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🚨JOB ALERT 🚨 We have a new temporary position working on our Mollusca collections Amgueddfa Cymru | Museum Wales, digitally imaging specimens from Singapore in the historic Melvill-Tomlin shell collection ⏰ 22/10/24 nmwtest.ciphr-irecruit.com/Applicants/vac…

We are excited to announce our newest curator Dr Sophie Hocking, who will be joining the Plant and Earth Sciences team Amgueddfa Caerdydd. Sophie will be our resident botanical #invasivespecies expert in our quest to understand, protect, and restore the landscapes of Cymru

Fascinating talk at #UnknownWales by Emma Williams @CoalSpoilFungi on under recorded fungi species.

#WOMEN & #BIODIVERSITY: #GENDER & THE MAKING OF THE #KEW #FUNGARIUM 1900-1950. Fantastic funded PhD opportunity from Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity @UniofYork & KewGardens supervised by Sabine Clarke & Dr Nathan Smith. Details: sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/lca… Kew Science Kew Mycology RHUL GeoHumanities

An exciting #PhD opportunity with our resident mycologist N Smith looking at the role of women in British mycology, including Swansea’s own Elsie Maud Wakefield. Find out more details and how to apply here: sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/lca… #PhDLife #PhDOpportunity

Our curator N Smith explores the interactions between science and fiction across the twentieth century by focusing on strange orchids and musical monstrosities. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #hgwells

New PhD opportunities @KewScience for UK & overseas students: Re-storying the Sussex Weald Garden: Exotics, Empire and Ecobiography chase.ac.uk/cdas/re-storyi… Women and biodiversity: gender and the making of the Kew Fungarium, 1900-1950 sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/lca…

A really interesting #CFP from a consistently amazing conference. Bring your most yeast-y ideas! call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/10/25… #historyofmycology #fungalturn #fermentation #yestoyeast #historyofscience #STS

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For #BotanicMonday a paper on a new tool to find potentially misidentified specimens in data sets by Sophie Roberts, George R. L. Greiff, Katherine Slade & N Smith. Both Sophie and George spent time Amgueddfa Caerdydd as part of their studies enabling this paper natsca.org/article/2891

Excited to see the #MortonAgreement invoked but... how are disagreements solved? Taxonomic combat?

Latest paper with the fantastic Katherine Enright Our thoughts and recommendations on #herbarium #digitisation onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ta…

Ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes Amgueddfa Caerdydd? Here's a short video about the work of Amgueddfa Cymru | Museum Wales's scientists in mapping, conserving, describing and protecting species across Wales and beyond youtube.com/watch?v=rnb-q2…

New paper out and its a banger! We explored how historical foray records can be used to better understand fungus-fungus interactions in woodland species. Its free to read here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #fungalecology #fungalscience #mycology #fieldmycology

Congratulations to Zhiru Guoli on their first scientific paper! Zhiru joined N Smith last summer Amgueddfa Caerdydd to explore the use of historical fungal records in bettering our understanding of fungus-fungus relationships tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Sometimes I do science too! Along with Zhiru Guoli, we explored how historical data can be used to help us quantify interspecific relationships between fungi. You can read all about it for free here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #historicalecology #mathematicalecology #fungalforays

Dr @edwinrose3, the author of ‘Reading the World: British Practices of Natural History 1760-1820’ will join us to discuss the collections of leading British zoologist, Thomas Pennant. Get your tickets for what promises to be a fascinating talk here: library.wales/events