Marie Briggs

🥳👏👏👏 great news!

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...

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🌲🌲🌲 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🌲🌲🌲

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. 🇦🇺 🦘 🐨 🌏 📖 🧪

a page of many small drawings of fungi on dead leaves and twigs. they are all very tall and skinny with small caps, mostly white or light brown (with a couple red), and in groups. the background is tan with a white mycelium pattern. signed layaroseart.com

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

🫣 #clade not class

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/

A red flower on a green stem withe the words: BHL Call for support now open overlayed.

📢 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

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 ...

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!
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A tray containing dried fungal specimens with sponge-like textures, stored in Kew’s Fungarium collection.

MAJOR MILESTONE for fungal science! 🍄💻

Our entire Fungarium - 1.1 million dried fungi specimens - is now fully imaged!👇1/4
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Wide shot of the Pyrus korshinskyi in full bloom, with clusters of white blossoms.

Close up of the white blossom flowers.

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.

Great work 👏👏👏 & very well deserved 🙌

Oooh, these are stunning!

Noooooooo!!!! I hadn’t heard this, thanks for sharing.

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 …

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-...

Rebecca Beneroff Bucknell BS '25 and MS '27 presenting a poster at SICB 2025.

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

Merian illustration of a cocoa plant with insects

Koehler illustration of cocoa fruits and seeds

Van Nooten illustration of cocoa plant leaves and fruits

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

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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

Close-up photo of a hand holding a node of a climber with pinnately compound leaves and green legumes. Each tiny stipule has a dark spot, which is an extra-floral nectary. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.

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 🌾🧪🌱

I love this!!

Linnean Online, our new digital collections platform, is now live! Take a (new) look at our digitised specimens, manuscripts, and correspondence. Check out the Tips and Useful Information page to enhance your user experience.

Explore here: linnean.access.preservica.com

Enjoy!

Registration is now open! Let's come together! Botany 2025 – Botany without Barriers taking place in Palm Springs, California, July 26-30 is the place to collaborate with our community, share our research, and support each other. Here are a few updates: Registration is now open! Abstract submission is open until April 14, 2025 Get to know Plenary Speaker Lúcia G. Lohmann and other Featured Speakers Explore Workshops, Symposia, Colloquia, Hotel and Travel, Contributed Session Topics, Affinity Groups and more! Learn about exhibiting and sponsorships You can always find the most up-to-date information on the conference website (www.botanyconference.org).

#Botany2025 let's gooooooooooo

Vacancies | Working Here | What We Do

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