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Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre @charmouthhcc.bsky.social · 4h

October's fossil of the month isn't just one fossil but a whole host of ammonites preserved against a chunk of fossilised driftwood from the Jurassic seafloor, 190 million years ago! Found by preparator and collector Craig Chivers in February 2024 after some stormy weather. #FossilFriday #paleosky

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Callan Bentley @callanbentley.bsky.social · 1h

This is what happens when you fertilize with wombat poop:

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Callan Bentley @callanbentley.bsky.social · 18h

Kyanite: such an amazing mineral. ⚒️

Callan's hand holding a blue bladed crystal

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Callan Bentley @callanbentley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New video! On the ground in Shenandoah National Park, I check out some structures built by the Civilian Conservation Corps that feature 𝘚𝘬𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴-bearing blocks of Antietam Formation quartz sandstone (one of which shows spectacular deformation): youtu.be/lKjQ9_B7u9A ⚒️

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Skolithos trace fossils in Civilian Conservation Corps structures, Shenandoah National Park

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Callan Bentley @callanbentley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Digging into etymology today... ⚒️

Whiteboard sketch of the Egyptian tam's headed God Ammon and a fossil ammonite

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Callan Bentley @callanbentley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What secrets lie within? Only those who dare to core can find out! Discover the internal structure of this cake today in the PVCC Geology Club meeting... Drilling locations marked with green numbers. ⚒️

A baking sheet hosts a lumpy pink cake with red and orange sugar sprinkles imparting a dandy texture, and the numbers one two and three marked in green icing.

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Cian 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him) @cbdawson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

These photos are appalling. It should be a violation of game rules for competing contestants to fraternize like this 🤣😆🙈

Screenshot of Mincup showing photos of graphite & quartz in the same hand sample.

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Left: Graphite inclusions and bubble within a water pocket within a double-terminated quartz crystal. Credit: Robert M. Lavinsky.
Center: Graphite and quartz intermixed from Connecticut. Credit: Harold Moritz.
Right. Hexagonal graphite crystal within a quartz crystal. Ferdinando Giovine (right)

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Both quartz and graphite can form in the same kinds of rocks, either entangled together or with graphite as an inclusion within quartz. This gradient most often in hydrothermal fluid. As the fluids cool, carbon precipitates out first as graphite with silica crystallizing into clear quartz crystals around it.

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

America.gov launched today--a DOGE initiative to use AI to deliver public services. Child lying facedown on a frozen lake as the image accompanying the question: "How can I invest in my child's future" is just incredible. Way to go AI

Image of a child lying facedown on a froze lake. above is the portal where you ask AI questions about government services. the question matching this image is: "How can I invest in my child's future?"

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Callan Bentley @callanbentley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Geology Club hike! View from the top of The Priest (4039 feet elevation), George Washington National Forest.

Callan is bundled up in orange and giving the thumbs up with a beautiful view behind him

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Callan Bentley @callanbentley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Great fun this afternoon at Mark Carter's Oysterfest & Golden Hammer Horseshoe Tournament. A bunch of geologists shelling shellfish and pitching heavy chunks of metal. Entertaining!

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Callan Bentley @callanbentley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Here's some good s#it in my paleontology teaching collection. ⚒️

Five coprolites in a box. They range in color from yellow and red through brown (naturally).

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Callan Bentley @callanbentley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

LIVE FROM THE FIELD #FridayFold in western Shenandoah National Park (Cambrian Chilhowee group quartz sandstone strata), with the southern tip of Massanutten Mountain in the middle distance, and North Mountain beyond that. ⚒️

Photograph looking West across the Foothills of the western and the Shenandoah Valley beyond. An arch of white rock layers can be seen in the trees

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 24/09/2026

"While Charlie Brown did once again accelerate toward the ball, miss it entirely as Lucy pulled it away, flip backward through the air, and land violently with a disquieting crunch, we do not believe that now is the time for a dramatic change in kicking strategy." buff.ly/X2RjqP5

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“Charlie Brown Must Stay the Course”: A Football Kick Autopsy Report by the Democratic Party

“While Charlie Brown did once again accelerate toward the ball, miss the ball entirely as Lucy pulled it away, flip backward through the air, and land violen...

