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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#MinCup26 Round 2 Match 7 It's blue skies ahead as multicoloured cubes of #Halite are up against the bubbly cool-toned #Chrysocolla. VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

Split photo of seafoam green minerals. One one side, translucent sea foam-green cubes on a crust of milky-white crystals. On the other, bobby aqua-green milky-translucent crystals perched on a grainy grassy-green base rock

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CRB @crossbaumann55.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

So much to recommend Anorthite in the first place-early Earth igneous processes, asteroids, lunar highlands- a very old mineral found in various environments in the solar system. It may not be glamorous, but it has history-and a beer named after it! Vote Anorthite! (This is kind of fun!)

Image shows Bighand Bros. Beer named "Anorthite" in a blue and orange can next to a glass of the amber-colored beer.

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

#MinCup26 Round 1 Match 3 Both zinc ore #Sphalerite and calcium plagioclase feldspar #Anorthite will split cleanly if you hit them with a hammer, but only one can claim a larger split of your votes! VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

A photo split between toothy translucent yellow crystals chewing on a grey rock and a blocky milky-yellow translucent crystal where every corner and edge is cut by a small oblique face.

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Joanna Scheffler @joscheff.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Hey @colbertlateshow.bsky.social , can we get another shout out to @brickroadcoffee.bsky.social for donating water and excellent coffee to the #NoKings rally this morning in #Tempe #AZ ?

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Ever wonder about who makes Mineral Cup happen? Here’s the #MinCup25 volunteer team! www.mineralcup.org/2025/volunte... Want to join us? We’re always recruiting more volunteers!

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Volunteers — Mineral Cup

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Martin Hajovsky @martinhajovsky.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

The new Ore Cup will have entries of which Mineral Cup voters have mourned losses in the past, including copper! #MinCup25 #OreCup25

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Elysia Macht @elysiamacht.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Northern lights were flaring last night already. They are doing it again tonight. The Sun will (probably 👉👈) smite thee hard if you don't harken to its auroral message and vote 🌈🎆 Northern #Tugtupite FTW! #MinCup25 Jan 2025 📸s: yle.fi/a/74-20134442 Storm level aurora now: www.softservenews.com

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Komeat revontulet värjäsivät taivaan häkellyttävän kauniiksi – katso lukijoiden upeat kuvat

Ylen lukijat ikuistivat revontulia etenkin Länsi- ja Pohjois-Suomessa.

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Sam Bird 🏔️🍁🇨🇦 @sambir.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

I was all ready to cast my final vote of support for kyanite but that plan fell to pieces when I learned about spectacular tugtupite. Tenebrescent! Fluorescent! Phosphorescent! Bad luck kyanite, your innate coolness is compelling but is out-matched in this final round of #MinCup25.

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👻 Saavik ‘Spooky Season’ Ford 🎃 @saavikford.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Oi! If you’ve been ballot-stuffing #MinCup25: STOP IT! Can’t we please have this ONE NICE THING?!?

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Dots and Lines @dotsandlines.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

As much as I wanted calcite, hematite, or a copper mineral to get here, these two both deserve their spots. I may just end up campaigning for both—the only bad result for this match would be if we don't have fun and learn. #MinCup25 #MinCup

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

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Brendan O’Neill @permafrostee.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

We made the big leagues

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Joanna Scheffler @joscheff.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

True confession: I still dream of the pumpkin donuts from that little bakery in #Oberlin, OH, lo those many years ago when my #CollegeofWooster swim team went to a meet there...Especially this time of year :/

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Dots and Lines @dotsandlines.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Psst: if you like rocks, I want to make sure you know about #MinCup! We're talking about minerals over there, everything from science and history to sparkles and fun names.

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Dots and Lines @dotsandlines.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

When the sun fades, I fade Though a snowy sparkle stays When the sun's bright, I'm bright Sudden waking, warm as life #MinCup25 #tugtupite #MinPoem

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

#MinCup25 Round 2 Match 3: It's a heavyweight match between industrial powerhouses as soft #baryte competes against rusty red #hematite. Vote: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r2... Results: www.mineralcup.org/2025/results...

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Vote in Round 2 Match 3 — Mineral Cup

Click here to vote in Baryte vs Hematite Photo credits:

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Joanna Scheffler @joscheff.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

@banjoherder.bsky.social so I saw your #MinCup25 post, and since multiple members of my family are are banjo plinkers, I would like to know about the banjoherding

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Carter's Dad @johnmckendry.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

#MinCup25 finally has a horse race where your vote and mine can make a difference. #mannardite for me. Neither contestant has its own Wikipedia page, and the mindat.org pages now have a banner at the top telling people to go vote in MinCup25. I am happy that they get to play a game for a month.

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Mindat.org

Mindat.org is the world's leading website about minerals and where they come from.

