Lamentamos informarles del sensible fallecimiento del Dr. Jerzy #Rzedowski Hasta sus 96 años, escribió 7 libros, 47 capítulos, 130 artículos, 31 fascículos. Colectó >54 mil ejemplares y publicó 188 #especiesnuevas, la última en 2022. Descanse en paz, El Botánico del Milenio.

Career highlight: giving a fruit lecture to Ms. Haleigh’s first grade class. They knew all the answers!

The Pringle herbarium #fern crew (VT) descends upon the Gray Herbarium (GH) - so many types to find! #fernsofcolombia

New work led by Cheng-Wei Chen on Antrophyum which is definitely in the running for sexiest #fern!. Highly integrative approach using landmarks, ancestral states, and areas w/Joel Nitta, Leon Perrie

Great set of #fern talks at Eagle Hill Institute’s Northeast Natural History Conference. Happy to reconnect with regional colleagues Sarah Morris bertrandblack

Happy to have played a small part in this great accomplishment by Gemma Bramley Anna Trias and @KewScience can’t wait to see the print copy!

Great to see the personal narrative my #fern mentor Barbara Paris included in this wonderful The Linnean Society of London tribute to women in botany - feeling gratitude

via ⁦⁦The New York Times⁩ covering the work of ⁦Naomi Fraga @naomibot.bsky.social⁩ - great botanists! great read! nytimes.com/2023/05/22/us/…

Scenes from our Vermont #botany #bootcamp at Northbranch Nature Center w/ dream team Sarah Morris bertrandblack & Franky Frances Cannon #taxonomy #illustration and #naturalhistory - great field station - great students!

Thrilled to start a new position as the #fern #taxonomist at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Royal Botanical Gardens Edinburgh. Great team. Amazing collections. Message me if you want to start new collaborations on #tropical Asian #ferns

I have a piece in the fall issue of the Kenyon Review about mushrooms, "The Fungi Hunters" kenyonreview.org/piece/the-fung… Kenyon Review #kenyonreview #mushrooms #foraging

“We were standing in a minefield of my favorite fungus, and we couldn’t control our fingers.” A veritable feast of an essay, “The Fungi Hunters” by Franky Frances Cannon sprouts delight after delight. Listen to it/read it online now: kenyonreview.org/piece/the-fung…

Great piece by my favorite foray companion :)

A.R. Wallace collected thousands of biological specimens but not a lot of plants - I was thrilled when I found one of his fern specimens and wrote this blurb for our newsletter Wallace’s Iridescent Ferns at RBGE - go.shr.lc/3S1jWnG Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

I learned a lot tagging along with Dr. Rebecca Koll sampling RBGE living collections Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh to understand #ancient #forest #fires 🔥 - inspired by the overlap of #horticulture and #paleobotany

Check out the New posts up on FernsoftheWorld.com from Western Australia and Papua New Guinea e.g. this handsome Alsophila microphylloides 😍fernsoftheworld.com/2023/10/03/als…

Interested in #Climatechange, historical #biogeography, and long-distance #dispersal? #PhD E4 Doctoral Training Partnership position available Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh studying #fern wind-dispersal and distributions over deep time with myself Sandy Hetherington & Richard Milne Please apply!: surl.li/mxciq

Nice coverage from The Sunday Post on my current activities @RBGE_Science RBGE Press Office

Urge Duke University to Reconsider Closing Their Herbarium - Sign the Petition! chng.it/zj8ZmrCF via Change.org UK

Today 10-11AM EST live—myself, Kathleen Pryer and @JacquelynGill will be on NPR ON POINT podcast discussing the importance of herbaria and natural history collections 🌱 wbur.org/radio/programs…