4 more days to get your abstract in for @geosociety.bsky.social's Cordilleran section meeting in Loreto, Baja California Sur! (April) www.geosociety.org/GSA/Events/S...

Fuck this man's grotesque narcissism.

What a week... Take a moment to return your mind to the sublime, the ancient, the lithological, the ductile. #FridayFold This one's from upper Mosaic Canyon in Death Valley, CA ⚒️

It's been a week. Time for #FossilFriday. This is a Dalmanites from the Silurian Rochester shale. There is some restoration on the genal (cheek) spines and tail. The reason I bought this specimen is the brachiopods. The trilobite was buried upside down and the brachiopods are in living position.

It's hard to say anything useful about the news, but this metaphor hits hard and feels apt.

Saw-whet owl was a bit more awake this afternoon. #birds #birding #owl #wildlife #photography 🦢🪶📷

Sandhill cranes foraging in a field north of Staunton, VA this evening. #birds 🦉

Short-eared owl tonight, north of Staunton. A new one for my Virginia list. #birds 🦉

Spectacular footage of pyroclastic flows at Semeru Volcano in Indonesia in November: ⚒️ youtu.be/rybUgYtvVFM?...

My man, Béla! ✊

NASA Discovers Distant Planet With Conditions That Could Sustain Rocks https://theonion.com/nasa-discovers-distant-planet-with-conditions-that-could-sustain-rocks/

Five years ago.

Community college, junior college & city college faculty, are you interested in going to sea for eight days on an Alaska-to-Bay Area route with STEMSEAS? Join me! stemseas.org/2026-2yc-fac... We have an informational webinar this Friday afternoon. ⚒️🌊

The discovery that the continents are in continuous motion is fairly recent—dating back only to the late 1960s — and one woman was responsible for decoding what it meant for California and much of the West Coast. buff.ly/2vAwspH

My dog found a baby turtle while we were walking around the lake this afternoon.

Saw some Common Mergansers today on Chris Greene Lake. 🦉 #birds

My fellow JTRACK outreach officer, @nurschuba.bsky.social, led the writing of this kid-directed article about the expedition: kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.... ⚒️

Wild way of organizing property in a town!!

Look at that title font! 💛💛💛

There are people who say there's no such thing as the best seabird in the world. These are people who haven't seen Light-mantled Albatross. North of Elephant Island yesterday. #Birds #Albatross #SuperSeabirdSunday

We have to impeach him.

Sound OFF, but my god what a beautiful fossil ⚒️

A picture is worth 1000 words... This appeared on the BBC News today, showing the increase in solar electric generation in the UK. Not sure who produced it, but genuinely think this is a genius piece of scientific communication - the construct and choice of colour scale is near-perfect. Chapeau!

Wood engraving, near finished, on 10x10cm block of lemonwood. The columnar basalt cliffs of Rubha Hunish at the northern tip of Skye. A steep path, with a little scrambling at the top, leads down from the break in the cliffs onto a cliff-rimmed peninsula […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

First #FridayFold of 2026 - a new one for me, since I was able to hike further up Mosaic Canyon this year than I have on any previous visit. This appears to be a somewhat shaly subsection of the Noonday Dolomite? ⚒️

#FossilFriday (or at least #BiologicallyMediatedSedimentaryStructureFriday) One of the North Pole Dome, Australia, Paleoarchean stromatolites

Hoping to see Cape Breton this summer. 🤞

I ended up in position 7 in my county for eBird stats last year. Chasing the top five is a silly, arbitrary goal, but I find it motivates me to go outside & spend time looking for #birds. I'm old enough now not to care if it's silly if it makes me happy. 🦉

The only place I go running anymore is inside airports, trying to make my connecting flight. 🥵👎

Last of my posts about #birds I saw yesterday - here's Mr. & Mrs. Crissal Thrasher. 🦉

Four grebes seen yesterday in Henderson, NV's Bird Viewing Preserve. #birds 🦉

More #birds from Henderson, NV's Bird Viewing Preserve. Truly a spectacular place to visit - an oasis of diversity amid a landscape of industrial wreckage and sprawl. 🦉

Yesterday at Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve, these were three of the duck species I saw: Ruddy, Bufflehead, and Northern Pintail. (2/2 duck posts) #birds 🦉

Yesterday at Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve, these were three of the duck species I saw: Redhead (with Ring-billed Gull, Ring-Necked (male & female shown, surrounded by other species), and the Northern Shoveler. (1/2 duck posts) #birds 🦉

Ah, now that's a little bit better. 😁 #birds 🦉

*ICON* Greater Roadrunner, Clark County Wetlands Park, NV #birds 🦉

Las Vegas: good for gambling, and good for Gambel's quail. #birds 🦉

Lifer Cinnamon Teal today! #birds 🦉

AstroBin's Image of the Day: "Celestial equator startrail over a truck skeleton" by Pavel Vorobiev www.astrobin.com/9d5awk/ #astrophotography

Las Vegas Natural History Museum

My Nevada eBird list currently stands at zilch. I'm going to change that tomorrow with a visit to the Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve. 🦉 #birds

Yesterday evening's coyote - looks like he's stalking the frigid plains of the midwest, but that's actually evaporite mineral crust surrounding him. Soda Lake, Zzyzx.

Pied-billed Grebe & American Coot in the ponds at Zzyzx. #birds 🦉

Wow -- a 14 foot difference between one side of a lake and the other, due to wind's powerful push! ⚒️

Joshua Tree forest on Cima Dome, Mojave National Preserve.

American kestrel & Northern flicker (red-shafted variety) at Zzyzx this morning. #birds 🦉

Green-winged Teal today at Zzyzx. #birds 🦉

Striped mountain to the NE of the Cima Dome area - Paleozoic marine sediments, according to Rockd. ⚒️

Kelso Dunes, Mojave National Preserve. ⚒️

The word is "extirpated."