iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Cody Mason @cosynomad.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What is a synformal structure?

Cody Mason @cosynomad.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

What’s a subtle way to address regular and important emails from a supervisor at 9:30 pm? Maybe I start scheduling my replies for 9:30 pm?

010

Reposted by Cody Mason

authodizer @doktrock.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🚨Job Alert 🚨‼️ #geology (multiple jobs at this link) ⚒️🧪

011

Cody Mason @cosynomad.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Hello Geoscience folks ⚒️ We are advertising again for a new colleague at the TT level in structural geology. Start date of August 2027. www.geosociety.org/jobs (FYI, the last search resulted few applicants, so please encourage colleagues and students to apply this round)

geosociety.org

Geoscience Job Board

Explore open positions on GSA's geoscience job board, or post your organization's jobs.

078

Cody Mason @cosynomad.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Question: was the Mw 4.x EQ in Nepal the cause of the glacier collapse, or did the glacier collapse result in an apparent EQ?

300

Reposted by Cody Mason

Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Must be humiliating to the administration that the geologic core of the North American continent is the Canadian Shield

3205

Reposted by Cody Mason

Henning @geohenning.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I looped the video so you can see just the surface rupture happening. ⚒️🧪

39718

Cody Mason @cosynomad.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Trip to Damariscotta today 🦪 did not disappoint 🤌

Hundreds of Iive oysters in crates submerged in water on a specialized dock.

Foliated, steeply dipping metamorphic rock along the shoreline.

030

Cody Mason @cosynomad.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Ooo, clamposting. Here are two from the Triassic. ⚒️

Fossil bivalve, with two complete shells.

Incomplete fossil bivalve, showing what looks like the hinge.

040

Cody Mason @cosynomad.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Oncoids? Pisolites? Not really sure, but I love seeing these carbonate sediments in the field. ⚒️🤌🇮🇹

A clast of light colored rock composed of mm scale spherical-ish carbonate grains.

An outcrop composed of carbonate mudstone and beds of mm scale spherical grains.

View of a steep trail cutting across hills below cliffs and peaks in the Forcella Rossa area, near Cortina d’Ampezzo

1131

Cody Mason @cosynomad.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Epic hike yesterday: Malga Ra Stua, Fodera Vedla, Sennes, Biella. 24 km, 1000 m elevation gain. Can you spot the 🐐 in the first image? ⚒️🤌🇮🇹

Mountain trail, red and white blaze painted on rocks, suspect structural geology going on in the mountainside in background. Probably thrust fault with folds.

Best mural in the world, depicting smoking eagle, musical marmot, and drunk deer. Rifugio Sennes.

0100

Cody Mason @cosynomad.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Sights of today’s hike. 🤌⚒️

A landslide scars green hills below tall mountain peaks

Red colored chert in a clast of dolomite

Mountain plateaus and peaks in the distance. No idea of the geographic names.

Outlines of dark grey fossil bivalves against lighter colored dolomitic mudstone. Embry and Klovan might call this a floatstone?

3152

Cody Mason @cosynomad.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Went for a hike today. Did not disappoint. ⚒️🇮🇹

The outline of a large bivalve (braciopod?) with fancy crystals in a void against a background of light colored dolostone.

A view from high above a small blue mountain lake. Two figures descend a narrow steep path that switches back and forth downward

The best debris fan. large, steep, light gray conical fan framed by high mountain peaks

1151

Cody Mason @cosynomad.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I love this view of the relatively thin interval of red beds barely exposed in a sea of Triassic dolomite. Contrast! 🤌⚒️

View of steep dolomite outcrops. A small exposure of res colored strata peak through vegetation and rock debris.

Zoomed in view of red colored beds sandwiched between light colored dolomite.

04114

Cody Mason @cosynomad.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I found a vertebrae-like fossil(?) in Eocene carbonates of the Tuscan Apennines, Valdarno area. Anyone able to ID this? ⚒️

171

Cody Mason @cosynomad.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Exhibit of anthropogenic strata and beautifully illustrated sedimentology ⚒️

1133

Reposted by Cody Mason

Callan Bentley @callanbentley.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Superb, elegant diagrams by Page Quinton & Michael Rygel to illustrate key ideas in sedimentology & petrography: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pa... ⚒️📊

Sketch of a thin section through an oolitic limestone with various internal components

55013

Reposted by Cody Mason

Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

In the latest play from Project 2025, the Trump Administration has announced plans to dismantle the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI), a $368 million network of more than 900 instruments that continuously monitor the ocean. This is a deliberate destruction of critical scientific infrastructure.

22674397

Cody Mason @cosynomad.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

This is not how a society should science

030

Cody Mason @cosynomad.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Happy grant submission day, to those who celebrate. 🎉 💰 🤞

040

Cody Mason @cosynomad.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

The contrast between SEI scores/comments from university classes and these tiny, adorable handwritten thank you cards from an elementary school I visited! 😭❤️ ⚒️

Handwritten thank you card. Student wrote “my favorite rock is the metamorphic rock”

070

Cody Mason @cosynomad.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Family sending me pics like this from their vacations ⚒️

170

Cody Mason @cosynomad.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Today I was notified that our program received a large-ish (for us) internal grant to purchase new equipment that shoots x-rays into rocks/soil. It is gratifying news and I’m excited to integrate this instrument into future teaching and research. ⚒️

050

Reposted by Cody Mason

Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Canvas, the Strait of Hormuz for American education

251554356

Cody Mason @cosynomad.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Combing through grad-school era field photos and found some nice shots. Golden hour, footwall of the Clark strand of the San Jacinto fault, southern Santa Rosa Mtns. Classic. ⚒️

Golden light illuminates a steep mountainside marked with narrow canyons and debris cones along the valley floor

