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Dr Susannah Lydon

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Palaeobotany | Scicomm | Associate Prof in Plant Science, Nottingham, UK | Vogon poet | Views my own | She/her

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Juliet E McKenna 's avatar Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social
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Noting which UK newspaper headlines define 3 murdered women primarily/only by their husband/father's status and occupation. I accept facts to report are sparse at the moment, but in what looks like yet another case of lethal male rage following rejection, the women as adjuncts default really grates.

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John Scalzi's avatar John Scalzi @scalzi.com
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PLEASE ENJOY MY FOSSILIZED SHELLS I just got them this weekend

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 's avatar Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social
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A mysterious phenomenon in the woods. Grasses pressed flat to the earth over about 15m2, as if large herbivores like deer were regularly using the spot to rest up. But there are no other signs you'd expect if it were deer: droppings, browsed vegetation, hair, etc ... Thoughts?

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TAG! art's avatar TAG! art @tagart.bsky.social
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R.I.P. Michael Zulli.

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Talcott's avatar Talcott @talcotts.bsky.social
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Important Nerd Trivia I just learned: Patrick Stewart’s first car was a Ford Prefect.

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Scott Zona, Ph.D.'s avatar Scott Zona, Ph.D. @scottzona.bsky.social
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Pandanus candelabrum (📷: Paul Latham CCBYNC2) of tropical West Africa is thought to be an indicator of diamonds! 💎 It grows well on soils overlying kimberlite pipes, the sources of diamonds. Add “geobotanical indicator” to the many uses of Pandanus. #TropicalBotany #Pandanaceae #Botany 🌾🧪

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Anthony (Tony) J. Martin's avatar Anthony (Tony) J. Martin @ichnologist.bsky.social
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Not sure if #WormWednesday is here on Bluesky, but if not, hope this helps make that happen. This is the home of the shallow-marine polychaete worm _Diopatra_, which it builds by attaching small clam shells & algae to an inner tube. Specimen was on Sapelo Island, GA. 🧪🪱 #ichnology 1/2

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luke's avatar luke @coolhand.bsky.social
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We only tell kids about the tooth fairy to distract from knowledge of the fairies who accept larger bones for greater rewards

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Mark Griffiths's avatar Mark Griffiths @markauthor.bsky.social
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Author copies received of my new book! It’s out Aug 1st from Bloomsbury.

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Jay's avatar Jay @kakapojay.bsky.social
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This Fona herzogae has died. There is no discernible cause of death. The falling leaves will blanket her, hiding her body from predators. The floodplain mud and clay will bury her, and she will rest for one hundred million years.

#sciart #paleoart

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Bob Fischer's avatar Bob Fischer @bobfischer.bsky.social
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It's hard getting stuff "out there" these days. We're trying to build a little Mulgrave Audio world of vintage weirdness. If you've enjoyed our stuff, maybe consider an RT, a share, a Bandcamp review, anything like that? It all helps enormously - thanks.
mulgraveaudio.bandcamp.com

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Didn't know about the very many chromosomes!

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Botanical University Challenge 's avatar Botanical University Challenge @bucbotany.bsky.social
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🌱🌿🌍🍄🌾🧪 The adder's-tongue family of ferns (Ophioglossaceae) look different. One species found all over the UK and Ireland. Lives in unimproved pastures, damp meadows and also in wet areas of some sand dunes. Its genome is split across very many chromosomes (120 - 720). #BUC2024

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Gabby's avatar Gabby @gabrakadabra.bsky.social
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he died trying to dig through the ditches and burn through the witches in a cyberdragula

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New Isle of Wight iguanodont joins the herds

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Rebecca Lambert 🐭🍉's avatar Rebecca Lambert 🐭🍉 @ladyliminal.bsky.social
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Little worlds bloom everywhere…

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Lincoln Michel's avatar Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social
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They got asteroids writing op-eds at The Atlantic

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Carylanne Joubert Maier, B.A., M.A., B.S.'s avatar Carylanne Joubert Maier, B.A., M.A., B.S. @carylanneejmaier.bsky.social
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Sea level rise has killed the last population of Key Largo tree cactus (P. millspaughii) "what researchers believe is the first local extinction of a species caused by sea level rise in the country" 🧪

www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/firs...

