@flannerm.bsky.social
This is a wonderful post on old specimens and new.
Restoring Palo Santo, the Holy Wood of the Tropical Dry Forest: The research of Elizabeth Collins, George Mason University #SmellingTheBouquet 👃💐
Learn more about Betsy's research: experiment.com/u/4WrVNg
Learn more about Betsy's research: experiment.com/u/4WrVNg
November 14, 2025 at 10:53 AM
This is a wonderful post on old specimens and new.
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Some mushrooms we identified at the Society of Mycology of Neuchâtel and around (www.smne.ch).
❓how to memorise them all?
🎨 My manner is to paint them. It takes up a lot of time, but once I see them again, I know who they are!
🍄🐡 #Sciart #fungifriends #mushrooms #illustrations #watercolor
❓how to memorise them all?
🎨 My manner is to paint them. It takes up a lot of time, but once I see them again, I know who they are!
🍄🐡 #Sciart #fungifriends #mushrooms #illustrations #watercolor
November 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Some mushrooms we identified at the Society of Mycology of Neuchâtel and around (www.smne.ch).
❓how to memorise them all?
🎨 My manner is to paint them. It takes up a lot of time, but once I see them again, I know who they are!
🍄🐡 #Sciart #fungifriends #mushrooms #illustrations #watercolor
❓how to memorise them all?
🎨 My manner is to paint them. It takes up a lot of time, but once I see them again, I know who they are!
🍄🐡 #Sciart #fungifriends #mushrooms #illustrations #watercolor
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Visited Port Sunlight yesterday - the original source of much of my academic funding from @leverhulme.ac.uk It was so impressive to see the workers' houses, hear about all the good stuff the Levers did and to visit the Lady Lever Art Gallery - on the day that Musk got $1 trillion....
November 7, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Visited Port Sunlight yesterday - the original source of much of my academic funding from @leverhulme.ac.uk It was so impressive to see the workers' houses, hear about all the good stuff the Levers did and to visit the Lady Lever Art Gallery - on the day that Musk got $1 trillion....
Post from Herbarium World on the plant-related art of James Prosek: herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/a...
Art and Herbaria: James Prosek
James Prosek’s watercolor Liatris (Gayfeather), Blackjack Oak, Post Oak, Maximilian Sunflower after a rain, between Forestburg and Greenwood, Texas, November One of my favorite topics in the herbar…
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November 6, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Post from Herbarium World on the plant-related art of James Prosek: herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/a...
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The natural history of the book. Scarlet pimpernel in a copy of William Salmon’s ‘Botanologia: the English herbal’ (London, 1710) (along with several other pressed botanical specimens). CCA.46.31 @theUL.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 10:49 AM
The natural history of the book. Scarlet pimpernel in a copy of William Salmon’s ‘Botanologia: the English herbal’ (London, 1710) (along with several other pressed botanical specimens). CCA.46.31 @theUL.bsky.social
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#Incense #SmellingTheBouquet Courbaril, Black copal, Copal negro (Hymenaea courbaril)
Commonly found in the Caribbean, Central & South America, courbaril is an evergreen hardwood tree with many uses. The wood is used for furniture and flooring and the fruit pulp is used for food and drink.
Commonly found in the Caribbean, Central & South America, courbaril is an evergreen hardwood tree with many uses. The wood is used for furniture and flooring and the fruit pulp is used for food and drink.
November 4, 2025 at 3:09 PM
#Incense #SmellingTheBouquet Courbaril, Black copal, Copal negro (Hymenaea courbaril)
Commonly found in the Caribbean, Central & South America, courbaril is an evergreen hardwood tree with many uses. The wood is used for furniture and flooring and the fruit pulp is used for food and drink.
Commonly found in the Caribbean, Central & South America, courbaril is an evergreen hardwood tree with many uses. The wood is used for furniture and flooring and the fruit pulp is used for food and drink.
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Join us in Rome or online for a seminar on plant illustrations on 6 November! 🪴🌻🌿
Through images of mandrakes and ferns, @fabribald.bsky.social and I will be discussing issues in the role of images in early modern botany.
www.biblhertz.it/events/43483...
Through images of mandrakes and ferns, @fabribald.bsky.social and I will be discussing issues in the role of images in early modern botany.
www.biblhertz.it/events/43483...
The Role of Images in Early Modern Botany
This seminar brings together two experts on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century plants. Zooming in on the dilemma of visualizing plants (or not), and how images could become part of epistemic methods w...
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October 20, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Join us in Rome or online for a seminar on plant illustrations on 6 November! 🪴🌻🌿
Through images of mandrakes and ferns, @fabribald.bsky.social and I will be discussing issues in the role of images in early modern botany.
www.biblhertz.it/events/43483...
