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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. [ORCID: 0000-0002-4231-9082]
Nigel Chaffey
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Glorious global gambol through the plants

by Nigel ChaffeyApril 15, 2021September 14, 2021
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In celebration of plants

by Nigel ChaffeyApril 3, 2021March 31, 2021
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Cereal thriller brings home the bacon*

by Nigel ChaffeyMarch 27, 2021September 14, 2021
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This is a berry good book!

by Nigel ChaffeyMarch 13, 2021March 13, 2021
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Mum’s the word* in new plant book

by Nigel ChaffeyJanuary 30, 2021January 29, 2021
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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.

by Nigel ChaffeyJanuary 9, 2021January 4, 2021
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When is Botany criminal? When it’s forensic!

by Nigel ChaffeyDecember 12, 2020December 11, 2020
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Plants & People

A thread about ideas for Botany One plant stories…

by Nigel ChaffeyDecember 5, 2020December 4, 2020
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Plants that … CURE

by Nigel ChaffeyNovember 22, 2020November 20, 2020
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The crowning glory of Kew

by Nigel ChaffeyNovember 17, 2020November 17, 2020
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Much more than juniper – the botany of gin

by Nigel ChaffeyOctober 27, 2020October 28, 2020
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Plant Cuttings Plants & People

Plant blindness eradicated *

by Nigel ChaffeyOctober 9, 2020October 9, 2020
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Plants: Animated, dynamic, and mobile(!)

How do plants travel? A new book explains.

by Nigel ChaffeyOctober 5, 2020October 5, 2020
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Etrog sliced
Plants & People

Do we need evidence in books about plants?

Without a source are facts really facts, or just factoids?

by Nigel ChaffeySeptember 29, 2020September 28, 2020
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  1. Research associate (f/m/d) PostDoc Biology, Bioinformatics – Open Source Biology & Genetics Interest Group on Research associate (f/m/d) PostDoc Biology, BioinformaticsJanuary 30, 2023

    […] Read more here: Source link […]

  2. Shyam Phartyal on What lies beneath? Botanists find a disconnection between how plants behave above and below ground.January 29, 2023

    Excellent study. An additional flooding treatment could have revealed little more about this above-below ground trait relationship.

  3. Nigel Chaffey on The geek’s guide to weird and wonderful plantsJanuary 18, 2023

    Good afternoon, Patrick, Aha, one now begins to wonder if the spelling Catherine in the cited source should really have…

  4. Patrick Collins on The geek’s guide to weird and wonderful plantsJanuary 17, 2023

    The bisindole alkaloid catharine is said to have been published and the molecular structure can be found scattered about, though…

  5. Nigel Chaffey on The geek’s guide to weird and wonderful plantsJanuary 17, 2023

    Hello Patrick, Thank you for taking th etim eto comment on this item. The source for 'catherine' that's stated in…

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