Big congrats to Kew scientist Dr Oscar A. Pérez Escobar. He’s profiled by New Phytologist, covering his journey and research on orchid evolution and comparative genomics.🧪
Read more: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.70484
#KewScience #Orchids
Read more: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.70484
#KewScience #Orchids
September 14, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Big congrats to Kew scientist Dr Oscar A. Pérez Escobar. He’s profiled by New Phytologist, covering his journey and research on orchid evolution and comparative genomics.🧪
Read more: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.70484
#KewScience #Orchids
Read more: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.70484
#KewScience #Orchids
Really enjoy engaging with @antonelli_lab @kewgardens @KewScience on their away day in @WythamWoods . Lots of fascinating questions on ecology, science and policy, followed by a soul-nourishing walk through the woods
November 13, 2024 at 3:43 AM
Really enjoy engaging with @antonelli_lab @kewgardens @KewScience on their away day in @WythamWoods . Lots of fascinating questions on ecology, science and policy, followed by a soul-nourishing walk through the woods
A recent review led by @KewScience and @bgci proposes ‘ten golden rules for #reforestation’ to boost benefits for people and the planet:
1. Protect existing forest first
2. Work with local people
3. Maximize biodiversity recovery to meet multiple goals
...
More👇🏻
#SoyForestal https://t.co/a2...
1. Protect existing forest first
2. Work with local people
3. Maximize biodiversity recovery to meet multiple goals
...
More👇🏻
#SoyForestal https://t.co/a2...
January 13, 2025 at 8:26 AM
A recent review led by @KewScience and @bgci proposes ‘ten golden rules for #reforestation’ to boost benefits for people and the planet:
1. Protect existing forest first
2. Work with local people
3. Maximize biodiversity recovery to meet multiple goals
...
More👇🏻
#SoyForestal https://t.co/a2...
1. Protect existing forest first
2. Work with local people
3. Maximize biodiversity recovery to meet multiple goals
...
More👇🏻
#SoyForestal https://t.co/a2...
Modelling spatial distribution data for a large fraction of red-listed terrestrial vascular plant species
written by: Jan Borgelt, Jorge Sicacha-Parada, Olav Skarpaas & Francesca Verones @engineering @NTNU @NHMOslo_Science
data from: @KewScience
https://go.nature.com/3j1mwHJ
written by: Jan Borgelt, Jorge Sicacha-Parada, Olav Skarpaas & Francesca Verones @engineering @NTNU @NHMOslo_Science
data from: @KewScience
https://go.nature.com/3j1mwHJ
Native range estimates for red-listed vascular plants - S...
Measurement(s) species distributions Technology Type(s) m...
go.nature.com
December 6, 2024 at 5:05 PM
Modelling spatial distribution data for a large fraction of red-listed terrestrial vascular plant species
written by: Jan Borgelt, Jorge Sicacha-Parada, Olav Skarpaas & Francesca Verones @engineering @NTNU @NHMOslo_Science
data from: @KewScience
https://go.nature.com/3j1mwHJ
written by: Jan Borgelt, Jorge Sicacha-Parada, Olav Skarpaas & Francesca Verones @engineering @NTNU @NHMOslo_Science
data from: @KewScience
https://go.nature.com/3j1mwHJ
Very surprised to see this... #botany twitter, is this for real? @bgci @kewgardens @KewScience https://https://t.co/jRqupyEHRl
May 21, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Very surprised to see this... #botany twitter, is this for real? @bgci @kewgardens @KewScience https://https://t.co/jRqupyEHRl
'Adapting wild biodiversity conservation approaches to conserve agrobiodiversity' 🌿👩🌾🚜
Now online at #naturesustainability We share solutions of multiple co-authors in solving this challenge for food security, climate resilience & a sustainable future 👇 #KewScience
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Now online at #naturesustainability We share solutions of multiple co-authors in solving this challenge for food security, climate resilience & a sustainable future 👇 #KewScience
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Adapting wild biodiversity conservation approaches to conserve agrobiodiversity - Nature Sustainability
The global biodiversity crisis impacting agriculture is overlooked compared with wild systems. This Perspective presents an overview of the the tools developed for wild biodiversity conservation and p...
www.nature.com
November 24, 2024 at 10:06 PM
'Adapting wild biodiversity conservation approaches to conserve agrobiodiversity' 🌿👩🌾🚜
Now online at #naturesustainability We share solutions of multiple co-authors in solving this challenge for food security, climate resilience & a sustainable future 👇 #KewScience
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Now online at #naturesustainability We share solutions of multiple co-authors in solving this challenge for food security, climate resilience & a sustainable future 👇 #KewScience
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📢Job alert: become the new Deputy Director of Science (Operations) at @KewScience!
