The Biostats Booklist is a crowdsourced list of statistics resources for biologists by biologists. Anyone is welcome to add their own recommendations to the list, be it a basic introductory statistics book or a how-to...
Category - Education
Hannah Brazeau
Experimental Eating in Food: Delicious Science
Food: Delicious Science connects food, science, and people compellingly. The stories is presents are a good resource for instructors and those looking for ways to deepen curiosity about food and plants. It may also...
Ian Street
Building a Linux computer for imaging and informatics
I’m going to show my age here, but it is 30 years since I last built my own computer! What a change. The job then involved lots of razor sharp metal edges, drilling out dozens of holes, hundreds of soldered...
Editor Pat Heslop-Harrison
Strasburger’s Plant Sciences [Including Prokaryotes and Fungi]
Strasburger's Plant Sciences textbook reviewed...
Nigel Chaffey
Some good stuff in the recent edition of CBE Life Sciences Education
Some good stuff in the recent edition of CBE Life Sciences Education.
AJ Cann
Crocus, saffron-omics and the highest value crop
Saffron, the stigma of Crocus sativus, is the highest priced agricultural product (often €/$25 or £15 per gram) and a good example of a profitable crop with sustainability, cultural and social values, and high labour...
Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Research on Plant Science Teaching and Learning
The September issue of CBE—Life Sciences Education is a Special Focus edition on plant science education: Plant Behavior. CBE Life Sci Educ September 2, 2014 13:363-368; doi:10.1187/cbe.14-06-0100 Plants are a huge and...
What a Plant Knows – MOOC Report
The What a Plant Knows MOOC comes as a refreshing change.
Bananas and their future on BBC Radio 4 The Food Programme @BBCFoodProg
Bananas are our favourite fruit: you can hear lots about them on BBC Radio 4 The Food Programme, produced by award-winning BBC producer Emma Weatherill and presented by Sheila Dillon, a University of Leicester graduate...
I feckin love the Dead Zoo
The public perception of plants as second rate science is not a new phenomenon.
The Plant Science TREE (Tool for Research Engaged Education)
The Plant Science TREE is an on-line teaching tool giving access to inspirational educational resources from the research community.
annbot
Plant Identification Skills
Taxonomic education and botany are increasingly neglected in schools and universities, leading to a ‘missed generation’ of adults that cannot identify organisms, especially plants. The ‘taxonomic illiteracy’ of Western...
Real education with virtual materials
This paper, just published in the Journal of Biological Education, strikes me as having a lot of potential. The method would also be appropriate for online learning and in developing countries where facilities might be...
