Peter Moonlight
@petermoonlight.bsky.social
#IAmABotanist
Herbarium Curator & Assistant Professor of Botany at TCD
Herbarium Curator & Assistant Professor of Botany at TCD
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Scaffolding for Scientific Knowledge – the Nomenclatural Checklist
stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/40823
stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/40823
Scaffolding for Scientific Knowledge - the Nomenclatural Checklist
A checklist of the plant family Putranjivaceae has just been published in the Edinburgh Journal of Botany (Quintanar et al. 2025). It’s a list of all the species accepted in the family. But it is more...
stories.rbge.org.uk
November 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Scaffolding for Scientific Knowledge – the Nomenclatural Checklist
stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/40823
stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/40823
Is anyone on BlueSky hot on their late 17th to early 18th century European playing cards? I turned this one up in Trinity College Dublin Herbarium today, with a herbarium collection of a similar age.
November 17, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Is anyone on BlueSky hot on their late 17th to early 18th century European playing cards? I turned this one up in Trinity College Dublin Herbarium today, with a herbarium collection of a similar age.
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We have a new Dr in #paleobotany! Congratulations to @thibault-durieux.bsky.social who successfully passed his viva. It was a great journey & he made the advising job very easy for
@petermoonlight.bsky.social, Carla Harper and I. Big thanks to the examiners Jenny McElwain & @sandyheth.bsky.social!
@petermoonlight.bsky.social, Carla Harper and I. Big thanks to the examiners Jenny McElwain & @sandyheth.bsky.social!
November 14, 2025 at 9:50 AM
We have a new Dr in #paleobotany! Congratulations to @thibault-durieux.bsky.social who successfully passed his viva. It was a great journey & he made the advising job very easy for
@petermoonlight.bsky.social, Carla Harper and I. Big thanks to the examiners Jenny McElwain & @sandyheth.bsky.social!
@petermoonlight.bsky.social, Carla Harper and I. Big thanks to the examiners Jenny McElwain & @sandyheth.bsky.social!
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The UW Herbarium @ Burke Museum is hiring a Research Mycologist! 🍄
Focus: fungal systematics & evolution, collections-based research, and outreach.
Initial 3-year appointment, renewable pending funding.
Apply here! wd5.myworkdaysite.com/recruiting/u...
Please share widely!
Focus: fungal systematics & evolution, collections-based research, and outreach.
Initial 3-year appointment, renewable pending funding.
Apply here! wd5.myworkdaysite.com/recruiting/u...
Please share widely!
Research Mycologist, Burke Herbarium
Job Description As a UW employee, you have a unique opportunity to change lives on our campuses, in our state and around the world. UW employees offer their boundless energy, creative problem-solving ...
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November 6, 2025 at 2:48 AM
The UW Herbarium @ Burke Museum is hiring a Research Mycologist! 🍄
Focus: fungal systematics & evolution, collections-based research, and outreach.
Initial 3-year appointment, renewable pending funding.
Apply here! wd5.myworkdaysite.com/recruiting/u...
Please share widely!
Focus: fungal systematics & evolution, collections-based research, and outreach.
Initial 3-year appointment, renewable pending funding.
Apply here! wd5.myworkdaysite.com/recruiting/u...
Please share widely!
It takes a special level of incompetance from @deltaairways.bsky.social to drop their passengers in one terminal in the busiest airport in the world and send the luggage to a different terminal entirely, only connected by bus.
October 25, 2025 at 7:36 PM
It takes a special level of incompetance from @deltaairways.bsky.social to drop their passengers in one terminal in the busiest airport in the world and send the luggage to a different terminal entirely, only connected by bus.
Just over three weeks left if you are thinking of applying for this amazing job!
Calling botanical researchers, the School of Natural Science at Trinity College Dublin is hiring a tenure track Assistant Professor in Plant Biodiversity and Conservation.
I know this is someone's dream job, so let me know if that is you and you want to chat!
my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...
I know this is someone's dream job, so let me know if that is you and you want to chat!
my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...
October 23, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Just over three weeks left if you are thinking of applying for this amazing job!
The first European animal declared extinct in my lifetime will not be the last.
Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.
Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology
Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology
October 10, 2025 at 12:22 PM
The first European animal declared extinct in my lifetime will not be the last.
