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🌻 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...
🌻 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...
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