The amoeba Difflugia bacillifera builds its shell from things that contain silica, and it is not particular about the source. These ones have incorporated whole shells from another testate amoeba (Euglypha), along with diatoms, algal cysts and chunks of rock. #Amoebae #ProtistsOnSky #peatlands

Reading about Difflugia. www.inaturalist.org/taxa/370760-...

This is a long shot but does anyone know how to pronounce Epalxellidae?? 😂 #ProtistsOnSky

I have questions, several questions.

It's a tough call but I'm going for the adze of the Copper Chief, who invented step cutting up a glacier hundreds to thousands of years before the Victorian mountaineers did

"Let me be clear: The president has both the funding and the authority to fund SNAP during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.” Gov. Andy Beshear

Vote #Copper! It’s the pro-Democracy, pro-immigration ore! #OreCup

I’m voting for native #Copper, and its continuous importance to pre-historic and modern civilizations. Copper inspires art, music, architecture, tools, weaponry, medicine, energy distribution, and technology. #OreCup25 ⚒️ 🧪

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‘Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.’ Nabokov Day 4 November 6 Another day filled with fine rain that ghosts through places it ought not be. #TheBeeGuysSenseOfRain #rain #ASenseOfRain

#OreCup R2M1: Are you supporting tendrils of native #Copper or dark grains of #Ilmenite? vote: www.mineralcup.org/vote-results... results: www.mineralcup.org/vote-results...

#Copper is the oldest metal worked by humans, & is 100% recyclable. Nearly 80% of all copper ever mined is still in use today. Historically significant examples of its use include the Statue of Liberty, which is made of copper. Vote info 👇🏼 #OreCup ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🍎 🔭🪐

The Flemish masters painted on #copper as it provided a smooth, luminous surface that allowed fine detail and durability of the exquisite works, like this self portrait of a laughing Rembrandt. #MinCup25 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology🍎 🔭🪐

Wow. I was focused on the molybdenum part of #Molybdenite. Is molybdenite truly the primary source of rhenium? If so, I’m thinking #Rhenium is where the action is. Check out the applications. One super critical element for our current world. #OreCup #OreCup25 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhenium

Copper, Ilmenite, Molybdenite, or Bornite … It appears the social media audience wants an old ore with some history instead of an exciting relatively new mineral ore. 🧐 #OreCup #OreCup25 (Not a mineralogist. Please correct if wrong.) mineralogy-ima-wordpress.website/mineral-of-t...

You want to vote for Carrollite. Right now. There are only a few minutes left for this round. Thank you.

Last call to vote in #OreCup R1M4 #Carrollite vs #Bornite: vote: www.mineralcup.org/vote-results... results:

Better title, "Do Men Continue to Advocate for a Toxic Workplace?"

I have to endorse #Carrollite today—copper PLUS cobalt! 1st I love cobalt blue 2nd cobalt comes from kobold, the German name for an imp or demon, so named bc it made recovery of silver (from ores where they mixed) more difficult to recover. (Yes that’s where D&D got it.) #OreCup

I’m voting for the only Co ore in the Ore Cup, the superconductor mineral #Carrollite. Co serves many industrial, medical, and artistic applications, from battery and magnet technology, to radiotherapy, to glass and ceramic glaze coloring agent. #OreCup25 ⚒️ 🧪

#Carrollite from Congo at the Tucson show #OreCup #MineralMonday

#OreCup R1M4: Will you be entranced by #Carrollite’s octahedral crystals and cobalt ore? Or will the rainbows of peacock rock and its heftier copper content lure you to #Bornite? vote: www.mineralcup.org/vote-results... results:

#OreCup closes out round 1 with cobalt ore #Carrollite vs copper-laden #Bornite. Which will you pick? vote: www.mineralcup.org/vote-results... results:

Learning about the difference between #Bornite and #Chalcopyrite this evening. It appears most, if not all, peacock stone on the market is Chalcopyrite. ☹️ Good to know. I was thinking a collection of mineral cup and ore cup winners — if affordable and not deadly — would be cool … #OreCup

