Norbert Holstein

#Iamataxonomist and #IamaBotanist. 🧐🌿Senior Curator-in-Charge (from pines 🌲 to vines 🍇) @nhm_botany. Views are my own.
Also here: @[email protected]

[Norbert Holstein @dr_norb]

For obvious reasons ny now, I will reduce my activity on X to zero.
Please find me on alternative platforms:
Bluesky: @dr-norb.sky.social
Mastodon: @[email protected]

[Norbert Holstein @dr_norb]

The harmonious regularity of the inflorescence of this #Earina valida #orchid from #NewCaledonia is beautiful, even in a #herbarium specimen. The plant must look spectacular in nature. #HerbariumLife #CuratorLife

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

Regular reminder:

[Max Barclay @Coleopterist]

Zoropsis spinimana is a quite considerable addition to our spider fauna- this quite large male in the kitchen this morning - female is even bigger

[Steve Parsons 💙 @StevePa46290725]

The extraordinary Larch ‘rose’. Sadly the local Larches have been decimated by disease, but there are still a few about. #larch #rose

[Dr Elaine Cox 🍃 💚 🍃🌽🥬🐦‍⬛🐌🇬🇧 @ElaineCox11]

Please remember, that from 1st of March until 31st of August, it is illegal to cut hedges in order to protect nesting birds and other wildlife! ☺️🌿🐦

[Andrea C. Love, PhD @dr_andrealove]

I can’t believe this needs to be said.

TransGENIC mice

are not

TransGENDER mice

[Norbert Holstein @dr_norb]

@NHM_Digitise @NHM_Science @NHM_Botany @NHM_Data Pepper in pancakes?
I prefer blueberries or maple syrup

[Inquisitive Bird @Scientific_Bird]

This story gets more and more distorted, further and further removed from reality. Here are the actual facts:

1) Franklin did not take Photo 51.
2) Watson and Crick did not steal Photo 51.
3) Photo 51 was not central for the discovery of the DNA structure.

[Science at the Natural History Museum @NHM_Science]

Botanist, Joseph Banks was born on this day in 1743.

He took part in James Cook's first great voyage (1768-71) bringing 30,000 plant specimens home with him like this @NHM_botany  Banksia serrata, a woody shrub native to the east coast of Australia.

https://t.co/0mPvgliqld

[Aashis Joshi @aashisjo]

The snow cover on Mt. Everest has receded by a staggering 150 meters after a very warm winter with no significant precipitation.

This Himalayan snow cover sustains the Indus, Ganga, Brahmaputra, Yangtze, Yellow, and Mekong. When we lose it, we lose the ability to feed ourselves.

[Dr. Carsten Schleh @Schleh_Tox]

Dieses Zitronenöl wird für 15 Euro verkauft um Mikroplastik im Körper aufzulösen und das Plastik auszuleiten. Das ist nichts anderes als Betrug! Fallt nicht auf diese betrügerische Machenschaften herein! #toxfacts

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

In today’s Vatnik Soup, I’ll introduce how the Elon’s Election Interference Machine™ (EIM) works. Since Musk & his broligarch allies won the presidency for Trump, they’ve now harnessed the machine to interfere in European elections, including the ones in Germany & Romania.

1/23

[Cheshire @Thatsregrettab1]

Someone briefly thought Dr. who? was serious. He’s not, he’s a clown and a literal fraud.

[Natural History Museum @NHM_London]

Among the cold and the rain, this curious-looking fungus can bring cheerfulness during this long winter. 🌨️

Have you heard of scarlet elf cup? Let’s take a look at this bright red fungus. 🍄

[Prof Phil Stevenson @chickpeaman]

@OfficialUoM honeybees don’t contribute to environmental sustainability - they are domestic animals - they outcompete wild bee species. I’d advise against promoting this erroneous link between wild life & honey bees just as we don’t keep chickens to conserve birds. See links👇

[Norbert Holstein @dr_norb]

@chickpeaman @RJABuggs @kewgardens British newspapers are not to be messed with (incl not ignored), and they do provide information to key audience, the British people. Kew's audiences are the British (that's not X's key audience) as well as scientists and plants lovers, and those can use alternative social media.

[iNaturalist @inaturalist]

A naturalist in Ireland spotted this Horn Stalkball fungus (Onygena equina), which only grows on horns and hooves - it's our Observation of the Week!

Read the story at: https://t.co/y8d2GrT1mk

[Prof Richard Buggs @RJABuggs]

'@KewGardens in no longer on X

[Botanic Gardens Conservation International @bgci]

Wildfires are currently devastating native Notophagus forests, and are also affecting botanic garden Cascada Escondida in Patagonia, Argentina. Click https://t.co/skwa9JdCAA for more information.
#Wildfires #Notophagus #Patagonia

[Science at the Natural History Museum @NHM_Science]

Charles Darwin was born on this day in 1809

Find out how a rabbit once kept by Darwin helps scientists to understand how the mammals became resistant to the deadly disease, myxomatosis.

https://t.co/tmqaZRyjLz