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🌍🌿🍄 Understanding and protecting plants and fungi for the well-being of people and the future of all life on Earth #OurFutureIsBotanic
Dr Erica McAlister
Flies & Fleas @NHM_London; Author-The Secret Life of Flies, The Inside Out of Flies & A bug's World; HonF @RoyEntSoc; Chair @DipteristsForum #Scicom #HonFBNS
🌴Scott Zona, Ph.D.🌴 @scottzona.bsky.social
Personal acct. #TropicalBotany. Author of 'A Gardener's Guide to Botany.” Henry's 2nd favorite dad 🐶 IG: Scott.Zona
Dr Timothy Utteridge
Tropical botanist in Singapore - learning about SE Asian plants and biodiversity; sometimes observations on food, music and gardening (now on a balcony).
Sandra Knapp
Taxonomist of tomatoes, potatoes etc. #iamabotanist
From Victorian collections to bird's nest soup, our fascination with nests has been persistent. But what lies in the future of nests in a changing world, including birds that incorporate artificial materials into their nests? Talk by Dr. Catherine Sheard, May 20. 👇
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This months #EditorsChoice reveals a new genus of early-branching papilionoid legume in the Amazon through molecular phylogeny! Thought to be monophyletic, Clathrotropis is actually comprised of 3 lineages! Read more below
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Oxford Journals The Linnean Society of London
This months #EditorsChoice reveals a 3 new eyeless #Nereis (polychaete worm) species from the deep sea, found up to 3285m deep in the SW Atlantic! Read more about them below 👇
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The Linnean Society of London Oxford Journals Gilberto Bergamo
If you missed Jack Ashby's wonderful and revelatory talk on thylacines and their extinction history, you can now watch it below. Jack Ashby
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Explorer Robert Schomburgk called the ‘majestic Mora (tree), the king of the forest’. In this blog, Isabelle Charmantier writes about Schomburgk's impressions of this magnificent specimen about which he wrote in Transactions of the Linnean Society.
Read below:
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With their fascinating exhibition investigating how trees are represented in natural history the Linnean Society Collections present a guided walk on tree cultures taking place tomorrow tickets are still available now!
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The Linnean Society of London CPRE London
Join us for botanical motif design workshops (3 tix left!) and a free lecture on the centrality of the 'tree of life' in the world of design. May 16/17. eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-craft… NewtonPaisley London Craft Week
Jack Ashby The Linnean Society of London Drawn To Extinction - Depicting The Thylacine. Online talk from Jack Ashby for The Linnean Society of London exploring cultural & extinction history of Thylacinus cynocephalus, Tasmanian tiger/Tasmanian wolf, using original 1809 John Lewin painting as focal point. #thylacine #extinct #sciart
Fantastic afternoon at Jack Ashby's talk on depictions of #thylacines . The one below is the first and last western depiction of a live thylacine in the wild. Jack Ashby
Reminder: PLANTING RESISTANCE: #BOTANICAL LEGACIES of the #AFRICAN #DIASPORA - talk by Judith Carney, author of 'Black Rice', 'In the Shadow of Slavery', etc. Kew Gardens 28/05/24 Tickets: eventbrite.co.uk/e/planting-res…… NatSCA TEA | The Ethnobotanical Assembly The Linnean Society of London Kew Science Kew Gardens Library and Archives
All ready for Linnean Society’s first Pint of Science UK event!
Talks on environmental DNA, pints and science quiz! (And of course some PoS swag) 🍻
Had lots of fun putting together this breakfast book buffet for the good folk at the The Grolier Club this morning. I hope they enjoyed their visit!
Tomorrow at 2 pm, join us and Jack Ashby for a talk based on one of the earliest European illustrations of the thylacine by John Lewin, painted shortly after the species became known to the colonists. Book below.
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Had an 'arty' day at the The Linnean Society of London today. Lovely to see these works up close and personal in the Society's Library. The Library is open to all, details here linnean.org/research-colle…
