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Beverley Glover
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Director of Cambridge University Botanic Garden. Professor of Plant Systematics and Evolution. Researching flower development and evolution.
Lovely day sharing ideas with fellow botanic garden directors at Birmingham Botanical Gardens today - and the plants were spectacular too!
October 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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✨ Cambridge Botanic Lights ✨

❤️ A wonderful opportunity to take some time out and spend an evening with friends and family ❤️

Make memories at Cambridge University Botanic Garden 🌿

Buy your tickets at botanic.cam.ac.uk/cambridge-botanic-lights-2025

#CUBG #winterlights #Cambridge #botanicgarden
October 1, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Russell R. Geiger Professorship of Crop Science

Dept. of Plant Sciences | Permanent | Closes on Monday 17 November 2025

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/russell...

#plantsciences #plantscijobs #academicjobs
October 1, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Communications Assistant @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social ✍️

This role will support the Botanic Garden’s marketing activities and event promotion, encouraging new and returning visitors.

Apply before 22 June 👇
bit.ly/4kE2iS4
May 29, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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🧠 Are you a physicist, engineer, chemist, or coder curious about life sciences? 🧪
Challenge the boundaries. Take risks. Go international. Apply for an #HFSPFellowship! The 2026 call is OPEN 💪
🌍 Deadline to start application: 7 May 2025
🔗 zurl.co/ffHmt
#sts #hfsp
April 17, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Apply now for a four year Research Fellowship at Kew. £41,020 per annum Closing Date 20/04/2025 opportunity to become an independent researcher with some startup funds for research and travel. careers.kew.org/internal/vac...
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April 16, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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We are delighted to have been voted ‘Best Tourist Attraction’ in the Cambridge Edition People’s Choice Awards 2025!

What a lovely day to celebrate in the sun 🌞 Thank you to everyone who voted!

Plus congrats to the Fitzwilliam Museum who were voted as ‘Best Arts & Cultural Venue’🏆
April 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Such an amazing time at the UK plant biomechanics meeting. Big thanks to the organisers @yoselin.bsky.social and Finn Box. And all the amazing speakers and poster presenters.
March 28, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Flowering cherries @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social are even better today with blue sky above them
March 26, 2025 at 9:38 PM
❤️ The flowering cherries are out @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social
March 26, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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🌿 Mountain Magic!

Step inside our Mountains House, where high-altitude plants thrive. Here are some of today’s stars including some wild & rare plants in our collection...

🌸 Paeonia cambessedesii
🌟 Fritillaria eduardii
🔵 Muscari heldreichii
💜 Hyacinthus orientalis
#MondayMood #MountainBlooms
March 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Looking for guidance teaching #Microscopy? 🔬🌱

Chris' latest article also featured in @associationscied.bsky.social School Science Review is available here with a presentation to download: www.saps.org.uk/growth-hub/t...

#plantsci @chrisgraham.bsky.social @stemlearning.bsky.social
March 19, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Plants & their pollinators🌼🐝

Plants can’t move but they still need a mate. How do they do it? Our Director @beverleycubg.bsky.social joined @bbcradio4.bsky.social In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg, Jane Memmott & @larschittka.bsky.social for a fascinating discussion
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

👋Bluesky!
March 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Great to see our paper on the front cover @natureecoevo.bsky.social, with the tropical displays in our glasshouse range!

With thanks to all 50+ co-authors.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Nice editorial on the issues facing a variety of ex situ plant collection.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
February 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Botanic gardens are more than peaceful retreats or collections of catalogued plants - they’re vital in the fight against biodiversity loss.

Great article by Samuel Brockington in The Conversation:
tinyurl.com/4yekcz84

@docbroc.bsky.social
@cubotanicgarden.bsky.social
@theconversation.com
Botanic gardens are struggling to keep up with the biodiversity crisis – here’s what they can do
Botanic gardens have evolved from medicinal gardens to scientific institutions, Now, they must become conservation leaders on a global scale.
theconversation.com
March 3, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Wonderful visit to @mnhn.fr
March 2, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Want to work in another country?

The HFSP postdoc fellowship supports proposals for frontier, potentially transformative research in the life sciences and cross-disciplinary. high-risk projects are encouraged
LOI opens March 13, 2025

#neuroskyence #academicsky 🧪🧠🪰🌱🧬
www.hfsp.org/funding/hfsp...
Postdoctoral Fellowships | Human Frontier Science Program
www.hfsp.org
March 1, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Looking forward to visiting @mpipz.bsky.social tomorrow- lots of exciting science to hear about!
February 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Loving the raspberry ripple ice cream swirls on these Oxalis versicolor flowers in the mountains house at Cambridge University Botanic Garden
February 9, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Please share! A 4-year position to work on genome duplication and evolution in Bath, part of our BBSRC sLOLA project determining the extent and effects of rediploidisation across eukaryotes! www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...
ED12442 Research Associate in Phylogenomics (fixed-term) - Jobs at Bath
www.bath.ac.uk
February 6, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Please Repost! We are offering a three-year fully funded doctoral researcher position to study how floral meristem patterning in woodland strawberry, and how it implicates the diversification in floral ground plans in Angiosperm flowers. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsini-...
February 1, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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We’re looking for 3 postdocs to join our lab and work on engineering plant gene expression, metabolism and growth. If you have enthusiasm & skills in synthetic biology or metabolic engineering, apply by Jan 31.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49767/
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49773/
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49769/
January 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Closing date 19th December - just over a week to apply!
We are looking for 2 postdocs and a technician to join our team studying evolution and development of complex flowers. Please get in touch if you’d like to discuss. Details here: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/?unit=u0...
December 11, 2024 at 6:47 AM
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We are advertising two fabulous jobs at the Cambridge University Herbarium.

Collection Manager: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49404/

Collections & Digitisation Assistant: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49378/

Incredible collection of 1.1 million specimens including most of Darwin’s Voyage of the Beagle material.
December 2, 2024 at 9:05 PM
We are looking for 2 postdocs and a technician to join our team studying evolution and development of complex flowers. Please get in touch if you’d like to discuss. Details here: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/?unit=u0...
November 30, 2024 at 1:20 PM