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It should perhaps give us more pause that the Ogallala Group and related Miocene through Pleistocene deposits in Nebraska have a very nice chronological framework from the 40+ distinct tephra layers in it, with fewer than you'd expect having connection to the Yellowstone Hotspot....
Ashfall Tephra in the Ogallala Group of the Great Plains: Characteristics and Significance
The Miocene Ogallala Group blankets the Great Plains east of the Rocky Mountains. This sheet of largely fluvial deposits, lying downwind of major silicic volcanic fields to the west, was ideally locat...
digitalcommons.unl.edu
November 28, 2025 at 7:48 AM
It should perhaps give us more pause that the Ogallala Group and related Miocene through Pleistocene deposits in Nebraska have a very nice chronological framework from the 40+ distinct tephra layers in it, with fewer than you'd expect having connection to the Yellowstone Hotspot....
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🌎 From Black Friday to Cyber Monday, workers and allies across 30+ countries unite to say: Enough is enough. It's time to #MakeAmazonPay. Join us in demanding fair wages, union rights, environmental responsibility, and tax justice! 📣
November 28, 2025 at 5:45 PM
🌎 From Black Friday to Cyber Monday, workers and allies across 30+ countries unite to say: Enough is enough. It's time to #MakeAmazonPay. Join us in demanding fair wages, union rights, environmental responsibility, and tax justice! 📣
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Another thing I have been exploring this year is combining other media with cyanotype. This is a unique hand made multimedia print with linocuts and cyanotype on watercolour paper (11” x 14”). On top of the cyanotype print of Canada goldenrod, I made a lino block print of the wildflower 🐡🧪🧵
November 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Another thing I have been exploring this year is combining other media with cyanotype. This is a unique hand made multimedia print with linocuts and cyanotype on watercolour paper (11” x 14”). On top of the cyanotype print of Canada goldenrod, I made a lino block print of the wildflower 🐡🧪🧵
Gore is doing exactly what we wish ANY senior leadership would do: create space for younger candidates while continuing to light the way forward.
Since his early fifties, Gore has advocated for climate, peace, sustainability, health and inclusion, and spoken out against political abuses of power.
Since his early fifties, Gore has advocated for climate, peace, sustainability, health and inclusion, and spoken out against political abuses of power.
It's wholesome and oddly depressing to me that Al Gore, 77, not owing anyone shit, is still criss-crossing the globe full-time warning people about climate change, raising money for climate projects, mentoring the next generation of environmentalists, and generally being obsessed with this issue.
November 28, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Gore is doing exactly what we wish ANY senior leadership would do: create space for younger candidates while continuing to light the way forward.
Since his early fifties, Gore has advocated for climate, peace, sustainability, health and inclusion, and spoken out against political abuses of power.
Since his early fifties, Gore has advocated for climate, peace, sustainability, health and inclusion, and spoken out against political abuses of power.
“Never before have scientists seen lunar samples with this isotope ratio, and there are limited ways it can form. This level of sulfur-33 depletion is indicative of an interaction between sulfur and ultraviolet light in a thin atmosphere, raising…intriguing possibilities...”
November 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM
“Never before have scientists seen lunar samples with this isotope ratio, and there are limited ways it can form. This level of sulfur-33 depletion is indicative of an interaction between sulfur and ultraviolet light in a thin atmosphere, raising…intriguing possibilities...”
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12 million year old bone-crushing dog tracks!
New article on research we presented at the recent Vert Paleo conference in the UK.
Lots of on-going work at Ashfall Fossil Beds @unsmmorrillhall.bsky.social
Happy Thanksgiving for those in the states. 🦃
www.livescience.com/animals/exti...
New article on research we presented at the recent Vert Paleo conference in the UK.
Lots of on-going work at Ashfall Fossil Beds @unsmmorrillhall.bsky.social
Happy Thanksgiving for those in the states. 🦃
www.livescience.com/animals/exti...
Large, bone-crushing dogs stalked 'Rhino Pompeii' after Yellowstone eruption 12 million years ago, ancient footprints reveal
Researchers have found footprints of large, bone-crushing dogs in the 12 million-year-old Ashfall Fossil Beds in northeastern Nebraska, suggesting these large carnivores may have survived a cataclysmi...
www.livescience.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
12 million year old bone-crushing dog tracks!
