Our team of knitters have been busy creating more Hutton Hats, which means we've just been able to release another batch. Here's @rachelrocks.bsky.social modelling her Hutton Hat in front of Salisbury Crags and Hutton's Section, and highlighting the Hutton's Section part of the hat 🤩

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Museum job! 📜 🗃️ #histSTM National Museums Scotland, Assistant Curator, Technology - part of the truly fabulous NMS Science & Technology Department Full time, permanent - details here: careers.nms.ac.uk/job/671171 Deadline soon: 2 March

We're on BlueSky now! Hello! We are Common Descent, a podcast about paleontology, evolution, and the history of life on Earth! We release episodes every fortnight! Each one focuses on a topic requested by our audience! commondescentpodcast.com

Just making sure that everyone is aware of this crab that NOAA scientists found

thank you for your explanation. unfortunately, i am not interested in learning. i am only here to argue

Probably the best individual thin section ever produced. John Faithfull's slice of the olivine cumulate from Unit 5 of the Rùm layered intrusion. #ThinSectionThursday

We’ve been getting into the festive spirit at NMCC Merry Quartzmas everyone

Hurricanes cause tremendous damage to forests, whether natural or plantations, but we know very little about what actually happens to trees during high winds (for obvious reasons). In our latest work we have the answer... 🧵👇🧪🌏 1/12

@nadwgab.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com Y’all I found THE advent calendar. www.target.com/p/national-g...

#Bluesky Explosion - there were ~400K followers when Trumpelon won the #election on 5/11, now over 3 million 🏃‍♀️ 🏃 🏃‍♂️

🥳 I’ve found the counterpart (L) of this landscape marble (R). Oh, it’s from the Urals, not Florence. 😑

Royal Society of London whose fellows include Prince Charles and Princess Anne (but not James Hutton or Joseph Black)…

SEM image of halloysite from Elgin for #MineralMonday. Halloysite is a rare polymorph of kaolinite, in which the clay sheets are rolled up into tiny tubes. These 'nanotubes' have several potential applications in catalysis and drug delivery. #MicroscopeMonday

For a number of years now, I’ve had a policy that I don’t submit to nor will I review for MPDI and Frontiers. This analysis supports that decision. It’s no reflection on the many excellent papers and studies that have been published in them, but rather on their editorial and business practices.

🚨PhD Opportunity: Come to Edinburgh and study ichthyosaurs with us! Study Scottish fossils from Skye! New ones & historic specimens! Project led by Stig Walsh, co-supervised by @davfoff.bsky.social Nick Fraser, Erin Maxwell & me. Details👇 e4-dtp.ed.ac.uk/e5-dtp/super...

Yay my favourite account has crashed in

Favorite specimen of today’s fossik in #NationalMuseumsScotland mineral collection. A bivalve from Iceland filled with caramel flavoured calcite crystals

We've just made it much easier to reuse the data on Our World in Data. Here is an overview of our new features: enhanced data downloads and the Chart Data API. ourworldindata.org/easier-to-re...

For my first #ThinsectionThursday under the blue sky, one of my favourite micrographs: A serpentine pseudomorph after carbonate? The mineral with the grey interference colours is serpentine which apparently preserves the cleavage of a pre-existing carbonate.

As Bluesky picks up, you’ll be seeing more and more of these posts. When you do, don’t engage: rather, send them to @climatebrad.hillheat.com so he can add them to his moderation list, then report and block.

Quite a remarkable series of photos from Oldoinyo Lengai 🌋 doi.org/10.1016/j.li... ⚒️

Taking Hydrology & Geomorphology students to Chepstow Castle next weekend! On the one hand, the oldest tower of the castle on the cliff overlooking the Wye River has stood for nearly 1,000 years. On the other hand, who builds a castle on a cut bank?!?

Amazing interactive poster on the evolution of land plants #WaterToLand follow the link and click in it! 🖱️ madland.science/greening.php

2022 marks start of a new Era for glacier mass loss in the Alps! 🔥 Thinning took place through the entire elevation range of glaciers, up to the Mont-Blanc summit! 🥵 Above 3000m, losses exceeded 3.5m while almost no change occurred during previous 9 yrs! doi.org/10.1017/jog....

