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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Nearly 2,000 years ago, a dog walked across a wet clay tile as it lay drying at Chedworth #Roman villa in Gloucestershire 🐾🐕 "Every dog knows, deep in his heart, that he is a Bad Dog" (Terry Pratchett) Canis malus. Nulla tibi cena 📷 August 2026 #TilesOnTuesday #Archaeology

An orange / red Roman tile in a museum case with a dirty great big dog paw print near the middle. Bad boy. No cena for you

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Frankie Butler @frankiebutler.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Feeling really proud of myself. I thought that since becoming physically disabled, this limitless adventurous part of the world was closed to me. In Iceland - we opened doors & broke down barriers. Folks with disabilities deserve to be involved scientific fieldwork and the great outdoors 🌋🙌🏼♿️

Frankie at the summit of a hike out of valley. Frankie is in the middle of the image wearing a brown vest top, black trousers and crutches. Two people are behind her. The landscape is a volcanic landscape with muted browns and green colouring

A line of 6 people on a 45 degree angle scree slope. Frankie is third up from the bottom.

Frankie in a red top raising one crutch in celebration. Hiking up a rocky slope with two people

Frankie is smiling in the foreground with a bright orange knitted head band. Behind her several igneous intrusions can be seen within a caldera sequence.

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GeophotoMarli @marlimiller.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Preparing an Earth Sci or Geog course for fall? Please check out geologypics.com. There, find >5500 searchable captioned photos for free download to promote good instruction. Just uploaded 60 new photos I shot from this year-- coastal to desert, rocks to landforms. Please share! #teaching #geology

six colorful Earth Science photos: melange, cross-bedding, differential erosion, soft-sediment deformation, desert varnish, Oregon Coast

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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

One of the things I think about when I decide whether to follow someone is whether they use alt text. If you post a lot of photos without alt text, I can't share them without adding it. It also suggests to me that you haven't thought about the inclusive benefits this place can have. Use alt text

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AIV - Associazione Italiana di Vulcanologia @aivulcan.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

🌋 Mount Etna's Voragine Crater is producing sustained Strombolian activity, with lava fountains and an ash plume reaching about 7 km height. Ashfall has been reported in Bronte. The VONA has been raised to Red, while Catania Airport (at the moment) remains operational. #Etna #Volcano #INGV

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Geologist Marie Tharp was born #OTD in 1920. She built the first accurate map of the Atlantic Ocean floor, discovering the Mid-Atlantic Ridge that provided evidence for seafloor spreading and plate tectonics. 🧪 👩‍🔬 Image: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Black and white photo of Marie Tharp adding detail to a large map of the sea floor , which is probably 6ft x 3ft. She is wearing a dark sweater over a white, collared blouse, and holding a pen in her right hand.

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Titania @titaniasrealm.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Be the thing in the woods the townsfolk fear 🎨 Fabienne Kuo

Illustration of a witchy mouse making a potion in a forest.

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Frankie Butler @frankiebutler.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Come and stop for a wee minute and enjoy the crashing waves of the Wild Atlantic Way #donegal #atlantic

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/07/2026

This summer, we kept the lights on all night, every night, at five soccer fields across New York City.  This was the scene at Calvert Vaux Park in Gravesend, Brooklyn Tuesday night.

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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Throwback to when a TV station in Iceland accidentally aired an episode of Teletubbies with subtitles from the Sopranos 👌🏼

Picture of a TV screen with teletubbies going to bed with the subtitles: I know you were high during my mother-in-laws wake

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History of Geology @historyofgeology.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

May 16, 1980, this image of Mount St. Helens, viewed from the Coldwater II observation post and taken by volcanologist Harry Glicken, is one of the last photographs showing the entire mountain ...

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EDIG @ediggeo.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

❓ Do you struggle to find resources highlighting topics such as equity, diversity, inclusion, accessibility, or others? 📋 Below are some incredible resource pages. Each of these webpages highlights compilations of resources, tools, initiatives, and other supports to help us all learn and grow. 1/5

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The Geologists' Association @geolassoc.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

2026 UK Field Trip: The Building Stones of Strata Florida Abbey and St Padarn’s Church, Llanbadarn on Saturday 16th May 2026, led by Tim Palmer, Caroline Palmer & Ruth Siddall of @pavementgeology.bsky.social £5 GA Member / £15 Non-member Full details: geologistsassociation.org.uk/ukfield/#16may

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Frankie Butler @frankiebutler.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Beautiful clouds above the rolling waves of the Cornish coast #cornwall #sea #coast

A view in the other direction capturing the walking landmark

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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

This little chickadee had likely just woken up from its nocturnal hibernation. It was -39C this when I took this. Chickadees can drop their core temperature up to 10C and go into torpor at night to conserve energy in extreme weather. #birds 🌿

A little black-capped chickadee looks down from its perch on a black metal hook. Its face is wreathed in frost and its feather are puffed up as far as they go on this -39C morning.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

