Me, asleep on a plane, being woken up by the attendant asking if I want a bag of nuts

I've started research on historic (preWW2) women who worked on volcanology/magmatic rocks. This includes anyone who was traveling to and writing about/observing/drawing/engaging with the landscape in myriad ways. I'm building a list for further investigation. Will share soon! Any tip offs welcome!

WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.

Visiting Boscobel Quarry today. ⚒️

Picking through the core discard pile at Luck Stone's Boscobel Quarry. ⚒️

an undergraduate in our dept asked me yesterday if the cuts in science funding was affecting me and our dept –– I took this opportunity to explain how things have worked and that, yes, this new paradigm negatively impacts us, including ability to hire ugrads for summer research, for example 1/2

One of the best feelings in science is reviewing a paper that builds on work you’ve done, while inspiring you with new directions for research you hadn’t considered 🤓

Happy to advertise this PhD project on the evolution of magma reservoirs. Please get in touch if you're interested! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”

As I admitted here recently, I root for the underdog. Dynasties bore me to tears. Judge and Ohtani are great, but sports is about being excited and excitement requires ups and downs.

Special issue for the 40th anniversary of the the November 1985 eruption of Nevado del Ruiz volcano that killed an estimated 25,000 people in the town of Armero www.nature.com/collections/...

Practical? Not really the point, but all the riches of all the kings that have ever been, all the fuels of that forged the wonders of the modern world came from knowing and feeling those same rocks.

NEW: Global fossil fuel use will peak before 2030 – unless 'stated policies' are abandoned Contra some terrible news coverage, IEA World Energy Outlook shows coal near peak, oil peaking by 2030 & gas by 2035 (see chart) What's going on? 🧵 + cool charts www.carbonbrief.org/iea-fossil-f...

⚒️ Article: Convective erosion and lateral transport of metasomatized continental keels may generate enriched mantle geochemical domains @gernon.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social @ukiodp.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Giving Philadelphia the greatest football teams theyve ever seen in their lives and having them win games in such an annoying frustrating way has to be some sort of experiment being conducted on us

I fucking love this. Football. Sports.

End to End extremely stupid football game. We Are all the losers I hate this sport

Welcome to Bluesky: here’s a petition to primary your senator, and an Eagles jersey

“Unlikely”. Tremendous understatement, epic work.

Does he think AI can do it? Because a computer can’t ground truth or drill core or assay. They just plan to dig somewhere in hopes of finding rare earths? That’s not how it works.

I will consult for free for anyone who primaries this cowardly piece of shit

Geoscience needs to lean harder into the Lovecraftian. An ever-changing, self consuming world dominated by unimaginably long cycles culminating in pulses of flood basalts or punctuated by collision with massive rocks from space that nearly wipe out all life....

The Old Copper complex, was an ancient Native American culture around Michigan that mined (>5,000 mines) & worked the 99% pure native copper for tools, weapons, and ornaments as far back as 9,500 yrs. Fascinating! #MichiganCopper More #OreCup ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🍎 🔭🪐

Cornell, like other capitulators, shamefully justifies this by saying it preserves *our* independence. Even if that were true, it is pure moral cowardice to take the every-institution-for-itself approach when extortionist is rampaging through our academic community.

Vote #molybdenite! It’s a pretty blue silver color, it’s found in porphyry deposits (my favorite), it’s fun to say and spell, and there is a famous molybdenum mine in Colorado named Climax with it’s hilariously named “Glory Hole” created by underground block cave mining. (Be careful googling that)

Fellow seismologists, we're going to get a lot of mileage out of the latest @xkcd.com

🎬 Excited to share our expedition member’s hard work. - coming soon - (*AT50-38 expedition deliverables/ final report will be available to the Public shortly after the federal government reopens) 🌊🧪

Utrecht Paleogeography model in prep! We're integrating our detailed reconstructions of orogenic belts and lost subducted plates into one plate tectonic and paleogeography model. We'll launch the updated Paleolatitude.org soon, and more tools for geodynamic, paleoclimate, and paleobiology studies!

when i was younger conservatives used to call stuff like this an “entitlement” or “victim” mentality. the response, if this were a nonwhite person, would be “suck it up a d work harder.”

bored: do you prefer the big spoon or little spoon inspired: do you prefer the dorsal valve or ventral valve of a brachiopod

Two more copper ores today, but at least #carrollite is also a cobalt ore.

I’m ready for a fight: figures belong in-line in manuscripts for peer review. No exceptions.

Hopeful my state makes the right call and we run the board 💙💙

"Most critical minerals are not energy-transition minerals, and most energy-transition minerals are not critical minerals" The Minerals Security concept proposed by Daniel Franks (@Uqueensland) seems more relevant to me. I want to be on the sustainability boat, not in the war one...

Vote copper; show Ea Nasir how appreciated it is when it's pure.

I'm giving my vote to tetrahedrite! As Sack & Loucks showed in 1985, the multisite reciprocal replacement of Cu <-> Ag, Fe <-> Zn, Cu <-> Fe, and As <-> Sb make it the "Rolls Royce" of indicator mienrals for the pressure, temperature, and pH conditions of an ore deposit. Vote for the ore with more!

##tectonictuesday Just polishin' the good stuff #geology ⚒️

one last observation: donald trump has never won a majority of the vote and yet the political press treats him like the embodied spirit of the american people. will be interesting to see how they discount mamdani as representing new york if he wins less than a majority.

the other thing about this is that there is no reason to pit these candidates against each other? each are good fits for their respective electorates and each shows the value of vigorous campaigns focused on the stated material problems of voters.

A few days of #volcanology fieldwork in Cabo de Gata (Spain) - great submarine volcanics and a really interesting submarine dome collapse/debris avalanche🌋🌞 @bgs.ac.uk

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Vote #galena today! We recycle a lot of lead nowadays, so galena is only mined as an ore when it has silver or adjacent minerals like zinc are profitable. Argentiferous (silver-bearing) galena is an important silver ore. #OreCup

Michigan has historically been a source for beautiful, and useful, #copper. Specifically, the Upper Peninsula contains the largest native copper deposits! Copper from Carnegie Natural History and Cranbrook Institute. Vote copper for Michigan! #OreCup #MinCup

Naturally occurring pure copper is called “native” copper & is formed in veins & fractures by super-heated mineral-rich fluids often associated with volcanic activity. My sample shown below. Get the lead out & vote #copper! #OreCup25 #MinCup25 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🔭🪐

The President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, PPFP, has been a jewel in the crown for faculty development and recruitment at the University of California for years and the results have been an expanded faculty with almost 100% tenure rates — unprecedented success.

Twinned topaz. Thomas Mountains, Utah #topaz #geology #geoscience #rhyolite #mineral #utah

“We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically.”

this is so so insane the ILLINOIS STATE POLICE are lining up LIKE THIS against clergy and people dressed as the Kool-Aid man.