Round-headed Rampion is a seriously rare and threatened lil wildflower of chalk grasslands here in Britain. And so imagine my shock to find it in the middle of Liverpool at World Museum 🌎 in their wildflower garden, filled to the brim with wildflowers and insects 😍🌱

Great to see Scousflowerhouse display live at the World Museum. With lovely l flowers collected by Donna Young from the showcase City meadow outside the World Museum. Thank you to all at WM National Museums Liverpool Donna Young

Last day to visit ‘Radical Landscapes’ Tate Liverpool - loved the revolutionary calendar (of plants/natural things). Melanie Lewis was a teasle! Our World Museum 🌎 collections feature.

"what does clean air mean to you?" Making the personal connection to #ClimateChange; Using art to understand our #environmemt. ID's Alice Sharp the power of #ArtScience commissions for the King's Culture #CulturalCollaborations workshop day here at the brilliant Science Gallery London

I am in love ... With this beautiful mandrake image from a 1631 book of paintings by Giovanna Garzoni I saw today Dumbarton Oaks... Other examples of her artistry are online doaks.org/resources/onli… and about her here en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanna_…

Fantastic work from one our our graduates! Go check it out World Museum 🌎!

What would a herbarium of non existent plants look like. Well, #midjourny and I have been creating some samples

Earlier this week we had a lecture on curating natural science collections & exhibitions by Donna Young followed by a behind the scenes delve into the World Museum 🌎 archives to think about historical art-science archives & interactions! #botany #zoology #geology #entomology

Thanks to funding from a STARS grant and @nsf, we're renovating the entire #herbarium with compactors! Packing of the herbarium library is just about done and we'll be ready for movers! #CollectionsAreEssential

Here's my and Rebecca Machin's paper, Legacies of Colonial Violence in Natural History Collections. It's been made free-to-access by NatSCA. Museums are often asked how they got all their stuff. I suspect this isn't the answer most visitors expect: natsca.org/article/2631

#Eurovision2023 is coming to #Liverpool!! ✨❤️🌈 🥂 Get ready Europe, it’s going to be an unforgettable show! Eurovision Song Contest

The fascinating Giles herbarium represents a snapshot of common flora of southern England between 1895 and 1896. Now fully digitised. kew.org/giles-herbariu… Written by @noahhearne

**🥁 Exciting News Drum-roll 🥁** 🌿🔍🌷 CGE is expanding - we need a Special Collections Researcher to focus on identifying & mobilising our Type collections in 2023! 🌸📚🌲 1 year Fixed Term 🍄🌾 Read more: tinyurl.com/39x6w3v2 🍍📰 Apply by 3rd Jan: tinyurl.com/4ky5acmj

Wilson Bentley created the world's first photomicrographs of snowflakes in 1885. These have now been digitised to share what he described as 'tiny miracles of beauty' with the world. theguardian.com/science/2023/j…

Top evening at The Athanaeum with LiverpoolBotanics Stephen Lyus Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh talking abt the Roscoe Collection & the rollercoaster ride of how the plants have survived through world wars, political wars & budget wars. May we see more hope for the future of the plant collection💚

Donna Young , article to file away when any one questions relevance of herbariums nowadays?