This is great for UNR but being able to donate land after your death to fund economic geology at a university is seriously badass (and I wish I were successful enough so I could do the same)

I think this is excellent, and I'd encourage people to complete the survey and let them know that we do find it useful!

I keep thinking about this comment someone left on a post I made where it’s obvious they didn’t read my profile. Maybe it’s a bot or a sock puppet account instead of a real person but either way, I keep laughing about it.

Anthracite was right there!

Hey geosky, anyone want to talk about the M4.7 on the north side of the Uintas this morning? Utah-Wyoming border, normal-oblique. How do the Uintas and the edge of the Basin & Range interact? earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

The US government could already invest in projects in Greenland and has already been looking to do so. But they haven’t yet. In fact they made it seem like they were investing in Tanbreez and then said maybe not. So, which projects are we talking about? Ones that are decades down the road?

state-sponsored child trafficking

Of course they have 🙄

Scoop: The Trump administration is preventing Vineyard Wind from implementing major safety fixes to its offshore turbines, threatening public safety and the environment An absolutely massive story in collaboration with @emilypont.bsky.social who took the lead for @heatmap.news

Something important to note: The money for ICE in the One Big, Beautiful Bill for ICE is mandatory spending, unaffected by appropriations. This means that the money for ICE in Appropriations is on top of it (but it's also the only way to rein in ICE) www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

FWIW, Democrats can't force full-fledged government shutdown over ICE because Congress has passed 9 out of 12 of its spending bills. And both parties deliberately tied Defense, DHS and HHS spending bills so they both get what they want.

Gold is over $4700 per oz this morning. Silver is $94 per oz. Wonder how high they will go today.

Uh… what?

Wait. The CDC closed its FOIA office?!?

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Another long term climate site in Alaska dies. 😡 #akwx #Climate

bsky.app/profile/gawe... Please sign our petitions against catastrophic job cuts! @leicesterucu.bsky.social

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Quick, someone ask Burgum about all the drills shutting down in the Bakken Shale

Omg Harold Hamm halted drilling in the Bakken Shale because oil prices are so low.

For anyone who is following new mine permitting in the US, Warrior Met Coal had two Alabama projects approved. This will be 53 millions tons of metallurgical coal (used to produce coke for making high grade steel).

I’m a geologist and I have no idea what any of this means, but my husband wrote this paper and he named it Theropod because he’s a vertebrate paleontologist who does #proteomics and #paleoproteomics

I got mad that Tim Kaine co-sponsored a bill to fund the US Critical Mineral mining workforce and it’s basically study abroad for mining engineers and nothing about geologists (or geophysicists), but all anyone has commented on today is me asking whether a geophysicist is a geologist or not 😅

Do biologists and biochemists and biophysicists have this argument too? And where to the biogeochemists fit in?

So what I’m getting is that geophysicists do not like being called geologists, unless they consider themselves one

The woman who said she was autistic as ICE dragged out of her car is named Aliya Rahman via this statement: "Masked agents dragged me from my car and bound me like an animal, even after I told them that I was disabled." It happened two blocks from where Jonathan Ross shot Renee Good.

Do geophysicists not consider themselves geologists?

Me as a mining/mineral exploration geologist: so just mining engineers and process engineers? Not geologists? You know the people who actually find those deposits with critical minerals?? *flips a table*

Geotweeps, who has written the best popular accounting of pelagic/ribbon 𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙩? Anyone? I don't see any cherty treatment in the trade paperback oeuvre of Bjornerud, Prothero, or McPhee. ⚒️

Thin Section Thursday! Beautiful oscillatory zoning in a plagioclase crystal in a Miocene basalt from western Idaho, USA. Cross polars. Contributed by Richard (Rich) M. Gaschnig. You can contribute too! Send image(s) and short caption to akoziol1 (at) udayton dot edu. #thinsectionthursday

Wtaf

My phone is finally working! I did have to put my phone in airplane mode and then back off to actually get a signal, but I can finally make calls and I finally got my text messages (that were from my kids’ school)

My husband’s phone is working but mine isn’t. I’m so annoyed

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I wondered why my phone has been so silent this afternoon and it’s because Verizon is down and I’ve got no signal and can’t make any calls 🙃

".. The reporter, Hannah Natanson, has spent the past year covering the Trump administration’s effort to fire federal workers and redirect much of the work force to enforcing his agenda." @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...

My power bill has increased $100 in a year and we haven’t changed usage 🫠

*nervous laughter*

In Pennsylvania and some other states, it’s also legal to spread oilfield produced water—typically radioactive brine laden with heavy metals and salt—on gravel roads for dust control. It’s considered a beneficial use by proponents.

If the Smithsonian gives in on anything, it’s because the Board of Regents told them to. Not because the staff decided to comply. Congress should be protecting the Smithsonian since it’s not part of the executive branch, but they haven’t done anything

For the second time in less than four months, a federal judge has overturned an order from the Trump administration that shut down construction of a 65-turbine offshore wind farm contracted to start delivering power to Rhode Island and Connecticut in a year. www.providencejournal.com/sto...

“Investing in rare-earth mining in Greenland would be considered high risk just because of all the logistical challenges,” he said. “Adding this security dimension to it actually makes it even more risky.”

ICE is violence-prone because its main purpose has become theatrical. Under present leadership, ICE is less a law-enforcement agency than it is a content creator. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Some crucial context about below: FEHBP now bans coverage under federal dictate from the current administration This language being removed does not mean a coverage ban is killed but rather that a future Democrat can reverse the existing ban

I really hate it when I comment and then a man comes in and says the same thing on a thread and gets more engagement for saying the same thing after me 😐

Call me Texas oil, the way I’m crude but I keep it light and sweet.

For any who are new here, I am pro-mining BUT: 1) mining companies do and have done a bunch of evil shit and deserve to be called out on it 2) not every mine has to be built just because the resources are there 3) Pebble Mine isn’t worth the possible damage to Lake Illiamna 4) fuck coal mining

I appreciate this from @us.theconversation.com by Jonathan Paul. However, I think it’s making a mistake I commonly hear geologists make with regards to current events. I have a hunch that this mistake is one of the reasons geology programs are struggling 🧵🛠️🪨🧪 theconversation.com/greenland-is...

Well, well, well