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Books, bryophytes, and fiber arts.

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Through Carol Ann I got to know many of the amazing folks who made and still make the North Carolina Natural Heritage Program a national model. Happy 50 years! Your work made NC one of the best places to live in the US www.facebook.com/NCNHP/posts/...
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North Carolina Natural Heritage Program Celebrates 50 Years!
The North Carolina Natural Heritage Program is celebrating 50 years of conservation science and natural area protection in 2026. Since 1976, NCNHP has worked to document rare species, study unique natural communities, and guide conservation efforts across our state.
As NCNHP marks its 50th anniversary, the program honors the biologists, landowners, conservation organizations, volunteers, and partners who have contributed to safeguarding North Carolina’s natural heritage.
Together, over the past five decades, we have:
• Documented more than 35,000 occurrences of rare species and exemplary natural communities
• Completed natural area inventories in 98 counties
• Guided the protection of 500+ natural areas totaling 1.15 million acres
• Supported landmark conservation projects like the Black River system, Bluff Mountain, Box Creek Wilderness, Buxton Woods, Chimney Rock State Park, Grandfather Mountain State Park, Green Swamp, Holly Shelter Game Land, Mount Mitchell State Park, Sandhills Game Land, Sandy Run Swamp, Shaken Creek Savanna, Yellow Mountain, and so much more.
Here’s to protecting our state’s natural legacy for generations to come!
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UTK Herbarium - TENN @utkherbarium.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The UTK Herbarium is part of something much bigger! Students in Natural History Collections Research are exploring UT’s collections, from preserved plants to fish and animal bones, all valuable resources for research, teaching, and discovery. #NaturalHistory #Biodiversity
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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
What is tiny but has a PLANET-sized influence? Sphagnum of course. A 🧵 on why this moss matters more than ever. Holding more than 20× its dry weight in water, halting decay, shaping entire ecosystems, thwarting fire. Never underestimate a moss. 1/
Close up image of a tiny red Sphagnum moss.
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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Forget planting trees for a second. Let's talk about BOGS. Did you know that peatlands cover a tiny 3% of Earth’s land, but store MORE CARBON than all the world's forests combined?They are an ultimate MVP of our climate system and it’s time we start hyping them. Join me! 🧵 1/
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
A THREAD, which I am calling 'Some Of The Many Reasons Lichen And Moss Are Fucking Brilliant'. 1. They make public seating super comfy.
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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Happy Fen Friday! Excited and so nervous for Boglands to be published soon (next month in the UK; October in North America). The book covers climate, archaeology, strange lifeforms, and the importance of peatlands as safe havens during wartime. Same book, two covers. Which is your favorite and why?
Image of the US and UK versions of the book BoglandImage of the front cover of Bogland showing a mystical bog painting with mosquito and sundews.Image of the front cover of Boglands showing colorful sundews and pitcher plants.
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Lucas Eckert @lucaseckert.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
How useful can #herbarium collections be for genetic monitoring? 🌿 We show that Earth’s currently digitized herbarium specimens can be clustered into HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of historical “populations” suitable for population genetic studies 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/bios... 🧵
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The utility of herbarium collections for genetic monitoring
Abstract. Despite growing evidence of widespread genetic responses to anthropogenic activity, data shortfalls constrain genetic monitoring efforts and prec
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Sphagnum Moss @sphagnums.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
The carniverous sundews plants are waking up from winter slumber. Here in some sphagnum compactum #moss #bryophyte #drosera #sundew
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Jessica Budke 🌱🥼🔬 @mossplants.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Check out our new paper focusing on unaccessioned herbarium specimens. nhcm.pensoft.net/article/1829... We found that bryophytes and fungi/lichens were over-represented in the specimen backlog, compared to vascular plants. This highlights the need for more bryophyte and fungi/lichen identification!
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The state of herbarium specimen backlogs: Perspectives from bryophyte collections
An herbarium must have its specimens processed, identified and accessioned so that members of the botanical community can readily consult these materials. However, many herbaria struggle to keep up wi...
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Sphagnum Moss @sphagnums.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Sphagnum russowii, rubellum, girgensohnii and quinquefarium. Fun fact the star shaped red russowii in the middle is a hybrid of the green girgensohnii the small darker red rubellum seen in the pic #moss #bryophyte
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Sphagnum Moss @sphagnums.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Sphagnum quinquefarium orange and red variants #moss #bryophyte
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Staff at a Twin Cities yarn store put together a pattern for a red knit “Melt the ICE” hat inspired by the Norwegian resistance. They thought they would attract 10 people to a weekly knit-along. They’ve sold 70,000 copies, raising more than $250k for immigrant aid groups.
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‘Rage knitting’ against the machine: the hobbyists putting anti-ICE messages into crafts
Makers take a stand through ‘Melt the ICE’ red knit caps and sparkly nails – all while raising funds for those affected by immigration raids
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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 23/01/2026
"My husband complains about the cold," the man said. "Can you teach me a spell to keep him warm?" "I can teach you to bind hair into a net to catch heat," the wizard said, "using arcane counting and a pair of fine wands." After a while, the man said "Isn't this knitting?" "This, too, is magic."
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honor sachs @drhonor.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
10/10. No notes.
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 19/01/2026
the knitters too. this is the top pattern on ravelry right now
A red knitted cap with a pointed crown with a braided tassel. It's titled "Melt the ICE Hat" and it's by YarnCultMNn the 1940’s, Norwegians made and wore red pointed hats with a tassel as a form of visual protest against Nazi occupation of their country. Within two years, the Nazis made these protest hats illegal and punishable by law to wear, make, or distribute. As purveyors of traditional craft, we felt it appropriate to revisit this design.

