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 herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2026/04/06/c...

This is one more reason why herbaria are exciting!!

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

Another day, another “uncovered” archive. The materials “have been stored in Cambridge University’s herbarium for nearly 200 years.” The course sounds great, but this Indiana Jones framing and erasure of archivists’ work is getting really tired.

Whoever wrote the description that accompanies the herbarium did a wonderful job!

Post from Herbarium World on a plant collection made by children in Malta in the 1950s herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2026/03/23/h...

🌻☕️ Just 2 weeks until Specimens & Scones! 🌿 Join us April 8, 3–5pm for scones, coffee & tea + guided tours of our collections. Meet UTK herbarium staff, faculty & students!

It was a pleasure to be interviewed for Botany One and tell some tales about plants and people and plants.

Post from Herbarium World on how herbaria are connected to almost everything, including the abolistionist movement herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2026/03/16/h...

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/

Post from Herbarium World on the "Quire" herbarium of #EmilyDickinson herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2026/03/09/h...

Post from Herbarium World on specimen theft, something you don't hear much about: herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2026/03/02/h...

In the 1850s, before it was denuded by archaeologists and the tourism industry, 420 species of flowers and plants grew on the Roman Colosseum — and every single one is catalogued in amateur botanist Richard Deakin's Flora of the Colosseum of Rome (1855): publicdomainreview.org/collection/r...

I agree that BHL is invaluable to so many studying taxonomy, history, and ART! @biodivlibrary.bsky.social

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...

Digitisation as archival intermediary: Quantifying and qualifying Greta B. Stevenson's mycological collector networks 📖 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.

From earlier this week: The Herbarium in Three Words. docs.google.com/presentation...

New post from Herbarium World on US moon trees at herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2026/02/23/t... @plantperspectives.bsky.social

One for you @diegothegeographer.bsky.social

🆕 Latest research in @dissco.bsky.social's #openscience collection illustrates a Machine Learning as a Service approach for quantitative analysis of #herbarium #specimens. 🌿 Subsequently, DiSSCO's models are used to calculate surface area of identified #plant organs. 🔓 See: doi.org/10.3897/rio....

The Planellas #Herbarium by José 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

The smell of old books. ‘Quite a small piece of Fenugreek would make your Bible smell like a ripe cheese.’ 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]

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?" 🌱📚🌿

Post from Herbarium World on Plant Perspectives articles on forests and apples herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2026/02/16/t... @plantperspectives.bsky.social

Portrait of Oakes Ames, n.d., by #BlancheAmesAmes (1878–1969), who died #otd, March 2. Source, herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2019/10/07/f... #womenartists #artherstory

The zoology collection in Turin shares the same building as the herbarium, and I thought this was the most beautiful display @zoologymuseum.bsky.social

So true!!! Glad it's not just me.

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 for the invitation!

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.

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!

Post from Herbarium World on the social history of two trees: Amherstia and Ackee herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2026/02/09/t... @plantperspectives.bsky.social

Was the attraction the collection, or how it was housed?

Just joined Bluesky and excited to see how I’ll enjoy this platform A little mushroom I painted to start with my first post! 🍄 #mushrooms #watercolour #scientificillustration #mushroomart #mycology

Volunteers are essential to every herbarium!!

Post from Herbarium World on the Deodar Cedar relating to an article in Plant Perspectives herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2026/02/02/t... @plantperspectives.bsky.social

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 Sahagún and a group of Nahua elders, authors, and artists, it describes the culture of indigenous Mexico.

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

Post from Herbarium World on the historical herbarium of Carl Ludwig Wildenow in Berlin herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2026/01/26/a...

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.

Another Herbarium World post on a historical herbarium, that of Jean-Pierre Fusée-Aublet: herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2026/01/19/a...

A mapped distribution of Najas species in the territory of Lithuania: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.... #herbarium #plants

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." youtu.be/pOjpaIO2seY?...

This is a beautiful example of the difficulties of taxonomy!

Post from Herbarium World on Joseph de Jussieu's plants from South America: herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2026/01/12/a...

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

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

Post from Herbarium World on historical herbaria and specifically the Chinese plants collected by Pierre d'Incarville herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/a...

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 herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/12/15/b...

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 🌿 Dive into our datal, and tell us what you find! www.kew.org/read-and-wat...