I know replying this to a politician won’t do anything (even if he is my senator) but that won’t stop me from calling out the fact that this administration is refusing to implement a silica rule meant to reduce the cases of Black Lung among miners.

I’m old enough to remember that in October of this year a train derailed in Virginia and spilled coal and diesel into the Chickahominy River

I got so many things to say I don’t even know where to start. But this right here is why we NEED better earth science in K-12 🤦🏻‍♀️

Paper by @griffinlabpaleo.bsky.social independently revalidates Nanotyrannus lancensis using different methodology from the recent Zanno & Napoli paper. But what I'm most excited about is the Coelophysis hyoid histology is finally out too! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New Nanotyrannus is its own thing paper came out today www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The warning for an M5.9 earthquake near Dayton, NV this morning was an incorrect alert issued by the USGS ShakeAlert program. None of the stations in the Nevada Seismological Laboratory network detected any large earthquakes in Nevada this morning.

Reposting this in hopes a geothermal person will chime in

Largest copper miners are from Australia (BHP) and Chile (Codelco) but alright. I think there is only one American company in the top ten and it’s Freeport-McMoran

Ruling that the land owner owns the pore space under their property is interesting. Do you own the pore space but not what’s in it if it happens to be natural gas or whatever (unless you also own the mineral rights)? I have a lot of questions about this.

I just bought wool yarn to make hats for my kids and with how expensive yarn is this year, they better like them 😅

My apologies to whatever delivery driver had to deliver my two 20lb kettlebells that were shipped in one box

Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild Moose Wolves Pikas Puffins Grizzlies

Can anyone recommend a good and reliable text on mineral classification from Mohs to the present day? #philsky #philsci

Thin Section Thursday! Ophitic texture of plagioclase laths encased in clinopyroxene in a gabbro from the Glen Mtns. Layered Complex in southwestern Oklahoma. Contributed by Robert Puckett. You can contribute too! Send images to akoziol1 at udayton dot edu. #thinsectionthursday

I’ve recently seen the discussion about how scientists need to rebuild trust, and well, I don’t think we have ever really had it. Scientists in the not so distant past did some really shitty things. People are still alive who had their relatives experimented on. And we just kinda moved on from that.

Some updates on what we have been working on lately here at NDGS Paleo. T. rex and a whole lot of mammoths! www.yahoo.com/news/article...

New EO dropped. They want to do all scientific innovation with AI for: 1) advanced manufacturing 2) biotech 3) critical minerals 4) nuclear fission and fusion energy 5) quantum information science and 6) semiconductors and microelectronics www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

This beautiful stone is from China and I’m trying to find out more about it. It might be from the M Triassic Baifeng or Guohua Fms of S China. Is there anyone out there with local knowledge? I’ve not been able to locate sufficient detail in the literature. It’s not a carbonate. #chinesepicturestone

Took my kid to the doctor and saw a pair of sundogs on the way home, but I was the only excited one

Data centers popping up on Indigenous lands everywhere, but especially perilous to us desert tribes where water availability for crops and for communities have new competition.

Here is a hastily constructed animated gif from different NASA satellites showing the progression of the Hayli Gubbi eruption. Note the tall ash plume spreading NE (right) and a lower, light tan ash flow(?) moving NNW. #eruption #volcano

Here's the GVP page of Hayli Gubbi in Ethiopia: volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?.... Plume from the eruption can be seen in this Aqua/MODIS image cross the Red Sea to the Arabian Peninsula. #eruption #volcano

It’s 2025 and this is still happening

Please help build some public-facing interpretive signage at Siccar Point. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/siccar-point The campaign is very close to 2/3 of their goal, with 9 days to go... @thenoblegasbag.bsky.social ⚒️

Semeru, Indonesia is erupting. Communities are being evacuated. Incredible footage of pyroclastic density currents in the news. youtube.com/watch?v=ducv...

I don’t normally share petitions, but good friends and colleagues are going to lose their jobs as part of the planned cuts to the geology dept at Leicester. Consider adding your signature here: www.change.org/p/save-geolo... An excellent dept that doesn’t deserve to be decimated. 🧪⚒️🌍

My alma mater, Leicester University, is dissolving its Geology Department leading to the loss of 14 staff. Palaeo is being completely axed, despite Leicester's long and storied history in this area (and its current strengths). Please sign this petition!!: www.change.org/p/save-geolo...

