Fantastic heartfelt thread…

Excited to share a new paper with Sandra Guerrero-Rubio and @docbroc.bsky.social on the convergent evolution of betalains, now published in @newphyt.bsky.social! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/.... A 🧵

All three days were epic!

That was a good day for Natural History Humanities initiatives! Thank you @theul.bsky.social @theulspeccoll.bsky.social @jillwhitelock.bsky.social for hosting a great workshop! #GLAM

Productive and inspiring day with BGCI colleagues at @rbgkew.bsky.social talking about living collections management and data ecosystems. A highlight was first ever visit to the newly restored Marianne North gallery. Absolutely fabulous. Must see.

Great Collections Lab yesterday: how communities shape participatory research! Questions were on issues that matter most to academic and non-academic researchers & what changes are needed in this space. Grateful to be able to convene these conversations! #research #participatory #community #seminar

💫 Thrilled that our seed funding on Participatory Research partly allowed for MAA at @camunivmuseums.bsky.social won £90K for: “From the Caribbean to Cambridge: Reimagining Pre-Columbian Archaeology Collections Together” Apply now for the new round! www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/news-events/...

The @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social are calling on retailers to label all peat containing products to help consumers avoid buying it. You can sign their open letter here to support them www.wildlifetrusts.org/peat-inspect... I’ve signed!

Applications open for the new round of Participatory Research fund! NEW & IMPROVED! Check the Further Particulars and Apply via our website. Email us for any questions, and spread the word! www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/opportunities/ @jillwhitelock.bsky.social @docbroc.bsky.social @nealspencer.bsky.social

📅 If you are in Cambridge on the 26 February, 5-7pm, join us for our termly Keynote on the exciting topic of 'Tapping Natural History Collections for Interdisciplinary Research' by Yota Batsaki @dumbartonoaks.bsky.social Plants, animals and rocks can tell us more than what we might think!🪷🦎🪨📖👇

TODAY! Come to our interactive workshop and learn from members of our community who took part in the participatory research projects we funded last year via @ukri.org ! Still time to register 👇

If you are looking for beauty, fun, books, plants, insects and more across Cambridge and collections, please follow our wonderful Co-Chair @jillwhitelock.bsky.social 🌱🪷📖🦎

Great to see our paper on the front cover @natureecoevo.bsky.social, with the tropical displays in our glasshouse range! With thanks to all 50+ co-authors. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Nice editorial on the issues facing a variety of ex situ plant collection. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"So, why isn’t conservation horticulture a priority? I suspect it is because the trade off with ornamental horticulture is too high. ... Sadly, it also reveals our disingenuousness – after all, we have a lot to say about the loss of biodiversity." Fascinating read, and an important call to action.

We’re delighted that our latest paper on the world’s living plant collections has now been published. You can find it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @roinnanluisigh.bsky.social @natureecoevo.bsky.social Grateful for the exclusive by @donnalferguson.bsky.social, here: shorturl.at/GnYIQ

Powerful and eloquent articulation by @carolinelucas.bsky.social on need for a GCSE in Natural History, Radio 4 Today Programme.

🥳 Collections Lab is back! How communities shape participatory research.Keeping 🤞 for more funding available soon for more participatory research projects! Register via our website👇 @docbroc.bsky.social @jillwhitelock.bsky.social @nealspencer.bsky.social www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/news-events/...

Thais Vasconcelos @tvasconcelos.bsky.social will be the new Director of the Univ. of Michigan Herbarium starting in January -- and the first woman to fill this role in our herbarium's >100 year history. Congrats Thais!

An obituary celebrating the life and research of Professor Mary Gibby, Ph.D., OBE, FLS, FRSE, PPBPS (1949-2024) by Professor Stephen Blackmore #RoyalBotanicGarden #Edinburgh and Professor Johannes Vogel #MuseumFürNaturkunde #Berlin published today #OpenAccess in #EJBotany: rbge.cc/4gsoNbc

In one year, I genetically engineered the boring Arabidopsis into a beautiful ornamental flower 🧬🌹 Here is how and why I gave this model organism a visual upgrade 🧵(1/7)

Community Collaborations: nature and art at @kettlesyard.bsky.social as part of our funded participatory research projects. Read the blog here 👇 @jillwhitelock.bsky.social @docbroc.bsky.social www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/blog/communi...

Job opportunities! We are currently recruiting for the following roles: * Collections & Digitisation Assistant * Herbarium Collections Manager * Research Assistant / Research Associate * Research Laboratory Technician Find out more & apply: tinyurl.com/3smk68t5 #PlantsAtCambridge

🚨Read our latest blog on participatory research projects! Bringing the #ancestors home: how Cambridge collections can support #repatriation using #osteobiographies Funded via CCC thanks to co-chairs: @jillwhitelock.bsky.social @docbroc.bsky.social & #nealspencer www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/blog/bringin...

