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This week starts a series of posts on people I've "met" through social media, in this post it's physician, medical researcher, and essayist Edward Tabor
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Community: Edward Tabor
Watercolor holly and mistletoe by Rosa M. Towne from Plant Lore of Shakespeare (Harvard Botanical Library) I could have called this series of posts āThe Republic of the Internetā as a nod to āThe Rā¦
https://herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2026/04/06/community-edward-tabor/
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This is one more reason why herbaria are exciting!!
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Jennifer C. Girón
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Happy 20th Anniversary! As a taxonomist, I am incredibly grateful for your existence. I access your information nearly on a daily basis for several different projects including
#ColeopteraDeColombia
. The
#Biodiversity
world would not be the same without you! Cheers!
#BHLat20
#ILoveBHL
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Lisa Haushofer
15 days ago
Another day, another āuncoveredā archive. The materials āhave been stored in Cambridge Universityās herbarium for nearly 200 years.ā The course sounds great, but this Indiana Jones framing and erasure of archivistsā work is getting really tired.
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Whoever wrote the description that accompanies the herbarium did a wonderful job!
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Post from Herbarium World on a plant collection made by children in Malta in the 1950s
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Herbarium Stories: Loss and Preservation
Cabinet for Flora Melitensis. National Museum of Natural History, Malta This last post in a series (1,2,3) on stories about herbaria focuses on deterioration, which doesnāt sound very upbeat, and iā¦
https://herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2026/03/23/herbarium-stories-loss-and-preservation/
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UTK Herbarium - TENN
18 days ago
š»āļø Just 2 weeks until Specimens & Scones! šæ Join us April 8, 3ā5pm for scones, coffee & tea + guided tours of our collections. Meet UTK herbarium staff, faculty & students!
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Luiza Teixeira-Costa
17 days ago
It was a pleasure to be interviewed for Botany One and tell some tales about plants and people and plants.
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Post from Herbarium World on how herbaria are connected to almost everything, including the abolistionist movement
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Herbarium Stories: Slavery and Seaweed
Specimen labeled Sertularia abietina, sea fir, in William and Mary Allenās Seaweed Herbarium. Cornell University Library. The odd juxtaposition in this postās title indicates the kinds of intā¦
https://herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2026/03/16/herbarium-stories-slavery-and-seaweed/
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The Plant Initiative
29 days ago
The new issue of the peer-reviewed open access Plant Perspectives Journal
@plantperspectives.bsky.social
, grounded in interdisciplinary plant studies, is now available online and contains many interesting articles related to plants. Check it out!
www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/
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Post from Herbarium World on the "Quire" herbarium of
#EmilyDickinson
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Herbarium Stories: Emily Dickinson
The page with specimens in Emily Dickinsonās Quire, with one specimen labeled Portulaca splendens. Houghton Library of Harvard University. Some historical herbaria receive much more attentionā¦
https://herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2026/03/09/herbarium-stories-emily-dickinson/
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Post from Herbarium World on specimen theft, something you don't hear much about:
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Herbarium Stories: Theft
Sheet created by C.A. Smith with Pentzia lanata specimen cut from Kew Herbarium sheet; he made a copy of the original label. The red stamp reads āRecovered from Pretoria.ā Royal Botanicā¦
https://herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2026/03/02/herbarium-stories-theft/
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The Public Domain Review
about 1 month ago
In the 1850s, before it was denuded by archaeologists and the tourism industry, 420 species of flowers and plants grew on the Roman Colosseum ā and every single one is catalogued in amateur botanist Richard Deakin's Flora of the Colosseum of Rome (1855):
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I agree that BHL is invaluable to so many studying taxonomy, history, and ART!
@biodivlibrary.bsky.social
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Data Rescue Project #DataRescue
about 1 month ago
New DRP post:
#Philly
interpretive panels returned to the President's House. We congratulate the local community that fought HARD for their return. We hope this inspires other communities to
#SaveOurSigns
www.datarescueproject.org/independence...
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Independence National Historical Park - A Hopeful Update
We recently posted about the takedown of signs at the Presidentās House site at Independence National Historical Park. We also posted a call for more photos for Save Our Signs, both before and afterā¦
https://www.datarescueproject.org/independence-update/
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Plants, People, Planet
about 1 month ago
Digitisation as archival intermediary: Quantifying and qualifying Greta B. Stevenson's mycological collector networks š
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
by Kreuzer et al.
#PlantScience
Image credit: Photography (CK) courtesy Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
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Andrew Hipp
about 1 month ago
From earlier this week: The Herbarium in Three Words.
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2025 - The Herbarium in Three Words_SierraClub
The Morton Arboretum Herbarium in Three Words Andrew Hipp The Morton Arboretum
[email protected]
Biodiversity from three perspectives --- any point will get you into the whole; any one of them is a ...
