Roberto Rizzo
@robrizzo.bsky.social
Assist. Prof. in Structural Geology and Rock Mechanics at Utrecht University @uugeo.bsky.social. 🇮🇹->🏴->🇮🇹->🇳🇱. Co-author of FracPaQ | Rock Deformation | Synchrotron uCT | Image Analysis | Machine Learning | Wavelets | Statistics
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Talc can form underground through metamorphism of minerals like serpentinite. When that happens in fault zones, the mineral can weaken faults and affect whether they creep, slip slowly, or rupture quickly. With that #FunFact, #talc gets our vote today! #MinCup26 eos.org/research-spo...
Talc May Make Mexico’s Subduction Zone More Slippery - Eos
Production of the weak, water-bearing mineral at the interface between the Cocos and North American Plates could contribute to the occurrence of poorly understood episodic tremor and slow slip.
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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup@mineralcup.bsky.social · 2w ago#MinCup26 Round 1 Match 8: It’s a pair of soft and lovely minerals as Stichtite and Talc compete for your votes. VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...
Fermat’s last theorem has been turned into computer-verified code for the first time, using an advanced prototype of AI chatbot Claude go.nature.com/46cYQc1
Anthropic AI ‘formalizes’ proof of Fermat’s last theorem in just 11 days
Claude produced a 13-million-line, computer-checked proof of the famed conjecture — a major milestone in mathematics.
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Two extraordinary charts from today’s PISA test results: 1) School test scores continue to collapse internationally, underscoring how this is no longer a Covid effect but sustained decline. Those falls in reading and maths are equivalent to about two years of lost schooling.
Got to take this opportunity to show one of the coolest rocks I've ever come across: it contains both a trilobite fossil and big andalusite crystals. Monazite is also cool, though.
Mineral Cup & Ore Cup@mineralcup.bsky.social · 2w ago#MinCup26 Round 1 Match 7 It's a color-changing match of informative minerals! Time-tracker #Monazite-(Ce)'s yellow in sunlight darkens to orange in incandescent light while index mineral #Andalusite is pleochroic VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...
Geotweeps, do you want a brief cameo in an upcoming subduction related video? If so: send me a short cell phone movie clip (landscape orientation, not "portrait") of you doing the "subduction" arm movements with your hand. No explanation, just 3 seconds of the "one arm goes under the other" motion.
I hereby declare the "learn to code" era officially dead: Big declines in the number of people studying computer science in the last year or two 📉 Chart from this week’s edition of our newsletter on AI and the labour market www.ft.com/content/9183...
Humanity's 1.5°C warming goal must now be approached "from above" by carbon dioxide removal—as an overshoot of that limit is certain, a @unep.org report warns. eos.org/research-and...
The World Will Overshoot 1.5°C and Must Now Remove Carbon, United Nations Says - Eos
Humanity is certain to exceed the warming limit set by the Paris Agreement, a legally binding treaty meant to cap the world’s carbon emissions, according to a new report from the United Nations Enviro...
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La questione meridionale riguarda il modello di Paese che vogliamo diventare. Settembre ce lo ricorda ogni anno, mentre qualcuno chiude una valigia e riparte. Silvia Giandoriggio possibile.com/fine-agosto-...
A fine agosto il sud di svuota, di nuovo. Non rendiamo poetica una disuguaglianza | Possibile
La questione meridionale riguarda il modello di Paese che vogliamo diventare. Settembre ce lo ricorda ogni anno, mentre qualcuno chiude una valigia e riparte. Possiamo continuare a trasformare quella valigia in una fotografia malinconica della fine dell’estate, oppure domandarci quanta libertà possa contenere quella valigia: la libertà di restare, la libertà di partire, la libertà di tornare. La libertà di scegliere di avere una possibilità.
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I'm seeking to fill a #PhD position in my #structuralgeology group @uni-jena.de on deep #geothermal resources in central Germany. The post is ideal for #geoscience students with interest in brittle deformation, #tectonic stress analysis and #fieldwork. jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/4...
