Coming up in October we have a paper, ‘Flower power: its association with bee power and floral functional morphology in papilionate legumes‘ by Silvina A. Córdoba and Andrea A. Cocucci, in the journal. The...
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Alun Salt
A new Creative Commons search for botany photos on Flickr
We changed the template we use for AoB Blog to HTML5 last week. We’re still using similar CSS, so there’s not a huge change in how the site looks, but there is a big change in how it is put together. It...
Plants, Pollination and Paywalls
We put The natural history of pollination and mating in bird-pollinated Babiana (Iridaceae) live on the Annals of Botany site this week. It’s been covered in the press, notably by the BBC, Plant has evolved a...
#IBC18 Closing Ceremony
Tweets from the closing ceremony of the International Botanical Congress, along with the vote results. “ Starting to gather for closing ceremony. So many cameras! #botanicalredcarpet #ibc18...
#IBC18 Saturday Morning
Tweets from the final symposia of the International Botanical Congress. “ #ibc18 Last day, final talks, closing session, farewells & tearful tweets. Off to Melbourne city lane way now to savour last Coffea...
#IBC18 The Atlas of Living Australia: infrastructure for biodiversity research
Tweets from the Friday evening public lecture at the International Botanical Congress. (The photo is from earlier this year, not the IBC, but it was the only one I could easily find) “ First talk that I have been...
#IBC18 Friday Afternoon
“ Still can’t work out who is cooler – the botany conference people or the quilting conference next door people. Probably us #ibc18 fembotanist July 28, 2011 Once again there’s a mix and match...
#IBC18 Friday Morning
Tweets from the Keynote symposia for IBC18 “ Bumper session of thinkers coming up: Frank Busby, Mark Burgman and Hugh Possingham. #ibc18 TimEntwisle July 28, 2011 I’ll start with Plant diversity and...
#IBC18 Friday Plenary session
Tweets from the International Botanical Congress in Melbourne. You can find out more including plenty of photos at the Facebook page: “ And we’re off for the last full day. Well-deserved award to Mike Crisp...
#IBC18 Thursday public lecture
Tweets from the public lecture Sister Water Lily meets the Big Bad Banksia Man by Dr Peter Bernhardt. “ #ibc18 Public Lecture. Peter Bernhardt: Sister Water Lily meets the Big Bad Banksia Man. Role of storytelling...
#IBC18 Thursday afternoon
I’m not sure if many people settled in one session this afternoon, so I’ve tried grouping tweets by talk. Throw in replies to each other between talks and someone deciding to tweet his own talk and it could...
#IBC18 Plant taxonomy in the 21st century
Tweets from one of the keynote symposia at IBC2011. We have tweets from one symposium Plant taxonomy in the 21st century, chaired by Sandra Knapp and Kevin Thiele. “ Kevin Thield: Pushes Darwin aside and goes...
#IBC18 Thursday Plenary lectures
Tweets from the first two lectures at the International Botanical conference. Follow it at or on the web at It looks like a lot of tweets for Thursday, so there’ll be a few posts today. Tim Entwisle has another...
#IBC18 on Wednesday
All of Wednesday’s (a half-day) tweets in one post. “ Great to see the #ibc18 delegates out and about the Gardens! RBG_Melbourne July 27, 2011 …and so is the blog. There’s a slight delay to...
