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🌻 The Week in Botany September 4, 2023
September 4, 2023
Here are the stories shared on Twitter 🐦, Mastodon 🐘 and Newslit 📰. I’ve tagged them this week, so you can see what’s coming from where. There’s being a bit...
🌻 The Week in Botany August 28, 2023
August 28, 2023
With Twitter sharing falling, I’ve started running an experiment on Mastodon to see if I can improve the automated harvesting of share counts, likes and so...
🌻 The Week in Botany August 21, 2023
August 21, 2023
This time with the correct date.
🌻 The Week in Botany August 14, 2023
August 14, 2023
It’s been a puzzling week on Twitter, with some stories getting a lot of traction, but a lot less middle-ground tweets. In other Twitter news, The Thesis...
🌻 The Week in Botany August 7, 2023
August 7, 2023
It’s been a disappointing week. In a week when even cacti are struggling with the climate, I had hoped to launch a weekly round-up of the latest climate...
🌻 The Week in Botany July 31, 2023
July 31, 2023
I think if you want the authentic experience this week, you should punctuate each item with at least two lung-rattling coughs. This week the links are from...
🌻 The Week in Botany July 24, 2023
July 24, 2023
In the past, I’ve mentioned that the email will arrive Monday morning, unless COVID intervenes. My test came back negative, so it’s just a bad cold. This...
🌻 The Week in Botany July 17, 2023
July 17, 2023
Here’s another collection of the stories shared on Twitter. There’s nothing from Mastodon this week. There are plenty of interesting plant conversations...
🌻 The Week in Botany July 10, 2023
July 10, 2023
After Musk killed the APIs for Twitter, the only way to track what’s popular on the site has been human eyeball v1.0. This week’s innovation has been putting...
🌻 The Week in Botany July 3, 2023
July 3, 2023
It’s a grim week this week, with Gabriel Trujillo’s death on fieldwork making the headlines. It’s an unfortunate reminder to make sure of your safety if...
🌻 The Week in Botany June 26, 2023
June 26, 2023
It’s another mixed week. Twitter continues to decline. I think some of that is the effect of summer, but I don’t remember views dropping so much before. One...
🌻 The Week in Botany June 19, 2023
June 19, 2023
I’ve put this issue together slowly, as the air is full of a storm that isn’t quite arriving and leaving my head fuzzy. There might be some interesting typos...
🔥 The Week in Botany, June 12 2023
June 12, 2023
This week I learned that thunderstorm asthma is a thing. The plant connection that it’s caused by winds picking up pollen, and thunderstorms breaking the...
The Week in Botany June 5, 2023
June 5, 2023
It feels like one of those weeks where, if I were feeling lazy, I could copy ‘n’ paste the New Phytologist table of contents as the week’s interesting...
🌻 The Week in Botany May 29, 2023
May 29, 2023
It’s been a quiet week on Twitter this week, possibly due to a lot of plant attention being based at the Chelsea Flower Show. A paper that caught my eye was...
🌻 The Week in Botany May 22, 2023
May 22, 2023
It’s going to be a busy week this week, not least because the Royal Society of Biology is holding its Summer Conference on Thursday. It’s online and free, so...
🌻 The Week in Botany May 15, 2023
May 15, 2023
No Mow May is well underway, though the sound that’s coming through window as I type tells me many of my neighbours disagree. The front lawn is a mix of...
🌻 The Week in Botany May 8, 2023
May 8, 2023
As predicted the various usual aids for reading Twitter failed this week. I can say the links in this week’s newsletter were shared on Twitter, but I can’t...
🌻 The Week in Botany May 1, 2023
May 1, 2023
Another public holiday has snuck up on me. This time it’s May Day. If I can, I’ll be making time to go out and see some bluebells in the woods. Otherwise I...
🌻 The Week in Botany April 24, 2023
April 24, 2023
I’ve been slowly putting this together this weekend due to a large headache, sadly due to the weather rather than any particular event. If it wasn’t the...
🌻 The Week in Botany April 17, 2023
April 17, 2023
This week is a hodge-podge of various methods of finding out what’s trending on Botanical Twitter, not all of them successful. One story most of the methods...
🌻 The Week in Botany April 10, 2023
April 10, 2023
Next week’s email will be difficult. Each week I gather the links you’re sharing on Twitter and Mastodon. If I were to manually check Twitter, I’d need to be...
🌻 The Week in Botany April 3, 2023
April 3, 2023
I was surprised earlier this week when I was told how close the Easter break was. I still thought it was a month away. If I’d realised it was as close as it...
🌻 The Week in Botany March 27, 2023
March 27, 2023
The French version of the site is now live at https://fr.botany.one/. I plan to launch another language this week, but I’m waiting to see what comes out on...
🌻 The Week in Botany March 20, 2023
March 20, 2023
You might remember a while back we had some translations for blog posts available, and wondered what happened to them. The translation management system...
