Dr Susannah Lydon

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Dr Susannah Lydon@susieoftraken· 26d

Stop scrolling & post two characters who bring you happiness

Laszlo and Nadja WWDITS. A vampire man with long hair & a beard stares at a vampire woman with very long hair with a beautiful red streak. It is clear they love each other very much.

Dr Susannah Lydon@susieoftraken· Jul 9

If you see this, post your comfort characters 💘

Andrew Skilleter poster for The Five Doctors. I can hear the electronic crumhorn.

Dr Susannah Lydon@susieoftraken· Jul 9

A terileptil, surely?

3 terileptils hanging out in London in 1666 in the Doctor Who serial The Visitation.

Dr Susannah Lydon@susieoftraken· Jul 1

Can you spot the 🦋? #WollemiaWednesday

A Wollemia in the sunshine surrounded by garden flowers. Pink flowers in the foreground, yellow behind. There's a white butterfly.

Dr Susannah Lydon@susieoftraken· Jun 29

Drop some COPS

Shooty and Bangbang of the Galactic Police. It isn't easy being a cop.

Dr Susannah Lydon@susieoftraken· Jun 27

Erm yes. Many of us have bad fortune with them - me included. I wonder if the places we tend to put them for light are frequently places that are well-ventilated. I poisoned mine by cooking chutney in the kitchen. The acidic fumes turned the fern brown. Like an acid rain experiment :(

A crappy-looking Adiantum in a pot on a kitchen windowsill

Dr Susannah Lydon@susieoftraken· Jun 27

Immature female Thuja cones look like a mini Audrey II #FeedMeSeymour

An immature female cone from a Thuja tree, or Audrey Ii.

Dr Susannah Lydon@susieoftraken· Jun 27

Hadn't been on campus for a month because I've been on strike. My favourite Marchantia lawn has been prettified with angiosperms 😭😭😭

MIxed wildflower type planting in a bed outside Life Science building

Dr Susannah Lydon@susieoftraken· Jun 25

Yep

Dryopteris wallichiana Jurassic Gold - a big green fern with a gold tinge

Dr Susannah Lydon@susieoftraken· Jun 23

If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula.

Poor doomed Claudia from Interview with the Vampire

Dr Susannah Lydon@susieoftraken· Jun 19

Very nice - my purple ones have a big heel. Yes, New Rocks as a form of weight-training.

A purple New Rock boot with a chunky metal heel

Dr Susannah Lydon@susieoftraken· Jun 19

Since there's a lot of love for all things algal right now... A chunk of Jurassic stromatolite, a structure formed by repeated layers of sediment and microbial mats (often cyanobacteria), making a blobby hummock. These guys have been doing their thing for 3.5 billion years. #FossilFriday ⚒️🌍🟢🔬🧪

A wrinkly, grey blob of a rock, on a 50mm grid desk top. It's a stromatolite from the Purbeck beds of the Isle of Portland, Dorset.

Side-on view of a broken side of a wrinkly, grey blob of a rock, on a 50mm grid desk top. It's a stromatolite from the Purbeck beds of the Isle of Portland, Dorset.

Dr Susannah Lydon@susieoftraken· Jun 17

Need to reset my Selaginella uncinata container. I'm struck by how white but otherwise perfect some of the poor tortured plants are. Reminds me of bleached coral.

Selaginella uncinata growing in a glass container. Some is mid green, some is mid pink, some is white, with every colour in-between.

Dr Susannah Lydon@susieoftraken· Jun 16

Prehistoric monsters Top Trumps. I had them when I was small so late 70s/early 80s.

Prehistoric monsters Top Trumps - has a delightfully retro T. rex

Dr Susannah Lydon@susieoftraken· Jun 16

#TrilobiteTuesday

A Top Trumps card from the 1980s for TRILOBITE. The trilobite in the picture is pink with long genal spines and is weirdly smiley.

Dr Susannah Lydon@susieoftraken· Jun 12

Blake, as he appears to Avon, in Terminal. None of it is real.

Dr Susannah Lydon@susieoftraken· Jun 11

It's up there with the single funniest thing I ever saw on Twitter

Chapter One
THE EVE OF THE WAR
No-one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that hu-man affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space. No-one could have dreamed we were being scrutinised, as someone with a micro-scope studies creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. Few men even considered the possibility of life on other planets. And yet, across the gulf of space, minds immeasurably superior to ours regarded this Earth with envious eyes and, slowly and surely, they drew their plans against us.
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Dr Susannah Lydon@susieoftraken· Jun 8

Archegoniophores: egg-bearing structures on female Marchantia polymorpha plants. They look like tiny green umbrellas that have lost their canopy. The blobby things below are the Marchantia thallus - the main bit of the plant. 💚☂️💚☂️💚☂️💚☂️💚 #MarchantiaMonday

Archegoniophores of Marchantia - looking like umbrellas that have lost their canopy. Green blobby thalli beneath them.

Dr Susannah Lydon@susieoftraken· Jun 5

A massive mollusc for #FossilFriday Bourgetia is a 160 million year old gastropod from the tropical seas of the Yorkshire Jurassic. The grid on my desk is 50mm. There's a good article about these and other upper Jurassic snails here: fossilsinthills.weebly.com/blogs/the-tw... ⚒️🌍🐚🐌🔬🧪

A buff-coloured spiral gastropod shell Bourgetia. It's about 15cm tall.

Dr Susannah Lydon@susieoftraken· Jun 5

Make a Doctor Who title less scary

A title card for the JNT era story Reimbursement of the Daleks

Dr Susannah Lydon@susieoftraken· Jun 3

Wollemia is critically endangered in the wild. Here's some of the trees I've grown from seeds, collected from trees that were part of the amazing conservation strategy (work out how to propagate at scale & then sell the trees around the world). #WollemiaWednesday

A Wollemia tree with pale coloured new growth and some sunburnt leaves from last Spring, surrounded by lots of other garden plants running riot.

Three Wollemias of different sizes in pots against the brick wall of a house. There's a blackberry plant in a tub next to them.

Dr Susannah Lydon@susieoftraken· May 22

Overly honest museum labels #1 "Graptolites which look as if someone has scribbled all over the rock!" Leptograptus capillaris, on display in National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh #FossilFriday 🌍⚒️✏🧪🔬