An amazing traineeship opportunity, if #lichens are your thing, a joint opportunity between RBGE (@thebotanics.bsky.social) & the National Trust for Scotland: www.asva.co.uk/jobs/trainee...

🌲🌲🌲 An exciting opportunity to work on #conifer #conservation research at RBGE @thebotanics.bsky.social: www.rbge.org.uk/about-us/job... #conservationjobs #botany #redlist #ICCP🌲🌲🌲

The Australian branch of BHL regularly adds in-copyright content to BHL that is not available anywhere else online (alongside their digitisation of #RareBooks, #HistoricJournals & #Archives). Follow along here: @bhl-au.bsky.social. 🇦🇺 🦘 🐨 🌏 📖 🧪

I'm really obsessed with dead leaves and tiny spindly fungi at the moment #art

Lucky sighting of Mediterranean common Stingray - Dasyatis pastinaca. Off La Pitrizza beach Commune di Arzachena Sardinia. Taken with a leaking and temperamental Go Pro 5 that still somehow works.

A new paper by I.M. Turner published today in #EJBotany #OpenAccess @thebotanics.bsky.social includes 85 new typifications and nomenclatural clarifications from #G.E.Rumphius’s #HerbariumAmboinense posthumously published between 1741-1750: rbge.cc/47jg8Gh

An exciting #postdoc opportunity working on a class in the #Solanaceae family based in Boulder, Colorado 🍅 🥔 🫑 jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta... #sciencejob #botany #research #hortresearch #herbarium #collections

Curator job in vertebrates at the National Museums of Scotland: careers.nms.ac.uk/job/748553 Closing date soon, so get your skates on! #curator #curation #museum #vertebrate #curatorjobs #museumjobs

Please share our Call for Support with your colleagues, institutions & funders. With your help, we’ll ensure this incredible resource continues to thrive and grow for generations to come. 🌱 🌏 📖https://about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-support/

📢 The #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary is entering a bold new chapter – and we need your help! Today we release our official Call for Support. We’re seeking new hosts for BHL’s staff, infrastructure, and services. Learn more: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/06/tran... #BHLTransition #ILoveBHL

If you're interested in working in #ScotlandsRainforest, or know a young person who is, how about this as an excellent way to get started: Bryophyte Trainee with @thebotanics.bsky.social. Our rainforest woodlands contain hundreds of species of mosses and liverworts! buff.ly/dBxC7Y0

MAJOR MILESTONE for fungal science! 🍄💻 Our entire Fungarium - 1.1 million dried fungi specimens - is now fully imaged!👇1/4 ow.ly/w9JX50VT9FA

Meet one of our Champion Trees, the Kazakh pear (Pyrus korshinskyi) 💪 At 8 metres tall with a trunk girth of 1.26 metres wide, this magnificent specimen is the largest of its species in cultivation in Britain.

If you use the Biodivisity Heritage Library (I use it almost daily), you'll be saddened (and maybe angered😡) to learn that DOGE+Musk+Trump have eliminated its funding. BHL is looking for a new home. #ILoveBHL So much f***ing winning.🤬 blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/04/new-...

Big congrats to Rebecca Beneroff @botanicalbecks.bsky.social on scoring her first research grant! She will use funding from the Botanical Society of Western PA's Allison Cusick Student Research Award to begin her MS research this summer. #iamabotanist #letsgoplants

Take another view of Easter chocolate with botanical prints of Theobroma cacao - the cocoa plant. 1. Maria Sibylla Merian, Insectorum Surinamensium, 1719 2. Hermann Adolph Koehler, Medizinal Pflanzen, 1887-97 3. Berthe Hoola Van Nooten, Fleurs, Fruits et Feuillages Choisis de l'Ile de Java, 1863-4

Free access to the fascinating Linnaean Society archives, online:“a repository of digitised specimens, manuscripts, correspondence, and artwork”… linnean.access.preservica.com

Join our Horticulture team! We're recruiting for three exciting roles at our world-leading Botanic Garden: - Senior Horticulturist - Horticulturist (Alpine, Rock & Woodland) - Horticulturist (Outdoor) 🌱 Interested? Find all our current vacancies and apply 👉 rbge.cc/-jobs #HortJobs #EdinburghJobs

Lots of brilliant job vacancies @thebotanics.bsky.social just now, including Horticulturalists, Pollinator Ecologist & the Big Boss post (Regius Keeper)🌿🍄🌳🌼: www.rbge.org.uk/about-us/job... #hortjobs #horticulture #RBGE #ecologyjobs #botanyjobs

What else can stipules do? The dark spots on the tiny stipules of Vicia sativa are extra-floral nectaries. They attract ants, which defend the plant against herbivores. 🐜 #stipule #Fabaceae #EFN #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Linnean Online, our new digital collections platform, is now live! Take a (new) look at our digitised specimens, manuscripts, and correspondence. Check out the Tips and Useful Information page to enhance your user experience. Explore here: linnean.access.preservica.com Enjoy!

