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Evelyn @evelyn-see2468.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I had the privilege of joining STEMSEAS this September and joining as part of their science team to learn how science is done aboard ships!

a group of people smiling at the camera on a boat in the Panama Canal

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Callan Bentley @callanbentley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

My student Evelyn presents at Geology Club about her recent STEMSEAS journey from Norfolk, VA across the Caribbean and through the Panama Canal. ⚒️🌊

A student with long black hair points at a PowerPoint slide which is a diagram of a ship. Other students pay close attention

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Evelyn @evelyn-see2468.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The sunsets are getting prettier

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Evelyn @evelyn-see2468.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I was hiking through Shenandoah and came across this rock with a bunch of amygdules in it

A rock with amygdules and a pen and hand for scale

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Evelyn @evelyn-see2468.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

It’s rather smoky outside…

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Evelyn @evelyn-see2468.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Evil and Intimidating Alligator Gar

An Alligator Gar with low lighting making its face the only illuminated part of the fish

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Evelyn @evelyn-see2468.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I went to Oakes Quarry Park in Ohio, it had some pretty interesting rocks! It was also full of fossils. I wanna go here again someday.

FOSSIL CORAL REEF

Coral reefs exposed in the quarry are among the oldest Silurian fossil reef n the United States. These reefs formed during an important transitiona tihe in the history of reefs, when corals were becoming more important as reef framebuilders. The coral-stromatoporoid reef that you can visit in the quarry is only a few meters in diameter but shows the diversity of reef-building, reef-dwelling and reef-associated organisms living on the sea floor during deposition of the Brassfield Limestone.
The core of the patch reef is exposed in the quarry and is characterized by large mound-shaped corals and stromatoporoids.

Limestone with a possible fossil and pen for scale

A distinct white line in pink limestone with fingers next to it

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Evelyn @evelyn-see2468.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I got to revisit one of my favorite outcrops! This giant wall of slickensides was shown to me by my professor when we came here a few months ago for a field course!

Nicely polished slickensides with the sun shining off of them

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Evelyn @evelyn-see2468.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Well would you look at that! Happy pride.

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Evelyn @evelyn-see2468.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Back in California, getting a tour of an outcrop I missed last time I was here!

A cane next to some weathered igneous rocks with a dike and MMEs

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Evelyn @evelyn-see2468.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

It went very well. They even said they’d like to have me come back next year and do it again if possible!

Many fossils on a table, with a tv set up in front with “Virginia Fossils!” on a title slide

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Evelyn @evelyn-see2468.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I’ve been thinking about how fascinating the folding I saw in San Francisco was.

Heavily folded sedimentary beds, some are highlighted in blue and red.

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Callan Bentley @callanbentley.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Damn it all to hell. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c... ⚒️🌊

nytimes.com

Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System

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Evelyn @evelyn-see2468.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Figuring out where to go for a 4-year college is a surprisingly difficult decision. There’s W&M, OSU, Cork Ireland, JMU, and many others that are very appealing to me. Scholarships and financial aid too. That’s tricky to figure out.

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Robert Mahon @bedform.org · 03/06/2026

happy gay sediments month to all who celebrate

rainbow made from images of sedimentary rocks and ripples

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Evelyn @evelyn-see2468.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I finally hiked 10 miles! Very proud of myself for pushing myself. It was very difficult but I managed to do it in the end!

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Evelyn @evelyn-see2468.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Kodak’s Tri-X 400 looks quite good. I adore how it makes textures pop out.

A mountain in West Virginia, with a truck driving by in front

A person standing in front of a field, looking at trees in the distance.

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EDGE @edgescience.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

🚨NEW STUDY DROP🚨 New euarthropod is named Oreinorema bergstroemi, from early Cambrian Chengjiang biota. This thing looks like a radiodont from afar, but key features (like the mouthparts) place it outside of the group. It's a transitional form! 🎨: Xiaodong Wang

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Hoyaboya @hoyaboya1.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Yoshino & Oji (2026-05, Historical Biology) A bivalved arthropod from the lower Ordovician Fezouata Shale suggests the post Cambrian survival and gigantism of Isoxys (Isoxyda, Isoxyidae) doi.org/10.1080/0891... [Isoxys? giganteus sp. nov.] （新種）

Saraku Yoshino & Tatsuo Oji, CC BY 4.0, https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2026.2663158

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Evelyn @evelyn-see2468.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Been looking into a bunch of colleges, and the same problem keeps popping up. That of tuition costs.

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さとかつ @satokatu.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

でかいヤスデ

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Evelyn @evelyn-see2468.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Putting slides together to teach children about our state’s fossils and realizing I don’t need to teach them every single thing, but there’s so much cool stuff to learn. How do professors know what to include and what to not include? Time to develop tools of the trade I guess.

