🌻 The Week in Botany April 7, 2025
I visited BiFOR’s FACE experiment this week. This is a small wood with towers that release carbon dioxide around the trees, so that the local concentration...
🌻 The Week in Botany March 31, 2025
There’s a danger with scanning social media so much for stories that you get exposed to the worst of what’s going on many times over So I’ve made a...
🌻 The Week in Botany March 24, 2025
We’ve had a discussion about whether to keep listing USA jobs. We’re keeping them for now, but if you’re applying for a job in the USA from outside the...
🌻 The Week in Botany March 17, 2025
I thought I’d ask for some help this week, but I tried writing a couple of paragraphs and failed. The migraines left me with an idea, and playing around with...
🪧 The Week in Botany March 10, 2025
This week was a migraine week, which was a pity as I missed the calls for the Stand Up for Science rallies. If you’re attending more rallies, Andrew Thaler...
🌻 The Week in Botany March 3, 2025
It’s been another grim week on social media, making botanical news harder to find. I’m going to try something different for next week.There are a lot of...
🌻 The Week in Botany February 24, 2025
The snowdrops seem to have done a lightning raid on the front lawn, appearing and going over in less than a week. The crocuses are putting on a bit more of a...
🌻 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...