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Ob0J1GnOnrvb702_jLaq2iWWHhmwdQHx9g_hGCK9NYA/edit?usp=drive_link
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New post from Herbarium World on US moon trees at
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@plantperspectives.bsky.social
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Tree Perspectives: Moon Trees
Moon Tree in Waycross, Georgia; photograph by Jud McCranie This is the last post in this series (1,2,3) about articles that appeared in a special issue of Plant Perspectives about āTree Culture andā¦
https://herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2026/02/23/tree-perspectives-moon-trees/
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MikeCrang
about 2 months ago
One for you
@diegothegeographer.bsky.social
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RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) journal
about 2 months ago
š Latest research in
@dissco.bsky.social
's
#openscience
collection illustrates a Machine Learning as a Service approach for quantitative analysis of
#herbarium
#specimens
. šæ Subsequently, DiSSCO's models are used to calculate surface area of identified
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organs. š See:
doi.org/10.3897/rio....
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Biodiversity Data Journal
about 2 months ago
The Planellas
#Herbarium
by JosƩ Planellas Giralt includes 2,483 specimens, 1,654 of which feature locality data and are registered in
@gbif.org
. With most specimens originating from Galicia, Spain, this herbarium served as the foundation for the first systematic
#flora
of the region.
@ub.edu
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Dr Jill Whitelock
about 2 months ago
The smell of old books. āQuite a small piece of Fenugreek would make your Bible smell like a ripe cheese.ā Humphrey Gilbert-Carter, Director of
@cubotanicgarden.bsky.social
to Harry Creswick
@theul.bsky.social
, identifying a plant in a 15th-century Bible as Helichrysum stoechas. Inc.1.A.7.2[860]
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Luiza Teixeira-Costa
about 2 months ago
It's official: later this year, I'll join the KB, National Library for a 6-month project on how people have perceived
#InvasivePlants
in the Netherlands and abroad. Looking forward to the project "Foreigners we love to hate?" š±ššæ
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Post from Herbarium World on Plant Perspectives articles on forests and apples
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Tree Perspectives: Forests and Apples
Fallen wild apples; photography by Natubico One of the fascinating things about the special issue of Plant Perspectives on āTree Cultures and the Arboreal Humanitiesā is its breadth.Ā There arā¦
https://herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2026/02/16/tree-perspectives-forests-and-apples/
about 2 months ago
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Art Herstory
about 2 years ago
Portrait of Oakes Ames, n.d., by
#BlancheAmesAmes
Ā (1878ā1969), who died
#otd
, March 2. Source,
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#womenartists
#artherstory
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Mark Brown
about 2 months ago
The zoology collection in Turin shares the same building as the herbarium, and I thought this was the most beautiful display
@zoologymuseum.bsky.social
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So true!!! Glad it's not just me.
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about 2 months ago
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Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen
about 2 months ago
Can historians benefit from creative works for historical research? In this
@hsnatsci.bsky.social
short piece, I share how I worked w/ different types of making to research and write my recent book on 17th-c. florilegia. Thank you
@dominikhhh.bsky.social
&
@mbaldwin.bsky.social
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Practicing Early Modern History through (Re)Making Things
How can historians engage with hands-on research to better understand the embodied knowledge and sensorial experiences in historical practices? In what ways can creative works be implemented in order ...
https://online.ucpress.edu/hsns/article/56/1/70/217249/Practicing-Early-Modern-History-through-Re-Making?guestAccessKey=c277f81c-3115-4341-8a64-0aa6674a4f10
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Rod Page
about 2 months ago
With the help of Claude Code I have resurrected a tool to geocode localities using
@gbif.org
. If you have a locality such as "Cambodia: Ratanakiri Province, Virachey National Park"
rdmpage.github.io/gbif-geocoder/
will search for specimens that match that locality and display results on a map.
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Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen
about 2 months ago
I'm working on an article about early microscopic observations of ferns and the resulting images. Taking the opportunity, the core team of
#VisualizingtheUnknown
returned to the Museum Boerhaave yesterday for a MicroLab to observe fern sporangia and spores through early modern microscopes together!
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Post from Herbarium World on the social history of two trees: Amherstia and Ackee
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Tree Perspectives: Amherstia and Ackee
Fruit of Ackee tree; photograph by Jerome Walker In this post, I want to look at two trees that have complex colonial pasts.Ā This can be said of many trees since a large number of species thaā¦
https://herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2026/02/09/tree-perspectives-amherstia-and-ackee/
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Was the attraction the collection, or how it was housed?
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about 2 months ago
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Aysha Mcconkey
2 months ago
Just joined Bluesky and excited to see how Iāll enjoy this platform A little mushroom I painted to start with my first post! š
#mushrooms
#watercolour
#scientificillustration
#mushroomart
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Volunteers are essential to every herbarium!!
