And it's done! What an amazing set 😍 #minerals #Lego

Here we go!!! I love the little intro to #minerals in the instruction manual. Also I didn't know Lego uses paper bags now! Expect more photos soon...

Holes xkcd.com/3266/

The best gallery in the museum. But then again, I am a bit biased #minerals

I made a very brief trip to the Lake District to install some NHM mineral specimens in an exhibition at Brantwood about John Ruskin's mineral collection. It opens on the 3rd July so there will be some photos soon: www.brantwood.org.uk/exhibition/t... #minerals #museums

I made a very brief trip to the Lake District to install some NHM mineral specimens in an exhibition at Brantwood about John Ruskin's mineral collection. It opens on the 3rd July so there will be some photos soon: www.brantwood.org.uk/exhibition/t... #minerals #museums

I love it when animals look like #minerals. In this case: tiny clusters of natrolite

These past few weeks have been hectic so I (finally) bought the Lego #minerals set so I can have something to look forward to when this week is over! #MineralMonday

I'm spending the morning playing Tetris* *Packing up mineral specimens for an exhibition

That was a lovely (but extremely hot 🥵) week at #MinSoc150. Looking forward to reading this on the train home and finally becoming a @minersoc.bsky.social member #minerals #geology

#minsoc150 Banquet dinner. Great to see so many colleagues in mineralogy

I'm spending the week in Manchester for @minersoc.bsky.social's #MinSoc150 conference! I've already presented my talk on preserving #minerals in collections, so now I can relax and enjoy the rest of the talks

#minsoc150 collections are important and future mineralogists are essential for their future. Talk by Mike Rumsey @nhm-london.bsky.social

#MinSoc150 Catch up with Editors and colleagues before the talks start on Tuesday

Is anyone else going to this? I'll be giving a talk about how to preserve #minerals in museum collections #MinSoc150

Is anyone else going to this? I'll be giving a talk about how to preserve #minerals in museum collections #MinSoc150

Happy pride month!! 🪨🏳️‍🌈

Not to repeat myself again, but it is bad that we are now two years into a Labour government and a major shift has been we now have annual riots that the government struggles to condemn.

I was on the Tube and when I took my hoodie off to reveal my @wolfskulljack.bsky.social t-shirt, a tiny Pomeranian started barking its head off at me. I guess dogs don't like werewolves 😂

We did a thing: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Happy pride, mollusc-botherers 🤘

I don’t have space for the fifth (the parasaurolophus) but here’s the palaeo adjacent patterns I’ve made this year! They’ll all be coming to DinoCon printed on a few bits 🦖

One of these days I'll make some more mineral pride flags. Here's one I made a few years back (check the alt text for specimen details)

Every year for Pride, I repost Hue. I made him to send love and comfort to those who feel Pride isn’t for them because they aren’t out. You matter, you are valid, and it’s ok if you aren’t ready yet. Coming out is not a requirement for being part of this community. Happy Pride 🌈

I made this back in 2017 on Twitter and it's been stolen so many times so I better post it here too before someone else does! 🧪⚒️ #geology #minerals #volcanology

The TERF movement has been going for decades and the GC movement has been funded by multiple billionaires for over a decade and they STILL haven't come up with a biological definition of female that includes all cis women and excludes all trans women. Maybe that alone should tell you something

My office is currently 28°C

Cumbria, England has some beautiful calcites! 😍 (Vid description: My left hand in a blue nitrile glove slowly rotating a cluster of transparent calcite crystals with some red iron staining on grey hematite) #MineralMonday #minerals

Cumbria, England has some beautiful calcites! 😍 (Vid description: My left hand in a blue nitrile glove slowly rotating a cluster of transparent calcite crystals with some red iron staining on grey hematite) #MineralMonday #minerals

These are an absolute nightmare to photograph but I made some big dino prints in gold foil and they’re sooooo cooooooooool

Did somebody say slug metal? bsky.app/profile/nadw...

Here is the full-wrap cover for the Standard Edition of my artbook 💙 www.kickstarter.com/projects/spi... AKREON is my first collected artbook featuring work from GWENT, Magic: The Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons, Evil West, personal pieces, sketches, and more from the last 10+ years of my career.

Albite, oligoclase, andesine, labradorite, bytownite and anorthite #minerals #GeologistProblems www.mindat.org/min-9264.html

Albite, oligoclase, andesine, labradorite, bytownite and anorthite #minerals #GeologistProblems www.mindat.org/min-9264.html

The latest four batches of minerals. #minerals #ttrpg #sciart

Crystal Gazing xkcd.com/3243/

It was wonderful to see some of the committee in person! I'm really looking forward to the winter seminar and AGM in November: www.geocollections.org/events/192-5... ⚒️🧪📜 #geology #museums

It was wonderful to see some of the committee in person! I'm really looking forward to the winter seminar and AGM in November: www.geocollections.org/events/192-5... ⚒️🧪📜 #geology #museums

Strawberries!!! 🌱

We got some nice Norwegian ones last year 🥰

May the forsterite be with you #MineralMonday #minerals (Image thumbnail: bright green forsterite crystals on a black lumpy matrix) www.mindat.org/photo-669327...

Full information and details on how to apply can be found on our website: www.geocollections.org/grants

GCG has launched a Small Grants Scheme, offering up to £1000 total, per round. Applications can be made for projects that focus on any aspect of geological specimens or collections, such as 👇

Curators and stakeholders met at Amgueddfa Cymru to discuss threats to geology, particularly funding cuts, course closures, and staffing losses, and to explore collaborative ways to sustain the discipline. Give it a read here 👇 geocollnews.wordpress.com/2026/04/27/r...

Now this is a cool mineral I've never heard of before. Tubulite is named for its weird morphology (Image thumbnail shows two crystals of tubulite which look like very shiny metal tubes, on boulangerite wires. The tubes are about 0.4mm long) #minerals #MineralMonday www.mindat.org/photo-120162...

Now this is a cool mineral I've never heard of before. Tubulite is named for its weird morphology (Image thumbnail shows two crystals of tubulite which look like very shiny metal tubes, on boulangerite wires. The tubes are about 0.4mm long) #minerals #MineralMonday www.mindat.org/photo-120162...

Oh. My. God.

It's #WerewolfWednesday and it's also 20 years since the Doctor Who episode Tooth and Claw first aired (22nd April 2006). I can't believe it's been so long, I was absolutely obsessed with that episode and even made a scrapbook about it 🐺

It's #WerewolfWednesday and it's also 20 years since the Doctor Who episode Tooth and Claw first aired (22nd April 2006). I can't believe it's been so long, I was absolutely obsessed with that episode and even made a scrapbook about it 🐺