Join us on campus & online on Thursday, 20 August 2026 at 1:00pm for a seminar by Dr Bernd Gruber, conservation geneticist at the University of Canberra Details: biology.anu.edu.au/news-events/...

E&E Seminar Series: From DNA to Conservation Decisions: Using SNPs to Protect Threatened Species

Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have become a cornerstone of modern conservation genetics, offering affordable, high-throughput genomic data that can directly inform management decisions. This ...

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From collections to conservation: the indispensable role of natural history museums iucn.org/news/202607/...

In 1934, the UT Herbarium lost nearly 30,000 specimens in the Morrill Hall fire, including the historic collections of Dr. Augustin Gattinger. Thanks to Aaron "Jack" Sharp and support from other institutions, the collection has grown to approximately 710,000 specimens.

Fagraea auriculata Jack (Gentianaceae), flowering now outside the SING Herbarium, Botany Centre, Singapore Botanic Gardens. Large flowers go from white, to pale yellow, to golden yellow and then over. #tree #botany #Singapore maps.app.goo.gl/tombtwAXqZAB...

Wishing everyone on the beautiful island of Rota gets through storm #Bavi safe and sound. Still recovering after Sinlaku. #Bavi #CNMI #Rota Pictures of Songsong, N coast road and Mochong from mid June 2026.

Gardens’ Bulletin Singapore 🇸🇬 new articles online. The journal is now online first, hoping to speed up time from acceptance to publication. Still printing hard copy for distribution, probably at the end of each year www.nparks.gov.sg/sbg/research... #SBGScience

I am blown away with these Incredible photos by Beth Chapman., Tiritiri Matangi Island The Kokako eating the flowers of the Tecomanthe speciosa / Three Kings vine / akapukaea it was very special. This is one of the many why we have and need conservation

#HappeningNow 🔔Hello Dear Bookworms and Southeast Asia Lovers 📢 Please come and enjoy our "Southeast Asia Mini Book and Craft Fair", happening today and tomorrow at SEA-Junction (4th Floor, BACC) from 11 am to 7 pm. #books #crafts #fair #southeastasia #seajunction

++BREAKING++ Leading climate scientists in the UK have written to senior editors in broadcast media - and OFCOM and IPSO: "To express our concern about recent media coverage of extreme weather, climate change and net-zero and to urge you…to inform public audiences of the scientific links"

A final latte site on Guam this morning (before returning to Singapore). In coastal limestone forest with Hernandia, Meiogyne, Aidia, Ochrosia, Eugenia, Premna etc (coconut palms as dominant) #Marianas #Guam #Chamorro #Pacific

Finally, a piece on Bad Bunny + botany / environment / empire! This whole @edgeeffectsmag.bsky.social Botanical Imaginations series is fantastic, and this is no exception. edgeeffects.net/bad-bunny/

Bad Bunny's Botanical, Eco-Rasquache Aesthetic - Edge Effects

Bad Bunny's agricultural imagery and eco-rasquache aesthetic reflects and protests historical and lived realities of Puerto Rico.

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University of Guam Herbarium (acronym GUAM) specializes in research on the insular floras of Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and all of Micronesia, with more than 57,000 specimens (46,000 phanerogams and pteridophytes) #botany #herbarium #Micronesia

Saludos desde las islas Marianas del norte. Estoy en la isla de Rota acompañando a la expedición PacificPeopleForest @pacificppleforest.bsky.social, de María Cruz Berrocal y Marta Domínguez Delmás. Volveré con mucho que contar 😉

🌿 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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Ficus prolixa G.Forst. (Moraceae), 'Nunu', a magnificent specimen - we measured as having a 20 m girth, Rota #CNMI #Pacific #fig #tree

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Nesogenes rotensis Fosberg & D.R.Herbst (Orobanchaceae), a threatened Rota endemic on coastal limestone scrub. #botany #conservation #Pacific

PacificPeopleForest examines European colonialism in the #Pacific Islands (16–17th centuries), focusing on #Rota (Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands). Productive and busy week of meetings, field visits, networking and training #SBGScience pacificpeopleforest.csic.es

🔴 ⚠️ 🌀 🛰️ The strongest storm so far in 2026, #Sinlaku, made #landfall in #Saipan and #Tinian on April 14, as a super #typhoon of Cat.4, with winds at 233 km/h.In Saipan, about 43000 people are without power and reported widespread damages ⬇️#Sentinel3 view of April 14

Retracing the centre of origin and evolutionary history of nutmeg Myristica fragrans, an emblematic spice tree species url: royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Retracing the centre of origin and evolutionary history of nutmeg Myristica fragrans, an emblematic spice tree species

Abstract. Identifying the centres of origin of cultivated plants is important for conservation and sustainable management, since this is where these specie

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Position of interest for plant evolutionary biologists: two assistant professorships are now open in the System Earth Science (SES) department at Maastricht University! Interested? See the details here, or visit the QR code: vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Venlo-As...

At lunch in the Gardens today, under a Podocarpus, it was 31°C, rather warm, and I’m watching and listening to … an Arctic Warbler, waiting to fly north (where they can call it a ‘Tropical Warbler’) #bird #Singapore #migration

Gardenwise, the magazine of Singapore Botanic Gardens - a new bumper issue has gone online. Tributes to Dr Chew Wee-Lek (1932–2026) and Ruth Kiew (1946–2025), plus - Digitisation - Ethnobotany in Singapore's desserts - Botanical Art - SBG Archives www.nparks.gov.sg/sbg/research...

📣The CETAF Scientific Research Working Group is organising an upcoming live webinar: "What Defines a Species in the Molecular Age? Delimitation and Diagnosis with DNA Barcodes" 📅 13 May | 14:00–16:00 CET 👉Registration is now open: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #Taxonomy #Systematics

"The most uncomfortable part for me is that I no longer think that scientific research will resolve the crises that we face." "I keep doing research not because I think it will save us, but because it would be a form of surrender to stop seeking understanding."

@jeancolcombet.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Why do I continue to conduct research when it seems to me that it is likely to decline in the coming decades and therefore will not enable us to resolve the major crisis of the Anthropocene? rdcu.be/e15sq

Singapore Botanic Gardens team at Flora Malesiana 12 ‘Celebrating the World’s richest island flora’ - in Manokwari on the island of New Guinea. Lots of talks by the team, and SBG is the secretariat of the Flora Malesiana Board too.

Wanderings in the forest of Gunung Meja, Manokwari with canopy emergents of Pometia, Inga, Palaquium and Pimelodendron on uplifted coral. #SBGScience #NewGuinea #Indonesia #Papua

I know that everyone loves iNaturalist and racking up observations from photographs. But there really is no substitute for physical specimens, so many species are not easily identified from photos.

All of my genus and family-level fly and ant observations on iNaturalist would agree.

Alex Wild@alexwild.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I know that everyone loves iNaturalist and racking up observations from photographs. But there really is no substitute for physical specimens, so many species are not easily identified from photos.