Exploring potholes at Belle Isle in Richmond.⚒️

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the Iranian drought story is insanely undercovered. foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/07/i...

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

Two piscivorous #birds seen today on the Rivanna River. 🦉

Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix. Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!

Inspired by Rebecca Solnit's "Wanderlust," I took Pickles for a walk this afternoon and she got to play in Buck Mountain Creek. 1.5 miles & we didn't see a single car, another human, or another dog.

A shot of some lovely crumples -- the #FridayFold -- from the flanks of the Cristo Rey laccolith in w.TX / s.NM. Here, Cretaceous aged shale and sandstone of the Mesilla Valley Formation slid off the adjacent bulge of Eocene magma, piling up in chaotic folds as they moved. ⚒️

Fantastic new slab of eensy little sea urchin fossils from Oregon, courtesy of @smilodonichthys.bsky.social #FossilFriday ⚒️

JFC

Where does water flow in the continental US, in what volume? Here 'tis. ⚒️🐟 #TeamFish

Super let down at the "end" of A House of Dynamite. All that build up... & no resolution. 👎

Second November praying mantis I've seen this week!

What a relief. 💙

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SEPM members - #icanhazpdf ? archives.datapages.com/data/pac_sep... Email [email protected] Thanks!

Dominican nuns at a monastery in Mexico have become unlikely conservation heroes, maintaining the world’s largest captive population of critically endangered achoque salamanders, which number fewer than 150 in the wild.

The seagull and the rock. #Asturies #Asturias #photography #drone #landscapephotography #sea #Dji

Colors 🍁

Top cloud of the day. ☁️

Ginkgo grove at the Blandy Experimental Farm/State Arboretum of Virginia

Adjusting to the new sunset time.

A little autumn beauty from my walk this morning.

Cleaning the kitchen today, and realized that my favorite kitchen knife is one I spent ~$3 on at the IKEA in College Park, MD, 25 years ago.

Finally getting around to my spring cleaning today....

This:

NOAA’s National Weather Service holds the federal responsibility for tsunami warnings, and has historically been a primary supporter of seismic data collection in Alaska

Siccar Point is a touchstone in the evolution of geological thinking: the spot where a human mind first reeled at the depths of geologic time. Visiting it was profound, connecting across the centuries with James Hutton and John Playfair, who connected across the eons with the age of the Earth. ⚒️

Saw the new Frankenstein movie in the theater. I thought it was quite good. 👍

My favorite Halloween costume from my past - David Byrne's "Big Suit" from the Talking Heads movie "Stop Making Sense"

Asymmetric #FridayFold in Castile Formation evaporites, state line outcrop, Permian Basin, TX/NM. ⚒️

Anyone else might want to contribute work to fundraise for PRI? If someone is willing to coordinate and run the auction, i will certainly spread the call to all my #sciart friends 🥰

Visiting PRI was a highlight of the NAGT Eastern Section meeting in 2023. It's such a treasure.⚒️

Alrighty, ready to see something really cool? (and maybe a little nauseating) The evolution of Hurricane Melissa's mesovortices at peak strength.

You all, don't spend even ten seconds of your precious life browsing Grokipedia. Nothing good will come of it. Your attention adds value to something of no value. 👎👎👎

Been there, Gigapanned that! viewer.gigamacro.com/view/O179g76... ⚒️

The states in gray are the states where the governors are more afraid of Trump than they are of killing the people they were elected to represent.

𝙎𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙠! (Faulting associated with the Sugarloaf landslide in McKelligon Canyon, east side of the Franklin Mtns, near El Paso, TX.) ⚒️

“How did the Super Pandemic of 2026 start, Grandpa?” “Well, Timmy —“

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Varves in Castile Formation: seasonal wet/dry variations recorded by alternation between gypsum (white) + calcite (dark) laminae. ⚒️

Philip Prince discussing how the geography of Jamaica is going to govern landslide impacts upon Hurricane Melissa's landfall tonight & tomorrow. youtu.be/QQ4a_01mGQY?... ⚒️

Excited about next month's Geology Club speakers! ⚒️

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New case study on Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) in my (free, online) Historical Geology textbook: opengeology.org/historicalge... ⚒️

Thoroughly enjoying checking out the spectacular folded and overturned Carboniferous-aged turbidities near Millook Haven on the NE Cornish coast. Lovely sedimentary structures - graded bedding, slumps, load casts, flutes, all subsequently squeezed into tight chevron folds ::chef’s kiss:: ⚒️🧪🌍

Super fun, highly irreverent documentary about 2 brothers pursuing a #birds Big Year www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl-w... 🦉

This anteater's front leg looks like a panda sipping from a puddle.

New video showing some footage from the dinosaur tracks in Anapra Sandstone by Cristo Rey. youtu.be/EHLbQ5B7J5w?... ⚒️