Tune into NYBG's new 'Plant People' podcast, connecting the dots between nature & humanity via lively conversations w/ plant scientists/curators, gardeners, naturalists, & other experts 🌿 more info here --> brnw.ch/21wK0mQ #NYBGscience

Our FIRST EPISODE of Plant People is now live, and we’re diving straight into over 130 years of historic Garden collections. 📚🎧

Get to know Rhonda Evans, Director of our LuEsther T. Mertz Library, and Dr. Emily Sessa, Director of our Steere Herbarium: brnw.ch/21wJXeC

As part of an innovative program called BreakThroughTech, young women in underserved communities can take part in a challenging AI training program—and they’ve put their projects into practice here at NYBG.

Learn how they're working with our Herbarium: brnw.ch/21wJQAt

Ears up! 🔊 We’re dropping a new series that dives into the many ways plants and people are inextricably linked. Grab your headphones for Plant People—a new podcast from NYBG & PRX hosted by NYBG President Jennifer Bernstein. 🎧🤳

Listen and subscribe: brnw.ch/21wJJMi

Did you know that NYBG's Steere Herbarium has one of the best collections of #algae in the world? In fact, our 130,896 specimens of algae include more than 10,000 species, and weigh as much as 1.5 bull African Elephants! #NYBGscience

In the latest from @ElPais_America, check out the latest Spanish-language profile of our Chief Science Officer, MauricioDiazgranados—and work he does here in NYC and around the globe to study the plants of our world. brnw.ch/21wJFxo

NYBG Curator Fabián A. Michelangeli & colleagues' new #scipub 'Evaluating the impact of historical climate and early human groups in the Araucaria Forest of eastern South America' has been published in Ecography! 🌲 Read more here --> brnw.ch/ara #NYBGscience 🌎

Ph.D. student Toni Johnson (mentored by NYBG Assistant Curator Alex McAlvay) won Best Poster Award at the Society of Ethnobiology conference in St. Louis for her poster 'African Cereal-Based Brews: Cultural Heritage & Nutritional Importance.' Congratulations, Toni! #NYBGscience

It's official: the Burn Family Lilac Collection is at peak bloom! Visit these fragrant bundles of purple, pink, & white lilac flowers while they last! Click here for a lilac herbarium specimen and link to our lilac bloom tracker --> brnw.ch/21wJv2M #NYBGscience

Some Cyatheaceae tree fern rachis have sharp spines that can be used for grinding vegetables, as done in Vanuatu. Tree ferns serve endless purposes, including food, medicine, ornament and construction. More info here: brnw.ch/vtp #NYBGscience

The Steere Herbarium is offering a paid internship available as part of our NSF funded effort to increase access to our specimens from Asia & the Pacific. 🌿 Join an exciting project team at one of the most impactful herbaria in the world! --> nybg.org/about/work-wit… #NYBGscience

The Mertz Library is remembering the late prolific botanical artist Dick Rauh through his original works & publications, on display in the Library today through April 26th. In addition to his many achievements, he taught scientific botanical art @ NYBG for >35 yrs 🌷 #NYBGscience

NEW in nature: Three NYBG scientists joined colleagues at Kew Science and from around the world to create the largest-ever DNA tree of life for flowering plants—sequencing more than 9,500 species! Learn more about this open-access resource. #NYBGScience brnw.ch/21wJ96o

We're thrilled to share the exciting news of the expansion of our NYBG Science staff, bringing new areas of expertise to our team.

Get to know some of the new faces in the lab and the field at NYBG. brnw.ch/21wJ6gJ

✨New Mertz Library Acquisition✨ 'Canopy cities: protecting and expanding urban forest' examines urban tree policies & approaches that foster tree protection through international examples & case studies. Click for more information --> willow.nybg.org/search?/XCanop… #NYBGscience

Cooling cities is an increasing concern as our planet faces the effects of climate change—and it turns out we can learn from botanical gardens as we deal with rising temps. See how green spaces like ours are tempering the heat in a recent study on @Dezeen: brnw.ch/21wIQal