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Society of Herbarium Curators

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We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit which provides a forum to promote and expand the role of herbaria in botanical research, teaching, and community service. www.herbariumcurators.org/membership

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Jessica Budke 🌱🥼🔬 @mossplants.bsky.social · 3h
Just listened to this great piece on @scifri.bsky.social about the importance of collections. www.sciencefriday.com/segments/are... Consider making a donation at any level to support your local natural history collection. Support @utkherbarium.bsky.social here herbarium.utk.edu/give/
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Are natural history museums in trouble?
The country’s oldest natural history museum, in Philadelphia, has closed its doors to visitors. Will other museums follow?
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Jessica Budke 🌱🥼🔬 @mossplants.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Did you miss out on ordering a shirt before the conference? Support the American Bryological & Lichenological Society student travel awards by purchasing your very own ABLS BOTANY 2026 @botsocamerica.bsky.social t-shirt featuring a rare southwestern moss and lichen species.
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Support 2026 ABLS Botany T-shirts for student travel awards.
Shirt features rare southwestern moss and lichen species. Made from 100% recycled fabric (60% recycled cotton/40% post-consumer recycled polyester), the Re-Tee is crafted from rescued materials, ensur...
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Jessica Budke 🌱🥼🔬 @mossplants.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Symposium for Future Proofing Herbaria. Discussing specimen backlogs. Recommendation to prioritize, be creative, & build a collections club of volunteers to help. Also we found that #bryophytes & #lichens are over-represented & need our energy. doi.org/10.3897/nhcm... #botany2026
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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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Jessica Budke 🌱🥼🔬 @mossplants.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Are you passionate about #naturalhistory #collections? Apply for our open position for the Herbarium Collections Manager @utkherbarium.bsky.social. We will start evaluating applications on Aug 17, so get your application in now. #Botany2026 #herbarium #jobs
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UTK Herbarium - TENN @utkherbarium.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Job Opening! Apply to join the the @utkherbarium.bsky.social as our new Herbarium Collections Manager. #jobopportunity #jobopening #jobsearch #herbaria #plants @utknoxville.bsky.social Full Position Posting & Application Instructions: fa-ewlq-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Herbarium Collections Manager: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology - UTK
The TENN herbarium is seeking a highly organized, detail-oriented individual to join our department as the Herbarium Collections Manager. The TENN herbarium houses over 710,000 plant and fungal specim...
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Jessica Budke 🌱🥼🔬 @mossplants.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Attending #BOTANY2026? Order a shirt featuring rare SW moss & lichen species. @botsocamerica.bsky.social Order using the link below & pickup your shirt at the ABLS booth in Tucson, AZ, Aug 1-5, 2026. No shipping fees! www.customink.com/g/cqx0-00d2-... Deadline to order July 14, 2026 at 11:59PM ET
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Please pay directly online through Custom Ink. Shirts will be available for pickup at the ABLS booth at the BOTANY 2026 conference August 1-5, 2026 in Tucson, AZ. Shirt Details: 100% recycled materia...
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Jessica Budke 🌱🥼🔬 @mossplants.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
...for the project “Diversification and Endemism in Zeltnera (Gentianaceae): Phylogenomic and Morphological Perspectives on a Cryptic Pan-American Lineage". 2 of 2 @herbariumcurators.bsky.social
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Jessica Budke 🌱🥼🔬 @mossplants.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 @herbariumcurators.bsky.social Student Awards! Marife Minaya Auccapoma (PhD student) working with Dr. Carrie Kiel at the Claremont Graduate University and the California Botanic Garden... 1 of 2
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Jessica Budke 🌱🥼🔬 @mossplants.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
For the project “Floristic inventory of spring flora of Mayudia Pass, Mishmi Hills in Himalayan biodiversity hotspot region, with emphasis on herbarium collections".
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Jessica Budke 🌱🥼🔬 @mossplants.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 @herbariumcurators.bsky.social Student Awards! Ashutosh Sharma (PhD student) working with Dr. Noorunissa Begum at the FRLH Herbarium, The University of Trans-Disciplinary Health Sciences and Technology (TDU), Bengaluru, India.
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Jessica Budke 🌱🥼🔬 @mossplants.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 SHC Student Awards! Mayra Alejandra Herrera Pacheco (MS student) working with Dr. Manuel Luján Anzola at the Universidad de Antioquia, for the project “Taxonomic revision and update of the genus Arawakia (Clusiaceae s.s.) for Colombia".
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Jessica Budke 🌱🥼🔬 @mossplants.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 @herbariumcurators.bsky.social Student Awards! Yun Ye Ho (PhD student) working with Elliot Gardner at Case Western Reserve Univ. for the project "Unearthing the species limits and phylogenetics of Bornean earth figs, Ficus subser. Geocarpicae (Moraceae)".
Person in front of a mountainfruit on a stem with leaves in the background.
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Jessica Budke 🌱🥼🔬 @mossplants.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 Society of Herbarium Curators Student Awards! @herbariumcurators.bsky.social Graduate student Makoa de Almeida is working with Carrie Tribble at the University of Washington for the project "Vegetative Proliferations: Evolutionary Watershed or Dead End?".
Student in the tropical forest surrounded by plants. Plant leaf
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Jessica Budke 🌱🥼🔬 @mossplants.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Congratulations to the 2026 Society of Herbarium Curators (SHC) Student Awardees! @herbariumcurators.bsky.social Undergraduate student Fanya Yuan working with Dr. Carrie Tribble at the University of Washington for the project “Investigating the Optimal Herbarium Plant Tissue Storage Protocol".
