#Molybdenite Dioptase looks nice, but don't touch! Molybdenite's grease is useful, and will live on in your heart, your shirt, the door, the cat and everything else! Vote Molybdenite today!

Mineral Cup & Ore Cup@mineralcup.bsky.social · 11mo ago

#MinCup25 Round 2 Match 6: It's more exciting versions of familiar favourites as emerald #dioptase is pitted against silvery #molybdenite. Vote: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r2... Results: www.mineralcup.org/2025/results...

Eos@eos.org · 11mo ago

We’re no fools over at Eos. For today’s #MinCup25 matchup, we’re going with brilliant, green dioptase over "fool’s silver" (molybdenite). 📸: Didier Descouens, CC BY 3.0

She's raised $925 so far but needs $2000 to leave, please share, Nour is pregnant and needs to leave asap.

Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.

Josephine beckbook.com Riesman@josie.zone · 11mo ago

My rage knows no bounds

Wrapping up one week of fieldwork at Fuego volcano, flying drones and sampling PDC deposits with @smakris.bsky.social @pdcguy.bsky.social @tyranakisaurus.bsky.social Sylvain Charbonnier, Gustavo Chigna, Fabrizio Ponce, Amilcar Calderas, Edgar Barrios, William Chigna and Mario Ovalle.

235 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️ Clinochlore: - A magnesium-rich chlorite group mineral - Forms in contact and regional metamorphism - Its name comes from the Greek words "κλινειν/klinein" (to incline) and "χλωρο/chloros" (green) because of its inclined optic axes and its green colour #minerals

The Dept of Education may take down many sites soon including studentaid.gov Folks should go to the website and download all their loan data (under "my activity" on the "My Aid" page), including docs related to loan consolidation, payment plan apps, FAFSA forms, and PSLF

Over a thousand people chanting “Do Your Job” as Democrats speak at a rally defending USAID. Environment seems as agitated with Democrats as with Trump/Musk’s efforts to seize agencies. Yells of “What are you gonna do about it?!” in response to Democrats talking about situation.

It seems that Space Karen's (a.k.a. Twitler) team has infiltrated the volcanological corner of the government. FYI, VDAP is a congress-mandated partnership between USAID and USGS: www.usaid.gov/basic-page/v...

New pterosaur just dropped!!!

@dactylioceras.bsky.social · 2y ago

The oldest monofenestratan pterosaur from the Queso Rallado locality (Cañadón Asfalto Formation, Toarcian) of Chubut Province, Patagonia, Argentina Melkamter pateko gen et sp. nov Recon by Pedro Andrade royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

At the time of the eruption, 47 people were on the island, which was a popular tourist destination back then. Unfortunately, 22 people lost their lives, and 25 others sustained serious injuries. (2/3) www.bbc.com/news/world-a...

White Island: Company found guilty over New Zealand volcano disaster

The judge criticises Whakaari Management for "astonishing failures" after the deaths of 22 people.

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Dyke of felsic rock "granophyre" cutting pillow lavas, Shionomisaki, Wakayama, Japan.

Hello @bsky.app ! We are the Ixchel project funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund @ukri.org Expect posts on research activities, including but not limited to volcanology, disaster risk reduction, critical decolonial theory, human rights, and arts-based participative methodologies 🌋

Bluesky just passed 23 million subscribers. At this rate of growth, Musk/Zuckerberg/Trump will certainly attempt to shut it down on whatever pretext they can gin up. It is a single point of countervailing power and potential resistance in the infosphere, and as such is a prime target for lawfare.

Usually seen just as local guides for fieldwork, excluded from the writing process and left out of the authors list, as well as not attending the major conferences.

Madhu Pai, MD, PhD@madhupai.bsky.social · 2y ago

"Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations" www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

We've compiled our annual list of VMSG-related PhD & MSc by Research projects, viewable below & on our website. We continue to keep this list updated, so please get in touch if you have any new UK-base or international opportunities you would like adding: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

VMSG PhD and related projects list 2025

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50 years ago this November—a pair of paleoanthropologists found a skeleton that belonged to a 3.2 million year old hominin, which came to be nicknamed Lucy. In today’s episode, we discuss what Lucy has taught us in the last 50 years. Listen here 🎧: pod.link/73329284

Very late #VolcanoMonday but here you have a picture of Agua volcano, that I took in Antigua Guatemala back in February. This city will host the XV Central American Geological Congress later this week and as much as 200 to 300 geoscientists from the region will be there.

I love this for them.

Mere Smith@evilgalprods.bsky.social · 2y ago

heartwarming story for the holidays ❤️‍🔥 “…the neo-Nazis told police they had never experienced a response like the one they received in Columbus. They said people pulled guns on them and threw cans and vegetables as they marched... One of the officers noted the men were ‘covered in’ pepper spray.”

Was at a rock show today and saw a fossil I’ve never seen before, which is a rare event: A cluster of Triassic belemnites from Timor. Aulacoceras. These are like 5 inches long

“The potential of satellite data for monitoring andesitic stratovolcanoes, as illustrated by Merapi volcano, Indonesia.” ou Comment surveiller la croissance des stratovolcans par imagerie satellitaire ? Ce sera le sujet de la soutenance/defence de PhD de Shan Gremion ce mercredi 27/11 à ISTerre.

MILF = Manuscript I’d Like to Finish

🍉🍉🍉 a ceasefire is not a solution; it is the bare minimum. ---------- DON'T STOP TALKING ABOUT PALESTINE

Happy publication day to Charles #Darwin for On the Origin of Species published #OTD 1859 🥳 (And a day of inspiration for all who struggle to finish their books...) #hpbio #HPS #EvoBio

1.85 billion years ago, a massive meteorite struck near what is now Sudbury, Ontario. The resulting tsunami sent this stromatolite over 600 km across the ocean and deposited it near what is now Thunder Bay. So, that was a bad day for those microbes. #FossilFriday ⚒️

Hey I'm Paul, and I like to chase unusual sky scenes

...Hvannadalshnúkur, highest point Iceland (2110 m), in fact a nunatak on the rim of the huge glaciated Öræfajökull caldera... #iceland #geosciences #glaciology

With a fully remote team of just 20 employees, Bluesky has surpassed 20 million users in its first year since opening to the public and is stealing thunder from rivals hundreds of times its size. At a time when conventional wisdom among bosses is that workers must be in-person to be productive.

Are you a grad student (or a recent graduate) that has written a model, or a component for a modeling system, or done something cool and modeling-adjacent as part of your research? If so, consider submitting your work for the 2025 Syvitski Student Modeler Award! csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Student...

Crossbedded sandstones. Pleistocene shallow marine fan deposits exposed in a slot canyon in Southern Taiwan. These sediments are coming off the rapidly uplifting mountains of central Taiwan. Lots of preserved animal burrows.