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Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen
1 day ago
Join us in The Hague on 3 December for my book presentation! š·š»šµ Look forward to sharing some findings, an exciting panel on practical knowledge with amazing colleagues, and a pop-up show on reconstructions/creative works from the project. Register:
tickets.kb.nl/nl-NL/Show/D...
See you there! šŗ
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Post from Herbarium World on the art of Sam van Aken
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Art and Herbaria: Sam van Aken
Sam van Akenās specimen of Prunus persica āPeregrineā from The Open Orchid Project Sam van Aken seems to be as obsessed with fruit trees as I am with herbaria.Ā For years he has been growing tā¦
https://herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/art-and-herbaria-sam-van-aken/
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This is a wonderful post on old specimens and new.
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Alice Laigle
10 days ago
Some mushrooms we identified at the Society of Mycology of Neuchâtel and around (
www.smne.ch
). āhow to memorise them all? šØ My manner is to paint them. It takes up a lot of time, but once I see them again, I know who they are! šš”
#Sciart
#fungifriends
#mushrooms
#illustrations
#watercolor
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Brigitte Nerlich
13 days ago
Visited Port Sunlight yesterday - the original source of much of my academic funding from
@leverhulme.ac.uk
It was so impressive to see the workers' houses, hear about all the good stuff the Levers did and to visit the Lady Lever Art Gallery - on the day that Musk got $1 trillion....
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Post from Herbarium World on the plant-related art of James Prosek:
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Art and Herbaria: James Prosek
James Prosekās watercolor Liatris (Gayfeather), Blackjack Oak, Post Oak, Maximilian Sunflower after a rain, between Forestburg and Greenwood, Texas, November One of my favorite topics in the herbarā¦
https://herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/art-and-herbaria-james-prosek/
13 days ago
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Dr Jill Whitelock
15 days ago
The natural history of the book. Scarlet pimpernel in a copy of William Salmonās āBotanologia: the English herbalā (London, 1710) (along with several other pressed botanical specimens). CCA.46.31
@theUL.bsky.social
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Sachs Museum at Missouri Botanical Garden
16 days ago
#Incense
#SmellingTheBouquet
Courbaril, Black copal, Copal negro (Hymenaea courbaril) Commonly found in the Caribbean, Central & South America, courbaril is an evergreen hardwood tree with many uses. The wood is used for furniture and flooring and the fruit pulp is used for food and drink.
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Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen
about 1 month ago
Join us in Rome or online for a seminar on plant illustrations on 6 November! šŖ“š»šæ Through images of mandrakes and ferns,
@fabribald.bsky.social
and I will be discussing issues in the role of images in early modern botany.
www.biblhertz.it/events/43483...
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The Role of Images in Early Modern Botany
This seminar brings together two experts on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century plants. Zooming in on the dilemma of visualizing plants (or not), and how images could become part of epistemic methods w...
https://www.biblhertz.it/events/43483/2643800
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Erika Gaffney
about 1 month ago
Epistemic Practices and Plant Classification in Premodern European Botanical Knowledge: An Interdisciplinary Treatment Edited By
@fabribald.bsky.social
is now available in the new warehouse -
www.routledge.com/Epistemic-Pr...
The ebook is on sale for US $42.74
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What a wonderful collaboration between art and science
@uarkherbarium.bsky.social
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16 days ago
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Dr Jill Whitelock
16 days ago
Labels for medicine bottles? Found in a copy of William Salmonās āBotanologia: the English herbalā (London, 1710) (along with several pressed botanical specimens). CCA.46.31
@theUL.bsky.social
, formerly at the Anatomy School, Cambridge, part of the Suffolk General Hospital collection.
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The Linnean Society of London
18 days ago
One of our Fellows has co-curated a fascinating exibition of Indian botanical art. Henry Noltie & Sita Reddy chose 52 drawings by Indian artists, and where possible identified the artists responsible. 'Flora Indicaā is on at the Sherwood Gallery, Kew until 12 April 2026. Images Ā© RBG Kew.
