AoB Blog goes live (or what I’m doing on my summer holidays)
AoB Blog is now live at aobblog.com. The design looks similar to this site, and that’s partly because I’ve been using this site to test some code. It’ll be part of the web presence I’m building for the Annals of Botany. Surprisingly there is some archaeological relevance. Papers are open to non-subscribers after a year and some of those are archaeobotanical.
I’ve emailed a couple of people about an interesting story on reburial. I’m trying to get a bit beyond the press release, but I’m not sure if that will happen soon as they’re both likely to be very busy.
In the meantime I’ve blogged Moving beyond the ‘One-dinosaur-fits-all’ model of science communication at AoB Blog. It probably has some relevance to archaeological / historical outreach too.
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