Help look after and facilitate access to the data and specimens in the moss, seaweed & fungi collections @Museum_Cardiff. She/her
Joined January 2010
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Katherine Slade retweeted
31 Jul 2024
🚨Job Alert🚨
We are seeking an experienced researcher to lead the Plant and Earth Sciences team @AmgueddfaCymru.
📅Closing Date: Wednesday, 28 August 2024
🌳🦕🌿🦖🌻🌸
Find out more:
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Katherine Slade retweeted
26 Jul 2024
We're using multiple methods to preserve the seaweeds we collected.
Some specimens will be used for the Wales marine INNS kit, some for handling material in @Museum_Cardiff galleries and some for the scientific collections as a permanent record.
Contact us to borrow the kit
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Katherine Slade retweeted
25 Jul 2024
Another invasive seaweed collected for our Wales Marine Invasive Non-Native Species Kit!
Paul @ParkPembrey showed us where Worm Wart Weed, Agarophyton vermiculophyllum lives on mud at Llanelli.
Contact us if you wish to use the Marine INNS kit for outreach.
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Katherine Slade retweeted
22 Jul 2024
🚨Job Alert 🚨
We're recruiting a Botany Curator @AmgueddfaCymru to join our Natural Sciences team and use our collections to examine the impact of invasive species on ecosystems 🌳🌿🍄🌸🌾
nmwtest.ciphr-irecruit.com/A…
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Join SEWBReC, @Vale_LNP and @Thawproject
for a #BioBlitz at Rhoose Point on Saturday 20th July!
Suitable for all levels of experience, come learn how to record and/or contribute to our species list for this interesting site. RhooseBB.eventbrite.co.uk
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Join us on Sat 13th July for a Recorders' Field Day at The Grange, a rewilding project near Monmouth!
This free event will be communal but self led, so is suitable for those comfortable carrying out species recording without guidance.
Book via Eventbrite:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/recorders…
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New species identification course open for booking!
SEWBReC is running a free Grassland Plants Identification Course on Wed 3rd July.
Come learn from Vice County Recorders Steph Tyler and Elsa Wood in some beautiful Monmouthshire meadows.
Email info@sewbrec.org.uk to book.
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Katherine Slade retweeted
29 Mar 2024
The wonderful Alan Paton!
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Katherine Slade retweeted
28 Mar 2024
Before the well-deserved Easter break, you may want to
👀 have a look at the 5th CETAF E-SCoRe Award call... The deadline is the 15th of April!
👉 cetaf.org/elementor-9859/ 👈
Share with young #scientists to boost their careers!
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Katherine Slade retweeted
24 Mar 2024
#PalmSunday 🌿
In Wales, villages trimmed and adorned the graves of their dead relatives on Palm Sunday.
The sides of the graves were raised up with fresh turf, and fresh earth was placed on the surface; the stones were whitewashed, and women planted rosemary and rue 🌷
#Wales
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Katherine Slade retweeted
4 Mar 2024
📢 After the public review period, the LATIMER CORE is now a @#TDWG Standard for describing collections.
👏 Congratulations to the @tdwg Collections Descriptions Data Standard Task Group!
To know more about the Latimer Core
👉ltc.tdwg.org/index.html👈
#taxonomy #biodiversity
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Katherine Slade retweeted
21 Mar 2024
Our newest Zooniverse project is ready for citizen scientist volunteers! By transcribing herbarium specimen labels, volunteers add to biodiversity big data for research. Visit our Zooniverse page to get involved! tinyurl.com/4ary9fbp @plantsci @CamUnivMuseums @CamGLAMresearch
ALT A photo of a herbarium specimen of Lycium halimifolium showing a plant and a label
ALT A photo of a herbarium specimen of a herbarium specimen label for a Narcissus pseudonarcissus specimen from Herefordshire
ALT A photo of a herbarium specimen of Narcissus pseudonarcissus from Herefordshire including flowers, leaves and a label.
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Katherine Slade retweeted
13 Mar 2024
Have secured a debate in the Senedd next week about the future of our national collections - looking forward to having a proper discussion about this important matter, and putting questions to the Deputy Minister to respond to: record.senedd.wales/Motion/8…
#SaveWelshHeritage
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Katherine Slade retweeted
27 Feb 2024
To show my support for all protesting outside the Senedd today to oppose the cuts to our heritage and cultural sectors, I have tabled the statement of opinion shown below.
Please encourage your MS' to sign!
#SaveWelshHeritage record.senedd.wales/Statemen…
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Katherine Slade retweeted
27 Feb 2024
Diolch everyone for the support at the protest outside the Senedd today.
Devastating cuts to Welsh heritage @AmgueddfaCymru @RCAHMWales
@NLWales are happening now and frighteningly fast.
URGENT - SIGN AND SHARE THE PETITION NOW petitions.senedd.wales/petit…
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Katherine Slade retweeted
26 Feb 2024
Filippo is a Global Ecology and Conservation master’s student @cardiffuni. He’s visiting us @Museum_Cardiff to spread the word about slime moulds and to help us figure out the best way to communicate these amazing organisms!
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Katherine Slade retweeted
20 Feb 2024
Did you know that @AmgueddfaCymru has over 5 million natural history specimens in its collections?
These collections along with the expertise of the staff that look after and research them are an invaluable resource in monitoring environmental & climate change 🐯🕷️🪱🐌🦋🦀🦕🌼💎
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Katherine Slade retweeted
14 Feb 2024
Our conservation staff @AmgueddfaCymru work across our museum sites to preserve Welsh heritage.
This in turn helps our learning staff, curators, volunteers, students and front of house to tell the story of Wales. #WorkingTogether
@WGCulture @HeritageCymru @ProspectUnion
20 Jul 2023
Emyr and Sue are working @AmgueddfaLechi this week checking condition of collections. The challenge is working out how we can get more machines operating so people can enjoy more demos like this…
#historicworkingmachinery
#preservingfunction
#slate
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Katherine Slade retweeted
13 Feb 2024
Museum Curators @AmgueddfaCymru support students to reach their full potential.
We share transferable and specialist skills through the collections.
Our students shadow us in our daily work, learning what goes on behind the scenes of a national museum.
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Katherine Slade retweeted
11 Feb 2024
The collections @AmgueddfaCymru need to be cared for by expert staff.
They make them accessible across Cymru & the world, and carry out vital research in recognising & monitoring the diversity of animal and plant life.
@WGCulture @WelshGovernment @HeritageCymru @ProspectUnion
11 Feb 2024
In celebration of International Day of Women and girls in Science here are our scientists who work behind the scenes at @Museum_Cardiff #IDWGIS @WomenScienceDay
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