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iaptglobal @iaptglobal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

IAPT Grants Program 2027 www.iaptglobal.org/grants

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Peter Moonlight @petermoonlight.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This is brilliant, and applies way beyond Maths: "The most precious resources of our profession are students and ideas, and these we nurture with great care."

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Peter Moonlight @petermoonlight.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

An unlikely pair of collectors today from my Trinity #herbarium tour today, Darwin and Lamarck.

A set of algal specimens collected by Dawin (left) and a daffodil collected by Lamarck (right)

A specumen label, identifying Lamarck as the collector

A specimen label, identifying Darwin as the collector

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Peter Moonlight @petermoonlight.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Things written on the back of herbarium labels are fascinating. This is a particularly enigmatic scribble. Is it a map?

A scan of a herbarium label (TCD0088160), photoshopped to show the scribbles on the back. See this link for the full specimen: http://54.72.131.62/iiif/2/TCD0088160.jpg/full/full/0/default.jpg

A scan of a herbarium label (TCD0088160), reading "Orchidees, Serapias lingua (Helleborine langue), Plaine de Bilheres, May 1876" with a later note "Near Pau, Besses-Pyrenees, France". See this link for the full specimen: http://54.72.131.62/iiif/2/TCD0088160.jpg/full/full/0/default.jpg

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Peter Moonlight @petermoonlight.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Bluesky, who is good at early 19th Century French signatures? This a from a letter where a botanist casts shade on one of my botanical heroes, approx 1820.

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Peter Moonlight @petermoonlight.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

We've now passed 70k records and should pass 50k images shortly! If you are revising a group, get in touch and we will prioritize it for digitisation.

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iaptglobal @iaptglobal.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

The International Association for Plant Taxonomy mourns the passing of Dr. Peter H. Raven, whose extraordinary life transformed the Missouri Botanical Garden and helped shape botany as a truly global enterprise.

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Simon Hammann @simonhammann.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

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Sam Mugford @samtmugford.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Its strangely apropriate to name this after somone famous for having her data stolen and not being given credit

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Peter Moonlight @petermoonlight.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Ah that old chestnut, where a reviewer rejects your methods as "too ambitious" when they are routine, just weren't when the reviewer last did labwork two decades ago...

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Peter Moonlight @petermoonlight.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

If you want to know how fast Irish trains are, my train left central Dublin 15 minutes before this ferry. The ferry is further south, at speed of 23.2 knots.

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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

🌿🌍 Join us to learn about the newly published “No evidence for the niche breadth – range size hypothesis in big plant genera” in @annbot.bsky.social by Ludwig Baldaszti and co-authors. (1/9) 👉 doi.org/qnrq @baldasztil.bsky.social @caroaceae.bsky.social @petermoonlight.bsky.social #PlantScience

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Peter Moonlight @petermoonlight.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

We are looking for a dedicated and passionate digitisation assistant to help us image the historic herbarium collections in Trinity College Dublin. If that sounds like you, please get in touch and apply! my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...

Adding a barcode to a historic specimen in Trinity College Dublin herbarium.

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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

BHL's new chapter has begun! 🌱 Our latest #BHLTransition Update shares where BHL is now: stable, fully operational, and nearing completion of its transition. BHL has retained its people, its expertise, and its ability to operate effectively. 🔗 blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/01/tran... #ILoveBHL

Two mudskippers (brown fish with large google eyes and large front fins used for "walking"), one on the mud on the ground, the other up a tree root.

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Peter Moonlight @petermoonlight.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

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Peter Moonlight @petermoonlight.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

A proper day out in the Cairngorms on this day 7 years ago.

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Peter Moonlight @petermoonlight.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

@siobhanleachman.bsky.social A challenge for you! Who was Miss Schultz? She was collecting in Norfolk Island, probably in the 1840-60s. This writing is in William Henry Harvey's hand in TCD. I think specimens by Miss Schultz are attributed to various male Schultz botanists in Kew.

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Peter Moonlight @petermoonlight.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Is anyone on BlueSky hot on their late 17th to early 18th century European playing cards? I turned this one up in Trinity College Dublin Herbarium today, with a herbarium collection of a similar age.

A terrible, out of focus phone photo of a wood printed, hand coloured Queen of Diamonds playing card.

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Anne-Laure D 🌿 @aldpaleo.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

We have a new Dr in #paleobotany! Congratulations to @thibault-durieux.bsky.social who successfully passed his viva. It was a great journey & he made the advising job very easy for @petermoonlight.bsky.social, Carla Harper and I. Big thanks to the examiners Jenny McElwain & @sandyheth.bsky.social!

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Carrie M. Tribble, PhD @tribblelab.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

The UW Herbarium @ Burke Museum is hiring a Research Mycologist! 🍄 Focus: fungal systematics & evolution, collections-based research, and outreach. Initial 3-year appointment, renewable pending funding. Apply here! wd5.myworkdaysite.com/recruiting/u... Please share widely!

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Research Mycologist, Burke Herbarium

Job Description As a UW employee, you have a unique opportunity to change lives on our campuses, in our state and around the world. UW employees offer their boundless energy, creative problem-solving ...

