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Matt Brueseke

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Cubs fan. 🌋 & magma, mineral resources, tectonics, wilderness, pawpaws, outdoor gear, 🏝⛰🏕, Rectal cancer survivor. Views and opinions expressed are mine. #geology #earthscience #geoscience ⚒️

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Matt Brueseke @matttg.bsky.social · 21h

Cool isotope geology study

Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · 1d

⚒️ Article: Potassium-40 isotopic evidence for an extant pre-giant-impact component of Earth’s mantle

@carnegiescience.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Client Challenge

Matt Brueseke @matttg.bsky.social · 1d

Won’t be anytime soon unfortunately- but will do!

Matt Brueseke @matttg.bsky.social · 1d

He keeps telling me I need to go up there.. partially to see the old mines & dumps, but also of course the scenery. That conglomerate sounds even more intriguing!!

Matt Brueseke @matttg.bsky.social · 1d

Just did, thanks!

Matt Brueseke @matttg.bsky.social · 1d

That’s so much rain.. the videos of Pagosa were pretty crazy to watch!

Matt Brueseke @matttg.bsky.social · 1d

Yikes… I just sent him a screenshot of your post- I am pretty sure they usually go up that Middle mtn road..

Matt Brueseke @matttg.bsky.social · 2d

Just talking to a friend about all this mess who was planning to go just north of Vallecito next week to elk hunt; something they’ve done for 40+ yrs, but may not happen now. I can’t imagine any of the unpaved roads, esp USFS, are unaffected.

Matt Brueseke @matttg.bsky.social · 5d

Cool, mineralogy-based, science! 🧪 ⚒️

Eos @eos.org · 5d

A new study led by @curtinuniversity.bsky.social geologist Chris Kirkland reveals traces of our planet's journey through the Milky Way galaxy in zircon crystals from Earth's crust. eos.org/articles/zir...

Zircon Crystals Could Reveal Earth’s Path Among the Stars - Eos

Researchers found signs of melting in zircon crystals in the crust that correspond to our planet’s journey through the galaxy’s spiral arms.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 5d

My quote of the day

We have managed to unite a country tearing down the barriers the regime built to divide us. Ours is a fight of a nation united against a criminal tyranny, in defense of its human rights, freedom, and democracy. That is why we have no alternative but victory

María Corina Machado

Matt Brueseke @matttg.bsky.social · 6d

No doubt !

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Kevin M. Gill @kevinmgill.bsky.social · 9d

A beautiful closeup of a rock taken by the Mars Perseverance Rover using the WATSON camera this weekend on Sol 1644. The first image is under sunlight and the second is at night and under white LEDs.

Zoom in a check out those mineral grains!

flic.kr/p/2rxEeHT
flic.kr/p/2rxLkc9

A rock closeup.

NASA/JPL-Caltech/Kevin M. Gill

A rock closeup.

NASA/JPL-Caltech/Kevin M. Gill

Matt Brueseke @matttg.bsky.social · 10d

It’s definitely leave no trace

Matt Brueseke @matttg.bsky.social · 11d

Museum piece :) ..

Matt Brueseke @matttg.bsky.social · 11d

Boxing up 1st generation USGS rock powder standards (for whole rock geochemical or isotope analyses). AGV-1! Etc. ⚒️

US geological survey rock standard powders. These are original, 1st generation.

Matt Brueseke @matttg.bsky.social · 12d

Lego mineral night! Will trade… for actual Sweet Home rhodocrosite 🧪⚒️

Lego mineral set

Lego rhodocrosite

Matt Brueseke @matttg.bsky.social · 12d

I’ve never seen anything written, but that’s a great question. People are defintly into the mineral /gold prospecting shows.

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Prof Col Macpherson @colinmacpherson.bsky.social · 13d

Spectacular concentric zoning and twinning of large titanaugite in essexite (nepheline monzogabbro) from Lennoxtown, Scotland. Plagioclase inclusions within the phenocryst align with zoning just as proximal groundmass plagioclase align with its edge. #ThinSectionThursday 🧪⚒️

Large clinopyroxene (titanaugite) crystal takes up much of field of view. Tin plane cuts from top left to bottom right separating twins showing different interference colours. Multiple concentric zones apparent in finer oscillation of interference colours. Plagioclase and olivine groundmass surrounds the phenocryst.

Matt Brueseke @matttg.bsky.social · 13d

AI map?! Really?

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 14d

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 16d

⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater.

The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.

interestingengineering.com/science/chin...

China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes

A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.

interestingengineering.com

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Kansas Reflector @kansasreflector.com · 14d

Kansas cancer survivor fears for health care as Congress weighs premium tax credit extension | via @anna-writes.bsky.social #ksleg

Kansas cancer survivor fears for health care as Congress weighs premium tax credit extension • Kansas Reflector

Dawn Wheeler, a small business owner in Edwardsville, receives treatment for her metastatic breast cancer almost weekly.

kansasreflector.com

Matt Brueseke @matttg.bsky.social · 16d

Ok, I’m extremely jealous…wow, this would an amazing show

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 16d

here are some helpful steps for academics who are considering creating genAI images to use for lab branding:

1. don't

Matt Brueseke @matttg.bsky.social · 17d

That was crazy, lol. Reds might get in also!

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Dr. Jennifer Wade @volcanojw.bsky.social · 19d

For those anxiously awaiting it: the NSF GRFP solicitation is out, with a November 14 deadline for Geoscience applicants: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

Matt Brueseke @matttg.bsky.social · 21d

Yep