The Washington Post published a clear video of federal agents removing Alex Pretti's handgun moments before he was fatally shot. There's nothing in the video to suggest Pretti even reached for his weapon. wapo.st/49Zqv1L

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Frankie Butler @frankiebutler.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Women in geoscience NERC funded leadership course Day one in Cornwall ✅ We visited Geevor tin mine for our field trip - this was sandwiched nicely between classroom based scicomm & leadership workshops. Looking forward to what the rest of the week will bring 🙌🏼 #geoscience #cornwall

Frankie standing on a slope with the sea behind. She is wearing a yellow hardhat and red jacket

A green notebook on a Cornish granite with visible large tabular plagioclase phenocrysts (in white)

Victorian wheal remains and water towers with the sea behind

Winch for the mine shaft lift. Photo taken looking upwards

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Frankie Butler @frankiebutler.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

VMSG Southampton 2026 let’s go 🙌🏼🌋#VMSG26 Fish supper ✅ Sunset over the water ✅ Ready for day one ✅ @vmsg.bsky.social

A selfie of Frankie in sunglasses and Ben and Charlie

A selfie of Frankie Charlie and Ben eating a fish supper

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Victoria Maderna @victoriamaderna.com · 08/09/2025

Day 08 of #septempera - a frog going though some stuff. Wanted to do something moodier and misty but the cooler tones got away from me and the painting got a bit too dark so I added some pastels.

A frog sitting on a rock looking at a misty landscape, painting by Victoria Maderna.

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Frankie Butler @frankiebutler.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Seeing an outcrop IN PERSON after reading about it/ seeing photos is pretty awesome 🙌🏼 I’ve been focussed on this area as a case study for mixing and mingling textures since the start of my PhD … SE Iceland 🇮🇸 🌋 is spectacular! #LASI7 #IAVCEI

Frankie smiling in front of an outcrop in SE Iceland. She is wearing a green hat and bright red rain jacket. The rocks behind her show mixed and mingled textures, Dolerite in granophyre.

Frankie standing in front of the outcrop wearing red jacket black trousers and balancing with her crutches.
The outcrop is mingling and mixing textures of Dolerite and granophyre

Frankie standing with the outcrop behind her and black volcanic sand surrounding her in a glacial outwash/ beach area.

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British Geological Survey @bgs.ac.uk · 11/09/2025

In some cases, the core may be unique and irreplaceable, especially where land has since been developed or reclassified. Maintaining a reference library of boreholes enables future research to take place using new techniques, saving time, reducing costs and limiting the environmental impact.

An illustration titled 'What can geological core tell us?' BGS © UKRI. Based on Rushton (1979). The labels on the core include: boreholes samples collection, thin section, Calcareous micropalaeontology, continuous core scanning, Palynology, sub-cylinder sampling, observational data, physical and geological characterisation (porosity, permeability, age), type and stratigraphical collection

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Frankie Butler @frankiebutler.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Some textures from the mid-conference field trip in Iceland 🇮🇸 @iavcei.bsky.social

Sulphurous deposits (yellow and white) on a vesicular pahoehoe section

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Frankie Butler @frankiebutler.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

And so the adventure begins! Cambridge —> LDN —> Reykjavík 🇮🇸 Homemade poster tube in tow. Looking forward to the LASI 7 conference and meeting fellow volcano enthusiasts! 🌋🇮🇸 #LASI2025 #VIPS #IAVCEI @iavcei.bsky.social

Homemade poster tube. Plastic with world map label from 2003

Crenulated rooftop of kings college Cambridge against the gloaming sky

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EcoMuseum of Scottish Mining Landscapes @mininglandscapes.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

2/2 To read their heartwarming story see 👉 www.mining-landscapes.org/blog

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Nadine, Hunter of Rocks @nadwgab.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

1 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️ Quetzalcoatlite: - Named after Quetzalcoatl, an Aztec and Toltec god of the sea, due to its sea-blue colour - Forms in the oxidised zone of tellurium-bearing hydrothermal deposits #minerals - This below is a co-type specimen (one of the specimens used to define the species)

Tiny blue-green crystals (there's a green coloured arrow stuck on the specimen to point these out) with some leaf-green illite and blue azurite on a matrix. From Bambollita Mine, Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico.

Specimen from the Natural History Museum, London's collections.

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Frankie Butler @frankiebutler.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

St Kilda Quartz from pegmatitic veins in a mixed magma complex 🌋 I got to take this video with a specialist high def microscope camera 📸 whilst working with NMS @bobgooday.bsky.social and @scottishagates.bsky.social recataloguing the St Kilda collection 🌋 @scottishgeology.bsky.social

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

More weird geology and cool clouds from a day out in the Highlands of #Iceland in July 2023. #AwesomeFoursome

B&W photo of some strange old lava formations - one of which has a hole like an eye at the top, facing upwards. In the foreground is a rock with some thrift flowers sticking out of it; above are ominous dark clouds.

