It was close at the top this week for the most shares on twitter one just beat out the other. This week our followers seemed equally interested in scientific papers and the social context they were read in...
Flipping through back issues of BioScience to see what’s now free access, I found an interesting editorial, Oddball Science: Why Studies of Unusual Evolutionary Phenomena Are Crucial. Science funding decisions are...
Darwin was fascinated by the unusual adaptations of carnivorous plants during his often frustrating studies of the evolution of flowering plants, which he referred to as an ‘abominable mystery’...
Want to get up close to plants with your cameraphone, but don’t have a macro lens? Jessica Budke has news of a cheap add-on lens that gets surprisingly good results.
The BBC covered the news that a record number of flowers were in bloom at the start of the year in the UK and Ireland, but what was it like for the people out in the field? Oisín Duffy has the news from Donegal.
Don’t don’t have to be taking a PhD to need to take notes, but PhD students have a lot of experience of what works for them and what does not. You can see what they found at Quora.
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...
Corey Bradshaw has a post on his trip to see the ecology of the Tibetan plateau. Away from high population pressures, the plateau has incredible diversity among its plants.