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GHOULology Johnson @geologyjohnson.bsky.social · 9h

I upgraded this Target Master with elbow and knee joints. Not the most elegant work but I'm pleased with how it turned out for a first attempt! #Transformers #macadams #TransformersToys #CustomToys

Photo of a small transformers figure on a green cutting mat with a yellow grid. The figure has been customised so that the legs and arms now bend at the knees and elbow.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy spood month, know your spoods #arachtober #InvertebrateShitposting

a doodle in four parts.

top left is a doodle of a jumping spider with massive adorable eyes. text says, a spood.

top right is the butt of a spider that has run off screen. text says, a spood doin' a scoot.

bottom left, a pair of spiders stacked on top of one another, hugging. text says, two spoods doin' a spoon.

bottom right, a spider covered in cloth like a sheet ghost, with speech bubble saying insect populations are experiencing a sharp decline, threatening every part of their food chain, including birbs, spoods, and the agricultural produce they pollinate. the text says a spood doin' a spook.

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GHOULology Johnson @geologyjohnson.bsky.social · 22h

Many people who I knew at Oxford shared this mentality. The idea that wealth and privilege are a reward for hard work and talent, and that being low income/ working class /from a deprived background was a choice.

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GHOULology Johnson @geologyjohnson.bsky.social · 22h

The micromasters were deffo a highlight of the late '80's to early '90's micro toy craze.

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Mika McKinnon @mikamckinnon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That’s a wrap for #MinCup26! This year was brought to you by a glorious team of volunteers contributing their favourite mineral facts, drafting blurbs on the side of playgrounds, and debating exactly which photo is both representative and beautiful.

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Congratulations to our Mineral Cup 2026 Champion Quartz! For #MinCup26, we collectively chose a nostalgic beauty of resilience as persistence as our champion. Please celebrate #Quartz, a friend to humans since time immemorial! www.mineralcup.org/about/2026-q...

A single quartz point, deep violet in its core and entirely clear around the outside, with ghostly traces of the crystal's former shape inside, as well as a few tiny bubbles.

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GHOULology Johnson @geologyjohnson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Can anyone recommend programs to turn handwritten documents into editable digital text? Ideally something that is not connected in any way shape or form to AI.

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Punished Cat Guy (extra punished Cenobite version) @majima.club · 03/10/2026

Okay here’s one of my finest

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GHOULology Johnson @geologyjohnson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just because someone is gregarious, outgoing, and likes making eye contact, doesn't mean they're NT. How would like to be accused of neurotypicality by strangers?

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Claude ✡️🦖🦕 @cascoclauda.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

happy #fossilfriday! this is fuxianhuia, a stem-arthropod from early cambrian china. a 2018 paper by fu et al. suggests that fuxianhuia engaged in extended parental care, making it possibly the earliest example of such behaviour in the fossil record (art by dongjing fu)

the stem-arthropod fuxianhuia on the seabed surrounded by its young

a complete fossil of an adult fuxianhuia

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 02/10/2026

Butterbutt. An older comic.

A four-panel comic titled "yellow-rumped warbler poem". In panel 1, a yellow-rumped warbler stands on a branch in a late autumn scene, and says "Fall is here." In panel 2, the warbler watches a brown leaf fall to the ground, and says "Winter's near." In panel 3, the warbler faces the viewer as brown leaves fall, and says "Need some cheer?" In panel 4, the warbler is showing its luminous yellow rump, and cheerfully says "See my rear."

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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

She peddles disinformation that can, if followed have fatal results, yet gets a luxury paid for visit to UK. Shameful that people profit from exploiting others in this way

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‘Self-healing’ coach who was banned from working in Australia to speak in UK

Barbara O’Neill has previously claimed that cancer is a fungus that can be treated with bicarbonate soda

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GHOULology Johnson @geologyjohnson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I want the reader to be as emotionally wrecked by my work as I am.

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

Boudinage are one of the most spectacular geologic structures and some of my favorite rocks. The boudins are the eye-shaped lenses of rock wedged between the white quartz layers. This happened when the rocks were being stretched by tectonic forces. The eye-shaped lenses, augen… 👇🏼 #MinCup26

Boudins of amphibolite layers (metamorphosed basalts) that were stretched between quartz schists (Norway). Photo credits: Haakon Fossen.

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GHOULology Johnson @geologyjohnson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

For the first time in min cup history, I backed a winner. 😅

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Len Pennie @lenniesaurus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is 40 Seconds, dedicated to those we have lost, and those we need to work harder to support, and keep safe. 💙 youtube.com/shorts/fCffh...

