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KSircombe @ksircombe.bsky.social · 7h

For #EarthScienceWeek2025: what 3 steps got you into ⚒️🧪 Earth Science?
1. A wood box full of rocks and crystals that my Dad had collected in his travels
2. David Attenbourgh's 'Life on Earth'
3. Couldn't make up my mind choosing a science major, so I did the (earth) science that does them all!

A rectangular wooden box filled with an assortment of rocks and minerals of various shapes, sizes, and colors. The stones include smooth rounded pebbles, jagged fragments, and polished pieces in shades of gray, brown, white, and green. Some rocks display layered textures or crystalline patterns. The box rests on a stone-paved surface.

It wasn't actually this box because, sadly, it never occurred to me to take a picture of the box when it was still around. But it looked very much like this!

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Erika Anderson @andersonmineral.bsky.social · 7d

It’s Geodiversity Day & Mineral Monday!! So I wanted to show you a rare mineral called carletonite, which is usually bright blue but seen here with a pink zonation. It was discovered here in Canada, at the mineral species rich Mont Saint-Hilaire. #GeodiversityDay #MineralMonday #GeoscienceBluesky ⚒️🧪

Specimen of carletonite with prisms of blue and pink all around. There is one large square crystal with a small blue square in the middle with pink on the outside on the upper right side of the specimen. It sits on a black background. At the Canadian Museum of Nature.

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juridical.bsky.social @juridical.bsky.social · 1d

Same group? Is that a pistol being pointed at the guy in blue?

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

ICE/Border Patrol held a weapon on a guy who was demanding they show him their face in Rogers Park today

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Cody Mason @cosynomad.bsky.social · 1d

Some goodies from a trip to the HMNH.

Tiktaalik fossil and derpy reconstruction

Metamorphic rock from the Jack Hills, Australia, source of Earths oldest minerals, zircons ~4.4 billion years old.

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · 2d

Was at ground zero for true geography nerds today

The intersection of 45 degrees north latitude and 90 degrees west longitude. The middle of the northwest hemisphere.

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 1d

Any mineralogist worth their salt 😉 knows about this diagram

A diagram from Wikipedia’s article about mineralogy. Don’t get mad at me, I don’t know what the heck this is about

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 1d

Someone is a mineralogist and trying to write their dating profile of how they be in the club

Okay but don’t forget to write in the profile that you are passionate about minerals!!

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bse @doktrock.bsky.social · 2d

Mark Lettieri Group - "Neural Net" (Live at Furndware) (YouTube)

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Mark Lettieri Group - "Neural Net" (Live at Furndware)

YouTube video by Mark Lettieri

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 2d

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.

If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Cin-Ty Lee @cintylee.bsky.social · 2d

All hands on the great unconformity in the Sandias, New Mexico. Pennsylvianian limestones on 1.4 billion years A type granites. @riceuniversity.bsky.social geology trip.

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Chris Hall @chrishall.cloud · Sep 3

Seceda in clouds
Canon R10, RF-S 18-150mm
#photography #landscape #mountains #italy #dolomites #travel #seceda #canon

Bright green fields in front of jagged Dolomite peaks in clouds

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bse @doktrock.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah. Fortunately, they did a fantastic job filling in, and cleaning up, both outside & inside.

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bse @doktrock.bsky.social · 2d

Ditto not too long ago

Workers excavating a hole beneath the sidewalk

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Jordan van der Hagen @thejvandy.bsky.social · 2d

The Lake Superior Circle Tour Honeymoon, Part One: A Few Quick Stops on the North Shore and We Were On Our Way.

The North Shore, Minnesota

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bse @doktrock.bsky.social · 2d

Check this out! Seismology education software, free 🧪⚒️ #geosciences

Adam Pascale @seislologist.bsky.social · 2d

It’s #earthscienceweek so I thought I’d go into a bit more detail on how educators can use to our Quick Quake tool to demonstrate how @earthquakes.au seismologists quickly calculate the location and magnitude of an earthquake. It works on macOS machines with Apple Silicon too.

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Adam Pascale @seislologist.bsky.social · 2d

It’s #earthscienceweek so I thought I’d go into a bit more detail on how educators can use to our Quick Quake tool to demonstrate how @earthquakes.au seismologists quickly calculate the location and magnitude of an earthquake. It works on macOS machines with Apple Silicon too.

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Dr. Judith Hubbard @judithgeology.bsky.social · 2d

It was a pleasure to contribute to this article, which talks about how AI contributes to seismology - indeed, we have seen tremendous progress in the use of machine learning to detect small events.

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“Like putting on glasses for the first time”—how AI improves earthquake detection

AI is “comically good” at detecting small earthquakes—here’s why that matters.

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bse @doktrock.bsky.social · 2d

Anticline in the Paleoproterozoic Thomson Formation, near Jay Cooke State Park, Northeast #Minnesota. Deformation due to the Penokean Orogeny, ca 1850–1900 Ma. This is a favorite fieldtrip stop; included in the GSA Centennial Guidebook. An October picture from the archives. #geology #FridayFold 🧪⚒️

Outcrop along a riverbank showing a gray fine grained rock. Bedding planes dip in opposite directions on either side. Part of a bridge can be seen crossing the river.

Satellite image with the location of the outcrop shown. The St. Louis River has continuous exposure of the Thomson Fm towards the ESE. Town of Carlton to the west.

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Géosciences ENS @geosciences.bsky.social · 6d

⛰️ Entre Nice et le col de la Bonette (2860 m), nos étudiants du Master 1 #STEPE ENS-PSL mesurent la forme du champ de gravité terrestre à l’aide de stations GNSS 📡 Un stage de terrain au cœur des Alpes pour mieux comprendre les déformations de la croûte terrestre. #geosciences #géodésie #terrain

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Mark Tingay @marktingay.bsky.social · 2d

⚒️🧪 Fiery eruption of Otman-Bozdagh mud volcano in Azerbaijan!

The Otman-Bozdagh mud volcano erupted at ~8:27am local time today (11/10/25).

Three eruption phases of between 4-12 minutes were recorded over an ~40 minute period.

Video source: @_yagha_

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Chris Lowery @chrislowery.bsky.social · 3d

Happy #FossilFriday, the University of Texas is hiring two curators/non-TT professors for our Vertebrate and Non-vertebrate Paleontology Labs: apply.interfolio.com/175702

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Dr. Andrea Dutton @drandreadutton.bsky.social · 3d

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bse @doktrock.bsky.social · 3d

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Dr. Andrea Dutton @drandreadutton.bsky.social · 3d

🌊🌊JOB ALERT!! Are you an ice sheet modeler looking for a postdoc that does not rely on federal funding? Come join our research team at University of Wisconsin-Madison to study the physical and human dynamics of sea-level rise. www.linkedin.com/posts/andrea...

Job ad for postdoctoral research in ice sheet modeling | Andrea Dutton

🌊 🌊 JOB ALERT!! Looking for a postdoc that does not rely on federal funding?? Looking to live in a city that is routinely ranked as one of the best cities to live in across the entire U.S.? Come jo...

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