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Daniel Pastor-Galán

@hotspottrack.bsky.social
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Solid Earth hero who finds magnets in rocks. Plate shuffler, rock bender, mantle depleter, zircon hunter. I do lick rocks. Really, really bad geo-puns. Also music. At @igeociencias.bsky.social @CSIC.es www.danielpastorgalan.eu ⚒️ #geoscience

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Callan Bentley @callanbentley.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I cleaned up the smaller specimen of rock that I collected in this hike over the summer in the Gallatin Range of Montana. Now it joins my teaching collection. ⚒️
Polished side of a amphibolite bearing garnets and plagioclase feldspar Pressure washed exterior of a black and white and cranberry colored rock
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Instituto de Geociencias (CSIC-UCM) @igeociencias.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Daniel Pastor-Galán @hotspottrack.bsky.social : Studying Ancient Earth, with a Little Help from His Friends eos.org/features/dan...
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Daniel Pastor-Galán: Studying Ancient Earth, with a Little Help from His Friends - Eos
This rock lover carries his musical inspirations with him as he peers far back in geologic time.
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Henning @geohenning.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Part of the family is in Norway right now. Damn, take a look at that rainbow 🌈. 🤩
Rainbow over the water in a fjord. Rainbow reflected perfectly in the water.
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Lockwood DeWitt @lockwooddewitt.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I wasted nearly two hours this morning trying to post these. Now wondering if they'll post one at a time. Orthopyroxenite- weathered boulder and smaller, freshly broken hand samples. Josephine Ophiolite, SW Oregon.
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Eos @eos.org · 03/08/2026
A conservatory-trained musician, @hotspottrack.bsky.social has found ways to infuse his love of music (rock music primarily, like any good geologist) into his scientific career. eos.org/features/dan...
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Daniel Pastor-Galán: Studying Ancient Earth, with a Little Help from His Friends - Eos
This rock lover carries his musical inspirations with him as he peers far back in geologic time.
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Daniel Pastor-Galán @hotspottrack.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Nathaniel Scharping wrote such a fantastic piece about me on #EOS @agu.org Thanks Nate! #Science #Geoscience #Earth #Geodynamics #Paleomagnetism eos.org/features/dan...
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Daniel Pastor-Galán: Studying Ancient Earth, with a Little Help from His Friends - Eos
This rock lover carries his musical inspirations with him as he peers far back in geologic time.
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Instituto de Geociencias (CSIC-UCM) @igeociencias.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Presentación del libro: La Geología de Iberia: un enfoque geodinámico. El Ciclo Cadomiense. Sábado 20 de junio a las 12:00h en el @mncn-csic.bsky.social www.igeo.ucm-csic.es/presentacion...
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Instituto de Geociencias (CSIC-UCM) @igeociencias.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
¿Dónde están las geólogas y paleontólogas en los libros divulgativos?
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¿Dónde están las geólogas y paleontólogas en los libros divulgativos?
Existir, existen, lo que ocurre es que no se habla de ellas. Un estudio reciente analiza la presencia (o ausencia) de mujeres paleontólogas y geólogas en los libros de divulgación, sobre todo, en idioma hispanohablante. ¿Qué implicaciones tiene a la hora de despetar vocaciones?
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Daniel Pastor-Galán @hotspottrack.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
This is the new Jiahui Zhang's paper. Jiahui is a PhD student in Northwstern University, Xi'an, China. And he will be coming to our lab at @igeociencias.bsky.social next autumn for about half a year. Really looking forward to it! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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Late Carboniferous Paleomagnetism From North Qiangtang Block Reveals a Multibranched Paleo‐Tethys Ocean
The North Qiangtang Block was located at 19.5 ± 5.2°S at 317 ± 11.6 Ma The North Qiangtang–Indochina domain occupied mid-to-low latitudes in the Southern Hemisphere during the Late Carboniferous–...
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Callan Bentley @callanbentley.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Geotweeps, do any of you old-timers remember the name of the bar at which we all met up for the first time, in Portland, Oregon in 2009 (assoc. w/ GSA meeting)? @geology.bsky.social @clasticdetritus.bsky.social @stressrelated.bsky.social
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Daniel Pastor-Galán @hotspottrack.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Today I had my presentation as #EGU26. So I took a better sleep. But tomorrow I will be running at around 6 AM between Belvedere and Stadpark. By the way there is a nice calisthenics place in the park. Cheers and see you there!
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José M. Amado. @jose1975.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
No son ricos en sus barcos, son personas como tú que les gusta la vela y en su mayoría tienen un barco de segunda mano. Otra estupidez provocada por la superioridad moral, aprovechar todo para mostrar la virtud de uno en vez de intentar enterarse de la realidad.
