Peter Moonlight
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Herbarium Curator & Assistant Professor of Botany at TCD
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Carrie M. Tribble, PhD
7 days ago
The UW Herbarium @ Burke Museum is hiring a Research Mycologist! 🍄 Focus: fungal systematics & evolution, collections-based research, and outreach. Initial 3-year appointment, renewable pending funding. Apply here!
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Research Mycologist, Burke Herbarium
Job Description As a UW employee, you have a unique opportunity to change lives on our campuses, in our state and around the world. UW employees offer their boundless energy, creative problem-solving ...
https://wd5.myworkdaysite.com/recruiting/uw/UWHires/job/Seattle-Campus/Research-Mycologist--Burke-Herbarium_REQ-0000125931
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It takes a special level of incompetance from
@deltaairways.bsky.social
to drop their passengers in one terminal in the busiest airport in the world and send the luggage to a different terminal entirely, only connected by bus.
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Just over three weeks left if you are thinking of applying for this amazing job!
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20 days ago
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The first European animal declared extinct in my lifetime will not be the last.
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about 1 month ago
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A new article on the recently uncovered specimens of 18th century botanist/spy for Louis the 16th of France, Joseph Dombey in Trinity College Dublin herbarium, out in
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Calling botanical researchers, the School of Natural Science at Trinity College Dublin is hiring a tenure track Assistant Professor in Plant Biodiversity and Conservation. I know this is someone's dream job, so let me know if that is you and you want to chat!
my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...
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Mike Galsworthy
about 1 month ago
🔥 Britain is about to launch a new GCSE in natural history – a vital step toward restoring our knowledge of and respect for the natural world.
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Fellow creatures: the new GCSE in natural history
The new GCSE in natural history is a vital step toward restoring our knowledge of and respect for the natural world
https://westenglandbylines.co.uk/news/education/fellow-creatures-the-new-gcse-in-natural-history/
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Calling botanical researchers, the School of Natural Science at Trinity College Dublin is hiring a tenure track Assistant Professor in Plant Biodiversity and Conservation. I know this is someone's dream job, so let me know if that is you and you want to chat!
my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...
about 1 month ago
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Curators and botanists, does anyone know what this could be? It belonged to William Henry Harvey, botanist, collector, and former curator of TCD herbarium (1844-66). It is a 1.2m high, 25cm wide metal tube that once had a locking lid. Perhaps watertight.
about 1 month ago
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Rebecca R Helm
about 2 months ago
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
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My daughter had the MMR vaccine today. This was based on science.
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about 2 months ago
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Alex Wild
about 2 months ago
"Why do queen bumblebees emerge from hibernation during weekends?" I love this framing about bias in hobbyist-collected data.
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Why do queen bumblebees emerge from hibernation during weekends? - Apidologie
Climate-driven shifts in bumblebee emergence and flowering time can disrupt plant reproduction and affect pollinator health. To study such mismatches, accurate phenological data is crucial but challen...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13592-025-01192-x
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Trinity College Dublin herbarium are now on
@gbif.org
! We have just 52k records for now and mostly minimal data with full data and images to follow, but its a big step forward.
www.gbif.org/dataset/5ec4...
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Trinity College Dublin Herbarium
Herbarium specimen data from the herbarium of Trinity College Dublin.
https://www.gbif.org/dataset/5ec402f8-fc72-41e0-bc29-8451d920db3c
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Edinburgh Journal of Botany
2 months ago
A new paper by
@petermoonlight.bsky.social
published in
#EJBotany
#OpenAccess
@thebotanics.bsky.social
on the names in the genus
#Begonia
published in Vellozo’s
#FloraFluminensis
:
rbge.cc/47Q6wmL
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iaptglobal
2 months ago
Madrid Code online!! 🎉🪸🍄🌿
www.iaptglobal.org/_functions/code/madrid
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I'm sorry, what 🤯
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2 months ago
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Five species from Ireland's temperate rainforest in five minutes, presented by me! I am super happy with how this turned out, so do take a look. And a huge thank you to Michelle, Daniel, Peter L, and Jenny for making this happen!
youtu.be/xHRUBeukH6E
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Ireland's Temperate Rainforest
YouTube video by Trinity College Dublin
https://youtu.be/xHRUBeukH6E
3 months ago
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Five species from Ireland's temperate rainforest in five minutes, presented by me! I am super happy with how this turned out, so do take a look. And a huge thank you to Michelle, Daniel, Peter L, and Jenny for making this happen!
youtu.be/xHRUBeukH6E
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Ireland's Temperate Rainforest
YouTube video by Trinity College Dublin
https://youtu.be/xHRUBeukH6E
3 months ago
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This, combined with two factor authentification, is now at least half of the job of an academic.
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3 months ago
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Will Ratcliff
3 months ago
I'm essentially unable to log into any websites run by Editorial Manager. I have 20 something different logins saved, with different usernames and passwords, for different journals. My password manager is useless, and I am at the point where every login requires a PW reset.
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My predictive text used a sad emoji. Is it depressed?
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3 months ago
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Lars Brudvig
3 months ago
Michigan State University is hiring a new Director of our herbarium! This is an open rank, tenure-stream faculty position, with research focus in plant or fungal systematics, ecology, and/or evolution Please consider applying and help spread the word!
plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...