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Biodiversity Heritage Library
25 days ago
The Biodiversity Heritage Library doesn't just provide access to historic literature. There are publications on BHL from 1469 to 2025. The Canadian Field-Naturalist is one of many in-copyright publications we've made freely accessible online (with permission from the rights holders of course). š§Ŗ Ā©ļø š
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Post from Herbarium World on the Fernery at Benmore Botanic Garden:
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Different Approaches: Ferneries
The rebuilt Fernery at Benmore Botanic Garden, Scotland, part of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Sixteen years ago, I visited the Tropical Ravine at the Botanic Gardens in Belfast.Ā I had ā¦
https://herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/different-approaches-ferneries/
27 days ago
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Art Herstory
29 days ago
Coming up Tues Oct 28, online - Botanical Exchanges: The Art of Emily Cole and Isabel Charlotte āDownieā Church A virtual conversation with Amanda Malmstrom and Allegra Davis Register at
olana.org/program-even...
#hernaturalhistory
#womenartists
#artherstory
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Europeana
30 days ago
At the turn of the 20th century, researchers shared specimens, books & discoveries through letters that crossed borders. Our exhibition with
@tettris.eu
explores the the scientific connection between Austria and Italy through the correspondence of botanist Eduard Hackel šæ
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Italian botanists and their correspondence with Eduard Hackel
Europeana
https://bit.ly/4nSpwFJ"
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Post from Herbarium World on the wood collection at the University of California Berkeley thanksto information from Shirley Watts and Mitchell Maher:
herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/10/14/d...
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Different Approaches: Wood
Stack of wood specimens at the Forest Products Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley. Photo courtesy of Mitchell Maher This series of posts is about topics in the plant world that, to me, ā¦
https://herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/10/14/different-approaches-wood/
about 1 month ago
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It's essential that everyone who uses BHL appreciate it and SUPPORT it--with some level of support that's feasible for them.
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about 1 month ago
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Kelli Trei
about 1 month ago
This article captures the critical need for deliberate, coordinated support of scientific databases such as
#BHL
@biodivlibrary.bsky.social
. Scientific information must be recognized as core infrastructure, not a peripheral project. š§Ŗ Article:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Sustainability During Instability: Long-Lived Life Science Databases and Science Funding Outlook in the United States
For decades, life science researchers have had cost-free, unrestricted access to data through online databases. However, the sustainability of even well-established resources was already tenuous, and ...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.08.680785v1
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University of Arkansas Herbarium (UARK)
about 1 month ago
We have several exciting events lined up for the 150th anniversary of the UARK herbarium! Check out all the events with this link:
biology.uark.edu/herbarium/ev...
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Cambridge University Botanic Garden
about 1 month ago
šæWe're celebrating 200 years since John Stevens Henslow became Professor of Botany at Cambridge. He oversaw the relocation of the Botanic Garden to its current 40-acre site & was a mentor to Charles Darwin, inspiring his ideas on plant variation. Learn more about his legacy:
tinyurl.com/4stzwhz9
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Biodiversity Heritage Library
about 1 month ago
It's
#WorldAlgaeDay
! Japanese algologist Kintaro Okamura (1867-1935) provided taxonomies & descriptions in English & Japanese for his monumental work "Nihon sorui zufu" / "Icones of Japanese Algae" (1907-1942). Find it in
#BHLib
via
#MBLWHOILibrary
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography...
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Post from Herbarium World on Smelling the Bouquet, an exhibit at the Missouri Botanical Gardens Sachs Museum
herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/d...
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https://herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/different-approaches-scent/@mobotmuseum.bsky.social
about 1 month ago
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Someday I'd like to attend one of these delicious events!
@utkherbarium.bsky.social
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about 2 months ago
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De Gruyter Brill Medieval & Early Modern Studies
about 2 months ago
As autumn sets in, take a look at flowers that bloom forever šøš In this new illustrated
#openaccess
book
@jessiewhchen.bsky.social
approaches 17th-c. florilegia as material objects reflecting the diverse plant knowledge of gardeners, compilers & image-makers!
brill.com/display/titl...
