A new study in the Journal of Applied Ecology highlights how photos in a Facebook group can complement plant scientists’ sightings.
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Juniper Kiss
Go Fungal!
It's a belated present, the PDF of the handout we've been using on stands for Botany One.
Alun Salt
How notifications on Twitter and Facebook can help you to keep up to date with plant science news
We asked our social media-savvy work experience student Alexandra Boliver-Brown to put together a guide for our readers on how to stay up to date with your favourite plant science news site. Incidentally, her favourite...
Alexandra Boliver-Brown
New plant journal
It just had to happen, but we didn’t know it would take nearly 150 years to come to fruition. And fruition is an apt word because the creation of a new botanical journal has recently been announced by the publishers...
Nigel Chaffey
Plant Science on Facebook
It’s not just us who have a Facebook page. There are many other botanical organisations that have a page too. Unfortunately, changes in Facebook’s news feed mean that these pages are less likely to be seen...
Botanists need to be more sociable…
Whether educators like it or not, it's clear that having been brought up on digital/social media tools, students expect to see them used in botany teaching
The sociable botanist
An advert seen in my local virtual newspaper, Green Times Perennial, ‘Botanist, GSOH, out-going personality, WLTM other like-minded individuals for walks and talks on plant-related matters, maybe more…’, intrigued me:...
A clearer picture?
In my role as Internet Consulting Editor for Annals of Botany, I spend a fair amount of time counteracting the idea that the job is all about jumping on the latest Internet fad, or in being in some way a...
AJ Cann
Looking for things to like
We’re reworking our Facebook page, now that the new layouts are available. You could use the page as a sampler for the blog, but I’m wondering if we can do more with it. One of the things Facebook is good at...
