This week’s Micrometeorite Monday: A polished section of a V-type cosmic spherule from the Atacama Desert! This cool spherule consists almost entirely of silicate glass, plus several tiny FeNi-metal beads. ☄️ @amgc-vub.bsky.social

This week’s Micrometeorite Monday: A polished section of a Porphyritic olivine (Po-type) cosmic spherule from the Sør Rondane Mountains (Antarctica), showing typical well-defined olivine crystals in a glassy matrix with scattered magnetite grains. ☄️ @amgc-vub.bsky.social

Similarly, project lead Steven Goderis and the postdoctoral researchers did an excellent job presenting their research at Goldschmidt 2026, covering topics from #micrometeorite characterization and preservation, as well as #microtektites! ☄️ @goldschmidt-confer.bsky.social @amgc-vub.bsky.social

Back from Goldschmidt 2026 in #Montréal! We had a great time presenting our ongoing research on modern and fossil #micrometeorites! Our PhD members did an excellent job presenting their work as both posters and talks! ☄️ @goldschmidt-confer.bsky.social @amgc-vub.bsky.social @fienjo.bsky.social

This week’s Micrometeorite Monday: A polished section of a peculiar fossil I-type cosmic spherule from the Chanxhe collection (~380 Ma). Its unusual shape preserves an elongated cavity left by the ejection of a FeNi-metal bead during atmospheric entry! ☄️ @amgc-vub.bsky.social

This week’s Micrometeorite Monday: An iron (I-type) cosmic spherule from the Atacama Desert! This sample shows a characteristic magnetite-wüstite dendritic texture and a cavity where a FeNi-metal bead was once present, likely lost during atmospheric entry or weathering ☄️ @amgc-vub.bsky.social

This week’s Micrometeorite Monday: Nearly 100 of the ~1,000 Antarctic cosmic spherules on this microscope slide, captured with one of our optical stereoscopes! These tiny extraterrestrial particles measure just 63–125 µm across ☄️ @amgc-vub.bsky.social

This week’s Micrometeorite Monday: a photogenic S-type cosmic spherule from the Atacama Desert. It's of the Porphyritic Olivine (Po) subtype, though quite rich in magnetite. Full view (left) and close-up (right), highlighting its pretty magnetite dendrites! ☄️ @amgc-vub.bsky.social

This week’s Micrometeorite Monday: a nice S-type cosmic spherule from the Atacama Desert, of the cryptocrystalline (CC) subtype. This CC is more specifically of the “turtleback” variety, based on the characteristic “spiky” shape of its olivine crystals ☄️ @amgc-vub.bsky.social

This week’s Micrometeorite Monday: a nice S-type cosmic spherule from the Atacama Desert, more specifically of the Porphyritic olivine (PO)-type. It shows characteristic equant olivine crystals set in glass, along with some pretty magnetite crystals! ☄️ @amgc-vub.bsky.social

Hello everyone! To further showcase our work, we are launching "Micrometeorite Monday", a weekly post featuring a photo of one of the *thousands* of MMs discovered by the FLUX team, along with a short description for that week’s sample. We hope you enjoy this new series! ☄️ @amgc-vub.bsky.social

The team recently headed to Germany to collect ancient sediments in the hope of uncovering (more) fossil micrometeorites! ☄️ It was a fantastic trip: plenty of exploring, sampling, sharing ideas, plus enjoying a few laughs along the way! 😄 @amgc-vub.bsky.social #Micrometeorites #Fieldwork #Research

Ever wondered what our #micrometeorites look like up close, in color? This composite shows optical close-ups of FLUX samples captured by Dr. Thilo Hasse from @mfnberlin.bsky.social! Thanks, Thilo & the MfN, for these amazing results! More of their work: www.micrometeorites.org @amgc-vub.bsky.social

January continues to be a highly productive month for the team, whether we’re carrying out analyses in the lab or diving into data from our desks! Below are some snapshots of Clara, Deepak, and Jolantha hard at work, along with a view of the “Raman room” captured by Trygve ☄️ @amgc-vub.bsky.social

Starting 2026 with a new publication! 🎉 Dries Vergouwen modelled the seascape around Nea Paphos—an MA thesis turned peer-reviewed article. Very proud promotor! #archaeologycyprus #DigitalArchaeology @amgc-vub.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New insights on the seascape and a possible lighthouse in Nea Paphos, Cyprus, during the Roman period

