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Dr. Sara L Middleton
@saralilplants.bsky.social
Open Science Coordinator 👐🏾 | PhD in plant trait ecology @ Oxford Uni 🌱 | Editorial Board @plantperspectives.bsky.social 🌿 | Founder & Filmmaker 🎥 | 💚 Fabaceae, Crinoids, Outreach | AuDHD | She/her. Own views

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A first for me and @geologyjohnson.bsky.social to see trilobites in the wild. Look at the beautiful preservation 😍

Rocks likely heterolithic limestone with black shake and chert interbeds from late Devonian-early Carboniferous from southern Belgium.

#FossilFriday
November 14, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Plant mood: the emotionally withered looking black bean

Peeps waiting for an email/peer review/work from me thanks for your patience, there's a lot going on right now. I will respond when I can. I’m also taking time away from here for a bit. Like this perennial black bean, I will resurface again 🖤
September 16, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Lovely assemblage of early carboniferous crinoids seen on the paving slabs in Leuven train station in Belgium 🤩

#FossilFriday
September 5, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Regular reminder to authors to please acknowledge and cite people who have contributed to your work. Yet again I find a paper that I collected data for and I’m not acknowledged. 🧪

Also see our recent paper that provides a toolkit for more just and equitable citation practices👇🏽

🔗 osf.io/qjecy_v3
August 20, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Visited a cat cafe this weekend. 12/10 would recommend.
July 28, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Honestly a mood given current state of things.

Trying to blossom in less than ideal growing conditions.

Found a teeny teasel growing out of a crack in the side walk 💜💚
July 23, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Found a large patch of tufted vetch 💜

Photo of me for scale taken by my sister.

#WildflowerHour
July 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
These super dense patches of pineapple weed looked otherworldly. The smell was delightful!

#WildflowerHour
July 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
My sunflower be sunflowering 😍
July 11, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Soft evening glow in the meadow 💚💜

#NaturePhotography
#Plants
#Grasslands
July 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Grasses are also putting on a show at the moment! I think this might be Timothy grass.

#WildflowerHour
June 22, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Common centaury is started to bloom in my local area in Oxfordshire 🩷

#Wildflowerhour
June 22, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Always wonderful to be in the company of a Bee orchid.

#WildflowerHour
June 22, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I have the day off work today so naturally I spent a few hours in a ditch looking for cool plants 😂

Came across this pretty pyramidal orchid which matched with my outfit🩷

#Botanist #Wildflower
June 19, 2025 at 12:03 PM
There is a lot going on in the world and small things like this fresh monstera leaf unfurling, adds a little joy to my day 💚
June 16, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Being a bee is hard work and sometimes they nap on flowers 🥹

Found this cutie resting on a purple toadflax (Linaria purpurea) 💜

#Photography #Macro #Insects #Pollinators #Nature
June 1, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Yellow rattle was my favourite plant find this week 💛

#WildflowerHour
June 1, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Nigella flowers are starting to bloom in the garden and they are magical 💙
May 29, 2025 at 7:59 PM
A lovely pink form of yarrow spotted this week for #WildflowerHour 🩷
May 25, 2025 at 7:41 PM
A delight to see Ragged Robin bobbling in the evening breeze earlier in the week 🩷

#WildflowerHour #PinkFamily
May 18, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Plants bring me so much joy, which was captured by my sister this evening when I spotted this lovely legume 🩷💚
May 10, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Scurvy grass growing on Whitby Pier 🤍💚

#WildflowerHour #HighUpPlants #Yorkshire
May 4, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Was surprised to see bird's-foot-trefoil out already during a beach walk along Runswick Bay, N. Yorkshire 💛

#WildflowerHour #Yorkshire
May 4, 2025 at 7:59 PM
The wild garlic around Durham put on a multi sensory show this week 🤍💚

Shame pictures can't convey the phenomenal smell!

#WildflowerHour
May 4, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Belated #FossilFriday and highlight of the trip to Saltburn with @geologyjohnson.bsky.social was coming across this brittle star fossil deposited in the Ironstone Shales of the Redcar Mudstone Formation, Early Jurassic.

Scale = lil hand is 6.7 cm long

#Geology #Echinoderm #Paleontology
May 3, 2025 at 6:07 PM