🌻 The Week in Botany March 13, 2023
March 13, 2023
It’s an unusual week, this week, as I’ve reached the end of it fairly satisfied. The website redesign is done and live. From your point of view, the...
🌻 The Week in Botany March 6, 2023
March 6, 2023
It’s a very rapidly put-together issue this week as I’ve spent most of the weekend driving. The result is there’s no careers section this week. It would be...
🌻 The Week in Botany February 27, 2023
February 27, 2023
Working on these emails gets later and later. This week the oven went with a bang. I had planned to listen to practice and qualifying for the E-prix, while...
🌻 The Week in Botany February 20, 2023
February 20, 2023
It’s a busy time in the Annals of Botany office at the moment. The deadline for articles for a special issue: African Flora in a Changing World – Integrating...
🌻 The Week in Botany February 13, 2023
February 13, 2023
I hope you’re well. The scanning for Twitter and Mastodon both seem to be working still, so there’s another collection of the stories you’re sharing. The...
🌻The Week in Botany February 6, 2023
February 7, 2023
Sorry for the delay this week. I’d gone to Wales to see my parents and set this up to come out on schedule. I hadn’t noticed that the email hadn’t come out...
🌻 The Week in Botany January 30, 2023
January 30, 2023
The painkillers are working, so instead of a cat shuffling with one lame leg, I now have a cat galloping on three legs. He needs a lot of supervision,...
🌻 The Week in Botany January 23, 2023
January 23, 2023
Here’s another collection of the stories you’re sharing on Twitter and Mastodon this week. I’m still behind with the Careers section of the newsletter, but...
🌻 The Week in Botany January 16, 2023
January 16, 2023
There’s a plan among some Chinese scientists to use parasitic plants to control invasive species. It’s an interesting idea, but leaves a lot of questions....
🌻 The Week in Botany January 9, 2023
January 9, 2023
This week’s newsletter has been put together at the last minute as I’ve been away most of the week. I should be back at my desk mid-morning tomorrow. There’s...
🎄 The Week in Botany December 19, 2022
December 19, 2022
It’s the last Week in Botany of the year, as I plan to be off work for Christmas week. There’s fewer jobs in the careers section than I’d like. I could...
🌻 The Week in Botany December 12, 2022
December 12, 2022
I’ve been making notes during the week of the jobs and PhD positions I’ve spotted and adding them to the website. It’s made putting together the Careers...
🌻 The Week in Botany December 5, 2022
December 5, 2022
It’s taken longer than usual to compile this week’s newsletter. This is partly due to bronchitis, which has kept me from sleeping. Additionally, every time I...
🌻 The Week in Botany November 28, 2022
November 28, 2022
A new design went live at Botany One this week. The plan is that you can read the shorter posts from the homepage rather than clicking through. There are...
🌻 The Week in Botany November 21, 2022
November 21, 2022
Welcome to the first email sent via Substack. It’s not as friendly for me to use as Revue was, so if you’re not happy with it you have my sympathy, and...
🌻 TWiB November 14, 2022
November 14, 2022
This week has mainly been spent programming to prepare for a post-Twitter future. Things are falling into place, and we should have something ready by...
🌻 TWiB November 7, 2022
November 7, 2022
For my week off we had more stories out than usual. I've been using my time off to experiment with sharing to Mastodon and Tumblr. Every time I needed to...
🎃 TWiB October 31, 2022
October 31, 2022
The clocks have gone back here, meaning night falls an hour earlier, and I'm definitely feeling tired. I'll be taking most of the next week off. My plans for...
🥬 TWiB October 24, 2022
October 24, 2022
I've leaned heavily on Eurekalert this week, and I might have to do that next week too. I'll be looking at a redesign of the site. The current design came...
🌻 TWiB October 17, 2022
October 17, 2022
I had plans for this week, but so did my chest infection. Not keeping a close eye on Twitter meant that either I missed a few jobs, or else there weren't...
🌻 TWiB October 10, 2022
October 10, 2022
In the Northern Hemisphere, Autumn is tightening its grip. The nights are noticeably darker by the end of the week. In the garden, the older hedgehogs have...
🌻 TWiB October 3, 2022
October 3, 2022
It's another quick write-up this week. I still don't have COVID, but I do have a chest infection that's making sleep difficult. I have now got the knack of...
🌻 TWiB September 26, 2022
September 26, 2022
I'm back, and despite it being my first trip out where there was a lot of people around, I didn't pick up COVID. I know this, because I've been taking...
🌻 TWiB September 19, 2022
September 19, 2022
As you read this, I'm probably making my way back home - unless the trip to the birds of prey feeding at Bwlch-nant-yr-arian went spectacularly wrong. The...
🌻 TWiB September 12, 2022
September 12, 2022
It's one of those weeks where a non-Botany story has dominated most of the shares on Twitter, but if you want a break from that story there's still plenty...
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