nickynicolson 🌱
📢 #PostDoc #job 4 year research fellowship with #KewGardens science.
🧵 We're digitising our herbarium (= millions of images 🤯) & want to see proposals using #ComputerVision to combine these with data from literature & our network of taxonomic experts to support our #SpeciesDescription & #Conservation work.
In botany we still describe c2000 new species of plants each year & our 🌍 network of collections are #WhatWhere#When evidence for phenological change eg climate impacts on flowering times
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Our team (https://www.kew.org/science/our-science/departments/digital-revolution) help digitise, integrate & share Kew's data & expertise. Check out our data in @gbif https://www.gbif.org/dataset/cd6e21c8-9e8a-493a-8a76-fbf7862069e5
I work on #OpenScience & building tools & working practices to enable more people to participate & interact in our network of data
Digital Revolution | Kew

Unlocking the vast resource of information held within our collections.

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Kew has over 470 researchers working across two research campuses (Kew itself & Wakehurst Place in Sussex which houses the seedbank & landscape ecology programme), & working in over 100 countries.
We make the most of our location in London with collaborative working with co-located organisations like the London Natural History Museum and Alan Turing Institute & we offer hybrid working patterns.
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Interested in joining us but currently only have an 🌱outline of an idea? Get in touch: we'll help you develop a research proposal & I'll do my best to answer any questions. Apply online at: https://careers.kew.org/vacancy/kew-research-fellow-digital-revolution-522585.html
Kew Research Fellow - Digital Revolution - Careers | Kew Gardens