Dr Susannah Lydon

I strongly encourage my palaeoart peers who work in the museum display sector to write explicit "no AI modification" clauses into their contracts.

Even if your employee contacts at a given museum are trustworthy, you can't rely on outsourced 3rd parties to not butcher your work without said clause.

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pete_wharmby_books & ••• HADLEY FREEMAN Wes Streeting must stand up to the ADHD activists I can help with the minister's review: some people are just confused by life Hadley Freeman pete_wharmby_books Ah, as expected the right wing press (and Freeman's pipeline from the Guardian op-Ed pages to the Times is worth looking into) is now piling on, suggesting that these scary ADHD activists are just trying to ruin things for everyone. Not, like, try to improve people's self esteem and sense of what is going on. 2025 is so horrifyingly, predictably *boring*

then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM

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Being a British parent is so weird bc you're actually worried about paying the sky high rent/mortgage & getting GP appointments but the entire press keeps telling you you're worried there's a trans person or immigrant nearby & the vat on Eton means there'll only be two skiing holidays this year

Green and grey giant lungfish.

Joining the ranks of the Kem Kem lobe-finned fish is the giant 3m-long lungfish, Neoceratodus! This genus is still represented today by a single species, the Queensland lungfish, which gets to a substantial 1.5m long.

Size comparison below ⬇️

#sciart #paleoart

A small bright red flower emerging from a hazel bud

Hazel flower #wildflowerhour

Happy birthday 🖤

The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) is one of the closest analogues for modern global warming. A new study of plants response through migration and evolution sheds light on future adaptation and carbon cycling.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#climatechange #PETM #Paleoclimate #carboncycle

This is the first known photograph of a snowman.
It was taken in Swansea, Wales, in 1853 by Victorian photography pioneer Mary Dillwyn.
📷 National Library of Wales - Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru
#christmas #snow

The Anglo-Saxon crypt of St. Wystan’s Church at Repton in Derbyshire. Dating to the 8th century, the crypt served as a royal mausoleum for two Mercian kings, as well as the resting place of St. Wystan. 📸 My own. #SaxonSunday #Repton #Derbyshire

Natalia on Shanghai Bund

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Big news. Managed to secure the Shanghai Sci-tech Coresearch Grant with the East China Normal University 🇨🇳 will be working in collaboration with Prof. Shuo Wang on the development of covert feathers (and how/if they link to structures observed in pterosaurs) 🪶 watch this space!

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This could be yours, for a small administration fee. Carved by artisans out of radium and polonium. Imagine how it would look on your mantelpiece.

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Photo of a developing slime mold that’s lime green in colour and comprised of hundreds of tiny green spheres.

A developing a Lamproderma slime mold.
Northwest Territories, Canada. Photo covers about 6” of width. Pic from a few years ago in August. A day later this had matured into a several iridescent colours.
#myxo #slime #fungifriends

Doctor Who (1963–1996) - Season 9: The Sea Devils A re-edited, feature-length version of the classic 1972 Doctor Who story that introduced audiences to the formidable aquatic species the Sea Devils.

LIVE NOW on @BBCiPlayer! THE SEA DEVILS – our 90-minute 2025 re-cut, with new music by Lorne Balfe, fresh sound by @markayresrws.bsky.social, and a few surprises. 👀 Perfect Sunday-morning viewing, before its TV debut on BBC Four tonight at 7pm. 🌊😈 GO, GO, GO!!! www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Panorama shaped photo of a mass of golden sporophytes growing on a mossy log. Backlit.

Moss sporophytes

I feel like Commander Adama warning people he won't have a network on the Galactica when I tell my family that under no circumstances will I allow a smart device into my house. No internet connected doorbells, washing machines, air fryers, lightbulbs. None. Not during my watch.

Having an incredible time down South, milder weather and a lot of fungi still about. Including the weird and wonderful like this White Basket! (Ileodyction cibarium) 😍

a new jersey-based christmas tree delivery service called Spruce Bringsteen

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We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over

Close up of a section in a fossil plant with preserved tissues, showing details of a vascular byndle with xylem (conducting) cells

Happy #FossilFriday from this smiling fossil bundle of vascular tissues! It belongs to a cladoxylopsid, an extinct group related to today's spenopsids (horsetails) & ferns 🌿⛏️ This specimen comes from Southern France & dates from the early Carboniferous, about 350 million years ago. #paleobotany

This is so good - Krusher is an elder god to anyone who was into metal in the 90s. I'd happily listen to Andrew & Krusher chat about absolutely anything.

Ethylene modulates cell wall mechanics for root responses to compaction - Nature Soil compaction traps ethylene around roots, which causes transcriptional upregulation of Auxin Response Factor1, resulting in decreased root cortical cell wall thickness and thereby promoting root ra...

Link to the paper published on Nature:

How plants push roots through hard soil Researchers have discovered how plant roots penetrate compacted soil by deploying a well-known engineering principle.

How plants push roots through hard soil.

Researchers have discovered how plant roots penetrate compacted soil by deploying a well-known engineering principle.

Bright orange Stereum (? subtomentosum) on a dead beech branch

Bird's nest fugi (?Cyathus) on a fallen trunk. The "eggs" (peridioles) have splashed out with the rain so I can't be 100% sure which one it is.

Marasmius hudsonii on a leaf of holly (finger in the background for scale)

Dark rhizomorphs (or mycelial cords) of Armillaria on a dead tree

A nice lineup of decomposers in the woods today 🌳🍄. Which are your favorite #fungi : bright fans, eyes of the forest, tiny guys, or gothic horror? [actual names in the alt text! ]

David Tennant and Paul Darrow, back to back in front of Bryan Talbot's artwork for Luther Arkwright.

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Close-up photo showing the stem with scattered hairs. The hairs are transparent, with a thick, sac-like base and long, slender, needle-like tip

Uritica dioica trichomes (hairs): The tip is glass-like, & the base of the hair is flexible. Press onto the hair, & the tip breaks as it penetrates flesh. Flexing squeezes the hair’s contents (histamines, etc.) into the wound. 📷: Jerome Prohaska CCBYSA3 #Uriticaceae #trichome #Botany 🌾🧪🌱