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40 Seconds, dedicated to those we lost, and those we need to work harder to support and keep safe. 💙

YouTube video by Miss PunnyPennie

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GHOULology Johnson @geologyjohnson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#Quartz is winning! Of quartz it is! This 3 billion year old fossil survived metamorphism because it was preserved in quartz before final burial. Field of view is 0.7 mm #MinCup26 #Geology #Paleontology

Microscope photograph of a rock sample made of quartz, that contains a small fossil that looks like an asymmetric dumbbell. In the lowerpart of the image there is a triangular green mineral.

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#MinCup26 FINALS!!! We have a pair of geometric beauties as deep red #Cuprite is against versatile #Quartz. VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

Split image of fine red needles of cuprite on one side and chunky clear quartz crystals on the other.

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GHOULology Johnson @geologyjohnson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The senior academic I reported (allegedly) tanked multiple careers by giving horrendous references and bad talking ECRs in the lab they felt threatened by. I've been told they've been bad talking me long before I filed the complaint.

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Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) @autisticadvocacy.org · 30/09/2026

This month, our community has fought back against attacks on our rights and our futures. Learn what ASAN has been working on and how you can get involved. autisticadvocacy.org/2026/09/asan...

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https://autisticadvocacy.org/2026/09/asan-september-26-update/

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GHOULology Johnson @geologyjohnson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A late Precambrian chemo symbiosis between bacteria and a complex multi cellular eukaryote that thrived at a dynamic redox boundary? How interesting! @russellgarwood.co.uk @palaeosmith.bsky.social

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GHOULology Johnson @geologyjohnson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Intervention and reporting of this stuff is important. In my experience of filling a complaint against a dodgy senior colleague, be prepared for a less than supportive reaction from colleagues, even if the Uni take the complaint seriously. Causing a fuss is a cardinal sin in the academy.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

*knocks door* Excuse me, do you have a moment to submit your invertebrate artwork to our periodical art book invertefest.com/#artbook

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InverteFest – Saimi Hanma

#InverteFest is a periodic online event where we invite you to celebrate the overlooked invertebrate fauna around you and share the joys of discovery online.

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Tisha Mark @tishamark.com · 12/08/2026

If you're looking for a nice housewarming gift, I have some giclée fine art prints available in a couple sizes. I sign and number these by hand, small editions of only 25: tishamark.com/product-cate... #art #prints #TraditionalArt #SciArt

Original oil painting by Tisha Mark, "Awake" 16"x16" oil on canvas (2023). This painting features a marshy landscape created with a combination of brushstrokes and palette knife markings underneath an orange-toned sunrise sky, with light reflected in the water.

Original summertime coastal marsh oil painting by Tisha Mark, "Possibilities" 16"x16" oil on canvas (2023). Painting of a coastal marsh underneath a brilliant pink sunrise or sunset sky, with light reflecting off the water.

Original oil painting by Tisha Mark, "Autumn's Arrival" 30"x40" oil on canvas (2023), Marshlands Series. A peaceful coastal marsh underneath an orange-toned sunrise sky with wispy lavender cloud formations.

Original seascape oil painting by Tisha Mark, "Finding a Kindred Spirit" 30"x30" oil on cradled Ampersand Gessobord (2025). A seascape painting with a gray-blue sky with textured, atmospheric cloud formations over a dark blue sea. Waves are meeting a rocky shore, and there is textured green moss and dark red algae or seaweed on the rocks.

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OUGS Social Media @ougeolsoc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

No #halite, no ocean currents. Then where would we all be? Vote for #halite in this #MinCup26 semifinal!

Sinking salt water, floating fresh water, thermohaline circulation

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AAAAHH-lex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 29/09/2026

i'm a Serious Artist™️ aplante.com/shop aplante.threadless.com

a blue-grey t-shirt that has a cartoon drawing of a white whale spouting "It's mobin' time!"

sticker of moby dick spouting "it's mobin' time!"

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GHOULology Johnson @geologyjohnson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have occasional vivid dreams due to #ADHD meds. Last night I dreamt I was trying to help a girl who was tired to an awning above an erupting volcano. Helen Mirren refused to help me and went to Sweden to speak to her agent. I got the girl down and we watched the lava from a safe distance.

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GHOULology Johnson @geologyjohnson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This fine Scottish meal of deep fried pizza, chips, and curry would be nothing without #halite a vote for halite is a vote for culture!

Photo of a plate of chips, half a deep fried pizza, and a pot of curry sauce.

