For the scientific papers, I select the papers coming through the system that seem to be getting the most shares from our followers. If there’s a tie-break, I’ll choose the free to access papers over the ones behind a subscription barrier, but there’s no hard rule to discriminate against paywalled papers. This week, everything is free to access.

The news stories are also the most popular stories, but again a lot of the politics has been chopped out. Not all because Government stops funding science research is a topic that interests a lot of botanists, and it would be odd to ignore it. But the last couple of stories in News & Views also offer some examples of how you can do something constructive. I will be looking for more of these tales.

I also aim to blog a good news story this week. It seems the rare Snake’s Head Fritillary is on the rise again, which I saw on bird blog while writing this. It ties in with some interesting work on habitat conservation. Regardless of whether I actually get this done, there will be another email of the papers and the news stories you’re sharing on Mastodon, Bluesky, and Twitter next week. Until next time, take care.