A study in Discover Education explores how insights from autistic students can help reshape higher education (Jeffery et al., 2025). What would make universities more inclusive? bit.ly/4uG6S8s #MedSky

Beautiful olivine breakdown texture in a peralkaline syenite. #thinsectionthursday #geology #science #minerals #rocks #microscope #microscopy

Little (< 0.3 mm) intercumulus crystals of dalyite (bright interference colours) surrounded by alkali feldspar in a peralkaline syenite. #thinsectionthursday #geology #science #minerals #rocks #microscope #microscopy

Spectacular olivine dolerite from Fair Head, County Antrim in XPL for #ThinSectionThursday. Olivine shows particularly vibrant interference colours while the ophitic intergrowth of twinned plagioclase and clinopyroxene is a textbook quality example. 🧪⚒️🌋

Fractured glassy breccia meets bubbly microcrystalline basalt in a hyaloclastite from Iceland (or is it Greenland, I can never remember...). #thinsectionthursday #geology #science #minerals #rocks #microscope #microscopy

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Olivine and clinopyroxene phenocrysts in a plagioclase-rich groundmass - Vesicular basalt lava flow, Azores #thinsectionthursday #geology #science #minerals #rocks #microscope #microscopy

While I'm advocating for plane-polarised light, here is some nice hauyne (blue), alongside leucite (colourless, varying size), and a small amount of clinopyroxene (greens/browns). #thinsectionthursday #geology #science #minerals #rocks #microscope #microscopy

An eclogitic demonstration that the simplicity of PPL can be just as good as interference colours. #thinsectionthursday #geology #science #minerals #rocks #microscope #microscopy

Comment: Unearthing autistic voices in geosciences, an overlooked minority hidden in plain sight [free to access (via a free Nature account) for one month] www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#Autistic people in #geoscience, #highereducation, and beyond, are asking you to understand who they are, rather than what they are. If you would be willing to listen, please consider taking 15 minutes of your time to read this short article: rdcu.be/eUU8E #autism #inclusion #neurodiversity

Autistic voices are an overlooked minority in geosciences

Nature Geoscience - Autism remains an under-recognized and under-represented aspect of inclusivity conversations in geosciences. We highlight an urgent need for support and recognition of autistic...

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In Ep.9 of Voices of Belonging we showcase the work of @agpaitic-adam.bsky.social and colleagues @keeleuniversity.bsky.social to remove barriers to #belonging for #autistic learners #autism #neurodiversity #inclusion #nothingaboutuswithoutus #student #belonging open.spotify.com/episode/1CAZ...

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My office has become very big and breezy this week, with more cavorting fighter jets than usual. Spectacular #geology in the lake district. #fieldwork

The inaugural publication for the #geoscienceeducation thematic collection in Earth Science, Systems, and Society (#ES3) (a @geolsoc.bsky.social journal). Written by Natalie Bursztyn and team about ‘Using Immersive Virtual Reality to Measure Strike and Dip and Teach Geological Mapping Concepts’.

If you're at #EGU and interested in hearing what #autistic students have to say to you about #geoscience #education and #inclusion, we'll be sharing their voices on Thursday (1st May) at 12:10-12:20 CEST in Room 2.21.

Olivine olivine, and some more olivine in a peridotite. #thinsectionthursday #geology #science #minerals #rocks

A nice transition from katophorite (brown) into ferro-eckermannite (blue) and then aegirine (green) in the interstitial space of a peralkaline syenite #thinsectionthursday #geology #science #minerals #rocks

Cross polarised light view of basalt from the Massif Central with large olivine phenocrysts, beautiful elongate plagioclase laths and interstitial clinopyroxene #ThinSectionThursday 🧪⚒️

A nice schist with muscovite, kyanite/sillimanite, chlorite, and twinned plagioclase. #thinsectionthursday #geology #science #minerals #rocks

A serpentinite mesh texture for #ThinsectionThursday. Or is it a piece of modern art? 🖌️ Note how there are several generations of serpentine, among them a clear one that filled the first fractures, and a dark one (full of magnetite) that replaced the rest of the olivine.

The isle of Rùm and its layered intrusion remain undefeated for thin sections. Foliated troctolite (ol+plag) or 'allivalite' from Hallival, in the NMS rock collection. #ThinSectionThursday

Glassy lava from Tongoa Island, Vaunatu, in plane polarised light. Clinopyroxene and plagioclase form glomerophyric clusters. These are surrounded by rounded vesicles (gas bubbles) frozen into the brown glass (liquid) when the lava was rapidly quenched #ThinSectionThursday 🧪⚒️

Last #ThinSectionThursday of the day. Depressed quartz. aka an embayed #quartz phenocryst in a foliated #granite FOV 3 mm ⚒️ #geology #igneousrocks #petrography #science

A relict olivine crystal being insidiously replaced by serpentine in a forsterite-diopside marble. #thinsectionthursday #geology #science #minerals #rocks

Tried a diff. approach w/ PPT slides this year. Rather than slide numbers, the slides transition from morning through to evening to indicate progression, with diff. animals throughout. Gives the chance to sneak one easter egg into each lecture too. #highereducation #teachers #edusky #education

A local #ThinSectionThursday today. Clinopyroxene- and olivine-phyric basalt from Holyrood Park, Edinburgh. Location given as St Anthony's Chapel, so probably lava two or three of the Arthur's Seat lava succession.

Clinopyroxene, plagioclase, and abundant leucite (hiding in plain sight) in a tephritic lava from Vesuvius, Italy #thinsectionthursday #geology #science #minerals #rocks

Quartz and alkali feldspar in a swirling rhyolite from Arran, Scotland. #thinsectionthursday #geology #science #minerals #rocks

Tholeiitic dolerite from Ben Hiant summit, Ardnamurchan, Scotland, which forms the highest point on the British mainland's most westerly projection. On a clear day the 360° (horizontal) panorama is unbeatable ... but this beauty is beneath your feet! #ThinSectionThursday ⚒️🧪🌋