🦃 The Week in Botany 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
🌻 The Week in Botany August 21, 2023
This time with the correct date.
🌻 The Week in Botany August 14, 2023
It’s been a puzzling week on Twitter, with some stories getting a lot of traction, but a lot less middle-ground tweets. In other Twitter news, The Thesis...
🌻 The Week in Botany August 7, 2023
It’s been a disappointing week. In a week when even cacti are struggling with the climate, I had hoped to launch a weekly round-up of the latest climate...
🌻 The Week in Botany July 31, 2023
I think if you want the authentic experience this week, you should punctuate each item with at least two lung-rattling coughs. This week the links are from...
🌻 The Week in Botany July 24, 2023
In the past, I’ve mentioned that the email will arrive Monday morning, unless COVID intervenes. My test came back negative, so it’s just a bad cold. This...
🌻 The Week in Botany July 17, 2023
Here’s another collection of the stories shared on Twitter. There’s nothing from Mastodon this week. There are plenty of interesting plant conversations...
🌻 The Week in Botany July 10, 2023
After Musk killed the APIs for Twitter, the only way to track what’s popular on the site has been human eyeball v1.0. This week’s innovation has been putting...
