I've leaned heavily on Eurekalert this week, and I might have to do that next week too. I'll be looking at a redesign of the site. The current design came about because we needed to lose page weight. While I like it, there are things we'd like to do that we can't, so I'm looking at a refresh. For various reasons, this will have to be on a tight deadline if it's to happen. The upside for you is that, if it works as I want, we can increase what we cover and how we cover it.I also expect to lean heavily on the automatic systems for tracking what's happening on Twitter next week. As always, I trim the purely political news out of the popular links shared below, but the links I've seen this week have made me seriously consider that someone has spiked the local water supply with hallucinogens. So I'll be avoiding quite a bit of social media myself, in the hope that I can avoid some of the madder claims. There'll be another politics-free round-up of botanical twitter at the same time next week.Until then, take care.Alun (webmaster@botany.one)