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Evelyn @evelyn-see2468.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Here’s a few more because I really love how these look.

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 12/05/2026

no alt-text, so here it is because we need to pay fucking attention to this threat to murder trans people and everyone who supports trans people

section of an executive order dated May 2026: In addition to cartels and Islamist terror groups, our national CT activities will also prioritize the rapid identification and neutralization of violent secular political groups whose ideology is anti-American, radically pro-transgender, and anarchist. We will use all the tools constitutionally available to us to map them at home, identify their membership, map their ties to international organizations like Antifa, and use law enforcement tools to cripple them operationally before they can maim or kill the innocent. We will do the same with the state sponsors of such groups and those governments undertaking lethal plots on U.S. soil or against Americans anywhere.

Our new U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy is a return to common sense and Peace through Strength. As I said after our first successful counterterrorism mission, just days after I was sworn back in office – if you hurt Americans, or are planning to hurt Americans, "We Will Find You and We Will Kill You."

President Donald J. Trump
The White House
May 2026

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Evelyn @evelyn-see2468.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Expired film has a nice look to it! I really love how these turned out!

A block of quartzite on the top of a mountain

A scenic view of the blue ridge mountains

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Evelyn @evelyn-see2468.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Closer photo for those interested!

Disconformity at a closer scale with a pen

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Callan Bentley @callanbentley.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Explicating the folding of a disconformitu between Ordovician carbonates near Staunton, VA ⚒️

Callan points at an outcrop with a wiggly blue line on it

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Evelyn @evelyn-see2468.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I would like to go back in a cave again!

Evelyn looking over a rock in a cave, her light shining directly at the camera

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Southern Minnesota Museum of Natural History @smmnh.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

450 million years ago the majority of life in the oceans had soft bodies that did not fossilize very well. Their fossilized remains often appear as blurry stains upon a rock, but now and then a specimen is found with a well preserved body part, like this strange marrelomorph.

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Evelyn @evelyn-see2468.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

It’s another #MossMonday Please see the gorgeous millipede I was blessed with today!

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Evelyn @evelyn-see2468.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

New camera! Time to learn to manually do shutter speed because this has no ISO.

A Zorki-4K film camera from the USSR in the 1970’s

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Evelyn @evelyn-see2468.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Lots of caterpillar sightings recently!

Caterpillar waving itself upwards on a rock

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Evelyn @evelyn-see2468.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I took some of my favorite self-photos I’ve taken in a while today

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Evelyn @evelyn-see2468.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Many a rock in this felsenmeer

A panorama from the top of Blackrock summit

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Evelyn @evelyn-see2468.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Dan’s Rock was quite interesting. There were super graffitied sandstones with some interesting weathering underneath.

Landscape view of some Appalachian Mountains

Graffiti on an old radio station reading: “Protect/Love trans ppl,women, kids. Nurture.”

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Evelyn @evelyn-see2468.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

It’s bug o’clock every hour of the day

A Scarlett-bordered Assassin Bug amongst detritus

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Evelyn @evelyn-see2468.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I got home in time to watch the Rays beat the Yankees for the 3rd time in a row this season. All is right in the world. Except the things that aren’t. But most is right in baseball.

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Evelyn @evelyn-see2468.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I’m pretty certain this is my favorite place to be. Boulders chock full of Skolithos fossils.

Lots of boulders in the foreground and mountains in the background

A panorama from the top of Turk Mountain

<— Skyline Drive 1.1(mi)
Turk Mtn. Summit
Elevation 2981(ft)

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Callan Bentley @callanbentley.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

I have about one week until I close registration for the @nagtgeo.bsky.social Eastern Section meeting. If you're in Virginia & love this planet, this is a great low-key meeting. Please join us! www.eventbrite.com/e/nagt-easte... ⚒️

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NAGT - Eastern Section meeting 2026

The 2026 annual gathering of the Eastern Section of NAGT, hosted by Piedmont Virginia Community College in Charlottesville, Virginia

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Evelyn @evelyn-see2468.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I’m lichen what I’m seein’

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Evelyn @evelyn-see2468.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Hell yes. Perfect game to watch while I did a bunch of housework.

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Evelyn @evelyn-see2468.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

San Francisco as seen through film

A view of the Golden Gate Ferry Terminal

A natural smiley face in rock next to a beachside cliff

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Evelyn @evelyn-see2468.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

If you get lost in the woods, make sure to not panic, but if you can take good photos! I made it back safely without realizing I was lost for such a long while.

Sunset on the mountains behind a tree line

Some sort of metal contraption wired up to a tree

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Anti-trans hatred is the very lifeblood of 21st century fascism and we need everyone to wake up to this simple truth before it's too late.

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