#herbarium — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #herbarium, aggregated by home.social.
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Was kann eine gepresste Pflanze über #Wissensgeschichte erzählen? Mehr, als zunächst zu vermuten ist. Herbarbelege - getrocknete und etikettierte Pflanzen in wissenschaftlichen Sammlungen - sind nicht nur botanische Forschungsobjekte: Sie sind zugleich materielle Zeugnisse globaler Wissenszirkulation, die Wissenschaft, Religion und Kulturgeschichte verbinden.
Uta Koschmieder gibt Einblick in ihre Forschung an Herbarbelegen der Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine ⬇️
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“It’s an obscure but wonderful thing, these hundreds of thousands of specimens documenting biodiversity of the Earth — it’s amazing.”
https://dailytarheel.com/480380/university/university-unc-duke-herbarium-merger/
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"Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will combine their herbarium collections under the management of the North Carolina Botanical Garden, the universities announced Monday.
The arrangement ends two years of uncertainty over the fate of Duke’s 825,000-specimen herbarium collection, after the University said in February 2024 it could no longer afford to maintain the collection on its own."
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"UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University will unite their herbaria under the management of the North Carolina Botanical Garden in Chapel Hill."
https://www.unc.edu/posts/2026/08/31/carolina-and-duke-to-combine-plant-collections/