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Job alert 📢 We are looking for a Herbarium Support Officer to join the @KewScience Herbarium Curation team: careers.kew.org/vacancy/herbar… Closing Sunday 7th July. 🌿

A few of the Herbarium pics I've taken this week, 1st up, curation in the corridor: Cynthia and Priscilla checking large sheet collections for digitisation 🌿 @KewScience #herbarium

Identification in action today Clare Drinkell and Sophie 🌿 @KewScience #Herbarium

Walking through wing A and seeing an amazing display of #Urticaceae being studied @KewScience #herbarium

#Touchardia from #Hawaii, a very interesting puzzle... for Masters student Lydia Lund

For the #Taxonomy Recognition Day in Vienna 🇦🇹 @NHM_Wien hosted opinion leaders, journalists and companies to discuss the importance of taxonomic research to preserve biodiversity 🐝 and as a sparkle to the economy. News here 👉 tettris.eu/2024/07/08/trd… #NameItToSaveIt #TETTRIsEU

X Don't miss this very rare opportunity to visit the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Herbarium - purpose built to house the 7 million preserved plant specimens gathered from around the world over a span of 260 years (openhouse.org.uk) 14-15 Sept 2024 #curation #herbarium

.African Taxonomists Network gets a shoutout at the SPNHC TDWG conference in Okinawa Japan! #Tdwg2024

Great to see African Taxonomists Network featured! This is Renata Borosova talking about the impact of @KewScience 2022 Plant Taxonomy Skills course in Ghana (GC Herbarium), just as we gear up to the next one in Kenya in 2025 - stay tuned... @KewAfrica The East African Herbarium (EA) Iain Darbyshire

New Kew Herbarium display spotlighting Jamaican naturalist and collector William Thomas March (1804-1872) #ReclaimingNarratives Museums Association @KewScience

St. Louis woman has named more plant species than any other living woman on the planet ⁦MO Botanical Garden⁩ #taxonomy #botany audacy.com/kmox/news/loca…

Typification of six de Candolle names in the genus Clematis (#Ranunculaceae) phytotaxa.mapress.com/pt/article/vie… #Taxonomy

"Field and herbarium research remain essential to the conservation action needed to forestall large-scale plant extinctions ..." nature.com/articles/s4147…

Today the herbarium hosted welcoming tours to some of this years Youth Explainers @KewScience KewGardens #conservation #curation #taxonomy

Taxonomic monographs are much more than taxonomy. New paper just published, available #OpenAccess! #systematics #botany #biodiversity link.springer.com/article/10.100…

"40% of nearly 2,000 specimens that we sequenced (and a similar number of those we did not sequence) required a different name as a result of our taxonomic revision."

You don't want to miss this!!

Hundreds of African scientists will be gathered in-person & virtually across North Africa this week for African BioGenome Project Open Institute North African Regional Workshop 2024. We expect to provide ~ 100 free hands-on trainings on genomics & bioinformatics for African researchers.

We are advertising two fabulous jobs at the Cambridge University Herbarium. A Collections Manager (5 year fixed term) and a Collections & Digitisation Assistant (4 years fixed term). Incredible collection including most of Voyage of the Beagle material. Job links in thread below.

Fully-funded AHRC PhD studentship on 'Understanding ‘Place’ in Historical Botanical Collections: science, commerce, empire, and the early-modern herbarium'. Come and work on the Sloane Herbarium! For details, see: lahp.ac.uk/prospective-st…