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Cambridge University Botanic Garden @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social · 7d

✨ Cambridge Botanic Lights ✨

❤️ A wonderful opportunity to take some time out and spend an evening with friends and family ❤️

Make memories at Cambridge University Botanic Garden 🌿

Buy your tickets at botanic.cam.ac.uk/cambridge-botanic-lights-2025

#CUBG #winterlights #Cambridge #botanicgarden

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Department of Plant Sciences Cambridge @camplantsci.bsky.social · 8d

Russell R. Geiger Professorship of Crop Science

Dept. of Plant Sciences | Permanent | Closes on Monday 17 November 2025

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/russell...

#plantsciences #plantscijobs #academicjobs

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University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk · May 29

Communications Assistant @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social ✍️

This role will support the Botanic Garden’s marketing activities and event promotion, encouraging new and returning visitors.

Apply before 22 June 👇
bit.ly/4kE2iS4

A smiling person with a laptop, seated outdoors with lush greenery in the background. A text overlay reads: "New vacancy: Communications Assistant, Cambridge University Botanic Garden, £26-30K".

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Human Frontier Science Program @hfspo.bsky.social · Apr 17

🧠 Are you a physicist, engineer, chemist, or coder curious about life sciences? 🧪
Challenge the boundaries. Take risks. Go international. Apply for an #HFSPFellowship! The 2026 call is OPEN 💪
🌍 Deadline to start application: 7 May 2025
🔗 zurl.co/ffHmt
#sts #hfsp

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Phil Stevenson @philstevenson.bsky.social · Apr 16

Apply now for a four year Research Fellowship at Kew. £41,020 per annum Closing Date 20/04/2025 opportunity to become an independent researcher with some startup funds for research and travel. careers.kew.org/internal/vac...

Kew Research Fellow (Trait Diversity and Function) - Careers | Kew GardensMenuClose menu

careers.kew.org

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Cambridge University Botanic Garden @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social · Apr 7

We are delighted to have been voted ‘Best Tourist Attraction’ in the Cambridge Edition People’s Choice Awards 2025!

What a lovely day to celebrate in the sun 🌞 Thank you to everyone who voted!

Plus congrats to the Fitzwilliam Museum who were voted as ‘Best Arts & Cultural Venue’🏆

A family walking along the garden path, framed by magnolia trees.

A group of children doing the easter family trail in the Garden.

A couple sitting on a bench looking out over the lake.

A graphic celebrating Cambridge University Botanic Garden as the Best Tourist Attraction.

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Beverley Glover @beverleycubg.bsky.social · Mar 28

It has been a great day!

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Sarah Robinson @robinsonsci.bsky.social · Mar 28

Such an amazing time at the UK plant biomechanics meeting. Big thanks to the organisers @yoselin.bsky.social and Finn Box. And all the amazing speakers and poster presenters.

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Beverley Glover @beverleycubg.bsky.social · Mar 26

Flowering cherries @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social are even better today with blue sky above them

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Beverley Glover @beverleycubg.bsky.social · Mar 26

❤️ The flowering cherries are out @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social

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Beverley Glover @beverleycubg.bsky.social · Mar 22

Looking forward to this tomorrow!

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Cambridge University Botanic Garden @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social · Mar 17

🌿 Mountain Magic!

Step inside our Mountains House, where high-altitude plants thrive. Here are some of today’s stars including some wild & rare plants in our collection...

🌸 Paeonia cambessedesii
🌟 Fritillaria eduardii
🔵 Muscari heldreichii
💜 Hyacinthus orientalis
#MondayMood #MountainBlooms

Dwarf peony Paeonia cambessedesii with delicate pink petals and a golden-yellow centre. Its leaves are dark green, deeply lobed, with reddish stems. The plant is growing among moss-covered rocks in a Glasshouse, with the structure's wooden beams and glass panes visible in the background.

Fritillaria eduardii in full bloom, with vibrant orange, bell-shaped flowers hanging from tall, green stems and lance-shaped leaves. The setting is inside a glasshouse, with wooden beams and a brick wall visible in the background.

Miniature bell-shaped flowers on slender stems of the blue grape hyacinth – or muscari. Its leaves are mid-green and strap-like. The background shows a glasshouse structure with wooden beams and glass panes.

