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Species on the Edge has twitter!! As activity starts to get going across our 7 project areas, we thought it about time we provided you with a place to follow along with what we're up to. But what is Species on the Edge?? We're glad you asked 👇🧵

You can hear about how scientists from across Scotland and multiple fields are working to confront the nature crisis, with Dr Alex Davey Pete Hollingsworth Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 🌱

Absolutely buzzing to have won a silver-gilt medal for our #BeeTheChange exhibit at Chelsea Flower Show, showcasing how simple changes can help 🐝! Last year we won silver so thrilled to beat our own record 🥳 📍Come find our stand in the Discovery Zones

Is the long-held fear of losing the beloved British bluebell unfounded? New research from @RBGE_Science & partners published today Plants People Planet 🌱👥🌐 indicates that the threat to native #bluebells from the Spanish ‘invader’ is not what we thought it was 👉bit.ly/42gLvuS

Celebration of the 70th Anniversary of the first ascent of Mount Everest-Sagarmatha at the embassy. Families of Tenzing Norgay, Ed Hillary, John Hunt,Hari Budha Magar, Kenton Cool and Rebecca Stephenswere honoured by HRH Duke of Gloucester and HE the Ambassador on the occasion.

As this spring's #bluebell display comes to an end, read our latest paper: Is #hybridisation with non-native congeneric species a threat to the UK native bluebell Hyacinthoides non-scripta? in Plants People Planet 🌱👥🌐. doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.1…

Submit your abstract for the BGE day at Biodiversity Genomics 23! 🧬 The #BGE consortium is organising a full day of presentations at Biodiversity Genomics on 02-10-23, and we would like you to consider submitting an abstract for a presentation in this session! 🌐 Details below! 👇

Join our Centre for #MiddleEastern Plants (CMEP). We are seeking an expert researcher with field #botany & data analysis skills to work with local, regional & global partners supporting capacity & capability development. Find out more: rbge.org.uk/about-us/worki…. Closes Oct 11

We’re hiring🌱 We’re looking for a botanist to join the @CMEPOrg team to deliver research and consultancy projects across the Middle East. Find out more here bit.ly/3GGvO5x @RBGE_Science Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

The book of life is written #DNA of all species on Earth & "we are burning the books before we even read them". #SequencingTechnology already exists to identify new & existing species. iBOL Consortium tells us it is urgent to sample #biodiversity to protect it. #GEOBONconf2023

BOLD data’s Sujeevan Ratnasingham SujeevanRatnasingham at GEOBON’s panel, sonic BON - Opportunities & Challenges in bio molecular observing.

📣 We're hiring! We're looking for a Science Manager: Grants, Contracts and Operations to join the team to deliver management support, expand our base of external funding and develop efficient working practices. Find out more and apply online 👉 rbge.cc/Jobs

Please come and work with us, we are a lovely bunch, in a collegiate scientific environment.

Had a great time last night at the #NatureOfScotland awards. Thrilled to have our work on #maerl conservation nominated let alone to receive a highly commended award! Congratulations to everyone, great to see so much inspiring work. ILES @RBGE_Science Natural Environment Research Council

🔥 🔥 🔥 Kudos to Paul Hebert & team demonstrating that you can sequence 100,000 DNA barcodes in a single Oxford Nanopore run at incredibly high accuracy and low cost “ONT has effectively solved the challenge for sequencing” to barcode all the things biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🗓️Join us February 26 for the 1st iBOLEurope webinar! Expert panellists will discuss challenges and current directions, and share their insights and experiences on developing curated #DNAbarcode reference libraries.🧬📚 Join our network to get an invite: cognitoforms.com/stichtingnatur…

One of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh' key collaborators, professor Li De-Zhu of Kunming Institute of Botany, Yunnan, China, has been elected a corresponding fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Congratulations from all at RBGE! rbge.org.uk/news/articles/…

All data behind the #PlantAtlas2020 plantatlas2020.org maps and plots are now all available on Zenodo zenodo.org/communities/pl… Thanks Richard Burkmar for making it so easy! BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland Kevin Walker BRC UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Prof. Michelle Van der Bank has been awarded the SA Academy of Science and Culture’s Medal of Honour for contribution to science in South Africa. Read more: shorturl.at/2g0zq

Big congrats to one of our own, Ross Stewart, for winning the 2024 GBIF Graduate Researchers Award! His groundbreaking work on plant-pollinator interactions and climate change across South Africa is a truly well-deserved achievement! gbif.org/news/66bStovbp…