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Curation Team @CUBotanicGarden, tweeting about science, curation and our amazing collections
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11-04-2018 15:35:33
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1/6 Very excited to be offering a new position in our Curation team at Cam Botanic Garden: Collection Coordinator. Find the advert and further particulars here: bit.ly/3259LGP. Applications by December 19th. Please re-tweet! (Also see thread for more info)


We're looking for an Assistant #Librarian to look after our #plantscience #libraries 📚 including our #library in the Department and the Cory and Herbarium Library housed at Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) 🌱 which includes books annotated by Charles #Darwin ✒️ See details 👉bit.ly/3lijr7K


#Botanical #Collections JOBS GALORE Cambridge University. 1) Collections Coordinator Cam Botanic Garden (👉 bit.ly/3259LGP); 2) Botanical librarian Cam Botanic Garden Cambridge University Herbarium (CGE) (👉 bit.ly/3ytII4m; 3) Curation & Digitisation Assistant Cambridge University Herbarium (CGE) (👉 bit.ly/3lVMiiz)



Still can't believe how stunning these RUBY tobacco roots are. Truly endless forms most beautiful. A great convo with Ally MacLean got me inspired to play with rooooooooots. Can't wait to get back to land plant work once the lab relocation finishes.



The Department is delighted to announce the appointment of Julian Hibberd as our new Head of Department ! 🌿🌾 Read more here 👇 plantsci.cam.ac.uk/news/professor…


As part of our project exploring soils and greenhouse gases in the Fens, PhD student Thomas Idris Marquand Cambridge Earth Sciences visited Cam Botanic Garden to analyse the soils in their #Fens display. Such a lovely part of the garden, but are the soils like the real Fen? Find out soon....


A satisfying treasure hunt: I found 67 new type specimens of Asian and American #Meliaceae last week. They were "hiding" amongst the 1.1 million specimens of Cambridge University Herbarium (CGE). They will soon be digitised and shared online, to facilitate the work of #taxonomists. @plantsci Cambridge Collections Connections Communities




We're very lucky to have Cambridge University scientists on site at Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU). Today they took fresh plant material from our Strophocactus wittii faded flower & examined its petal surfaces and pollen. This might be the first time Strophocactus wittii has been seen in this way!


We love a collab & photoshoot! Quick and intriguing work by Kristina Buch and Ray Wightman at Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) to image the moonflower under cryo-SEM. Have a look at some of the stunning images. Got any more ideas for research with #CUBG? Give us a holler!