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Post from Herbarium World on the Deodar Cedar relating to an article in Plant Perspectives
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Tree Perspectives: Deodar Cedar
Deodar Cedar in the Himalayas; photograph by Paul Hamilton Humans respond to size, particularly to what is larger than them.Ā Thatās one reason why trees are so significant to humans:Ā thā¦
https://herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2026/02/02/tree-perspectives-deodar-cedar/
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Matthew Cobb
2 months ago
One of the most extraordinary documents ever created by humans. The 12 volume manuscript "General History of the Things of New Spain", created in 1577 by the Franciscan friar Bernardino de SahagĆŗn and a group of Nahua elders, authors, and artists, it describes the culture of indigenous Mexico.
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Digital Florentine Codex
The Getty Research Institute provides global access to the Florentine Codex, considered the most important manuscript of early colonial Mexico
https://florentinecodex.getty.edu
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Andrew Hipp
2 months ago
An example setup for herbarium tours. This is a general setup, as we have 8 groups coming today. I've prepared for discussions of taxonomy, floristics, history, and of course the basic: What is an herbarium? Herbaria encourage questions in these areas and many more.
@mortonarboretum.bsky.social
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Post from Herbarium World on the historical herbarium of Carl Ludwig Wildenow in Berlin
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Archives and Herbaria: Carl Ludwig Willdenow
Carl Ludwig Willdenow The last post in this series (see earlier posts 1,2,3) is about the last article in the special section on historical herbaria in the April 2025 issue of Archives of Natural Hā¦
https://herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2026/01/26/archives-and-herbaria-carl-ludwig-willdenow/
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Thank you for this series of posts. In times like these, we all have to speak up in whatever way we can. We MUST speak up.
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Another Herbarium World post on a historical herbarium, that of Jean-Pierre FusƩe-Aublet:
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Archives and Herbaria: Jean-Baptiste FusƩe-Aublet
Illustration of Siparuna guyannensis in FusĆ©e-Aubletās Histoire des plants de la Guiane franƧoise. This series of posts deals with research on historical herbaria and what it can reveal aboutā¦
https://herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2026/01/19/archives-and-herbaria-jean-baptiste-fusee-aublet/
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Biodiversity Data Journal
3 months ago
A mapped distribution of Najas species in the territory of Lithuania:
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Matt Johnson, PhD
3 months ago
Reflecting today on this quote etched into a bench on campus, as I wonder how many on that campus understand its message. "You died when you refused to stand up for right, you died when you refused to stand up for truth, you died when you refused to stand up for justice."
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This is a beautiful example of the difficulties of taxonomy!
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Post from Herbarium World on Joseph de Jussieu's plants from South America:
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Archives and Herbaria: Joseph de Jussieu
Bust of Joseph de Jussieu at the Monument to the Equator, north of Quito, Ecuador. This series of posts deals with the relationship between manuscripts in archives and herbarium specimens from histā¦
https://herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2026/01/12/archives-and-herbaria-joseph-de-jussieu/
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Brad Scott
3 months ago
Catoscopium nigritum from "Barrie Sands" in south Wales collected by Edward Morell Holmes probably in the 1890s. In the moss collection of Henry Guermonprez at
@portsmouthnh.bsky.social
@bbsbryology.bsky.social
#bryophytes
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Lukas Large
3 months ago
A beautiful watercolour of an Amanita by Louis C. C. Krieger. The details are really astonishing. From University of Michigan Herbarium, Krieger's Watercolors of Fungi
#FungiFriends
#FungiFriday
quod.lib.umich.edu/f/fuwatic
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Post from Herbarium World on historical herbaria and specifically the Chinese plants collected by Pierre d'Incarville
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Archives and Herbaria: Pierre dāIncarville
On the left, specimen of Litchi chinensis collected by Pierre dāIncarville in China in 1740. National Museum of Natural History, Paris I find Archives of Natural History an interesting journaā¦
https://herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/archives-and-herbaria-pierre-dincarville/
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Post from Herbarium World on the In Search of Thoreau's Flowers exhibit at the Gregg Museum of Art and Design in Raleigh with works by Leah Sobsey and Robin Vuchnich
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Botany and Art: Thoreau
Leah Sobseyās Wavy Leaf Aster Symphyotrichum undulate, cyanotype with Thoreauās handwritten notes in the background, on glass with 23K gold leaf (2022). Courtesy of the artist. Though I had just trā¦
https://herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/12/15/botany-and-art-thoreau/
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Kew Gardens
4 months ago
Through the power of digitisation, this work can be carried out at an unprecedented level. Over 7 million of Kew's plant and fungal specimens have now stepped out of the archives and into the hands of the world šæ Dive into our datal, and tell us what you find!
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How herbarium specimens hold the key to combating climate change
Many see them as dried, perhaps useless plant specimens of little purpose - but did you know that our specimens are actively being used to combat climate change?
https://www.kew.org/read-and-watch/herbarium-specimens-climate-change
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