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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A #fernFriday friend this week. Selaginella involvens, a sub tropical lycophyte from South east Asia #BritishFernSociety #BPS #RBGE
November 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
A #fernFriday friend this week. Selaginella involvens, a sub tropical lycophyte from South east Asia #BritishFernSociety #BPS #RBGE
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We've had nearly 300 bookings for our talk on the Clubmosses of Britain and Ireland by Fred Rumsey next Tuesday evening (2nd December) and there's still places left!
Book now for free (though donations towards our work are appreciated): share.google/lQL6JQ7E9SEQ...
Book now for free (though donations towards our work are appreciated): share.google/lQL6JQ7E9SEQ...
November 28, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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PhD opportunity in our lab - deadline passes on Dec 2nd - don’t miss out!
New opportunity to undertake a PhD in my group at the John Innes Centre - if you’re interested in plant immunity and evolution check out the link!
Understanding Host Compatibility in the Marchantia-Phytophthora System (CARELLA_J26DTP) | Doctoral Training Partnership
The fossil record demonstrates that filamentous microbes invaded ancient plant cells with intracellular hyphal structures over 450 million years ago. To this day, a rich diversity of extant land plant...
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November 28, 2025 at 7:30 PM
PhD opportunity in our lab - deadline passes on Dec 2nd - don’t miss out!
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Come work with us!! 2.5 year postdoc on HGT in plants.
Please share and get in touch if interested
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPQ418/r...
Please share and get in touch if interested
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPQ418/r...
Research Associate: Horizontal Gene Transfer at University of Sheffield
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November 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Come work with us!! 2.5 year postdoc on HGT in plants.
Please share and get in touch if interested
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPQ418/r...
Please share and get in touch if interested
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPQ418/r...
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Elevated atmospheric CO2-induced reprogramming leads to decreased seed protein and nutritional quality in forest trees (Barbara Karpinska, Rosa Sanchez-Lucas, Andrew Plackett, A Rob MacKenzie, Christine Helen Foyer) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
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November 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Elevated atmospheric CO2-induced reprogramming leads to decreased seed protein and nutritional quality in forest trees (Barbara Karpinska, Rosa Sanchez-Lucas, Andrew Plackett, A Rob MacKenzie, Christine Helen Foyer) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
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Polypody fern catching the evening sun in a South Lancashire wall at Aughton ahead of @bsbibotany.bsky.social #BIBConf25 at Edge Hill tomorrow. #FernFriday
November 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Polypody fern catching the evening sun in a South Lancashire wall at Aughton ahead of @bsbibotany.bsky.social #BIBConf25 at Edge Hill tomorrow. #FernFriday
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November 28, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
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Welcome back to #FossilFriday
Here is a piece of limestone with beautiful Rafinesquina trentonensis brachiopods I collected from the Upper Ordovician (Katian) in Jefferson County, Missouri. These rocks are age equivalent to the upper portion of the Cincinnatian Series. Anyone like seafood?
Here is a piece of limestone with beautiful Rafinesquina trentonensis brachiopods I collected from the Upper Ordovician (Katian) in Jefferson County, Missouri. These rocks are age equivalent to the upper portion of the Cincinnatian Series. Anyone like seafood?
November 28, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Welcome back to #FossilFriday
Here is a piece of limestone with beautiful Rafinesquina trentonensis brachiopods I collected from the Upper Ordovician (Katian) in Jefferson County, Missouri. These rocks are age equivalent to the upper portion of the Cincinnatian Series. Anyone like seafood?
Here is a piece of limestone with beautiful Rafinesquina trentonensis brachiopods I collected from the Upper Ordovician (Katian) in Jefferson County, Missouri. These rocks are age equivalent to the upper portion of the Cincinnatian Series. Anyone like seafood?
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Você conhece o Parque Vale dos Dinossauros em Sousa-PB? É a maior concentração de pegadas de dinossauros no Brasil! #FossilFriday
November 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Você conhece o Parque Vale dos Dinossauros em Sousa-PB? É a maior concentração de pegadas de dinossauros no Brasil! #FossilFriday
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🎶 DON AMOTT, KING OF CARAVANS
THE PRICE IS RIGHT, AND THE CHOICE IS YOURS 🎶
THE PRICE IS RIGHT, AND THE CHOICE IS YOURS 🎶
November 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
🎶 DON AMOTT, KING OF CARAVANS
THE PRICE IS RIGHT, AND THE CHOICE IS YOURS 🎶
THE PRICE IS RIGHT, AND THE CHOICE IS YOURS 🎶
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Since yesterday was Lancashire Day, here's a Lancastrian #FossilFriday post!