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Peter Moonlight @petermoonlight.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

It takes a special level of incompetance from @deltaairways.bsky.social to drop their passengers in one terminal in the busiest airport in the world and send the luggage to a different terminal entirely, only connected by bus.

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Peter Moonlight @petermoonlight.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Just over three weeks left if you are thinking of applying for this amazing job!

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Peter Moonlight @petermoonlight.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

The first European animal declared extinct in my lifetime will not be the last.

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Peter Moonlight @petermoonlight.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

A new article on the recently uncovered specimens of 18th century botanist/spy for Louis the 16th of France, Joseph Dombey in Trinity College Dublin herbarium, out in #TrinityToday

Botanical espionage, from page 35 of the Hilary 2025 edition of Trinity Today

Botanical espionage, from page 36 of the Hilary 2025 edition of Trinity Today

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Peter Moonlight @petermoonlight.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Calling botanical researchers, the School of Natural Science at Trinity College Dublin is hiring a tenure track Assistant Professor in Plant Biodiversity and Conservation. I know this is someone's dream job, so let me know if that is you and you want to chat! my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

🔥 Britain is about to launch a new GCSE in natural history – a vital step toward restoring our knowledge of and respect for the natural world.

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Fellow creatures: the new GCSE in natural history

The new GCSE in natural history is a vital step toward restoring our knowledge of and respect for the natural world

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Peter Moonlight @petermoonlight.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

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Peter Moonlight @petermoonlight.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Curators and botanists, does anyone know what this could be? It belonged to William Henry Harvey, botanist, collector, and former curator of TCD herbarium (1844-66). It is a 1.2m high, 25cm wide metal tube that once had a locking lid. Perhaps watertight.

A metal tube, around 120 x 25 cm. Hollow with a lost locking lid. Once belonged to William Henry Harvey.

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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Peter Moonlight @petermoonlight.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

My daughter had the MMR vaccine today. This was based on science.

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Peter Moonlight @petermoonlight.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Trinity College Dublin herbarium are now on @gbif.org! We have just 52k records for now and mostly minimal data with full data and images to follow, but its a big step forward. www.gbif.org/dataset/5ec4...

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Trinity College Dublin Herbarium

Herbarium specimen data from the herbarium of Trinity College Dublin.

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Edinburgh Journal of Botany @ejbotany.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

A new paper by @petermoonlight.bsky.social published in #EJBotany #OpenAccess @thebotanics.bsky.social on the names in the genus #Begonia published in Vellozo’s #FloraFluminensis: rbge.cc/47Q6wmL

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iaptglobal @iaptglobal.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Madrid Code online!! 🎉🪸🍄🌿 www.iaptglobal.org/_functions/code/madrid

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Peter Moonlight @petermoonlight.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Five species from Ireland's temperate rainforest in five minutes, presented by me! I am super happy with how this turned out, so do take a look. And a huge thank you to Michelle, Daniel, Peter L, and Jenny for making this happen! youtu.be/xHRUBeukH6E

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Ireland's Temperate Rainforest

YouTube video by Trinity College Dublin

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Peter Moonlight @petermoonlight.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

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Ireland's Temperate Rainforest

YouTube video by Trinity College Dublin

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Peter Moonlight @petermoonlight.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

This, combined with two factor authentification, is now at least half of the job of an academic.

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Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

I'm essentially unable to log into any websites run by Editorial Manager. I have 20 something different logins saved, with different usernames and passwords, for different journals. My password manager is useless, and I am at the point where every login requires a PW reset.

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Peter Moonlight @petermoonlight.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

My predictive text used a sad emoji. Is it depressed?

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Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Michigan State University is hiring a new Director of our herbarium! This is an open rank, tenure-stream faculty position, with research focus in plant or fungal systematics, ecology, and/or evolution Please consider applying and help spread the word! plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...

plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu

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Brad Scott @trichocolea.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Finally finished extracting and plotting all the locations in Jamaica that Hans Sloane (1660-1753) mentioned in his work, the Voyage to the Islands. Unsurprisingly, they are mostly in the south-central part of the island, but also show his trip north @nhm-london.bsky.social @rxcoulton.bsky.social

Portrait of Hans Sloane by Stephen Slaughter. Sloane is seated in a chair, wearing a wig, and holding papers bearing an illustration of a plant

The title page the first volume of of Sloane's Voyage to the Islands published in 1707

Map showing the locations of all the places Sloane mentions in his book

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Peter Moonlight @petermoonlight.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Meanwhile, in the real world, we just missed out flight because of a 1 hr queue to check in a baby seat followed by a 2 hr security queue at Birmingham airport 🤬

A 5 day old news article, presenting a statment by Birmingham airport that there are no queues as fact. In reality, the queues are awful.

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Jo Parmenter @jo-the-botanist.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Reckon so - especially as it lends credence to my lobed maidenhair spleenwort Asplenium trichomanes subsp pachyrhacis at Knaresborough Castle after several years fruitless checking of specimens (thanks to @bsbiscience.bsky.social for the tip!) #UrbanPlants #WildflowerHour

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