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A small dose of plant science and Focus with Forest.app
Plants on Earth being productive at some point in their life cycles is critical for their – and our lives. Productivity is also a common new year’
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Experimental Eating in Food: Delicious Science
Food: Delicious Science connects food, science, and people compellingly. The stories is presents are a good resource for instructors and those looking for ways to deepen
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Communicating Science and Scicomm career advice from Sci Comm Camp
What does it mean to be a Science Communicator? What tips can you pick up from others? Ian Street has been finding out at this year’s Sci Comm Camp.
Plants & People
iNaturalist: An App to Ease Plant Blindness
Ian Street finds your phone is getting ever more powerful, with a species recognition app.
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Resource: The Chicago Guide to Fact–Checking
How can you make the process of fact-checking easier, so you know what you’re saying is accurate? Ian Street finds a useful resource.
Ecosystems
The State of The World’s Plants 2017
Orchids top the list for most traded, and endangered, plant families. This is according to the new Kew Gardens State of The World’s Plants report
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Botanical Interest in ‘No Such Thing as a Fish’
One of my favorite podcasts is ‘No Such Thing as a Fish‘ (NSTaaF) from the QI elves (writers). Each week, the four co-hosts bring a
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Five Books From Oxford University Press to Deepen Your Fascination with Plants
The publisher of The Annals of Botany Company journals Annals of Botany and AoB Plants, Oxford University Press, has many titles about plants and plant science
Plants & People
Sharing scientific code: A short introduction to Git and GitHub
Planning to work with code? Git and Github are free tools to help share your source code.
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Recent Botany Videos
For people more interested in LOLCatkins instead of LOLCats.
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Darwin’s Closer Look at Primroses
What did Darwin think was his most satisfying scientific work? It might not be what you thought.
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Plant Behavior and Intelligence by Anthony Trewavas (Review)
What do we mean by intelligent? Could we always recognise intelligence if it was in front of us? One author thinks we might have been overlooking one intelligent group of beings.