🌻 The Week in Botany February 13, 2023
I hope you’re well. The scanning for Twitter and Mastodon both seem to be working still, so there’s another collection of the stories you’re sharing. The...
🌻The Week in Botany February 6, 2023
Sorry for the delay this week. I’d gone to Wales to see my parents and set this up to come out on schedule. I hadn’t noticed that the email hadn’t come out...
🌻 The Week in Botany January 30, 2023
The painkillers are working, so instead of a cat shuffling with one lame leg, I now have a cat galloping on three legs. He needs a lot of supervision,...
🌻 The Week in Botany January 23, 2023
Here’s another collection of the stories you’re sharing on Twitter and Mastodon this week. I’m still behind with the Careers section of the newsletter, but...
🌻 The Week in Botany January 16, 2023
There’s a plan among some Chinese scientists to use parasitic plants to control invasive species. It’s an interesting idea, but leaves a lot of questions....
🌻 The Week in Botany January 9, 2023
This week’s newsletter has been put together at the last minute as I’ve been away most of the week. I should be back at my desk mid-morning tomorrow. There’s...
🎄 The Week in Botany December 19, 2022
It’s the last Week in Botany of the year, as I plan to be off work for Christmas week. There’s fewer jobs in the careers section than I’d like. I could...
🌻 The Week in Botany December 12, 2022
I’ve been making notes during the week of the jobs and PhD positions I’ve spotted and adding them to the website. It’s made putting together the Careers...
🌻 The Week in Botany December 5, 2022
It’s taken longer than usual to compile this week’s newsletter. This is partly due to bronchitis, which has kept me from sleeping. Additionally, every time I...
🌻 The Week in Botany November 28, 2022
A new design went live at Botany One this week. The plan is that you can read the shorter posts from the homepage rather than clicking through. There are...
🌻 The Week in Botany November 21, 2022
Welcome to the first email sent via Substack. It’s not as friendly for me to use as Revue was, so if you’re not happy with it you have my sympathy, and...
🌻 TWiB November 14, 2022
This week has mainly been spent programming to prepare for a post-Twitter future. Things are falling into place, and we should have something ready by...
🌻 TWiB November 7, 2022
For my week off we had more stories out than usual. I've been using my time off to experiment with sharing to Mastodon and Tumblr. Every time I needed to...
🎃 TWiB October 31, 2022
The clocks have gone back here, meaning night falls an hour earlier, and I'm definitely feeling tired. I'll be taking most of the next week off. My plans for...
🥬 TWiB October 24, 2022
I've leaned heavily on Eurekalert this week, and I might have to do that next week too. I'll be looking at a redesign of the site. The current design came...
🌻 TWiB October 17, 2022
I had plans for this week, but so did my chest infection. Not keeping a close eye on Twitter meant that either I missed a few jobs, or else there weren't...
🌻 TWiB October 10, 2022
In the Northern Hemisphere, Autumn is tightening its grip. The nights are noticeably darker by the end of the week. In the garden, the older hedgehogs have...
🌻 TWiB October 3, 2022
It's another quick write-up this week. I still don't have COVID, but I do have a chest infection that's making sleep difficult. I have now got the knack of...
🌻 TWiB September 26, 2022
I'm back, and despite it being my first trip out where there was a lot of people around, I didn't pick up COVID. I know this, because I've been taking...
🌻 TWiB September 19, 2022
As you read this, I'm probably making my way back home - unless the trip to the birds of prey feeding at Bwlch-nant-yr-arian went spectacularly wrong. The...
