April has been a toasty month, both in terms of the weather and the grass fires that have plagued South Wales. As of 23rd April, South Wales has experienced 776 deliberate grass-fires (and counting!). The South Wales valleys ...
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February feels like a lifetime away now, I really didn’t think that you could pack in so much in such a short space of time. I am, very obviously, not alone in this - the other Trainees have also been extolling the virtues of ...
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Hi everybody! Back again with updates from March and what an amazing MEGA-month it was! A trip to Oxford, CEDaR’s 20th Anniversary conference and the TCV Natural Talent Celebration in Edinburgh. First and foremost I’ll ...
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An awful lot happened this month; I might have to split this blog in two… First I’ll write about getting out of the lab, away from my books and microscope, to talk microorganisms with anyone who’d listen! I joined a bunch of ...
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‘It’s alive!!’ - That’s the exclamation I mouth to myself back in the lab at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Never again will I look at lichen in the same way! Under the eye of a microscope the true world of lichens ...
Continue reading It’s another world! Only it isn’t, it’s the one we’re a part of!!