Fanya Yuan holding plants.Ground up plant material in a tube in the lab. Tubes of samples in the lab.
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Jessica Budke 🌱🥼🔬 @mossplants.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
(Note this is not our typical time, the last week of the month, due to the Spring Wildflower Pilgrimage in the Smoky Mountains). Anyone interested can join us! Here’s a link to sign up: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Coffee with a Curator
Join us for our monthly seminars on the last Friday of the month at 1 PM Central/2 PM Eastern. We hope to see you there! Please submit your information and we will send you the zoom link prior to the talk.
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Jessica Budke 🌱🥼🔬 @mossplants.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
The @herbariumcurators.bsky.socialSE USA Chapter is pleased to invite you to Coffee with a Curator: Our next installment of Coffee with a Curator is Megan King presenting a tour of the Chrysler Herbarium at Rutgers University (CHRB) on Friday, April 17th at 1pm CT/ 2pm ET.
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Jessica Budke 🌱🥼🔬 @mossplants.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
The @herbariumcurators.bsky.social SE USA chapter invites you to Coffee with a Curator: Our next installment will be Clara Minnich from Marshall University Herbarium (MUHW) presenting on Herbarium DNA: A Complicated History of the Destructive Sampling Paradox on Friday, Nov 21st at 1pm CT/2pm ET.
Line drawing of coffee plant.
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Sarita Munoz-Gomez @saristolochia.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Of course I had to show my boyfriend all my new stickers 🙂‍↕️ #botany2025
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Jessica Budke 🌱🥼🔬 @mossplants.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Join the Society of Herbarium Curators today! Membership benefits include Student Research Awards and an active Eary Career Section that is great for networking! Join at the link below or via theQR code. www.herbariumcurators.org/membership/
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Society of Herbarium Curators @herbariumcurators.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Stop by the Society of Herbarium Curators booth at #Botany2025 to learn more about the society and to get some free stickers to show your support for herbaria! Not a member, join us using this link. www.herbariumcurators.org/membership/
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Society of Herbarium Curators @herbariumcurators.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Congratulations to the 2025 SHC Student Awardees! Grad Marguerite Trost working with Dr. David Tank at the U of Wyoming, Rocky Mt. Herbarium for the project "Spring Ephemeral Targeted Surveys of the Lowest Elevation Valleys in Montana: A Floristic Inventory of the Kootenai National Forest".
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Society of Herbarium Curators @herbariumcurators.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Congratulations to the 2025 SHC Student Awardees! Undergrad Andrew Ruegsegger with Dr. Maribeth Latvis at U of Arkansas studying “Plant community assembly in an insular grassland biodiversity hotspot: microbial and environmental effects on phylogenetic and functional diversity of Ozark glades".
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Society of Herbarium Curators @herbariumcurators.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 SHC Student Awards! Grad student Garrett Goodrich working with Dr. Mare Nazaire at Claremont Graduate U & California Botanic Garden for the project "Vascular Flora of the Boulder Creek Watershed and Jennie Lakes Wilderness, Fresno and Tulare Counties, CA."
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Society of Herbarium Curators @herbariumcurators.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Reminder!! Join us this week for our next Coffee with a Curator, a monthly gathering of the SHC-SE Chapter When: Friday, April 25th at 2pm ET Chris Waters will discuss "Looking to the past to inform the future: What eDNA from herbarium specimens can tell us about plant–animal interactions.”
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Society of Herbarium Curators @herbariumcurators.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Save the Date for Coffee with a Curator, a monthly gathering of SHC-SEUSA Chapter When: Friday, April 25th at 2pm ET Speaker: Chris Waters presenting their research, entitled "Looking to the past to inform the future: What eDNA from herbarium specimens can tell us about plant–animal interactions.”
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Isaac Lichter Marck @ca-naturalist.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
🚨Urgent: Help Save Decades of Work by Navajo Botanists🚨 For decades, Arnold Clifford has built up the Carrizo Mountain Herbarium. Now, this collection is at risk—snowstorms are causing the roof to cave in, putting >30,000 specimens in danger. #IndigenousScience #Conservation #MutualAid #botany
Arnold Clifford, Navajo Botanist, holds up a pressed herbarium specimen of an undescribed species of thistle found in Carrizo mountain.The roof of Carrizo Mountain Herbarium caving in, leaving herbarium cabinets inside vulnerable to snow and rain.
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Harpo Faust @softcorebotany.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Urgent support needed for a leaking roof of the Carrizo Mountain Herbarium! Digital Donations can be made through Venmo to @ShawnaB3- with the note "Carrizo Mountain Herbarium Urgent Support"
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
🌵🌴 Big news! Botany 2025 is now heading to sunny Palm Springs, CA (July 25-31, 2025)! While plans shifted from Tucson, we're excited to stay in the Southwest. See you there! More information will be coming in early January at www.botanyconference.org #Botany2025
Graphic promoting Botany 2025 in Palm Springs, CA, taking place July 25-31, 2025. The tagline reads "Botany Without Barriers" against a bright blue sky with tall palm trees. Logos of supporting societies are displayed along the bottom, including the Botanical Society of America, American Fern Society, ASPT, Society of Herbarium Curators, IAPT, and ABLS.
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