An update from our mass digitisation project, focussing on two small families in the Solanales stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/38748 #digitisation #towards3million

An overview of the Euphorbiaceae following its completion by our digitisers stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/38640 #herbarium #digitisation #towards3million

Good news: the 🇬🇧 government has announced investment in digital sharing of natural history collections like our own RBGE_Herbarium of 3m specimens @RBGE_Science Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 🌵🌾🌲🪻🌻🌳

A new story from our digitisers looking at the past imaging of our collection stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/38602 #digitisation #herbarium #towards3million

Primula vulgaris: A Herald of Spring the latest in our series of posts from our digitisation team stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/38556 #digitsation #herbarium

It’s a celebratory #FungiFriday this week! Kew Science hit 250,000 specimens digitised in the Fungarium 🎉

This is thanks to the hard work of the digitisation team since the project started in 2021 📸

More from our Digitisation Programme focussing on Plantaginaceae stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/38514 #digitisation #herbarium

Another family summary from our Digitisation Programme focussing on Phyllanthaceae which was completed last year stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/38501 #digitisation #herbarium

Nice coverage from The Sunday Post on my current activities @RBGE_Science RBGE Press Office

Hi, my name is Jo and I work with #seaweeds , freshwater #algae and #mosses NHM Botany.

One of my favourite specimens in the collection is this 3 metre long seaweed Alaria esculenta because it's such an eccentrically wonderful pressing.

Starting to archive dataset Frictionless Data packages into Zenodo. These contain links to collectors & determiners (plus more) with reference to the DOI in GBIF @ecoevo.social/@gbif as source of these derived enhancements. See RBGE_Herbarium doi.org/10.5281/zenodo… as example.

Exciting new paper by >300 scientists analyses the number of common trees in tropical forests: nature.com/articles/s4158…. Read our blog post on #botanicstories here: stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/38461 nature Declan Cooper Toby Pennington

Once again, art and specimen meet. Thanks so much for posting this Elmar Robbrecht. It's an example of why I stay on Twitter.

George Clifford died #otd 1760. His beautiful #herbarium specimens are mounted to appear growing out of decorative, paper urns with their names on ornate labels. He commissioned #Linnaeus to catalogue his plants and many of his specimens are Linnean types. The Linnean Society of London

As part of our mass digitisation project our team have completed Amaryllidaceae & Alliaceae.
stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/38259
#digitisation #herbarium

We’ve officially barcoded and photographed our first lot of Herbarium specimens!

Lucky number 0000001 was Lathyrus pratensis, Meadow Vetchling, collected just outside the Science Centre here at the Botanic Garden, quite appropriate if you ask me!

The National Lottery Heritage Fund

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What does a #herbarium curator do? A new blog by Mark Carine on the work of the botany curation team Natural History Museum Science: bit.ly/41uJUTB
#botany #curation

😱 2023 has been a MOMENTOUS year for our Digitisation Project🎉

From digitising 2 million specimens to unearthing collections from greats like Alfred Russel Wallace, it’s been an incredible year of unlocking nature’s secrets to make them available online for everyone, for FREE!

Living Legend: Garden Scientist Charlotte Taylor has described more new plant species than any woman alive discoverandshare.org/2023/12/18/liv… #WomenInSTEM #botany

The next in our series of blogs from our digitisation project is focussing on the Holly, Ilex aquifolium: A Symbol of Christmas and Beyond stories.rbge.org.uk/?p=38292 #digitsation #herbarium