New article on research we presented at the recent Vert Paleo conference in the UK.
Lots of on-going work at Ashfall Fossil Beds @unsmmorrillhall.bsky.social
Happy Thanksgiving for those in the states. 🦃
www.livescience.com/animals/exti...
New article on research we presented at the recent Vert Paleo conference in the UK.
Lots of on-going work at Ashfall Fossil Beds @unsmmorrillhall.bsky.social
Happy Thanksgiving for those in the states. 🦃
www.livescience.com/animals/exti...
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Mid-November ice extent in the Bering Sea (west of Alaska) 1978-2025 based on NSIDC data. In hindsight, the step change between 2001 and 2002 is remarkable for its consistency. The 2002-2025 median is 65 percent lower(!) than the median of the prior 24 years. 1 / 2 #akwx #Arctic #SeaIce
November 17, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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I’ve seen this shared several times with the header and footer not visible, so you can’t see the artists’s name.
Credit: Leo the Alien — alienyrox on redbubble and other platforms.
Credit: Leo the Alien — alienyrox on redbubble and other platforms.
November 12, 2025 at 5:00 AM
I’ve seen this shared several times with the header and footer not visible, so you can’t see the artists’s name.
Credit: Leo the Alien — alienyrox on redbubble and other platforms.
Credit: Leo the Alien — alienyrox on redbubble and other platforms.
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DYK, that sepia ink was originally made from squid ink?
DYK, that it is possible to recover the remains of ink from fossil Belemnites?
DYK, that Mary Anning discovered this?
DYK, that you can reconstitute that fossil squid ink and use it to draw?
DYK, this was en vogue in the 19th century?
DYK, that it is possible to recover the remains of ink from fossil Belemnites?
DYK, that Mary Anning discovered this?
DYK, that you can reconstitute that fossil squid ink and use it to draw?
DYK, this was en vogue in the 19th century?
The Geological Society
- Fossil sepia, described 1829
Discover and access geoscience information resources via one of the world’s premier Earth science libraries. Search our collection of printed books, maps and journals, e-journals, internet resources, ...
www.geolsoc.org.uk
November 16, 2025 at 10:01 AM
DYK, that sepia ink was originally made from squid ink?
DYK, that it is possible to recover the remains of ink from fossil Belemnites?
DYK, that Mary Anning discovered this?
DYK, that you can reconstitute that fossil squid ink and use it to draw?
DYK, this was en vogue in the 19th century?
DYK, that it is possible to recover the remains of ink from fossil Belemnites?
DYK, that Mary Anning discovered this?
DYK, that you can reconstitute that fossil squid ink and use it to draw?
DYK, this was en vogue in the 19th century?
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Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
November 15, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
“One way to speed up the negotiations, [climate summit expersts] said, would be to sanction repeat procedural blockers, “just as delaying tactics in football can see offenders receive a yellow card”.
$170,000 a minute: why Saudi Arabia is the biggest blocker of climate action
- Desert kingdom depends on oil dollars but its people already face a climate ‘at the verge of livability’. What’s going on?
#COP30 #climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
- Desert kingdom depends on oil dollars but its people already face a climate ‘at the verge of livability’. What’s going on?
#COP30 #climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
$170,000 a minute: why Saudi Arabia is the biggest blocker of climate action
Desert kingdom depends on oil dollars but its people already face a climate ‘at the verge of livability’. What’s going on?
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:35 PM
“One way to speed up the negotiations, [climate summit expersts] said, would be to sanction repeat procedural blockers, “just as delaying tactics in football can see offenders receive a yellow card”.
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Happy birthday to geologist Charles Lyell (1797-1875) who in his famous ‘Principles of Geology,’ wrote that to avoid some sources of prejudice in understanding #geology would require an Amphibious Being, who could, say, compare processes happening today on land & those happening below 🧵 #histsci 🧪🐡⚒️
November 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Happy birthday to geologist Charles Lyell (1797-1875) who in his famous ‘Principles of Geology,’ wrote that to avoid some sources of prejudice in understanding #geology would require an Amphibious Being, who could, say, compare processes happening today on land & those happening below 🧵 #histsci 🧪🐡⚒️
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#FossilFriday Painted black to enhance contrast, a pair of cheilostome colonies encrusting a test of Echinocorys from the English Chalk. Bryozoans are exceedingly common on the tests of this infaunal echinoid which had to be exhumed before encrustation.