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Daniel Pastor-Galán @hotspottrack.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Fantastic award talk by the marvelous Phil Heron to happens to be a good friend of mine. #EGU26
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Dr. Nina Davtian (she/her/hers) @ninadavtian.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
No, I am not the only @cerege.bsky.social @climatecerege.bsky.social #EGU26 goer: a few examples of presentations by my colleagues. 👇🏻 This morning, Mélanie Baroni 👩‍🔬 presents a piece of work led by her former postdoc @alamothe.bsky.social: doi.org/10.5194/egus... @egu-cl.bsky.social 🧪 ⚒️ 🦣 ❄️🥼 (1/4)
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Abstract EGU26-13238
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Daniel Pastor-Galán @hotspottrack.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Arrived in Vienna! #EGU26
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Dr. Nina Davtian (she/her/hers) @ninadavtian.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
#Train2EGU leg 1 (Aix-en-Provence to Paris) completed yesterday, now completing leg 2 (Paris 🇫🇷 to Frankfurt am Main 🇩🇪). The Aix-en-Provence to Frankfurt am Main train trip does exist, but the connection time to the (hopefully) final leg (to Vienna) would be much shorter. #TrainToEGU #EGU #EGU26
Landscape photographed by Nina Davtian (it’s me!) on 1st May 2026 from a French high-speed train somewhere between Aix-en-Provence and Paris.Landscape photographed by Nina Davtian (it’s me!) on 2nd May 2026 from a French high-speed train somewhere between Paris and Frankfurt am Main.
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Daniel Pastor-Galán @hotspottrack.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Flying to Vienna tomorrow #EGU26. I wonder if this year there will be any morning runners club @seismatters.bsky.social ?? #Geosciences
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Daniel Pastor-Galán @hotspottrack.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Today we have our first poster mock-up session to prepare #EGU26 with at @igeociencias.bsky.social I hope the PhD students are doing better than me🤞. #HeWhoseTalkIsNotPrepared #Geosciences
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dr. rehemat 👩🏽‍💻👩🏽‍🔬 @rehemat24.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
If you’re going to the @egu.eu General Assembly next week, come and say hello to @earthsciencewomen.bsky.social at the EGU EDI booth! We’ll be there: ⭐️ May 4th: 2pm-6pm ⭐️ May 6th: 5pm-6pm ⭐️May 7th: 2pm-3.45pm
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Daniel Pastor-Galán @hotspottrack.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
So back to Europe after 3 fantastic field weeks in Japan. I did not share the latest pictures because the thing got quite intense and forgot. We drill holes for pmag and are onigiri replicating granites of the Sanyo belt. #Fieldwork #Geosciences
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Daniel Pastor-Galán @hotspottrack.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Radiolarites are pretty boring rocks that, well, become extremely interesting when accreted to the continents. #fieldwor #Fridayfold #rainy #Geosciences
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Daniel Pastor-Galán @hotspottrack.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
More rocks that couldn’t bear the pressure #Japan #Na-in-amphibole #ageosciences
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Daniel Pastor-Galán @hotspottrack.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Just another day in the blueschist office #Fieldwork #Geosciences ⚒️
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Daniel Pastor-Galán @hotspottrack.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Another day in the office #Geoscience
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Daniel Pastor-Galán @hotspottrack.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
They don’t look too blue but glaucophane is there #fieldwork #Japan #geoscieces ⚒️
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Daniel Pastor-Galán @hotspottrack.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Lots of rain and monkeys in the first day of #fieldwork #Japan #Okayama #Geosciences
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Cormac MacFhionnlaoich @cormacscoast.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
A stormbeach stone stuffed with Goniatite fossils. Remnants of a distant time when their shells littered the sea floor. County Clare, Ireland. Cormacscoast.com walking tours
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Daniel Pastor-Galán @hotspottrack.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Arrived in Japan!! 今日はみなさん
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Daniel Pastor-Galán @hotspottrack.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
7:47 in the morning waiting for the train to Madrid airport because I am heading to Japan for fieldwork again #geosciences #Japan #fieldwork #again
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Daniel Pastor-Galán @hotspottrack.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
New paper alert! I have always wanted to work in old rocks and my Indian colleagues, especially my good friend Biraja, made that possible! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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A ∼1.6 Ga accretionary event in the polymetamorphic Lesser Himalaya, India: Insights into late-stage assembly of the Columbia supercontinent
A series of collisions among most of the continental fragments between 2.1 Ga and 1.8 Ga culminated in the assembly of the Columbia supercontinent. Ve…
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Instituto de Geociencias (CSIC-UCM) @igeociencias.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Al IGEO se le ha concedido el distintivo ASPIRA-MAX “Sagrario Martínez Carrera” en la segunda fase del Proyecto MaX-CSIC, una iniciativa orientada a fomentar la excelencia científica dentro de la institución.
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Dr. Lucia Perez-Diaz @drlperezdiaz.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Not one, but two new Tektonika volumes are out! Start your week with some diamond open access science! Check them out here: tektonika.online/index.php/ho... @wearetektonika.bsky.social #DOAJ #academicpublishing #diamondopenaccess
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Daniel Pastor-Galán @hotspottrack.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
2 days to go
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Douwe van Hinsbergen @vanhinsbergen.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Paleolatitude.org 3.0 is online! At what latitude was your backyard in the time of the dinosaurs? The answer is a simple mouse click away, and now also if your backyard lies one of the world's big mountain ranges!