Through images of mandrakes and ferns, @fabribald.bsky.social and I will be discussing issues in the role of images in early modern botany.
www.biblhertz.it/events/43483...
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Epistemic Practices and Plant Classification in Premodern European Botanical Knowledge: An Interdisciplinary Treatment
Edited By @fabribald.bsky.social
is now available in the new warehouse -
www.routledge.com/Epistemic-Pr...
The ebook is on sale for US $42.74
Edited By @fabribald.bsky.social
is now available in the new warehouse -
www.routledge.com/Epistemic-Pr...
The ebook is on sale for US $42.74
October 20, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Epistemic Practices and Plant Classification in Premodern European Botanical Knowledge: An Interdisciplinary Treatment
Edited By @fabribald.bsky.social
is now available in the new warehouse -
www.routledge.com/Epistemic-Pr...
The ebook is on sale for US $42.74
Edited By @fabribald.bsky.social
is now available in the new warehouse -
www.routledge.com/Epistemic-Pr...
The ebook is on sale for US $42.74
What a wonderful collaboration between art and science @uarkherbarium.bsky.social.
Thursday’s dinner will showcase UArk Herbarium/Prairie Pedagogy Pop-up Exhibition. It will highlight the UArk Herbarium support for educational and artistic work happening in the Oak Knoll Prairie. Artworks by Caite Ramos, Ellie Johnson, Mikki Young, Peter Brown, Mia Dixon, Kaylee Hutto and more!
November 4, 2025 at 10:39 AM
What a wonderful collaboration between art and science @uarkherbarium.bsky.social.
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Labels for medicine bottles? Found in a copy of William Salmon’s ‘Botanologia: the English herbal’ (London, 1710) (along with several pressed botanical specimens).
CCA.46.31 @theUL.bsky.social, formerly at the Anatomy School, Cambridge, part of the Suffolk General Hospital collection.
CCA.46.31 @theUL.bsky.social, formerly at the Anatomy School, Cambridge, part of the Suffolk General Hospital collection.
November 4, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Labels for medicine bottles? Found in a copy of William Salmon’s ‘Botanologia: the English herbal’ (London, 1710) (along with several pressed botanical specimens).
CCA.46.31 @theUL.bsky.social, formerly at the Anatomy School, Cambridge, part of the Suffolk General Hospital collection.
CCA.46.31 @theUL.bsky.social, formerly at the Anatomy School, Cambridge, part of the Suffolk General Hospital collection.
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One of our Fellows has co-curated a fascinating exibition of Indian botanical art. Henry Noltie & Sita Reddy chose 52 drawings by Indian artists, and where possible identified the artists responsible.
'Flora Indica’ is on at the Sherwood Gallery, Kew until 12 April 2026.
Images © RBG Kew.
'Flora Indica’ is on at the Sherwood Gallery, Kew until 12 April 2026.
Images © RBG Kew.
November 2, 2025 at 11:05 AM
One of our Fellows has co-curated a fascinating exibition of Indian botanical art. Henry Noltie & Sita Reddy chose 52 drawings by Indian artists, and where possible identified the artists responsible.
'Flora Indica’ is on at the Sherwood Gallery, Kew until 12 April 2026.
Images © RBG Kew.
'Flora Indica’ is on at the Sherwood Gallery, Kew until 12 April 2026.
Images © RBG Kew.
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The Biodiversity Heritage Library doesn't just provide access to historic literature. There are publications on BHL from 1469 to 2025. The Canadian Field-Naturalist is one of many in-copyright publications we've made freely accessible online (with permission from the rights holders of course). 🧪 ©️ 📖
We can only show this change because of a short (basically 1 page of text) 1983 paper in the Canadian Field-Naturalist. As far as I can tell, this paper is only available online via @biodivlibrary.bsky.social www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2800903...
October 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The Biodiversity Heritage Library doesn't just provide access to historic literature. There are publications on BHL from 1469 to 2025. The Canadian Field-Naturalist is one of many in-copyright publications we've made freely accessible online (with permission from the rights holders of course). 🧪 ©️ 📖
Post from Herbarium World on the Fernery at Benmore Botanic Garden: herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/d...
Different Approaches: Ferneries
The rebuilt Fernery at Benmore Botanic Garden, Scotland, part of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Sixteen years ago, I visited the Tropical Ravine at the Botanic Gardens in Belfast. I had …
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October 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Post from Herbarium World on the Fernery at Benmore Botanic Garden: herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/d...
