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Joanna Scheffler

@joscheff.bsky.social

180 followers 450 following 92 posts

Geologist, educator, parent to 2 outstanding humans, often perplexed. Folks who say "Dumb as a rock" should take a geo class to learn to speak rock.

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Joanna Scheffler @joscheff.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Danf it! If only I'd seen this BEFORE I voted! Not the same brewery that makes this one?

Japanese with "Jurassic", Japanese writing (unknown to me), and a simple cartoon of a T-Rex looking dinosur on the labe)

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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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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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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 · 12/11/2024

Therapy pumpkin spice croissant this morning from #ButteredUpBakery in W. Mesa, AZ

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

The equivalent these days is over-the-top Neo-Versailles fake gilt

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Joanna Scheffler @joscheff.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

This matchup is separated by a much smaller unit than the giant spodumene crystal from the Etta Pegmatite in the Black mining Hills of South Dakota. Went here in field camp (about the time of the linked photo haha) so voting spod for sentimental reasons... USGS/Dakota Matrix Minerals photo ~1890

42 foot long spodumene crystal Etta Mine SD. Three miners are standing below the horizontal in- place crystal. USGS Picture taken circa ?1890 . Courtesy of Dakota Matrix Minerals

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Joanna Scheffler @joscheff.bsky.social · 17/08/2024

Haha only for the last 40 yeats or so, but I justify it by being at least peripherally employed as a geologist for all that time. Not that that matters, once a geologist, forever a geologist! PS pardon the crude photo, this is the kind of thing my family now do for scale

Young man using crude hand gesture for scale at Great Sand Dunes

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Joanna Scheffler @joscheff.bsky.social · 30/07/2024

Despite a few years of being a (not very good) gymnast and many more years of watching the fancy gymnasts, I have only now realized all still rings routines are CGI, because physics doesn't allow that stuff

Chinese Olympic Gymnast executing a planche on still rings, in which his body is hovering in a horizontal position above the rings and which ought to be physically impossible for humans

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Joanna Scheffler @joscheff.bsky.social · 22/01/2024

Is this the correct food to put in the freezer bag?

Smug black cat parked in a yellow Trader Joe's freezer bag.

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Joanna Scheffler @joscheff.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

Good geologist's kitty, protecting her felsic volcanic breccia

Fierce domestic tortoiseshell cat guards a small boulder of rhyolite from the Superstition Mountains

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Joanna Scheffler @joscheff.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

Cheers, zircon buddy!

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Joanna Scheffler @joscheff.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

Young sparkly wine and a gneiss old rock from the Beartooth Mts, MT to celebrate geochronology boss #zircon, whom we thank for allowing us to find rocks that are billions of years old ♥️ #MinCup23

A glass of pinkish (zircon-colored) prosecco beside a 3 billion year old gneissic granite from Montana

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Joanna Scheffler @joscheff.bsky.social · 23/09/2023

I have to say I do have a soft spot for #kyanite. It's a harder soft spot depending on which direction of my sentiments is being tested. (image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)

Lovely blue elongate prism of kyanite with muscovite or sericite mica

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Joanna Scheffler @joscheff.bsky.social · 24/08/2023

Why my new edition geo101 lab manual key won't be filled out this semester

Surly tortoiseshell cat is lying on geology instructor's lab manual

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Joanna Scheffler @joscheff.bsky.social · 14/08/2023

New polar research collaborator in the family?

Cat is looking at information on polar reesearch collaborations while sitting on a laptop keyboard. Furry geologist?

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