Someday I'd like to attend one of these delicious events! @utkherbarium.bsky.social‬

As autumn sets in, take a look at flowers that bloom forever 🌸🍂 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

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 👇 #KewLA

"(...) 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". 🌱

This is a wonderful presentation by two leaders in the field of the plant humanities.

Post from Herbarium World on biogeography: herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/09/16/d... @biogeography

Post from Herbarium World on reflectance spectroscopy: herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/d...

www.thinkingwithmoss.net is a great website. Thanks to everyone involved, especially Elaine Ayers @eayers0.bsky.social.

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...

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

Congratulations on writing such an insightful book.

Look at this beauty, freshly returned from conservation! “Fleurs, fruits et feuillages choisis de la flore et de la pomone de l'Ile de Java” (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.

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!

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/...

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

Post from Herbarium World on my visits with artists Laurence Hill and Tracey Bush in England herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/08/25/l... @botanical-icones.bsky.social

It's a great talk, and definitely worth reading. @andrewlhipp.bsky.social

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

Post from Herbarium World on my visit to the amazing South London Botanical Institute with thanks to the director, Elyssa Livergant herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/08/18/t...

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

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

Post from Herbarium World: exploring exsiccatae at Kew Library, thanks to Anne Griffin herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/08/11/l... @rbgkew.bsky.social

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...

Post from Herbarium World on British gardening herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/08/04/l... #gardens

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/...

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

Nature’s book cradle vs library cushion. A delight and a privilege to have a copy of Clare Hewitt’s ‘Everything in the forest is the forest’ for a while. I took it to a wood, shared it @theul.bsky.social and introduced it to some Darwin nature printing. www.impressions-gallery.com/borrow-and-s...

Post from Herbarium World on my wonderful visit to the Cambridge University Herbarium ‪@cuherb.bsky.social‬ herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/07/21/l... #herbarium

Unmuting the message A few weeks ago Shanshan Zhang, Senior Scientific Editor at One Earth, Cell Press, asked me to write something about climate change communication, a topic I have been grappling with for a long time. At first I hesitated, but she really encouraged me and I am glad I wrote…

Congratulations! That's quite an achievement.

Post from Herbarium World on my wonderful visit to the Kew Herbarium and my meeting with David Goyder herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/07/14/l... @rbgkew.bsky.social‬ #herbarium

Preservation: for future discovery! 🍄🌿🔬🧬 youtu.be/nYnsq2RiBfM?...

Interesting study on holotypes, where they were collected compared to where they are stored. “The distance between collection sites and herbaria has decreased over time, that is, around 1800, the median distance was 8,800 km, while by 2000 it decreased to 750 km.” doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...

These beautiful pressed seaweeds are the work of 19th-century botanist Amelia Griffiths. Sent to Dawson Turner, writer of 𝘚𝘺𝘯𝘰𝘱𝘴𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘍𝘶𝘤𝘪, around 1808, this volume is currently on display as part of our exhibition 𝘐𝘯 𝘏𝘦𝘳 𝘌𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵: 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦’𝘴 𝘍𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘦 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘻𝘦𝘳𝘴.

Excellent display of science special collections by colleagues @theul.bsky.social on the last day of #BSHS2025 today, including some Isaac Newton, a Darwin family Hortus Siccus, a 12th-century manuscript of Ibn Sina’s ‘Canon of medicine’, ‘Brighter Biochemistry’ and more. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social

A great thread showing how specimens and notebooks can be used to enhance each other.

On Herbarium World, first post of a series on my hunt for herbarium specimens and art in London, this time at the Natural History Museum. Thanks to Mark Carine and John Hunnex. herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/07/07/l... #herbarium ‪@nhm-london.bsky.social

Post from Herbarium World on trees in Washington DC: herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/06/30/w...

#HerbariumFrisicum recieved today an herbarium collection of almost 300 plants, collected on the island of Terschelling and in the surroundings of the city Hilversum, in the years 1958-1960.

Post from Herbarium World on the US National Botanic Garden in Washington, DC. herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/06/23/w...

June's Treasure of the Month is our new digitised collections - Linnean Online. The platform makes images of our herbaria, specimen and manuscript collections available for researchers around the world. It will also allow us to grow this important resource in the future. Read more: buff.ly/8E3OiOT

Wish I were aroun for this!

On May 15, my last day in London, I gave a presentation on #herbaria (of course!) at the Linnean Society. I was generously introduced by the new Honorary Curator of Botany, Jacek Wajer. I'm very grateful to everyone at the society for their support. @linneansociety.bsky.social

On May 14, day 17 of my London trip was very fortunate to visit the photographer of Fritiallaria, Laurence Hill @botanical-icones.bsky.social‬, and be shown many of his original works including this shadow box of Fritillaria imperialis against the frontispiece of Parkinson's Paradi in Sole.

Day 15, May 12 of my London trip, I went to the Cambridge University Museum @cuherb.bsky.social and was given a wonderful tour by Mar Millan and Juliet Anderson. Mika Hyman was also there, but I didn't get her picture. They all showed me amazing treasures. #herbarium

Hope you can find another platform!

Post from Herbarium World on #coffee and #Planthumanities herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/06/16/c... @dumbartonoaks.bsky.social‬

I visited Harvard Uni. the past two weeks. A major event was giving a workshop for the Summer Institute for Technical Studies in Art @ Art Museums. For the theme Experiment, I showed how I incorporate historical reconstruction/hands-on research in my past/present projects & the related experiments.

May 9, day 12 of my London trip, went to the Linnean Society and saw their great exhibit on naturalist's notebooks. It's on until Sept 25 and it's definitely worth seeing. www.linnean.org/research-col...