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From plants to patients and back: An interview with Dr Kate Castleden
Career paths are a mysterious thing. As they rarely are linear, it helps to pick up miscellaneous transferable skills on the way, and spot new opportunities
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NQFF the last
What have you been sharing on Twitter this week? Sadly the death of Roger Tsien, but also some other links you found useful.
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NQFF: Moss, moving and Madagascar
The second week of the trial run for NQFF. Are the lists of followers helpful, or are you just interested in the stories? I ask as
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A picture is worth a thousand bullet points
Hands up if you have ever ‘speed-read’ a scientific paper just by looking at the figures. Don’t feel guilty, it’s your brain’s
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#NQFF: A Serious Look At Seed-Free Plants, Remediation and Knowing Yourself
#FF is a common tag on Twitter. It means FollowFriday. The idea is that you tweet the handles of a few people that you thing others
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How does a mistake happen, and how do you stop it happening again?
Last week I made a mistake, and quite a few people picked it up. I put an image of a lily where an orchid should have
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Botany needs more rap songs
You might be used to writing scientific abstracts and reports – but have you ever tried to put your research into a rap? A few weeks ago,
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Geerat Vermeij on Plant Defences in Annals of Botany
In the (flood-delayed) June issue of Annals of Botany we have review plant defences, with a twist. Professor Geerat J. Vermeij, Distinguished Professor of Earth
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On recent events
We have tended to keep to botany here, or at least things directly relevant to botanical researchers. I’ll admit this might come as a surprise
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A real CRISPR look at heritable mutations
Genome editing technologies have become valuable tools in many aspects of scientific research, facilitating, for example, the identification of genes involved in development, or the determination
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Building a vision for the future: creating a roadmap for UK plant sciences
Plant science has a central role to play in so many of the global challenges facing the world today, including our future food security, the conservation of biodiversity, sustaining ecosystem services, improving global health and mitigating impacts of global climate change. The UK is internationally
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Calling all botanical student societies
We talk a lot about how to inspire the next generation of plant scientists. But how do our students inspire us? Last week, I met one