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FrankenGardner @glacierpique.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Why is V so concentrated in crude oil and oil shales? Anoxic waters, H2S reduction, formation of porphyrin complexes, precipitation, clay adsorption, shale deposition, mineralization. Tiny, V-rich #Mannardite punches above its weight. #MinCup25 #Porphyrins

Prism of black Mannardite contrast with white matrix. Image from mindat’s website, copyright Alessio Becucci

Silver prism of Mannardite contrasts with white matrix. Image from mindat’s website, copyright Chinellato Matteo

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👻 Saavik ‘Spooky Season’ Ford 🎃 @saavikford.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

#Mannardite is the little goth rock who could! Jet black & found in the oldest terrestrial rocks, Hadean era crust! This is the last bout of Round 1 so step up to vote & be counted! #MinCup25

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Martin Hajovsky @martinhajovsky.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Don’t know how I’m going to vote here, but the name #Paddlewheelite makes me wonder if it was hastily made up as a mineral simply to get into #MinCup25 & lock down the “Cute name” vote! What’s next, kittypawite?? (And yes, I’m looking it up now & it’s actually pretty cool, but I said what I said!)

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a black and white drawing of a tugboat with smoke coming out of it

ALT: a black and white drawing of a tugboat with smoke coming out of it

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sgrd @selveste.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

This is our one and only chance to get a mineral first found and described in Norway on to the next round! Look, there's a stamp and everything: #Thortveitite #MinCup25

Norwegian stamp with image of dark thortveitite crystal in white matrix. Value 5 kroner 50 øre.

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

#MinCup25 Round 1 Match 5: Are you ready for beautiful utility as sparkling #Silver competes against hefty #Baryte? Vote: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r1... Results: www.mineralcup.org/2025/results...

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Vote in Round 1 Match 5 — Mineral Cup

Click here to vote in Silver vs Baryte Photo credit: Smithsonian Institution

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Martin Hajovsky @martinhajovsky.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

🎶 It’s beginning to look a lot like #MinCup2025 ⛏️ (Or is it #MinCup25 as I always get the hashtag wrong?)

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Joanna Scheffler @joscheff.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

@katharinehayhoe.com just read your weekly newsletter, thx! I know the "good news" bit may be increasingly challenging, at least for the US. Can you tell us where/if one will be able to access the original NCA reports?

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Joanna Scheffler @joscheff.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

I think it is quite unfortunate that @traderjoesunited.bsky.social doesn't mention a single item about the fabulous geology on this label. PS it's also very tasty chocolate!

Colorful layers of tilted rock in Peru make upside down "V" patterns because they are eroded. This looks like painting of a real landscape, but it may be a digital version of a real landscape.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 18/07/2025

President Trump’s proposal to eliminate federal funding for public broadcasters threatens scores of radio and TV stations across the U.S. Here is where the cuts threaten access to PBS and NPR.

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Where Congress’s Cuts Threaten Access to PBS and NPR

The loss of federal funding threatens scores of public TV and radio stations across the United States.

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Joanna Scheffler @joscheff.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Ok, so NSF is getting chopped, and @noaa.gov is being decimated, & the politicians in power hate science, especially climate science. Surely we can still use our logical brains to find a way to keep Mauna Loa Observatory functioning?

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

“Data collected by Mauna Loa from 1958 onward let us clearly see the evidence of climate change for the first time.” the US government plan to shutdown Mauna Loa observatory which has been tracking atmospheric CO₂ levels for 67 years.

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Mauna Loa Observatory captured the reality of climate change. The US plans to shut it down

Cutting data climate collection – as the Trump administration is now trying to do – is like breaking a thermometer to avoid knowing you’ve got a fever.

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Joanna Scheffler @joscheff.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Could someone please explain to me why educational and health care standards and rights should vary from state to state?

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Trump was golfing, Ted Cruz was partying in Greece, and the Mexican President was sending in help to the Texas flood victims. Put it on every. fucking. billboard.

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Joanna Scheffler @joscheff.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

I resent Wordlebot telling me my obvious skill was a lucky guess :) Wordle 1,451 2/6 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WordleBot Skill 83/99 Luck 72/99

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Karen Masters @karenlmasters.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

The President's budget proposal includes an overall 34% cut to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), and in that a 68.6% cut to Green Bank Observatory. My understanding is that that level of cut is likely to mean closure. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF... 🔭