This may look like an ammonite, but this is Gastrioceras, a chunky goniatite.
Goniatites are often found crushed in mudstone, however this one is beautifully pyritized and preserved in 3D.
🏛️ Leeds Museums and Galleries
This may look like an ammonite, but this is Gastrioceras, a chunky goniatite.
Goniatites are often found crushed in mudstone, however this one is beautifully pyritized and preserved in 3D.
🏛️ Leeds Museums and Galleries
November 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Since yesterday was Lancashire Day, here's a Lancastrian #FossilFriday post!
This may look like an ammonite, but this is Gastrioceras, a chunky goniatite.
Goniatites are often found crushed in mudstone, however this one is beautifully pyritized and preserved in 3D.
🏛️ Leeds Museums and Galleries
This may look like an ammonite, but this is Gastrioceras, a chunky goniatite.
Goniatites are often found crushed in mudstone, however this one is beautifully pyritized and preserved in 3D.
🏛️ Leeds Museums and Galleries
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Black Friday has a somewhat different meaning in Hookland and it certainly isn’t a festival of consumerism …
November 28, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Black Friday has a somewhat different meaning in Hookland and it certainly isn’t a festival of consumerism …
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#FossilFriday
Victorian Christmas cards: "Ideal impression of a future creation discovered by professors Ichthyosaurus, Megalosaurus and Co." printed by Thomas De la Rue for the Natural History Museum of London 🎄🧪⚒️
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Victorian Christmas cards: "Ideal impression of a future creation discovered by professors Ichthyosaurus, Megalosaurus and Co." printed by Thomas De la Rue for the Natural History Museum of London 🎄🧪⚒️
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November 28, 2025 at 4:21 PM
#FossilFriday
Victorian Christmas cards: "Ideal impression of a future creation discovered by professors Ichthyosaurus, Megalosaurus and Co." printed by Thomas De la Rue for the Natural History Museum of London 🎄🧪⚒️
paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2023/12/24/v...
Victorian Christmas cards: "Ideal impression of a future creation discovered by professors Ichthyosaurus, Megalosaurus and Co." printed by Thomas De la Rue for the Natural History Museum of London 🎄🧪⚒️
paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2023/12/24/v...
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332 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️
Glaucophane:
- An amphibole group mineral
- Forms in the blueschist metamorphic facies (low temperature, high pressure)
- Its name comes from the Greek words "γλαυκός/glaukos" (sky blue) and "φαίνεσθαι/phainestai" (to appear) because of its colour #minerals
Glaucophane:
- An amphibole group mineral
- Forms in the blueschist metamorphic facies (low temperature, high pressure)
- Its name comes from the Greek words "γλαυκός/glaukos" (sky blue) and "φαίνεσθαι/phainestai" (to appear) because of its colour #minerals
November 28, 2025 at 10:55 AM
332 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️
Glaucophane:
- An amphibole group mineral
- Forms in the blueschist metamorphic facies (low temperature, high pressure)
- Its name comes from the Greek words "γλαυκός/glaukos" (sky blue) and "φαίνεσθαι/phainestai" (to appear) because of its colour #minerals
Glaucophane:
- An amphibole group mineral
- Forms in the blueschist metamorphic facies (low temperature, high pressure)
- Its name comes from the Greek words "γλαυκός/glaukos" (sky blue) and "φαίνεσθαι/phainestai" (to appear) because of its colour #minerals
Last weekend was my oldest's 21st birthday, and for her party we had to come as someone from the last 5021 years.
Here's me as Mary Anning. You can tell I'm her because I'm holding vertebrae from a plesiosaur and an ichthyosaur.
#FossilFriday
Here's me as Mary Anning. You can tell I'm her because I'm holding vertebrae from a plesiosaur and an ichthyosaur.
