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Plant Identification Skills

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

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...

Message to all students

Message to all students

So, you want to earn a lot of money after you graduate to pay off all those debts, right? In that case, according to Which University, you should have done Medicine or Dentistry. But you didn’t get in to those...

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Attenborough’s at it (again)!

Finally, news of a new TV series written and presented by the world’s most famous natural history broadcaster and UK National Treasure, Sir David Attenborough. Sadly, it’s on a pay-per-view Sky Atlantic digital channel...

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Generating the next generation

My last few posts have looked at the exciting science that was presented recently at the UKPSF conference. How can we ensure there will be a new generation of eager, bright plant biologists to help turn those great...

Dionea

Galleria Carnivora

Jeff Karron (AoB’s “pollen Editor”) recently tipped me off about Galleria Carnivora, a museum of colour photographs of carnivorous plants. There are lots of images online, but Galleria Carnivora is...

All the best journals are doing it

Starting a blog, that is. It’s good to see PLoS Biology following Annals of Botany’s lead and starting their own blog, PLoS Biologue 😉 A recent post by Lisa Gross, Reach out and teach someone, gives some...

The future of plant science

Plant science is key to addressing the major challenges facing humanity in the 21st Century. In an article published in The Plant Cell, the two researchers argue that the development of new technology is key to...