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🌻 The Week in Botany July 3, 2023

July 3, 2023

It’s a grim week this week, with Gabriel Trujillo’s death on fieldwork making the headlines. It’s an unfortunate reminder to make sure of your safety if...

🌻 The Week in Botany June 26, 2023

June 26, 2023

It’s another mixed week. Twitter continues to decline. I think some of that is the effect of summer, but I don’t remember views dropping so much before. One...

🌻 The Week in Botany June 19, 2023

June 19, 2023

I’ve put this issue together slowly, as the air is full of a storm that isn’t quite arriving and leaving my head fuzzy. There might be some interesting typos...

🔥 The Week in Botany, June 12 2023

June 12, 2023

This week I learned that thunderstorm asthma is a thing. The plant connection that it’s caused by winds picking up pollen, and thunderstorms breaking the...

The Week in Botany June 5, 2023

June 5, 2023

It feels like one of those weeks where, if I were feeling lazy, I could copy ‘n’ paste the New Phytologist table of contents as the week’s interesting...

🌻 The Week in Botany May 29, 2023

May 29, 2023

It’s been a quiet week on Twitter this week, possibly due to a lot of plant attention being based at the Chelsea Flower Show. A paper that caught my eye was...

🌻 The Week in Botany May 22, 2023

May 22, 2023

It’s going to be a busy week this week, not least because the Royal Society of Biology is holding its Summer Conference on Thursday. It’s online and free, so...

🌻 The Week in Botany May 15, 2023

May 15, 2023

No Mow May is well underway, though the sound that’s coming through window as I type tells me many of my neighbours disagree. The front lawn is a mix of...

🌻 The Week in Botany May 8, 2023

May 8, 2023

As predicted the various usual aids for reading Twitter failed this week. I can say the links in this week’s newsletter were shared on Twitter, but I can’t...

🌻 The Week in Botany May 1, 2023

May 1, 2023

Another public holiday has snuck up on me. This time it’s May Day. If I can, I’ll be making time to go out and see some bluebells in the woods. Otherwise I...

🌻 The Week in Botany April 24, 2023

April 24, 2023

I’ve been slowly putting this together this weekend due to a large headache, sadly due to the weather rather than any particular event. If it wasn’t the...

🌻 The Week in Botany April 17, 2023

April 17, 2023

This week is a hodge-podge of various methods of finding out what’s trending on Botanical Twitter, not all of them successful. One story most of the methods...

🌻 The Week in Botany April 10, 2023

April 10, 2023

Next week’s email will be difficult. Each week I gather the links you’re sharing on Twitter and Mastodon. If I were to manually check Twitter, I’d need to be...

🌻 The Week in Botany April 3, 2023

April 3, 2023

I was surprised earlier this week when I was told how close the Easter break was. I still thought it was a month away. If I’d realised it was as close as it...

🌻 The Week in Botany March 27, 2023

March 27, 2023

The French version of the site is now live at https://fr.botany.one/. I plan to launch another language this week, but I’m waiting to see what comes out on...

🌻 The Week in Botany March 20, 2023

March 20, 2023

You might remember a while back we had some translations for blog posts available, and wondered what happened to them. The translation management system...

🌻 The Week in Botany March 13, 2023

March 13, 2023

It’s an unusual week, this week, as I’ve reached the end of it fairly satisfied. The website redesign is done and live. From your point of view, the...

🌻 The Week in Botany March 6, 2023

March 6, 2023

It’s a very rapidly put-together issue this week as I’ve spent most of the weekend driving. The result is there’s no careers section this week. It would be...

🌻 The Week in Botany February 27, 2023

February 27, 2023

Working on these emails gets later and later. This week the oven went with a bang. I had planned to listen to practice and qualifying for the E-prix, while...

🌻 The Week in Botany February 20, 2023

February 20, 2023

It’s a busy time in the Annals of Botany office at the moment. The deadline for articles for a special issue: African Flora in a Changing World – Integrating...