Took my kids to Udvar-Hazy to see the space shuttle. I am now exhausted and they still have lots of energy.

“Companies with financial ties to Trump administration figures are securing major funding as Washington commits billions to unproven groups in a push to build domestic supplies of critical minerals.” www.mining.com/us-bets-bill...

My PhD student is researching the experiences of neurodivergent geoscience faculty and understanding how their neurodivergence shaped their academic experiences. Please see the following and consider taking her survey (full consent/description in the link).

I hate this timeline

Iran attacked two aluminum smelters. One owned by Emirates Global Aluminum in Abu Dhabi and one in Bahrain (Aluminum Bahrain). About 9% of the world’s aluminum comes from the region www.bbc.com/news/article...

You cannot be pro-green energy and be anti-mining. The energy transition requires a lot of mining for raw materials to build and maintain things like wind farms, solar panels, and batteries.

You cannot be pro-green energy and be anti-mining. The energy transition requires a lot of mining for raw materials to build and maintain things like wind farms, solar panels, and batteries.

Today, one year ago, the devastating Mw 7.7 Myanmar #earthquake produced the first-ever surface rupture footage, caught on a building's webcam. It shows the exact moment this section of the Sangain Fault ruptured in a right lateral strike-slip movement. 🧪⚒️ youtu.be/77ubC4bcgRM?...

Brent is at $110.99 and #$WTI Crude is at $96.93 a barrel.

This CBC article headline is a little disingenuous: "Canada loaning millions to proposed Nunavik rare earth mining project linked to Trump White House" www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Me reading this to only see one sentence that mentions geothermal power and it calls it ”underground heat”: 😐

My yarn stash just became an investment

$100 million is about 55 standard gold bars that weigh about 27 pounds each.

Remarkable that the massive growth in global cobalt production since 2020 has basically been production from one mine, Tenke Fungurume in DR Congo.

Ugh I think it’s 5th largest not 4th, but post stands either way

Paying $1 billion to the 4th largest oil company in the world to not build wind farms. Paying $1 billion to the largest US exporter of liquid natural gas to not build wind farms. TotalEnergies is not just any energy company.

I dug into Nicki Minaj’s use of the world “neurodivergent” — Where did it come from? What does it mean? And how does a very niche, 25+ year old social justice-y, lefty activist word end up being used on the far right?

Friends we still have SO MANY Girl Scout cookies that need homes. Totally get that things are tough these days. Even a few boxes helps us Thank you for your ongoing help!!! digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/ruby34...

Beautiful pictures of pahoehoe flows on the delta formed in the ocean by the ongoing ‪eruption at #PitondelaFournaise🌋⚒️ @ovpf.bsky.social Decreasing lava emission rates, but still high seismicity, stable tremor, and the deflation of the edifice stopped.

An Air Canada jet collided with a fire truck at LaGuardia last night. Both pilots have died and 9 others are hospitalized. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

No administration has done more to hurt the US O&G industry than this one but sure…

Reposting the image with alt text. So EVERYONE can see which of the thirteen airports will have ICE agents on site

In a place denied access to basic forensic technology—and where people disappear into Israeli detention—the fate of thousands remains unknown. One of them is an autistic teenager. www.wired.com/story/hassan...

DOGE Goes Nuclear: there is stiff competition from every other paragraph in this parade of WTF, but “protecting people from radiation is just soooo expensive!” is the last thing I want to hear from people responsible for nuclear safety. Maddening. Terrifying. www.propublica.org/article/trump-…

Welcome back to another #FossilFriday Here is the marine gastropod (snail) of Turritella vertebroides. I collected this from the Late Cretaceous (Late Maastrichtian) Coon Creek Tongue of the Ripley Formation in Blue Spings, Mississippi. The original shell is still intact after ~71 million years. 🐌

Would really like to see more attention put on these obvious grifts www.mining.com/web/us-house...

Of course they did

Video snapshot of graphite exploration in #Zambia in 2025 as part of @bgs.ac.uk #CriticalMinerals collaboration with Zambian Geological Survey Department & Copperbelt University More info & Zambian Critical Minerals Guide here: www.bgs.ac.uk/news/zambias... Watch video here: youtu.be/nCNdHl40LKY

Tired of the big city? Move to the suburbs of a big city!

This will affect a lot of things, but especially power bills in places that rely on natural gas for power generation

Qualifications: well I have at least worked in the mining industry before, unlike some of these people 😬

A US company is taking over a copper-cobalt mine in DRC africa.businessinsider.com/local/market...

After the 9th circuit court refused to block a land swap, Rio Tinto has taken over the land needed for its Resolution Copper project in Arizona. The San Carlos Apache have been fighting this land swap since 2014 www.riotinto.com/en/news/rele...

yikes

New coal plant planned for Alaska. The first in the US since 2013. www.mining.com/web/us-plann...

good news follow-up to these seismic stations being defunded by trump www.noaa.gov/news-release...

A few weeks ago CBC reporter Sheena Goodyear reached out to me for comment on the new Spinosaurus paper. I said I couldn’t, because of Epstein connection Nathan Myhrvold’s involvement with it. We got to talking about how paleontology - especially dinosaur research- remains hostile to women. 🧪

Weirdly missing from this article is the fact that not only is TotalEnergies big in the oil industry, they are the US’ largest exporter of liquified natural gas. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/c...

I married the one who never left me behind on hikes and carried rock samples over mountain peaks for me. Never settle ladies!

“Actually, they have a higher uptake simply because they’re closer to where the stuff comes from. They play on the dumps. Some of them swim in the toe dams of tailings.” They do what?!? 😱

🗓️ UK Critical Minerals Intelligence Centre- Showcase 2026 Join BGS scientists from the UK Critical Mineral Intelligence Centre (CMIC) on the 31 March for a special live-streamed showcase of major research outputs from the last year. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uk-critica...

I have a core logging joke, but it’s a bit boring

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When I said that the US is making a lot of shady minerals deals these days, this is the kind of thing I was talking about

Lots of geologists don’t even work in minerals or oil & gas and even as a former exploration geologist, I can confidently say I have never started any wars (other than fights over what to call a rock)

Spent the morning cleaning out the storage space under my stairs just in case because my house has no other tornado safe space

It’s a painful time to be a geologist

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Still waiting to see an explanation for how/why this steel pipe rose out of the ground. Presumably it became buoyant and they had to add water to make it sink, but what is it and what was it rising out of? www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...