Dr Susannah Lydon
@susieoftraken.bsky.social
Palaeobotany | Scicomm | Associate Prof in Plant Science, Nottingham, UK | Vogon poet | Views my own | She/her
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Perhaps the greatest occurrence of delivery outshining the line, in sitcom history.
February 14, 2026 at 8:08 AM
Perhaps the greatest occurrence of delivery outshining the line, in sitcom history.
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Because of Valentine's Day we had today a Flower Flocking #paleostream, covering different kinds of fossil angiosperms!
Florissantia, Lovellea, Leguminocarpum and Sagaria!
Florissantia, Lovellea, Leguminocarpum and Sagaria!
February 14, 2026 at 2:35 AM
Because of Valentine's Day we had today a Flower Flocking #paleostream, covering different kinds of fossil angiosperms!
Florissantia, Lovellea, Leguminocarpum and Sagaria!
Florissantia, Lovellea, Leguminocarpum and Sagaria!
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The idea of writing weirdly to differentiate ourselves from AI, like fremen walking arhythmically to evade Shai-Hulud is certainly intriguing and perhaps an amusing basis for an OuLiPo exercise, but imagine having to do that all the time. If I were to write again all I'd want to do was to find the
February 14, 2026 at 6:43 AM
The idea of writing weirdly to differentiate ourselves from AI, like fremen walking arhythmically to evade Shai-Hulud is certainly intriguing and perhaps an amusing basis for an OuLiPo exercise, but imagine having to do that all the time. If I were to write again all I'd want to do was to find the
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In Ofterdingen, SW Germany, the local small river Steinlach cuts through a limestone with ammonites and other invertebrates. (If you are in the region, worth a visit)
Arietes sp, but it`s Friday 13. so the fossil is already gone🤪,
(Lower Jurassic, upper Sinemurian)
#Fossilfriday
Arietes sp, but it`s Friday 13. so the fossil is already gone🤪,
(Lower Jurassic, upper Sinemurian)
#Fossilfriday
February 13, 2026 at 5:29 PM
In Ofterdingen, SW Germany, the local small river Steinlach cuts through a limestone with ammonites and other invertebrates. (If you are in the region, worth a visit)
Arietes sp, but it`s Friday 13. so the fossil is already gone🤪,
(Lower Jurassic, upper Sinemurian)
#Fossilfriday
Arietes sp, but it`s Friday 13. so the fossil is already gone🤪,
(Lower Jurassic, upper Sinemurian)
#Fossilfriday
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The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it
February 13, 2026 at 9:37 PM
The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it
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Here’s Jim operating the Big Boss Man Muppet on the roof of the Muppets, Inc offices. While he never got his Broadway show, Jim did get to use large puppets like this, with the puppeteer visible, for a Vegas show he did with Nancy Sinatra.
February 13, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Here’s Jim operating the Big Boss Man Muppet on the roof of the Muppets, Inc offices. While he never got his Broadway show, Jim did get to use large puppets like this, with the puppeteer visible, for a Vegas show he did with Nancy Sinatra.
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Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes!
"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."
"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."
Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky
Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For
academic.oup.com
February 13, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes!
"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."
"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."
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🚨 Positions available in Plant Science! Please share. We’re hiring:
1. Postdoc
2.PhD (UK applicants only)
Focus: root oxygen dynamics, developmental signalling. Come help us uncover how O2 shapes root development.
More info here-
sites.google.com/view/root-re...
#plantscijobs #plantscience
1. Postdoc
2.PhD (UK applicants only)
Focus: root oxygen dynamics, developmental signalling. Come help us uncover how O2 shapes root development.
More info here-
sites.google.com/view/root-re...
#plantscijobs #plantscience
February 11, 2026 at 3:18 PM
🚨 Positions available in Plant Science! Please share. We’re hiring:
1. Postdoc
2.PhD (UK applicants only)
Focus: root oxygen dynamics, developmental signalling. Come help us uncover how O2 shapes root development.
More info here-
sites.google.com/view/root-re...
#plantscijobs #plantscience
1. Postdoc
2.PhD (UK applicants only)
Focus: root oxygen dynamics, developmental signalling. Come help us uncover how O2 shapes root development.
More info here-
sites.google.com/view/root-re...
#plantscijobs #plantscience
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coming soon another new Ediacaran taxon from Newfoundland. This one is an #Arboreomorph from the #Ediacaran of the NE Avalon Peninsula discovered and written up with PhD students Pascal Olschewski @simonrosse.bsky.social. The art needs some work to do justice to the fossil but Happy #FossilFriday!
February 13, 2026 at 5:11 PM
coming soon another new Ediacaran taxon from Newfoundland. This one is an #Arboreomorph from the #Ediacaran of the NE Avalon Peninsula discovered and written up with PhD students Pascal Olschewski @simonrosse.bsky.social. The art needs some work to do justice to the fossil but Happy #FossilFriday!