To celebrate our arrival on @bsky.app here's our most recent report: African Collections Futures: the first initial mapping of African objects, histories, legacies within Cambridge collections! Check it out 👇: www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/... @docbroc.bsky.social @jillwhitelock.bsky.social

We are now on BlueSky! Here's a cute little angel from our Gutenberg Bible (Inc.1.A.1.1[3761]). Follow us for all the best special collections content!

It was fantastic to be at the launch of the University of Cambridge ‘African Collections Futures’ report tonight. Incredible, rich, important work by Dr Eva Namusoke through the Collections-Connections-Communities research initiative. Summary report here: www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/u...

Come work with us! Excited to advertise a two-year Munby Fellowship for a Research Associate in Bibliography and Natural History Humanities, a collaboration between @theul.bsky.social and the Collections-Connections-Communities Strategic Research Initiative: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49338/ Closing: 17 Jan

We are a research initiative at the University of Cambridge.We support, catalyse, & empower communities of researchers who use the University’s collections in museums, garden, libraries, & archives to discover the past, learn about the present & act on the future. www.ccc.cam.ac.uk

We’ve just posted a new blog. Participatory research with Cambridge Community Arts & Cambridge University Botanic Garden Botanical Hues: Empowering Health Through Natural Dye Research #collections #mentalhealth www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/blog/botanic...

Open position: Post-doctoral Living Collections Curator UCLA Mathias Botanical Garden. (I am not associated with this; passing it along for a colleague... I think it could be a good opportunity for a systematist / botanist who wants to move into collections) recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF09879

Fantastic launch this evening of our African Collections Futures report: www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/... Congratulations to Eva Namusoke on the report and her presentation, and to Njabulo Chipangura for a thought provoking reflection. Press coverage here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Some #MicrobialArt by @jennifer.j.quinn . “The Scream” painted in fluorescent bacteria. #AgarArt @univpugetsound @ASMicrobiology

It's hedge apple season. These massive fruits of Osage-orange, Maclura pomifera, are dropping throughout the eastern US. They go by many names, like horse apples and monkey brains. There is increasing evidence that the seed oil of this tree has important cosmetic and possibly pharmacuetical uses.

Applications open for several research positions here in Cambridge including evolutionary genetics, genomics and population genetics. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49389/

We have just advertised a unique collaboration. A 2-year Mumby Fellowship co-funded with our Collections-Connections-Communities Initiative. Applicants should combine bibliography or history of the book with humanities research on natural history collections: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49338/

We are advertising two fabulous jobs at the Cambridge University Herbarium. Collection Manager: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49404/ Collections & Digitisation Assistant: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49378/ Incredible collection of 1.1 million specimens including most of Darwin’s Voyage of the Beagle material.

Very happy to share that our latest publication on the evolution of C4 photosynthesis is out now. It was such a pleasure working with the amazing Joseph Swift, Joe Ecker, @tinaschreier.bsky.social, and @jmhibberd.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Yes, libraries are invaluable for their collections and public services they offer, but also social contact without the expectation to interact with anyone or spend any money is so important to so many people

This is a great figure. For all the doom & gloom about climate inaction, we have made a big dent over the past 25 years. What started out as 3.5-4°C increase by 2100 is now down to 2-3°C. Of course, more work is urgently needed but this is progress! We don't let up now. h/t @hausfath.bsky.social

Incredible achievement by the BCN Wildlife Trust, to secure Strawberry Farm.

An "accidentally rewilded" 377-acre UK farm is now home to many threatened species, including turtle doves, warblers, 11 bat species, orchids + butterflies. Such examples prove how nature can recover when we let it, and that rewilding reverses nature loss. 🌍 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics

Beef has a huge climate problem. It’s time we admitted it, and focused on real solutions — not greenwashing and denial. drawdown.org/insights/gre...

1/IMPORTANT thread about Bluesky funding and origins. Many folks know that it was seeded by Jack Dorsey around a libertarian vision of a magical network that wouldn’t need moderation because it would be decentralized and baked into a protocol (somehow).

Great title! Looking forward to reading this…

48hrs to apply for what might arguably be the “best job in the natural world”. Could you be our Expedition Botanist? Deadline 17th November. www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/join-support...

Hello, since the requests to be added to the #PlantScience Research #StarterPack keep coming, I have created a 2nd Pack. So, here are Part 1: go.bsky.app/8Zfmwf7 Part 2: go.bsky.app/3NcqRCE

one of my labmates is a genius, behold her tiny arabidopsis farm made from a 96-well plate and pcr strip lids 🤩😆

Want to make beautiful scientific figures? Easy! The NIH released a library of 2000+ free scientific illustrations called *BioArt*. Check it out! bioart.niaid.nih.gov #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky 🧠🟦 🧪