#carrollite pretty 😍 #OreCup #OreCup25 www.mindat.org/gm/911

#OreCup R1M4: This match is coming hot from a hydrothermal vein as #Carrollite competes with #Bornite. Both are copper ores with a beautiful tarnish. You have 24 hours to decide! vote: www.mineralcup.org/vote-results... results:

Check out the spiny #legs on this Lyre-tipped Spreadwing (Lestes unguiculatus) damselfly for #NightmareNov. Legs w/spines held as a basket in flight for catching small insects. Nineteen species found over North America with similar leggings. All measure about 1.5 inch lengthwise. Find June-Aug.

🥕 About $5.00 for carrot seed tape. 🥕 Easy to plant, perfect spacing. 🥕 About 25 pounds of carrots. #gardening Now I just have to figure out how to store them. And there are four more rows. 😬

Digging some carrots today. #gardening

Obscure question related to trying to interpret some slides I'm scanning: Are there a lot of Fouqueria columnaris (cirio, boojum tree) planted in, say, botanical gardens or as landscaping around Tucson or the Phoenix area?

Only a few hours left to vote for black titanium ore #Ilmenite or white lithium and boron ore #Jadarite! vote: www.mineralcup.org/vote-results... results: www.mineralcup.org/vote-results... #OreCup

Was curious about Jadarite, which led to reading about #lithium, which lead to searching for a good story about lithium and 7 Up, which lead to a story about the name of the product … which is a GREAT example of searching internet newspaper and other archives … Thanks #OreCup … 🙄 Back to Jadarite.

Emma Baccellieri is on Bluesky if you wish to follow her.

Awesome investigative work by Emma Baccellieri. I sincerely love it when someone does a deep dive to shatter misinformation, even if it’s a small bit of history. And the fact was ultimately easy to discover! No one before Emma bothered checking! www.soda-fountain.com/p/untangling...

It’s titanium ore #Ilmenite vs lithium & boron ore #Jadarite. Both produce lightweight metals essential for advanced technologies, but only one will progress to the #OreCup semifinals! vote: www.mineralcup.org/vote-results... results:

So cool. Where an interest in #lichens and #paleontology intersect 😃.

#Jadarite is a unique and valuable Li and B ore that would require large quantities of fresh water and generate liquid and airborne pollution. Will organized public opposition effectively hold a government-sanctioned mining consortium accountable for protecting the environment? #OreCup25 ⚒️ 🧪

Dear Botanists and Ecologists. Trash or treasure?

I suppose this is the kind of thing we're supposed to "purge" as we pack up to move out of Science Hall for renovation. I've walked through a lot if Artemisia ordosica by the way.

Look up. Literally and metaphorically.

After a very long run, Milwaukee cedes the title of largest city in the US to have had a socialist mayor.

Voting for #Ilmenite. I could be wrong, but right now I feel titanium is the more critical material for a cleaner future. Lithium is a temporary bridge — or should be a temporary bridge — to better, cleaner, sustainable successors. Huge negative environmental impact for lithium mining. #OreCup25

#OreCup R1M3: It’s a battle of black and white as titanium ore #Ilmenite is pitted against lithium and boron ore #Jadarite. vote: www.mineralcup.org/vote-results... results:

PBS NOVA did a great job dispelling narratives about the forecasts for flooding in Texas and during Helene. Some stirring personal accounts too. Please take 53 minutes to watch if you can www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/vi...

Highly Recommend, especially for our elected federal and state reps.

Highly Recommmend, especially for our elected federal and state officials. This is why we need coordinated federal climate and geology research and weather forecasting. www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/vi...

Only a few hours left for #OreCup R1M2 #Molybdenite vs #Tetrahedrite. Did you pick a favourite and vote? Vote: www.mineralcup.org/vote-results... Results:

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D4 rock!