Kew Science Vacancy: Senior Project Manager 🍄👩‍💼

Do you have experience leading on resource planning, financial management, communications & engagement, space planning, reporting and governance?

Take a look at this job opportunity. Deadline 5 May 👇
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FREE BRITISH ACADEMY LECTURE ON 28 MAY

🌍 Planting Resistance: Botanical Legacies of the African Diaspora 🌍

Judith Carney considers how the expansion of industrial agriculture across tropical landscapes threatens food systems.

Register to attend 👇
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New deadline on the New Phytologist & Plants People Planet 🌱👥🌐 call for papers on 'Harnessing the benefits of specimen digitisation'!

Submissions from African and Asian institutions are particularly sought as we lay the foundations of the 2026 #SOTWPF Report!

⏳ May 7
newphytologist.org/news/view/343

NEW TODAY in nature - A vast DNA tree of life brings open access DNA sequences of >9500 flowering plants! 🧬

This invaluable resource crafted by 279 scientists lets us answer key questions about modern plant life and look back in time to its origins 🌿

nature.com/articles/s4158…

Our final intern diary for now comes from Phoebe Swift who learnt lots of #Bioinformatics and #rstats skills working on alder genomes Kew Science tinyurl.com/2d2d5497

Happy to unexpectedly co-star with Cate Blanchett yesterday in an @ITVmeridian piece on @Wakehurst_Kew, explaining some of our ash dieback research to Andy Dickenson ITV itv.com/watch/news/cat… from 0:13:00. Thanks

#EarthDay2024 🌱

While global declines in wild biodiversity are well-documented, much less attention is given to declines in agrobiodiversity.

🇬🇧 is helping increase food security and resilience with Kew Science‘s project on agrobiodiversity in 🇪🇹

tinyurl.com/42t23e99

👈🔥LEFT: A 3D computer model built from drone recordings maps dry forest freshly burnt by fire
👉🌳RIGHT: The same forest patch again six months later, as recovery kicks in

Join us on the journey to restore Madagascar's precious dry forests 🇲🇬👇
kew.org/read-and-watch…

Because it is #NationalOrchidDay (well, it was yesterday but whatever 🤪), pls have a look at
a) 5 cool facts about orchids (see vid below produced by the talented Lydia Shellien-Walker!)
b) the orchid tree of life (read more about it here: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…)
Please share!

“Losing the connection between the Andes and the Amazon: A price of peace in Colombia' 🏔️🌴

Check out this article from @knowablemag which highlights the work of Kew's Oscar Pérez Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar 👇

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Successful launch of the #Global_Tree_Seed_Bank_Unlocked project. Thanks to all the participants and the partners for contributing to productive and exciting discussions during these two days Kew Science Wakehurst #MEDD_team UK in Madagascar #SNGF @teamKMCC Garfield Weston Foundation

Happy #HerbalistDay ! #Guaraná , source of an effective stimulant, was one of the plants exchanged between @KewGardens and #RiodeJaneiro botanic gardens during the 19th century as reported by Reis de Brito et al in a study Kew Bulletin jstor.org/stable/24637617

This month's Kew Science Newsletter will feature the latest content from our digitisation project along with:

🐦 Restoring Madagascar's dry forests
🌴 The palms of New Guinea
+ our new film on rice! 🍚

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