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

Getting to have such rich discussions about these readings last term was a joy! Very excited for this reading group to continue in Easter, and to keep working and learning with Katherine Enright and @ZhiyuChenHPS !

A rainy day on holiday, so having a try transcribing 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! 😀

Excited to see my paper on mapping southern Africa in the 17th century out in @jhokjournal! It shows that the different material conditions of metropolitan Dutch mapmakers and settlers in SA produced strikingly different ways of visualising the unknown journalhistoryknowledge.org/article/view/1…

Delighted to announce that Cambridge University Herbarium (CGE) have received £190k of HEMG funding (over 5 years) from Research England. This will be transformational and allow us to bring our collections to ever increasing audiences and researchers outside of Cambridge University

On 13 May, I'll be speaking about the global origins of the sciences Royal Institution. Do come along! Details below: rigb.org/whats-on/globa… Cambridge History Cambridge HPS Magdalene College

Help digitise the Cambridge University Herbarium 🌿 Cambridge University Herbarium (CGE) is home to over 1.1m plant specimens collected over 300+ years. The team is looking for online volunteers to transcribe specimen labels & make them accessible to biodiversity researchers. Join in: bit.ly/44e2UqB

Really looking forward to directing this next week - with wonderful music and wonderful friends from St John's College Choir King's College Choir The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge Clare College Choir The Choir of Gonville & Caius College & Sidney Sussex Choir

The Challenge of Conservation: From Biodiversity to Museum Studies Two-day conference at Cambridge HPS, 11–12 June eventbrite.com/e/the-challeng… #HistSci #HPS #CambridgeEvents

Grateful to have been invited to present a little about our work at Growing Networks! It was exciting to hear about natural history humanities work in the UK and beyond

At the end of week 3 of her Churchill Fellowship, Shelley James of the Western Australian Herbarium and our dedicated team of volunteers have barcoded and imaged 7,649 specimens, including all of the Myrtaceae family! #WAHerbarium Winston Churchill Trust (Australia) Department of Plant Sciences

My message for American voters and Russian bots: don't vote for the guy too busy selling you a scamcoin. Vote for Vice President Harris, who knows how to put business—and the American people—first.

"Oriental Chronology" is out now in Isis Journal! The article explores how the Anglican George Costard attacked Chinese astronomy to discredit claims of the empire's great antiquity. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1086/733145

The Cambridge University Herbarium is extraordinary and it has been a privilege to work and volunteer there. This is an amazing opportunity to work in a treasure trove of specimens.

Job opportunities! We are currently recruiting for the following roles: * Collections & Digitisation Assistant * Herbarium Collections Manager * Research Assistant / Research Associate * Research Laboratory Technician Find out more and apply: tinyurl.com/3smk68t5

1/3 “We could lose plant diversity before understanding its value to human society.” CUBG Curator Samuel Brockington highlights the urgent need for action as world’s botanic gardens are running out of space & time in today’s The Observer theguardian.com/environment/20…

For UK undergraduates: Sandwich ('industrial placement') Intern: Enhancing Kew's collections. Spend a year curating, enhancing and sharing our ethnobotanical collections. Closes 11 May 2025 (+ similar posts in other teams) careers.kew.org/vacancy/underg…

Reminder!! Deadline for this CDA is May 16!

Very excited for this event this Friday Cambridge HPS, co-organised with Mika Hyman, on cross-contextualisation (journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.10…)

Curious about the global history of science? I talked to the Royal Institution podcast about globalising our stories of the sciences. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/1vRS03…