🌿 Herbarium job alert-Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 🌿 We are currently looking for an amazing Registrar to join the Herbarium/Science team, please have a look and pass onwards to your networks: www.rbge.org.uk/about-us/job... #herbarium #registrar #botanyjobs #herbarium

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This is very exciting-the area discovered has high potential for new species discovery too 🤩…Whale graveyard dating back five million years discovered www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Whale graveyard dating back five million years discovered

The Indian Ocean site is "far beyond anything we had imagined", one researcher says.

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Rare species found in Scotland's declining rainforest www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Rare species found in Scotland's declining rainforest

A citizen science project is aiming to document species on the Cowal Peninsula for the first time in 50 years.

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A timely reminder from @annashergold.bsky.social to look out for #orchid rosettes while you're hunting for flowers, 'tho they don't count for #NewYearPlantHunt. Need some help IDing orchids before they bloom? Try this helpful guide by Mike Waller @ukorchids.bsky.social: www.nhm.ac.uk/take-part/id...

Anna Shergold@annashergold.bsky.social · 8mo ago

@BSBI #NewYearPlantHunt - just a few images from my New Year Plant Hunt in NE Hampshire - disappointed not to see any EPO orchid rosettes, but pleased to see both male & female hazel flowers

Lovely to see @mixaeljones.bsky.social's daughter enjoying her 3rd #NewYearPlantHunt & looking very grown-up! Pic below shows her aged 20 months & now she's graduated from spotter sheet to magnifying glass - what a legend! Spotter sheets are here for anyone less advanced: bsbi.org/take-part/ac...

Michael Jones@mixaeljones.bsky.social · 7mo ago

A chilly #NewYearPlantHunt with the family! ❄️ 🌼 It’s my daughter’s 3rd year of joining in and she enjoyed taking a close look at tiny hazel flowers with her magnifying glass 🔍 🌸 We found 19 species in flower and a bonus Blackcap eating Mistletoe berries. Great fun! @bsbibotany.bsky.social

I have a Wolf supermoon stargazing challenge for you tonight (Jan3rd, weather Gods willing). Raise your arm to the moon to find Jupiter which is ~2-fingers below it to the right. The Gemini twins, Castor and Pollux are ~3-fingers to the left. This is your last #supermoon until Nov - enjoy! 🔭🧪

Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans@astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 2y ago

If you've got clear skies, go outside and wave at our neighbour who is looking particularly stunning tonight. And if you have them, root out the binoculars to get a closer look at the grey maria: ~3.5 billion years ago these were seas of molten lava 🤓 #supermoon 🔭🧪

A reminder that 90% of Ireland's so-called 'forests' are industrial plantations, virtually empty of nature. It doesn't have to be like this: with a bit of thought, we could satisfy our timber needs AND have huge tracts of natural forest ecosystems, bursting with life.

Candlesnuff fungus, rising up like a ghostly apparition from the rainforest floor and waving its limbs. A saprotrophic species, it helps break down deadwood. It's also bioluminescent, emitting a faint green light by night.

One of the more unusual items in our herbarium collection! This old leather boot is home to several types of lichen 🥾 It was collected on a beach in 1975 by Brian J Coppins in Ballantrae, Scotland. Read more on the weird and wonderful specimen here: stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/40742

Marking 125 years of #EJBotany #OpenAccess and its forerunner, Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, we are delighted to announce that ALL content is now freely available at journals.rbge.org.uk/notes and journals.rbge.org.uk/ejb

An amazing traineeship opportunity, if #lichens are your thing, a joint opportunity between RBGE (@thebotanics.bsky.social) & the National Trust for Scotland: www.asva.co.uk/jobs/trainee...

🌲🌲🌲 An exciting opportunity to work on #conifer #conservation research at RBGE @thebotanics.bsky.social: www.rbge.org.uk/about-us/job... #conservationjobs #botany #redlist #ICCP🌲🌲🌲

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The Australian branch of BHL regularly adds in-copyright content to BHL that is not available anywhere else online (alongside their digitisation of #RareBooks, #HistoricJournals & #Archives). Follow along here: @bhl-au.bsky.social. 🇦🇺 🦘 🐨 🌏 📖 🧪

BHL Australia@bhl-au.bsky.social · 11mo ago

This week we’re digitising the Bulletin of the Australian Society for Limnology, which is not available anywhere online. It’ll soon be freely accessible on @biodivlibrary.bsky.social. Stay tuned… #ILoveBHL #Freshwater #Biodiversity

I'm really obsessed with dead leaves and tiny spindly fungi at the moment #art

Lucky sighting of Mediterranean common Stingray - Dasyatis pastinaca. Off La Pitrizza beach Commune di Arzachena Sardinia. Taken with a leaking and temperamental Go Pro 5 that still somehow works.

