Found while browsing @BioDivLibrary for info on Beccari's travels in #Borneo: "the end of the Bornean forest is not as yet within sight" "nature needs something more than a generation to get out of date". In 1904, #forest and "primeval groves" were forever. If only. #conservation
Durians in flower…large red flowers of Durio kutejensis (Hassk.) Becc. bursting out of the branches. Beautiful but giving off a somewhat stale durian smell. Opposite the iconic Bandstand at Singapore Botanic Gardens #durian@nparksbuzz
Vacancy - We are excited to offer a 12-month herbarium specimen digitiser post in our enthusiastic and experienced digitisation team.
Closing date Midday on 7th October
For more information: https://t.co/8dpgUUUUne
Last few days for the pre-registration for the Non-seed meeting in Cambridge this December. We already have many participants and a preliminary set of speakers. Please, fill out the form soon if anybody else is interested.
Looking for a speaker to join the session we're organising at #BES2024 on Evidence-based conservation! We need someone to discuss barriers to evidence use in conservation, especially with experience in the Global South. Any suggestions?
Come and see us at Cambridge Market today 👋
We're sharing all the fun family events happening this #SummerAtTheMuseums and some amazing objects from @WhippleMuseum, plus how to join #OpenCambridge next month.
If you wanna see these blurry faces in full HD, hit us up at #ICOM12. I’m presenting my work on Mucoromycotina ‘Fine Root Endophytes’ in today’s “Omics & Ecology” session, starting at 2pm in Hall B.
It was not an insignificant decision. Changes to scientific names can have scientific, legal, and economic impacts, so we usually aim for "nomenclatural stability". But the botanical community now officially acknowledges that ethics must also be considered.
A nice guest appearance of the @CUHerb collections in a wonderfully exciting talk by @soltislab on the many uses of #herbarium collections for current and future research. #IBC2024
Meise Botanic Garden recently completed a six-year project to digitise three million specimens of their #herbarium collection. 🌿
Based on their experience, they published ten lessons learned to assist other institutions embarking on similar projects! https://t.co/FOGaqcSp9i
Thank you @alexmonro for visiting the @mobotgarden herbarium, naming mountains of Urticaceae from SE Asia and America, and sharing your knowledge with us.
📣New job alert! We are looking for a postdoc & two collections assistants to come and join us @NHM_Science to work on an exciting new collaborative project with @KewScience sequencing our unique lichen collection. For details:
https://t.co/jdxeEapdSm
https://t.co/vKj3nx1lwt
How accurate is @GBIF ' species occurrence data ? By the careful analysis and identification of specimens by taxonomists at natural history collection. After 2 weeks at @NYBG, I identified/updated names of more than 200 specimens of #Vellozia and #Annonaceae
A great example of an herbarium specimen capturing a larger cultural context. This specimen was mounted with a newspaper article describing plans to convert part of southern Michigan’s dunes into a sand mine. Despite protests, the state commission approved the mining operation.