More strange lava formations - a couple of pieces dominate the photo and have holes in the middle. Above are dark grey possibly mammatus clouds.

Dark mammatus clouds above old grey lava with an orange crater rim in the distance.

Folds of old grey lava - look like some animals of faces (if you suffer from pareidolia!). No sky.

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Marlo Garnsworthy @icebird.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Good morning! Can you spot the seals? Here are your 3 minutes of peace & calm. #OceanDevotion

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Rhyolite_Prof @edithrojas.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

🌍💫 Geology pilgrimage complete! Just made it to Siccar Point aka the holy ground of Geology! 🙌🏽 James Hutton would be proud!!!

Edith sitting on rocks at Siccar Point, Scotland!

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Frankie Butler @frankiebutler.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Luí na gréine agus carraigeacha // sunset and rocks 🌅 #donegal #ireland

Orange setting sun with dark sea cliffs to the right

Orange setting sun with dark sea cliffs to the right. This photo also has some lens glare from the sun peeking round the cliffs

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Frankie Butler @frankiebutler.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

The geology of the Sliabh Liag peninsula is spectacular. Irelands highest sea cliffs! Metamorphosed dalradian metasediments with extreme recumbent folding, vertical strata and some impressive metamorphic textures (syntectonic). Tá an t-ádh orm a bheith i mo gheolaí! #geology #ireland #donegal

Photograph of a an isolated ‘sea stack’ from Sliabh league formation

Some impressive recumbent folding of dalradian metasediment strata

Photograph of sliabh liag from the Sliabh liag cliff walk

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Frankie Butler @frankiebutler.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

The past two weeks I’ve been learning the Irish language during an intensive beginners course with Oideas Gael @oideasgael.bsky.social In the beautiful Dún na nGall🔰 Táim ag foghlaim Gaeilge agus tá cúpla focal agam #irish #gaelige #donegal

A selfie of Frankie wearing blue mirrored sunglasses with the orange sun set, sea and cliffs behind her.

The Cliffs of sliabh liag (Slieve league) with the Atlantic Ocean lapping at the Cliffs.

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British Geological Survey @bgs.ac.uk · 17/04/2025

The Isle of Arran has officially been announced as a UNESCO Global Geopark! 🎉 UNESCO’s Global Geoparks are areas with internationally important landscapes & bring together other aspects of heritage such as archaeology, history, culture and biodiversity. www.bgs.ac.uk/news/isle-of...

Common seals basking on a Palaeogene dyke at Kildonan.

Three Highland cows (two adults and one baby) in Glen Rosa. It is a cloudy day but the sun is shining over the scene. There are mountains in the background.

Pladda island from Kildonan at the south of the island. You can see a small amount of mist across the sand at the forefront of the image, and some large rocks are dotted around. It is a sunny day, with some small clouds off to the left.

Cir Mhor mountain at sunrise. It is glowing a deep copper colour.

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Jenna C. Hill @chillocean.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

NOAA just announced a long list of datasets that are going away🧪⚒️🌊: www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/docume... Download what you need asap and send comments to: ncei.info@noaa.gov

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Frankie Butler @frankiebutler.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Our field guide was a bit woolly with their rock descriptions!

A photo of a sheep sat on top of rocks with a heathered mountain behind them

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Frankie Butler @frankiebutler.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

So lovely to meet you! Disabled folks in STEM need to be included in conferences, field work, research culture and research spaces 🙌🏼 So much knowledge and exciting STEM research to share. ♿️

Wheelchair user leaning over and reaching for a rock

Wheelchair user smiling at the camera holding a very vesicular volcanic rock

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Kelsey J.R.P. Byers @plantpollinator.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Met another wheelie scientist here at the PhD programme symposium I'm attending - so great to see wheelie folks doing STEM. During my PhD all my disabled activist friends were in Disability Studies (which is awesome!) but I missed having fellow disabled STEM folks. Barriers keep so many of us out.

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge @trincolllibcam.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

‘It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade’ ☀️❄️ - Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (1861)

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Frankie Butler @frankiebutler.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

I am physically disabled. I have to use a wheelchair and/or crutches to move around. During my Bristol MSc I was unable to partake in essential research for my project - due to poor access - thus limiting my thesis Bristol is taking no responsibility for this. I’m at a loss as to what to do.

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

✨ We have EIGHT amazing summer internships with our National Capability for Global Challenges scheme! Work with UKCEH scientists on topics like ozone pollution, modelling, satellite imagery, soil health & more. 🔗 Apply by 2 April: www.ceh.ac.uk/our-science/... 🧪🧵 1/ Please share widely!

Aerial view over an oil palm plantation at a rainforest edge and the text Summer Internship Programme 2025 Apply Now!

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