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Marie Briggs
@botanistbriggs.bsky.social
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Curator of natural history science collections, with a particular interest in tropical botany & herbarium specimen curation. I also curate spirit, slide, carpological & diatom (p.p.) collections. Tangy Twiglet, tea & football lover.
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Marie Briggs @botanistbriggs.bsky.social · 2d
🥳👏👏👏 great news!
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Edinburgh Journal of Botany @ejbotany.bsky.social · 3d
Marking 125 years of #EJBotany #OpenAccess and its forerunner, Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, we are delighted to announce that ALL content is now freely available at journals.rbge.org.uk/notes and journals.rbge.org.uk/ejb
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Marie Briggs @botanistbriggs.bsky.social · 19d
An amazing traineeship opportunity, if #lichens are your thing, a joint opportunity between RBGE (@thebotanics.bsky.social) & the National Trust for Scotland: www.asva.co.uk/jobs/trainee...
Trainee Lichenologist
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Marie Briggs @botanistbriggs.bsky.social · 24d
🌲🌲🌲 An exciting opportunity to work on #conifer #conservation research at RBGE @thebotanics.bsky.social: www.rbge.org.uk/about-us/job... #conservationjobs #botany #redlist #ICCP🌲🌲🌲
Vacancies | Working Here | What We Do
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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · Sep 10
The Australian branch of BHL regularly adds in-copyright content to BHL that is not available anywhere else online (alongside their digitisation of #RareBooks, #HistoricJournals & #Archives). Follow along here: @bhl-au.bsky.social. 🇦🇺 🦘 🐨 🌏 📖 🧪
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BHL Australia @bhl-au.bsky.social · Sep 10
This week we’re digitising the Bulletin of the Australian Society for Limnology, which is not available anywhere online. It’ll soon be freely accessible on @biodivlibrary.bsky.social. Stay tuned… #ILoveBHL #Freshwater #Biodiversity
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Laya 🌿🍄 @layahimalaya.bsky.social · Sep 7
I'm really obsessed with dead leaves and tiny spindly fungi at the moment

#art
a page of many small drawings of fungi on dead leaves and twigs. they are all very tall and skinny with small caps, mostly white or light brown (with a couple red), and in groups. the background is tan with a white mycelium pattern. signed layaroseart.com
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Phil Stevenson @philstevenson.bsky.social · Sep 8
Lucky sighting of Mediterranean
common Stingray - Dasyatis pastinaca.
Off La Pitrizza beach Commune di Arzachena Sardinia. Taken with a leaking and temperamental Go Pro 5 that still
somehow works.
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Edinburgh Journal of Botany @ejbotany.bsky.social · Sep 1
A new paper by I.M. Turner published today in #EJBotany #OpenAccess @thebotanics.bsky.social includes 85 new typifications and nomenclatural clarifications from #G.E.Rumphius’s #HerbariumAmboinense posthumously published between 1741-1750: rbge.cc/47jg8Gh
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Marie Briggs @botanistbriggs.bsky.social · Aug 14
🫣 #clade not class
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Marie Briggs @botanistbriggs.bsky.social · Aug 13
An exciting #postdoc opportunity working on a class in the #Solanaceae family based in Boulder, Colorado 🍅 🥔 🫑 jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
#sciencejob #botany #research #hortresearch #herbarium #collections
Postdoctoral Fellow in Tomatillo Evolution
jobs.colorado.edu
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Marie Briggs @botanistbriggs.bsky.social · Aug 12
Curator job in vertebrates at the National Museums of Scotland: careers.nms.ac.uk/job/748553
Closing date soon, so get your skates on! #curator #curation #museum #vertebrate #curatorjobs #museumjobs
Assistant Curator (Vertebrates)
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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · Jun 11
Please share our Call for Support with your colleagues, institutions & funders. With your help, we’ll ensure this incredible resource continues to thrive and grow for generations to come. 🌱 🌏 📖https://about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-support/
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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · Jun 11
📢 The #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary is entering a bold new chapter – and we need your help! Today we release our official Call for Support. We’re seeking new hosts for BHL’s staff, infrastructure, and services. Learn more: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/06/tran... #BHLTransition #ILoveBHL
A red flower on a green stem withe the words: BHL Call for support now open overlayed.
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Alliance for Scotland's Rainforest @asrainforest.bsky.social · May 22
If you're interested in working in #ScotlandsRainforest, or know a young person who is, how about this as an excellent way to get started: Bryophyte Trainee with
@thebotanics.bsky.social. Our rainforest woodlands contain hundreds of species of mosses and liverworts!
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Bryophyte Trainee
We are offering a rare opportunity for a highly motivated individual to gain extensive practical skills in bryophyte identification, field ecology, recording and surveying, backed up with a sound ...
www.environmentjob.co.uk
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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · May 19
MAJOR MILESTONE for fungal science! 🍄💻

