It's not just humans that use plants. Spiders might be carnivorous, but they still have uses for crafty arachnids.
Tag - scicomm
Nigel Chaffey
Plants’ plan preserves people and planet
The Nation of Plants, by Stefano Mancuso 2021. Other Press. Who’s in charge of the Earth? Aside from religioso-spiritual responses to this question, the mantle of this awesome responsibility appears to be have been...
Plant parables for the 21st Century
A lifestyle guide where plants take the lead instead of sitting in the background.
In celebration of plants
In Defense of Plants: An Exploration into the Wonder of Plants by Matt Candeias 2021. Mango Publishing. Having read a lot of books from a plants-and-people perspective lately, I’d forgotten the sheer joy of reading...
Cereal thriller brings home the bacon*
Amber Waves: The extraordinary biography of wheat, from wild grass to world megacrop by Catherine Zabinski 2020. The University of Chicago Press. Biographies are usually written about people. However, Catherine...
This is a berry good book!
Berries by Victoria Dickenson 2020. Reaktion Books Ltd. Even though I’m a Botanist I’ve never had a great understanding of fruits and seeds. I am however, aware that the fruit botanically known as a berry has a very...
Introducing our new editor, Lorena Villanueva Almanza
Botany One welcomes a new editor and a slight change in direction.
Lorena Villanueva-Almanza
Alun Salt
Science communication: Getting it right…
Science is one of the most important of human activities, and consequently it’s often funded by the public via their taxes. In order to inform the public of the ways their ‘tax dollars’ have been spent – as part ‘thank...
Friday on #BotanyLive
Yesterday caught me by surprise. Keyhole.co is reporting over eight hundred thousand accounts have been exposed to the #BotanyLive tag. Before we get carried away, I don’t think anyone sees everything in their...
Facts, alternative facts and ‘Plant Facts Week’
For Joe Friday, it was enough to ask for “just the facts, ma’am.”* But do the facts help science communication?
Anne Osterrieder
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...
Bad analogies
I’ve been sent a paper today to see if we can put out a press release for it. It’s fascinating and it touches on a famous philosophical problem. Does red really look red? This paper looks at plants from a...
