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🤒 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,...

🌱 TWiB November 29, 2021

November 29, 2021

Last week I managed my time well enough to compile the newsletter on Friday afternoon, which gave me my first full weekend off in a long while. I'm going to...

🌱 TWiB November 22, 2021

November 22, 2021

Here comes another collection of stories shared by people following @BotanyOne on Twitter. I'm pleased we got Philip White's bibliometrics article out this...

🌱 TWiB November 15, 2021

November 15, 2021

Welcome to another collection of the stories shared by people following @BotanyOne on Twitter. If you're wondering why there's been a lot of papers about...

🌱TWiB November 8, 2021

November 8, 2021

Often I'll see stories as I compile this newsletter, and wonder how I missed them. However, this week has been busy, so I'm not quite so annoyed with myself...

🌱TWiB November 1, 2021

November 1, 2021

I've finally managed to change up the monitoring system this week, and I think a few more papers are surfacing that would have been missed otherwise, so I'm...

🌱TWiB October 25, 2021

October 25, 2021

It's a lot easier to work on these emails on a Sunday evening when the evenings are light. Next week in the UK the clocks move back, so the evening shall...

🌱TWiB October 18, 2021

October 18, 2021

I held on to the cold slightly longer than I would have liked. It means this week has been working around whatever symptom I had. It means that outside of...

🌱TWiB October 11, 2021

October 11, 2021

Over the week a computer scans the stories shared by people following @BotanyOne on Twitter. It means when I don't, because I have a cold, for example,...

🌱TWiB October 4, 2021

October 4, 2021

Even though I put dates in the subject line each week, October has taken me by surprise. I notice the nights getting darker, but it's felt solidly grey since...

🌱TWiB September 27, 2021

September 27, 2021

Here comes another collection of stories shared by people following @BotanyOne on Twitter. One of the advantages of seeing what other people are sharing is...

🌱 TWiB September 20, 2021

September 20, 2021

I've started taking down the meadow (or front lawn) this week, which drives home the turning of the seasons. It's been a mixed success this year, with it...

🌱 TWiB September 13, 2021

September 13, 2021

Here's another collection of the stories shared by people following @BotanyOne on Twitter. I've been putting this together quite late as I wanted to watch...

🌱 TWiB September 5, 2021

September 6, 2021

We have another round-up of the stories shared by people following @BotanyOne on Twitter. It's been another quiet week, and I've compiled this edition early...

🌱 TWiB August 30, 2021

August 30, 2021

The response to the audio files on Botany One has been surprising since their launch. I didn't expect a lot of interest, but an unexpected number of people...

🌱 TWiB August 23, 2021

August 23, 2021

Here's another collection of stories shared by people following @BotanyOne on Twitter. It's been a busy week for me, so a lot of these stories are ones I...

🌱 TWiB August 16, 2021

August 16, 2021

It's been a mixed week this week. The climate stories are depressing. The positive for me is that I can always work on something else for a break. I wonder...

🌱 TWiB August 9, 2021

August 9, 2021

The links here are the stories I see shared by people following @BotanyOne on Twitter. That means sometimes I'll get a surprise when I miss a story and see...

🌱 TWiB August 2, 2021

August 2, 2021

This week it was Black Botanists Week on Twitter. It's both an inspirational and frustrating hashtag to follow. The reason for both feelings is that it's...

🌱 TWiB July 26, 2021

July 26, 2021

Here comes another collection of the stories shared by people following @BotanyOne on Twitter. Over the next few weeks, we're hoping to include some of the...

🌱 TWiB July 19, 2021

July 19, 2021

Welcome to another collection of the stories shared by people following @BotanyOne on Twitter. I felt dizzy compiling the newsletter this week, either due to...

🌱 TWiB July 12, 2021

July 12, 2021

I've been away in Ceredigion this week, so a lot of the work on the @BotanyOne Twitter account has been done by Juniper Kiss. I've put this week's email...

🌱TWiB July 5, 2021

July 5, 2021

There is some politics in this week's email. Normally I avoid including political stories. This week, the stories are in because people following @BotanyOne...

🌱 TWiB June 28, 2021

June 28, 2021

It's been a strong week for New Phytologist this week. I'll have to see if that's due to a flaw in the new system from collecting tweets, clever strategy on...

🌱 TWiB June 21, 2021

June 21, 2021

The big news in the office this week was the launch of a new section of AoB PLANTS, Molecular Function and Environment. I'll be interested to see what comes...

🌱 TWiB June 14, 2021

June 14, 2021

In the garden we're clearly shifting from spring to summer. It's gone from being too wet to work to being to hot to work. I am hoping to get out to a few...

🌱 TWiB June 7, 2021

June 7, 2021

I'll start this week by highlighting the ESA's Postdoctoral Excellence Award in Plant Population Ecology. The award, sponsored by AoB PLANTS has a deadline....

🌱 TWiB May 31, 2021

May 31, 2021

Welcome to the latest Week in Botany compiled from stories shared by people following @BotanyOne on Twitter. It's been a week where nothing major has gone...

🌱 TWiB May 24, 2021

May 24, 2021

I learned a few things this week. Not least, that warming temperatures might not drive plants uphill as I had assumed. Rachael Olliff-Yang shows that plants...

🌱 TWiB May 17, 2021

May 17, 2021

This is the first edition of the newsletter where I haven't had help from Nuzzel to find and rank links. Instead, I'm using a soup of three different systems...

🌱 TWiB May 10, 2021

May 10, 2021

The newsletter is set to change a little. A key tool I used for scanning the accounts on Twitter shut down at short notice. I have found an alternative, but...

🌱 TWiB May 3, 2021

May 3, 2021

Welcome to another collection of the stories shared by people following @BotanyOne on Twitter. Usually, I remove all the COVID-19 stories from the list I...

🌱 TWiB April 26, 2021

April 26, 2021

One of the big stories this week was the forest fires in South Africa’s Table Mountain National Park reaching the University of Cape Town. Nature's headline...