Goddard also develops satellite systems for NOAA. Which the admin has also wanted to defund.

Trump just continually shooting our country in the face. This unwarranted (and likely illegal) destruction of Goddard is madness. It jeopardizes the next several decades of space exploration.

Hundreds of people packed the Hillsboro City Council auditorium to decry the escalation in immigration enforcement in the community, following weeks of reports of federal agents in unmarked vehicles detaining residents and dragging people out of cars. www.oregonlive.com/washingtonco...

“If the water isn't able to be treated and reused in the mines and for development, why is it good enough for us to drink?” said Billy-Joe Tuccaro, chief of the Mikisew Cree First Nation. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/06/n...

"and he ate TWO black holes, but he was STILL hungry" www.newscientist.com/article/2502...

Working on a print for a folktale well-known across Asia with different names & versions for #folktaleweek2025. This is the story of the magpie bridge which once a year can reunite the lovers, The Weaver Girl and the Cowherd, separated by the great river which is the Milky Way #linocut #printmaking

Brother Warnock lays it plain.

I went to see SUE the T. rex recently, and look who else I ran into! #copper

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

I disagree. Campaigning on bike lanes and free buses IS campaigning on climate. Real climate politics is about practical measures that change infrastructure, technologies, industries and practices. Not about paper targets or interminable pointless debates with denialists.

Imagine a drop of ancient resin. Inside is an insect, trapped for 53 million years, so well preserved it looks like it might twitch back into life. These amber fossils offer us a breath-taking glimpse into long vanished ecosystems. But there’s a catch

#Copper is the oldest metal worked by humans, & is 100% recyclable. Nearly 80% of all copper ever mined is still in use today. Historically significant examples of its use include the Statue of Liberty, which is made of copper. Vote info 👇🏼 #OreCup ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🍎 🔭🪐

We have reached a verdict: Not guilty.

In Arizona, you are never more than three feet away from Copper*, kind of like spiders. Vote Copper. (*If your reading this, it's true for you, too.)

Tax the rich.

It's a tough call but I'm going for the adze of the Copper Chief, who invented step cutting up a glacier hundreds to thousands of years before the Victorian mountaineers did

A great day at Dominica’s Boiling Lake, a hydrothermal wonder known for its bubbling surface and shifting activity, which we are closely monitoring.

I’m voting for native #Copper, and its continuous importance to pre-historic and modern civilizations. Copper inspires art, music, architecture, tools, weaponry, medicine, energy distribution, and technology. #OreCup25 ⚒️ 🧪

Fun fact- I have a chunk of pure copper from Keeweenaw Peninsula that I use as a door stop. My dad got it out of Lake Superior, decades ago.

Only basic bitches vote for copper. Ilmenite is black metal 🖤

Copper takes my vote in this semifinal!

Vote #Copper! It’s the pro-Democracy, pro-immigration ore! #OreCup

copper is that girl: ancient tools, essential trace mineral, first synthetic blue pigment (egyptian blue), antibacterial and antimicrobial… she’s given us so much!

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

The timeline right now. Find the country trying to run itself into the ground

Lovely peacock ore bornite gets arts points as a source of copper, but so is rare carrollite, which is also a source of cobalt… and cobalt is important for pigments including cobalt violet, cobalt yellow, cobalt titanite green, and of course, cobalt blue. #OreCup

The Ganga River, which sustains the lives of at least 600 million people, is facing its worst dry spell and lowest streamflow in 1,300 years because of over-extraction of #water and #climatechange. news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

‘Tis the season for #DarkMatter 🎃 Today’s #PhotoOfTheWeek highlights Halloween Jack-o'-lanterns in the ATLAS Control Room. One pumpkin features a schematic of the @atlasexperiment.bsky.social, and the other a dark-matter candidate event display.

Learning about the difference between #Bornite and #Chalcopyrite this evening. It appears most, if not all, peacock stone on the market is Chalcopyrite. ☹️ Good to know. I was thinking a collection of mineral cup and ore cup winners — if affordable and not deadly — would be cool … #OreCup

#OreCup R1M4: It’s a pair of copper ores from hydrothermal veins for cobalt-rich #Carrollite vs peacock rock #Bornite. vote: www.mineralcup.org/vote-results... results:

Nice article on the type locality of #carrollite : Carroll County, Maryland and the Patapsco Mine. https://jamesrada.com/carrollite-the-mineral-once-found-only-in-carroll-county/ #orecup #orecup25 #mincup25 #maryland #sykesville #cobalt

#Carrollite from Congo at the Tucson show #OreCup #MineralMonday

voting carrollite for the cobalt content, but this will be a tough one to win facing off against bornite!

If NM can pull it off, so can NYC. Chatted about it with a two-daycare owning friend the other night.

309 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️ Ruby: - The red/pink variety of corundum - Its colour is caused by chromium - Heat treatment can improve its colour - 9 on the Mohs hardness scale - Its name comes from the Latin word "ruber" (red) #minerals

I’m voting for the only Co ore in the Ore Cup, the superconductor mineral #Carrollite. Co serves many industrial, medical, and artistic applications, from battery and magnet technology, to radiotherapy, to glass and ceramic glaze coloring agent. #OreCup25 ⚒️ 🧪

Octahedral crystals, polysynthetic twinning striations, super conductivity, and iridescent sheen? Yes, please. #carrollite #MinCup25 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🔭🪐

Phew, this is going fast! Ilmenite won & will face cooper in the semifinals tomorrow. Today is the last match in round 1 (quarterfinals! 😂) to pick which ore mineral is up against molybdenite. Hint: they’re both pretty!

Do not nibble "like carrollite, the primary threat [bornite] poses to human health is containing heavy metals, so huffing dust or nibbling on samples is a poor lifestyle choice"

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

Bornite is still too pretty for me not to vote for it.

They're both on the "do not lick" list (I assume because the heavy metals involved shouldn't be inhaled) I picked #bornite because it's 🌈

#TeamCopper is going to make it through this match no matter what, so I'm free to vote for the prettier #Bornite. #OreCup

I have to endorse #Carrollite today—copper PLUS cobalt! 1st I love cobalt blue 2nd cobalt comes from kobold, the German name for an imp or demon, so named bc it made recovery of silver (from ores where they mixed) more difficult to recover. (Yes that’s where D&D got it.) #OreCup

Nice to see #OreCup maintains the primary feature of #MineralCup, making me make TOUGH choices! I’m #TeamCopper so I win either way, but #Bornite is just so pretty, a true rainbow 🌈 rock, and it was named after Ignaz von Born, which makes me think of Ignatz Mouse! Of such things are votes made/cast.

The pretty iridescent peacock colors convinced me to vote for #bornite in today's #OreCup match.

was planning on voting for bornite until reading that natural specimens of carrollite exhibit superconductivity 😎

the jadarite deposit is a flashpoint for critical mineral economics and environmental geology. the reality is that if lithium isn't mined in one place, it will be sourced elsewhere with no guarantee of improved protections in a different part of the world - always a complicated issue!

My vote goes to #Jadarite because it will probably be mined in the future to obtain enough lithium to electrify our future 🔋🥰

Most abundant oxide on the Moon (www.lpi.usra.edu/publications...). Just sayin. #Ilmenite