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I'm halfway through teaching the 'Gothic Nature' course I designed for the Middlebury-CMRS Oxford Humanities Program associated with @kebleoxford.bsky.social. Enjoying 1:1 tuition with enthusiastic study-abroad students on landscapes distorted by industry, resource extraction & colonial expansion🍂
February 13, 2026 at 5:13 PM
I'm halfway through teaching the 'Gothic Nature' course I designed for the Middlebury-CMRS Oxford Humanities Program associated with @kebleoxford.bsky.social. Enjoying 1:1 tuition with enthusiastic study-abroad students on landscapes distorted by industry, resource extraction & colonial expansion🍂
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Overshadowed as he is by his iconic drummer, I don’t think Dr. Teeth gets enough credit as one of rock’s best band leaders.
February 13, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Overshadowed as he is by his iconic drummer, I don’t think Dr. Teeth gets enough credit as one of rock’s best band leaders.
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Welcome back to #FossilFriday everyone!
Here we have a beautiful chain coral known as Halysites cantenularia. This comes from the Lower Silurian Cordell Formation (Monistique Group) Door County, Wisconsin.
Here we have a beautiful chain coral known as Halysites cantenularia. This comes from the Lower Silurian Cordell Formation (Monistique Group) Door County, Wisconsin.
February 13, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Welcome back to #FossilFriday everyone!
Here we have a beautiful chain coral known as Halysites cantenularia. This comes from the Lower Silurian Cordell Formation (Monistique Group) Door County, Wisconsin.
Here we have a beautiful chain coral known as Halysites cantenularia. This comes from the Lower Silurian Cordell Formation (Monistique Group) Door County, Wisconsin.
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🚨 UK Student Palaeo Research Opportunity 🚨
Brymbo Fossil Forest are offering students the chance to get involved in active palaeontology research & excavations ⚒️ at a unique #Carboniferous fossil site in Wales 🏴 - See below for more details ⬇️
#Paleontology #Geology #Fieldwork #FossilFriday #ECR
Brymbo Fossil Forest are offering students the chance to get involved in active palaeontology research & excavations ⚒️ at a unique #Carboniferous fossil site in Wales 🏴 - See below for more details ⬇️
#Paleontology #Geology #Fieldwork #FossilFriday #ECR
February 13, 2026 at 4:42 PM
🚨 UK Student Palaeo Research Opportunity 🚨
Brymbo Fossil Forest are offering students the chance to get involved in active palaeontology research & excavations ⚒️ at a unique #Carboniferous fossil site in Wales 🏴 - See below for more details ⬇️
#Paleontology #Geology #Fieldwork #FossilFriday #ECR
Brymbo Fossil Forest are offering students the chance to get involved in active palaeontology research & excavations ⚒️ at a unique #Carboniferous fossil site in Wales 🏴 - See below for more details ⬇️
#Paleontology #Geology #Fieldwork #FossilFriday #ECR
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Palaeoscolecids from the early Cambrian Guanshan biota, Yunnan Province, China onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #PapersinPalaeontology #FossilFriday
February 13, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Palaeoscolecids from the early Cambrian Guanshan biota, Yunnan Province, China onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #PapersinPalaeontology #FossilFriday
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I just read a paper describing a new species (a fossil, but still a new species), but the actual taxonomic description is relegated to the Supplementary material! 😱😟
Why is the taxonomy being treated like a bibliographic footnote? 😡#Botany #taxonomy
Why is the taxonomy being treated like a bibliographic footnote? 😡#Botany #taxonomy
February 10, 2026 at 12:01 PM
I just read a paper describing a new species (a fossil, but still a new species), but the actual taxonomic description is relegated to the Supplementary material! 😱😟
Why is the taxonomy being treated like a bibliographic footnote? 😡#Botany #taxonomy
Why is the taxonomy being treated like a bibliographic footnote? 😡#Botany #taxonomy
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A piece of Glossopteris leaf from the late Permian of Antarctica ~260 million years old 🌳⛏️. Broken but showing nice detail of the veination. Glossopterids are seed plants that were found on all of today's southern continents during the Permian. Happy #FossilFriday! #paleobotany #botany
February 13, 2026 at 2:40 PM
A piece of Glossopteris leaf from the late Permian of Antarctica ~260 million years old 🌳⛏️. Broken but showing nice detail of the veination. Glossopterids are seed plants that were found on all of today's southern continents during the Permian. Happy #FossilFriday! #paleobotany #botany
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‘I used to be a mountain’ by Maarten Inghels onboards.be/nl/product/m...
