Millions of herbarium specimens are now only a click away. But how do botanists find the right records, sort the right images and train better AI tools? Three digital botany tools are helping turn onl...

AbstractBackground. Wikidata is a multilingual linked open knowledge base to which anyone can contribute that contains multitudes of botany-related informa

Many flowering plant genera are named for people, but there is a gender gap in this naming, with only 6% of eponyms honouring women. Here we explore this gap by examining in detail women for whom pla...

​While the current German government is rolling back or even boycotting climate action, Hamburg is showing the world that grassroots climate action is effective.

A new paper entitled Wikidata for Botanists: Benefits of collaborating and sharing Linked Open Data has been published in the Annals of Botany. This publication is the result of a collaboration of …

How colonialism shaped the Scottish Enlightenment’s conception of race and humanity   In the decades after 1750, an increasing number of former medical st...

The histories of plants and gardens are deeply entangled with the histories of empires. This conference investigates the impacts of these global connection

A discussion on social media led to the formation of a multidisciplinary group working on this project to highlight women’s contributions to science. The role of marginalised groups in science has bee...

Which plant genera do you know that are named for women? Who were/are they?

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