Are you seeking a research fellowship with plant-y of exciting opportunities to dive into digitization?

#KewGardens are currently recruiting for early career research fellows across a number of research priorities, including advancing work across the digital extended specimen concept.

Read more: https://careers.kew.org/vacancy/kew-research-fellow-digital-revolution-582433.html

For further information contact @nickynicolson

"#KewGardens will open a new "ground-breaking" garden in July that explores the urgent need to tackle #ClimateChange.

It aims to inspire visitors to take actions in their everyday lives to support the planet."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn89v3de683o

A garden may not sound like much, but if you put all of them together it will make a difference. Same as with rooftop solar. In Australia, there’s now more rooftop solar than coal-fired power.

An amazing video from #KewGardens on using motorised paragliders to sample and study plants in fragile remote desert habitats that would be damaged by vehicles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dBd4st6BE4

Basically a #solarpunk story waiting to be written.

Paper here: https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ppp3.10571

This is a lovely article about how working as a volunteer gardener at #KewGardens helped someone recover from #homelessness and #addiction

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/jan/08/a-moment-that-changed-me-went-to-kew-gardens-found-place-of-safety-after-homelessness-drug-addiction

Is it art or nature?

The petals of the Toad Lily (Tricyrtis formosana) are so finely patterned that they almost appear hand-painted

Find this beauty blooming in the Japanese Garden in Kew Gardens

@kewgardens #flowers #lillies #KewGardens

#MustWatch for fans of #RobinWallKimmerer, author of Braiding #Sweetgrass and Gathering #Moss (a new book coming soon): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7nsOAYNgKs

I didn't see it yet myself. I had been sad that she was live in #KewGardens and me in France, but just found out that the event exists as a video! And 5x15 Stories is always a good recommendation for fascinating people. Soon they will bring Merlin Sheldrake as a highlight! https://www.5x15.com/events/merlin-sheldrake-live-at-royal-botanic-gardens-kew

#KewGardens #RoyalBotanicGardens #Kew is now offering £1 admission tickets for anyone on Universal Credit or Pension Credit as well as asylum seekers with an application registration card (ARC) for asylum

https://www.timeout.com/london/news/kew-gardens-is-massively-expanding-its-1-entry-concession-tickets-scheme-080124

At #KewGardens, a New View of #Forests, #Fungus, and #Carbon Capture https://undark.org/2024/06/25/kew-fungus-soil-carbon-capture/

"This is basically a library of #fungi... a reference of fungal #biodiversity — what fungi are out there in the world, where you can find them. Archivists — wearing #mushroom hats for some reason — float between the shelves, busily digitizing the vast archive, which includes around half of all the species known to science."

4 year research fellowship with #KewGardens science.
We're digitising our herbarium (= millions of images ) & want to see proposals using #ComputerVision to combine these with data from literature & our network of taxonomic experts to support our species description & conservation work