Bad immigration economics assumes every extra person is one less seat. Good economics notices they also bring a seat, a side dish, and demand for the bloke selling drinks. The first story is fear; the second is how economies work.

Before #WomensHistoryMonth concludes at the end of March, I shall share my favorite #WomenInSTEM joke: Q: What did Watson & Crick discover? A: Rosalind Franklin's notes. If you don't get why that joke is both smart and hilarious, learn about Rosalind Franklin this weekend. 🔬🧪⚗️🩻

my cat makes this face when he’s frustrated with me and why. why do i deserve this, i was just two minutes late on dinner

😂 The introverts tale

JK Rowling hates trans ppl so much that she made a new Harry Potter series because she hates the old trio. They stood up for trans ppl and she can't stand it, & the only way to get their faces off toys & theme park rides & book covers is to do this. Anyway I ain't watchin that shit

Does anyone know where I can source some free crowd noise? Like people talking in a small venue before a band starts playing? Maybe some cheering and booing too? #Audio #Recording

Beautiful bedded/laminated and bioturbated limestone (gray) + dolostone (yellow) in the Great Valley near Inwood, West Virginia. ⚒️

Am I sitting in a car, riding 2 hours (each way), to see Project Hail Mary for a third time? Yes! Look, I *need* to see it on 70mm IMAX.

The 12yo says it’s Pygmy Right Whale Awareness Day! The smallest, and least studied of the baleen whales, it was believed to be extinct until 2012. Despite its name it is closer to rorquals than right whales and is considered a living fossil. Found in temperate waters of the southern hemisphere.

@mineralcup.bsky.social adjacent! The blue is so pretty, but all those rocks! ⚒️🧪 #MinCup

#FossilFriday In 1787, Fray Manuel de Torres found near the banks of the Lujan River, the skeletal remains of a gigantic mammal. Cuvier gave it the name Megatherium americanum in 1796. #histsci 🧪⚒️ paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2014/12/09/e...

#FossilFriday these Tiltoniceras (?) #Ammonites from Runswick Bay North Yorkshire, UK. There are layers of these several ammos deep, and many m2 in area in the black shales. My personal take is that they represent the maximum flooding surface and formed via condensation. #geology #paleontology

The Chinle Formation - come for the climbing ripples, stay for the reptile footprints. #FossilFriday #triassicpark 🧪🦖

New paper! Janina Gillies leads this study into a new formation mechanism for Pele's hair (lauoho o Pele). We show that mats or clumps of glass hair threads are inevitable when bubbly magma is stretched to extreme amounts! doi.org/10.1130/G539...

Spectacular olivine dolerite from Fair Head, County Antrim in XPL for #ThinSectionThursday. Olivine shows particularly vibrant interference colours while the ophitic intergrowth of twinned plagioclase and clinopyroxene is a textbook quality example. 🧪⚒️🌋

Great. Wonderful. Because Michigan weather hasn't been weird enough.

There's also a TON of 'roadside geology of' books, and that's a fun way to explore an area. There's usually photos explaining what you can see in different roadcuts (geologists love a good free cliff on the side of the road conveniently left by engineers building the road).

Gorgeous technicolour labradorite!! This labradorescence shows a range of colours across the labradorite, a variety of feldspar that is primarily the mineral anorthite. #MineralMonday #GeoscienceBluesky ⚒️🧪

The trees are watching.

“A still more glorious dawn awaits, not a sunrise, but a galaxy-rise … a morning filled with 400 billion suns — the rising of the Milky Way.” Hello, my very oldest friend. It’s good to see you again.

This 'alae ke'oke'o wants in on the #BirdOfTheDay theme #WaterDroplets ( Fulica alai, Kealia Pond NWR) 🦉📷 #birds

the real winners of ice dance #olympics

hey so the rape apologists just won the olympics in ice dance, boo hiss boo hiss

The world will be a better place when we stop elevating abusers and their enablers. This post is about both the US government and Olympic Ice Dancing

A rape apologist and a known abuser with gold who also can’t twizzle right …. I fucking hate ice dance

Swim freely, my little quartz fishes Ultramylonite Grighini Mts, Sardinia

Me: I'm giving up science forever. Me, a month later: Behold, the tiny eldritch abomination.

