It's been a busy week. Blogger Juniper Kiss has finally made it to Papua New Guinea for her fieldwork. This is excellent news for her PhD, as the fieldwork is important, but means we've run out of people to lose here. That means I'm optimistic that we'll be looking to appoint two editors when the advert comes out. This should be soon, as I've pencilled in the deadline for applications as April 17. Right now, if you're planning to apply then you should be polishing up evidence of sharing botany on blogs or social media.Talking of deadlines, there's a couple of interesting calls come out. Plants People Planet is planning a special issue on Madagascar's Grassy Biomes. I think that could make an interesting issue, as when I think of Madagascar, I think of majestic baobabs or deforestation. You have till the end of November to submit something.eLife has a call for pitches: âWhen things donât go to planâ They "hope to open a discussion about the culture surrounding mistakes, disappointments, rejections and setbacks in science." I'd love to know someone who didn't have a possible submission for that. That deadline is March 21, if you're interested.My setback this week is that people haven't shared a lot of light-hearted botanical news, for very understandable reasons. I'll have to see if I can find things to make up the shortfall next week and - if all goes well - you can find out when next week's email arrives. Until then, take care.Alun (webmaster@botany.one)
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It's been a busy week. Blogger Juniper Kiss has finally made it to Papua New Guinea for her fieldwork. This is excellent news for her PhD, as the fieldwork is important, but means we've run out of people to lose here. That means I'm optimistic that we'll be looking to appoint two editors when the advert comes out. This should be soon, as I've pencilled in the deadline for applications as April 17. Right now, if you're planning to apply then you should be polishing up evidence of sharing botany on blogs or social media.Talking of deadlines, there's a couple of interesting calls come out. Plants People Planet is planning a special issue on Madagascar's Grassy Biomes. I think that could make an interesting issue, as when I think of Madagascar, I think of majestic baobabs or deforestation. You have till the end of November to submit something.eLife has a call for pitches: âWhen things donât go to planâ They "hope to open a discussion about the culture surrounding mistakes, disappointments, rejections and setbacks in science." I'd love to know someone who didn't have a possible submission for that. That deadline is March 21, if you're interested.My setback this week is that people haven't shared a lot of light-hearted botanical news, for very understandable reasons. I'll have to see if I can find things to make up the shortfall next week and - if all goes well - you can find out when next week's email arrives. Until then, take care.Alun (webmaster@botany.one)