If you ever want to justify your Facebook habit then you can now cite Osterrieder 2013 thanks to the paper The value and use of social media as communication tool in the plant sciences released with Open Access in Plant...
I’m working on a press release for a paper. I think it could be big news – and if it’s not then it could well be that I’ve mucked up the explanation. What will probably happen is when the authors...
Backward-looking retrospectives [is there any other kind? – Ed.] are great. And that from the International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University is one of the best. Annually, it publishes its...
Recently the charming rogue Cliff Arnall made the news again. This time it was a rehash of his ‘happiest day of the year’ formula which he produced for an ice cream company. The usual reaction, including...
Military campaigns are sometimes intended to display ‘shock’ and ‘awe’ to overcome the adversary. Well – and rather less militaristically – Yiannis Manetas’ book, Alice in the Land of...
If you’re looking to show doubters that plants are fascinating then a good starting point is Daniel Chamovitz‘s What a Plant Knows. I was a bit wary of the book at the title made it sound a bit twee. In fact...
Do blogs sell books? They’ve sold at least one. I picked up Something to Chew On by Mike Gibney after reading his weblog Gibney on Food. It’s not a plant science book. It’s a book about food supply and...
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...