Critical minerals workshop on using airborne hyperspectral data to "identify, discriminate, and map minerals across the western U.S" University of Utah, September 29, 2026
Department of Atmospheric Sciences - The University of Utah
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Earthologist in a Chem Dept. Fargo; from St.Paul Minneapolis. U Minn. Immigrant son 🇩🇪🇱🇹/🇮🇳, spouse to 🇮🇸. 2x Fulbright #T1D ally ❤️Chicago. Geology! ☔️ doktrock.net
Global race for critical minerals drives new investment into Malawi as Australian miner snaps up rare earth project 🌍 #OmniGaza #AfricanIntel
Global race for critical minerals drives new investment into Malawi as Australian miner snaps up rare earth project
AuKing Mining has agreed to acquire the Machinga Heavy Rare Earths Project, reinforcing Malawi’s growing role in the global race to secure critical minerals used in clean energy and advanced technologies
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The Order of Things Lauren Fensterstock Permanent collection of the North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks 
![Text accompanying the artwork (abbreviated).
The Order of Things
2015-16
Shells, wood, paints, spray foam, and rubber
Lauren Fensterstock is an artist, writer, curator, and educator based in Portland, Maine. With a background in jewelry smithing, the artist has always been drawn to the intricate and complex forms embedded in the decorative arts as well as forms found in the natural world. The Order of Things was part of a body of work titled "grottoes" inspired by the artificial caves found in palatial gardens throughout Europe.
The artist described being "obsessed" with them because the natural and the artificial co-mingled. "It's in a natural space, but it's really an augmented natural space. Sometimes they would take, in the 18th century, a cave and reform it, cover the entire surface with shells or another kind of ornament, and create a space that really merged nature and culture."
The shells ... were sourced... in coastal Maine and supplemented by scouring estate sales, eBay, and donations... Despite the incredible complexity and variety of shell specimens, they are covered in a monochromatic black that momentarily arrests the composition. And yet, the festooned forms seem to spill out of the grid-like niches in this oversized curio cabinet as if the organic energy cannot be contained by the absolutist forms of geometry. The [work] takes its title from an influential book by... Michel Foucault whose writings systematically dismantled the foundations of rationalist Enlightenment thinking. Fensterstock explains that [the work] pokes holes in Western fantasies of mastery. Whether mastery over nature, mastery over ourselves, or mastery over the techniques of aesthetic, consumption; the Post-
Enlightenment has been a period obsessed with imposed order and autonomy. These delusions are at best impossible and at worst the cause of devastating harm. The Order of Things suggests a force beyond human control and the potential for an integrated way forward."
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📣 We're hiring a Professor of Physical Geography 📣 We’re looking for an outstanding physical geographer or environmental scientist who combines scholarly distinction with a collaborative, creative and ambitious approach. Closing date: 22/09/2026 Apply now: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSM837/p...
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New video on the geology of the Baraboo Syncline in Wisconsin,: youtu.be/y5e3aeGDiQU?... ⚒️
Geology of the Baraboo Syncline, Wisconsin
YouTube video by Callan Bentley
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Absolutely insane footage of rock avalanches currently sweeping across the entire south face of the Matterhorn, as filmed from Cervinia! 🔥😱 📽️ Via @meteovalledosta
Pleqse share!! Postdoc opportunity for near-real-time landslide detection in Alaska!!! The successful applicant will get to work with the amazing @ezgikarasozen.bsky.social See this page for more info! earthquake.alaska.edu/job-opportun... 🪨⚒️🧪
Job Opportunities | Alaska Earthquake Center
The Earthquake Center’s success is built through the collaboration of people with different specialties. Our team includes scientists, technicians, engineers, communications professionals, IT speciali...
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Check out this new paper we have in @pnas.org ! It’s got some big findings about glacial erosion. Namely that quarrying is ~5x more efficient at eroding bedrock than abrasion and that power based erosion laws are the most appropriate for modeling erosion www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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McGill: Assistant Professor in Earth and Planetary Sciences, Solid Earth Processes (Tenure Track) We seek a colleague who investigates the chemical, mineralogical, and physical composition of the solid Earth and its interactions with other Earth systems. Review of applications will begin Oct […]
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Can #GoldExtraction move beyond #cyanide without sacrificing efficiency? This study achieves 93.1% gold recovery using an iron–thiourea–thiocyanate leaching system, offering a sustainable route for #gold extraction from oxide ores. #GreenProcessingandSynthesis: doi.org/10.1515/gps-...
