Michael Anenburg @manenbu.bsky.social · 01/08/2026And it's out! doi.org/10.1029/2026...doi.orgOxygen Fugacity Buffers and an Interactive CalculatorOxygen fugacity buffers are calculated using inconsistent calibrations We present several methods to calculate oxygen fugacity buffer curves An online interactive calculator is described with fu... 131
Reposted by Michael AnenburgCallan Bentley @callanbentley.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Considering this graphic from the Wang et al. (2019) paper on exhumation of eclogites. [ source agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... ] I have some critique. ⚒️ 5111
Michael Anenburg @manenbu.bsky.social · 28/04/2026@anu-rses.bsky.social after sunset @ouranu.bsky.social 030
Michael Anenburg @manenbu.bsky.social · 21/03/2026What happened to Mike Morrison's "Better Poster"? I used to see this design occasionally several years ago, but in recent conferences it's back to 99% "wall of text" style. Did we forget about this amazing thing? 220
Michael Anenburg @manenbu.bsky.social · 15/03/2026The Guardian is indistinguishable from Nazi propaganda these days. Nothing that we didn’t already know, but this is next level. 041
Michael Anenburg @manenbu.bsky.social · 15/02/2026I'm writing a paper on oxygen fugacity and it has a figure that looks like this. I apologise in advance. Signed, Michael Anenburg—an oxygen fugacicist. 0100
Michael Anenburg @manenbu.bsky.social · 15/12/2025The amount of antisemitism I’m seeing here, even from fellow earth scientists I have interacted with quite a lot in the old Twitter days, is disappointing. 140
Michael Anenburg @manenbu.bsky.social · 07/11/2025How do you get copper in post-subduction porphyry deposits? You flush ancient sulfide cumulates with deeper oxidised magmas! New paper out now with Shiwei Wang from Hefei UoT as lead author: www.nature.com/articles/s43... 0122
Reposted by Michael AnenburgRobert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 31/10/2025No matter how far you zoom in it's all sharp corners. Any finite stretch along the x-axis becomes a terrible mouth lined with infinite teeth. Every pointed sliver opens up into a thousand hungry little razors. Mathematicians were aghast. (5/n) 1233
Reposted by Michael AnenburgMike Prior-Jones @drmikepj.bsky.social · 29/10/2025And he then *asked himself a question* which he then answered for a further 3-4 minutes before finally getting off the stage. I can't even remember what the talk was about. What an ass. 171
Reposted by Michael AnenburgMark Baxter 🏳️🌈🧂 @markgbaxter.bsky.social · 08/08/2024from my slides about the grant writing process lol 2308
Michael Anenburg @manenbu.bsky.social · 02/09/2025We're hiring Three year postdoc on geochemistry and petrology of ore-forming systems. jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/researc...jobs.anu.edu.auResearch Fellow - Canberra / ACT, ACT, AustraliaClassification: Academic Level B Salary package: $118,632 - $134,507 per annum plus 17% superannuation Terms: Full time, Fixed term (up to 3 years) The Position This postdoc will explore the geochemic... 01110
Michael Anenburg @manenbu.bsky.social · 31/08/2025Thortveitite for me, thank you very much #MinCup25 030
Reposted by Michael AnenburgMineralogical Society of America @mineralsocamerica.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Mineral Monday: Oxygen fugacity buffer calculator by Michael Anenburg Michael Anenburg has developed a graphical oxygen fugacity buffer calculator, available at fo2.rses.anu.edu.au/fo2app/ #MSACommunications #MineralMonday #mineralogy #oxygenfugacity 041
Michael Anenburg @manenbu.bsky.social · 05/08/2025New paper: we discovered a new way for magmas to crystallise (!), and it also made one of the largest known carbonatite REE deposits. Out now in Nature Communications: doi.org/10.1038/s414... #geology @scienceanu.bsky.social 45318
Michael Anenburg @manenbu.bsky.social · 24/07/2025#ThinSectionThursday qeltite marked in pink, together with some gehlenite, wollastonite, nagelschmidtite, magnetite, and kalsilite. What is qeltite? Good question! See link in reply for the story. 2216
