Congratulations to Dr Timothy Utteridge Nina Davies Clare Drinkell for being awarded the Marsh Director's Choice Publication Award for the new edition of the Herbarium Handbook Kew Gardens Kew Science Marsh Charitable Trust

Congratulations Sarah Whild on the Marsh Botany Award for 2023 Kew Science @KewGardens! Thanks to Marsh Charitable Trust for making the award possible, Nick and Annie from the Marsh Charitable Trust, the committee for help with the selection process & Carys for arranging the event.

Final chance! Add your signature to the NEW 2030 Declaration on Scientific Plant and Fungal Collecting 🖊️

Emerging from the 2023 #SOTWPF Symposium, this declaration unifies us in filling key knowledge gaps in plant and fungal diversity 🌱🍄👇

April 30 ⏰
kew.org/2030-declarati…

Kew Science Vacancy: Senior Project Manager 🍄👩‍💼

Do you have experience leading on resource planning, financial management, communications & engagement, space planning, reporting and governance?

Take a look at this job opportunity. Deadline 5 May 👇
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FREE BRITISH ACADEMY LECTURE ON 28 MAY

🌍 Planting Resistance: Botanical Legacies of the African Diaspora 🌍

Judith Carney considers how the expansion of industrial agriculture across tropical landscapes threatens food systems.

Register to attend 👇
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New deadline on the New Phytologist & Plants People Planet 🌱👥🌐 call for papers on 'Harnessing the benefits of specimen digitisation'!

Submissions from African and Asian institutions are particularly sought as we lay the foundations of the 2026 #SOTWPF Report!

⏳ May 7
newphytologist.org/news/view/343

NEW TODAY in nature - A vast DNA tree of life brings open access DNA sequences of >9500 flowering plants! 🧬

This invaluable resource crafted by 279 scientists lets us answer key questions about modern plant life and look back in time to its origins 🌿

nature.com/articles/s4158…

Our final intern diary for now comes from Phoebe Swift who learnt lots of #Bioinformatics and #rstats skills working on alder genomes Kew Science tinyurl.com/2d2d5497

Happy to unexpectedly co-star with Cate Blanchett yesterday in an @ITVmeridian piece on @Wakehurst_Kew, explaining some of our ash dieback research to Andy Dickenson ITV itv.com/watch/news/cat… from 0:13:00. Thanks

#EarthDay2024 🌱

While global declines in wild biodiversity are well-documented, much less attention is given to declines in agrobiodiversity.

🇬🇧 is helping increase food security and resilience with Kew Science‘s project on agrobiodiversity in 🇪🇹

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👈🔥LEFT: A 3D computer model built from drone recordings maps dry forest freshly burnt by fire
👉🌳RIGHT: The same forest patch again six months later, as recovery kicks in

Join us on the journey to restore Madagascar's precious dry forests 🇲🇬👇
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Because it is #NationalOrchidDay (well, it was yesterday but whatever 🤪), pls have a look at
a) 5 cool facts about orchids (see vid below produced by the talented Lydia Shellien-Walker!)
b) the orchid tree of life (read more about it here: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…)
Please share!

“Losing the connection between the Andes and the Amazon: A price of peace in Colombia' 🏔️🌴

Check out this article from @knowablemag which highlights the work of Kew's Oscar Pérez Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar 👇

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