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BCSS ZOOM Talks

Post by AnTTun »

I'm aware there is already a topic on this subject, but that one is mainly intended to remind BCSS members of the 'next to come soon' talk. This topic should be a bit different and I'd appreciate it if admins/mods could pin it to the top of this section because we believe it might be interesting to all forum members.

When I say 'we', I mean the BCSS ZOOM Talks Team, which has 3 members: Tina Wardhaugh (ladies first :) ), Nigel Cole and my humble self. Finding speakers, working on details with them, preparing written materials for e-news, testing and finally conducting and supervising talks themselves is a really time consuming activity that became very time consuming for even our Mr Chairman (aka Ian Thwaites :) ). So, a few months ago, it's become a 3 person job.

The three of us are always looking for help of some kind, especially when it comes to finding speakers or new ideas for talks, 'in my greenhouse' maybe... As far as we know, BCSS has the longest tradition of ZOOM talks in the world, we had more talks / speakers than any other society and that set a kind of tradition (or addiction, take it the way you like it :) ), even nowadays when Corona measures are easing. Hopefully we'll all 'soon' have a chance to meet face to face, but in most cases it will still be a more or less local kind of meeting. ZOOM easily connects us to other branches, other countries and other continents... people that we'll see rarely or never in our lifetime.

To shorten the long story, we would like to hear what forum members think about ZOOM talks, good or bad. It helps to make them better. But above all, we'd really appreciate suggestions for possible speakers. 3000 BCSS members know far more people than us, 3 Team members. If you know someone, if you think you are that one… please PM or email (BCSS.Talk@gmail.com) any of us. Don't be shy :)
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Starting with a not-the-most-useful comment, I just want to thank Ian and the three of you, Tina, Nigel & you, for doing this. I most probably won't be able to attend many live talks when they start due to distance and work commitments, so please keep this rolling!
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Thank you Mat, appreciated :)
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Have you access to the speakers list?

I would second MatDz thoughts fully too.

All the talks have been very interesting and entertaining and have provided a great deal of help to many of us who were socially isolated by the pandemic.
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Hi Chris
Yes we have a copy of the speakers list but we are trying to source 'new speakers' not least as branches will be getting back to normal soon & you won't want the same talk twice and not all UK branch speakers wish to to do zoom talks
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Tina wrote: Mon Jul 19, 2021 2:15 pm Hi Chris
Yes we have a copy of the speakers list but we are trying to source 'new speakers' not least as branches will be getting back to normal soon & you won't want the same talk twice and not all UK branch speakers wish to to do zoom talks
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How about getting one of the academics who does DNA work on cacti / succulents to explain how it all works, and what the limitations are of the current state of the art?
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ralphrmartin wrote: Mon Jul 19, 2021 6:07 pm How about getting one of the academics who does DNA work on cacti / succulents to explain how it all works, and what the limitations are of the current state of the art?
Like Olwen Grace, who did a paper on the origins of Aloe vera and leaf succulence in aloes?

https://www.kew.org/science/our-science ... en-m-grace

https://bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/a ... 015-0291-7

Or did you want the taxonomy of determining species and genus level?

I think someone who could explain this paper could be interesting, the Portulacineae includes the Anacampserotaceae, Basellaceae, Cactaceae, Didiereaceae, Halophytaceae, Montiaceae, Portulacaceae and Talinaceae:

Evolution of Portulacineae Marked by Gene Tree Conflict and Gene Family Expansion Associated with Adaptation to Harsh Environments

https://watermark.silverchair.com/msy20 ... uM5y7HF9SM

The corresponding authors are at Michigan but there are two authors in the UK, one who seems to have moved and is difficult to google and:

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Yes, or Christiane Ritz at Senckenberg in Görlitz.
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I like the idea(s), we'll certainly discuss that.

And since we're speaking of 'science', is any forum member still in touch with Marlon Machado? If so, I'd appreciate a PM...
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