Marie Briggs
@botanistbriggs.bsky.social
Curator of natural history science collections, with a particular interest in tropical botany & herbarium specimen curation. I also curate spirit, slide, carpological & diatom (p.p.) collections. Tangy Twiglet, tea & football lover.
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One of the more unusual items in our herbarium collection! This old leather boot is home to several types of lichen 🥾
It was collected on a beach in 1975 by Brian J Coppins in Ballantrae, Scotland.
Read more on the weird and wonderful specimen here: stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/40742
It was collected on a beach in 1975 by Brian J Coppins in Ballantrae, Scotland.
Read more on the weird and wonderful specimen here: stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/40742
November 14, 2025 at 9:51 AM
One of the more unusual items in our herbarium collection! This old leather boot is home to several types of lichen 🥾
It was collected on a beach in 1975 by Brian J Coppins in Ballantrae, Scotland.
Read more on the weird and wonderful specimen here: stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/40742
It was collected on a beach in 1975 by Brian J Coppins in Ballantrae, Scotland.
Read more on the weird and wonderful specimen here: stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/40742
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Marking 125 years of #EJBotany #OpenAccess and its forerunner, Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, we are delighted to announce that ALL content is now freely available at journals.rbge.org.uk/notes and journals.rbge.org.uk/ejb
October 8, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Marking 125 years of #EJBotany #OpenAccess and its forerunner, Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, we are delighted to announce that ALL content is now freely available at journals.rbge.org.uk/notes and journals.rbge.org.uk/ejb
An amazing traineeship opportunity, if #lichens are your thing, a joint opportunity between RBGE (@thebotanics.bsky.social) & the National Trust for Scotland: www.asva.co.uk/jobs/trainee...
Trainee Lichenologist
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September 22, 2025 at 9:08 AM
An amazing traineeship opportunity, if #lichens are your thing, a joint opportunity between RBGE (@thebotanics.bsky.social) & the National Trust for Scotland: www.asva.co.uk/jobs/trainee...
🌲🌲🌲 An exciting opportunity to work on #conifer #conservation research at RBGE @thebotanics.bsky.social: www.rbge.org.uk/about-us/job... #conservationjobs #botany #redlist #ICCP🌲🌲🌲
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September 17, 2025 at 10:47 AM
🌲🌲🌲 An exciting opportunity to work on #conifer #conservation research at RBGE @thebotanics.bsky.social: www.rbge.org.uk/about-us/job... #conservationjobs #botany #redlist #ICCP🌲🌲🌲
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The Australian branch of BHL regularly adds in-copyright content to BHL that is not available anywhere else online (alongside their digitisation of #RareBooks, #HistoricJournals & #Archives). Follow along here: @bhl-au.bsky.social. 🇦🇺 🦘 🐨 🌏 📖 🧪
This week we’re digitising the Bulletin of the Australian Society for Limnology, which is not available anywhere online. It’ll soon be freely accessible on @biodivlibrary.bsky.social. Stay tuned… #ILoveBHL #Freshwater #Biodiversity
September 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
The Australian branch of BHL regularly adds in-copyright content to BHL that is not available anywhere else online (alongside their digitisation of #RareBooks, #HistoricJournals & #Archives). Follow along here: @bhl-au.bsky.social. 🇦🇺 🦘 🐨 🌏 📖 🧪
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September 7, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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Lucky sighting of Mediterranean
common Stingray - Dasyatis pastinaca.
Off La Pitrizza beach Commune di Arzachena Sardinia. Taken with a leaking and temperamental Go Pro 5 that still
somehow works.
common Stingray - Dasyatis pastinaca.
Off La Pitrizza beach Commune di Arzachena Sardinia. Taken with a leaking and temperamental Go Pro 5 that still
somehow works.
September 8, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Lucky sighting of Mediterranean
common Stingray - Dasyatis pastinaca.
Off La Pitrizza beach Commune di Arzachena Sardinia. Taken with a leaking and temperamental Go Pro 5 that still
somehow works.
common Stingray - Dasyatis pastinaca.