A new article on the recently uncovered specimens of 18th century botanist/spy for Louis the 16th of France, Joseph Dombey in Trinity College Dublin herbarium, out in #TrinityToday
October 8, 2025 at 7:00 AM
A new article on the recently uncovered specimens of 18th century botanist/spy for Louis the 16th of France, Joseph Dombey in Trinity College Dublin herbarium, out in #TrinityToday
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Calling botanical researchers, the School of Natural Science at Trinity College Dublin is hiring a tenure track Assistant Professor in Plant Biodiversity and Conservation.
I know this is someone's dream job, so let me know if that is you and you want to chat!
my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...
I know this is someone's dream job, so let me know if that is you and you want to chat!
my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...
October 1, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Calling botanical researchers, the School of Natural Science at Trinity College Dublin is hiring a tenure track Assistant Professor in Plant Biodiversity and Conservation.
I know this is someone's dream job, so let me know if that is you and you want to chat!
my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...
I know this is someone's dream job, so let me know if that is you and you want to chat!
my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...
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🔥 Britain is about to launch a new GCSE in natural history – a vital step toward restoring our knowledge of and respect for the natural world.
Fellow creatures: the new GCSE in natural history
The new GCSE in natural history is a vital step toward restoring our knowledge of and respect for the natural world
westenglandbylines.co.uk
October 4, 2025 at 6:07 AM
🔥 Britain is about to launch a new GCSE in natural history – a vital step toward restoring our knowledge of and respect for the natural world.
Calling botanical researchers, the School of Natural Science at Trinity College Dublin is hiring a tenure track Assistant Professor in Plant Biodiversity and Conservation.
I know this is someone's dream job, so let me know if that is you and you want to chat!
my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...
I know this is someone's dream job, so let me know if that is you and you want to chat!
my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...
October 1, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Calling botanical researchers, the School of Natural Science at Trinity College Dublin is hiring a tenure track Assistant Professor in Plant Biodiversity and Conservation.
I know this is someone's dream job, so let me know if that is you and you want to chat!
my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...
I know this is someone's dream job, so let me know if that is you and you want to chat!
my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...
Curators and botanists, does anyone know what this could be?
It belonged to William Henry Harvey, botanist, collector, and former curator of TCD herbarium (1844-66). It is a 1.2m high, 25cm wide metal tube that once had a locking lid. Perhaps watertight.
It belonged to William Henry Harvey, botanist, collector, and former curator of TCD herbarium (1844-66). It is a 1.2m high, 25cm wide metal tube that once had a locking lid. Perhaps watertight.
October 1, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Curators and botanists, does anyone know what this could be?
It belonged to William Henry Harvey, botanist, collector, and former curator of TCD herbarium (1844-66). It is a 1.2m high, 25cm wide metal tube that once had a locking lid. Perhaps watertight.
It belonged to William Henry Harvey, botanist, collector, and former curator of TCD herbarium (1844-66). It is a 1.2m high, 25cm wide metal tube that once had a locking lid. Perhaps watertight.
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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
My daughter had the MMR vaccine today. This was based on science.
Trump: "The MMR I think should be taken separately. This is based on what I feel. The Mumps, Measles, and all the three should be taken separately."
September 23, 2025 at 8:43 PM
My daughter had the MMR vaccine today. This was based on science.
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"Why do queen bumblebees emerge from hibernation during weekends?"
I love this framing about bias in hobbyist-collected data.
I love this framing about bias in hobbyist-collected data.
Why do queen bumblebees emerge from hibernation during weekends? - Apidologie
Climate-driven shifts in bumblebee emergence and flowering time can disrupt plant reproduction and affect pollinator health. To study such mismatches, accurate phenological data is crucial but challen...
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September 22, 2025 at 4:57 PM
"Why do queen bumblebees emerge from hibernation during weekends?"
I love this framing about bias in hobbyist-collected data.
I love this framing about bias in hobbyist-collected data.
Trinity College Dublin herbarium are now on @gbif.org! We have just 52k records for now and mostly minimal data with full data and images to follow, but its a big step forward.
www.gbif.org/dataset/5ec4...
www.gbif.org/dataset/5ec4...
Trinity College Dublin Herbarium
Herbarium specimen data from the herbarium of Trinity College Dublin.
www.gbif.org
September 8, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Trinity College Dublin herbarium are now on @gbif.org! We have just 52k records for now and mostly minimal data with full data and images to follow, but its a big step forward.
www.gbif.org/dataset/5ec4...
www.gbif.org/dataset/5ec4...