Good Morning! #OnThisDay Aug 4 1937: Chicago Milwaukee St Paul & Pacific Train No. 100 "Hiawatha" departs the Milwaukee Road Depot in downtown Minneapolis, heading for Chicago. At top speeds of over 100mph, these were the fastest scheduled trains in the world.
Hi! Not mastodon or mammoth, this is a Brontothere tooth. "Thunder Beasts" went extinct in the Eocene, so likely this dates to older than 34 million years. There are some differences from the well known, Megacerops, so it might be significant, potentially worth considering donation. Sweet find!
"Today is August 4, 2026" There Will Come Soft Rains By: Ray Bradbury
An article in my personal library by German physicist Lise Meitner that may (or may not) interest the history of science and/or women in STEM folks. Her research during this period clarified transitions between alpha & beta particles, paving the way her later work on nuclear fission. ⚛️
bookswain.bsky.social@bookswain.bsky.social · 2d ago"Über den Aufbau des Atominnern (On the Structure of the Atomic Interior)” by Lise Meitner in my April, 1927 copy of ‘Die Naturwissenschaften.’ She wrote this a year after becoming the first woman physics professor in Germany & eleven prior to theoretically explaining nuclear fission. ⚛️
'Significant areas of Mars may have once been covered by water': Scientists find hidden clue in Spirit rover data www.space.com/astronomy/ma...
'Significant areas of Mars may have once been covered by water': Scientists find hidden clue in Spirit rover data
A new analysis of NASA's Spirit rover data reveals overlooked traces of crystalline hematite and altered magnetite.
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'“One of the most important discoveries was finding crystalline hematite in ordinary Martian soil... This mineral’s widespread presence suggests not only that water was present, but that significant areas of Mars may have once been covered by water.”' www.sci.news/space/early-...
Hidden Clues in Spirit Rover Data Suggest Mars Once Had Far More Water than Scientists Realized | Sci.News
A new look at more than two decades’ worth of archival data from NASA’s Spirit mission suggests that the Martian soil may hold iron-bearing minerals -- hematite and altered magnetite -- that were too ...
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🚨Job Alert! 🚨 Museum mountmaking, etc. at the Field Museum #Chicago ⚒️🧪
Ben Miller@extinctmonsters.bsky.social · 2d agoHeads up for anyone that likes making cool stuff that there are bunch of exhibit mountmaking and fabrication jobs (both entry and supervisor levels) open at the Field this week. www.fieldmuseum.org/landing/care...
Heads up for anyone that likes making cool stuff that there are bunch of exhibit mountmaking and fabrication jobs (both entry and supervisor levels) open at the Field this week. www.fieldmuseum.org/landing/care...
I need help from the geology community. I'm looking for storage boxes for my thin sections (46x27mm). Can anyone recommend a store or supplier that delivers to Spain? Thanks! :)
Got sent photos of a #fossil tooth a local kid found at around 8500 ft elevation in southern Utah. Could use ID help. My first thought was mastodon or something similar because of the cusps, but juvenile due to the small size? #geology #paleontology
Blanketing effects of fine dust which condensed just after the K-Pg impact. The dust enhanced (by reflecting thermal radiation backwards) the microspherule re-entry-caused heating of the Earth's surface, which caused global fires agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... 🧪⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio
Barbara Bush once called The Simpsons "the dumbest thing I've ever seen" during an interview. Marge Simpson responded with a letter.
My paper on the "Pig in the Python" is now available with no paywall from NIH. I argue that the demand for young workers will grow dramatically over the coming decades, likely leading to rising wages, stronger unions, and lower inequality. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
So a whole lot of my talented Humanities colleagues are now unemployed as of today. A lot of understandable concern over Exeter. But for over two decades my Hums colleagues were in the top quartile for their research contribution to society. History top 10. Now gone with only a national whisper.
Last weekend, the largest Natural History Museum in South China opened - the Shenzhen Natural History Museum! Let me take you on a brief tour 🧵
The dinosaur hall has huge LED screens showing films of life in the Mesozoic
"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week." -Willa Cather (from The Professor's House, 1925)
Further thread on the wildfires encroaching on Spokane, WA. Large residential neighborhoods are burning. Via @awrylilyana.bsky.social
Lilyana 🥀@awrylilyana.bsky.social · 3d agoWe are approaching worst-case scenario www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...