😎Grasp this unique opportunity!
#Sciencejobs #JobOpening #management #naturalsciencecollections
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😎Grasp this unique opportunity!
#Sciencejobs #JobOpening #management #naturalsciencecollections
x.com/KewScience/sta…
February 3, 2025 at 12:05 PM
📢Job alert: become the new Deputy Director of Science (Operations) at @KewScience!
😎Grasp this unique opportunity!
#Sciencejobs #JobOpening #management #naturalsciencecollections
x.com/KewScience/sta…
😎Grasp this unique opportunity!
#Sciencejobs #JobOpening #management #naturalsciencecollections
x.com/KewScience/sta…
PhD supported by @granthamicl.bsky.social and @rbgkew.bsky.social, supervised and collaboration with the amazing @vorontsovams.bsky.social, Tiziana Ulian, Colin Turnbull, @flip-ryan.bsky.social, @casparchater.bsky.social, and Rafal Gutaker 🌾🥳 #kewscience #foniomillet #sscpdtp #granthaminstitute #phd
May 6, 2025 at 10:56 AM
PhD supported by @granthamicl.bsky.social and @rbgkew.bsky.social, supervised and collaboration with the amazing @vorontsovams.bsky.social, Tiziana Ulian, Colin Turnbull, @flip-ryan.bsky.social, @casparchater.bsky.social, and Rafal Gutaker 🌾🥳 #kewscience #foniomillet #sscpdtp #granthaminstitute #phd
This is an unusual #PhD opportunity related to #SciComm and #DiversityAndInclusion in STEM: trialling & assessing methods for recruiting more diverse
volunteers, & helping advance #CitizenScience @kewgardens @KewScience https://t.co/zxDT5SJT9Q
volunteers, & helping advance #CitizenScience @kewgardens @KewScience https://t.co/zxDT5SJT9Q
February 11, 2022 at 5:24 PM
This is an unusual #PhD opportunity related to #SciComm and #DiversityAndInclusion in STEM: trialling & assessing methods for recruiting more diverse
volunteers, & helping advance #CitizenScience @kewgardens @KewScience https://t.co/zxDT5SJT9Q
volunteers, & helping advance #CitizenScience @kewgardens @KewScience https://t.co/zxDT5SJT9Q
No, CAPTAIN (Conservation area prioritization through artificial intelligence) does not "achieve conservation targets more reliably" as stated in the abstract.
Real on the ground conservation does.
x.com/KewScience/sta… doi.org/10.1038/s41893…
Real on the ground conservation does.
x.com/KewScience/sta… doi.org/10.1038/s41893…
Improving biodiversity protection through artificial intelligence
Nature Sustainability - Artificial intelligence methods can help biodiversity conservation planning in a rapidly evolving world. A framework based on reinforcement learning quantifies the trade-off...
doi.org
April 2, 2025 at 9:17 AM
No, CAPTAIN (Conservation area prioritization through artificial intelligence) does not "achieve conservation targets more reliably" as stated in the abstract.
Real on the ground conservation does.
x.com/KewScience/sta… doi.org/10.1038/s41893…
Real on the ground conservation does.
x.com/KewScience/sta… doi.org/10.1038/s41893…
Amazed by ambitious project on multi species ash resistance genomics project, from todays @KewScience seminar from @RJABuggs. Great talk!
May 23, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Amazed by ambitious project on multi species ash resistance genomics project, from todays @KewScience seminar from @RJABuggs. Great talk!
📚 Report Alert!🚨
The State of the World's Plants & Fungi 2023 by @KewScience is out:
"An estimated 3/4 plant species yet to be described are likely to be threatened with extinction."🤔
Learn more about the diversity of plants & fungi on Earth⬇️
📸🗞️@KewScience 🌏🧪
www.kew.org/science/stat...
