It didn't last long, but we had our #FirstSnow of the season this morning! The tiny snowflakes are looking gorgeous on our winterberries! (Ilex verticillata)

🎉We invite you to meet Jenifer C. Lopes first author of the recently published article botany.fyi/EO6eoe and Research Fellow at Harvard University Herbaria 🧵Get to know her and her passion for botany in this thread. See alt text for the full answers (1/10)

Check out this #NewPub from one our newest HUH Research Fellows Jenifer C. Lopes, et al! #Free for a limited time!

📢🌳🤓Applications are open for Harvard Forest's Summer Research Program in Ecology! Our 11-week paid residential internship opportunity connects undergrads, mentors, and researchers in the pursuit of scientific inquiry. Learn more: harvardforest.fas.edu/summerprogram Applications due 2/2!

The latest volume of #HarvardPapersInBotany is out! Check it out - #FREE - here: huh.harvard.edu/pdf-downloads

More of the closing of the Duke University Herbarium from Duke's student paper. dukechronicle.com/article/2024/0…

Herbaria are invaluable repositories of biodiversity that serve as crucial resources for scientific research, conservation efforts, and education. Show your support to save the Duke University Herbarium: bit.ly/4bRkrbI

Happy #LeapDay! Collected #OTD in 1916, this Diplocyclos palmatus from the #PhilippineIslands was digitized as part of our #NSF #Digitization #TCN Award 210884 (All Asia) kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/spec…

“Universities should support the priceless resources and heritage represented in natural history collections,” argues a new #ScienceEditorial reflecting on the closure of the Duke Herbarium. scim.ag/68w

Tomorrow @ 6pm! Nicholas P. Money presents 'Molds, Mushrooms, and Medicines: Our Lifelong Relationship with Fungi,' joined in conversation by Donald H. Pfister

We are happy to announce the new exhibit #GlassFlowers: The Blaschkas at the Microscope: Lessons in Botany, featuring educational models that illustrate the life cycles of non-flowering, spore-forming plants & fungi made by Leopold & Rudolf Blaschka. tinyurl.com/VisitHMNH

New #podcast! Jennie speaks with Harvard Professor Don Pfister, curator of the Farlow Reference Library & Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany Harvard University Herbaria. They discuss the new #GlassFlowers exhibit: the Blaschkas at the Microscope and his 50-year tenure. tinyurl.com/HMSCPodcast2024

Love plants? Have a BSc in Biology? Expertise in #PlantScience or #Horticulture? Harvard Organismic & Evolutionary Biology is hiring a Plant Growth Facilities Mgr to oversee growth facilities & work w/our plant community research programs and teaching. #WeAreHiring bit.ly/3ykTJbT

I'm happy that my first manuscript on the nomenclature of Vellozia was accepted for publication at TAXON! This is my first result of my research project as a HUH fellow ! Thanks Harvard University Herbaria for supporting my work and the knowledge about Brazilian flora! 👇🏽 Vellozia flower.

#NewPub in Taxon by HUH Fellow Jenifer C. Lopes on the typification of Pohl’s #Vellozia species onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ta…

Spend next Tuesday 6/18 evening with our own Jenny Brown and Jenifer C. Lopes, along with Sonia Ralston of Northeastern U., to learn about representing & preserving plants: arboretum.harvard.edu/events/glass-d…

#WeAreHiring! We are looking for a FT #conservator for our #GlassFlowers! Apply here: tinyurl.com/2xa8c69t

In the seventeenth century in Europe, there was a real tulip craze — and now, depictions of these tulips live at the Houghton Library, as part of a botanical illustrations exhibition organized in part with the Harvard University Herbaria 🌷From Jack Trapanick: #harvard harvardmagazine.com/2024/06/botani…

Loved collaborating w Mason Heberling to think about past, present, & future of #herbaria in Arnold Arboretum Arnoldia: The Nature of Trees. Includes some of my most recent research The Linnean Society of London & Harvard University Herbaria - many thx to those libraries! molly-hardy.com/information-ec… (link at bottom of page)