Science People: We at NSF are still recovering/catching up/getting our lives together. But the agency posted these FAQs about post-shutdown resumption of operations which might answer a lot of Qs for you: www.nsf.gov/resumption-o...

⚒️🧪 Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (among other programs) to be eliminated at University of Nebraska-Lincoln #UNL. A tragedy all around. #Geosciences

No Mineral Monday post today Without contributions from people like you, there is no Mineral Monday (or Thin Section Thursday) posts. Please consider contributing. Send information (200 - 300 words max) to akoziol1 (at) udayton dot edu.

My TikTok and my BlueSky are talking about wildly different things today

As much as I dislike coal companies, the people who run them, and the devastation their mines have wrought, especially in Appalachia, I have the utmost respect for the people who work underground and hope this story has a good ending. Nobody deserves to die in darkness like that.

I may have missed the aurora last night thanks to clouds, but I did get my MRI results and they were “unremarkable”.

Now I know that when I was working above the arctic circle the aurora would wake me up tinkling (and the wolves would also be howing), but I have the biggest fomo with seeing everyone’s aurora photos tonight 😭

Sharing again as the recall has expanded to all formula products by the company. apnews.com/article/byhe...

Great piece on the FDA and menopause hormone therapy in @motherjones.com it is the most medically accurate coverage I have read from the press! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Bessent is someone who thinks he understands mining but really has no clue. Tell someone in mining it should only take 1-2 years and they would laugh in your face

#Copper has been holding on to an 8% lead most of the match. It’s a lot, but #Molybdenite could catch up. What topics should we cover in the #OreCup victory post?

#OreCup is our first mini-Cup and our first collaboration. Give us feedback?

I don’t think this post is doing as well as he hoped

With 48 hours for the #OreCup final match, we just hit the halfway mark! Have you voted? Vote: www.mineralcup.org/vote-results... Do you need to campaign for your chosen fav? Results: www.mineralcup.org/vote-results... Will #Copper or #Molybdenum be our Ore Mineral of the Year?

I’m waffling on my vote today. I like both. Copper is an important mineral but I also want molydenite to win out of spite because this cup had 4 copper minerals in it. #OreCup

Going to put the news of extreme drought coming out of Tehran up with this map of emerging water scarcity risk from www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Vote #molybdenite! It’s a pretty blue silver color, it’s found in porphyry deposits (my favorite), it’s fun to say and spell, and there is a famous molybdenum mine in Colorado named Climax with it’s hilariously named “Glory Hole” created by underground block cave mining. (Be careful googling that)

Vote #molybdenite! It’s a pretty blue silver color, it’s found in porphyry deposits (my favorite), it’s fun to say and spell, and there is a famous molybdenum mine in Colorado named Climax with it’s hilariously named “Glory Hole” created by underground block cave mining. (Be careful googling that)

How do you get copper in post-subduction porphyry deposits? You flush ancient sulfide cumulates with deeper oxidised magmas! New paper out now with Shiwei Wang from Hefei UoT as lead author: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

I was going to post some images of the really interesting hematite-ilmenite intergrowths caused by slow cooling of the original iron-rich ilmenite, but thought it would be a doomed effort

#Copper is very, very neat, but I am forlorn that #Ilmenite is getting trounced so soundly in the #OreCup semifinals. I mean. It's a titanium oxide ore, which is body-safe and not water soluble so it's not on the Do No Lick list, just on the Do Not Rub Into Your Eyes list. 📸 Gerhard Brandstetter

I’m voting #ilmenite partially because titanium is awesome, but mostly out of spite because I don’t want to vote for copper until I have to. #OreCup

The call for abstracts for @egu.eu 2026 is open. Share your work on #CriticalRawMaterials #CriticalMinerals with us! 𝐄𝐑𝐄𝟒.𝟑 “𝐓𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐚𝐰 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲: 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞 𝐕𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio... 🧪⚒️