🎉The author copies of the 3rd edition of 'Effective Science Communication' from IOP Publishing have just arrived! 🎉

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Farmers across the Philippines will now have to rip up their crops after Greenpeace successfully convinces a court to block golden rice cultivation.

This decision will have dire consequences for the lives of millions of children in some of the world's poorest countries.…

Thought provoking article about plants, science communication, the definition of consciousness, and more...
Mother trees and socialist forests: is the ‘wood-wide web’ a fantasy? theguardian.com/environment/20…

Long live the Entente Cordiale,
Vive l’amitié franco-britannique !

📢Two exciting PhD projects currently available at the University of Plymouth - both looking at the interaction of plastic pollution and the gut (either fish or humans). See below! PI's, please share with your students!

Was not able to watch, probably for the best as far as the ears of my office neighbours are concerned... So proud of the Plymouth pears!

Botanical University Challenge #BUC2024 . Team Plymouth came 3rd in Rounds 1 & 2. Very impressive. How will they do in quarterfinal? See 14:00 Weds 28 February, streamed live on YouTube, and recorded for later youtube.com/@BotanicalUn...
Billy Fullwood Simon Cowhig Danny Hunt

Another win for the Plymouth Pears who pass the second round of the Botanical University Challenge finishing fourth! Congrats Billy Fullwood Danny Hunt Simon Cowhig and Jess!! You're great ambassadors of botanical expertise at @plymouthbiol University of Plymouth

The Plymouth Pears finished third of the first round of the Botanical University Challenge! What an impressive result 👏👏👏 So happy for them and very proud. Can't wait for the second round next week! University of Plymouth @plymouthbiol

Check out the team from University of Plymouth @plymouthbiol ! Good luck Billy, Danny, Jess and Simon 🤞

After reading this and watching Jonathan Foley's TED talk, it seems clear that a part of the problem is that investors fund pointless projects that appeal to the 1% but without any potential for real impact (thinking of the urban vertical farms too). ted.com/talks/jonathan…

Women are constantly told to change their vocabulary — to make it less apologetic and more assertive. But the truth is, we need to worry less about editing women, and more about editing incompetent and inappropriate men. s.hbr.org/41T1IYC

Paper from post-doc with Pierre Martre >10 years ago finally published: nature.com/articles/s4159…
While I am researching a different area now, it is fitting that a major result is that the function of our gene of interest is strongly dependent on the environment!

Just heard on the news that up to 50% of kids in Plymouth have rotten teeth as they can’t access dentists.

A situation reflected across the U.K.

It’s astonishing that 30 years ago my state school in what would have been called the ‘third world’ had a free dentist on site.

If we care about the planet we should also care about evidence.

And sometimes that means rejecting the temptation of talking about food in a populist, emotive way.

Which, sadly, very few food writers ever do.

We are delighted to announce the launch of eDNA Explorer, a platform for exploring, analyzing and sharing eDNA data. We’ve developed this site to help practitioners, researchers, land managers, and policy makers. ednaexplorer.org

Very nice initiative (and it was fun)!
Some pretty pictures in this thread😉

The 50s. When men were real men and never left the house without their shoulder kittens.

📢New job opportunity !📢

Cambridge University Herbarium is seeking a Public Engagement Coordinator (Fixed Term) to enhance outreach and engagement with local and regional communities and existing and new audiences.

Read more and apply here! 👇

jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/43079/

On the first day of the Biological Sciences Azores field course, we collected and cleaned seeds for endemic habitat reforestoration, in very good company!@plymouthbiol University of Plymouth