Jolyon Ralph 🪨 @jolyon.bsky.social · 08/08/2025Got three books for £1 yesterday at a charity shop, including this epic kids book on Aliens. [1/3] 130
Jolyon Ralph 🪨 @jolyon.bsky.social · 21/07/2025Possibly one of the most amazing fossils to ever come out of the Fossil Butte Member of the Green River Formation in the US, this is a fossil of a Apatemys chardini - a lemur like mammal from the Oligocene. This is the best and most complete example of this species - in a private collection. 2311
Jolyon Ralph 🪨 @jolyon.bsky.social · 15/06/2025you.regettingold.com This site absolutely gets worse every time you come back to it. #sorrynotsorryyou.regettingold.comHow old are you getting? Let us explain it properly! 020
Jolyon Ralph 🪨 @jolyon.bsky.social · 03/06/2025My* mindat paper is published in American Mineralogist! I feel almost like a real scientist. Now I need to beg for views and citations like some kind of Youtube influencer. Yay. pubs.geoscienceworld.org/msa/ammin/ar... * Other co-authors may exist.pubs.geoscienceworld.orgMindat.org: The open access mineralogy database to accelerate data-intensive geoscience research | American Mineralogist | GeoScienceWorld 3245
Jolyon Ralph 🪨 @jolyon.bsky.social · 27/05/2025Antique stall in Tirana, Albania. No translation necessary 061
Jolyon Ralph 🪨 @jolyon.bsky.social · 27/05/2025And I'm now in Albania, a place I've always wanted to visit. Enjoying it thoroughly. 061
Jolyon Ralph 🪨 @jolyon.bsky.social · 27/05/2025Melanterite stalactite, from the 10th level of the Trepça mine in Kosovo. Amazing visit yesterday. 1113
Jolyon Ralph 🪨 @jolyon.bsky.social · 18/01/2025Have obtained these two specimens for my good friend Kerry, who needs them for reasons 2160
Jolyon Ralph 🪨 @jolyon.bsky.social · 16/01/2025It's almost time for the greatest mineral event of the year. 070
Jolyon Ralph 🪨 @jolyon.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Big Fukang Meteorite (and @getpseudoed.bsky.social ) 2290
Jolyon Ralph 🪨 @jolyon.bsky.social · 30/12/2024Everything on one chart. Mass vs Radius. Lineweaver, Charles H., Patel, Vihan M. (2023) All objects and some questions. American Journal of Physics, 91 (10). 819-825 doi:10.1119/5.0150209 pubs.aip.org/aapt/ajp/art... 0145
Jolyon Ralph 🪨 @jolyon.bsky.social · 16/12/2024So I was given this old trophy that had a rock on it, and turns out it's a piece of "platinum-rich"* ore from the Merensky Reef, South Africa. Some nice visible chromite and sulfides (pentlandite/pyrrhotite?) along with the usual silicate gunk. * Everything is relative. 0405
Jolyon Ralph 🪨 @jolyon.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Oh go on, let's be completely unoriginal and do the same! 1 like = 1 piece of Jolyonlore 10100
Reposted by Jolyon Ralph 🪨Maaike @maaikeverbruggen.bsky.social · 19/11/2024And i thought the Dutch farmer tractor protests were bad... 56513
Jolyon Ralph 🪨 @jolyon.bsky.social · 18/11/2024LEGO minerals are on the way! Congratulations Dario. 64412
Jolyon Ralph 🪨 @jolyon.bsky.social · 16/11/2024A facebook group that knows EXACTLY how to troll its own members. 010
Jolyon Ralph 🪨 @jolyon.bsky.social · 15/11/2024It's cold outside and I'm annoyed and weirdly surprised by this inevitably seasonal temperature swing. 000
Jolyon Ralph 🪨 @jolyon.bsky.social · 13/11/2024I wonder how much of this could fit in the Albert Hall 020
Jolyon Ralph 🪨 @jolyon.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Should Salt n Vinegar crisps* be blue or green? Lidl is clearly hedging their bets on this. Isn't it time for an ISO standard for crisp packet colour? *or chips to my US friends, but this probably means nothing to you. 8100
Jolyon Ralph 🪨 @jolyon.bsky.social · 12/11/2024The abuse the English language gets... (from www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... ) 010
Jolyon Ralph 🪨 @jolyon.bsky.social · 11/11/2024For those wondering what to do with the old Apple TV 3, it actually does work as a reasonably good drinks coaster. 031
Jolyon Ralph 🪨 @jolyon.bsky.social · 11/11/2024How I arrived at Blueskymedia.tenor.coma man in a black jacket is standing in front of a fire explosionALT: a man in a black jacket is standing in front of a fire explosion 030
Jolyon Ralph 🪨 @jolyon.bsky.social · 07/11/2024Hey paleofriends... can someone identify the species of this beautiful fossil frog from ebay? 2111
Jolyon Ralph 🪨 @jolyon.bsky.social · 07/11/2024So many of the messages we get on Facebook are like "Hi I'm trying to contact the rite people cause I be leave I found a kimberlite diamond mine here's some photos" However you reply it's never going to end happily. So generally now we don't even reply. 470
Jolyon Ralph 🪨 @jolyon.bsky.social · 06/11/2024If you missed yesterday's Photo of the Day on Mindat you really should go look at it. It's a closeup of agate and it's stunning... www.mindat.org/photo-112186... Amir Akhavan photo.mindat.orgChalcedony (Var: Agate), HematiteReddish-brown hematite specks are very common as inclusions in agate. The photo shows a detail of the central portion of an agate in a thunderegg from St.Egidien, Saxony, Germany. Going from the outsi... 020
Jolyon Ralph 🪨 @jolyon.bsky.social · 06/11/2024Advertise your Bluesky account in 3 words: Too many rocks 020
Jolyon Ralph 🪨 @jolyon.bsky.social · 04/11/2024Keichousaurus from China, showing a visible tectonic neck split with a calcite vein! Expertly prepared by Kim Yunghuyn. 46411
Jolyon Ralph 🪨 @jolyon.bsky.social · 31/10/2024I thought I understood technology but this has me confused. 030
Jolyon Ralph 🪨 @jolyon.bsky.social · 30/10/2024So went to the Natural History Galleries at the National Science Museum in Daejeon, Korea. This is their Sea Lion. Behold the majesty. 150
Jolyon Ralph 🪨 @jolyon.bsky.social · 28/10/2024Car Park ticket machines now give motivational messages. 181
Jolyon Ralph 🪨 @jolyon.bsky.social · 27/10/2024Learning about Korean art treasures from a terminally sad robot. 020
