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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...