Alison Moore

The history of the Herbarium Handbook - lovely talk by Grace Flanagan (@kewgardens @KewScience) on updating the handbook. I’ve leafed through it & it’s great - lots of great advice for ALL who have collections #LightningTalks #NatSCA2024 @Nat_SCA

Thanks @Nat_SCA for a wonderful couple of days @morethanadodo. Big thanks also for letting us sell copies of the Herbarium Handbook at the event and to everyone who bought a copy #NatSCA2024 #collections #FavouriteSlideOfTheConference 😁

Mining the Gaps saw Noah Herne explaining his project to assess geographical biases in colonial collecting in the NHM, London's collections using statistical analysis in R. #NatSCA2024

The next #NatSCA2024 Lightning Talk had Grace Flanagan from Kew talking about development of a new Herbarium Handbook, which will include include more up-to-date information on collections research using DNA, policy and ethnobotany ethics.

Call for abstracts now open for the @SPNHC -@tdwg conference in Okinawa, Japan 🇯🇵 2-6 September 2024! 🌱 Deadline approaching! #call-for-abstracts" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">tdwg.org/conferences/20…

The @KewScience curation team is visiting @CUHerb today 🌿 #Curators #Botanists

I just backed Kate Young: Umbelliferæ on @Kickstarter kickstarter.com/projects/plant…

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In Duke Herbarium, nearly a million plant specimens hold legacies of the past, offer insights for future climate research. It's existence is under threat. dukechronicle.com/article/2023/0…

Lankum @The Roundhouse Cracking! @LankumDublin @RoundhouseLDN

Hot off the press! Island area, isolation and climate effects upon flower traits in a megadiverse archipelago Journal of Biogeography | Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jb… @KewScience @Kew_Asia @BotanistBriggs @BalitbangdaPap1 @vogelcop @C_Puglisi

And now with the help of Lily #Cyperaceae #intern, we are ready to lay away in the herbarium @C_Puglisi @KewAfrica @Kew_Asia

.@thevicsoc Please sign the petition!

As a union for staff at Kew, it’s vital that rationale and evidence behind any move of its unique Herbarium 🪴is explained, and all options are considered. The world leading work our members do with this resource must be protected. Sign the petition ⬇️ change.org/p/keep-the-kew…

Petition to keep the Kew Herbarium as a working herbarium change.org/p/keep-the-kew…

@BotanyEm 😖

Crimes against plants spotted today at my local garden centre - spray painted Aloe vera 🙀

Support those supporting the planet 🌍 Solidarity with our members on strike at Kew Gardens today #ProspectStrike

Environment‐dependent influence of fruit size upon the distribution of the Malesian archipelagic flora nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pp… @trethowBOT @botanistlaura @C_Puglisi @AnnaTrias @KewScience @Kew_Asia

Not even a 1st class stamp! #curationcrimes