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🌻 The Week in Botany January 22, 2024

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,...

🦃 The Week in Botany November 20, 2023

November 20, 2023

This week I’ve been working on a new system to track interest in stories on a wider range of sites than just Twitter and Mastodon. I was hoping to have it...

🌻 The Week in Botany November 13, 2023

November 13, 2023

It’s a quick Week in Botany this week, as I’ve been rushed off my feet. I got to Friday evening and then fell asleep with exhaustion and I’m not sure I’ve...

🌻 The Week in Botany November 6, 2023

November 6, 2023

It’s a late finish tonight, as I’ve been supervising the office manager over the weekend. It’s Bonfire Night here, and fireworks make his whiskers twitch....

🎃 The Week in Botany October 30, 2023

October 30, 2023

I’ll start by mentioning a webinar that’s on tomorrow, Plantae Presents: Importance of Self-care and Community Care. It’s happening at 08:00 AM PDT, 11:00 AM...

🌻 The Week in Botany October 23, 2023

October 23, 2023

It’s the last week of summer time in the UK this week. Next weekend the clocks will move back and the evenings will plunge into darkness. If I remember...

🌻 The Week in Botany October 16, 2023

October 16, 2023

If you’ve been affected by the events of this week, then you have my sympathies. It’s left many botanists on social media shocked this week. Here’s a...

🌻 The Week in Botany October 9, 2023

October 9, 2023

This week I got to find out what happens when all the automated systems I use to help me break down. It’s been a really interesting week. I’m hoping next...

🌻 The Week in Botany October 2, 2023

October 2, 2023

I had an unpleasant surprise this week. One of the highlights of going to the Annals of Botany meetings in the summer has been talking with Philip White, one...

🌻 The Week in Botany September 25, 2023

September 25, 2023

It’s been another 7-day week, the second in a row, so I’ve experimented with using AI to summarise the scientific papers. It cuts down on brainwork. At the...

🌻 The Week in Botany September 18, 2023

September 18, 2023

The weather has gone from unbearably hot to cold and wet over the course of a week here. It’s nice to have some autumnal weather for the autumn. I imagine...

🌻 The Week in Botany September 11, 2023

September 11, 2023

It’s been a busy week, but it’s one of those weeks where it feels like there’s something to show for some of the effort. We have ten stories out this week...

🌻 The Week in Botany September 4, 2023

September 4, 2023

Here are the stories shared on Twitter 🐦, Mastodon 🐘 and Newslit 📰. I’ve tagged them this week, so you can see what’s coming from where. There’s being a bit...

🌻 The Week in Botany August 28, 2023

August 28, 2023

With Twitter sharing falling, I’ve started running an experiment on Mastodon to see if I can improve the automated harvesting of share counts, likes and so...