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Paleolatitude
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University of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
This beautiful colour plate shows rock formations on the East Devon coast caused by landslips between December 1839 & February 1840. Corn grew on the rocks that had fallen from the fields above, attracting fascinated visitors. 📷 Reserve 554.235 DAW/XX (1840) #OldRockDay #Geology #RareBooks #Devon
Colour illustration of rock formations with wheat growing on them, entitled 'View in the Great Chasm of Axmouth Landslip.' Looking Westward. Reaping the Wheat 25th August 1840.' The illustration includes depictions of people in 19th century clothing.
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Daniel Pastor-Galán @hotspottrack.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
🚨 Call for Abstracts – #EGU26 🌍 Session TS1.6: Fluid Flow and Rock Interaction Across Scales: From Grains to Plates #Geosciences #EarthScience #Geology
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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 29/12/2025
Paleoclimatologist Jessica Tierney recently published a global temperature record covering almost the past half-billion years. According to her model, 50 million years ago, inland temperatures approached 122 degrees Fahrenheit. www.quantamagazine.org/climate-extr...
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Daniel Pastor-Galán @hotspottrack.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
It’s that time of the year, again… Happy Xmas Rock
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El Laboratorio de Rafa @labrafa.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
¿Cómo entrenar un LLM (Modelo de leguaje grande) eficientemente? #FelizMartes #Followback
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 23/12/2025
The ice at Santa's workshop is melting away... #NorthPole 🎁🧑‍🎄 Check out my blog from November 2022 on this graphic at zacklabe.com/blog-archive...
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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
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AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
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Alexis Licht @alexislicht.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
🚨New paper alert🚨 40 million years ago, anthropoid primates and rodents dispersed from East Asia to Africa and South America, across two wide oceans (the Neotethys and the Southern Atlantic). So Which way did they pass? @dispersal-erc.bsky.social (1/n) doi.org/10.1016/j.ea...
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Redirecting
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CNRS @cnrs.fr · 18/12/2025
Trop nombreuses, frauduleuses ou écrites par intelligence artificielle générative : les critiques à l’égard des publications scientifiques s’accumulent à l’heure de leur surproduction. Faut-il dès lors en faire le deuil ?
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Publications scientifiques : une surproduction fatale ?
Publications scientifiques : une surproduction fatale ? | CNRS
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Daniel Pastor-Galán @hotspottrack.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
#geosciences ⚒️
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⛏ Thomas Hammerich @thammerich.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
⚒ #FossilFriday 🦑 📷 Nummulites Type of fossil foraminifera, lived in the warm shallow seas of the Tertiary (~52my). 📍 Rock face of Piz d'Artgas (Elev.: 2600m/8530ft) , Grisons, Switzerland 🇨🇭 #geology #paleontology #fossil
Picture of rock face of Mount Piz d'Artgas (Elevation: 2600m / 8530ft) showing dark brown rock matrix with abundant light brown flat elongated Nummulite fossils in various orientations. A humans left hand on the left part of the picture for size reference.

Trivia: The ancient Egyptians used nummulite shells as coins,
pyramid limestones contain nummulites.
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Daniel Pastor-Galán @hotspottrack.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
🚨 Call for Abstracts – EGU 2025 💡 Emerging concepts in fluid–rock systems. 📅 Abstract deadline: 15 January 🔥 Submit your abstract and contribute to advancing our understanding of fluids in the lithosphere! www.egu26.eu/session/56661
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Daniel Pastor-Galán @hotspottrack.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Paleomagnetism.org 2.6 is out! The most important update since version 2.0 NEW: - Inclination only statistics - CMTD test of Heslop et al. (2023) - Sun Compass to azimuth converter - Many new lab formats - Enhanced interoperability with MagIC files #Paleomagnetism #Geoscience
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Paleomagnetism.org 2 - An online environment for paleomagnetic analysis
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Tektonika DOAJ @wearetektonika.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
As we are finalising our next editorial to close Tektonika #DOAJ volume 3, we invite you to read or re-read previous ones, starting from 👇 "Tektonika: The Community-Led Diamond Open-Access Journal for Tectonics and Structural Geology" ⚒️ tektonika.online/index.php/ho...
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Tektonika: The Community-Led Diamond Open-Access Journal for Tectonics and Structural Geology | τeκτoniκa
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Planet-Terre @planet-terre.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Dans les gouffres à fossiles du Quercy – Documentaire sur les phosphatières du Quercy, “mines” de fossiles. Accessible jusqu’au 29 novembre 2025 sur la plateforme France·TV #géologie #teamSVT planet-terre.ens-lyon.fr/veille/breve...
L’une des grottes du réseau karstique des phosphatières du Quercy au sein desquelles de nombreux restes de faune fossile du Cénozoïque ont été retrouvés.
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American Museum of Natural History @amnh.org · 18/11/2025
It's Trilobite Tuesday! The Devonian trilobites that emerge from outcrops aligning Bolivia's sky-high Altiplano plateau, like this Belenopyge, rank among the most difficult-to-obtain trilobites in the world—mostly because they're located more than 11,500 ft (3,505 m) up in the Andes Mountains.
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