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Callan Bentley @callanbentley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Shrimp! Cenomanian (earliest Late Cretaceous), of Lebanon. ⚒️

$Darker brown shrimp fossil.in tan limestone, with a white fracture running through it.$

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Callan Bentley @callanbentley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Since I complained so much about the heat two weeks ago and last week, I'll say this: The weather has turned, decisively. Really enjoyed the car seat warmer while driving, and I pulled on a fleece this evening at home for the first time in a looooong time. 🍂

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The Nature Conservancy @nature.org · 23/09/2026

One of these is a fish. The Amazon leaf fish is so well camouflaged that it can drift among fallen leaves unnoticed, until it's time to strike. See what other surprises are hiding beneath the surface of the Amazon: nature.ly/3TeeuRw

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You're awake! Gosh, how wonderful! You hit your head in early 2016 and have been asleep ever since. I'm so glad you're back. Come downstairs. The sun is shining. I made pancakes. Did you have any dreams?

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Fossillocator @fossillocator.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Oh no! The Sternberg museum is also closing! hayspost.com/posts/f38333...

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Callan Bentley @callanbentley.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I wonder what my top ten would be... 1) The Wire 2) Breaking Bad 3) Better Call Saul 4) LOST 5) MacGyver 6) Northern Exposure 7) Six Feet Under 8) The Good Place 9) Arrested Development 10) The Simpsons

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Callan Bentley @callanbentley.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Nerds gummy clusters are the armored mud balls of the candy world. ⚒️

A package of Nerds gummy clusters candy next to a postcard depicting the Jurassic lithified armored mud balls of Massachusetts

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Callan Bentley @callanbentley.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

4385 Broad-Winged Hawks reported yesterday at the Rockfish Gap Hawk Watch! That may end up being the record for this season - we have clouds and rain forecast until the end of the week. 🪶

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Callan Bentley @callanbentley.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I've started a new series of videos looking at samples from my teaching collection: youtu.be/36G9li2xhq4?... ⚒️

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Curatorial Corner episode 2: GEOPETAL STRUCTURES

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Pray they do not alter it further

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Callan Bentley @callanbentley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

New video! An important public service announcement brought to you by the Partnership for a Hornfels-Free Planet youtu.be/EGHnEWjP5g8 ⚒️

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Kitchen Geology episode 3: "This is your protolith on contact metamorphism" PSA

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JB @notjaredb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

First northern harrier shots of the season. Flew right overhead me. One of two that I saw yesterday. #birds #ctnaturefans #photography

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 30/07/2026

literally impeach him just for this

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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

No wonder we believed ancient gods lived in volcanos or lightning! Fuego Volcano erupts with volcanic lightning over Antigua, Guatemala.

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 18/09/2026

I'm already envisioning the ad campaigns for kids in a couple years. "This is your brain on AI."

80s drug free america advert. Hand holding egg: this is your brain. Frying pan: this is drugs. Eggs in frying pan: this is your brain on drugs

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Callan Bentley @callanbentley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#FridayFold anticline from Thomson Dam, MN, heavily over printed by pressure solution cleavage. ⚒️

Photograph of gray rock with a prominent upright fabric and a much more subtle broad open antiform

Annotated photograph of gray rock with a prominent upright fabric and a much more subtle broad open antiform, with bedding traced out in yellow and cleavage drawn on in green

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Callan Bentley @callanbentley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A bit of Gangstagrass this evening in DC. 🎶

Two emcees, one banjo player, a guitarist, and a fiddler on stage

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Callan Bentley @callanbentley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

@zacklabe.com That was a really superb briefing you did for @climatecentral.org today - Very professional, well articulated, well illustrated, succinct (and yet information packed). Overall very thought provoking & very well done. Thank you. ⚒️

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Callan Bentley @callanbentley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

New video! Chevron folds in the Mazatzal Mountains of Arizona: youtu.be/aXhmFgglfiw?... ⚒️

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The chevrons of the Mazatzal Mountains

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Callan Bentley @callanbentley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The coming week should produce the highest numbers of the year for hawks migrating through central Virginia. One of the best places to see them is adjacent to the abandoned hotel atop Rockfish Gap. (Bring binoculars!) Days you can do this on this calendar: teamup.com/ks8ce2f67675... 🪶

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Rockfish Gap Hawk Watch Calendar | Teamup

Teamup is a free sharable online calendar for groups and projects.

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Callan Bentley @callanbentley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

86° F right now in my backyard, in the shade, at 5:45 in the evening. Mosquitoes bugging me. How much longer until fall?

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Callan Bentley @callanbentley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Some of her work was truly transcendent, among the best ever written.

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