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I'm so glad it's twelve foot skeleton season

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Mount St. Helens Archive @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Physiographic illustration is a craft, honed over years of careful attention to detail. After May 18, the USGS published this triptych of Mount St. Helens by cartographer Tau Rho Alpha and geologist Jim Moore, with the support of David Jones. Just how did the north face change? See for yourself.

USGS physiographic diagram sheet titled "Sequential physiographic diagrams of Mount St. Helens, Washington, 1979-80," published 1980 by Tau Rho Alpha, James G. Moore, and David R. Jones. Three hand-rendered perspective illustrations show the mountain looking south: upper left labeled Summer 1979, depicting a symmetrical snow-covered cone; upper right labeled May 15, 1980, showing the pronounced bulge deforming the north flank three days before the eruption; lower left labeled May 26, 1980, showing the devastated mountain with its north face collapsed and a massive crater open to the sky. Lower right contains two semicircular scale diagrams in feet/miles and meters/kilometers, with notes that vertical exaggeration is 2X and all views are toward the south, plus a small index map locating the mountain in the Pacific Northwest. Sheet shows moderate toning. Image credit: U.S. Geological Survey/public domain.

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GabriHELL Eggers @gabeeggers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The most important task when moving to a new place.

A hand holding two library cards. One has an anthropomorphic cardinal and is labeled "St. Louis County Library" and the other has a night skyline scene with the Gateway Arch and is labeled "St. Louis public Library."

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Elaeeeeeeine 🦇 @uselaine.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Have you ever seen rutilated #quartz? It's prized by jewelers for unique pendants and rings. Dazzling!

Rectangular gemstone of clear quartz with golden needle-like threads glistening all through it.

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Vicky Veritas @vickyveritas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Quartz stands as one of nature’s most versatile and enduring creations. With its simple chemical formula yet endless structural variations, it embodies both the beauty and complexity of Earth’s geology.” You never forget your first. Quartz! #MinCup26

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Quartz Mineral: Formation, Properties, Uses & Crystal Varieties

Discover how quartz forms, why it is found almost everywhere on Earth, and how this crystal became essential in geology, technology, gemstones, glass, and modern industry.

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Vicky Veritas @vickyveritas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Quartz is a common mineral, with some very important and uncommon properties. One is piezoelectricity. When quartz is squeezed, it generates an electric charge. Together, quartz and earthquakes can promote the formation of gold nuggets, that can be quite large. #Quartz #MinCup26

Native gold wrapped around white quartz.

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GabriHELL Eggers @gabeeggers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Again, I wish I was teaching geomorphology again. This would have been excellent to show during the mass wasting unit.

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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A Roman mosaic of snails escaping a basket. 🏛️ Basilica Patricale, Aquileia 🇮🇹 🕰️ 4th century AD #MosaicMonday

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GabriHELL Eggers @gabeeggers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I was cleaning out my closet before moving again, and I discovered that a mouse had eaten through the tam and hood from my PhD. If that isn't emblematic of my academic career (and academia broadly?) and life right now, I don't know what is. Anyway, I'm sad again.

A navy blue velvet tam (fancy hat) with gold tassel with a large, frayed hole lined by white, fuzzy material.

A gold PhD good with blue velvet trim. Another large, frayed hole with white material inside is present.

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Vicky Veritas @vickyveritas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#Quartz is very resistant to erosion. After all the other minerals erode away, white sand beaches remains. Quartz abides. #MinCup26 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology #geosky #GIS 🍎 🪐 🔭 🌋 📚 🌿

Pristine white quartz sand beach with turquoise blue ocean, lapping waves, sheltering palm trees, and footprints in the sand.

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The Shire-Reckoning @shire-reckoning.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

After rescuing the hobbits from Old Man Willow, Tom Bombadill dances away upstream. Hurrying along behind, the hobbits reach his house. Goldberry welcomes them: ‘Now let the song begin! Let us sing together Of sun, stars, moon and mist, rain and cloudy weather.’

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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution @whoi.edu · 24/09/2026

Celebrating oceanographer Marie Tharp’s induction into the 2026 Women's Hall of Fame! 🥳🎉 Born in 1920, at a time when there were few options for women in science, Tharp revolutionized our understanding of the ocean floor. Learn more about this year’s inductees: go.whoi.edu/womens-hall-of-fame

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HiRISE Beautiful Mars (NASA) @uahirise.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

HiPOD: Dune Day in Schaeberle Crater The light-colored, rough surface is covered with small impact craters, showing that this landscape has been exposed for a long time. The smooth, dark dunes were formed by wind-blown sand. uahirise.org/ESP_043582_1555 #Mars #science #NASA

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Yann Klinger @yklinger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In case any one doubts that geomorphology and paleoseismology are unrelated. Trenching the Fuyun fault now.

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GabriHELL Eggers @gabeeggers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Grab a calendar and pull your fucking heads out of your asses; it’s fall, fuckers.

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Bonez 🤍 @luckybonez.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

You can pry the hope and love out of my cold dead corpse. I will ALWAYS be kind and good.