Guess the Gem!! What mineral do you think this gem is? Hint: at 2,982 carats, it’s the largest cut gem in this museum’s collection! #GuessTheGem #GeoscienceBluesky ⚒️🧪💎

Today the 12yo has decided it’s Tardigrade Awareness Day! These extraordinary animals are virtually indestructible and can survive extremes of hot, cold, high pressure, low pressure, lack of air, radiation, dehydration and radiation! If you are new to the water bears/moss piglets, check out the…

Lady Liberty’s torch has gone thru renovations over the years. Originally designed as a lighthouse, the original torch was replaced by a new #copper torch in 1986 that was covered in gold leaf to give it a glow. It is 29 feet in length and weighs 450,000 pounds, with copper that will endure. Vote👇🏼

Though both deserve accolades...Copper, how versatile, malleable, and enduring, maturing into an elegant patina.

#MichiganCopper Part 2! Gary Cotter, PhD, aka the #Copper Guy, sells museum quality copper specimens at Michigan Rocks & Minerals, and is writing a history of Michigan Copper. More info on Cotter at Youtube, and eye candy below. #OreCup ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🍎 🔭🪐

Copper helps power the entire planet, enables the transition to greener technology, is crucial for the production of red blood cells, & makes exquisite & durable art. Throw in 100% recyclability, & you have the perfect ore. #NoLube :) #OreCup ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🍎 🔭🪐

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 🍎 🔭🪐

#Copper Learning about Old Copper Culture in North America ca. 4000-1500 BC. I should know about this — born and living in Wisconsin — but apparently not covered in grade school or high school history classes. So THANKS! #MinCup #OreCup #OreCup25 www.mpm.edu/research-col...

I went to Cranbrook looking for the ores in Ore Cup. I hadn't fully realized before how many copper samples it has. This one is still my favorite.

Michigan is my home and it has #copper. Three copper in calcite specimens, two originating in MI and one from Arizona. The only calcite I like has a chewy copper center! Vote for Copper in #OreCup! www.mineralcup.org/vote-results...

#OreCup The answer is obvious. Don't be stubborn: #Copper is inevitable.

Of all the minerals in the #OreCup for my art/physics use voting scheme copper wins hands down! Ok, molybdenum has some applications as catalyst/electrodes/in alloys but copper is the conductor par excellence. In art we have all of bronze & copper sculpture & many blue/green pigments! Vote copper!

We didn’t always recognize #Molybdenite or know how to use Mo until the late 19th Century. Rh wasn’t discovered until 1908. After early experiments during WWI, automobile and aviation industries found uses for both elements in high-performance alloys. Then catalysts and medical uses. #OreCup25 ⚒️ 🧪

Bornite is great, but #molybdenite is not copper! I kid (kind of)! A soft, silver, greasy, hexagonal mineral that can look like JiffyPop, foil-wrapped leftovers, or metallic graphite. It can handle high-stress/high-temps, & it's anti-corrosive. Those seem like good qualities here & now! #OreCup

What makes the greatest ore, tho? Sulfides crystallize at higher temperatures and have simpler molecular structures. Sulfosalts precipitate at lower temperatures, have greater solubility, plus bonus semi-metals. I’m voting for the sulfosalt, #Tetrahedrite. #OreCup25 ⚒️ 🧪

Learn more about dendritic minerals.

For once I have both mins in my collection! (Ignore the fur-covered cat tree.) 1/3 of my cats posed for photos. They all received treats after the grueling sitting next to a mineral. Copper-hued Hugs is MVP, Obsidian sort of posed, and Leia did her own thing. #OreCup #MinCup #Copper

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 Flemish masters painted on #copper as it provided a smooth surface that allowed fine detail and durability of their exquisite works, like this self portrait of Rembrandt. #OreCup25 #MinCup25 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🔭🪐

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

When admiring geologic features in movies/tv, my hand reaches out to trace whatever is pinging my geologic brain. Tonight we saw One Battle After Another. There's some gorgeous #geology near the end. And I reached. The rocks were STUNNING. I also liked the movie. Location: CA Anza-Borrego State Park

I guess since it won, here's the kyanite one college roommate got me which totally ruined the mediocre kyanite we saw in Spain ⚒️ #mincup25

Have minerals you want to see run in #MinCup26? The nomination form is open! www.mineralcup.org/nominations