Here's another guy worried about Number of Daily Likers on Bluesky

Are you a geoscience faculty member in the US who has recently started their position? Apply for (or encourage your relevant colleagues to apply for) the @nagtgeo.bsky.social Workshop for Early Career Geoscience Faculty that is happening this summer! Deadline has been extended to April 7:

This is insane !

It is idiotic to make decisions based on a 'budget request'. As Timothy Snyder wrote, "Do not obey in advance."

The Trump administration is requesting the cancellation of billions of dollars in funds for renewable energy, space science, and climate change education in its FY2027 budget. The cuts would help fund an increase in defense funding to a total of $1.5 trillion. eos.org/research-and...

🔭 Paper day, and it’s a big one! We have found the most metal-poor object known in the universe. It’s a star, and it comes to us from our nearby friend the Large Magellanic Cloud. Out in Nature Astronomy today: rdcu.be/fbylI

Can you read English cursive? Ever wanted to volunteer from the comfort of home for a useful cause? Have I got an offer for you... The Newberry Library in Chicago is always in need of transcribers to help decipher historical handwritten documents. If this is you, learn more about it below:

Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft after completing the translunar injection burn. There are two auroras (top right & bottom left) and zodiacal light (bottom right) is visible as the Earth eclipses the Sun. 🧪🔭 #Artemis www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

Fluorescence class demonstration by my wonderful colleague D. UV light stimulates fluorescent plexiglass plates / liquids; detection by a portable spectrometer with spectra projected on screen. (Yes, I'll borrow his rig to demonstrate fluorescent minerals ⚒️!) #chemsky 🧪.

An update: in February 2026, *every single one* of the 1,507 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans: In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 3,155 white South Africans, three Afghans, and nobody else. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

New analysis in ECOSYSTEMS identifies all headwater streams of continental U.S.; 77% of U.S. network is headwater streams. doi.org/10.1007/s100... @monicagturner.bsky.social

At last! Ediacarans and Cambrian animals in the same site! Amazing! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Biotite replacing garnet, from the Willoughby area of the Vermont Appalachians. #ThinSectionThursday #vermont #geology #metamorphism

I love snow but its fuckin April man

Artemis II is headed for the moon! GOES-19 caught this amazing view of the exhaust plume from the rocket as it launched from Cape Canaveral.

1/3 Hello fellow geoscientists, A non-geoscientist friend needs to get rid of the personal geo-library of her late hubs She asked me to see what might be of interest to today's geo-crowd. Most are old textbooks that nobody wants, but there are 3 volumes I thought that might interest someone

ORD not able to handle incoming scheduled flights? #Chicago

stranded in downtown Minneapolis for a night! seeking food and drink recs if you have ‘em

🌋Eruption au Piton de la Fournaise A 9h50, le 2 avril, un nouveau bras de coulée a traversé la RN2, la coupant intégralement en 30 min, à une vitesse de 10 m /heure. ©OVPF-IPGP

If all goes according to plan, in a few hours, a crew of astronauts will begin a journey that will take them on a loop around the moon. Here's a video that NASA put together to help people visualize the journey through space, first orbiting the earth before looping around the moon and flying home 🔭

🚨Fully funded 5-year petrology Ph.D. at Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada). Also, a M.Sc project ⚒️🧪 www.teamgar.net

Both my immigrant parents (Lithuania relocated to Germany during WWII, and India) were not citizens when I was born in the US. My spouse's parents (Iceland) also not. All of them became naturalized. I still remember the day my mom proudly came home from her ceremony.

When you need a little help from an old friend…🚢📡 In a new partnership, Ukrainian scientists from the research vessel, Noosfera, have been working together with BAS researchers to take critical ocean measurements that will help us understand the impact of climate change on Antarctica’s coasts 🧵1/5

In the Trump administration’s reorganization of the struggling agency, painful echoes of BLM’s past moves.

Some more photos of Mesquite Dunes from my Death Valley trip earlier this month. This place always has a bit of a dreamy quality to it.

⚒️🧪 PhD position

Yanbing Li and Brian Konecke (University of Michigan) use sulfur speciation in apatite to constrain the redox evolution of magmas in porphyry molybdenum systems with insights from -XANES analysis, 13 IDE, March 2026. @advancedphoton.bsky.social

Call for Proposals! I’m co-editing a collection on “The Extractive Midwest” with @brianleechphd.bsky.social, Jeff Schramm, and Sarah Mittlefehldt. We seek 300-500 word abstracts for book chapters between 6,000-8,000 words (not including notes). Send us your submissions before August 30, 2026!