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fright-chael 👻 @radplanets.com · 17/09/2026

Scientific papers are not simply data repositories for AI agents to comb through. Scientists make informed choices about which data analysis techniques to use. You as the reader may not like those choices, but doing the analysis differently makes it a fundamentally different paper.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

the only Batman we've ever needed

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 11/09/2026

Fault Taunting xkcd.com/3296/

4-panel comic. (1) [Giant fishing rod-like cat toy positioned above four tectonic plates. Two helicopters that appear tiny due to scale fly above. People next to device are so tiny they cannot be seen.] PERSON 1: The key to exposing new geologic layers is understanding the three forces driving plate movement: slab pull, ridge push, and taunting. (2) PERSON 2: Taunting? What do– PERSON 1: *Initiate thrust fault pattern!* [The dangly end of the toy wiggles.] (3) “Rumble” sound effect from tectonic plates. (4) “Lunge!” sound effect from tectonic plates. [Plates split at a diagonal angling toward toy.]

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J. Brian Balta @drjbbalta.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Like all questions, the answer is Plate Tectonics.

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Dr. Katie I. @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Time to post Great Big Sea's version of "The Chemical Worker's Song" about mining gypsum. #MinCup26

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The Chemical Worker's Song (Process Man)

YouTube video by Great Big Sea - Topic

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GabriHELL Eggers @gabeeggers.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I've been listening to Tim Curry's memoir VAGABOND, and man, this part hit very hard. Especially because the audiobook is read by Curry himself.

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And yet, it hasn't escaped my notice that others have jumped at the opportunity to make their own assumptions. I have been described as everything from a confounding sex symbol, to a home designer, to a rock 'n' roll singer, to an imposter, to the prince of Halloween, to a paralyzed tragic case, to a dead legend.

Contrary to village gossip, I am still very much alive."

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 07/09/2026

hello my baby hello my honey hello darkness my old friend

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Vicky Veritas @vickyveritas.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Andalusite “Chiastolite”, was a very popular stone among 16th-century religious pilgrims traveling through Spain due to its unique appearance. And the stones, although not holy, are certainly mineral miracles. #MinCup26 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology #geosky #GIS 🍎 🪐 🔭 🌋

A wooden bowl with andalusite “chiastolite” stones with cruciform patterns in pinkish white stone with black crosses.

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Some decent near-vent video I hadn’t seen yet.

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Nadine, Hunter of Rocks @nadwgab.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Vote for quartz, the only mineral cool enough to feature in the Lego Minerals set three times! 1) Tiny colourless acicular crystals associated with red rhodochrosite 2) An amethyst geode 3) Orange "tangerine quartz" #TeamQuartz #MinCup26

Close up of two Lego figures: dark red rhodochrosite cubes on a black matrix with colourless acicular quartz crystals, and a dark purple amethyst geode.

A Lego model of tangerine quartz. It's a deep orange colour with white tips.

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Tim Watson @timwatson.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

in other news, that Jane Austen sure could write, couldn't she

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Oni Kidou @thepinkhobkin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This is honestly my favorite one of them all. Very wholesome and empowering.

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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I am having a particularly frustrating week, so here’s one of the best things I’ve ever done. The eruption of Sarychev Peak in the Aleutian Islands, seen by the crew of the space station. www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

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Benjamin Gill @sedgeochem.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

For the first match of #MinCup26, I give to you this lovely, old school display that show how staining carbonate minerals with different chemicals can be used to ID them. #Smithsonite makes an appearance here, but #Azurite is missing because its easy to ID... no stain required

Hanging display with carbonate minerals glued to it. The display shows how different chemicals will stain carbonate minerals different colors, allowing you to identify them.

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GabriHELL Eggers @gabeeggers.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Something that's not my specific field of earth and planetary science but that I especially enjoy is looking at satellite images and mapping efforts of floodplains. There's so many neat details and interactions with human society. I enjoyed talking about them when I taught geomorphology.

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The Forested Floodplains of Congaree National Park - NASA Science

The meandering Congaree River sustains towering forest ecosystems and fashions oxbow lakes as it shifts across its floodplain.

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Kevin M. Gill @kevinmgill.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Large dust devil near the Mars Perseverance Rover on Sol 1966 (yestersol). NASA/JPL-Caltech/Kevin M. Gill

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GabriHELL Eggers @gabeeggers.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I've been reading Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen, and rarely has a character felt more relatable.

Excerpt from Sense & Sensibility. Highlighted is a passage reading, "...and Elinor was then at liberty to think and be wretched."

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Perfect launch! Go Roman!!!!

Photo of a backlit rocket plume over water.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Naught but a leap to the left And then a clockwyse tread; Put thyne handes on thyne hippes, And be thy knees yn-gatheréd: Lo! It ys the pelvique thruste That maketh mirthe down to rayne - Lat us doon the Tyme Warpe agayne!

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 29/08/2026

You play around with this data for a few hours—again, freely available from the USGS—and you end up wandering the corridors accosting co-workers and saying things like “Do you have any idea how big the Mississippi-Missouri drainage basin is?!” which is to say, it makes you a better person.