FloraScotica

[Jeanette Hall - ask me about woods 🌳 and newts 🦎 @JeanetteHall9]

Lovely video showing (probably) our most diverse and beautiful habitat #ScotlandsRainforest, home to myriad lichens, mosses and liverworts. And, at times, @rebecca_yahr

[FloraScotica @FScottica]

@BorisJohnson @COP26 Glad to see coal is being phased out, and hope that the other fossil fuels will go in the next draft... #PeopleToTheFront #COP26

[Jeanette Hall - ask me about woods 🌳 and newts 🦎 @JeanetteHall9]

I'm a woodland ecologist, so you might expect I'd be all for tree planting right? Well, sometimes... but not always, and we certainly can't plant our way out of climate change.

[Jeanette Hall - ask me about woods 🌳 and newts 🦎 @JeanetteHall9]

Great afternoon out with @HighlandNewt looking for white-faced darter larvae for @AnnaPMuir. We found lots but were so focused on our work that I forgot to photograph any, so here's a newly emerged Northern emerald instead!

[Jeanette Hall - ask me about woods 🌳 and newts 🦎 @JeanetteHall9]

@Wayfaringhind @BSBIbotany @PinkfootedGus Pretty sure it's male plants of Rhizomnium punctatum - a reasonably common moss in wet places. Lovely photo. @BryophyteSurvey @AverisBen can you confirm?

[FloraScotica @FScottica]

@ScienceCeilidh This is some fantastic advice! There is lots of science misinformation out there, accidental or malevolent. I also tend to use NHS for info, and GOV for restriction advice.

[FloraScotica @FScottica]

@ScienceCeilidh @BwoodHighland Here's a lovely picture from a walk near Nairn

[Science Ceilidh @ScienceCeilidh]

1 in 3 Highlanders experience #MentalIllness (according to @BwoodHighland). Our rurality can be lonely. But there are things we can all do to improve mood. Below are some of mine!
Feel free to share your #MentalHealthTips and #walk pics!

[FloraScotica @FScottica]

@HI_Voices @ScienceCeilidh I am based on the Black Isle! I am pretty inexperienced with Twitter, but would definitely like to get involved with HI_voices once I have got the hang of Twitter a bit better! Thank you!

[Science Ceilidh @ScienceCeilidh]

As well as being a great way to illustrate science concepts, crafting has been suggested to have positive outcomes on our #MentalWellbeing. Having taken up embroidery, I tend to agree! Here is a photo of my latest project. Do you think crafting improves our mental wellbeing?

[FloraScotica @FScottica]

@ScienceCeilidh @CaitlinWeldon_ @EdinburghUni That is gorgeous!

[Jeanette Hall - ask me about woods 🌳 and newts 🦎 @JeanetteHall9]

Very excited about our new paper "A co‐development approach to conservation leads to informed habitat design and rapid establishment of amphibian communities" @HighlandNewt @morss_alex @ARC_Bytes @SalfordUni @nature_scot @ForestryLS @FScottica @harteltibor
https://t.co/vGGdO6aLEn

[Lucy Lapwing @Lucy_Lapwing]

This wall caused me to stop, rub my thighs and audibly "phwooaaar" on my walk to the shop today. What a sexy fern - maidenhair spleenwort! So extravagant. So delicate. A gorgeous addition to any moist wall, with an absolutely *belting* name to boot 😍💚

[Prof Steve Carver @LandEthics]

@gow_derek Just been writing about the role of the fence in rewilding... "Good fences [may] make good neightbours" but fencing nature in or fencing out? Keeping people separate from the wild or the wild separate from people? Isn't rewilding about improving connectivity, social and natural?

[Jeanette Hall - ask me about woods 🌳 and newts 🦎 @JeanetteHall9]

Vital point. I spend a lot of time trying to get people not to plant trees (in the wrong places, with the wrong ground prep), and even more pointing out that trees are quite good at getting themselves planted by birds, wind etc. @woodywildlife @collbradan @arina_WTS @CheltTussock

[Lucy Lapwing @Lucy_Lapwing]

Another reason #ImACeleb is increasingly irrelevant. Aside from releasing non-native species (& questionable ethics), isn't it time we stop perpetuating hysterical fear of wildlife? Being surrounded by insects/snakes/rats shouldn't be horror-inducing?! https://t.co/xpzRBiXvHk

[Paisley Thomson @PaisleyThomson]

Meghan Markle won't see the all of the nasty shit you write about her but your friends who have experienced miscarriages and the loss of a baby will.

[Frédéric Suffert @wheatpath]

(1/3) In the middle of brown, a mysterious dotted green line... 🤔

[Kendra @kendrawcandraw]

I have a name you know

[FloraScotica @FScottica]

The neonate lizard, found, as these things are, running over my dad's shoe

[Jeanette Hall - ask me about woods 🌳 and newts 🦎 @JeanetteHall9]

@carcairnbaan @FScottica @Wayfaringhind @EmmaGoodyer @SaraJanePonting @Liam_M_Crowley @WildGingerRuns Cheers @carcairnbaan. Coming from you that's quite a compliment! Sadly I completed failed to get a photo of an incredibly cute neonate lizard, although @FScottica might be able to supply one that her dad took.