#EarlyModern
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Kew Gardens
2 months ago
Another week, another beautiful item spotted in our Reading Room at Kew! These incredible drawings of 'submersed algae' are from Sir William Hooker's collection (safely stored within our Archives). Check out the incredible detail in each line š
#KewLA
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Luiza Teixeira-Costa
2 months ago
"(...) biology, which, like philosophy, IS its own history; and a study of the course, which biological science has taken, confirms the idea that repeated scrutiny of its embryonic phases is essential to its progress." Agnes Arber in her 1950 book "The Natural Philosophy of Plant Form". š±
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This is a wonderful presentation by two leaders in the field of the plant humanities.
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2 months ago
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Post from Herbarium World on biogeography:
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@biogeography
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Dynamic Herbaria: Biogeography
Today, biogeography is a significant area of research in herbaria.Ā Now that substantial numbers of specimen records have been digitized, itās possible to study at least some speciesā geographic raā¦
https://herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/09/16/dynamic-herbaria-biogeography/
2 months ago
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Post from Herbarium World on reflectance spectroscopy:
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Dynamic Herbaria: Reflectance Spectroscopy
There seems to be a great deal going on in the world of herbaria right now, from new approaches to studying specimens to asking new questions about plant collections.Ā I tackle this topic withā¦
https://herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/dynamic-herbaria-reflectance-spectroscopy/
2 months ago
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www.thinkingwithmoss.net
is a great website. Thanks to everyone involved, especially Elaine Ayers
@eayers0.bsky.social
.
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2 months ago
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John R. Platt
2 months ago
That Australian woman who was sentenced for putting death-cap mushrooms in her family's beef Wellington? Her conviction was helped by the scientific evidence in the world's herbaria -- which themselves are being closed (rapidly and worryingly) around the world.
therevelator.org/endangered-h...
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Holy Herbaria: Protecting Plant History ā or About to Become History? ⢠The Revelator
Plant repositories provide crucial links between plants, botanists, and the rest of us. But their already-shrinking budgets face new threats from the Trump administration.
https://therevelator.org/endangered-herbaria/
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reposted by
Siobhan Leachman
2 months ago
My amazing
#Wiki
colleague
@tiagolubiana.bsky.social
has released this lovely video on the
#BHLImageExporer
. This tool (
bhl-gallery.toolforge.org
) explores
@biodivlibrary.bsky.social
images in
#Wikicommons
. It facilities image reuse in the
#Wikiverse
.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK9i...
#ILoveBHL
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The BHL Image Explorer ā A search tool for public domain biodiversity images
YouTube video by Tiago Lubiana
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK9iknIDtkQ
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Congratulations on writing such an insightful book.
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3 months ago
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Will Beharrell
3 months ago
Look at this beauty, freshly returned from conservation! āFleurs, fruits et feuillages choisis de la flore et de la pomone de l'Ile de Javaā (1863) by Berthe van Nooten is one of my favourite items in the
@linneansociety.bsky.social
library, with firework fruits and flowers on every page.
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UTK Herbarium - TENN
3 months ago
We're excited to announce this year's dates for our
#Specimens
& Scones events! The first date is Wednesday, October 1st, and the second is Thursday, November 13th, from 3 to 5 p.m. Please join us to learn what our
#Herbarium
offers while enjoying coffee, tea, and delicious scones! See you there!
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Siobhan Leachman
3 months ago
So very pleased and proud to announce that our paper "Revealing hidden figures within natural history collections by empowering students with data sleuthing skills" has been published!
#Wikidata
#Bionomia
#HiddenFigures
acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Revealing hidden figures within natural history collections by empowering students with data sleuthing skills
Natural history collections document biodiversity and environmental change, supporting research, education, and conservation. Attribution in natural history collections is often inaccurate due to na...
https://acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/nse2.70025
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Kew Gardens
3 months ago
Our team recently came across these beautiful drawings of wild flowers in Libya. They were made by Jocelyn Russell in 1940s. Her Mechanised Transport Corps was stationed in North Africa during WWII and it was during this time that she made illustrations of the plants she saw.