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A new paper by @petermoonlight.bsky.social published in #EJBotany #OpenAccess @thebotanics.bsky.social on the names in the genus #Begonia published in Vellozo’s #FloraFluminensis: rbge.cc/47Q6wmL
September 8, 2025 at 10:54 AM
A new paper by @petermoonlight.bsky.social published in #EJBotany #OpenAccess @thebotanics.bsky.social on the names in the genus #Begonia published in Vellozo’s #FloraFluminensis: rbge.cc/47Q6wmL
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September 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I'm sorry, what 🤯
So this ant...can give birth to male clones of its own species AND of a different species... then mates with the male clones of the other species to produce hybrid workers...and mates with males of its own species to produce new queens... 🐜
Yo these ants are wildin'
🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Yo these ants are wildin'
🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants - Nature
In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same moth...
www.nature.com
September 4, 2025 at 7:57 AM
I'm sorry, what 🤯
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Five species from Ireland's temperate rainforest in five minutes, presented by me! I am super happy with how this turned out, so do take a look. And a huge thank you to Michelle, Daniel, Peter L, and Jenny for making this happen!
youtu.be/xHRUBeukH6E
youtu.be/xHRUBeukH6E
Ireland's Temperate Rainforest
YouTube video by Trinity College Dublin
youtu.be
August 29, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Five species from Ireland's temperate rainforest in five minutes, presented by me! I am super happy with how this turned out, so do take a look. And a huge thank you to Michelle, Daniel, Peter L, and Jenny for making this happen!
youtu.be/xHRUBeukH6E
youtu.be/xHRUBeukH6E
Five species from Ireland's temperate rainforest in five minutes, presented by me! I am super happy with how this turned out, so do take a look. And a huge thank you to Michelle, Daniel, Peter L, and Jenny for making this happen!
youtu.be/xHRUBeukH6E
youtu.be/xHRUBeukH6E
Ireland's Temperate Rainforest
YouTube video by Trinity College Dublin
youtu.be
August 29, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Five species from Ireland's temperate rainforest in five minutes, presented by me! I am super happy with how this turned out, so do take a look. And a huge thank you to Michelle, Daniel, Peter L, and Jenny for making this happen!
youtu.be/xHRUBeukH6E
youtu.be/xHRUBeukH6E
This, combined with two factor authentification, is now at least half of the job of an academic.
I'm essentially unable to log into any websites run by Editorial Manager. I have 20 something different logins saved, with different usernames and passwords, for different journals. My password manager is useless, and I am at the point where every login requires a PW reset.
August 26, 2025 at 12:59 PM
This, combined with two factor authentification, is now at least half of the job of an academic.
Reposted by Peter Moonlight
I'm essentially unable to log into any websites run by Editorial Manager. I have 20 something different logins saved, with different usernames and passwords, for different journals. My password manager is useless, and I am at the point where every login requires a PW reset.
August 26, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I'm essentially unable to log into any websites run by Editorial Manager. I have 20 something different logins saved, with different usernames and passwords, for different journals. My password manager is useless, and I am at the point where every login requires a PW reset.
My predictive text used a sad emoji. Is it depressed?
Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times
Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times
As first AI-led rights advocacy group is founded, industry is divided on whether models are, or can be, sentient
www.theguardian.com
August 26, 2025 at 7:10 AM
My predictive text used a sad emoji. Is it depressed?
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Michigan State University is hiring a new Director of our herbarium!
This is an open rank, tenure-stream faculty position, with research focus in plant or fungal systematics, ecology, and/or evolution
Please consider applying and help spread the word!
plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...
This is an open rank, tenure-stream faculty position, with research focus in plant or fungal systematics, ecology, and/or evolution
Please consider applying and help spread the word!
plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...
plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu
August 22, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Michigan State University is hiring a new Director of our herbarium!
This is an open rank, tenure-stream faculty position, with research focus in plant or fungal systematics, ecology, and/or evolution
Please consider applying and help spread the word!
plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...
This is an open rank, tenure-stream faculty position, with research focus in plant or fungal systematics, ecology, and/or evolution
Please consider applying and help spread the word!
plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...