Soft violet-blue, star-shaped flowers of a hyacinth arranged in a loose cluster on a slender dark stem. Narrow green leaves arch from the base. The background shows a glasshouse structure with wooden beams and glass panes.

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Science and Plants for Schools (SAPS) @saps-news.bsky.social · Mar 19

Looking for guidance teaching #Microscopy? 🔬🌱

Chris' latest article also featured in @associationscied.bsky.social School Science Review is available here with a presentation to download: www.saps.org.uk/growth-hub/t...

#plantsci @chrisgraham.bsky.social @stemlearning.bsky.social

Cluster of sclereids (stone cells) in pear tissue, stained with toluidine blue to show lignin (x400 magnification).

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Beverley Glover @beverleycubg.bsky.social · Mar 11

Welcome to this view of the world!

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Cambridge University Botanic Garden @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social · Mar 11

Plants & their pollinators🌼🐝

Plants can’t move but they still need a mate. How do they do it? Our Director @beverleycubg.bsky.social joined @bbcradio4.bsky.social In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg, Jane Memmott & @larschittka.bsky.social for a fascinating discussion
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

👋Bluesky!

Three people stand looking at the camera inside a recording studio with recording equipment on the table in front of them.

A bumblebee collecting nectar from a vibrant pink coneflower (Echinacea) with a spiky red center. Another bumblebee is visible in the background on a similar flower, with soft green foliage behind.

A honey bee collecting nectar from a vibrant red tubular flower, with a soft-focus green background. The bee's legs and body are covered in fine hairs.

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Beverley Glover @beverleycubg.bsky.social · Mar 3

Hello!

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Samuel Brockington @docbroc.bsky.social · Feb 10

Great to see our paper on the front cover @natureecoevo.bsky.social, with the tropical displays in our glasshouse range!

With thanks to all 50+ co-authors.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Nice editorial on the issues facing a variety of ex situ plant collection.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This month’s cover image is of a diverse display of tropical plant species under ex situ cultivation in the glasshouses at Cambridge University Botanic Garden, Cambridge, UK.

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Department of Plant Sciences Cambridge @camplantsci.bsky.social · Mar 3

Botanic gardens are more than peaceful retreats or collections of catalogued plants - they’re vital in the fight against biodiversity loss.

Great article by Samuel Brockington in The Conversation:
tinyurl.com/4yekcz84

@docbroc.bsky.social
@cubotanicgarden.bsky.social
@theconversation.com

Botanic gardens are struggling to keep up with the biodiversity crisis – here’s what they can do

Botanic gardens have evolved from medicinal gardens to scientific institutions, Now, they must become conservation leaders on a global scale.

theconversation.com

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Beverley Glover @beverleycubg.bsky.social · Mar 2

Wonderful visit to @mnhn.fr

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Celtic Karla @celtickarla.bsky.social · Mar 1

Want to work in another country?

The HFSP postdoc fellowship supports proposals for frontier, potentially transformative research in the life sciences and cross-disciplinary. high-risk projects are encouraged
LOI opens March 13, 2025

#neuroskyence #academicsky 🧪🧠🪰🌱🧬
www.hfsp.org/funding/hfsp...

Postdoctoral Fellowships | Human Frontier Science Program

www.hfsp.org

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Beverley Glover @beverleycubg.bsky.social · Feb 10

Looking forward to visiting @mpipz.bsky.social tomorrow- lots of exciting science to hear about!

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Beverley Glover @beverleycubg.bsky.social · Feb 9

Loving the raspberry ripple ice cream swirls on these Oxalis versicolor flowers in the mountains house at Cambridge University Botanic Garden

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James Clark @jameswclark.bsky.social · Feb 6

Please share! A 4-year position to work on genome duplication and evolution in Bath, part of our BBSRC sLOLA project determining the extent and effects of rediploidisation across eukaryotes! www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...

ED12442 Research Associate in Phylogenomics (fixed-term) - Jobs at Bath

www.bath.ac.uk

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Teng Zhang | 张腾 @tengzhanguh.bsky.social · Feb 1

Please Repost! We are offering a three-year fully funded doctoral researcher position to study how floral meristem patterning in woodland strawberry, and how it implicates the diversification in floral ground plans in Angiosperm flowers. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsini-...

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Beverley Glover @beverleycubg.bsky.social · Jan 22

And sending one back!

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