Sally King (She/her)

Digitisation Officer and WRAGS trainee at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

[Sally King (She/her) @SKing_Botanics]

Read our lastest @RBGE_Herbarium blog post to find out why it's a steal for Magnolias! https://t.co/akpYX1XCkI
#Digitisation #Herbarium #Curation #Magnolia #RBGE #Botanics

[Sally King (She/her) @SKing_Botanics]

Prunus spinosa: The Blackthorn Tree of British and Irish Folklore. The first of a series of blog posts spotlighting digitised species from the RBGE herbarium British Isles collection. https://t.co/2LdSfFiZOW
#herbarium #digitisation #Prunus #folklore #samhainn #BritishFlora

[Sally King (She/her) @SKing_Botanics]

@WSYherbarium I wonder if WSY0050496 says nr. [near] Heston which could be Heston in Hounslow?

[Jack Ashby @JackDAshby]

OK here we go. Conceivably the greatest, most technical accomplishment in the history of natural history art: nearly 4000 glass models of flowers created by Rudolph and Leopold #Blaschka for @HarvardMuseum. None of the objects in here look like glass.
Readers, they're all glass.

[Sally King (She/her) @SKing_Botanics]

The last in a series of @AMDigiVol virtual expeditions of the lily family @RBGE_Herbarium specimens is now LIVE. To take part click on the link: https://t.co/0GuLbnoDIt
#CitizenScience #RBGE_Herbarium #Biodiversity #Botany #Liliaceae #transcription

[Siobhan @SiobhanLeachman]

While participating in #WeDigBio I transcribed botanical specimen labels from plants sourced from Nepal for the @RBGE_Herbarium. While doing so I came across a signature I just couldn't work out. So I left a message on the @AMDigiVol forum. And quickly received an answer!

[Sally King (She/her) @SKing_Botanics]

@SiobhanLeachman @creativecommons @GBIF This is fantastic, thanks so much @SiobhanLeachman and thanks to @ColinPendry for identifying the signature

[Sally King (She/her) @SKing_Botanics]

It takes many hands to digitise a plant family! Read my blog post to find out about the digitisation of the poppy family @RBGE_Herbarium: https://t.co/3yM5gKPHB4
#botany #biodiversity #herbarium #Digitization #CitizenScience #volunteers #Papaveraceae #RBGE

[Old Weird Scotland @WeirdScotland]

Between 1887 and 1902, over 2000kg of mushrooms were grown under the streets of Edinburgh every month.

In a disused railway tunnel, the Scottish Mushroom Co. tended 800 beds of inoculated manure

The SMC effectively ended the reliance on French-grown mushrooms

#OldWeirdScotland

[RBGE_Herbarium @RBGE_Herbarium]

Exciting oppurtunity!

We are currently recruiting for 2 permanent, part time positions in the herbarium:

Herbarium Technician – Plant Specimen Preparation

Assistant Curator

for more information on both posts https://t.co/8dpgUUDiYE

#herbarium

[Olaf Falafel @OFalafel]

I made a diagram called ‘Walking anywhere in Edinburgh’

[FungusPirate @curataceae]

this is worth it for the animation alone :)

[FungusPirate @curataceae]

Its not all hard work on the MSc fieldwork in Madagascar, we got a few minutes of RPG character creation fun (@KewScience pls retweet)

[Brooke Byerley Best, PhD @BotanyBrooke]

Ha ha! This is great. Now do herbarium specimens! #YourFragileStickerMeansNothing

[NatSCA @Nat_SCA]

Pleased to say that #spnhc2022 is a hotbed of natural science fashion.

Let's see your natural history themed sartorial statements - share what you wear with the #natscifashion hashtag

[Sally King (She/her) @SKing_Botanics]

In case curators win the lottery here’s a great handover checklist! From Mike Rutherford #spnhc2022

[SEDSConnective @SEDSConnective]

It’s #EhlersDanlosAwarenessMonth and we are raising awareness

Many people develop symptoms but then receive ‘normal’ test results.

It’s important not to give up on seeking diagnosis…

#EDS #HSD #SymptomaticHypermobility #Psychosomatic #JHS #diagnosis

[Sally King (She/her) @SKing_Botanics]

Take part in our latest @RBGE_Herbarium transcription expedition on @AMDigivol and explore our collections of European Papaveraceae (the poppy family)
#CitizenScience #Digivol #Transcribe #volunteering #Digitisation #Herbarium #RBGE #data #biodiversity #Europe #Poppy #Botany

[BotanicsStories @BotanicsStories]

An Update on the Flora of Myanmar Project @TheBotanics https://t.co/VDy44yrjly

[The East African Herbarium (EA) @EAHerbarium_NMK]

#Majidea zanguebarica (#Sapindaceae) displaying its attractive #seeds for dispersal by birds and other animals. The species occurs only in southern/coastal #Kenya and #Tanzania. #FloraOfTropicalEastAfrica