#Botany2025 let's gooooooooooo

Lots of brilliant job vacancies @thebotanics.bsky.social just now, including Horticulturalists, Pollinator Ecologist & the Big Boss post (Regius Keeper)🌿🍄🌳🌼: www.rbge.org.uk/about-us/job... #hortjobs #horticulture #RBGE #ecologyjobs #botanyjobs

Could you be the next Regius Keeper (CEO) of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh? We're seeking an exceptional leader with innovation, strategic thinking, and a passion for plants to shape our future. Apply for this prestigious and incredibly rare role: rbge.org.uk/regius-keeper

Ridiculously beautiful. Yoshino cherry tree at @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social today. 📷 #photography

From #AppsPlantSci's #ConservationBiology special issue🌿 Integrated plant conservation through the Global Conservation Consortia (by Jean Linsky, Amy Byrne, et al) bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #Botany2024 #plantjoy #botanicalgardens #botany

The #CETAF E-SCoRe Award deadline is in a week! HURRY UP! FOR: #natural collections based #researches WHO: PhD #students PRIZE: 1.000 € 💶 + 1.500 € for research trip Check this page out 👇 cetaf.org/template-act... #taxonomy

Where are all the field studies? This ⬇️ important but rather depressing paper describes how conducting, & crucially initiating, field studies is becoming harder & rarer. A short 🧵 (and a call for more fieldwork) www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Forestry plantations on deep peat in Scotland lead to a loss of 20tCha⁻¹ over 50 yrs. Additionally, ~65% of the carbon stored in trees is rapidly released back into the atmosphere through heat & power generation. Afforested peatlands are a serious legacy issue www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A super interesting day in the University of Papua New Guinea Herbarium (UPNG). Johns and Frodin annotations and scribbles on many of the folders and specimens. Lots of PNG specimens I’ve not seen elsewhere. #herbarium #PNG

🌿🤩 Great news for wildlife in Scotland-a massive site bought by Scottish Wildlife Trust, made possible by a private donation: scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk/news/scottis... #conservation #landuse #Scotland

Emily Coffey from Atlanta Botanic Garden at the International Plant Conservation Conference @mobotgarden.bsky.social: How to keep a plant safe? Share it! Collaboration really is key in conservation! @spun.earth has been great on promoting collaborations through our UEP and associates programs!

The PteridoPortal: A publicly accessible collection of over three million records of extant and extinct #pteridophytes By @crothfels.bsky.social @msundue.bsky.social @mlinkperez.bsky.social @aaronliston.bsky.social @klymiuk.ca et al in #AppsPlantSci bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Amazon forest felled to build road for climate summit www.bbc.com/news/article...

Postdoc Opportunity!

One day to go! Our free exhibition Naturalists' Notebooks opens tomorrow: In these notebooks, we'll explore how naturalists sketched and scribbled, shaping our understanding of the natural world from the 18th century to today. We're looking forward to welcoming you! Find out more: bit.ly/43kBXmC

Society needs to start seeing natural ecosystems as a societal *necessity*, and be willing to pay for them. Unless that happens, nature loss will continue, eroding the very foundation of life and civilisation.

Remembering our #TheBotanics colleague Jimmy Ratter on what would have been his 91st birthday stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/39893 #Brasil #Cerrado #Botany #Archives #Fish #Cars

‘The decline in support for fundamental systematic biology at a time of mass extinction is a shameful development that will be one day be seen as among the most astonishingly wrongheaded episodes in the annals of science’ Quentin Wheeler qwheeler.substack.com/p/put-up-you...

bbc.com/future/artic... Over the past year scientists at Kew & collaborators have classified around 149 plants & 23 fungi from all corners of the globe. Moving Kew Herbarium will make access more difficult for visiting scientists, crucial for collaborative research. www.change.org/p/keep-the-k...

✨We're #Hiring! ✨ Our new role, Head of Membership and Development, will be responsible for the development of our community of members, comprising Fellows and Associates, and play a vital role in helping to build a vibrant, active and engaged community. Learn more below: www.linnean.org/the-...

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

Interested in Botanical spirals but couldn’t attend my lecture @linneansociety.bsky.social Don’t worry you can now watch it on YouTube! 👇👇👇 The talk includes an overview of our recent paper on fern fiddleheads @currentbiology.bsky.social youtu.be/WLHDnjwcPlc?...

Mary Delaney began making these botanical paper collages in her 70s! She made almost 1000 of them using paper that she laboriously cut and glued with extreme precision. 😍 🌱 #Botany

news.sky.com/story/toothy... 🌴🍄🌿

The new issue of #AppsPlantSci is online! Highlights include a new & improved #Annonaceae probe kit, guidelines to quantify leaf chlorophyll content & an #RNAextraction protocol for #ferns bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/21680450... @ebsessa.bsky.social #botany #iamabotanist #phylogenetics

A piece of history: the first science journal

"Despite harboring around one-third of the world’s fern species, less than 6% of Southeast Asian ferns have been DNA-sequenced" -- here's our response! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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.