Check out our fearless research assistant Olivia doing an interview while suspended 30m off the ground in the Atlantic rainforest in Brazil! We're sampling the whole tree to see how much biodiversity it hosts. youtu.be/GKRtMewI5V4?fe… ARAÇÁ Project Antonelli Lab Kew Science

I'm excited to share my first co-authored paper with all of you!

So grateful for having the opportunity to be part of this amazing project as an undergrad ❤️

very impressed by botanical ID skills (+ some zoological!) from University of Portsmouth students on this field trip. Kudos to Steven Dodsworth and Adele Julier for getting Surveying Terrestrial Habitats off the ground - rare but sought after and invaluable skills #botany 🪷🌿🌳FSC Juniper Hall

Just finished a great few days at FSC Juniper Hall with our third year Surveying Terrestrial Habitats students. Put their botany skills to use doing a preliminary survey of the hall’s grounds. They’ve done so well! University of Portsmouth Steven Dodsworth Natalia Przelomska

#NASmember Torben Rick's archaeological research asks the question, 'What can the past tell us about the future of Earth's ecosystems on land and at sea?' Find out now in his Research Briefing at the NAS Annual Meeting: ow.ly/aCgm50Rq0oL #NAS161 Smithsonian NMNH

Wowsie! The largest-ever tree of life for angiosperms (inc. ~8,000 (60%) of the genera) is out in nature. Honoured to be part of this massive collab, led by the talented Alexandre Zuntini, Tom Carruthers and the one and only Bill Baker🌸🌳
Paper avail here: nature.com/articles/s4158…

Very important to note that a paper of this scale would not have been possible without:

- Herbaria! especially Kew Science
- a global team of collaborators willing to openly share data
- advancements in efficient open source software
- investment in basic biodiversity research

working with the core #PaFToL group & global collaborators Kew Science (from 2019) on the huge, diverse #angiosperm clade was an unparalleled experience 🪷🌵🌸 #fundamentalscience #floweringplants #evolution Congrats to the entire team & Alexandre Zuntini & Bill Baker for leading!

I wrote this essay about the critical importance of #herbaria to science and the future of humanity for the The Washington Post . Please share and help me raise awareness about these precious plant collections.

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/…

#herbaria #science #plants #botany #funding

I'm very excited that my book is now out there in the world. I hope it will inspire people to stop, look, observe, draw and appreciate plants through illustration and art!
#botanicalsketchbooks #botanicalillustration

We're looking for 2 x interns to join the the Kew #Herbarium Curation team for 8 weeks this summer to work with the Fern collections 🌿 apply via the Kew website: careers.kew.org/vacancy/scienc…
Kew Africa team Kew Asia Kew Americas Kew Science

Pleased to share our paper on the wild parrots of Los Angeles. Turns out they've made quite a niche shift from their native ranges in Mexico, which makes their thriving in Southern California all the more remarkable. Here's the story 1/x onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.111…

Pleased to see this study out - a huge data synthesis effort relevant to #orchid 🌸 conservation & evolutionary ecology. New genomic data honours the work of generations of field botanists and the highlights the immense value of #herbarium collections 🌿big & small - Kew Science

we have an exciting #PhD project on offer to study #migration in #commonterns - tinyurl.com/43z82f5s
the position will be hosted at Uni Greifswald and co-supervised together with Common Tern Project and liedvogel lab at the Institute of Avian Research "Vogelwarte Helgoland" - deadline is 29th of February 2024

good luck today team #Portatoes 🥔🌿!@UoPBioSchool Grace Heath Jack Smith Charlotte Phillips Adele Julier Steven Dodsworth

Seems an appropriate time to re-post / share
Vicki Funk's '100 Uses For a #Herbarium (well at least 72)'

virtualherbarium.org/vh/100usesaspt…

Support your local herbarium & protect essential & priceless #collections !

Smithsonian NMNH American Society of Plant Taxonomists SPNHC Society of Herbarium Curators International Association for Plant Taxonomy IAPT Botanical Society of America

Daffodil season is starting! Fancy doing a PhD looking at the evolution of Narcissus flowers? Fully-funded, 4-year PhD between UoP, SoCoBio DTP and RHS. With Drs. John David and Kálmán Könyves from the RHS. Pls repost and send me any Qs. Deadline 1 March. tinyurl.com/2n3a993e

Come and do a PhD on the history of fire regimes in Britain with Mark Hardiman and I! Deadline 19th January for October start port.ac.uk/study/postgrad… SEGG, University of Portsmouth University of Portsmouth

In consultation with the community, Smithsonian anthropologist Logan Kistler and evolutionary molecular biologist Audrey Lin sequenced the genome of the wooly dog and were able to pinpoint the genes responsible for their highly sought-after woolly fur.

Woolly dogs possessed spiritual significance and were often treated as beloved family members. Coast Salish weavers used the dogs’ wool to craft blankets and other woven items that served a variety of ceremonial and spiritual purposes.