This study investigates the hypothesis that Nea Paphos, the Roman capital of Cyprus, had a highly accessible harbour because it was readily visible fr…

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📣 Funded PhD fellowship available 📣 We are looking for a PhD student interested in functional morphology and mammalian biodiversity during the Plio-Pleistocene in sub-Saharan Africa. The candidate will be part of the ERC PLIODIS project working with Prof Dr Gabriele Macho. More info 👇

Great job to our team member, Phoenix, who presented at this year’s Dag van de Wetenschap! The focus was mainly on meteoritics, in particular the Ordovician meteor event. ☄️☄️ @amgc-vub.bsky.social

Wishing everyone a Happy New Year! ☄️😀 To start the year, here are a few snapshots from December fieldwork conducted by our team member Deepak in the Lesser Himalayas and the Kutch Basin, together with a couple of other @amgc-vub.bsky.social members! 😊

The labs are busying this afternoon with our third year Bachelor students starting their four week projects! Students are testing carbon isotopes in beers, developing DGTs to measure uranium, measuring strontium isotopes in snail shells to see how they differ from plants, and more! 🐌🌳🍺⚛️🥼

Delighted to announce the publication of 'New evidence for Pleistocene hominin presence in the north-east Arabian Desert, Iraq' by Dr's Ella Egberts, Jaafar Jotheri, and Andreas Nymark Funded by the BISI Pilot Project Grant @amgc-vub.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New evidence for Pleistocene hominin presence in the north-east Arabian Desert, Iraq | Antiquity | Cambridge Core

New evidence for Pleistocene hominin presence in the north-east Arabian Desert, Iraq

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Celebrating the start of the academic year with our @amgc-flux-team.bsky.social friends 🥼😎🎓🔥☀️ @amgc-vub.bsky.social

Lastly, the FLUX PhD and Post-docs wrapped up their week at the #EPSC with a few group photos! 📸 ☄️😀 @amgc-vub.bsky.social @fienjo.bsky.social @trygveprestgard.bsky.social

And also congratulations to our #post-doctorate members (Lisa, Samuele, and @trygveprestgard.bsky.social) for presenting their ongoing work on fossil micrometeorites! ☄️ @amgc-vub.bsky.social

A big congratulations to our PhD students who presented their posters at #EPSC last week! They (Clara, Deepak, @fienjo.bsky.social and Julius) shared their latest work on characterizing new micrometeorite collections from Greenland, the Atacama, and Antarctica! ☄️ @amgc-vub.bsky.social

The team is back from a very nice time in #Helsinki at this year's #EPSC! Below is a picture of us all, plus Vinciane Debaille of the Université Libre de Bruxelles, as well as Cem Berk Senel and Ozgur Karatekin of @orb-ksb.bsky.social! @amgc-vub.bsky.social

During these past weeks, the team has been busy analyzing many newly-found modern and fossil #micrometeorites! Featured in today's post is Clara and Samuele picking out new samples, as well as Maxwell and Trygve measuring their samples with the #Raman spectrometer! ☄️ @amgc-vub.bsky.social

We are on our way to @isba11.bsky.social 🚅 Ready for a week of archaeology and science 🏺🦴🦷🧪⚛️🥼🍝🍕

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ISBA11 starts tomorrow, and we have just one question for you... are you ready for it? #ISBA11 #biomoleculararchaeology #turin #Archaeology #Italy #conference #AreYouReady @isbarchaeology.bsky.social @archaeobiomics.bsky.social

Our bioavailable strontium baseline for Corsica is out! ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr ranges from 0.7075 to 0.7169 and was established from 245 plant & soil leachate samples from 125 sites. Check out the article here lnkd.in/e6pDJFCY and the dataset can be downloaded from the IsoArcH database here lnkd.in/eFNS5Xbw

It's time for more Raman spectra of micrometeorites! Looking forward to analyzing the large amount of data that we will be collecting over the next several days ☄️ #Spectroscopy @amgc-vub.bsky.social

Just after #Goldschmidt2025, our project's Principal Investigator, Steven Goderis, represented the FLUX team at #MetSoc2025 in Perth! ☄️ @amgc-vub.bsky.social