It's a belated present, the PDF of the handout we've been using on stands for Botany One.
Tag - Blogging
Alun Salt
Inspiring the Botanists of the future
Part of the goal of Plant Cuttings items is to share news of botanical research with the wider plant-minded community, the better to advertise that wonderful example of human scientific endeavour. And that’s fine for...
Nigel Chaffey
Seeking Science? See ScienceSeeker
Every so often you find a new site, and then discover everyone else has known about it for years. For once, this is a site I’ve known about for ages – but it seems not everyone else has. So for those of you...
Blogging opportunities
It's helpful to put out reminders some times, so here's something if you are a blogger or want to be a blogger.
New Resources Editor vows to review ALL the resources
It is our great pleasure to welcome Dr Ian Street to our editorial team. Ian will be taking on the role of our first ever Resources Editor. What is a Resources Editor, I hear you ask – let me explain. At AoBBlog...
Anne Osterrieder
What can AoBBlog do for you?
I’m trying to finish up the annual report today for the Editorial Meeting on June the.. umm… 21st I think. The blog is becoming more independent of the parent journals so it’s not a huge issue for most editors. However...
The Importance of Access
Kevin Folta has put up a thought-provoking post on his blog, Illumination. There’s been a flurry of news stories around a new research paper that shows a Round-Up, Monsanto’s herbicide, in rain. A closer...
Creating a Buzz but is it worth it?
We’ve been experimenting with what we can do with articles, and our latest experiment happened earlier this week. 7 Deadly Secrets of Carnivorous Plants is on Buzzfeed. It was a bit of a challenge, and not...
An experiment in altmetrics (or how I might have broken the blog)
Keep following Annals of Botany for all the latest news about plants. We just made a minor change to this blog to give the authors whose work we feature more credit. The reason behind this change is to improve how the...
Farewell to all our readers…
Our project with AoB Blog, in relation with our training in a new form of scientific journalism is now ending. We want to thank all the people who allowed us to achieve this project: Karine Alix and Alun Salt for their...
Antoine Le Gal
Aurélien Azam
AoB Blog maintenant en français / and now in French AoB Blog
AoBBlog is delighted to welcome two guest authors who are carrying out project work with Annals of Botany Editor Dr Karine Alix. Aurélien and Antoine introduce themselves below, and will be making posts in both English...
Editor Pat Heslop-Harrison
Bigging-up the AoB Blog [or, Cann can – and does!]
The communication of science (and particularly discussion thereof and thereon, which often takes the form of post-publication review) has many opportunities in this electronic age. One such outlet is the plethora of...
Two Things about plants
The Guardian had an interesting article recently which described a game where you write two very short phrases which describe the two most important points about a subject. The phrases should be very short – this...
AJ Cann
Being Social
The aim of the AoB blog is to “promote the science of botany”, be it the botany that is published in Annals of Botany, in AoB Plants, or elsewhere. To that end we try to make it as easy as possible for you...
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