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

god wants you to back my kickstarter 💦 kickstarter.com/projects/mrlovenstein/mr-lovenstein-presents-fun

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Jason Poland @mydadisdracula.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My Dad is Dracula (and an Overdue Library Book) 🔖 #webcomic #comic

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GHOULology Johnson @geologyjohnson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Got this close to a #seal today. The seals in #Eyemouth have a good thing going on getting fed by the locals (proper seal food) and chilling in the harbour. I too am round, long, and highly buoyant so maybe I should have been a seal? #Scotland

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GHOULology Johnson @geologyjohnson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Graphite because without it, I wouldn't have my creative outlets.

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GHOULology Johnson @geologyjohnson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So, I noticed something interesting in this view of the unconformity. There's an extra unit of rock between the Old Red and the greywacke visible in the cliff that is not present in the classic view of the outcrop. See diagram and alt text. 1/x #Geology

Pencil diagram of a cliff where three different rock formations come into contact. The units are: old red sandstone, Mystery unit of yellow calcareous sandstone layered with pale green-white platey to powdery material, the Greywacke grey muddy sandstone.

Simplified pencil diagram of a cliff where three different rock formations come into contact. The units are: old red sandstone, Mystery unit of yellow calcareous sandstone layered with pale green-white platey to powdery material, the Greywacke grey muddy sandstone

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OUGS Social Media @ougeolsoc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Two of my winners head to head, but it has to be #halite for me in #MinCup26 Quarterfinal 3, for its ability to move mountains. Look what salt does to the Austrian Alps at Hallstatt, Austria. Saving halite's role in ocean chemistry and currents for the semis. C'mon #TeamHalite get those votes in!

Cross section of Austrian Alps S to N at Plassen, showing Permian/Triassic salt rock, Haselgebirge Fm

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GHOULology Johnson @geologyjohnson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#Halite is literally the salt of the Earth. Without it, you die. #MinCup26

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GHOULology Johnson @geologyjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Quoting another visitor to the site. "This is the best unconformity I've ever seen." Quite a moving experience tbh. I've seen physically and temporally bigger unconformities, but there's something about this one that sets it apart. Photo by @saralilplants.bsky.social #Geology

Photo of a man with a green back pack stood on pale brown red rocks looking at cliff of vertical grey rocks that are covered by sub-horizontal layers of red rocks and green grass. There is blue sky With white clouds in back ground.

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GHOULology Johnson @geologyjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm going out on a limb to say this is the biggest Yorkshire pud ever made in the St Abbs area.

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Sara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’m stunned. If I’m not responsive it’s not because I’m not enormously grateful, it’s because I’m lying down with a cold cloth on my head because I’m still autistic and this is SO much (complimentary)

It's a Superpower??
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GHOULology Johnson @geologyjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Today, we visit Sicar Point. Leave predictions below for the kind of noise you think I'll make when I see the unconformity.

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Kerstin Neuhaus @microtopico.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is granite. You may know it from your kitchen counter. Without #Quartz, granite wouldn't exist. Vote #Quartz! #MinCup26

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GHOULology Johnson @geologyjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I look forward to the day my proposals get rejected by predictive text. Is this revenge for rejecting research fish?

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John Stott @jpsastro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Had a UKRI funded grant proposal rejected at the "AI triage stage". "This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review." 🧪 #academicsky

I am writing to let you know that, unfortunately, your application was not successful.

Review process

As part of the initial triage of the 179 proposals submitted to this call, each was assessed using an AI-based review. Every proposal was read independently by several different AI models against the same seven criteria used to shape this call (including cyber security relevance, research quality and novelty, importance of the problem addressed, feasibility of the project plan, likely outputs and impact, value for money, and responsible research practice), with each model asked to give a score and a written justification with supporting quotations from the text. To guard against any one model's idiosyncrasies, we also ran a second, independent process in which different AI models debated the merits and weaknesses of each proposal before reaching a judgement, again against the same criteria. Scores from both processes were combined to produce an overall ranking.

This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review. Projects selected for funding were drawn from those that progressed to the full human review stage. We recognise that AI-assisted assessment is a new and evolving part of the review process, and we are continuing to evaluate how well it aligns with the judgements of human reviewers on this call. We will soon produce a document detailing our method, so that others can build upon it and improve it.

Feedback on your application

Your application was not selected to progress beyond the AI triage stage. To provide transparency on the outcome of this assessment, we are sharing below the scores (out of 5) from each of the two AI review processes described above, together with the mean score across the two processes.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

imagine telling people that you prefer the output of a computer to experiencing the wonder of another human's imagination like you're announcing that you are an anti-social asshole with bad taste, just to be clear

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GHOULology Johnson @geologyjohnson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Several of today's rocks from St Abbs head. #Devonian volcanics and sandstones. There's also a bonus #Invertebrate #Geology

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