Hey R-folks. How does one move numbers closer to or further from the axis in the axis() function? The padj and hadj commands look like they should do that, but they wind up putting numbers in screwy places.

For the first time ever, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band will stream the two opening songs of the Springsteen & E Street Land of Hope & Dreams American Tour kickoff in Minneapolis — live and free at approximately 7:30 p.m. CT tonight!

✅ #Artemis II update: countdown has started for launch. Liftoff of the crewed lunar mission is scheduled for 1 April 23:24 BST/00:24 CEST 2 April. NASA reports currently 80% chance of favourable weather conditions (pics: NASA & ESA/S.Corvaja) See go.nasa.gov/4sL4j3x @exploration.esa.int

Hey, everyone! I'm Ashley Hall and I'm a museum educator 🏛, paleontologist ⛏️, children's book author 📚, and naturalist. I am open to educational consulting involving paleontology education, writing children's books, scientific publications, and more. Get in contact with me! 💕

Hey, museum educators 📣! APPLY to this awesome job in the Education Department at Museum of the Rockies: jobs.montana.edu/postings/50937

Maybe unpopular opinion but I think people too glibly hand-wave away physical/geological concerns about things like continuously declining ore grade, which probably isn't going to get much better given we have to mine more copper in next 30 years than previous 6,000 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

It's premiering on PBS tomorrow! Get the PBS app on your streaming device and watch.

Hey ⚒️ geo folks: Can anyone recommend a geobiologist who might be interested in discussing foundational/methodological issues in co-evolution of life & environment, from #paleobio to #geobio with historians & philosophers of science at MBL this summer?

We present new high-resolution carbon isotope data from #Svalbard to investigate atmospheric CO2 during the Middle Devonian, particularly the Taghanic crisis (1/3).

🚨Job Alert 🚨 ! summer job suitable for undergraduate geology or environmental as Hydrologic Technician with the US Geological Survey (USGS) Kansas, Michigan Minnesota Montana, North Dakota, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Wyoming ⚒️🧪 Short Deadline! Apr 6, 2026 www.usajobs.gov/job/863100500

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It’s actually not okay to pay someone with a PhD $2500 to teach a college course

Triple Guess the Gem time!! What mineral group do you think these three gems are? Hint: the cross sections of this group’s crystals would look triangular. #GuessTheGem #GeoscienceBluesky ⚒️🧪💎

Analysis of 10 isotopic systems indicates Earth formed from material exclusively from the inner solar system ⚒️🧪 phys.org/news/2026-03...

🌋 Éruption au Piton de la Fournaise Prise de vue du site éruptif ce matin à 9h10, heure locale. On y observe un lac de lave toujours actif, au sein d’un cône désormais bien refermé (© OSUL – Lyon 1 Université)

For #NSF and #NIH watchers, Grant Witness now has interactive data on numbers of grants and total funding obligations, broken down by institute and directorate, new awards and non-competitive renewals. The stranglehold on new awards is still a disaster. grant-witness.us/funding_curv...

Geosciences is at *74* total awards this fiscal year (which is now half over). Compared to 279 by the same point last year and between 330 and 440 by the same point 2021-2024. 13 grants were made in the month of March.

Whooo out there has some undergrad accessible slides and/or activities on marine carbonate chemistry? You know Bjerrum plots, alkalinity, etc? I'm finding lots that dives right into the chemistry, but I need something for undergrads who haven't seen much chem since high school...

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This is a great article on resistance to ICE and how it works in small cities in Minnesota, including my dad's hometown. Worth noting that while Northfield is a college town, Austin and Albert Lea have a long history of big unionized meatpacking plants. prospect.org/2026/03/30/a...

Russia has once again attacked Ukraine. There are killed and injured. Kharkiv region - one person was killed, four were injured, and private houses were damaged. Dnipropetrovsk region - a house, garage, car, and infrastructure were damaged. Air defense was at work in Dnipro.

Red River of the North at Fargo-Moorhead, (left) and Grand Forks-East Grand Forks (right). The river delineates the border between #NorthDakota and #Minnesota