A survey invites the public to suggest plants and animals for illustrating Ireland's passports, showing one way to raise appreciation for nature's diversity.
Tag - Twitter
Nigel Chaffey
We won’t be retweeting some job adverts. Here’s why.
More and more people are using images to get round character limits on Twitter, but some people are getting left behind.
Alun Salt
Twitter for Science Networking
Suddenly can't network at conferences? How could you network on Twitter?
Go Fungal!
It's a belated present, the PDF of the handout we've been using on stands for Botany One.
Why are/aren’t we following you on Twitter?
Who do we follow on Twitter? Here's why we follow people and why we don't.
Should You Tweet Posters from a Conference?
Pat raised an interesting point while he was at the International Botanical Congress in Shenzhen. Should you tweet whole posters from a conference? I think I also saw a passive-aggressive complaint about people...
Editor Pat Heslop-Harrison
Shenzhen – City of 7000 Botanists #IBC2017
The conference is in full swing Jeff Ollerton’s latest post makes clear that this is a massive event, with almost 7000 Botanists in attendance, and 3519 talks. Holy molly! Just as big as a botanical conference can...
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
“Hi, I’m an #ActualLivingScientist”
A survey that said most Americans couldn't name a living scientist. People on Twitter took this as inspiration for a positive response.
Guest Author
What are the ethics of live-streaming at conferences?
If you've only recently come to terms with people tweeting at conferences, there's another shock coming soon.
Keeping links flowing, @PlantCentral gets updated
You can get tweets highlighting new blog posts from PlantCentral account on Twitter, and now it has added links to new journal articles too.
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...
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
Plant Central
Another experiment we’re working on is how we aggregate posts from the blogs we follow. We were talking about this in June, and Jeremy, of the Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog, had what was the best solution...
