Christmas eve early afternoon walk around the Stockholm botanical gardens. It was so lovely quiet and pleasant despite the coldness. Merry Christmas everywhere.

Random, super interesting piece of rock at Royal Domain of Drottningholm, outside of Stockholm. #Geology ⛏️

'NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir – a US spy-tech firm that... enabled genocide in Gaza. One of Palantir’s founders is also openly against the NHS. Peter Thiel claimed it “makes people sick” ..." notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-tar...

LIBRARIES MAKE BOOKS ACCESSIBLE TO EVERYONE, she shouts, apparently inaudibly WHY DO THESE "YOU'RE A CLASS TRAITOR" PEOPLE KEEP PRETENDING LIBRARIES DON'T EXIST? ARE THEY CLASS TRAITORS WHO DON'T BELIEVE IN LIBRARIES?

More Greenland photos, featuring some geology. Scoresbysund has some fantastic exposures of columnar basalts, which are ~55 million years old (young for Greenland rocks!) related to flood basalts when the Atlantic was opening up. Fantastical shapes and fall tundra colors

🚨🦜🐧Cover reveal! Thrilled to show off the cover of my upcoming book: The Story of Birds! Coming April 28. The whole history of birds, from their dinosaur origins to colossal extinct penguins & terror birds, to the 10,000+ species today. From @marinerbooks.bsky.social Preorder 👇

It’s almost time! We’re excited. You excited? Monday 00:00 GMT. 24 hours a match. This is going to be FAST

It's time to make your predictions (and help us test the voting site). Which ore mineral do you think will win? Bracket: www.mineralcup.org/ore-bracket Make your predictions: www.mineralcup.org/vote-results... Competition voting starts on MONDAY NOVEMBER 3!

@earthquakes.au Yay, my #MegaQuake t-shirt arrived this week all the way from Australia. Fits perfectly. I hope it also rocks me.

10 days until the start of #OreCup and we have a bracket! www.mineralcup.org/ore-bracket

With 5.5 hours remaining to vote, #Tugtupite has the lead by under 40 votes over #Dioptase. Campaign for your fav and recruit new players to pick which mineral will compete in the #MinCup25 finals against #Kyanite!

Also I feel like #tugtupite, the pink power stone of the North, is the last, best hope, against #kyanite, the blue demon of depths. Rise Tugtupers! Rise against the Kyanightmare! #MinCup25

Oh no, I stopped getting notifications not only here but also elsewhere! I nearly missed the vote. #Stibnite it is, because it looks gorgeous, just like #Okenite but less fluffy and more stable.

We’re drafting the bracket next week, so get those nominations in! Voting starts September 1st

Okay, now I feel better.

Strafbaar maken om mensen te helpen (bed, bad brood, praatje, medische hulp?)... Waarom per se dit land tot een onmenselijk hard gemeen wreed haatdragend agressief dom kil lelijk onaangenaam fascistoïde niet te harden afschuwelijke vreselijke plek willen vormen... waarom waarom waarom waarom waarom?

What this means is that we need to invest hundreds of billions of dollars into retrocomputing.

Nice gneiss. Nuuk, Greenland ⚒️🧪#geology

Happy Pride to all you folk who make the world a better and more colourful place. ❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜

#BlueSkyHealthClub Ran 4km this evening. Not a lot, but I just had to take a 2 week break due to being sick and traveling. Will take a few more days until I'm able to run a bit better again.

Looking at the different seasonality and trends in the magnitude of monthly temperature anomalies since 1940 for the Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, Antarctic and Arctic... Data from doi.org/10.24381/cds...

Small boulder the size of a large boulder on the Icefields Parkway in Banff National Park ⚒️

The US has pulled out of formal peace talks between Russia and Ukraine. So much for ending the war on day one. Another Trump Fail.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

#playmobil wants me to build a raptor that walks on its arms. Raptor is confused. #geology ⚒️🧪

Today is International Transgender Day of Visibility. There’s much to do everywhere so that trans and non-binary people can live without fear. Our single point of reflection is this: what’s your organisation doing to support trans+ people?

This is a public service by Danielle Harlow, but by god it's depressing. Map and tracker of people taken by ICE and either deported, rendered to El Salvador or in US detention. public.tableau.com/app/profile/...

