Nigel Chaffey
I am a botanist and former Senior Lecturer in Botany at Bath Spa University (Bath, near Bristol, UK). As News Editor for the Annals of Botany I contributed the monthly Plant Cuttings column to that august international botanical organ - and to Botany One - for almost 10 years. I am now a freelance plant science communicator and Visiting Research Fellow at Bath Spa University. I continue to share my Cuttingsesque items - and appraisals of books with a plant focus - with a plant-curious audience. In that guise my main goal is to inform (hopefully, in an educational, and entertaining way) others about plants and plant-people interactions, and thereby improve humankind's botanical literacy. Happy to be contacted to discuss potential writing - or talking - projects and opportunities.
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In celebration of plants
Cereal thriller brings home the bacon*
This is a berry good book!
Mum’s the word* in new plant book
Merlin’s magnificent mushroom masterpiece
A fascinating book examines fungi not as something apart from the rest of the world, but as something intertwined with other life on the planet.
When is Botany criminal? When it’s forensic!
A thread about ideas for Botany One plant stories…
Plants that … CURE
The crowning glory of Kew
Much more than juniper – the botany of gin
Plant blindness eradicated *
Plants: Animated, dynamic, and mobile(!)
How do plants travel? A new book explains.
Do we need evidence in books about plants?
Without a source are facts really facts, or just factoids?