Off La Pitrizza beach Commune di Arzachena Sardinia. Taken with a leaking and temperamental Go Pro 5 that still
somehow works.
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A new paper by I.M. Turner published today in #EJBotany #OpenAccess @thebotanics.bsky.social includes 85 new typifications and nomenclatural clarifications from #G.E.Rumphius’s #HerbariumAmboinense posthumously published between 1741-1750: rbge.cc/47jg8Gh
September 1, 2025 at 1:52 PM
A new paper by I.M. Turner published today in #EJBotany #OpenAccess @thebotanics.bsky.social includes 85 new typifications and nomenclatural clarifications from #G.E.Rumphius’s #HerbariumAmboinense posthumously published between 1741-1750: rbge.cc/47jg8Gh
An exciting #postdoc opportunity working on a class in the #Solanaceae family based in Boulder, Colorado 🍅 🥔 🫑 jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
#sciencejob #botany #research #hortresearch #herbarium #collections
#sciencejob #botany #research #hortresearch #herbarium #collections
Postdoctoral Fellow in Tomatillo Evolution
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August 13, 2025 at 1:59 PM
An exciting #postdoc opportunity working on a class in the #Solanaceae family based in Boulder, Colorado 🍅 🥔 🫑 jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
#sciencejob #botany #research #hortresearch #herbarium #collections
#sciencejob #botany #research #hortresearch #herbarium #collections
Curator job in vertebrates at the National Museums of Scotland: careers.nms.ac.uk/job/748553
Closing date soon, so get your skates on! #curator #curation #museum #vertebrate #curatorjobs #museumjobs
Closing date soon, so get your skates on! #curator #curation #museum #vertebrate #curatorjobs #museumjobs
Assistant Curator (Vertebrates)
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August 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Curator job in vertebrates at the National Museums of Scotland: careers.nms.ac.uk/job/748553
Closing date soon, so get your skates on! #curator #curation #museum #vertebrate #curatorjobs #museumjobs
Closing date soon, so get your skates on! #curator #curation #museum #vertebrate #curatorjobs #museumjobs
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Please share our Call for Support with your colleagues, institutions & funders. With your help, we’ll ensure this incredible resource continues to thrive and grow for generations to come. 🌱 🌏 📖https://about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-support/
June 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Please share our Call for Support with your colleagues, institutions & funders. With your help, we’ll ensure this incredible resource continues to thrive and grow for generations to come. 🌱 🌏 📖https://about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-support/
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📢 The #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary is entering a bold new chapter – and we need your help! Today we release our official Call for Support. We’re seeking new hosts for BHL’s staff, infrastructure, and services. Learn more: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/06/tran... #BHLTransition #ILoveBHL
June 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM
📢 The #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary is entering a bold new chapter – and we need your help! Today we release our official Call for Support. We’re seeking new hosts for BHL’s staff, infrastructure, and services. Learn more: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/06/tran... #BHLTransition #ILoveBHL
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If you're interested in working in #ScotlandsRainforest, or know a young person who is, how about this as an excellent way to get started: Bryophyte Trainee with
@thebotanics.bsky.social. Our rainforest woodlands contain hundreds of species of mosses and liverworts!
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@thebotanics.bsky.social. Our rainforest woodlands contain hundreds of species of mosses and liverworts!
