Kim Walker
@Kim_WyrtPhD, biocultural collections, #cinchona #quinine #tonicwater #coca | 🎓 @RHULGeography | 🏆📘 Just the Tonic (2019 @KewScience) | Forager | Teacher | she/her
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Had a lovely time at the #FANDMAWARDS last night. Finally got a chance to drink champagne and pose with co-author @Economicbotany with the award for Debut Drink Book 2020 for #JustTheTonic Thanks to @Fortnums and Kew Publishing @KewScience 🍸🌳💚 #ginandtonic #ethnobotany
Our next online talk is three weeks today - Monday 25 November 18.30 GMT @Kim_Wyrt explores The Making of a Quinologist : Cinchona & Quinine Science in the work of John Eliot Howard (1807-1883) No charge, all welcome. Email events@bshp.org to reserve your place.
Welcome to our new followers! Now in our 15th year with a research community of 200 scholars & practitioners, we are joining the world of social media & have lots of research & events to share. Please RT to your networks! herbalhistory.org/home/
Very grateful & excited to share this beautiful coverage in @Forbes by @ligaze! Learn about our latest study on coca & about my journey as a #latino #orchid scientist: 🔗forbes.com/sites/andrewwi… #Coca is not a #drug, it’s so much more than #cocaine! 🌿 📖 academic.oup.com/mbe/article/41…
"Unlocking The Mysteries Of The Plant That’s Raw Material For Cocaine" Despite being the infamous raw material of the drug cocaine, very little is known about the coca plant and its wild relatives in the Andes mountains. My latest @ForbesScience story: forbes.com/sites/andrewwi…
These symbolic portraits hang in Bolivia’s government palace are made of coca leaves. While in some countries like Colombia the leaf is stigmatized as an ingredient in cocaine, it’s honored as something of heritage in indigenous cultures in the Andes & countries like Bolivia.
1/🧵 Did you know that #Coca is not a #drug, & much more than just the plant that yields #cocaine? But the plot thickens, and as our new research discovered, identifying cultivated cocas from wild species using traditional methods is very difficult 🌿 🔗 academic.oup.com/mbe/article/41…
9/ Takeaway: #Coca is not #cocaine! We hope our research helps informing policies on monitoring, & to the dissociation of coca from drug once & for all. It was a privilege to work w amazing collabs, including @antonelli_lab, @rudydiaz_jr, @natalia_chirps, @dipterocypsela + more!
Join us on 16th Oct for our stellar #histmed line up 🤩 Mark Nesbitt @KewScience Elisabeth Hsu @UniofOxford Erin Connelly @uniofwarwick Simon Mills (herbalist/author) Debora Moretti & Peter Jones @healers18341948 John Hunnex @NHM_London Programme & booking below ⬇️ RT!
Just in time for #pridemonth I have a new article out! It looks at applications of #queertheory in #ethnobotany and in #biology broadly. You can check it out here: rdcu.be/dHX4b
Hey British Library, not to food shame you buuuuut I’m at the national library in Rome and I’ve just eaten a massive bowl of pesto and fagiolini pasta topped with pecorino and, with a bottle of sparkling water, it cost me £5
The fragility of life is so shocking. I’ve known Michael Mosley for many years - as a tv producer specialising in science and medicine. He was the executive producer of my 2009 series Human Journey. When he started presenting as well as producing, we made several science…
Google's new AI search results are having quite the week. Here's a thread with some of my favorite answers:
This thread is GLORIOUS
People who accidentally found their doppelgängers in museums - a thread 🧵
new favorite Wikipedia editor is this woman who was born in 1914 and served in WWII as a Navy psychiatrist
In today’s Daily Mail: The National Trust has now banned mushrooms, ‘putting thousands of jobs at risk.’ We have not banned mushrooms, nor are we boycotting any fungi. We don’t sell anything grown in peat, but the rest of it is - hallucinatory. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
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