The palm-lined trace of the San Andreas Fault near Indio, CA. In the distance is Pushawalla Canyon. North America is to the left; Pacific Plate to the right. Fault gouge produced due to the grinding action of the fault acts as a vertical barrier to groundwater flow; that's why the palms grow here.

Just got introduced to the Rockd app by @deeninis.bsky.social If you are a geologist I highly recommend. Geology information for most places on land… it’s going to be a fun summer holiday geologising. 🪨⛰️

An informative , Icelandic data source re the Grindavik/Hagafell volcanic activity - 1700 EQs in 24 hours 😳 (less than mag 2.9 tho) en.vedur.is/about-imo/ne...

There's an awesome website where you can visualize seismic events in 4D (with time) at any location you choose. It based on the USGS catalog and the data starts in 1980 up until now! 🧪 Geology ⚒ seismic-explorer.concord.org

Just got a magnitude 7 notification for an earthquake in the Philippines. Waves should start arriving at our network shortly. Watch live here: www.youtube.com/live/zu10UdD...

What a gorgeous #Lego product idea - a mineral display - click the link to support ideas.lego.com/s/p:08ce22ca...

🌋 Iceland Reykjanes info Interested in real-time seismicity from Grindavík? Find below the YouTube livestream of live DAS data from Seismology & Wave Physics ETH Zürich 👇 m.youtube.com/watch?v=MUt7... 🧪 ⚒

Very cool, near real time data re potential #volcanic #eruption at #Grindavik in Iceland 🇮🇸 - an 8km fibre optic cable which measures strain (and therefore eqs) along its length - courtesy of ETH 🇨🇭 www.youtube.com/live/MUt7Lz4...

I love how when you plot all the earthquakes in 3d, you can see the risking dike under Grindavík like a vertical wall of magma. Interactive view: skjalftar.is/3d/?size=1&f...

Very informative update on the potential eruption in Iceland from official local organization🧪⚒️ “A magma corridor lies under the town of Grindavík A fissure could open anywhere in that magma corridor The town has been evacuated. The evacuation was announced at midnight” www.ruv.is/english/2023...

When they first appeared, I thought I was looking at sheep, but I then realised they were granite tors as far as the eye could see! ~400 Myrs old, of southeast Australia’s Snowy Mountains ⚒️🧪

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Temperature change by country, year 2022. 🌡️ Based on NASA GISTEMP dataset. Base period 1951-1980. #Climate #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming

I can finally spill the beans! Kurt Burmeister & I have been working for months digitizing a set of Thomas Sopwith's 1841 hand-carved geology block models now housed at the Killhope Museum. Lina Jakaité animated the models into this amazing video for #GSA2023. 1/n ⚒️🧪 youtu.be/eW9qgzafPSc?...

Favorite specimen of today’s fossik in #NationalMuseumsScotland mineral collection. A bivalve from Iceland filled with caramel flavoured calcite crystals

interesting article about how glauconite is influencing the practical aspects of offshore wind siting and development — great example of when a relatively niche area of geoscience research becomes important for application newbedfordlight.org/a-tricky-sti...

I have posted this bare earth lidar image of a lava flow in central Oregon a few years ago, but it’s probably worth sharing it again (data source: gis.dogami.oregon.gov/maps/lidarvi...)

A @xkcd.com classic. Have a nice weekend! ⚒️🧪

Here are the #MinCup23 elemental stats!! ⬇️⬇️ This year we've welcome two new elements to the @mineralcup.bsky.social fold, vanadium (cavansite) and antimony (stibnite - into the quarter finals!!) 26 out of 32 minerals contain oxygen, and just under half silicon or hydrogen (both 15/32). #MinCup23

For the cryptocrystalline quartz fans…here is a genetic key to help discern the origins of all your favorites. What happens in the ooze….often is captured in the ooze. Thanks to Tyler for the visual… #MinCup23

This seismometer outside of Gainesville FL is definitely feeling the effects of Hurricane Idalia. Stay safe everyone!

LAST CALL FOR NOMINATIONS! Visit www.MineralCup.org to nominate new minerals to compete this year and to vote in our (first-ever!) play-in round to bring back a previously-eliminated mineral for 2023.

⚒️Ten days to go until #MinCup23 @mineralcup.bsky.social starts... The time of the year when you just know every day will rock and you suddenly have a strong opinion about quartz.