Fern poetry

Just played again with a random poetry generator. Made it for ferns. Made my moment.

First try is not bad:

Sporophytic Food

Horticulture bugs with actual fossile record.
Shall not a taxonomist radiate with Carboniferous phenotypes?
Direct sunlight is used as the ferns of plenty of families,
But the study of ferns ponders many taxa.

Growing garden!
Hark!
The fern radiation allows for the sister species’ spores.
Forget it!

or even this second one:

The Study Of Ferns’ Fossile Record

Direct sunlight has the fern radiation’s importance,
But It reduces the wind’s phenotype.
Wet conditions begins with actual garden.
Oh, no!

Classification disperses the food of Fern’s spores.
Alas!
The sister species is called growing period.
Ah, but a taxonomist ponders cheap taxa!

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Fern lapse for rainy saturday

Timelapse of fern sprouting. Saturday like.

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Peanut Leechy Gallery: a matter of choice

Forests are made of these. Mosaics. Grins and tones, tones of greens. Tropical rainforests at best!

Today you get four at the same time. Which one do you prefer?

#1 : Leafy center

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Housekeeping Poll

Well, you may have noticed, but several new post categories are popping up in here lately. I’m discovering the full potential of scheduling, and new ways to share stuff and enjoy, that is, making Seeds Aside living while still being busy otherwise. That’s good, because an even newer sort of life is to be expected soon (oh, this is deeply secret RL stuff, but if I tell you it’ll certainly decrease if not deplete some more free time like before, you’d easily guess what’s happening).

So, whenever this is going to have me cut off some the creepy stuff from SA, what would it be? The best I can do is directly ask the few readers (and spambots) stuck in here what they like to read best. So here’s my housekeeping poll, where you can vote (up to 4 answers accepted) for your prefered kind of stuff, and whenever I lack time next I’ll skip the least of the likes… Pleaz getz pollz!

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How to decide where to publish your paper?

Troubles deciding where submitting your manuscript? The discussion was initiated from this post at Dynamic Ecology, so it’s also even more interesting to Seeds Aside in that it’s fully in the ecological sciences. Much has been said already, I have to let you read many reactions at various places and comments there.

Since I’m probably transitioning in my own takes on these points, I’ll split my take between past and possible future change.

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YX mess, or is it special even to sceptics?

I disappeared from blogosphere rather shortly, say during 2 or 3 years. I stopped blogging and almost lurking altogether. That’s the way life is. When I left (with intent to come back later), the sciencey and sceptical blogosphere was rather easily mapped out. You would know a few places to get a fix of science, culture, and its intersection with cultural wars (even if these wars are not really yours). When I came back, I knew things had changed, communities had organised differently, and I should take the time for a new map. Not necessarily with ease.

There’s one thing that for sure boggled my mind, and I had a really hard time understanding what it was, because I had missed opportunities to learn about the huge mess. And this had to be huge, because it clearly changed spheres of interactions. It was really tangible that what was once a somewhat friendly place was on fire. I eventually came to understand whats & abouts.

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Happy 2013!

Yes, happy New Year! Let’s say it actually looks like that…

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Botany, what matters.

I fear that’s just about some wrap up thoughts, hopefully engaging what’s wrong with botany, given it’s a rather nice science.

Botany is probably accepted as, or broadly defined as plant sciences. Wikipedia seems to think that. My PhD advisor did too. I think I disagree, and I’m probably wrong, but there’s nothing bad in being wrong. That’s just fair game. Rather, and maybe because this is deeply enrooted in childhood misconceptions (and childhood doesn’t necessarily mean childish –my kids say that!), I tend to define botany as the probable antic way: the science of plant systematics.

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Berry Go Round #56

Hi folks!
Before digging into this month’s plants posts, we are happy to learn the come back of I & the bird, the very nice birding carnival interrupted not that long fortunately. Go have a quick look and share the good news!

Now, previous BRG can be found there, at Ian Lunt’s Ecological Research Site. If you’re willing to host the BGR carnival, we’d be happy you welcome our plant carnival. Remeber you don’t even need to be a plant blogger, we welcome anyone. Please go tell us you’re volunteering for coming month!

So what are the greenier news?

•  You would be able to smoke a cigare on a lichen bed with Arabidopsis flowers otherwhere. Once upon a time we were told spores could travel over space, now we can count seeds on!
• Evolution may favour different approaches to solve biological problems. Trees evolved two kinds. Once you coopt a solution, you’d better stick to some coordination among organs (stems and leaves for e.g.).
• New fern Genus named for Lady Gaga.
• Botany is fun all way up. You already knew it.
• Creepy fall colours. There’s a fair game at Phytophactor, still time to play.
• Can you eat flowering kale?
• Tiny things acting tremendously. Give an acknowledgement to Cryptogams.
• Wasabi (say what?).
• Advices in botanical painting, a review here.
• Cute Gulf Fritillary. Now wait, I thought these were plants, right?
• Prototaxites? Tacitly plants.
• Want a Nobel Prize? Don’t study plants. (Unless you want a fun job!).
• Moss gardening, a review…
• Botanical picture of the month: Pumpkin spiral…
• Landscapes: Welsh common bits.
• Amusing titles: find the botany within (and read the whole post too!).
• Top 10 Nitrogen papers: with a short summary.
• Strangling figs (bot pix too).

And I guess there are some more all over… Please dont hesitate to submit your posts or any post you enjoyed reading… And see you soon!

 

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Coffee break anyone?

Wow. Octobre already. No backblog activity yet.

Well, without trying to find excuses, it’s both because I’m still struggling finding out a compatible blog life. Evenings used to concentrate most of my previous blog life but stuff happened, even if some time ago. And growing stuff will now heartedly disagree having to share his dad with E-entities on evenings. Not to speak of competing prior stuff. Plus dad should work during the day already, and that’s not so school!

I certainly have some time between day-work and night-family, and this will certainly happen soon. Yet I’m at a transition, academically speaking, between post-doc and even more academic liability, and this is new to me. Really new. Maybe I shall rant more about academic life next. Would it?

I have much less time to devote to litterature at large: I really have to concentrate on getting as fast as I can the basics of a field completely new to me. Maybe I should see opportunity in this, and forget about plant life but stick into plant diseases. Would you mind? Or navigate through my own grainsandy additions to knowledge and write about easy stuff that I happened to work on? (Easy in the way that I know it already).

Last, I will certainly, because of commodity, turn more into nature-based blogging. Well, I thought that first, but I’m now leaving in a place where nature is strange and does only loosely relate to nature as I knew it. Most importantly, I don’t know all these species, but a few. Is it that of an issue or opportunity?

What do you think a new Seeds Aside should look like? What do you suggest? Please take time to comment upon and discuss it with me. It’s a blogging coffee break. Don’t worry if I take some time answering, next week I’m over there. Dunno if I’ll be connected…

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