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Coming up Tues Oct 28, online -
Botanical Exchanges: The Art of Emily Cole and Isabel Charlotte “Downie” Church
A virtual conversation with Amanda Malmstrom and Allegra Davis
Register at olana.org/program-even...
#hernaturalhistory #womenartists #artherstory
Botanical Exchanges: The Art of Emily Cole and Isabel Charlotte “Downie” Church
A virtual conversation with Amanda Malmstrom and Allegra Davis
Register at olana.org/program-even...
#hernaturalhistory #womenartists #artherstory
October 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Coming up Tues Oct 28, online -
Botanical Exchanges: The Art of Emily Cole and Isabel Charlotte “Downie” Church
A virtual conversation with Amanda Malmstrom and Allegra Davis
Register at olana.org/program-even...
#hernaturalhistory #womenartists #artherstory
Botanical Exchanges: The Art of Emily Cole and Isabel Charlotte “Downie” Church
A virtual conversation with Amanda Malmstrom and Allegra Davis
Register at olana.org/program-even...
#hernaturalhistory #womenartists #artherstory
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At the turn of the 20th century, researchers shared specimens, books & discoveries through letters that crossed borders.
Our exhibition with @tettris.eu explores the the scientific connection between Austria and Italy through the correspondence of botanist Eduard Hackel 🌿 bit.ly/4nSpwFJ
Our exhibition with @tettris.eu explores the the scientific connection between Austria and Italy through the correspondence of botanist Eduard Hackel 🌿 bit.ly/4nSpwFJ
Italian botanists and their correspondence with Eduard Hackel
Europeana
https://bit.ly/4nSpwFJ"
October 21, 2025 at 7:29 AM
At the turn of the 20th century, researchers shared specimens, books & discoveries through letters that crossed borders.
Our exhibition with @tettris.eu explores the the scientific connection between Austria and Italy through the correspondence of botanist Eduard Hackel 🌿 bit.ly/4nSpwFJ
Our exhibition with @tettris.eu explores the the scientific connection between Austria and Italy through the correspondence of botanist Eduard Hackel 🌿 bit.ly/4nSpwFJ
Post from Herbarium World on the wood collection at the University of California Berkeley thanksto information from Shirley Watts and Mitchell Maher: herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/10/14/d... #wood
Different Approaches: Wood
Stack of wood specimens at the Forest Products Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley. Photo courtesy of Mitchell Maher This series of posts is about topics in the plant world that, to me, …
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October 19, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Post from Herbarium World on the wood collection at the University of California Berkeley thanksto information from Shirley Watts and Mitchell Maher: herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/10/14/d... #wood
It's essential that everyone who uses BHL appreciate it and SUPPORT it--with some level of support that's feasible for them.
🚀 Big news from BHL! 🌱
We’ve launched our Transition Fundraising Campaign to help BHL navigate the move to independence and secure a sustainable, global future for open biodiversity knowledge. #BHLTransition #ILoveBHL #OpenAccess
🔗 Read more and donate: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/10/dona...
We’ve launched our Transition Fundraising Campaign to help BHL navigate the move to independence and secure a sustainable, global future for open biodiversity knowledge. #BHLTransition #ILoveBHL #OpenAccess
🔗 Read more and donate: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/10/dona...
BHL Transition Update #6: Fundraising Campaign – Support the Future of Open Biodiversity Knowledge
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is launching a new public fundraising campaign to help us navigate our transition to independence. This is our first major campaign since the announcement th…
blog.biodiversitylibrary.org
October 18, 2025 at 9:49 AM
It's essential that everyone who uses BHL appreciate it and SUPPORT it--with some level of support that's feasible for them.
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This article captures the critical need for deliberate, coordinated support of scientific databases such as #BHL @biodivlibrary.bsky.social. Scientific information must be recognized as core infrastructure, not a peripheral project. 🧪
Article: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Article: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Sustainability During Instability: Long-Lived Life Science Databases and Science Funding Outlook in the United States
For decades, life science researchers have had cost-free, unrestricted access to data through online databases. However, the sustainability of even well-established resources was already tenuous, and ...
www.biorxiv.org
October 14, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This article captures the critical need for deliberate, coordinated support of scientific databases such as #BHL @biodivlibrary.bsky.social. Scientific information must be recognized as core infrastructure, not a peripheral project. 🧪
Article: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Article: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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We have several exciting events lined up for the 150th anniversary of the UARK herbarium!
Check out all the events with this link: biology.uark.edu/herbarium/ev...
Check out all the events with this link: biology.uark.edu/herbarium/ev...
October 13, 2025 at 11:39 PM
We have several exciting events lined up for the 150th anniversary of the UARK herbarium!
