Samuel Brockington
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Professor @cambridge_uni @plantsci @CUHerb | Curator @CUBotanicGarden | Co-Chair @CamGLAMresearch | Trustee @wildlifebcn @thrivecharity | CMgr @cmi_managers
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🌷 The tulip displays at Murray Edwards College are hard to beat!
🚶♀️ See them for yourself by visiting the College's stunning modern Grade II* buildings and award-winning gardens, which are open to the public from 10am-6pm.
🎨 Take in The Women’s Art Collection Collection as you go.
👇A great day for our botanical collections!!! 👇 University of Cambridge Museums Cambridge University Cambridge Collections Connections Communities Cam Botanic Garden Curatrix, Cambridge University Herbarium (CGE) Department of Plant Sciences
Grateful to Research England for our share of the HEMG award to the Cambridge University University of Cambridge Museums Cambridge Collections Connections Communities. Including £1.73 million to the Cam Botanic Garden, and £190k to the Curatrix, Cambridge University Herbarium (CGE). This will bring our amazing botanical collections to ever broader audiences Department of Plant Sciences
Research England has announced the results of the HEMG funding review with the overall good news of a 20% increase in the fund.
Congratulations to new recipients, and we will be reaching out to those who received less positive news today.
Details here:
ukri.org/what-we-do/bro…
A rainy day on holiday, so having a try transcribing Curatrix, Cambridge University Herbarium (CGE) specimens, starting with a Black nightshade found in a potato field in Cambs in 1967. Lots of fun and easy to do! 😀
Our newest Zooniverse project is ready for citizen scientist volunteers! By transcribing herbarium specimen labels, volunteers add to biodiversity big data for research. Visit our Zooniverse page to get involved! tinyurl.com/4ary9fbp Department of Plant Sciences University of Cambridge Museums Cambridge Collections Connections Communities
What is a Herbarium? Find out more about our friends Curatrix, Cambridge University Herbarium (CGE) in these great new videos released as part of Cambridge Festival! 🎬🌿
Video 3: How plants get their scientific name, an intro to #PlantTaxonomy
In this one, Anne Dubéarnès explains what types of information taxonomists use to delimit & describe species that are new to science, & how they share the results of their work. 📚 youtu.be/l-qPEKX-frc
Video 2: How #herbarium specimens are prepared.
A quick walkthrough of how plant specimens end up in our collections, from the moment they are collected, pressed & dried, to the moment they are laid away on our shelves. youtube.com/watch?v=fpfmfT…
Video 1: What is a Herbarium?
A quick dive into the hidden world of the Cambridge University #Herbarium . Have a glimpse at some of our 1.1 million specimens🌿🪸🍄& learn about the work we do behind the scenes to facilitate research and education. youtu.be/wQkEYZAlnGw
The videos are now live!🎬🌿
Links below👇to find out what a herbarium is, how we prepare specimens & how plants get their scientific name.🔎🪸🍄Thanks to Cambridge Philosophical Society for supporting this project & Cambridge Festival for helping us share our fascinating world with a broader audience!
Happy to announce that our paper : TreeViewer version 2.2.0 is out with Dr. Giorgio Bianchini! Ecology and Evolution Free Software plotting age distributions, spreadsheet editor, publication quality phylogenies, and more. #Phylogenetics Publication: shorturl.at/nwKN6
