Mara Cox
@maracox.bsky.social
(They/Them)
Meandering geology student seeking the next adventure. Desperate to explore, forced to study. Happiest barefoot in a lake, listening to folk music, with good books, good vibes. and no sense of time.
"Your focus determines your reality"
Meandering geology student seeking the next adventure. Desperate to explore, forced to study. Happiest barefoot in a lake, listening to folk music, with good books, good vibes. and no sense of time.
"Your focus determines your reality"
So bucket list.
Happy Thanksgiving Eve! Here's a timelapse from Garbage Eve.
Derby experiences so many beautiful auroras!
Derby experiences so many beautiful auroras!
November 27, 2025 at 1:07 AM
So bucket list.
What if I changed my last name to Rockwell? I have no attachment to this name. Stone? Shale? Moraine? Mara Moraine is kind of rad.
November 27, 2025 at 12:51 AM
What if I changed my last name to Rockwell? I have no attachment to this name. Stone? Shale? Moraine? Mara Moraine is kind of rad.
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for thanksgiving i want turkey pot pie
in that order
in that order
November 26, 2025 at 8:14 PM
for thanksgiving i want turkey pot pie
in that order
in that order
This is just fun stuff! Plotted measurements from most recent field work that haven't been added to my full map yet.
November 26, 2025 at 11:35 PM
This is just fun stuff! Plotted measurements from most recent field work that haven't been added to my full map yet.
It's not pretty (corner fault caused some suffering). Each number aligns with a hand sample and/or thin section. We needed to use them to understand the full geologic story. Also needed to 3 ternary diagrams. Genuinely so proud of this "A-level work"! New rocks and map for each new petro class.
November 26, 2025 at 11:13 PM
It's not pretty (corner fault caused some suffering). Each number aligns with a hand sample and/or thin section. We needed to use them to understand the full geologic story. Also needed to 3 ternary diagrams. Genuinely so proud of this "A-level work"! New rocks and map for each new petro class.
Someone suggested we call the students we tutor, "beans" because they have to get "tuted" 😂
November 26, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Someone suggested we call the students we tutor, "beans" because they have to get "tuted" 😂
Thankful to be in my last year of undergraduate and to have had so many wonderful professors over the past four years whose influence will be seen in my eventual teaching style.
November 26, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Thankful to be in my last year of undergraduate and to have had so many wonderful professors over the past four years whose influence will be seen in my eventual teaching style.
A bit of a lonely Thanksgiving this year, but that happens. I have a roof and I am having dinner with Kirsten tomorrow.
November 26, 2025 at 8:39 PM
A bit of a lonely Thanksgiving this year, but that happens. I have a roof and I am having dinner with Kirsten tomorrow.
Get to see puppy baby in less than a month!
she was upset and shaking so she needed a swaddling. she valiantly fought sleep but the heavy eyelids won in the end.
November 26, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Get to see puppy baby in less than a month!
"Unbeknownst to these slow-moving sediments, oceanic crust was being violently thrust beneath this quadrangle through subduction!" I hope Clem finds this amusing!
November 26, 2025 at 6:59 PM
"Unbeknownst to these slow-moving sediments, oceanic crust was being violently thrust beneath this quadrangle through subduction!" I hope Clem finds this amusing!
Story Time: Last spring, I took petrology. I was in the middle of a large final project when chemo began. My professor worked so hard with me but I could not understand. Finally, one awful day, I was in the lab working on this project and started and shaking. I was too sick to be doing this. 1/n
November 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Story Time: Last spring, I took petrology. I was in the middle of a large final project when chemo began. My professor worked so hard with me but I could not understand. Finally, one awful day, I was in the lab working on this project and started and shaking. I was too sick to be doing this. 1/n
Labi Siffre
YouTube video by Deo Geo
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November 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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"We invented phonetic writing so we could put our sounds down on paper and, by glancing at a page, hear someone speaking in our head—an invention that became so widespread in the last few thousand years that we hardly ever stop to consider how astonishing it is."
-Carl Sagan, Billions & Billions
-Carl Sagan, Billions & Billions
November 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM
"We invented phonetic writing so we could put our sounds down on paper and, by glancing at a page, hear someone speaking in our head—an invention that became so widespread in the last few thousand years that we hardly ever stop to consider how astonishing it is."
-Carl Sagan, Billions & Billions
-Carl Sagan, Billions & Billions
"Sometimes I feel like I'm a hot goblin.
Little bit perfect, little bit problem.
Could be a dream or your worst nightmare.
But I know who I am, so I don't care."
😳 Connect to this song too much!
Little bit perfect, little bit problem.
Could be a dream or your worst nightmare.
But I know who I am, so I don't care."
😳 Connect to this song too much!
November 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
"Sometimes I feel like I'm a hot goblin.
