Scientists argue that we won't be able to protect the natural world, if we're not training the next generation of botanists with the necessary skills, writes Sebastian Stroud.
Tag - education
Sebastian Stroud
Creating the conservationists of the future in times of rapidly shifting baselines
Planting urban trees could also plant a seed of conservation in children.
Chloe Trotter
Plant blindness in smartphone identification applications – are we passing on our biases to our helpful apps?
It is well-known that people are better at identifying animals than plants and this relative inability of people to identify plants is increasingly termed “plant blindness”. Recent research has identified links between...
Karen L Bacon
Julie Peacock
A school curriculum could make New York City seem less grey and more green
Far from being an oxymoron, an educational intervention shows that urban botany can have tremendous value.
Dale Maylea
The Biostats Booklist
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...
Hannah Brazeau
A bumper crop of fungi
The Fungal Kingdom, edited by Joseph Heitman, Barbara J. Howlett, Pedro W. Crous, Eva H. Stukenbrock, Timothy Y. James and Neil A. R. Gow, 2018. American Society for Microbiology Press There has been a veritable...
Nigel Chaffey
周二推文 Tuesday Tweets from #IBC2017 Shenzen
Catch up with the blog posts and tweets from the International Botanical Congress in Shenzhen on Tuesday.
Alun Salt
Botany in the 317 years-long century…
The Botany of Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century. Yota Batsaki, Sarah Burke Cahalan and Anatole Tchikine (Editors). Dumbarton Oaks, 2016. Notwithstanding the importance of botany to the future well-being and survival...
From plants to patients and back: An interview with Dr Kate Castleden
Career paths are a mysterious thing. As they rarely are linear, it helps to pick up miscellaneous transferable skills on the way, and spot new opportunities as they arise. We hope to feature many different career paths...
Anne Osterrieder
Blooming, brilliant botanical miracles
Botanical Miracles: Chemistry of Plants That Changed the World. Raymond Cooper, Jeffrey John Deakin. CRC Press, 2016. Warning: this book [hereafter styled as Miraculous Botanicals] contains … chemistry(!). If you like...
Building a vision for the future: creating a roadmap for UK plant sciences
Plant science has a central role to play in so many of the global challenges facing the world today, including our future food security, the conservation of biodiversity, sustaining ecosystem services, improving global...
botanyone
A blooming disgrace…?
Is Bloom's Taxonomy responsible for the severe decline in UK students' knowledge of field biology skills?
Mnemonics are an Effective Tool for Adult Beginners Learning Plant Identification
Mnemonics produce the highest retention rates of species identification.
annbot