Our entire Fungarium - 1.1 million dried fungi specimens - is now fully imaged!👇1/4
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A tray containing dried fungal specimens with sponge-like textures, stored in Kew’s Fungarium collection.
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Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh @thebotanics.bsky.social · Apr 9
Meet one of our Champion Trees, the Kazakh pear (Pyrus korshinskyi) 💪

At 8 metres tall with a trunk girth of 1.26 metres wide, this magnificent specimen is the largest of its species in cultivation in Britain.
Wide shot of the Pyrus korshinskyi in full bloom, with clusters of white blossoms. Close up of the white blossom flowers.
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Marie Briggs @botanistbriggs.bsky.social · May 7
Great work 👏👏👏 & very well deserved 🙌
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Marie Briggs @botanistbriggs.bsky.social · May 7
Oooh, these are stunning!
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Marie Briggs @botanistbriggs.bsky.social · Apr 28
Noooooooo!!!! I hadn’t heard this, thanks for sharing.
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🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴 @scottzona.bsky.social · Apr 28
If you use the Biodivisity Heritage Library (I use it almost daily), you'll be saddened (and maybe angered😡) to learn that DOGE+Musk+Trump have eliminated its funding. BHL is looking for a new home. #ILoveBHL

So much f***ing winning.🤬

blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/04/new-...
A New Future for the Biodiversity Heritage Library
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives. A global consortium of over 660 contributors, BHL has made more …
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Chris Martine | Plants are Cool, Too! @martinebotany.bsky.social · Apr 28
Big congrats to Rebecca Beneroff @botanicalbecks.bsky.social on scoring her first research grant! She will use funding from the Botanical Society of Western PA's Allison Cusick Student Research Award to begin her MS research this summer.

#iamabotanist #letsgoplants
Rebecca Beneroff Bucknell BS '25 and MS '27 presenting a poster at SICB 2025.
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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · Apr 21
Take another view of Easter chocolate with botanical prints of Theobroma cacao - the cocoa plant.

1. Maria Sibylla Merian, Insectorum Surinamensium, 1719
2. Hermann Adolph Koehler, Medizinal Pflanzen, 1887-97
3. Berthe Hoola Van Nooten, Fleurs, Fruits et Feuillages Choisis de l'Ile de Java, 1863-4
Merian illustration of a cocoa plant with insects Koehler illustration of cocoa fruits and seeds Van Nooten illustration of cocoa plant leaves and fruits
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Marie Briggs @botanistbriggs.bsky.social · Apr 16
Free access to the fascinating Linnaean Society archives, online:“a repository of digitised specimens, manuscripts, correspondence, and artwork”… linnean.access.preservica.com
| Linnean Online
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Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh @thebotanics.bsky.social · Apr 10
Join our Horticulture team! We're recruiting for three exciting roles at our world-leading Botanic Garden:

- Senior Horticulturist
- Horticulturist (Alpine, Rock & Woodland)
- Horticulturist (Outdoor)

🌱 Interested? Find all our current vacancies and apply 👉 rbge.cc/-jobs

#HortJobs #EdinburghJobs
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Marie Briggs @botanistbriggs.bsky.social · Mar 31
Lots of brilliant job vacancies @thebotanics.bsky.social just now, including Horticulturalists, Pollinator Ecologist & the Big Boss post (Regius Keeper)🌿🍄🌳🌼: www.rbge.org.uk/about-us/job... #hortjobs #horticulture #RBGE #ecologyjobs #botanyjobs
Vacancies | Working Here | What We Do
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