The State of the World's Plants & Fungi 2023 by @KewScience is out:
"An estimated 3/4 plant species yet to be described are likely to be threatened with extinction."🤔
Learn more about the diversity of plants & fungi on Earth⬇️
📸🗞️@KewScience 🌏🧪
www.kew.org/science/stat...
January 27, 2024 at 2:59 PM
📚 Report Alert!🚨
The State of the World's Plants & Fungi 2023 by @KewScience is out:
"An estimated 3/4 plant species yet to be described are likely to be threatened with extinction."🤔
Learn more about the diversity of plants & fungi on Earth⬇️
📸🗞️@KewScience 🌏🧪
www.kew.org/science/stat...
The State of the World's Plants & Fungi 2023 by @KewScience is out:
"An estimated 3/4 plant species yet to be described are likely to be threatened with extinction."🤔
Learn more about the diversity of plants & fungi on Earth⬇️
📸🗞️@KewScience 🌏🧪
www.kew.org/science/stat...
✨Excited to share our new article on time lags/genetic extinction debts, online now in Trends in Ecology & Evolution
#KewScience
🧬🧬🧬/1
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#KewScience
🧬🧬🧬/1
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Mind the lag: understanding genetic extinction debt for conservation
The delay between disturbance events and genetic responses within populations is a common but surprisingly overlooked phenomenon in ecology and evolut…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 27, 2024 at 9:38 AM
✨Excited to share our new article on time lags/genetic extinction debts, online now in Trends in Ecology & Evolution
#KewScience
🧬🧬🧬/1
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#KewScience
🧬🧬🧬/1
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The latest issue of Samara, the newsletter of @KewScience Millennium Seed Bank Partnership, is out, featuring many fascinating stories of seed collecting, from UK to the Arctic to Bhutan & more!...
May 21, 2025 at 9:45 AM
The latest issue of Samara, the newsletter of @KewScience Millennium Seed Bank Partnership, is out, featuring many fascinating stories of seed collecting, from UK to the Arctic to Bhutan & more!...
3/6 The further north a heronry, the lower the diversity of plants dispersed by herons in that area, due to the latitudinal gradient in plant diversity @freshwaterblog @freshwaterbio @KewScience @RJBOTANICO @BES_Move_SIG @_BTO @Natures_Voice @RSPBScience
November 20, 2024 at 9:39 AM
3/6 The further north a heronry, the lower the diversity of plants dispersed by herons in that area, due to the latitudinal gradient in plant diversity @freshwaterblog @freshwaterbio @KewScience @RJBOTANICO @BES_Move_SIG @_BTO @Natures_Voice @RSPBScience
📣OPEN POSITIONS: @KewScience is looking for 3 #Priority #leaders to contribute to the overall direction of the #scientific work. Apply by June 13!
⬇️See below
#DigitalRevolution #Taxonomy #DigitalCollections #naturalsciencecollections #software #management #data #OpenScience
x.com/nickynicolson/…
⬇️See below
#DigitalRevolution #Taxonomy #DigitalCollections #naturalsciencecollections #software #management #data #OpenScience
x.com/nickynicolson/…
February 3, 2025 at 12:03 PM
📣OPEN POSITIONS: @KewScience is looking for 3 #Priority #leaders to contribute to the overall direction of the #scientific work. Apply by June 13!
⬇️See below
#DigitalRevolution #Taxonomy #DigitalCollections #naturalsciencecollections #software #management #data #OpenScience
x.com/nickynicolson/…
⬇️See below
#DigitalRevolution #Taxonomy #DigitalCollections #naturalsciencecollections #software #management #data #OpenScience
x.com/nickynicolson/…
Exciting to see this @ahrcpress commissioned report co-authored by @BritishAcademy_ Fellow Felix Driver and @KewScience about the role of humanities in helping us understand the history of plants and the relationship between plants and...
November 24, 2024 at 2:05 AM
Exciting to see this @ahrcpress commissioned report co-authored by @BritishAcademy_ Fellow Felix Driver and @KewScience about the role of humanities in helping us understand the history of plants and the relationship between plants and...