Little bit perfect, little bit problem.
Could be a dream or your worst nightmare.
But I know who I am, so I don't care."
😳 Connect to this song too much!
Little bit perfect, little bit problem.
Could be a dream or your worst nightmare.
But I know who I am, so I don't care."
😳 Connect to this song too much!
Liver function is very rudely not been improving. Got thoroughly scolded at an appointment yesterday.
November 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Liver function is very rudely not been improving. Got thoroughly scolded at an appointment yesterday.
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INEOS plans to transform the Nini oil field in the North Sea into a carbon storage site.
Ambitious plan to store CO2 beneath the North Sea set to start operations
INEOS plans to transform the Nini oil field in the North Sea into a carbon storage site. The company aims to inject liquefied CO2 into depleted oil reservoirs beneath the seabed.
bit.ly
November 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
INEOS plans to transform the Nini oil field in the North Sea into a carbon storage site.
Empty apartment building with everyone gone for break is not my favorite thing. Too similar to this past summer. Today will require a lot of coffee!
November 26, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Empty apartment building with everyone gone for break is not my favorite thing. Too similar to this past summer. Today will require a lot of coffee!
some of the resources in this Smith College petrology textbook are lifesavers. Petrology during chemo did not go super well, so I am relearning a lot and my professor has given me great tools!
www.science.smith.edu/~jbrady/petr...
www.science.smith.edu/~jbrady/petr...
www.science.smith.edu/~jbrady/petr...
www.science.smith.edu/~jbrady/petr...
Reaction_Calculator
Interactive page to calculate the possible chemical reactions among a group of mineral phases selected by the user
www.science.smith.edu
November 26, 2025 at 3:19 AM
some of the resources in this Smith College petrology textbook are lifesavers. Petrology during chemo did not go super well, so I am relearning a lot and my professor has given me great tools!
www.science.smith.edu/~jbrady/petr...
www.science.smith.edu/~jbrady/petr...
www.science.smith.edu/~jbrady/petr...
www.science.smith.edu/~jbrady/petr...
It sucks beyond belief to be excited about grad school prospects but have professors and doctors bring up the very real factor of, "percentage of life expectancy." Factoring losing Medicaid in this decision and I don't know how to make choices about any of it! Field work really hit hard I think.
November 26, 2025 at 12:32 AM
It sucks beyond belief to be excited about grad school prospects but have professors and doctors bring up the very real factor of, "percentage of life expectancy." Factoring losing Medicaid in this decision and I don't know how to make choices about any of it! Field work really hit hard I think.
One year I'll have a Thanksgiving break from the school I teach at and will spend the holidays in my own home with my girlfriend and our seven cats. 😸😹😺😻😼😽😾👭 Just not there yet.
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 PM
One year I'll have a Thanksgiving break from the school I teach at and will spend the holidays in my own home with my girlfriend and our seven cats. 😸😹😺😻😼😽😾👭 Just not there yet.
Learning how to look at these and see a stories like panels in a comic strip, noting their placement in time by where we collected them. Slowly getting a grasp on this.
#geology #minerology #thinsections
#geology #minerology #thinsections
November 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Learning how to look at these and see a stories like panels in a comic strip, noting their placement in time by where we collected them. Slowly getting a grasp on this.
#geology #minerology #thinsections
#geology #minerology #thinsections
Getting interviewed by the school paper (The Flat Hat) about food insecurity and SNAP.
November 25, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Getting interviewed by the school paper (The Flat Hat) about food insecurity and SNAP.
Literally the only person in the department all day today. Just keep pushing.
November 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Literally the only person in the department all day today. Just keep pushing.
It is only a thin section. It can't hurt you.
November 25, 2025 at 3:22 PM
It is only a thin section. It can't hurt you.
much to be thankful for this year.
-I'm thankful to have professors willing to put in extra work to make sure I get through
-To have Kaylee and Tilda make sure I have food and Christmas
-To have friends to share a meal with
-To have a roof over my head and clean clothes
-To be in remission!
-I'm thankful to have professors willing to put in extra work to make sure I get through
-To have Kaylee and Tilda make sure I have food and Christmas
-To have friends to share a meal with
-To have a roof over my head and clean clothes
-To be in remission!
November 25, 2025 at 2:52 AM
much to be thankful for this year.
-I'm thankful to have professors willing to put in extra work to make sure I get through
-To have Kaylee and Tilda make sure I have food and Christmas
-To have friends to share a meal with
-To have a roof over my head and clean clothes
-To be in remission!
-I'm thankful to have professors willing to put in extra work to make sure I get through
-To have Kaylee and Tilda make sure I have food and Christmas
-To have friends to share a meal with
-To have a roof over my head and clean clothes
-To be in remission!