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How Do Flowers Grow? by Katie Daynes – Advent Botany Day 14

Dawn Bazely Biology and Life Sciences, Communication, Education and Outreach, General Science
Dr. Fallon Tanentzap has more Botanical Book Gift Suggestions. This one is for four-year olds. You are never too old to set life goals and reach for your dreams. In my view, illustrated children’s science books are an example of #sciencecommunication at its finest. One of my lifelong ambitions is to become a published author-illustrator...

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Lessons from Plants by Beronda Montgomery – Advent Botany Day 13

Dawn Bazely Biology and Life Sciences, Communication, Education and Outreach, General Science
Lessons from Plants (2021) by Professor Beronda L. Montgomery, is a slim volume with an utterly gorgeous cover. “Bijou” is the word that comes to mind in describing the feel and look of this book. The online Oxford English Dictionary defines bijou as “A jewel, a trinket; a ‘gem’ among works of art. Also… small...

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Wicked Plants by Amy Stewart – Advent Botany Day 10

Dawn Bazely Biology and Life Sciences, Communication, Education and Outreach, General Science
Advent Botany Day 10: Wicked Plants by Amy Stewart This guest post is by the versatile, talented, Dr. Fallon Tanentzap Wicked Plants - The Weed That Killed Lincoln’s Mother & Other Botanical Atrocities (2009) by Amy Stewart is nothing short of a multi-award winning  tour-de-force of a page turner. The book is petite and decorative...

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The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf – Advent Botany Day 9

Dawn Bazely Biology and Life Sciences, Communication, Education and Outreach, General Science
In the Washington Post, Michael Dirda recently listed 22 books that he re-reads. I also have a weirdly catholic list of books that I like to re-visit regularly. Of course, Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings is on my list. Legendary Dracula actor, Christopher Lee (1922-2015), who played Saruman in the films reportedly re-read them every...

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Advent Botany returns for 2023 with Botanical Book Gift Ideas for the holiday season

Dawn Bazely Biology and Life Sciences, Communication, Education and Outreach, General Science
The popular Advent Botany blog series, launched in 2015 by Drs. Alastair Culham and Jonathan Mitchley of the University of Reading, has been on hiatus for the past two years. Correction: In fact, they first launched Advent Botany in 2014. The first post that I ever contributed was about Red Osier Dogwood. Alastair thought to...

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Crowd-sourced science sheds light on how new species form

UBC Faculty of Science General Science
The fall webworm is a moth found from Mexico to Canada. Photo: Alison Hunter.Pandemic lockdowns couldn’t stop two UBC zoologists from tracking how climate influences evolutionBy Katie Marshall and Emily BlackImagine a jungle. It’s probably a lush forest, filled with different bird songs and the hum of thousands of different kinds of insects. Now imagine a tundra:...

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