November 14, 2025 at 7:52 AM
#FossilFriday Painted black to enhance contrast, a pair of cheilostome colonies encrusting a test of Echinocorys from the English Chalk. Bryozoans are exceedingly common on the tests of this infaunal echinoid which had to be exhumed before encrustation.
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⚒️🧪 Spoke to BBC about Wednesday’s eruption of the Wandan mud volcano in Taiwan.
www.bbc.com/news/videos/...
www.bbc.com/news/videos/...
Watch: Mud volcano erupts in southern Taiwan
The Wandan mud volcano is a particularly unusual example of the geological phenomenon, an expert told the BBC.
www.bbc.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:29 AM
⚒️🧪 Spoke to BBC about Wednesday’s eruption of the Wandan mud volcano in Taiwan.
www.bbc.com/news/videos/...
www.bbc.com/news/videos/...
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NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
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If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
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BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.
NEW: At Pope Leo’s Urging, Bishops Issue Historic Rebuke of Trump’s Raids
Nearly all U.S. Catholic bishops united in Baltimore to denounce the Trump administration’s “inhumane” deportation campaign — a near-unanimous, unprecedented moral stand against a sitting president.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:21 AM
BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.
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UPDATE — With Rep. Pramila Jayapal (Chair Emerita of the Congressional Progressive Caucus), there are now at least 12 congressional Democrats, 15 Democratic-aligned organizations, and 8 Democratic candidates calling for Chuck Schumer to resign as leader:
November 13, 2025 at 2:49 AM
UPDATE — With Rep. Pramila Jayapal (Chair Emerita of the Congressional Progressive Caucus), there are now at least 12 congressional Democrats, 15 Democratic-aligned organizations, and 8 Democratic candidates calling for Chuck Schumer to resign as leader:
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Copper fans, we did it! Copper is the very FIRST Ore Cup Champion & the Ore Mineral of the Year. Great job! 🙌
Thank you, Mineral Cup team. The content has been extra excellent, & another great Cup. Kudos! 290 days until #MinCup26 !
#OreCup ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🍎 🔭🪐
Thank you, Mineral Cup team. The content has been extra excellent, & another great Cup. Kudos! 290 days until #MinCup26 !
#OreCup ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🍎 🔭🪐
November 13, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Copper fans, we did it! Copper is the very FIRST Ore Cup Champion & the Ore Mineral of the Year. Great job! 🙌
Thank you, Mineral Cup team. The content has been extra excellent, & another great Cup. Kudos! 290 days until #MinCup26 !
#OreCup ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🍎 🔭🪐
Thank you, Mineral Cup team. The content has been extra excellent, & another great Cup. Kudos! 290 days until #MinCup26 !
#OreCup ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🍎 🔭🪐
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Come on over to Geoscience Bluesky and we will patiently explain all the ancient secrets of Deep Time and how to see the the traces of immense, elemental powers etched into the landscape.
You will see things in new ways.
You will stare at road cuts.
You will see things in new ways.
You will stare at road cuts.
November 12, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Come on over to Geoscience Bluesky and we will patiently explain all the ancient secrets of Deep Time and how to see the the traces of immense, elemental powers etched into the landscape.
You will see things in new ways.
You will stare at road cuts.
You will see things in new ways.
You will stare at road cuts.
Results may vary : )
November 12, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Results may vary : )
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DeLauro: The president went to the supreme court to deprive kids of food. Unbelievable. And now wants to deny their parents healthcare.
November 12, 2025 at 12:09 AM
DeLauro: The president went to the supreme court to deprive kids of food. Unbelievable. And now wants to deny their parents healthcare.
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Wow, a Long Island jury awarded $112 Million to 674 immigrants who were unlawfully held by county police so they could be handed over to ICE
Federal jury awards $112M to immigrants detained by Suffolk for ICE
A federal jury found the county and the Sheriff's Office violated the Constitutional rights of 674 people.
longisland.news12.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Wow, a Long Island jury awarded $112 Million to 674 immigrants who were unlawfully held by county police so they could be handed over to ICE