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Bryophyte Trainee
We are offering a rare opportunity for a highly motivated individual to gain extensive practical skills in bryophyte identification, field ecology, recording and surveying, backed up with a sound ...
www.environmentjob.co.uk
May 22, 2025 at 12:27 PM
If you're interested in working in #ScotlandsRainforest, or know a young person who is, how about this as an excellent way to get started: Bryophyte Trainee with
@thebotanics.bsky.social. Our rainforest woodlands contain hundreds of species of mosses and liverworts!
buff.ly/dBxC7Y0
@thebotanics.bsky.social. Our rainforest woodlands contain hundreds of species of mosses and liverworts!
buff.ly/dBxC7Y0
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MAJOR MILESTONE for fungal science! 🍄💻
Our entire Fungarium - 1.1 million dried fungi specimens - is now fully imaged!👇1/4
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Our entire Fungarium - 1.1 million dried fungi specimens - is now fully imaged!👇1/4
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May 19, 2025 at 3:09 PM
MAJOR MILESTONE for fungal science! 🍄💻
Our entire Fungarium - 1.1 million dried fungi specimens - is now fully imaged!👇1/4
ow.ly/w9JX50VT9FA
Our entire Fungarium - 1.1 million dried fungi specimens - is now fully imaged!👇1/4
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Meet one of our Champion Trees, the Kazakh pear (Pyrus korshinskyi) 💪
At 8 metres tall with a trunk girth of 1.26 metres wide, this magnificent specimen is the largest of its species in cultivation in Britain.
At 8 metres tall with a trunk girth of 1.26 metres wide, this magnificent specimen is the largest of its species in cultivation in Britain.
April 9, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Meet one of our Champion Trees, the Kazakh pear (Pyrus korshinskyi) 💪
At 8 metres tall with a trunk girth of 1.26 metres wide, this magnificent specimen is the largest of its species in cultivation in Britain.
At 8 metres tall with a trunk girth of 1.26 metres wide, this magnificent specimen is the largest of its species in cultivation in Britain.
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If you use the Biodivisity Heritage Library (I use it almost daily), you'll be saddened (and maybe angered😡) to learn that DOGE+Musk+Trump have eliminated its funding. BHL is looking for a new home. #ILoveBHL
So much f***ing winning.🤬
blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/04/new-...
So much f***ing winning.🤬
blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/04/new-...
A New Future for the Biodiversity Heritage Library
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives. A global consortium of over 660 contributors, BHL has made more …
blog.biodiversitylibrary.org
April 28, 2025 at 11:01 AM
If you use the Biodivisity Heritage Library (I use it almost daily), you'll be saddened (and maybe angered😡) to learn that DOGE+Musk+Trump have eliminated its funding. BHL is looking for a new home. #ILoveBHL
So much f***ing winning.🤬
blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/04/new-...
So much f***ing winning.🤬
blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/04/new-...
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Big congrats to Rebecca Beneroff @botanicalbecks.bsky.social on scoring her first research grant! She will use funding from the Botanical Society of Western PA's Allison Cusick Student Research Award to begin her MS research this summer.
#iamabotanist #letsgoplants
#iamabotanist #letsgoplants
April 28, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Big congrats to Rebecca Beneroff @botanicalbecks.bsky.social on scoring her first research grant! She will use funding from the Botanical Society of Western PA's Allison Cusick Student Research Award to begin her MS research this summer.
#iamabotanist #letsgoplants
#iamabotanist #letsgoplants
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Take another view of Easter chocolate with botanical prints of Theobroma cacao - the cocoa plant.
1. Maria Sibylla Merian, Insectorum Surinamensium, 1719
2. Hermann Adolph Koehler, Medizinal Pflanzen, 1887-97
3. Berthe Hoola Van Nooten, Fleurs, Fruits et Feuillages Choisis de l'Ile de Java, 1863-4
1. Maria Sibylla Merian, Insectorum Surinamensium, 1719
2. Hermann Adolph Koehler, Medizinal Pflanzen, 1887-97
3. Berthe Hoola Van Nooten, Fleurs, Fruits et Feuillages Choisis de l'Ile de Java, 1863-4
April 21, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Take another view of Easter chocolate with botanical prints of Theobroma cacao - the cocoa plant.
