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Vicky Veritas
@vickyveritas.bsky.social
Born in the Anthropocene
Worked at the intersection of Geology and GIS

#Geosciences | #EarthScience | #Geology | #GIS | #Rocks | #TeamFluorite | #ScienceFiction | #Fantasy
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Here’s a nice Saturday Surprise. I just posted 19 new volcano tissue box covers in my Etsy shop. They are 3D printed scale models made using lidar scans from federally funded USGS projects and my photogrammetry. Thanks to @opentopography.org for organizing the data!

phaneritic.etsy.com
January 31, 2026 at 8:46 PM
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Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

Sedimentology and Stratigraphy ♥️♥️♥️
American Environmental History 📜
Field Drawing 🎨
Ecosystems Ecology 🌿
Spanish Coffee and News 🗞️

History prof had a burning personal vendetta against the Glen Canyon Dam.
Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

Comic Fiction
Seminar in World Music (learned to play music from Indonesia and Ghana, got into ethnomusicology)
Italian
Intro to Philosophy
Artificial Intelligence /ducks
Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

Intro to Ordinary Differential Equations
Digital Design
Modern Physics
Electronics Lab
Choral Conducting
January 31, 2026 at 2:14 PM
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Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college: (round 2)

•Ethics of the Life Cycle
•Environmental Geology
•Modern Ballet for Non-Majors
•Documentary Film
•Shakespeare
Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

Linear Algebra
Nuclear Physics (don’t ask)
Engineering Geology
Optical Mineralogy
Field Geology
Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

Sedimentology and Stratigraphy ♥️♥️♥️
American Environmental History 📜
Field Drawing 🎨
Ecosystems Ecology 🌿
Spanish Coffee and News 🗞️

History prof had a burning personal vendetta against the Glen Canyon Dam.
January 31, 2026 at 9:05 PM
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Free workshop alert! Bring a pencil! 😉 (but don't worry, no drawing ability required to take part)

Register here: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
January 19, 2026 at 8:12 PM
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Happening today (3 PM US eastern)! There's still time to register. ⚒️🧪
Want to learn more about NISAR (the new joint India/US synthetic aperture radar satellite mission)? Franz Meyer from UAF/Alaska Satellite Facility will be giving an online talk to introduce NISAR and its capabilities on Jan. 21. More info and registration below. ⚒️🧪
uaf-accap.org/event/vaws-i...
VAWS – Introducing NISAR: NASA’s Biggest Earth Observation Mission | ACCAP
Speaker: Franz Meyer, Professor, UAF Geophysical Institute, Chief Scientist, Alaska Satellite Facility About the webinar: Some of the recent earthquakes in Alaska and across the globe showed us how…
uaf-accap.org
January 21, 2026 at 5:26 PM
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Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

Electricity and Magnetism (favorite physics class)
18th Century French Literature (in French)
Linear Algebra
Hellenistic World and Roman Empire
Rock Climbing
Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

Sedimentology and Stratigraphy ♥️♥️♥️
American Environmental History 📜
Field Drawing 🎨
Ecosystems Ecology 🌿
Spanish Coffee and News 🗞️

History prof had a burning personal vendetta against the Glen Canyon Dam.
Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

Comic Fiction
Seminar in World Music (learned to play music from Indonesia and Ghana, got into ethnomusicology)
Italian
Intro to Philosophy
Artificial Intelligence /ducks
January 31, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

Cartography
Photojournalism
20th Century German Literature
Philosophy of Evolution
Orienteering

Interesting that although I enjoyed being a geology major, geology courses weren't among those that immediately came to mind.
Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

Linear Algebra
Nuclear Physics (don’t ask)
Engineering Geology
Optical Mineralogy
Field Geology
Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

Sedimentology and Stratigraphy ♥️♥️♥️
American Environmental History 📜
Field Drawing 🎨
Ecosystems Ecology 🌿
Spanish Coffee and News 🗞️

History prof had a burning personal vendetta against the Glen Canyon Dam.
January 31, 2026 at 8:38 PM
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Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

Environmental Field Studies
Tectonostratigraphic Evolution of the San Francisco Bay Area
Field Geology
Historical Geography of North America
Outdoor Adventure Recreation
Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

Linear Algebra
Nuclear Physics (don’t ask)
Engineering Geology
Optical Mineralogy
Field Geology
Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

Sedimentology and Stratigraphy ♥️♥️♥️
American Environmental History 📜
Field Drawing 🎨
Ecosystems Ecology 🌿
Spanish Coffee and News 🗞️

History prof had a burning personal vendetta against the Glen Canyon Dam.
January 31, 2026 at 8:34 PM
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🧪⚒️
January 31, 2026 at 4:48 PM
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Tell me five classes you took in college:

Ancient & Imperial Russia
Archeological Geology
Prehistory of North America
Volcanology
Evolution

Look, despite spending my career extolling the importance of a liberal arts education, I really just mainlined field trips, Earth and life sciences.
Macroevolution
Astrophysics
Music performance (violin)
Computational statistics
British poetry

This is an interesting list considering I was a geology major lol
Tell me five classes you took in college:

Medieval drama
Nuclear Ethics
Michelangelo
Coalescence
Phylogenetic Methods
January 31, 2026 at 4:56 PM
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⚒️🧪Fiery Mud Volcano Eruption!