The sample shown was knit in Blue Sky Fibers Skyland for the DK version.

All proceeds from the sale of this pattern go to the LynLake community of businesses who will distribute the funds to those impacted by the actions of ICE.
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Sphagnum Moss @sphagnums.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Sphagnum rubellum hummock with a view #moss #bryophyte
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Distaffcreations @distaffcreations.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Sad news. Walter S. Judd was my master's thesis advisor and an excellent teacher of taxonomy and systematics. He had a positive influence on my career trajectory.
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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Let’s make 2026 the year of the bog. The world’s most unique and interesting plants, clean water, cooler climate. Bogs deserve our thanks, care, and deep respect. Please join me and love a bog today.
Image of an Alaskan bog with water and red moss in the foreground and trees in the background.
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dagneo 🥐 allergies 💐 @dagneo.art · 05/11/2025
Pilot had a massive ad spread in a jp newspaper with "make AI jealous" and "write what AI can't touch" written on it Anyway I think everyone should own a Pilot kakuno pen
A photo of a newspaper advertisement, showing a zoomed in photo of a hand holding a Pilot brand fountain pen. "Make AI Jealous" is written in Japanese next to the hand, with "Write what AI can't touch" in English underneath.
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BeadaMoss @beadamoss.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Autumn is on the way, and with the change in season, so comes the change in colours. Once Sphagnum moss has established in a peatland environment, the different species develop their natural colours, and we think it’s just beautiful – particularly these autumnal hues of red and burnt orange.
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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 13/07/2025
I think the Headdesk Project, Tariffs edition, will go live this week? It's actual name is Civix Comics and the mascot is, of course, a civet wearing glasses and a dapper vest with a bowtie. #comics #tariffs
A little civet weasel in a dapper vest and bowtie looks down at a page of text:

"Tariffs are intended to protect local industries by making imports more expensive and driving consumers to domestic producers. In the United States, several politically sensitive industries benefit from such tariffs."

"Additionally, tariffs are used to shield domestic industries from foreign countries' unfair trading practices and, in some cases, for national security purposes." 

"What are tariffs," council on foreign relations, 2024.
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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
I don't normally make comics, but this one has been in my head a long time. #MakeATerribleComicDay2025 #SciArt
A two-panelled comic strip featuring a photo of a club moss in both. It looks like a small, almost miniature conifer tree. The first panel reads: Club mosses and not mosses. They are actually one of the earliest groups of vascular plants, appearing in the fossil record about 400 million years ago. During the Carboniferous Period (300-360 mya) they were as big as trees and grew over 100 feet tall. They dominated the great coal swamps at the time. 

