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Table 2 Examples of social media use in the plant sciences

From: The value and use of social media as communication tool in the plant sciences

 

Example

Author/curator

URL

Plant science news

‘Functional Biology of Plants’

Martin Hodson and John Bryant

https://www.facebook.com/FunctionalBiologyofPlants

‘Science and Plants for Schools’

Science and Plants for Schools

https://www.facebook.com/scienceandplants

‘Kamoun Lab’

Kamoun Lab. The Sainsbury Laboratory

https://twitter.com/kamounlab

‘Cytogenomics and Epigenetics Laboratory’

Laboratory of Plant Molecular Cytogenetics, University of Sao Paulo

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Cytogenomics-and-Epigenetics-Laboratory/160417117341406

Plant science blogs

‘AoB Blog’

Annals of Botany

http://aobblog.com/

‘Weeding the Gems’

GARNet

http://blog.garnetcommunity.org.uk/

‘All Under One Leaf’

UK Plant Sciences Federation

http://blog.plantsci.org.uk/

‘Berry Go Round’

Plant blog carnival

http://berrygoround.wordpress.com/

‘Plantcellbiology.com’

Anne Osterrieder

http://www.plantcellbiology.com/

GMO Pundit

David Tribe

http://gmopundit.blogspot.co.uk/

‘The New York Botanical Garden’

New York Botanical Garden

http://nybg.tumblr.com/

Magazine-style

‘Arabidopsis’

GMI Vienna

http://www.scoop.it/t/arabidopsis

‘Plant Biology Teaching Resources’

Mary Williams

http://www.scoop.it/t/plant-biology-teaching-resouces-higher-education

‘UBC Botanical Garden’

UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research

http://pinterest.com/ubcgarden/

Video, audio and photos

‘ChloroFilms’

ChloroFilms

http://www.chlorofilms.org/

‘Musical Cells’

Anne Osterrieder

http://www.youtube.com/plantendomembrane

‘Inner Worlds’

John Innes Centre

http://www.youtube.com/user/InnerWorldsJIC

‘Plant News: audio’

Gatsby Plants

http://www.gatsbyplants.leeds.ac.uk/news_type.php?type=audio

Plant microscopy

Fernan Federici

http://www.flickr.com/photos/anhedonias/

Groups

‘Plant Science’ on Google+

 

https://plus.google.com/communities/107276823972957651082

‘Botany’

http://www.reddit.com/r/botany/

 

‘UK Plant Sciences Federation

UK Plant Sciences Federation

http://www.linkedin.com/groups/UK-Plant-Sciences-Federation-4498840