Check out all the events with this link: biology.uark.edu/herbarium/ev...
Check out all the events with this link: biology.uark.edu/herbarium/ev...
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🌿We're celebrating 200 years since John Stevens Henslow became Professor of Botany at Cambridge. He oversaw the relocation of the Botanic Garden to its current 40-acre site & was a mentor to Charles Darwin, inspiring his ideas on plant variation. Learn more about his legacy: tinyurl.com/4stzwhz9
Celebrating 200 years since John Stevens Henslow became Professor of Botany at Cambridge.
It's almost 200 years to the day since Henslow took an oath before the Vice Chancellor as 'King's Reader in Botany' on 10 October 1825.
Find out more about his legacy: tinyurl.com/4stzwhz9
@cam.ac.uk
It's almost 200 years to the day since Henslow took an oath before the Vice Chancellor as 'King's Reader in Botany' on 10 October 1825.
Find out more about his legacy: tinyurl.com/4stzwhz9
@cam.ac.uk
October 10, 2025 at 11:13 AM
🌿We're celebrating 200 years since John Stevens Henslow became Professor of Botany at Cambridge. He oversaw the relocation of the Botanic Garden to its current 40-acre site & was a mentor to Charles Darwin, inspiring his ideas on plant variation. Learn more about his legacy: tinyurl.com/4stzwhz9
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It's #WorldAlgaeDay! Japanese algologist Kintaro Okamura (1867-1935) provided taxonomies & descriptions in English & Japanese for his monumental work "Nihon sorui zufu" / "Icones of Japanese Algae" (1907-1942). Find it in #BHLib via
#MBLWHOILibrary
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography... 🧪
#MBLWHOILibrary
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography... 🧪
October 12, 2025 at 8:15 AM
It's #WorldAlgaeDay! Japanese algologist Kintaro Okamura (1867-1935) provided taxonomies & descriptions in English & Japanese for his monumental work "Nihon sorui zufu" / "Icones of Japanese Algae" (1907-1942). Find it in #BHLib via
#MBLWHOILibrary
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography... 🧪
#MBLWHOILibrary
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography... 🧪
Post from Herbarium World on Smelling the Bouquet, an exhibit at the Missouri Botanical Gardens Sachs Museum herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/d... @mobotmuseum.bsky.social
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October 9, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Post from Herbarium World on Smelling the Bouquet, an exhibit at the Missouri Botanical Gardens Sachs Museum herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/d... @mobotmuseum.bsky.social
Someday I'd like to attend one of these delicious events! @utkherbarium.bsky.social
Don't forget to stop by at the UT Herbarium next week for some delicious scones and engaging conversation! We will be giving tours of the herbarium while highlighting many of our amazing specimens!
Fungi ✅
Flowers✅
Moss ✅
Scones ✅
Biologists ✅
Fungi ✅
Flowers✅
Moss ✅
Scones ✅
Biologists ✅
September 27, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Someday I'd like to attend one of these delicious events! @utkherbarium.bsky.social
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As autumn sets in, take a look at flowers that bloom forever
🌸🍂
In this new illustrated #openaccess book @jessiewhchen.bsky.social approaches 17th-c. florilegia as material objects reflecting the diverse plant knowledge of gardeners, compilers & image-makers!
brill.com/display/titl...
#EarlyModern
🌸🍂
In this new illustrated #openaccess book @jessiewhchen.bsky.social approaches 17th-c. florilegia as material objects reflecting the diverse plant knowledge of gardeners, compilers & image-makers!
brill.com/display/titl...
#EarlyModern
September 23, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As autumn sets in, take a look at flowers that bloom forever
🌸🍂
In this new illustrated #openaccess book @jessiewhchen.bsky.social approaches 17th-c. florilegia as material objects reflecting the diverse plant knowledge of gardeners, compilers & image-makers!
brill.com/display/titl...
#EarlyModern
🌸🍂
In this new illustrated #openaccess book @jessiewhchen.bsky.social approaches 17th-c. florilegia as material objects reflecting the diverse plant knowledge of gardeners, compilers & image-makers!
brill.com/display/titl...
#EarlyModern
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Another week, another beautiful item spotted in our Reading Room at Kew! These incredible drawings of 'submersed algae' are from Sir William Hooker's collection (safely stored within our Archives). Check out the incredible detail in each line 👇
#KewLA
#KewLA
September 18, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Another week, another beautiful item spotted in our Reading Room at Kew! These incredible drawings of 'submersed algae' are from Sir William Hooker's collection (safely stored within our Archives). Check out the incredible detail in each line 👇
#KewLA
#KewLA