Jessica Budke recently published an interesting blog post (Is the Title of your Scientific Publication Important?) about her travails with her second published article: I just had a manuscript accepted for publication with the caveat that I needed to change my title. The comment was that papers with ‘witty’ or ‘cute’ titles are cited less [...]

We put The natural history of pollination and mating in bird-pollinated Babiana (Iridaceae) live on the Annals of Botany site this week. It’s been covered in the press, notably by the BBC, Plant has evolved a specialist bird perch, and the CBC, Bird perch helps plants have better sex. We’ve put out a press release, [...]

Alice Bell has written a couple of provocative posts on science communication at the Guardian and on her own blog recently. The spark is what the current science minister sees as the salvation of the sciences. Space and dinosaurs. A lot of people have agreed with him. Space and dinosaurs certainly work for me, but [...]