The second panel reads: ... it's a fact they've never forgotten. A thought bubble from the moss reads (we will be giants again one day!)
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Zak Taylor @mzak.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
The WH has covered up POTUS health issues forever and Biden's is not the worse. Consider just a few: -Reagan's emerging Alzheimer's -JFK's Addison's disease (and drug regime) & sex addiction -FDR's wheelchair -Wilson's strokes (and non-recovery) -Cleveland's oral cancer -Pierce's alcoholism
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Saimi Hanma ⚔️ サイミ @saimihanma.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
I'm painfully tired of honey bees still getting the most attention when they're not native to North America. They're basically livestock and outcompete our native bees. We do NOT need more urban hives. So please, let's some some of our glorious wild bees for a change! #Invertebrates
a shiny metallic green sweat bee on white yarrow flowersa chonky, pollen hauling in flight digger bee hovering in front of a pink red flowering currant flowera fuzzy bee covered in pollen on top of the cone part of a cone flowera hovering mason bee with a pollen hat and booties in front of a yellow flower
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 11/04/2025
Signs of spring, ranked.
A six-panel comic called Signs of Spring, Ranked. In panel 1, #10 is Robin - not always a useful sign since robins are quietly present in winter in many areas. In panel 2, there's #9: Daffodil - nice, mundane, #8: Skunk Cabbage - unusual, cool, and #7: Dutchman's Breeches - lol. In panel 3, there's #6: Turkey vulture migrating - gloriously ominous, a humbling reminder of life's transience, and #5: very very small bunny - wow, the little ears. In panel 4 there's #4: Snake sunbathing, with a gartersnake warming itself - underappreciated, looks cozy, and #3: Woodcock going peent - the perfect sound. In panel 5 there's #2: small frogs yelling as loud as they can, with a wood frog floating in a pool inflating itself to make a loud quack - they crave love, or at least they crave the external fertilization of 1500 gelatinous eggs. In panel 6, there's #1, Even smaller frogs yelling, with a spring peeper sitting on the ground making loud calls - yes, YES.
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Larry Hunter @proflhunter.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
In this age of diminishing funding, citizen and community science work becomes ever more important.
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Sitting on a corn flake @grrlscientist.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Scientists Document Cultural Change In The Dialects Of Wild Parrots Over 22 Years by @grrlscientist via medium #parrots🦜 #dialects #culture #communication #wildlife #SciComm🧪 medium.com/grrlscientis...
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sephirAmy @sephiramy.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
please enjoy this "vintage movie poster" I saw in a dream which was so funny to my subconscious that I immediately woke myself up to write it down for later
a mock up of a vintage style movie poster, with a bright yellow background featuring red, white, and black elements. the title reads "Please Margaret NO" and shows a well groomed man in a suit looking terrified, as a woman with curled hair and red lipstick holds her mouth open in a broad smile. the text below reads "he was a man with the world's largest collection of live butterflies and she wanted to eat them all". a motif of black and white butterfly silhouettes floats along the top of the poster.
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Florencia Marchetti @florecita-nomada.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Love this! Failure is an integral part of any learning process. Pausing, reassessing and going at it again. Applies to all kind of scenarios, really ,)
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Stuart McDaniel @stuartmcdaniel.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
Friends, if you send a distraction in the next hour, check out this live feed of the capsule bringing our moss experiment (and some other stuff ;-) to the ISS nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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NASA's SpaceX 31st Cargo Resupply Services Rendezvous and Docking - NASA+
Coverage of the Rendezvous and Docking of the NASA/SpaceX CRS-31 Dragon Cargo Craft to the Harmony module of the International Space Station (docking
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State Demographer of North Carolina @ncdemographer.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
We respectfully acknowledge the Coharie, Eastern Band of Cherokee, Haliwa-Saponi, Lumbee, Meherrin, Occaneechi Band of the Saponi, Sappony, and Waccamaw Siouan and honor the enduring presence, vibrance, and diversity of contemporary Indigenous communities. linc.osbm.nc.gov/p/celebratin...
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Celebrating Tribal North Carolina — NC OSBM
Data for the tribal community of North Carolina
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Ale @alepresser.com · 21/07/2024
Ok, here she is. The woman of the hour. Thank you for the ko-fis! And GOOD LUCK! #kamala #kamalaharris #VPOTUS #shewill
An illustrated portrait of Kamala Harris, smiling. It's in my comics' style.
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 03/11/2024
Remember to turn the clocks back 1 hour, NOT 100 years. VOTE!
"Colored Waiting Room" sign at a Durham NC bus stationWomen protesting to get the right to vote
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Rebecca Heisman @rheisman.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
In case you missed it: I have a story in the fall issue of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology magazine about an amazing nonprofit trying to make field work more safe and inclusive for minoritized people of all sorts. www.allaboutbirds.org/news/field-i...
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Field Inclusive: A Small Nonprofit Aims to Make Fieldwork Safe for All
Founded by two Black graduate students, Field Inclusive is working to raise awareness of the risks that minority scientists face when they go into the field.
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 13/10/2024
Time has passed but the needs continue in western NC. Here's a way to donate to recovery efforts in one of the small towns that have received less attention: Lansing NC. The community is working together but financial support helps! lansingrecovery.com/local-inform...
