This list on Substack has been quiet, and now we're shutting down our account entirely. Why? Well it’s because Substack is on the same route as X. I’ll explain why I think that is and, if it bothers you, what some alternatives are.

Creative grumpiness is changing how we blog and post to social media.

The Week in Botany, a newsletter, is preparing for a post-Twitter era by using Botany.fyi, a link shortener, to compile popular posts from various social media platforms.

After a few months of working with AI, we're revising how we use it. Some of this reflects changes in the capabilities of AI, and some of this reflects feedback on how we use it.

AI authors are like predictive text on your phone. They help writing words, but are less good at sentences and cannot be used for writing whole articles at the moment.

It is our great pleasure to welcome Dr Ian Street to our editorial team. Ian will be taking on the role of our first ever Resources Editor. What is a Resources Editor, I hear you ask – let me explain. At AoBBlog, we like books. We also like book reviews, which are an integral part of many scientific […]

As the year draws to a close, we have been working hard behind the scenes to make AoBBlog ready for 2017. The biggest changes have been fuelled by our vision to revamp the negative perception of scientific blogging and social media in the academic community. Engaging in online pastimes still has the stigma attached of wasting […]