🌻 The Week in Botany February 17, 2025
My sympathies if you’ve lost your job this week. I know a lot of people have. Finding non-science paper news stories has been more difficult than usual this...
🌻 The Week in Botany February 10, 2025
To my surprise, there is an email this week. I got home a bit late, and I wasn’t expecting to make the deadline. The rapid write-up means I haven’t really...
🌻 The Week in Botany February 3, 2025
It’s been an odd week. I don’t aim to discuss politics here for all sorts of reasons, one being that people might want a break from it for their mental...
🌻 The Week in Botany January 27, 2025
I now have a writing plan for the week. If it works, then I should be able to start compiling this on a Friday instead of late on a Sunday evening. I’m sure...
🌻 The Week in Botany January 20, 2025
This week I’ll be thinking about setting up a schedule for the stories we cover in brief. Ideally we’ll cover a wide breadth of botany stories, but it would...
🌻 The Week in Botany January 13, 2025
This week has a few old papers listed as popular. Most are connected to the Los Angeles fires story. One is not, and I can only assume that it’s because John...
🎆 The Week in Botany January 6, 2025
I’m back a week earlier than usual as I’ll be at the Plant Biology Education event on Tuesday and Wednesday, snow permitting. I’ve been preparing to make...
🎄 The Week in Botany December 23, 2024
It’s the end of the year, and if you’re receiving this, then I’ve just crawled over the finish line. There’ll be no newsletter next week. Normally I take two...
🌻 The Week in Botany December 16, 2024
This week the Botanical Society of America announced they’ll no longer be posting to Twitter after January 1. We’ve put up our last post on Twitter, saying...
🌻 The Week in Botany December 9, 2024
Storm Darragh has come ripping through the British Isles this week, to remind everyone winter is on its way. Getting into Oxford this morning should be...
🌻 The Week in Botany December 2, 2024
It’s been a busy week. However I’ve been taking more breaks than usual, thanks to an app called LookAway. It interrupts me very 20 minutes to rest my eyes...
🌻 The Week in Botany November 25, 2024
This week has a little difference. Usually the scanners I use anonymise everything, but this week I can credit the people who first shared an item, if it...
🌻The Week in Botany November 18, 2024
This week was supposed to be a writing week, but I was caught by surprise. While I was expecting Twitter traffic to plummet following the US election, I...
🌻 The Week in Botany November 11, 2024
Today I found there’s no poppy emoji. The site I used to search for one suggested a bagel, but that didn’t seem in spirit with the day. I’d love to say what...
🌻 The Week in Botany November 4, 2024
I saw “Hallowe’en Roses for sale this week, which were white or orange roses with a black fringe at the edges of the petals. It reminded me of the time I...
🎃 The Week in Botany October 28, 2024
The clocks have changed in the UK, so tonight is going to arrive with a thud. On the plus side, if you celebrate Diwali then the lights will shine brighter,...
🌻 The Week in Botany October 21, 2024
I said there would be a slow start to the week. It turned out to be glacial. Fortunately I’m ending the week feeling much better than how I started it. It’s...
🌻 The Week in Botany October 14, 2024
My trip to Kew didn’t go as well as I would have liked. What I saw of the plant health event was interesting, but I didn’t see much as I was unwell, and the...
🌻 The Week in Botany, October 7, 2024
I learned about renosterveld this week, a type of South African shrubland. I can’t recall hearing of it before, so the author’s description of it as “the...
🪓 The Week in Botany September 30, 2024
This week YouTube has been recommending me videos based on what it thinks I’d like. It thinks I’d like Annals of Botany’s interview with Carolina Carvalho on...