📷 Maarten Inghels/Onboards Biennale
#urbangeology
📷 Maarten Inghels/Onboards Biennale
#urbangeology
February 13, 2026 at 9:40 AM
‘I used to be a mountain’ by Maarten Inghels onboards.be/nl/product/m...
📷 Maarten Inghels/Onboards Biennale
#urbangeology
📷 Maarten Inghels/Onboards Biennale
#urbangeology
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#FindsFriday
Fresh out of the ground two years ago, at Castleward in Derby
An intact stoneware flagon from Young's Botanic Brewery, Derby. This company was active in late 19th-early 20th century, and specialised in these lovely stoneware containers. I wonder if there was any botanical beer inside?
Fresh out of the ground two years ago, at Castleward in Derby
An intact stoneware flagon from Young's Botanic Brewery, Derby. This company was active in late 19th-early 20th century, and specialised in these lovely stoneware containers. I wonder if there was any botanical beer inside?
February 13, 2026 at 2:59 PM
#FindsFriday
Fresh out of the ground two years ago, at Castleward in Derby
An intact stoneware flagon from Young's Botanic Brewery, Derby. This company was active in late 19th-early 20th century, and specialised in these lovely stoneware containers. I wonder if there was any botanical beer inside?
Fresh out of the ground two years ago, at Castleward in Derby
An intact stoneware flagon from Young's Botanic Brewery, Derby. This company was active in late 19th-early 20th century, and specialised in these lovely stoneware containers. I wonder if there was any botanical beer inside?
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So, what happened is that old people love apprenticeships, so we created a payroll tax of 0.5% to fund them, but most companies don't really train through apprenticeships anymore so a lot of professional qualifications restructured as apprenticeships to take advantage of that funding.
Exclusive: Leadership and management apprenticeships are on the chopping block under plans to find savings and tilt the apprenticeship system towards young people, skills minister Jacqui Smith has confirmed https://feweek.co.uk/management-apprenticeships-on-the-chopping-block-minister-confirms/
Management apprenticeships on the chopping block, minister confirms
Government gears up to tell employers which apprenticeships 'aren't appropriate for public funding'
feweek.co.uk
February 13, 2026 at 2:51 PM
So, what happened is that old people love apprenticeships, so we created a payroll tax of 0.5% to fund them, but most companies don't really train through apprenticeships anymore so a lot of professional qualifications restructured as apprenticeships to take advantage of that funding.
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Fossil Friday #304: A Heartwarming Tully Reunion #fossils #paleontology #MazonCreek #FossilFriday #Tully #Tullymonster
Fossil Friday #304: A Heartwarming Tully Reunion
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #304. Expect this to be a regular feature of the website. We will post fossil pictures you send in to esconi.info@gmail.com. Please include a short description or story. Check the #FossilFriday Bluesky/Twitter hash tag for contributions from around the world! For Valentines Day, we have a nice heartwarming Tullymonster reunion story we received from long-time ESCONI member and Mazon Creek Collector Jim Alann.
esconi.org
February 13, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Fossil Friday #304: A Heartwarming Tully Reunion #fossils #paleontology #MazonCreek #FossilFriday #Tully #Tullymonster
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The tech behind 'Pop Rocks' candy was patented in 1961, but the product wasn't launched until 1976.
They're created by putting a super-saturated solution of sugar (sucrose) in a chamber pressurized with CO2 to 50 atmospheres (730 psi).
Gas-filled bubbles form, then are captured in the crystals.
They're created by putting a super-saturated solution of sugar (sucrose) in a chamber pressurized with CO2 to 50 atmospheres (730 psi).
Gas-filled bubbles form, then are captured in the crystals.
June 18, 2025 at 12:21 PM
The tech behind 'Pop Rocks' candy was patented in 1961, but the product wasn't launched until 1976.
They're created by putting a super-saturated solution of sugar (sucrose) in a chamber pressurized with CO2 to 50 atmospheres (730 psi).
Gas-filled bubbles form, then are captured in the crystals.
They're created by putting a super-saturated solution of sugar (sucrose) in a chamber pressurized with CO2 to 50 atmospheres (730 psi).
Gas-filled bubbles form, then are captured in the crystals.
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We have had lots of calls of concern today following the big landslide at Stonebarrow. The beach remains open but just take caution! There are hazard signs up as you walk from the car park to the beach, so please read the signs. (1/3)
February 13, 2026 at 1:02 PM
We have had lots of calls of concern today following the big landslide at Stonebarrow. The beach remains open but just take caution! There are hazard signs up as you walk from the car park to the beach, so please read the signs. (1/3)
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Discworld QOTD, from Wyrd Sisters
February 11, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Wyrd Sisters
Nice weather for liverworts
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February 13, 2026 at 12:46 PM
Nice weather for liverworts
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