🧪⚒️Just posted Keith Klepeis on how plutons form. He identified conduits, feeder dikes, and mushroom-shaped sheets that form as magma rises from the base of the crust to the upper crust. A tilted batholith in NZ provided him with a rare continuous exposure of 20 km of crustal section. #geology

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You are not going to believe this… well, actually, you probably are. Shona Robison has just (once again) misled parliament on what the Scottish Fiscal Commission said about the notorious taxpayers claim.

Authorities are investigating rumours the captain failed to display the correct flag beforehand...

‘The Plowing Match’ #perthshire

This has to be an April Fools. I know it's November, but there is no other explanation.

Tap us up Amazon #jamesbond

I think it's cool how copper connects to tectonics - a failed rift in Michigan, ocean floor stranded by convergent tectonics in Cyprus - and how that tectonics connects to human use of metals.

Feeding Without Jaws opens this Wednesday! Our temporary #exhibition tells the immersive story of our ancestors, jawless fish. Find out about why these ancient fish have fascinated palaeontologists, & what new discoveries have been made about them. www.birmingham.ac.uk...#exhibition #LapworthRocks

And found in the best curling stones from Ailsa Craig geoscienceinfo.com/curling-ston... www.virtualmicroscope.org/content/rieb...

Currently doing some marking. A reminder to everyone involved in archives and collections: digitisation is not preservation. If I digitise a box of records and put the files on a USB stick I haven't preserved a thing. It's all about what you do with the files post-digitisation. #archives #digipres

Designed by the architect John Baird and the Iron Founder R. McConnel, it was built in 1855. This makes it the oldest surviving building in the UK with a fully cast-iron facade #glasgow #architecture #castiron #jamaicastreet #architecturephotography #nightphotography #glasgowatnight

"One ping only, R2."

Pine marten just visited the windowsill. Not unprecedented, but rare enough to mention!

I worry about AI illiteracy. Over 6k people liked, shared and commented on these images and the vast majority are not questioning what they see and accept them as real, which I find utterly astounding but there we are. If people believe this bollocks is real, what won’t they believe?

By this point in the year, even the Sun is like “fuck it”

Look at us being #slightlytopical

Hello, Linux Developer. My name is Jigsaw. In this "Saw Trap" (as I've taken to calling them), there is a wheel in front of you. Your challenge is to leave the room without reinventing it. It works fine. It's a perfectly good wheel. The door is unlocked.

What the dickens is a “Beaver Supermoon”? Has everyone finally lost their minds?

Many of us have used Oreo cookies as analogues when explaining plate tectonics, but all this time, "Geo" cookies existed! Who knew?!? What a wasted opportunity. 😁 #GeoEducation

Thank you to everyone who has supported the Deep Time Trail so far, thanks to your help we've secured 40% of our target! Help to get us all the way and make the Deep Time Trail a reality. Donate today: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/siccar-point

How can you not vote for #Ilmenite? "Along enabling Bob Ross's happy little clouds to be non-toxic instead of laced with the lead of prior white pigments, titanium dioxide is a whitening agent used to colour plastics, paper and even food." #OreCup

Mines? The baryte mine?

Vote for Molybdenite 1. So many Copper ores in the Ore Cup! 2. Molybdenite is SO Beautiful, esp. in polished section. 3. Its the source for the very rare Element Rhenium #MinCup #OreCup #Geology ⚒️

The Inbox of the Beast

Can’t believe this beauty - and gateway drug to mineral collecting - #galena, is losing to something that isn’t a modern ore mineral #copper #orecup Native #copper is a real hazard in crushing circuits because it is malleable and gums things up.

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It’s almost time!

What kind of variable type do programmer's ghosts like to use?

With Halloween approaching, I thought I’d share a few spine-chilling poems. Today’s is called ‘The Heebie Bee Gees’.

The Version Number of the Beast

My spidey sense was right about waiting to order the RISC OS developer tools. They just released a new version yesterday. I placed my upgrade order so I should be getting a USB stick in the mail with the DDE in a week or two. Bug fixes and a new Fortran compiler. www.riscosopen.org/content/sale...

Bit niche, but want to know how ARM1&2 got an ANSI C compiler back in the 1980s? Listen to Arthur Norman and Lee Smith... www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwUo...

Emptied Recycling Bin on a development system. 'Do you want to delete these 37 items?' Yes. 'Deleting 25,128 items.'

Joseph Botting (& his partner Lucy Muir) discovered the Castle Bank Biota (middle Ordovician, Wales), which shows exceptional preservation of very small animals. Wonderfully knowledgeable people. See for yourself.

Tick borne illnesses are highlighted in this week’s #Landward show - visiting an Aberfeldy farm where the sheep are suffering with “louping ill virus“ from ticks. Tick borne illnesses can have devastating effects not only in humans but also in livestock www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

THIS SATURDAY! The RISC OS London Show is back, showcasing the latest products and projects, and providing a chance to meet up, chat, and attend talks about our favourite little OS. #opensource #acorn #raspberrypi www.riscoslondonshow.co.uk

With the AWS outage, now‘s as good a time as any to post this old strip.

Do you like stripy rocks? Want to study how ore deposits form? Does fieldwork in Norway sound like fun? Come do a PhD with @3oja.bsky.social and me (and a few others) at @ueaenv.bsky.social! aries-dtp.ac.uk/studentships...

Magnesio-arfvedsonite NaNa₂(Mg₄Fe³⁺)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂ Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada FOV = 3.50 mm #4009 NFS #minerals #earthscience #geology #mineralogy

Kīlauea episode 35 has arrived. The double fountain shot is from one of the HVO interns, Christina. All are taken from the public viewing areas.

When you saw the Acornsoft MODE 7 loading screen you knew you were about to play a great game! A sign of quality. In 1986, Acornsoft and Superior Software joined ranks and games were released with both companies names present on the packaging.

It must be #FridayFold ⚒️ time! Carboniferous Crackington Formation at Hartland Quay, Devon, UK (similar to Millook Haven further south along the coast, but upright here)

LOL!

Just wait until people try to retrieve data from USB sticks that they've archived in thirty years' time.

Women do not like the vehicle. And for once I'm not just joking - the Blackburns really did get divorced shortly after work on the Roc commenced...

I would like to advertise a PhD project on Magma emplacement and its evolution: aries-dtp.ac.uk/studentships... for those who have an interest in petrology, rock microstructure, and fieldwork. Supervising team: Dr William McCarty, Prof Marian Holness, Dr Eduardo Mansur, Dr Gareth Fabbro and me.