A table: MAJOR FACILITIES FUNDING, BY PROJECT
(Dollars in Millions)
FY 2026 Budget Request to Congress
FY 2024
Current FY 2025 FY 2026
Plan (TBD) Request
Change over
FY 2024 Current Plan
Amount Percent
Operations and Maintenance of Major Facilities $1,065.73 $745.00
-$320.73 -30.1%
National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) 78.05 47.00
Biological Sciences $78.05 $47.00
-31.05 -39.8%
-$31.05 -39.8%
Academic Research Fleet
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) FFRDC National Geophysical Facility1
Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI)
U.S. Sub-seafloor Sampling (S3P)2
Geosciences
153.06 127.66 39.48 39.34 48.51
$408.05
92.00 77.00 39.00
8.00 10.00 $226.00
-61.06 -50.66 -0.48 -31.34 -38.51
-$182.05
-39.9% -39.7% -1.2% -79.7% -79.4% -44.6%
Large Hadron Collider (LHC) - ATLAS and CMS
Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL)
National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) FFRDC
NRAO O&M
Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) O&M Green Bank Observatory
National Solar Observatory (NSO) FFRDC
NSO O&M
Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST)
NSF's National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory FFRDC
NOIRLab O&M (Mid-Scale Observatories & Community Science and Data Center) GEMINI Observatory O&M
Vera C. Rubin Observatory O&M
Mathematical and Physical Sciences
20.50 48.00 38.57
107.90
43.59 54.76 9.55
27.67
6.24 21.43 66.12 23.68 24.73 17.71 $308.76
12.00 29.00 23.00 71.00
24.00 44.00 3.00
17.00
4.00 13.00 53.00 6.00 15.00 32.00 $205.00
-8.50 -19.00 -15.57 -36.90
-19.59 -10.76 -6.55
-10.67
-2.24
-8.43
-13.12
-17.68 -9.73 14.29 -$103.76
-41.5% -39.6% -40.4% -34.2%
-44.9% -19.6% -68.6%
-38.6%
-35.9% -39.3% -19.8% -74.7% -39.3% 80.7% -33.6%
Antarctic Facilities and Operations (AFO)
IceCube Neutrino Observatory (ICNO)
Office of Polar Programs
262.93 7.94 $270.87
263.00 4.00 $267.00
0.07 -3.94 -$3.87
0.0% -49.6% -1.4%
Major Research Facilities Construction Investments $266.38 $268.00
$1.62 0.6%
R&RA De…

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Academic Europe @academiceurope.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Job - Alert 📚 🌎 Postdoc position (f_m_x) ,,Combining Physics-Based Machine Learning and Global Sensitivity Analyses" Deadline: 2025-04-30 Location: Germany, Potsdam, Brandenburg www.academiceurope.com/job/?id=7359 #hiring #Postdoc #Geosciences #mathematics #geophysics #computerscience

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Academic Europe - Postdoc position (f_m_x) ,,Combining Physics-Based Machine Learning and Global Sensitivity Analyses

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Joanna Scheffler @joscheff.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

There are a lot of smart science folks on Bluesky. Maybe it's time to encourage tech savvy science folks to get together to put up some digital roadblocks to the Musk Doggie science research wrecking ball. #saveNOAA #SpreadRealScience

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For the Love of Missy @missybbbobtail.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

We are sobbing here. $250 Chewy Gift Card to his lucky adopter! 🚨 JOEY; 19 YEARS OLD & at the shelter. Let’s network & find him a HOME to live out his ✨ golden days/years by….. SHARING this post! He is an absolute doll!!! 🧡🙏🏻 Available for adoption at LCAS 🧡 www.loudoun.gov/4118/Animal-...

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Joanna Scheffler @joscheff.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

"I don't know anything about Project 2025" said Donald as he nominated the author

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Joanna Scheffler @joscheff.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

1/2 So I'm slowly recycling all these #StructuralGeology journals from our department (sad) when I realized the reason some of them were sticking together is because apparently in certain years they have plasticized covers. Oh @elsevierconnect.bsky.social, how could you?? Now I have

Plasticized covers on Structural Geology Journals

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Joanna Scheffler @joscheff.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

What if #Elon (or whatever he calls himself today) put a couple of his billions and supposed engineering prowess into developing efficient, affordable carbon capture? You know, something that could help everybody in addition to sending a few people to die on Mars?

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Joanna Scheffler @joscheff.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I need to experience Greenland before trump stripmines it and the icecap melts.

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Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Are there any Bryozoa experts here who would be willing to have a look at some cyphonautes photos? I’m having trouble IDing a few and want to know if there’s enough information in the pictures to do that. TIA! 🦑

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Joanna Scheffler @joscheff.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

What do you #culinary Bluesky folks think: is ginger the most versatile of seasonings? --I say it complements any flavor palate from sweet to spicy to savoury. --hmm maybe not basil pesto though...

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Joanna Scheffler @joscheff.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

We're going to drown in a sea of plastic.

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Erin E. Saupe @eesaupe.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Interested in pursuing a PhD in paleobiology and want to think more about extinction? Check out the below PhD project! Please get in contact if interested! earth.ox.ac.uk/disentanglin... Illustration by Victor O. Leshyk

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Joanna Scheffler @joscheff.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Anybody added up the net worth of kakistocrat trump's picks so far? Do Elon and Vivek count if they're in a currently non-existent agency?

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Rebecca Harrington @delsigbec.bsky.social · 04/06/2024

Exciting PhD opportunity in Experimental Petrology at the IGMG! Dive into advanced high-pressure experiments and cutting-edge analyses. Explore metal and sulfide melt mobility and its link to diamond formation. Contact Prof. Raúl Fonseca for more info! jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/2...

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PhD Position in Experimental Petrology at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany

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Rebecca Harrington @delsigbec.bsky.social · 14/09/2024

Are you looking for a PhD opportunity to study somewhat creepy forearc faults in N Chile? Check out this opportunity to come and work with us: jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/1...

jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de

Doctoral Researcher (m,f,x), 3 for years, 39.83 hours per week, TVL E13

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