🌻 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...

🌻 TWiB September 5, 2022

September 5, 2022

I had a panic putting this together as I saw only four Botany One stories this week. Then I remembered I took Monday off. I'll be ready for another holiday...

🌻 TWiB August 29, 2022

August 29, 2022

This week there's some good news. We announced the new editors on Botany One. Michela's first story should be out tomorrow, on genetic imprinting. I'm hoping...

🌻 TWiB August 22, 2022

August 22, 2022

I hope you're enjoying the season, whichever one it is where you are. Here, despite the ongoing heat, it feels like summer is coming to an end and the...

🌻 TWiB August 15, 2022

August 15, 2022

I think a lot of you have been on holiday this week, judging by the share counts for a lot of stories. Today I've compiled the newsletter at half-past ten,...

🌻 TWiB August 8, 2022

August 8, 2022

Here's another collection of the links shared by people following us on Twitter. That last proviso, following us on Twitter, means I can miss things. and Jim...

🌻 TWiB August 1, 2022

August 1, 2022

I've not been paying too much attention to Twitter this week, as I've been busy with work. So thanks to the people who shared the story on rock dust in urban...

🌻 TWiB July 25, 2022

July 25, 2022

It turns out an extra dot worked its way into a URL last week, so I'll just mention that the Spanish homepage is at https://botany.one/es and hope this time...

🌻 TWiB July 18, 2022

July 18, 2022

The translation management system now works at Botany One. If you want to see it in its early stages, you can see Spanish at https://botany.one/es. I need to...

🌻 TWiB July 11, 2022

July 11, 2022

I think I've finally run out of ways not to get the translation system working on Botany One. With luck, it should start this week which will allow me to...

🌻 TWiB July 4, 2022

July 4, 2022

The news this week has been dominated by the Supreme Court Rulings from the USA. It's a reminder that more people that can discuss science is something that...

🌻 TWiB June 27, 2022

June 27, 2022

This weekend I'm in an isolated cottage, looking down the valley of the Afon Dulas. It takes a bit of skill to look down, as the valley is crammed between a...

🌻 TWiB June 20, 2022

June 20, 2022

Once again, here's a collection of the top links shared by people following @BotanyOne on Twitter. We seem to be a bit short of news stories this week, but...

🌻 TWiB Jun 13, 2022

June 13, 2022

It's been a busy week. Preparations are now in place to bring back the multilingual interface for the website. The first language to return will be Spanish,...

🌻 TWiB Jun 6, 2022

June 6, 2022

I've been keeping a closer eye on Botany than I would like this week thanks to something local that has started releasing pollen. My eyeballs are red and I'm...

🌻 TWiB May 30, 2022

May 30, 2022

Here's another collection of most of the top links shared by people following @BotanyOne on Twitter. It's not all. The way I keep track of the job adverts is...

🌻 TWiB May 23, 2022

May 23, 2022

It might look like a quiet week this week, but it's report season. I'm putting in a couple of large ideas, and that all needed writing up. Now they're in,...

🌻 TWiB May 16, 2022

May 16, 2022

This week's collection of the top links shared by people following @BotanyOne on Twitter has been edited between cat naps. I need to remember to double the...

🌻 TWiB May 9, 2022

May 9, 2022

It wasn't so hard to find links that weren't papers this week, so there's a bit more balance in this collection of the top links shared by people following...

🌻 TWiB May 2, 2022

May 2, 2022

It's not been a slow week due to workload, but rather with me limiting the work I do. Looking at the list this week I clearly need to improve how we find...

🌻 TWiB April 25, 2022

April 25, 2022

I've taken a lot of time off this week, initially through dizziness, and later due to a trapped nerve in my shoulder causing agony in a finger. I'm thinking...

🤒 TWiB April 18, 2022

April 18, 2022

The email was disrupted a little last week. I was working on it when the room I was working in began to pitch and yaw like it was being tossed on the high...

🌻 TWiB April 11, 2022

April 11, 2022

It's been a busy week here, and it might be about to get busier. Botany One has switched from one webserver to a different host - which took longer to sort...

🌻 TWiB April 4, 2022

April 4, 2022

It'll be a busy week next week. On my to-do list for a while has been to move the website to a better server. I've known that the day was coming that we'd...

🌻 TWiB March 28, 2022

March 28, 2022

Here's another collection of links. The way I select them is I look at which stories are most people with the people following @BotanyOne on Twitter. It's...

🌻 TWiB March 21, 2022

March 21, 2022

This week I recommend browsing through Chris Thorogood's Twitter account. He's out with Adriane Tobias in the Philippines. Adriane gave an excellent talk at...

🌻 TWiB March 14, 2022

March 14, 2022

Here's another collection of links shared by people following @BotanyOne on Twitter. It's been another slim week, as understandably people's attention is...

🌻 TWiB March 7, 2022

March 7, 2022

It's been a busy week. Blogger Juniper Kiss has finally made it to Papua New Guinea for her fieldwork. This is excellent news for her PhD, as the fieldwork...

🌱 TWiB February 28, 2022

February 28, 2022

Usually, I describe this as a collection of the top links shared by people following @BotanyOne on Twitter. This week most botanists are talking about...

🌱 TWiB February 21, 2022

February 21, 2022

I hope you've had a good week. In the office, I've been enjoying the side-effects of Storms Dudley, Eunice and Franklin. The sudden pressure drops are making...

🌹 TWiB February 14, 2022

February 14, 2022

Valentine's Day is here and if love isn't in the air, then there might at least be some reconciliation. The situation with the IPMB Conference has developed....

🌱 TWiB February 7, 2022

February 7, 2022

Here's another collection of the top links shared by people following @BotanyOne on Twitter. The top links aren't always the top stories, and this week sadly...

🌱 TWiB January 31, 2022

January 31, 2022

Happy New Year, if this is the time of year that you celebrate the New Year. It's also going to be the Winter Olympics soon. I'll be interested to watch some...

🌱 TWiB January 24, 2022

January 24, 2022

I've blogged about job adverts and accessibility this week. It's timely as we'll be advertising for another editor soon. The job description will probably...

🌱 TWiB January 17, 2022

January 17, 2022

Here's another round-up of what you're sharing on Twitter. Usually, all the politics is removed, but there is a post that intentionally touches on it from...

🌱 TWiB January 10, 2022

January 10, 2022

Welcome back. It's a shorter edition than usual, in places, partly because I took a little time off at the start of the week. I hope you managed to get some...

🎄 TWiB December 20, 2021

December 20, 2021

Welcome to the last issue of The Week in Botany for this year. It has been a difficult year, but it's been a huge help being able to follow everything shared...

🌱 TWiB December 13, 2021

December 13, 2021

Here comes another collection of stories shared by people following @BotanyOne on Twitter. I'm relying in you all to know what's happening in Botany this...

🌱 TWiB December 6, 2021

December 6, 2021

I hope you're having a great Hannukah if you celebrate it. If you don't I hope you've had a great week anyway. I've been working on fixing an event calendar,...