{"id":3937,"date":"2019-08-09T05:31:34","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T11:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/?p=3937"},"modified":"2019-08-09T05:31:34","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T11:31:34","slug":"resource-of-the-week-curing-plant-blindness-vs-growing-plant-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/2019\/08\/09\/resource-of-the-week-curing-plant-blindness-vs-growing-plant-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Resource of the Week: Curing &#8220;Plant Blindness&#8221; vs. Growing Plant Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3938\" style=\"width: 536px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1002\/ppp3.10062\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3938\" class=\" wp-image-3938 img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement-preprod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2019\/08\/Capture-1-300x113.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot of the article mentioned in the post - see link for full text.\" width=\"526\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2019\/08\/Capture-1-300x113.jpg 300w, https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2019\/08\/Capture-1-1024x384.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2019\/08\/Capture-1-768x288.jpg 768w, https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2019\/08\/Capture-1-1200x451.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2019\/08\/Capture-1.jpg 1361w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3938\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screenshot of the article<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Last year, we featured <a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/?s=plant+love+stories\">two #MySciComm posts<\/a> by co-founders of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plantlovestories.com\/\">Plant Love Stories<\/a>, and at #ESA2018, <a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/2018\/09\/30\/esa-2018-wrap-up\/\">we hosted<\/a> Plant Love Stories at our booth at the Annual Meeting. Now, we\u2019re highlighting a related publication informed by that project: a commentary in the journal <em>Plants, People, Planet\u00a0<\/em>(published by the New Phytologist Trust). They write:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We have a duty to conserve plants for the health of current and future generations. To do that, we, as a community of scientists, need to move plants from the background and into the foreground of people\u2019s hearts and minds. Effective movements need a clear, unifying rallying cry. We have made a decision not to use \u201ccuring plant blindness\u201d as ours. Instead, we would like to encourage an honest and inclusive discussion about the disenfranchising and exclusionary term \u201cplant blindness.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the full commentary <a href=\"https:\/\/nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1002\/ppp3.10062\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, we featured two #MySciComm posts by co-founders of Plant Love Stories, and at #ESA2018, we hosted Plant Love Stories at our booth at the Annual Meeting. Now, we\u2019re highlighting a related publication informed by that project: a commentary in the journal Plants, People, Planet\u00a0(published by the New Phytologist Trust). They write: We have a duty to conserve plants&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5469,"featured_media":3938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2,15,16,19],"tags":[36,43,53,65,80,86,113,114,115,117,120,128,143],"class_list":["post-3937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inclusive-scicomm","category-news-blog-scicomm-by-scientists","category-resource-of-the-week","category-resources","category-science-of-science-communication","tag-inclusivescicomm","tag-advancing-science-communication","tag-blog-post","tag-diversity","tag-great-scicomm","tag-inclusive-scicomm","tag-resource","tag-resource-of-the-week","tag-resources-2","tag-scicomm","tag-scicomm-by-scientists","tag-science-of-science-communication","tag-teaching-as-scicomm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}