Breaking Plant Blindness, One Taylor Swift Song at a Time
Using Taylor Swift music videos in botany classes can make students more interested in plants, helping them learn better and notice the important role plants play in our world.
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Using Taylor Swift music videos in botany classes can make students more interested in plants, helping them learn better and notice the important role plants play in our world.
Botany One interviews Dr. Dmitry Sokoloff, a speaker at the “Evolutionary History of the Gnetales” symposium held during Botany 2025.
This week, urban biodiversity, logging into the Wood Wide Web, and an email bug.
Botany One interviews Dr Grace Gachara, a Kenyan microbial ecologist, looking to unveil the microbial communities associated with endemic trees.
Wild plants in city gardens are defying expectations and keeping urban biodiversity alive and surprising.
This week, Liedson Carneiro on networking, gunfire doesn't stop Botany, how dinosaurs got along with each other, and more.
By analysing calcium isotopes in dinosaur teeth, researchers have revealed the feeding habits of Jurassic herbivores, shedding light on how they coexisted.
Long-forgotten flora collected during WWI are finally telling their stories, thanks to a 21st-century digital revival.
Botany One interviews Dr Liedson Carneiro, a pollination ecologist fascinated by plant–pollinator interactions and how these relationships sustain ecosystem function.
As the wildfire burns and sunlight fades, nature’s duet between bees and flowers is starting to sound like a breakup song.
Scientists found a letter where Darwin predicted a major botanical discovery 36 years before anyone proved him right.
When scientists ventured into the backyards of Indonesian families, they discovered something remarkable hiding behind everyday cooking. Smallholders in Aceh are stewards of a complex ecosystem of 24 wild spice varieties that most of the world has never heard of.
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Sarah Covshoff
Sarah is a plant molecular biologist passionate about communicating the science of the natural world to lay people and experts alike. previously worked as a PhD student and postdoctoral fellow in the field of C4 photosynthesis and now focuses on science communication.
Carlos Andrés Ordóñez Parra
Carlos is a PhD student at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Belo Horizonte, Brazil), studying the seed ecophysiology and functional ecology of the Brazilian Cerrado. As a science communicator, he looks to spread the word about the exciting world of plant sciences and highlight researchers from historically excluded groups and the science they do.
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