🌿Esta semana participamos en el curso-taller para la colecta y conservación de semillas de especies nativas de árboles amenazados de los bosques de magnolia de la RD con facilitadores de #KewScience #JardínBotanicoRD, apoyo de #FundaciónMoscosoPuello, #FundaciónProgresssio, #ukindomrep
November 17, 2024 at 2:54 PM
🌿Esta semana participamos en el curso-taller para la colecta y conservación de semillas de especies nativas de árboles amenazados de los bosques de magnolia de la RD con facilitadores de #KewScience #JardínBotanicoRD, apoyo de #FundaciónMoscosoPuello, #FundaciónProgresssio, #ukindomrep
x.com
March 22, 2025 at 8:56 PM
If ranges were overestimated, risk may be underestimated. See what this means for conservation, from cloud forests to collections 🧪
#KewScience #Epiphytes #PlantConservation
#KewScience #Epiphytes #PlantConservation
August 13, 2025 at 4:10 PM
If ranges were overestimated, risk may be underestimated. See what this means for conservation, from cloud forests to collections 🧪
#KewScience #Epiphytes #PlantConservation
#KewScience #Epiphytes #PlantConservation
Since @KewScience is still not around but this is too good not to share...
Everyone check the newest phylogeny of #Orchidaceae (nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...) and download this AMAZING updated #OrchidTreeOfLife (in English and Spanish!): figshare.com/s/241e1bd47d...
Everyone check the newest phylogeny of #Orchidaceae (nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...) and download this AMAZING updated #OrchidTreeOfLife (in English and Spanish!): figshare.com/s/241e1bd47d...
November 16, 2024 at 4:17 PM
Since @KewScience is still not around but this is too good not to share...
Everyone check the newest phylogeny of #Orchidaceae (nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...) and download this AMAZING updated #OrchidTreeOfLife (in English and Spanish!): figshare.com/s/241e1bd47d...
Everyone check the newest phylogeny of #Orchidaceae (nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...) and download this AMAZING updated #OrchidTreeOfLife (in English and Spanish!): figshare.com/s/241e1bd47d...
Colleagues who collect #plant tissue for #DNA analysis & use silica- do you tear the leaves like this https://vimeo.com/195812974 or leave them whole? @BethanyZumwalde @ruminatus @AndrewLHipp @jilla_hamilton @SallyNAitken @DocMartinKew @KewScience @PublicGardens @dbgphx @CPCplants
Collecting plant material in silica gel: The teabag metho...
How-to video introducing 'the teabag method', a...
vimeo.com
May 23, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Colleagues who collect #plant tissue for #DNA analysis & use silica- do you tear the leaves like this https://vimeo.com/195812974 or leave them whole? @BethanyZumwalde @ruminatus @AndrewLHipp @jilla_hamilton @SallyNAitken @DocMartinKew @KewScience @PublicGardens @dbgphx @CPCplants
Senior Editor @britishecolsoc.bsky.social
https://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/senior-editor-2/
Three fully funded PhD studentships @KewScience
https://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/senior-editor-2/
Three fully funded PhD studentships @KewScience
Re-storying the Sussex Weald Garden: Exotics, Empire and Ecobiography. — CHASE Doctoral Training Partnership
Applications are invited for a funded collaborative PhD between the University of Sussex and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (RBG Kew), investigating the plants and people of three estates in the Sussex High Weald.
www.chase.ac.uk
January 28, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Senior Editor @britishecolsoc.bsky.social
https://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/senior-editor-2/
Three fully funded PhD studentships @KewScience
https://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/senior-editor-2/
Three fully funded PhD studentships @KewScience
#Jobopportunity: use technology to combat the #BiodiversityCrisis with a 4-year #postdoc research fellowship in Digital Revolution @KewScience! Check the offer here 👉and contact @nickynicolson for any questions!
careers.kew.org/vacancy/kew-re…
careers.kew.org/vacancy/kew-re…
February 3, 2025 at 12:18 PM
#Jobopportunity: use technology to combat the #BiodiversityCrisis with a 4-year #postdoc research fellowship in Digital Revolution @KewScience! Check the offer here 👉and contact @nickynicolson for any questions!
careers.kew.org/vacancy/kew-re…
careers.kew.org/vacancy/kew-re…