Dr Savanna van Mesdag 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦

Mostly inactive on here now. Please check out a certain prehistoric mammal - @[email protected], Instagram - savanna_the_nature_fan and more!

[Dr Savanna van Mesdag 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @Savanna___94]

This is really bloody disappointing but not entirely surprising. Because of this development, I'm going to pretty much leave Twitter for a while, although I won't delete my profile in case people need to get in touch with me via DM. https://t.co/JCGrKu2Cjr

[Dr Savanna van Mesdag 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @Savanna___94]

@CalebBohus Many thanks! :-)

[Dr Savanna van Mesdag 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @Savanna___94]

Arghgh, I wouldn't normally post on here but I don't know of all that many suitable places to post to a wide audience. Could anyone please help me with this invert ID? My friend spotted it today after removing some 1980s carpet in her new flat in the centre of Edinburgh.

[Dr Savanna van Mesdag 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @Savanna___94]

Just to add, she reckons it's about 2 cm in length, so pretty hefty for a ?potential? pest species.

[Dr Savanna van Mesdag 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @Savanna___94]

@scotfot Many, *many* thanks for sharing this, I really appreciate it. I very much hope you're well.

[Dr Savanna van Mesdag 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @Savanna___94]

This is really bloody disappointing but not entirely surprising. Because of this development, I'm going to pretty much leave Twitter for a while, although I won't delete my profile in case people need to get in touch with me via DM. https://t.co/JCGrKu2Cjr

[Dr Savanna van Mesdag 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @Savanna___94]

Ohhh boy, there's some interesting things said here...

[David Ho @_david_ho_]

Often, this newspaper clipping from ~111 years ago is shared showing that we knew burning coal causes global warming.

What's not shared is that the original Popular Mechanics piece — from which this article was reprinted — thought global warming would be a good thing.

[Ian Jeffrey @IanJeffrey17]

Caves & fissures in shaded limestone provide a challenging niche for #bryophytes. To grow here, species need to tolerate very low light and, if water seeps in, possible "entombment" in tufa. This small cave hosts Mnium stellare, Rhynchostegiella teneriffae, and Gyroweisia tenuis.

[Dr Savanna van Mesdag 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @Savanna___94]

@JMT_MHL @umich_paleobot Hooray!

[Dr Savanna van Mesdag 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @Savanna___94]

Ohhhhh wow, I was *not* aware this is a thing! 😱😱😱😫😫😫😡😡😡

[Dr Savanna van Mesdag 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @Savanna___94]

@jethroreading32 @crevicedwelling Gotta love the Burnished Brass moth. ☺️☺️

[Dr Savanna van Mesdag 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @Savanna___94]

@phoenixashes189 I personally don't think of foundation as skincare? I think of it as makeup. I too can't stand makeup on my face, so I can relate. I find keeping my face clean with a flannel and very hot water once or twice a day helps a lot when the skin on my face is struggling. 🙂

[Dr Savanna van Mesdag 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @Savanna___94]

I find it hard to access certain articles even as a PhD student at a major University. Just some journals seem to be really difficult? I'd like to think authors would be polite and much more understanding, even if they couldn't provide the article for some reason...

[Braxton Jones @StickmanBraxton]

In case you haven't already seen, there was an amazing new species of stick insect described last week. Everyone definitely needs to see this phasmid!

Photos by Bruno Kneubühler

https://t.co/8YX1b8qweD

[Dr Savanna van Mesdag 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @Savanna___94]

@WryCritic @rarebirdmedia Stig looking very serious there! 😆

[Adam Bassett @Adamdbassett]

First saw this bird in Dec 2020 feeding high in a birch when I initially mistook it for a Linnet. It returned last Winter and again yesterday (unless it's hybrid offspring?). Always with Goldfinches but the first time on the garden feeders. Presumed Goldfinch x Linnet hybrid.

[Dr Savanna van Mesdag 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @Savanna___94]

@GoWildForBees Definitely! 😃😃

[Dr Savanna van Mesdag 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @Savanna___94]

Information like this ought to be part of every child's currriculum by now. It's a shame that we'll likely have more and more years of ignorance and bigotry before most people understand and appreciate all of this.

[Jazmeen Isa Qureshi🐝🏳️‍⚧️🍉(they/she) @GoWildForBees]

Ok the worlds in turmoil, accusations keep getting thrown around...so let's talk about hormones.
Biology determines your sex and your gender, it's not natural to be trans, men are different than women biologically...right? Wrong. Sex is a spectrum. As are all things biological.

[Dr. Solomon David @SolomonRDavid]

Snoots