1. Maria Sibylla Merian, Insectorum Surinamensium, 1719
2. Hermann Adolph Koehler, Medizinal Pflanzen, 1887-97
3. Berthe Hoola Van Nooten, Fleurs, Fruits et Feuillages Choisis de l'Ile de Java, 1863-4
1. Maria Sibylla Merian, Insectorum Surinamensium, 1719
2. Hermann Adolph Koehler, Medizinal Pflanzen, 1887-97
3. Berthe Hoola Van Nooten, Fleurs, Fruits et Feuillages Choisis de l'Ile de Java, 1863-4
Free access to the fascinating Linnaean Society archives, online:“a repository of digitised specimens, manuscripts, correspondence, and artwork”… linnean.access.preservica.com
| Linnean Online
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April 16, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Free access to the fascinating Linnaean Society archives, online:“a repository of digitised specimens, manuscripts, correspondence, and artwork”… linnean.access.preservica.com
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Join our Horticulture team! We're recruiting for three exciting roles at our world-leading Botanic Garden:
- Senior Horticulturist
- Horticulturist (Alpine, Rock & Woodland)
- Horticulturist (Outdoor)
🌱 Interested? Find all our current vacancies and apply 👉 rbge.cc/-jobs
#HortJobs #EdinburghJobs
- Senior Horticulturist
- Horticulturist (Alpine, Rock & Woodland)
- Horticulturist (Outdoor)
🌱 Interested? Find all our current vacancies and apply 👉 rbge.cc/-jobs
#HortJobs #EdinburghJobs
April 10, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Join our Horticulture team! We're recruiting for three exciting roles at our world-leading Botanic Garden:
- Senior Horticulturist
- Horticulturist (Alpine, Rock & Woodland)
- Horticulturist (Outdoor)
🌱 Interested? Find all our current vacancies and apply 👉 rbge.cc/-jobs
#HortJobs #EdinburghJobs
- Senior Horticulturist
- Horticulturist (Alpine, Rock & Woodland)
- Horticulturist (Outdoor)
🌱 Interested? Find all our current vacancies and apply 👉 rbge.cc/-jobs
#HortJobs #EdinburghJobs
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Lots of brilliant job vacancies @thebotanics.bsky.social just now, including Horticulturalists, Pollinator Ecologist & the Big Boss post (Regius Keeper)🌿🍄🌳🌼: www.rbge.org.uk/about-us/job... #hortjobs #horticulture #RBGE #ecologyjobs #botanyjobs
Vacancies | Working Here | What We Do
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March 31, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Lots of brilliant job vacancies @thebotanics.bsky.social just now, including Horticulturalists, Pollinator Ecologist & the Big Boss post (Regius Keeper)🌿🍄🌳🌼: www.rbge.org.uk/about-us/job... #hortjobs #horticulture #RBGE #ecologyjobs #botanyjobs
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Linnean Online, our new digital collections platform, is now live! Take a (new) look at our digitised specimens, manuscripts, and correspondence. Check out the Tips and Useful Information page to enhance your user experience.
Explore here: linnean.access.preservica.com
Enjoy!
Explore here: linnean.access.preservica.com
Enjoy!
March 31, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Linnean Online, our new digital collections platform, is now live! Take a (new) look at our digitised specimens, manuscripts, and correspondence. Check out the Tips and Useful Information page to enhance your user experience.
Explore here: linnean.access.preservica.com
Enjoy!
Explore here: linnean.access.preservica.com
Enjoy!
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Lots of brilliant job vacancies @thebotanics.bsky.social just now, including Horticulturalists, Pollinator Ecologist & the Big Boss post (Regius Keeper)🌿🍄🌳🌼: www.rbge.org.uk/about-us/job... #hortjobs #horticulture #RBGE #ecologyjobs #botanyjobs
Vacancies | Working Here | What We Do
www.rbge.org.uk
March 31, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Lots of brilliant job vacancies @thebotanics.bsky.social just now, including Horticulturalists, Pollinator Ecologist & the Big Boss post (Regius Keeper)🌿🍄🌳🌼: www.rbge.org.uk/about-us/job... #hortjobs #horticulture #RBGE #ecologyjobs #botanyjobs