Ian Street
Ian (@IHStreet on Twitter) is a plant scientist, science writer who blogs at The Quiet Branches. He is also a cohost of The Recovering Academic Podcast, and an Associate Editor at The POSTDOCket, the newsletter of the National Postdoc Association, and most recently, a Virtual Lab Manager at HappiLabs. email: resources@botany.one
Experimental Eating in Food: Delicious Science
Communicating Science and Scicomm career advice from Sci Comm Camp
What does it mean to be a Science Communicator? What tips can you pick up from others? Ian Street has been finding out at this year’s Sci Comm Camp.
iNaturalist: An App to Ease Plant Blindness
Ian Street finds your phone is getting ever more powerful, with a species recognition app.
Resource: The Chicago Guide to Fact–Checking
How can you make the process of fact-checking easier, so you know what you’re saying is accurate? Ian Street finds a useful resource.
The State of The World’s Plants 2017
Botanical Interest in ‘No Such Thing as a Fish’
Five Books From Oxford University Press to Deepen Your Fascination with Plants
Sharing scientific code: A short introduction to Git and GitHub
Planning to work with code? Git and Github are free tools to help share your source code.
Recent Botany Videos
For people more interested in LOLCatkins instead of LOLCats.
Darwin’s Closer Look at Primroses
What did Darwin think was his most satisfying scientific work? It might not be what you thought.
Plant Behavior and Intelligence by Anthony Trewavas (Review)
What do we mean by intelligent? Could we always recognise intelligence if it was in front of us? One author thinks we might have been overlooking one intelligent group of beings.