#FossilFriday
November 28, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Last weekend was my oldest's 21st birthday, and for her party we had to come as someone from the last 5021 years.
Here's me as Mary Anning. You can tell I'm her because I'm holding vertebrae from a plesiosaur and an ichthyosaur.
#FossilFriday
Here's me as Mary Anning. You can tell I'm her because I'm holding vertebrae from a plesiosaur and an ichthyosaur.
#FossilFriday
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A 125 Ma old log provides a seat. Compton Bay #Isleofwight. Probably Pseudofrenelopsis, an extinct genus of conifer. #FossilFriday
November 21, 2025 at 6:27 PM
A 125 Ma old log provides a seat. Compton Bay #Isleofwight. Probably Pseudofrenelopsis, an extinct genus of conifer. #FossilFriday
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Matonia pectinata is a beautifully-shaped fern, and the family it belongs to can be traced back to the Late Triassic. When researching I often make reference sheets like this of the most useful figures, photos & illustrations I can find. Most pics from iNaturalist or Flickr. #paleobotany #botany
November 28, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Matonia pectinata is a beautifully-shaped fern, and the family it belongs to can be traced back to the Late Triassic. When researching I often make reference sheets like this of the most useful figures, photos & illustrations I can find. Most pics from iNaturalist or Flickr. #paleobotany #botany
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A pint in a pub with a much-loved actor reminds Robin Ince how important it is to celebrate people while they are still around to hear it.
I went to the pub with Max Quordlepleen from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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November 28, 2025 at 6:30 AM
A pint in a pub with a much-loved actor reminds Robin Ince how important it is to celebrate people while they are still around to hear it.
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Yet again Sheffield University management are forcing sheffielducu.bsky.social members out on strike f/ Monday to protect staff jobs, student educ, + research progress which are under threat by major (and financially unnecessary) change management processes.
Another university has to be possible!
Another university has to be possible!
November 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Yet again Sheffield University management are forcing sheffielducu.bsky.social members out on strike f/ Monday to protect staff jobs, student educ, + research progress which are under threat by major (and financially unnecessary) change management processes.
Another university has to be possible!
Another university has to be possible!
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As it's Black Friday, there's a whopping 30% off all my self-published books with the code GIFT30. It's worth taking the opportunity to pick up Top Of The Box Vol. 2 and Keep Left, Swipe Right as they are both frankly massive. And indeed massively cheaper.
timworthington.org/books/
timworthington.org/books/
Books
Books by writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington.
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November 28, 2025 at 7:09 AM
As it's Black Friday, there's a whopping 30% off all my self-published books with the code GIFT30. It's worth taking the opportunity to pick up Top Of The Box Vol. 2 and Keep Left, Swipe Right as they are both frankly massive. And indeed massively cheaper.
timworthington.org/books/
timworthington.org/books/
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Oreodonts are extinct mammals that looked similar to pigs and sheep, but were more closely related to camels. They are the most commonly found fossil in the White River Badlands in South Dakota, and this exceptional specimen from our collection shows an oreodont curled up inside its burrow.
November 27, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Oreodonts are extinct mammals that looked similar to pigs and sheep, but were more closely related to camels. They are the most commonly found fossil in the White River Badlands in South Dakota, and this exceptional specimen from our collection shows an oreodont curled up inside its burrow.
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Go my Bothriolepis... This year's fish pecan pie! Bothriolepis was a peculiar-looking placoderm from the Devonian period or the Paleozoic. It had two long pointed pectoral fins and silly little eyes on top of its head.
#fossil #fish #paleontology #bothriolepis
#fossil #fish #paleontology #bothriolepis
November 27, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Go my Bothriolepis... This year's fish pecan pie! Bothriolepis was a peculiar-looking placoderm from the Devonian period or the Paleozoic. It had two long pointed pectoral fins and silly little eyes on top of its head.
#fossil #fish #paleontology #bothriolepis
#fossil #fish #paleontology #bothriolepis
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Usual story - plenty of wine bottles but no corkscrew.
November 15, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Usual story - plenty of wine bottles but no corkscrew.
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"Do you want me to sit in a corner and rust, or just fall apart where I'm standing?"
November 27, 2025 at 10:39 PM
"Do you want me to sit in a corner and rust, or just fall apart where I'm standing?"