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Beverley Glover

@beverleycubg.bsky.social
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Director of Cambridge University Botanic Garden. Professor of Plant Systematics and Evolution. Researching flower development and evolution.

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Cambridge University Botanic Garden @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Take some time to find out how and why plants tell the time 🕝 Our beautiful Circadian Beds explains how plants know when to flower 🌻 Why not pick up a Rhythms in Plants trail booklet from the Ticket Office on your next visit to find out more? #MondayMood #CambridgeUniversityBotanicGarden
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Beverley Glover @beverleycubg.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Enjoying watching the bees choose between different flower colours on this Leptospermum scoparium at the beautiful botanical garden garden in Madeira
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Jake Harris @c-jake-harris.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Excited to be able to advertise 1x postdoc and 2x technician positions to join my group in Cambridge working on an exciting ARIA funded project to help bring a plant artificial chromosome into existence! Reposts very welcome please 🙏 (1/2)
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Cambridge University Botanic Garden @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Cambridge Botanic Lights returns ✨ Explore the Garden after dark with a spectacular illuminated trail inspired by the wonders of plants. Popular dates & times can fill quickly – sign up to have exclusive access when the tickets go on sale. bit.ly/4fsgv5o
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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Kellenberger @joanameier.bsky.social @beverleycubg.bsky.social et al. studied sexual deception in South African daisy, identifying inverted genomic segments that may maintain the distinct identity of some floral forms in secondary contact zones. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evag065 #genome #evolution
GBE | Genome Assemblies of the Daisy Gorteria diffusa Elucidate the Molecular-Genomic Basis of Pollination by Sexual Deception

The image depicts morphotypes (subspecies) and intraspecific hybrids of Gorteria diffusa L., a South African daisy that is pollinated by sexual deception of male bombyliid flies. Between the inflorescences is a graphic representation of the new reference genome assembly of the G. diffusa ‘Springbok’ morphotype (upper left corner), which, together with genomic analysis of hybrid zones, enabled the discovery of structural genomic changes underlying the evolution of plant sexual deception.
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Beverley Glover @beverleycubg.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Always amazing to see Angraecum sesquipedale in flower @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social
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Department of Plant Sciences Cambridge @camplantsci.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Job opportunity! Research Assistant / Research Associate in Molecular Physiology Fixed term Closes on Wednesday 28 January 2026 www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc... #PlantSci #PlantSciJobs
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Mario Vallejo-Marin @nicrodemo.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
A nice paper by Richard Milne on some of the may contributions of Richard Abbott on the study of new polyploid hybrid species. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Abbott’s conundrum: why did half of all known recently formed hybrid species arise in the British Isles?
Remarkably, half of the 10 plant hybrid species confirmed to have arisen naturally since 1500 arose within the British Isles (BI). The mechanisms included translocation of natural hybrids to a bota...
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Beverley Glover @beverleycubg.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Lovely day sharing ideas with fellow botanic garden directors at Birmingham Botanical Gardens today - and the plants were spectacular too!
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Cambridge University Botanic Garden @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
✨ 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 · 01/10/2025
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 · 29/05/2025
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 · 17/04/2025
🧠 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 · 16/04/2025
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...
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Kew Research Fellow (Trait Diversity and Function) - Careers | Kew GardensMenuClose menu
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Cambridge University Botanic Garden @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
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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Sarah Robinson @robinsonsci.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
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 · 26/03/2025
Flowering cherries @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social are even better today with blue sky above them
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Beverley Glover @beverleycubg.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
❤️ The flowering cherries are out @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social
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Cambridge University Botanic Garden @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
🌿 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 · 19/03/2025
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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Cambridge University Botanic Garden @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
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.n image for BBC Radio 4’s ‘In Our Time’ programme. The background is a golden mosaic swirling mosaic design. The programme title, ‘IN OUR TIME,’ is displayed in bold black letters in a white rectangular frame. Above the title, is the BBC logo and in the lower right corner, there is a white Radio 4 logo.
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Samuel Brockington @docbroc.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
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 · 03/03/2025
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
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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.
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Beverley Glover @beverleycubg.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Wonderful visit to @mnhn.fr
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Celtic Karla @celtickarla.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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...
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Postdoctoral Fellowships | Human Frontier Science Program
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Beverley Glover @beverleycubg.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Looking forward to visiting @mpipz.bsky.social tomorrow- lots of exciting science to hear about!
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Beverley Glover @beverleycubg.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
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 · 06/02/2025
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...
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ED12442 Research Associate in Phylogenomics (fixed-term) - Jobs at Bath
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Teng Zhang | 张腾 @tengzhanguh.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
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 · 11/12/2024
Closing date 19th December - just over a week to apply!
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Samuel Brockington @docbroc.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
We are advertising two fabulous jobs at the Cambridge University Herbarium. Collection Manager: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49404/ Collections & Digitisation Assistant: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49378/ Incredible collection of 1.1 million specimens including most of Darwin’s Voyage of the Beagle material.
Herbarium image pink flowersLindley herbarium specimenDarwin herbarium specimen 
Censor herbarium specimen
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Beverley Glover @beverleycubg.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
We are looking for 2 postdocs and a technician to join our team studying evolution and development of complex flowers. Please get in touch if you’d like to discuss. Details here: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/?unit=u0...
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Pallavi Singh @thepallavisingh.bsky.social · 27/10/2024
Please repost! #PlantSciencesJobs Singh lab is expanding and still time to apply online. 2xPDRAs (postdocs) vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec... vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec... 1 Research Assistant vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec... Please email if you have informal inquiries.
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School of Biological Sciences @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
We are recruiting leading scientists in the Biological Sciences to join our interdisciplinary and innovative research community at the University of Cambridge! Find out more about the positions and the School: bit.ly/4fMTBmF Apply by 26 January 2025!
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School of Biological Sciences strengthens commitment to
Four new academic positions have been launched in the School of Biological Sciences aiming to recruit outstanding scientists in areas of significant research importance: Associate Professor /
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Alex Webb Lab @alexwebblab.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Enjoyed sneak preview of #Cambridge #Botanic Gardens winter lights courtesy of @beverleycubg.bsky.social . Me next to a time lapse of Linneas' floral clock, right next to the #circadian beds, part of the circadian trail. Come to Cambridge and learn all about #plant clocks. Enjoy the winter lights. 🧪
Alex Webb almost invisible in the dark next to an illuminated drawing of a floral clock
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Beverley Glover @beverleycubg.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
My first post here! We’re looking for an enthusiastic plant developmentalist to join our team as a postdoc working on how this wonderful plant builds sexually deceptive flowers. Link here: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49334/
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Cahir O'Kane @cahirokane.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Experience Postgrad Life Sciences- paid 8-week internships for undergrads in their penultimate year at a UK/Irish university. For talented students who might not otherwise feel they can easily access summer research opportunities. @blackinneuro.bsky.social www.exppg.lifesci.cam.ac.uk
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Experience Postgrad Life Sciences | Enhancing diversity among life scientists of the future
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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) @slcuplants.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
How does cytokinin (CK) regulate and coordinate cell proliferation, differentiation and expansion? Help us find out! Join Neha Bhatia's new research group to work on unravelling how CK is shaping plant aerial organs Apply by 11 December www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49272/ #PlantScience #PlantsatCambridge
Time-lapse imaging and cell fate mapping to quantify cellular growth patterns in Arabidopsis leaves. Text reads: Research Associate. Closes 11 December 2024. Investigating the mechanistic basis of the function of the plant hormone cytokin (CK) in plant development using Arabidopsis thaliana
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