a 2 course meal and wine will be served, after this ceilidh dancing will commence. There will be security, a live band and photographers.

We have AUZBS merch! Beautiful burgundy or olive hoodies with reverse stitching! Click the link in our bio (https://linktr.ee/auzbs2023) and complete the form and payment by the 15TH OF MARCH!

Friends of AUZBS and the Marine Society, we are looking for museum tour guides! Tours run every Wednesday and this is a really fun experience and opportunity. Come along to training next Wednesday 4pm in the zoology lecture theatre!

We’re taking our park cleaning skills and equipment and joining forces with the Highland Faffers society to do a clean up of Seaton park, a busy and popular park just near Hillhead Student Village. Join us next Sunday 10th of March at 11am, meeting next to the fountain!

Introducing our next PhD guest speaker, Charlie Towler.
Charlie has a particular interest in herpetology and is studying the range dynamics and conservation of great crested newts in the Scottish Highlands.
Hear from Charlie about “UK native amphibian ID and conservation” next Thursday at 5pm!

Introducing our first PhD guest speaker, Anna Kellner.
Anna is studying predator-prey dynamics with an interest in rewilding, science communication and widening access to conservation careers.
Hear about her work on “Rewilding and the return of interacting mesopredators in a commercial plantation” next Thursday at 5pm!

We’re delighted to have 3 PhD students delivering talks about their research, fieldwork, and experiences next Wednesday! More information on the students and their topics to come…
Then we’re going to St Machar’s afterward for a drink and debrief, hope to see you there!

There is going to be another screening of David Attenborough’s Green Planet this Wednesday, hosted by the school’s plant science champions Catriona and Will.
🌵
They want to share their love of ‘Desert Worlds’ and host a chill evening and spread awareness of the importance of plant science.
🌵
MR250 @ 5pm!

There is going to be another screening of David Attenborough’s Green Planet this Wednesday, hosted by the school’s plant science champions Catriona and Will.
🌿
They want to share their love of ‘Seasonal Worlds’ and host a chill evening and spread awareness of the importance of plant science.
🌿
MR250 @ 5pm!

Got any Valentine’s Day plans? Why not join for a special tour of the Zoology museum…

💖 Our most experienced tour guide will be taking you round the extensive collections of specimens in the Zoology museum and putting a sexy spin on the usual tour, telling you all about the incredibly varied and interesting ways in which different animals reproduce 💖

There is going to be another screening of David Attenborough’s Green Planet this Wednesday, hosted by the school’s plant science champions Catriona and Will.
🌿
They want to share their love of ‘Water Worlds’ and host a chill evening and spread awareness of the importance of plant science.
🌿
MR250 @ 5pm!

We’re kicking off 2024 with another Animal Battle Royale, next Tuesday meeting upstairs at The Blue Lamp at 7:30 to start at 8.

The rules are as followed: Teams will be given a prompt for a scenario such as best marine fighter, best pet, best field assistant etc…
🦎
You have to create an animal for this scenario with different body parts (head + body + legs/wings).
🦎
Everyone shows their drawings and justifies their creation. The teams will then vote for their favourite!

Our fortnightly park cleans are continuing for semester two (and hopefully more frequent with the improving weather 🤞) so join us on Sunday in Sunnybank park at 11am!

🌻 Sunnybank is a community run park with a children’s play area, basketball court, and allotments. It gets a lot of use and needs help being kept clean. 🌻

🚯 We have our custom AUZBS high vis and litter pickers provided. We recommend gloves if you are going to pick up glass. Every little helps when it comes to cleaning up parks, so bring your friends and get stuck in! 🚯

Hi all! We’re starting a bi-weekly mailing list which includes a run down of our upcoming events. Perhaps more helpful for those who aren’t on Instagram and Facebook but if this happens to be off chance you check it and would rather stay updated via email, click the link below to sign up👇

AUZBS Mailing list Hello! You've clicked this link as you're interested in being on our mailing list. This will be a short email every 2 weeks giving a brief overview of the upcoming events and opportunities. Also check out our Instagram = and Facebook = Aberdeen University Zoology and Biological Sciences....