🌻 The Week in Botany May 6, 2024
A while back I started reading How to be a Bad Birdwatcher, and thought a similar book on botany would be helpful. This week I found that the author, Simon...
🌼 The Week in Botany April 29, 2024
The diffusion of social media means it’s easy to overlook interesting conversations if you’re not on the same network. This thread from Bluesky by Mark...
🌻 The Week in Botany April 22, 2024
This week we’ve arranged for Botany One to be at Student Botany Festival as part of Botanical University Challenge. The exact details aren’t fixed but it...
🌻 The Week in Botany April 15, 2024
My fuzzy head last week meant that I forgot to wish people a happy Eid, if they celebrate. If I were still in Leicester then it would probably be much easier...
🌻 The Week in Botany April 8, 2024
I hope you're well. I'm suffering a little from the storms passing overhead and giving me headaches. On the plus side, it does make Big Jet TV more...
🐇 The Week in Botany March 25, 2024
It's been a grim week, so getting to browse a lot of Botany has been a welcome escape from the news. This week I'm able to add attention from BlueSky into...
🌻 The Week in Botany, March 18, 2024
Spring is well on its way here, with the tulips pushing through as the latest round of the bulb lasagne in the flower pots. I was expecting them to be a dark...
🌻 The Week in Botany, March 11, 2024
Thank you for all the well-wishes. I've done very little this week, but plan to make a slow return in the coming week. I'm finding recuperation tedious, and...
🏥 The Week in Botany, March 4 2024
I'm a little fuzzy this week. On Monday, when the last edition came out, I was in a hospital bed recovering from an operation on one of my kidneys. I've been...
🌻 The Week in Botany, February 19 2024
I'll start by flagging up the Plant Health Undergraduate Studentships in the Careers section. The RSB has twelve awards for undergraduates to get some...
🌻 The Week in Botany, February 12 2024
🌻 The Week in Botany, February 12 2024 If you're receiving this, then the move to Buttondown went well. One reason for moving is that I hope in the longer...
🌙 The Week in Botany February 5, 2024
You may need to check your spam folders next week as, if all goes well, this will be the last TWiB sent through Substack. We’ll be moving to Buttondown for a...
🌻 The Week in Botany January 29, 2024
I’m hoping that next week, I’ll start to test negative for COVID. At the moment, I’m positive in both senses of the word. It means I’m still out of energy,...
🌻 The Week in Botany January 22, 2024
It’s a much-reduced newsletter this week. Work has been a struggle and every night this week I’ve been ready to sleep by five o’clock. On Friday I found out...
🌻 The Week in Botany January 15, 2024
I’m hoping I have this sent on time this time. I had the email written Sunday evening last week, but forgot to press the ‘schedule’ button. Happily, I’m...
🌻 The Week in Botany January 8, 2024
It’s a slow start this year, though we should have more things out next week. Something that did happen over the holiday is I set up an account for Botany...
🎄 The Week in Botany, December 18, 2023
Welcome to the last Week in Botany for the year. I’ll be taking the last week of the year off, so there’ll be no email on December 25, and no data for an...
🌻 The Week in Botany December 11, 2023
This week I heard that the Royal Society of Biology will have a free online event. Professor Jonathan Drori will be talking about the ground rules for...
🌻 The Week in Botany December 4, 2023
I spent quite a bit of time out of the office this week. Instead, I was working in Thame, the murder capital of Oxfordshire, which might come as a surprise...
🌻 The Week in Botany November 27, 2023
I’m trying a different method of spotting the popular stories and papers getting shared on social media. This week, they’re pulled from Twitter, Mastodon,...