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Lansing Recovery
If you have a resource to be added please email: lansingrecoverync@gmail.com - NOT A DISTRIBUTION LIST
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Distaffcreations @distaffcreations.bsky.social · 17/09/2024
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,623,949!
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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 04/08/2024
Herbariums are plant libraries that contain fragile specimens of plants that are carefully documented and stored away so that researchers can study them for years, even centuries.
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Inside Iowa State’s Herbarium With 700,000 Plant Specimens
The Ada Hayden Herbarium preserves hundreds of thousands of specimens, including some collected by George Washington Carver.
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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 27/07/2024
Well I just realized we’ve surpassed the number of individual backers of Moistly Harmless on the Unfamiliars. We had 369 on MH and a total of $17,683. Unfamiliars is currently at $12,719 and 380 backers with 12 days to go. So that’s cool. Tinyurl.com/unfamiliars
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The Unfamiliars
One day, all the wizards disappear overnight. The only magic-users left are the most bottom-of-the-barrel familiars and it's now up to them to save magic and save the world.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 23/07/2024
President Venn Diagram xkcd.com/2962
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 07/07/2024
Maybe it's time that the @nytimes.com should step aside for a younger, fitter, more coherent newspaper.
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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 07/07/2024
I want to start an ad campaign: "Instead of high speed rail we got... Theranos." TAX BILLIONNAIRES "Instead of universal healthcare we got... Juicero." TAX BILLIONNAIRES "Instead of clean tap water we got... NFTs." TAX BILLIONNAIRES
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 26/05/2024
If you are interested in learning moss identification, check out this fun 3-day workshop in August at OSU's Stone Lab in Lake Erie August 9-11 🧪
Flyer for the workshop with location, date and application information
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UTK Herbarium - TENN @utkherbarium.bsky.social · 21/05/2024
Job opening for our Collections Manager position! This oversees the day-to-day management, preservation, & accessibility of our plant & fungal collections, including curation, record keeping, & monitoring specimen inflow/outflow. Click the link for how to apply, deadline, etc. shorturl.at/8y0SF
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Herbarium Collections Manager
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UTK Herbarium - TENN @utkherbarium.bsky.social · 26/04/2024
The Natural Science Collections Alliance shares its thoughts on Duke's decision to close their #herbarium & separate their #collections across multiple institutions (b/c 800,000+ specimens are too many for one institution to absorb). academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
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Duke's herbarium merits continued enhancement, not dissolution
Natural history collections form the foundation of a comprehensive biodiversity infrastructure that supports research on the natural world. Like libraries,
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 10/04/2024
With two-thirds of the world’s plants facing extinction maintaining a collection of preserved, dead plants may seem insignificant. But they are the basis for all scientific knowledge of plant diversity with amazing research & conservation purposes 🧪 discoverandshare.org/2024/03/29/t...
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Why Dead Plants matter: The importance of An Herbarium - Discover + Share What is a herbarium
Herbarium collections are the basis for all scientific knowledge of plant diversity. The Missouri Botanical Garden maintains one of the largest herbaria in the world, with more than 7.5 million specim...
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QueersInScience @queersinscience.bsky.social · 31/03/2024
Thanks so much to everyone who sent in their experiences and quotes for #TDoV - we have several to share over the next few days. We've also received a really wonderful essay that we'll be sharing too. Here's a thread with the first few responses with more to come! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ #TransInSTEM #QueerInSTEM
Queer in Science branded page that says "Transgender Day of Visibility - 31 March - some quotes from our community"
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 20/03/2024
Excited for March Madness? Check out this fun article on botanical sports mascots by the NC Botanical Garden 's Carol Ann McCormick to learn more about the history and accuracy of these mascots. ncbg.unc.edu/2024/03/05/m...
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March Madness: Botanical Sports Mascots - North Carolina Botanical Garden
By Carol Ann McCormick Curatrix, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium As we enter the Bracket Season, a.k.a. March Madness, I have been contemplating sports team names, colors,... Rea...
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Andrew Hipp @andrewlhipp.bsky.social · 22/02/2024
A new video by the Morton Arboretum on what an herbarium is... timely, given what's going on at Duke. We can't take collections for granted. www.instagram.com/p/C3p992zAAoL/
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The Morton Arboretum on Instagram: "What is an herbarium? Go behind the scenes of this fascinating place to learn more about our Tree Science Word of the Day! #treescience #coolscience #herbarium #her...
11 likes, 0 comments - mortonarb on February 22, 2024: "What is an herbarium? Go behind the scenes of this fascinating place to learn more about our Tree..."
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Stuart McDaniel @stuartmcdaniel.bsky.social · 24/02/2024
Friends, Duke sophomore Zoe Kolenovsky writes a damn good article about the herbarium www.dukechronicle.com/article/2024...
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Timeline of decision to close Duke Herbarium reveals limited communication over multiple years
In the months before the closure, departmental leadership limited communication with herbarium faculty about the facility’s future. Emily Bernhardt, chair of the biology department, did not respond to...
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