🌻 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...
🌻 The Week in Botany 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