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Anthony (Tony) J. Martin's avatar Anthony (Tony) J. Martin @ichnologist.bsky.social
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Is #TrilobiteTuesday a thing here on Bluesky? If not, it is now, starting with these beautifully expressed trilobite trackways (called Cruziana) on a sedimentary bed surface; tracks are preserved as natural casts on the bed bottom. Specimen on display at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), Toronto. 🧪🪨

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Joop Vermeer's avatar Joop Vermeer @joopvermeer.bsky.social
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Two PhD positions are available in my lab at the Unversity of Neuchâtel! If you are interested in roots, cellular communication, microscopy and a sprinkle of auxin, please apply, see link: www.unine.ch/files/live/s...

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 's avatar Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social
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Great tip for anyone who spends a lot of time in wild places, where there's a risk of picking up ticks: get yourself a ' Swedish Tick Lasso Trix'. They really work, removing the entire tick and leaving nothing embedded (so no risk of Lyme). Best 10 euro you'll ever spend. 🌎

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Mark Chadbourn's avatar Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social
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Look how Reform voters’ views are far away from everyone else. Lib Dem and Labour virtually the same.

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Botany One's avatar Botany One @botany.one
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To Save Life on Earth, Bring Back Taxonomy
botany.fyi/7zhdf1

"The act of naming a plant has always felt like a sort of interspecies intimacy.": Robert Langellier. h/t @bjking.bsky.social‬
earch?q=%23Botany'>#Botany

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John Grindrod's avatar John Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social
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Today it is worth mentioning that I wrote a book on the weird history of the green belt, and one on the origins of postwar new towns

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Blue's avatar Blue @kaylaskritterz.bsky.social
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This huge Arthropleura plush is all finished and ready to head home to her owner! Over three feet in length and meticulously handmade with soft minky.

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John Bull's avatar John Bull @garius.bsky.social
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I am still finding it incredibly odd watching the government appoint people to roles based on their competence and knowledge of that domain.

www.gov.uk/government/p...

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Botanical University Challenge 's avatar Botanical University Challenge @bucbotany.bsky.social
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🌱🌍🌿🌾🍄 What is a fruit? Many delicious ones - apples, bananas, kiwifruit, mango, blueberry, hazelnuts, chili - so many! Technical definition the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants formed from the ovary after flowering. But so many different shapes, textures, features, sizes. #BUC2024

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Gabriel S. Jacobs's avatar Gabriel S. Jacobs @gsjphd.bsky.social
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I'm still excitedly telling everyone I know about the Trilobite Pompeii paper. Any time we learn more about the soft-tissue anatomy of trilobites is pretty cool in my book. I don't think any of the authors are on this hellsite, sadly.

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Jonny Morris's avatar Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social
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"And the cause of liberal democracy in Europe, which did NOT die..."

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I could be in prison right now. Was struggling to pay rent, buy food, etc. Planned to rob some shops. But the first one I walked into had a beautiful woman behind the counter. Asked her for a drink instead, she said yes. She genuinely pulled me off the wrong path. I love you Sara

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Sean Jones's avatar Sean Jones @seanjones.org
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Listening to James Timpson's interview, it is clear that he would like to see a sea-change in sentencing policy. That will not be his remit, but if the new PM supports such a change, I think it would have very significant ramifications for our political culture. Let me explain. /1

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Kay Orchison's avatar Kay Orchison @kayorchison.bsky.social
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There was no internet so in Australia we went into this cold and came out shocked Next day was the first day of drawing class in the first week of TAFE. Teacher reading the roll for the first time reached "Laura", a no-show The ENTIRE CLASS said "She's dead, wrapped in plastic" in unison HIS FACE

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Hexagon SF Magazine's avatar Hexagon SF Magazine @hexagonmagazine.bsky.social
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Hexagon submissions are open until July 7th! 🧡 We are specifically on the hunt for: 🦑 Eldritch Horror 🪳 New Weird 🏚️ Haunted or cursed places 🚫 Anti-corporation 👨‍🚀 Speculative employment 🧛🏻 Vampires on alternative diets

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Mark Chadbourn's avatar Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social
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The Lib Dems have won the last parliamentary seat, Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire. MP Angus MacDonald has a 2k majority over the SNP. It’s a totemic seat for the Lib Dems, the seat (mainly) of former party leader Charles Kennedy. The LDs now have 6 in Scotland, pushing the Tories into 4th place

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