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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“ 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...