The Daşmərdan (Dashmardan) mud volcano in Azerbaijan erupted ~16:50 on the 30th Jan 2026. The eruption lasted ~15 mins and was accompanied by a pillar of flame several hundred meters high. Daşmərdan had previous documented eruptions in 1866, 1954, 1976, 1986 and 2011.
January 31, 2026 at 2:07 PM
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Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

Physical Chemistry
Theater
Environmental geophysics
Oceanography
Invertebrate Paleobiology
Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

Linear Algebra
Nuclear Physics (don’t ask)
Engineering Geology
Optical Mineralogy
Field Geology
Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

Sedimentology and Stratigraphy ♥️♥️♥️
American Environmental History 📜
Field Drawing 🎨
Ecosystems Ecology 🌿
Spanish Coffee and News 🗞️

History prof had a burning personal vendetta against the Glen Canyon Dam.
January 31, 2026 at 5:53 PM
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Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college.

Economic Development in Latin America
Soil Science
Postmodernism in Literature
Tropical Agriculture Systems
Civilization and Capitalism 15th - 18th Century
Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

Linear Algebra
Nuclear Physics (don’t ask)
Engineering Geology
Optical Mineralogy
Field Geology
Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

Sedimentology and Stratigraphy ♥️♥️♥️
American Environmental History 📜
Field Drawing 🎨
Ecosystems Ecology 🌿
Spanish Coffee and News 🗞️

History prof had a burning personal vendetta against the Glen Canyon Dam.
January 31, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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Advertising
Intercultural Communications
History of Graphic Design
Photography
History of Middle Earth
Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

Linear Algebra
Nuclear Physics (don’t ask)
Engineering Geology
Optical Mineralogy
Field Geology
Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

Sedimentology and Stratigraphy ♥️♥️♥️
American Environmental History 📜
Field Drawing 🎨
Ecosystems Ecology 🌿
Spanish Coffee and News 🗞️

History prof had a burning personal vendetta against the Glen Canyon Dam.
January 31, 2026 at 5:21 PM
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Of course, I could've answered Paleobioecogeochemosedimentichnology
Macroevolution
Astrophysics
Music performance (violin)
Computational statistics
British poetry

This is an interesting list considering I was a geology major lol
Tell me five classes you took in college:

Medieval drama
Nuclear Ethics
Michelangelo
Coalescence
Phylogenetic Methods
January 31, 2026 at 4:48 PM
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Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

Archery & Bowling
Universal Stage Optical Mineralogy
General Relativity
Advanced Mineralogy
Introduction to Geophysics
Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

Linear Algebra
Nuclear Physics (don’t ask)
Engineering Geology
Optical Mineralogy
Field Geology
Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

Sedimentology and Stratigraphy ♥️♥️♥️
American Environmental History 📜
Field Drawing 🎨
Ecosystems Ecology 🌿
Spanish Coffee and News 🗞️

History prof had a burning personal vendetta against the Glen Canyon Dam.
January 31, 2026 at 4:47 PM
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Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

Intro to Particle Physics
Deciphering Ancient Egypt (2 Semester)
Sun Dance People
Old Norse Literature in Translation
Books: Technology and Culture
Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

Linear Algebra
Nuclear Physics (don’t ask)
Engineering Geology
Optical Mineralogy
Field Geology
Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

Sedimentology and Stratigraphy ♥️♥️♥️
American Environmental History 📜
Field Drawing 🎨
Ecosystems Ecology 🌿
Spanish Coffee and News 🗞️

History prof had a burning personal vendetta against the Glen Canyon Dam.
January 31, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

Linear Algebra
Nuclear Physics (don’t ask)
Engineering Geology
Optical Mineralogy
Field Geology
Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

Sedimentology and Stratigraphy ♥️♥️♥️
American Environmental History 📜
Field Drawing 🎨
Ecosystems Ecology 🌿
Spanish Coffee and News 🗞️

History prof had a burning personal vendetta against the Glen Canyon Dam.
Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

Comic Fiction
Seminar in World Music (learned to play music from Indonesia and Ghana, got into ethnomusicology)
Italian
Intro to Philosophy
Artificial Intelligence /ducks
January 31, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

Art History 🖼️
Philosophy 🤔
Comparative Religion ☯️
Mineralogy ⚒️
History of Jazz 🎺

All of these at a Junior College. Such a great place to expand your world!
Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

Sedimentology and Stratigraphy ♥️♥️♥️
American Environmental History 📜
Field Drawing 🎨
Ecosystems Ecology 🌿
Spanish Coffee and News 🗞️

History prof had a burning personal vendetta against the Glen Canyon Dam.
Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

Comic Fiction
Seminar in World Music (learned to play music from Indonesia and Ghana, got into ethnomusicology)
Italian
Intro to Philosophy
Artificial Intelligence /ducks
January 31, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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My final #FridayFold from December's visit to Mosaic Canyon in Death Valley NP in California. This one is pretty crazy, with at least two hinges. See if you can make any sense of it. ⚒️
January 30, 2026 at 5:49 PM
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#FossilFriday Hildegarde Howard, American pioneer in avian paleontology, known for her discoveries in the La Brea Tar Pits, among them the Rancho La Brea eagles #FeministFriday 🧪⚒️
paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2019/05/01/f...
January 30, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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#sandgate #geology 🧪⚒️
January 30, 2026 at 8:11 PM
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I am so humbled and forever thankful to my colleagues all over the country who have helped me with historical geology resources and so much help! We gotta be the closest net discipline out there. Special shout out to @callanbentley.bsky.social for always coming through!
January 30, 2026 at 8:28 PM
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😍😍😍😍😍😍 STUNNING displacement map of the Niscemi landslide in Italy using @planet.com superdove imagery🧪⚒️
Couldn't help but get COSI with it.
January 30, 2026 at 8:55 PM
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A late #FossilFriday A close up of the attachment structures from the mid-proterozoic #fossils I showed the other day. The fossils don't just sit on each other, they have a complex and consistent interweaving and inter looping pattern. See alt text for details #Geology #Paleontology
January 30, 2026 at 10:54 PM