Happy April Fool's Gold Day! #minerals #GeologistProblems

Happy April Fool's Gold Day! #minerals #GeologistProblems

I’m so happy to announce you can now find some of my pins and stickers at Wellcome Collection in London! 🫀

Someone on Twitter said our world is so boring we don’t even have vampires or mermaids or werewolves and someone replied ya’ll couldn’t even handle different skin colors

Is it #TransDayOfVisibility Celebrating with short thread of historic trans slavs 🏳️‍⚧️🥟 Starting with Czechoslovak transman, Zdeněk Koubek (1913–1986). Olympic golden medallist, caught in crosshairs of Nazis weeding out "hermaphrodites" from the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

Finished the Anomalocaris pattern!

Don't forget to move your rocks one hour forward tonight as we go from GMT (Greenwich Metamorphic Time) to BST (British Sedimentary Time) #ClocksGoForward #geology ⚒

That one scene in Sinners (2025)

Harry Potter tattoo regret rate is an order of magnitude higher than regret for Gender Reassignment Surgery and yet no one has been brave enough to suggest we legislate Harry Potter tattoos.

Just the stone to carve a cheetah 🐆! Anna Maria Massinelli’s new book on the use of the decorative stone Giallo tigrato is available to download at www.academia.edu/165293968/Pa... #decorativestone

The Society of Mineral Museum Professionals has just joined Bluesky!!! Happy to join this network for mineral and museum news and geoscience discussions! #MineralMonday #MuseumMonday

My god that was amazing! 💯 I just wish the DVD came with some extras! #Sinners

I'm about to watch Sinners for the first time! 😍

Fluoro-edenite NaCa₂Mg₅(Si₇Al)O₂₂F₂ Harter Mountain, Linn County, Oregon FOV = 3.46 mm #9397 NFS

Epidote Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH) Belmont Mountain, Tonopah, Osborn Mining District, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA FOV = 1.38 mm #9621 NFS #minerals #mineralogy #geology #earthscience

It’s publication day for my debut book Rocks! 🪨 It is available in many lovely independent booksellers and all the usual bookshops too. Or online here: geni.us/Rocks #geology #SciArt #naturebooks #illustration @quartobooksuk.bsky.social

Caledonite Cu₂Pb₅(SO₄)₃(CO₃)(OH)₆ Tonopah-Belmont Mine, Belmont Mountain, Tonopah, Osborn Mining District, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA FOV = 3.51 mm #9509 NFS #minerals #mineralogy #geology #earthscience

Aurichalcite (Zn,Cu)₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆ Hemimorphite Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O Empire Mine, Nash Mines group, Washington Camp-Duquesne Mining District, Patagonia Mining District, Patagonia Mountains, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA FOV = 2.51 mm #9595 NFS #minerals #mineralogy #geology #earthscience

Super excited to share the cover of my children’s book Jacob’s Transition Goals! Jacob’s Transition Goals is about an 8 year old transgender boy who starts playing football for his local boys team. It’s a joyful story that I wish I’d been able to read when I was a trans kid. Out April 21st! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

Ruizite Ca₂Mn³⁺₂Si₄O₁₁(OH)₄·2H₂O Kinoite Ca₂Cu₂Si₃O₁₀·2H₂O Christmas Mine, Christmas, Banner Mining District, Gila County, Arizona, USA FOV = 2.83 mm #9503 NFS

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh

The science of racism with Professor Keon West

A friend just saw this in the wild and you know what? I stand by it

I found my first grey eyebrow hair. What should I name it?

Last night was the first time I've ever done an after hours event at the NHM (teenagers got to learn about a wide range of museum careers). I made a mineral matching game and the only person who managed to get all 12 right was a Minecraft player. Love that!

I watched Cocaine Bear for the first time and it's actually an amazing film 💯

Forbidden Viennetta

It is now February 27th in Japan On this day, 30 years ago, Pokémon Red & Green were released in Japan and the franchise began. Happy Birthday Pokémon! #PokemonDay #Pokemon30

Women 🤝 werewolves #WerewolfWednesday

Women 🤝 werewolves #WerewolfWednesday

#minermag The 150 collection has started. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Submissions by 31st August to join the full collection. Celebrate 🎉with us here in June minsoc-150.org

This werewolf commands astral bodies and the alchemic dualities of human-hood, beast-hood, and transgender expression. 🌕 🌟 ☀️ ---- AND oh my GOSH did everyone here like the preview for this one. Well, now it's available as a print that you can buy (if you live in the US). ko-fi.com/s/2d61ab077a

Oh wait, there’s more. BBC chose not to bleep out the slur even as they did bleep out a reference to Palestine 🤬🤬🤬

50 days into the new year and I've officially broken my streak of at least one pin sale every day in 2026. It was actually 130 days in total! 🎉 The response to my pins has been absolutely incredible and I've been blown away by all the amazing reviews, especially over the last four months or so 🩷

We're live now! Come get yourself some kobolds and, if you so desire, a perfectly normal gentleman!

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A Swiss hematite rose for all you mineral lovers #MineralMonday #minerals

Happy Galena-tines! Rhodochrosite with Galena, Sphalerite and Chalcopyrite. When hit, Galena will break along three directions of weakness that meet at right angles, creating smaller cubes. Galena’s hardness is similar to that of a fingernail.

Natrolemoynite Na₄Zr₂Si₁₀O₂₆·9H₂O Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada FOV = 3.51 mm #4015 NFS

It's cold in winter, but there is a solution

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pick up the ash and berries

always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay

Molybdenite MoS₂ Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada FOV = 1.38 mm #4013 NFS #MineralMonday

This has a good explainer about why sugar plantations were so deadly. runaways.gla.ac.uk/minecraft/in...

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

My blog post on Ailsa Craig, curling stones, and the weird minerals that make this rock unique. 🥌

Founders of modern paleontology, and their contributions to systemic racism, classism and sexism (🧵) Henry Osborn (1857–1935), responsible for naming of Tyrannosaurus & Velociraptor; president of ANHM. Co-founder of the American Eugenics Society. Contributing to books later praised by Hitler.