Michael Anenburg @manenbu.bsky.social · 23/07/2025We tried to measure an apatite composition using many different methods and failed miserably, so we wrote a paper about it. Available at the Journal of Materials Chemistry B: doi.org/10.1039/D5TB...doi.orgSilica substituted carbonate apatite: synthesis and analytical challengesWe use a high temperature experiment to demonstrate a coupled substitution mechanism for carbonate and silica in apatite, namely 2PO3−4 → SiO4−4 + CO2−3, with carbonate substituting for phosphate (typ... 020
Reposted by Michael AnenburgARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 09/07/2025🚨 #IndustryFellowships #IE25 announcement: ❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Early Career Industry Fellowships 2025❗️ See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/Download/… /bot 142
Reposted by Michael AnenburgRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 09/07/2025Geology Murder xkcd.com/3112/ 505729870
Michael Anenburg @manenbu.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Close to home, this one is literally five minutes away from my parents house…😬 110
Michael Anenburg @manenbu.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Pro writing tip: When proof-reading a paper before submission or revision, change the font and print it out on paper. Trust me, you will find so many mistakes you had no idea were there, even though you've read the thing a million times on your computer screen. 070
Michael Anenburg @manenbu.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Got a paper accepted, they asked for a graphical abstract. We made one! 2190
Michael Anenburg @manenbu.bsky.social · 19/06/2025#ThinSectionThursday cathodoluminescence of fluorapatite and REE mineralisation from Nolans Bore, Australia. Other than being spectacular eye candy, this is very informative and tells quite a lot about the ore. Yay science! Image taken at CSIRO Microbeam Lab. @scienceanu.bsky.social 083
Michael Anenburg @manenbu.bsky.social · 05/06/2025#ThinSectionThursday Accidental platinum crystals, dissolved by calcium chloride flux from a platinum crucible and deposited on the MgO plate it was standing on 090
Michael Anenburg @manenbu.bsky.social · 24/05/2025My kind of science: They found some forgotten proactinium in a back shelf, tried to make something out of it, got something different instead, and published this in Science Advances lol doi.org/10.1126/scia... 120
Michael Anenburg @manenbu.bsky.social · 11/05/2025#ThinSectionThursday This isn't outer space—this is a reflected light image of silicate glass at ×100 magnification with immersion oil. Bright dots are nanonuggets of mostly silver, but also other elements such as platinum, palladium, and bismuth. Their colour correlates with crystal size. 1162
Michael Anenburg @manenbu.bsky.social · 02/05/2025#ThinSectionThursday Exsolution and alteration of Fe-Ti-Mn oxides from a weathering horizon of carbonatite in Western Australia 0131
Michael Anenburg @manenbu.bsky.social · 26/04/2025#ThinSectionThursday Experimental synthesis of REE-apatite and britholite in silicate glass by an Honours student here at @scienceanu.bsky.social. Apatite is bright pink, glass is mildly pink, and britholite is almost not luminescent at all. 160
Michael Anenburg @manenbu.bsky.social · 19/04/2025Plutonic and (sub)volcanic rocks make excellent footpaths @pavementgeology.bsky.social 0224
Michael Anenburg @manenbu.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Google Scholar congratulated me for 1000(+1) citations 🎉🥳 290
Reposted by Michael AnenburgDr Adam Jeffery @agpaitic-adam.bsky.social · 10/04/2025A nice schist with muscovite, kyanite/sillimanite, chlorite, and twinned plagioclase. #thinsectionthursday #geology #science #minerals #rocks 17319
Michael Anenburg @manenbu.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Please enjoy this 15 kg single crystal of hexagonal apatite 3373
Michael Anenburg @manenbu.bsky.social · 20/03/2025fO2 calculator app, now with geotherms! #Geology fo2.rses.anu.edu.au/fo2app/ 0131
Michael Anenburg @manenbu.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Addressing reviewer comments during manuscript revision 2220
Michael Anenburg @manenbu.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Not a pleasant thing to see on my ride to work today… 210