Author - Alun Salt

Plant versus Bee Power

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...

#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 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 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 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...