A new paper by I.M. Turner published today in #EJBotany #OpenAccess @thebotanics.bsky.social includes 85 new typifications and nomenclatural clarifications from #G.E.Rumphius’s #HerbariumAmboinense posthumously published between 1741-1750: rbge.cc/47jg8Gh

An exciting #postdoc opportunity working on a class in the #Solanaceae family based in Boulder, Colorado 🍅 🥔 🫑 jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta... #sciencejob #botany #research #hortresearch #herbarium #collections

Curator job in vertebrates at the National Museums of Scotland: careers.nms.ac.uk/job/748553 Closing date soon, so get your skates on! #curator #curation #museum #vertebrate #curatorjobs #museumjobs

Please share our Call for Support with your colleagues, institutions & funders. With your help, we’ll ensure this incredible resource continues to thrive and grow for generations to come. 🌱 🌏 📖https://about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-support/

📢 The #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary is entering a bold new chapter – and we need your help! Today we release our official Call for Support. We’re seeking new hosts for BHL’s staff, infrastructure, and services. Learn more: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/06/tran... #BHLTransition #ILoveBHL

If you're interested in working in #ScotlandsRainforest, or know a young person who is, how about this as an excellent way to get started: Bryophyte Trainee with @thebotanics.bsky.social. Our rainforest woodlands contain hundreds of species of mosses and liverworts! buff.ly/dBxC7Y0

Bryophyte Trainee

We are offering a rare opportunity for a highly motivated individual to gain extensive practical skills in bryophyte identification, field ecology, recording and surveying, backed up with a sound ...

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MAJOR MILESTONE for fungal science! 🍄💻 Our entire Fungarium - 1.1 million dried fungi specimens - is now fully imaged!👇1/4 ow.ly/w9JX50VT9FA

Meet one of our Champion Trees, the Kazakh pear (Pyrus korshinskyi) 💪 At 8 metres tall with a trunk girth of 1.26 metres wide, this magnificent specimen is the largest of its species in cultivation in Britain.

If you use the Biodivisity Heritage Library (I use it almost daily), you'll be saddened (and maybe angered😡) to learn that DOGE+Musk+Trump have eliminated its funding. BHL is looking for a new home. #ILoveBHL So much f***ing winning.🤬 blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/04/new-...

A New Future for the Biodiversity Heritage Library

The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives. A global consortium of over 660 contributors, BHL has made more …

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Big congrats to Rebecca Beneroff @botanicalbecks.bsky.social on scoring her first research grant! She will use funding from the Botanical Society of Western PA's Allison Cusick Student Research Award to begin her MS research this summer. #iamabotanist #letsgoplants

Take another view of Easter chocolate with botanical prints of Theobroma cacao - the cocoa plant. 1. Maria Sibylla Merian, Insectorum Surinamensium, 1719 2. Hermann Adolph Koehler, Medizinal Pflanzen, 1887-97 3. Berthe Hoola Van Nooten, Fleurs, Fruits et Feuillages Choisis de l'Ile de Java, 1863-4

Free access to the fascinating Linnaean Society archives, online:“a repository of digitised specimens, manuscripts, correspondence, and artwork”… linnean.access.preservica.com

Join our Horticulture team! We're recruiting for three exciting roles at our world-leading Botanic Garden: - Senior Horticulturist - Horticulturist (Alpine, Rock & Woodland) - Horticulturist (Outdoor) 🌱 Interested? Find all our current vacancies and apply 👉 rbge.cc/-jobs #HortJobs #EdinburghJobs

Lots of brilliant job vacancies @thebotanics.bsky.social just now, including Horticulturalists, Pollinator Ecologist & the Big Boss post (Regius Keeper)🌿🍄🌳🌼: www.rbge.org.uk/about-us/job... #hortjobs #horticulture #RBGE #ecologyjobs #botanyjobs

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What else can stipules do? The dark spots on the tiny stipules of Vicia sativa are extra-floral nectaries. They attract ants, which defend the plant against herbivores. 🐜 #stipule #Fabaceae #EFN #Botany 🌾🧪🌱