Hard agree.

When the weather changes, my face hurts because the metal plates expand and contract. My jaw makes a noise like a crackling crisp packet and crunching gravel when I move it. When it was freshly broken, it was in three parts that could move independently.

This little crustacean is a Cumacea (order) aka a comma shrimp! These live mostly on the sea floor, but can be found occasionally in the plankton. #marineplankton 🦑

Not Friday here yet but might be busy so here is my contribution: Isograptids from Victoria, Australia. One might even be Isograptus victoriae! Ordovician black slate, from one of the best graptolite stratigraphies in the world 😀 #FossilFriday #EarthScience #geoscience 🧪⛏️

I always consume outside the thing I'm making. I'm working on a metal album, so I'm listening to d&b and ambient for e.g. I'm writing scifi, so I'm reading lots of local history and folklore books. It's the outside influences that elevate the art we love beyond the also rans.

Stories in Stone - a new temporary exhibition at NTS Hugh Miller Birthplace Museum! 🐉🐚🦕🐾🐍 Travel the realms between fact and folklore and discover the superstitious explanations behind some spectacular fossils 📅 31 Aug - 12 Oct, 11:00 - 15:30, Free with museum admission

Here is the trilobite Angelina sedgwickii from the Lower Ordovician (Tremadocian) Dol-cyn-afon Formation from Wales, U.K. This trilobite is slightly distorted due to tectonic forces. It is a great teaching piece to discuss structural geology.

#Hematite provides important clues about planets and their atmospheres. There should not be Hematite on the Moon, but there is, near the poles, on east- and equator-facing sides of highlands. Scientists make the case that O ions in Earth’s wind oxidize Fe on the Moon. 1/2 #MinCup25

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How is [unpronounceable] winning!? Have you seen Haematite?! My disappointment is palpable.

“I mean, you try saying ‘I’m so happy for you’ without sounding like Alan Rickman delivering a withering putdown.”

In a statement released today, the autistic population explained: “Lol have you ever got a single fact wrong around one of us?” We will keep fighting - and so should you: www.patreon.com/posts/116939...

In 2015, reporter @saulelbein.bsky.social joined a crew of Peruvian river guides on a trip down the treacherous Marañón. What happened there has taken many years for him to tell — and it's one of the most beautiful and moving stories he's ever written. It's Heat Death. Don't miss this one.

Biblically accurate #acritarch. Or a really weird tiny pokemon.

Carbon distribution in a #Precambrian microfossil. Brighter = more carbon. Fossil is about 80 um across. #geology #paleontology

Sorry, I can't join the war today. I have SEM time booked to look at tiny fossils.

Autistic people when they're supposed to be fighting the war on Autism:

People are missing out on the ultimate”I’m joining the war on autism on the side of autism” meme background image.

Daily bunny no.3088 has joined a rock band

You can do everything “right” and still become disabled. You can do everything “right” and have a child who is disabled. There is nothing wrong with being disabled, and if more of us approached disability with compassion, understanding, and advocacy instead of fear, the world would be better.

Vote haematite because it's at least pronouncable and doesn't hurt my dyslexic brain to look at when written down.

Been working on this album for nearly two years now. It's been great to finally get vocals recorded. Here's an unmixed preview. Really pleased with how it turned out. #Metal #IndustrialMetal

The biggest starships are "nyssa" (synthetic sentience). Empty Engines may also be sentient. Some Planetary networks are sentient as are some space stations and habitats. Non humanoid mechs are more common than humanoid types. Nyssa are a normal part of life. #SciFiSeptember #WorldBuilding

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Niamh Callaghan, 33, could have simply waited until a lifeguard was present before engaging in such a high-risk sport, but, for reasons known only to her, found the small apple-flavoured rectangle too enticing to resist. Read the whole thing on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/138862...

Take a journey through deep time in 2026! Pre-order my calendar by October 12th > www.luciaperezdiaz.com/product-page... It features 12 original illustrations - frame-worthy posters of holidays to places you can’t actually travel to (at least not without a time machine!) #SciArt #EarthScience

Yesterday I showed you a Gastropod larva. Today it’s the turn of another kind of mollusc, a bivalve larva! Bivalves have 2 halves, called valves, that open like a book. Gastropods, if they have an external shell, have a one-piece. #marineplankton 🦑

The good news: the Black Sails to Sunward ebook is live! Bad news: I've lost all my reviews and sales rank. It was actually pretty popular for a bit, in the top ten in its category, and now it has no rank and no reviews. This is just to say, if you've read it before, PLEASE go leave a review!

Digital sketch of a #Precambrian microfossil based on SEM data. The different colours represent different scales of detail. The fossil is about 100 microns wide. #Geology #Paleontology

Matériel en préparation pour l'atelier "Les plantes dans tous leurs états: la feuille" à la Nuit des Chercheuses... Trouvez l'intrus! 🌿⛏️ Selection of rocks for an outreach event. Can you find the odd one out? #paleobotany #fossil #botany

Interesting thread. The other side of the coin is that a colleague is being prevented from publishing by a PI who "[doesn't] want to be shouted at by angry men and mocked by nasty women" for what the PI perceives as " exotic and controversial data". The lack of pubs has probably tanked 1/2

There's the spirit of an ancient warship trapped in robot body thats a teen girl. There's a battle mech pacifist thats now a roomba whose best pal is a jar of sentient algae. There's a scorpion tank that's really into potted plants. There's a sentient wheelchair. #SciFiSeptember #WorldBuilding

I've spent my whole life being told I was an error to be corrected, in one way or another. Being poor, ND, queer, weird, disabled, northern, etc. There was always a reason for someone to decide I was an outcast. Always a cause for exclusion.

We need to evolve our understanding of cognitive difference from something we diagnose & fix to something we support, accommodate & embrace Not every challenge is a gift Nor every condition a superpower It means holding space for the whole nuanced reality humans are complex & life even more so

Every damn landlord. Straight into the sun.

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New pals for the gang. #Transformers

I'm going with the space metal.

Tylenol is the name of the mumble rapper who came 17th in a battle of the bands at your local dive bar.

Science is dominated by male native-English-speakers with elevated affluence. It's a demographic that makes up less than 3% of the total global population. If someone wants to keep politics out of science, they are comfortable enforcing the status quo that benefits them (a small privileged group).

One mineral tells us about the depth below the earth, the other comes from beyond Earth. You can decide which one goes to the next round by voting at mineralcup.org today! #geology #mineral #MinCup25

Tylenol caused the end permian extinction.

I understand about Project 2025 and everything but most days it also feels like I'm back on the schoolyard watching the bullies picking on the weird kids. Like sometimes there really isn't any logic deeper than that.

✨My first science feature is out in Chemical & Engineering News!✨ I interviewed and wrote about Dr. Shana V. Stoddard, a brilliant disabled scientist changing STEM. Disabled scientists deserve visibility and celebration. cen.acs.org/synthesis/me... #DisabledInSTEM #SciComm #RepresentationMatters

Yes! "Nysa Gohstaanin" which means "crafted soul people". This refers to all synthetic intelligences. There are also Iacaanin who are sentient machines that evolved naturally on the machine planet Iaca. The entire biosphere of Iaca is machine based. 1/2 #SciFiSaturday #WorldBuilding

Anti-autism campaigner, Karen Hoyland, 40, commented: “I love my child but I hate his autism. The other day I came home to find him lining up his guns, instead of playing with them like a normal kid.”

Like what you see? One of these could be yours... www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qr/dyR5704... #scottishgeology #geologyart #historyofscience