Gem Toes-Crichton

Volume 26 has just been published! Particularly enjoyed the foreword: “Gem gives a different photographic perspective on the Herbaria as she uncovers some of the achievements of women ‘lost’ among the cupboards.” More here: bit.ly/39DJIpU #womeninbotany #hiddenhistories

My DPhil work under Prof Renier Van der Hoorn @OxfordBiology @SomervilleOx @OxIndiaCentre illustrated for poster "Climate Resilient Agriculture" #BioE3 #DBTindia Policy Awareness Campaign Competition @DBTIndia @BRIC-ILS @Ddash_Debasis @DBT_ILS @rajesh_gokhale @DrJitendraSingh

Waiting patiently for dad to return with the food

🔈Please RT: Competitively funded PhD open to international students 🌍 Project on understanding antibiotic resistance in bacterial pathogens 🦠. At ⁦@QUBelfast⁩ with myself, ⁦@ValvanoMiguel⁩ & ⁦@dr_beckie⁩ findaphd.com/phds/project/h…

T-minus 42 minutes… 🎈🎈🎈 #Farewell41

@Barepipespress That is very sad.

RIP. Sad but inevitable news. I drove past this morning and the grubby KX100 with decade old Danone advert outside the Oxford in Redruth is now no more. Polaroid from roughly this time last year when it was still in working order though too gross for pleasant conversation.

#OnThisDay 225 years ago Mary Anning (1799-1847) was born.🐚 👩🏻‍🔬Mary would become a leading #Female #Palaeontologist, credited with the discovery of several #Dinosaur specimens.🦕 For more on Mary's Scientific contributions: nhm.ac.uk/discover/mary-… #WomenInStem #WomenInScience

Beautiful Thrift, Armeria maritima, at Shoreham Beach. 🩷

This #MothMonday we're putting the spotlight on the striking Cinnabar (Tyria jacobaeae) 🤩 This common and well distributed day-flying moth is often mistaken for a butterfly because of its vibrant red and black markings. 📷: Iain H Leach, Bob Eade, Nigel Symington #MothsMatter

Finally, Sword-leaved Helleborine, Stroud Commons. Double figure count but only just caught in time last week as many plants had already peaked. Stunning white brilliance, 1000w bulbs shining brightly within the dark understorey #GlosOrchids @ukorchids @BSBIbotany #wildflowerhour

#Oxford, are you heading to the river for a dip or a paddle? Check out the new Oxford Rivers Portal: oxfordrivers.ceh.ac.uk/portal! All the up-to-date #river info you need in one handy map: water levels, recent sewage spills, bacteria levels at Port Meadow and much more. 🧵1/6

If your garden is anything like mine, it's currently full of sticky willy, with its tiny white flowers. But how does this plant get its stickiness? Check out our archive thread. 👇

Wonderful work by @RSPCAEastWinch For anyone who finds a grounded or injured bat or a bat that has not moved from a very exposed position, please follow the advice available from our website bats.org.uk/advice/help-iv…

@Naturalcalendar I watched the council spraying along hedgerows, walls and gardens in my village the other day too. Devastating. 😔

This makes me sad. A week ago, this was filled with flowers. Nothing rare, but Valerian, herb robert, Oxford ragwort, chickweed, mouseear were all smiling. Now it's been sprayed with weedkiller. Result: a desolate, ugly mess. Let's celebrate our pavement weeds this weekend.

@LGuillardin Remember; nobody knows more about your research project than you. Your examiners agreed to meet you because they're interested in your research and want to discuss it with you. Be proud of all you've achieved so far, and enjoy the conversation if you can. Almost there! Brava! 🙌🏻

9 days for my #PhD viva. Cannot believe it. I can't wait but also feel quite nervous about it. Tips very much appreciated :)

This is the flower of the tiny (less than 1cm across) Bog Stitchwort, found in a damp disused pasture field near Wadebridge today. If you find tiny white flowers, look for a square stem which this species has. Stellaria alsine for #WildflowerHour

Over 100 species of flowers have been identified scattered at the feet of Flora and Venus in Sandro Botticelli’s Primavera (1482, at bottom right) ~ suggesting that he took considerable interest in making these depictions of the natural world as realistic as possible

WOMEN, ENVIRONMENT & NETWORKS of EMPIRE: ELIZABETH GWILLIM & MARY SYMONDS - online lecture by Anna Winterbottom @mcgillu & Victoria Dickenson @McGillLib @LinneanSociety April 23, 18-19.30h GMT+1 Details & booking: eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-enviro… @RHGeoHumanities @Kew_LAA @KewScience

@RWheatley8 @UniofOxford @QUBelfast Wonderful to see you shining so bright! 💫 @QUBelfast are lucky to have you.

Matriculation 2014 📸 ~10 amazing years + 4 colleges later… this week I finish my time at @UniofOxford. Starting the new role & growing my research group at @QUBelfast 🎓🦠🧬Very excited for what is ahead!