#KewLA
#Wildflowers
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Post from Herbarium World on my visits with artists Laurence Hill and Tracey Bush in England
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@botanical-icones.bsky.social
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London: Artists and Herbaria
Fritillaria meleagris ā First Among Equals, photograph by Laurence Hill. For the last post in this series (1,2,3) on herbaria and gardens in London, Iām taking a more metaphorical approach anā¦
https://herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/08/25/london-artists-and-herbaria/
3 months ago
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It's a great talk, and definitely worth reading.
@andrewlhipp.bsky.social
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3 months ago
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The Public Domain Review
3 months ago
Specimens from Phantom Flowers, one of two books published in 1864 on the art of producing skeleton leaves. More in our latest post from @eayers0:
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/phantom-flowers
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Post from Herbarium World on my visit to the amazing South London Botanical Institute with thanks to the director, Elyssa Livergant
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The South London Botanical Institute
One of the cabinets used to store specimens at the South London Botanical Institute. I knew about Ā South London Botanical Institute from social media and it seemed intriguing.Ā It sponsorā¦
https://herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/08/18/the-south-london-botanical-institute/
3 months ago
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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
@nhm-london.bsky.social
@rxcoulton.bsky.social
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Brad Scott
3 months ago
The single outlier on the south-west coast Sloane found "very plentifully floating along the Coast of the Island [Jamaica] by Pedro Point", which he presumably reached by boat. Here's his specimen (currently called Syringodium filiforme, Manatee grass), and distribution from GBIF
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Post from Herbarium World: exploring exsiccatae at Kew Library, thanks to Anne Griffin
herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/08/11/l...
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London: Kew and Exsiccatae
Table of contents page from an anonymous 1791 herbarium. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Sticking to the theme of this series of posts on gardens and herbaria in London, Iām going to discuss a day I spā¦
https://herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/08/11/london-kew-and-exsiccatae/
3 months ago
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Andrew Hipp
3 months ago
In today's Poetry Clinic, I address the question of how to carry forest's quiet with us. For me, the best approach is writing: note-taking while I am in the forest quiets my mind, writing up the notes afterwards seals the memories. w/ a quote from Edwin Way Teale.
poetryclinic.org/how-do-i-car...
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How do I carry the forestās quiet with me? - Poetry Clinic
SVG, Somerset, NJ, United States
https://poetryclinic.org/how-do-i-carry-the-forests-quiet-with-me/
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Post from Herbarium World on British gardening
herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/08/04/l...
#gardens
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London: Gardens and Herbaria
Monument to Philip Miller at Chelsea Old Church I had such a great time in London that one series of posts just wasnāt enough to do it justice, so hereās the second installment.Ā Itās focused ā¦
https://herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/08/04/london-gardens-and-herbaria/
3 months ago
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Sachs Museum at Missouri Botanical Garden
4 months ago
Visiting
#SmellingTheBouquet
virtually! Thanks to the Digital Interpretation team
@mobotgarden.bsky.social
, we can offer a digital experience to visit
@mobotmuseum.bsky.social
and check out the exhibition (sorry, no scents though!). Visit the link in the linktree or here
kuula.co/share/h1FhB/...
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Smelling the Bouquet: Plants & Scents in the Garden
Virtual Tour | Plants and scents are inseparable in our experience and our im... | R0010543
https://kuula.co/share/h1FhB/collection/71bVX?logo=0&info=0&fs=1&vr=1&sd=1&initload=0&thumbs=1
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Post from Herbarium World on my visit to
@linneansociety.bsky.social
to see a wonderful collection of orchid illustrations
herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/07/28/l...
#orchids
#herbarium
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London: Specimens and Art at the Linnean Society
Watercolor of Eulophia clavicornis by J.P. Mansel Weale, with floral parts attached. Linnean Society While in London (see earlier posts 1,2,3), I spent a day at the Linnean Society looking at a colā¦
https://herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/07/28/london-specimens-and-art-at-the-linnean-society/
4 months ago
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