🧵 Il clima collassa, il governo tace e noi parliamo di Ranucci e woke www.valigiablu.it/piano-clima-...
Il clima collassa, il governo tace e noi parliamo di Ranucci e woke - Valigia Blu
Tra caldo record, incendi e consumo di suolo, l'Italia affronta il collasso climatico con un Piano senza fondi. Analisi del ritardo istituzionale.
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Tajani: "Sono a disposizione della famiglia Di Battista". Ma non credo sia il momento della clownterapia. [pirata21]
È già successo in Basilicata, Puglia, Campania, Veneto ed Emilia Romagna. Ieri, invece, le conseguenze drammatiche della crisi climatica si sono abbattute su Cremona, distrutta da forti piogge e grandine. Il cambiamento climatico è già qui e non si sta nascondendo.
E la politica? Non pervenuta. L’economia reale sta pagando un prezzo altissimo a causa della mancanza di iniziative strutturali di adattamento e mitigazione. Esiste il PNACC (Piano Nazionale di Adattamento ai Cambiamenti Climatici) ma pare sia ricoperto di polvere, non del deserto ma dell’inazione.
An incredibly well-timed Landsat 9 pass captured the effects of yesterday’s catastrophic glacier collapse near the Nepal–Tibet border. The event was so massive that it was detected by seismometers around the world.
🎓 MIT tells universities to stop relying on AI detectors Its new report says detectors misread non-native English speakers and neurodivergent students. 🔗 aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/#31-a... #AI #HigherEducation #CriticalAI 🧪
26 agosto 2026: la frana in Nepal e l’analisi dei sismogrammi
26 agosto 2026: la frana in Nepal e l’analisi dei sismogrammi
https://ingvterremoti.com/2026/08/27/26-agosto-2026-la-frana-in-nepal-e-lanalisi-dei-sismogrammi/
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3% of a giant Western Australian forest died in a record drought in 2023-24. Now, scientists have used the damage to develop a surprising new tool for predicting future die-offs: gamma rays.🌲⚡ Read more in @science.org: www.science.org/content/arti... #tree #forest #drought #climate #climatechange
To predict tree death, scientists tapped gamma rays to peer underground
Airborne radiation sensors could help forecast and prevent drought-driven tree mortality
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El Niño? Climate change? All of the above?
What’s behind this summer’s heat, and why 2027 could be worse
El Niño? Climate change? All of the above?
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Meloni: "Se avessimo vissuto in quell'epoca, avremmo percepito il fascismo diversamente". Con le buone o con le cattive. [gionuein dei poveri]
Di record in record stiamo entrando in territori inesplorati. Il 22 agosto la superficie dei mari ha raggiunto una temperatura media senza precedenti da quando si rilevano dati: 21,10 °C. Superato di un centesimo di grado il triste primato stabilito nel 2024. Lo comunica Copernicus
Nuova ondata di calore. A partire dal 24-25 agosto il caldo tornerà ad intensificarsi sull’Italia meridionale, sui Balcani, sulla Grecia e sulla Turchia occidentale. Italia. Sulla nostra penisola maggiormente colpite Sardegna, Sicilia, Calabria, Campania meridionale, Basilicata e Puglia…1/8
Immagini drammatiche dal satellite Sentinel-1: dal ghiacciaio Petermann in Groenlandia si è staccato un iceberg di 76 km quadrati. Si stima che possa essere spesso fino a 150 metri www.esa.int/Applications...
Me and my 20 co-authors wrote a review paper on the active tectonics of the eastern part of the Alps. We summarise data from many decades of research to see the pattern of active deformation. We discuss if it's controlled by the configuration of slabs at great depth: eos.org/editor-highl...
Tectonics and Deglaciation Govern Eastern-Southern Alps at Slow Rates - Eos
Transnational, multiproxy, and interdisciplinary datasets locate seismic hazard and show that slow-rate tectonic and deglaciation deformation overrate mantle processes in the Southern-Eastern Alps.
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