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https://plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings/index.aspx
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Brad Scott
3 months ago
Finally finished extracting and plotting all the locations in Jamaica that Hans Sloane (1660-1753) mentioned in his work, the Voyage to the Islands. Unsurprisingly, they are mostly in the south-central part of the island, but also show his trip north
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@rxcoulton.bsky.social
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Meanwhile, in the real world, we just missed out flight because of a 1 hr queue to check in a baby seat followed by a 2 hr security queue at Birmingham airport 🤬
4 months ago
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The Guardian
4 months ago
The bicycle played a rich role in Ireland’s past. Now it is key to our future | Cian Ginty
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The bicycle played a rich role in Ireland’s past. Now it is key to our future | Cian Ginty
Cycling was once a mass participation activity. Ben Healy’s dazzling Tour de France performances can help catalyse a revival, says editor Cian Ginty
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/24/bicycle-ireland-cycling-ben-healy-tour-de-france?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1753331749
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Jo Parmenter
5 months ago
Reckon so - especially as it lends credence to my lobed maidenhair spleenwort Asplenium trichomanes subsp pachyrhacis at Knaresborough Castle after several years fruitless checking of specimens (thanks to
@bsbiscience.bsky.social
for the tip!)
#UrbanPlants
#WildflowerHour
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Do they count as
#UrbanPlants
if growing on the wall of a derelict seaside castle?
#WildflowerHour
Who cares, especially when Limonium binervosa is so cool 😍
5 months ago
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That has got to be the best "herbarium ghost" I've seen.
5 months ago
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A seaside quartet from Brittas Bay, County Wicklow, for
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The Sticky Stork's Bill was a new one for me 💚
5 months ago
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Richard Nair
6 months ago
PhD: Plant-Soil Field Ecology / Ecophysiology ->
tinyurl.com/k2ymn5mv
PhD: Computational methods to use our plant-soil image data ->
tinyurl.com/4hbcwa8v
Research Assistant/Technician ->
tinyurl.com/ydvbpj6n
(links will be updated to my university website once online)
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Niche, but can anyone on Bluesky date a 1980s (?) Irish Lucozade bottle? This one turned up under a floor in a historic building, and we'd love to know when someone was last down there.
5 months ago
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I really hope someone tracks how many arrive early and how many arrive late.
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5 months ago
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A
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by Andrea, found somewhere on a train on the east coast today. Looks like a fly agaric (Muscaria amanita) to me, and is now happily in its natural mossy habitat.
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Gustavo Shimizu
6 months ago
www.scielo.br/j/hoehnea/a/...
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Emily Rae
6 months ago
This is the best graph I've seen in a while 📊
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I am delighted to have been involved in the description of Begonia chucantiensis in
@phytokeys.pensoft.net
. This was collected by Juan Carrión and colelagues, who contacted me to see if we could describe it together.
doi.org/10.3897/phyt...
6 months ago
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Annals of Botany
7 months ago
🌍 Boraginales, a diverse order of ~2,700 species, has long puzzled botanists with shifting classifications. Now, this study uses Angiosperms353 phylogenomics + fruit & flower traits to propose a clearer family-level structure. (2/8)
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Annals of Botany
7 months ago
🌿Check the newly published article ‘An updated phylogeny of Boraginales based on the Angiosperms353 probe set: a roadmap for understanding morphological evolution’ in
@annbot.bsky.social
by Maria-Anna Vasile et al.🧵(1/8) 👉
doi.org/pgvm
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@timboeh.bsky.social
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Riley Black - When the Earth Was Green out now 🌱
7 months ago
Birds are dinosaurs Whales are hoofed mammals Bugs are crustaceans Isn’t nature wonderful?
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Botanical Society of America
7 months ago
Check out this new
#AJB
commentary by Nicholas Turland! From the Shenzhen Code to the Madrid Code: New rules & recommendations for naming
#algae
,
#fungi
& plants
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
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#plantscience
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🦋 Alie of the Woods 🦋
8 months ago
Ironically, my love/hate relationship with taxonomy is difficult to classify
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Introducing Diastema calcola J.L.Clark & Moonlight, just described in the Gesneriaceae. This species is found on limestone in S. Ecuador and N. Peru and Vulnerable under IUCN Criteria. Genetic and morphological work shows that while superficially similar to D. racemiferum, it is distantly related!
8 months ago
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It is tulip season in Dublin
8 months ago
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Yadvinder Malhi
8 months ago
Tropical forests are not all the same: they show many shades of geographical variation. Our new paper in Nature led by
@jeaggu.bsky.social
combines field and satellite data to make a first map the canopy functional traits of the world’s tropical forests:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Canopy functional trait variation across Earth’s tropical forests - Nature
Data from a variety of sources—including satellite, climate and soil data, as well as field-collected information on plant traits—are pooled and analysed to map the functional diversity of tropical fo...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08663-2
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Marcus Collier
9 months ago
For more information, please go to
tcd.ie/hr/vacancies/
and search the 'School of Natural Sciences'. You will see that we also have several Assistant Professor positions open at the moment. Please pass this on to any early career academics / postdocs, especially those who are new to this platform!
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Marcus Collier
9 months ago
We're hiring! Assistant Professor in Plant Conservation. The successful applicant will have experience in field botany, plant conservation, and/or restoration ecology. Contact me if you have any questions. Please circulate!
#PlantScience
#Botany
#restoration
#ecology
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9 months ago
World Flora Online is now on Bluesky! Follow us for more updates and news from WFO.
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Dr Alex Bond
9 months ago
It this a cool paper? Yes! But if I wrote a paper for every "here's a cool specimen, but we can't conclusively say it's from X or Y, but it probably is" I'd never stop
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If you see this quote with flowers from your gallery. We can all use some beauty right now. Sonchus acaulis from the highest point of Gran Canaria
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10 months ago
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BIODATA IEB-Chile
10 months ago
herbariodigital.cl
now boasts 100,000 digitized specimens! 🎉 This incredible milestone was marked by the recently discovered 𝘉𝘦𝘳𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘰𝘱𝘴𝘪𝘴 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢. Advancing efforts to integrate Chile's biodiversity data for exploration, research, and management.
#DigitalHerbarium
ieb-chile.cl/noticia/herb...
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