2210

Reposted by Cody Mason

Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 07/05/2025

There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵

631290788

Cody Mason @cosynomad.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

UWG student, Cam, whose capstone work I supervised, presented at our Scholars’ Day research symposium. He used borehole cuttings and geophysical logs to snoop around for a subsurface carbon capture system near Brunswick, GA. This isn’t my wheelhouse, so it was fun to learn about this system. ⚒️

020

Reposted by Cody Mason

Dr. Erik Klemetti Gonzalez @eruptions.site · 22/04/2026

Hey folks! If you happen to be building seminar/colloquia series and you want someone who can talk volcanoes and magmatic systems, ping me! I have highly technical stuff on zircon geochronology as well as high accessible stuff like how to figure out the most dangerous volcano on the planet.

media.tenor.com

a cartoon of a man wearing glasses and a yellow shirt that says country

ALT: a cartoon of a man wearing glasses and a yellow shirt that says country

0135

Cody Mason @cosynomad.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

The final 1.5 days of our UWG alumni-student field trip involved walking modern beaches of Jekyll Island and checking out Eocene carbonate outcrops in the upper coastal plain. Ironically, our students have historically found 4x more shark teeth in the Eocene than at “Shark Tooth Beach” on Jekyll.

Four hands hold small fossil shark teeth

Connor explaining upper Eocene depositional systems to a group of UWG students and alums.

Andrew and Tim standing in front of a pier at sunset.

IWG student standing beside a large uprooted cedar tree along a beach on south Jekyll island.

030

Cody Mason @cosynomad.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Jekyll Island things… ⚒️🏝️

061

Cody Mason @cosynomad.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Day two: field lecture from Andrew Ivester on relict dunes at little Ocmulgee State Park. Next, a Carolina bay (not pictured, it’s hard to see from ground level). We walked the crest of the dune SE of the bay, where tortoise burrows and archaic period? artifacts abounded. ⚒️

121

Cody Mason @cosynomad.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Day one of our Alumni-Student field trip to the Georgia barrier islands kicked off with the best view of the coastal plain unconformity from the Ruby Quarry. ⚒️

Walls of a deep rock quarry exposing Paleozoic or Precambrian? granitic gneiss overlain by Cretaceous sediments.

Tim Chowns gesticulates toward the quarry outcrops below.

Group photo of UWG students, alums and faculty/staff wearing ppe.

030

Cody Mason @cosynomad.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Hey Tony @ichnologist.bsky.social is this seemed like a conspicuous block, the white paint, displayed along the South Kaibab Trail, Coconino SS (I think). Reptile trackway? ⚒️ scaniverse.com/scan/afuotha...

scaniverse.com

Permian trackway South Kaibab Tr

View this scan by @cmason in 3D on Scaniverse.

020

Reposted by Cody Mason

Dr. Erik Klemetti Gonzalez @eruptions.site · 09/04/2026

Hey! We are hiring a 3 year visiting assistant professor in (broadly) geomorphology and GIS. Come join us in Earth & Environmental Sciences at Denison University! Get your application in before May 5. You can check out the details here: apply.interfolio.com/183740

Denison students examining rocks in the Grand Canyon.

0119

Cody Mason @cosynomad.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Walnut Canyon National Monument, one of my new favorite spots on the rim, and the West Fork of Oak Creek. Two special canyons, each with unique aspects in the ways you experience them. Oh yeah, the birb is a canyon wren(?). 🏜️⚒️

Light colored Kaibab limestone in foreground, across the canyon are several cliff dwellings built into a recessed layer.

Small shallow pool of water reflecting reddish water carved rock

People venturing upward at a canyon wall.

092

Cody Mason @cosynomad.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

We did a short but steep hike down ~2000 ft of the canyon today. It. Ruled. Seeing the faulted Supergroup in contact with the inner gorge basement and then the overlying Tapeats is just too incredible. ⚒️🏜️

Glimpse of the Colorado River from Skeleton Point, South Kaibab Trail

Geologic map showing part of the south rim Grand Canyon

2221

Cody Mason @cosynomad.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

The hike today… did not disappoint 🙌 ⚒️🪨🏜️

Permian aged red aeolian sandstones with continuous thin white colored beds. Somewhere near Teapot and Pointed Dome.

overhung promontory of light colored cross bedded Permian sandstone.

A view looking northeast of the mortise of The Teapot. Sedona.

A geologic map with shades yellows (Tertiary volcanic) and reds (Permian sedimentary units).

1122

Cody Mason @cosynomad.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Job Alert 🚨 Tenure track structural geologist. Have a passion for structural geology, undergraduate education, and being employed? Please, apply to work in our Program! The GSA ad expires tomorrow but the internal deadline is April 6. ⚒️🧪🥼🔬🪨 www.geosociety.org/GSA/GSA/edu-...

geosociety.org

Job Details

123

Cody Mason @cosynomad.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

This camera operator understood the assignment

0207

Cody Mason @cosynomad.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Here’s the yield of our five hour fossil hunting trip on Morris Island SC. A dozen shark teeth, lots of shark vertebrae, some phosphatic bones and gastropods, and some fossils we’re calling cat b-holes, for lack of identification (second image). ⚒️

Fossil shark and ray teeth of various kinds.

fragments of fossil bones and odd puckered looking things.

Fossil gastropods and odd bone fragments.

A dozen or so fossil fish, probably shark, vertebrae

091

Cody Mason @cosynomad.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Did some beach combing today around Charleston SC. ⚒️🦈🦷

060

Reposted by Cody Mason

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Here’s the blunt reality — reasonably-sized electric vehicles need to be the future of cars, but cars can’t be the future of urban mobility. Fewer cars. Less driving. More inviting mobility choices. Better communities and cities. These are the 4 pillars of the REAL urban transportation solution.

19980268