Bewitching nightshades: 𝘕𝘪𝘤𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘢 𝘨𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘤𝘢 (occasionally smoked 😮‍💨), 𝘋𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘶𝘮 (a dangerous hallucinogen 🥴) and 𝘈𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘢 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘢 (original source of the medicine atropine 🫀) #ExploreYourArchive UoNBiosciences @UoNFutureFood

𝘓𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘢𝘦𝘢 𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴 or twinflower – as charming in death as in life. The genus 𝘓𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘢𝘦𝘢 named for Carl Linnaeus, whose 18th century taxonomy we still rely on to #ExploreYourArchive UoNBiosciences @UoNFutureFood Live plant credit: Mark Hamblin/2020VISION

🚨🚨🚨PLS Retweet, another position at Kew 🏞! We are looking for Research Associate (PhD level🎓) bioinformatics/genomics🧬 to characterize crop wild relatives and pinpointing domestication syndrome traits in indigenous crops🍠🌾🌱. Apply here: careers.kew.org/vacancy/resear…

To complain about the introduction of voter ID (as I just have!), you can email [email protected] or ask staff at the polling station for info #democracy #VoterID

Very proud that my lab has achieved its bronze LEAN Green Labs UK award! A way to go with improving sustainability & efficiency but we're getting there. A good team effort by UoNBiosciences staff & students! 🍃🧬🧪👩‍🔬👨🏽‍🔬♻️

Great start to #SEBSOE23 with workshop by Thara Samarakoon Emory Herbarium. Themes of rescuing, curating and growing herbaria. Plus, I mounted my own elder (Sambucus nigra)!

Celebrating yet another grant success ! I am so pleased to report we were awarded a Research Project Grant by the The Leverhulme Trust to uncover the past spatial extent of native food plants across southeast Australia 🌏 Nottingham Pollen Lab Nottingham Geography

Delighted to have been awarded The Leverhulme Trust grant with Dr. Michela Mariani🇪🇺 to reconstruct food production systems across SE Australia throughout the Holocene 🌻🌾 A PhD on #sedaDNA in my lab/ÆDNA UoNBiosciences will be advertised in due course. Informal enquiries welcome now.

A full house for the #NMESH labs launch UoNArts! N-MESH is the Nottingham Materials and Environment Science and Heritage Laboratories. Heritage Science is a growing, interdisciplinary field where we use cutting-edge scientific techniques to study cultural and natural heritage

My lab UoNBiosciences is very happy to join N-MESH, which brings together facilities & expertise across Uni of Nottingham #WeAreUoN & wider region to support materials, environment & heritage research. Lots of new opportunities to apply aDNA/eDNA!

Using my 25 yo dissection kit from first-year vet sci Massey University, NZ to strengthen herbarium specimens before they are exhibited Lakeside Arts Uni of Nottingham #WeAreUoN. It's true that education takes you in some unexpected but wonderful directions.

150-year-old plant specimens rescued from a skip and microscope slides found in forgotten cupboards UoN Life Sciences are taking centre stage at the 'Green Unseen' exhibition Lakeside Arts UoNBiosciences Full story➡️tinyurl.com/yfbr8myd

A very cool exhibition and launch event if you are around Notts next week ! ❤️🌱☘️🌿🌾 Lakeside Arts Nottingham Geography Andrew Clarke Alastair Wills @susieoftraken

150-year-old plant specimens rescued from a skip and microscope slides found in forgotten cupboards UoN Life Sciences are taking centre stage at the 'Green Unseen' exhibition Lakeside Arts UoNBiosciences Find out more on Notts TV : nottstv.com/programme/nott…

Wonderful visit to #GreenUnseen, Lakeside Arts. Very pleased to loan 10 herbarium specimens from UoNBiosciences incl. an elder from 1891. Launch event 2pm, Wed 18/10 – all welcome! Exhibition runs till 5/11. UoN Life Sciences Nottingham Geography Dr. Michela Mariani🇪🇺 @susieoftraken Alastair Wills

You're very welcome Alison Wee! Great to have you visit UoNBiosciences, UK as we continue to build eDNA links between UK & Malaysia campuses! 🧬🧪🌱🌊🦞🐠

My PhD supervisor, David Penny, passed away earlier this week and I've been reflecting a lot. He was a titan of evolutionary biology and science, both inside NZ and globally. He was also just one of the best human beings I've known.