Reading an excellent article on pineapples rn which really makes me want to go buy one worksinprogress.co/issue/king-o...

Outside my flat. Proud of my neighbourhood #NoAfD #nazisraus #NoCDU #NoFaschismus

#geology ⛏️🧪#catsofbluesky Anyone hazard a guess what's going on here? The light rock looks like sandstone. There's a fair bit of iron in similar rocks, but none so deformed. Soft sediment deformation is my best guess at the moment. Cat tax included. Marrakech, Morocco.

I can’t sign this since my ridiculous country left the EU, but am sharing so others can.

Something positive for once: Cryogenian to Ediacarian wave ripple with a contact sandstone - shale. Atlas mountains, Morocco. #geology #StoneSunday #precambrian #effingOldYetYoung

Yay Hannover

All I can really say at this point is if everyone isn't watching how trans people have lost basic rights and protections on a scale that hasn't been seen in decades in the span of 72 hours and realizing that even if you aren't trans there's nothing stopping it from happening to you, you're a fool

Als dit is waar de leider (én enig lid) van de PVV voor staat, kan geen enkele zichzelf serieus nemende politicus toch met hem/zijn club in n coalitie blijven?! Hallooo Schoof, hallooo Yesilgöz, hallooo vd Plas, hallooo Omtzigt…!

For 20 years, I have served WHO in various advisory groups Because @who.int is made up of nations and, thus, all of us. Today, I showed my solidarity by contributing to this 1 Dollar, 1 World campaign to raise 1B in these uncertain times Join me! whofoundation.donorsupport.co/page/FUNEKRB...

The point is not to surrender www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzI8...

This would totally be a contender for #Mincup Fab colour, nice chemics, tiny and somewhat cute!

Dutch Archaeological "living museum" Archeon now uses AI visuals. In the Mesolithic we meet a bunch of corpulent half-naked Obelix-characters. White. No women. We can debate Mesolithic people's skin colour (likely dark); they did not live life half-naked and there definitely were women.

Oh yes, it's time for Jay's annual earthquake report - and its 10th anniversary! ⚒️🧪 My impression was right: 2024 was a relatively quiet year in terms of major earthquakes, with less energy released compared to many previous years.

Found a get rich scheme! Book train ticket with German railway, wait for the inevitable cancellation of the connection, request refund. They might round up. Ok, due to an appointment I had to travel a day earlier in the end and needed a hotel. Thus might not quite have worked out 😅

My alter ego has made some #ScottishGeology t-shirts

Esther Richards was born November 24, 1895. In 1921, she suggested that microfossils could be used in stratigraphy. Her study was ridiculed by Professor J.J. Galloway: “Gentlemen, you know that it can’t be done.” ⚒️🧪wp.me/p3ihHu-4DF #WomenInSTEM #histsci

The first reconstruction drawing of the mummified carcass of the « Lena Mammoth » by Roman Boltunov, 1806. Ethnological Collection of the University of Göttingen Source: www.researchgate.net/publication/... #PaleoSky ⚒️ 🏺

USGS just dropped global stratigraphical map of the Moon at the 1:5 000 000 resolution (in 1 cm 500 km). astrogeology.usgs.gov/search/map/u... 🧪 ⚒️ #Geology

AfD-Verbotsverfahren - Abgeordnete veröffentlichen Antrag Abgeordnete mehrerer Fraktionen haben ihren Antrag zur Einleitung eines AfD-Verbotsverfahrens durch den Bundestag veröffentlicht. www.deutschlandfunk.de/abgeordnete-...

I'm oddly excited! My geology background is in carbonate sedimentology. I have a mild congenital muscle condition where a gene causes disturbances in calcium homeostasis in muscle cells. This together with chronic Mg deficiency means Ca turns 😈 I'm currently laughing my head off! 😂⚒️🧪#Geology

Hey, ik ben net op deze foto te zien. Concert was te gek!

Hi, I'm new to the BluePlace. Let's talk about paleobotany and fossil wood !

Yay, managed to get the latest covid shot, despite being 'too young and too healthy', #covidisnotover #Germany 😷