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Mara Cox

@maracox.bsky.social
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(They/Them) Determined geology student seeking the next adventure. Desperate to explore, forced to study. Happiest barefoot in mud, listening to folk music, with good books, good vibes. and no sense of time. "Your focus determines your reality"

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Mara Cox @maracox.bsky.social · 4h
This will be the second time I've flown with chemo meds and third time with needles. I hope, as a geo professor one day, the knowledge I'm gaining traveling whole sick becomes useful for students.
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Mara Cox @maracox.bsky.social · 5h
When I was really little I wanted to be a space ship because astronauts could not touch space. Then I wanted to be a lawyer. I didn't know what they did but someone once told me they make a lot of money.
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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
More ripples...
Large diagonal ripples casting shadows on the beach at golden hour with blue sky & a green hillside sloping down into the sea. Ripples zigzagging straight ahead along a beach with a very odd shaped rock outcrop in the diatance
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Lisounours @lise-l.bsky.social · 16h
Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière
Image de deux cerfs allongés devant des rouleaux de foin
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Mara Cox @maracox.bsky.social · 9h
I think a lot of mean people are that way because they've never been able to see something beyond what they know. This isn't going into the fact that finances and health can be limiting factors. Field courses can navigate that those challenges in a way an individual may not know how to.
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Mara Cox @maracox.bsky.social · 9h
16% of Americans have never left their home state and 40% have never left the US. This is one reason I want to teach at a community college. I had done little traveling even out of VA prior to CC. I learned travel is not only not scary, but important. Everyone deserves the chance to travel.
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Mara Cox @maracox.bsky.social · 10h
Those important pre trip tasks, laundry, packing, pinking. Probably should like zoom with people and practice my talk, but this is more fun.
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Mara Cox @maracox.bsky.social · 11h
That could be a fun series of drawings - fossils as food. A cinnamon bun ammonite, Cheerio crinoid stem with a crown made of bacon.
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Mark Tingay @mudvolcanoguy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
⚒️🧪 The Wandan mud volcano in southern Taiwan had a minor eruption starting around 3am today at vents near the mud volcano temple. It last erupted in July 2026 and has had numerous small eruptions in the last few years. Video courtesy of my friend 張寶惠, the temple caretaker.
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Mara Cox @maracox.bsky.social · 12h
Alaska has lumbar jack competitions? I think I need to go buy a plane ticket real quick.
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Mara Cox @maracox.bsky.social · 18h
Had a very rough night. Just got to power this conference and then I'm done.
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Mara Cox @maracox.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Kinda swell to not be using the cane much anymore. Pretty intensive PT and now there are times that it's more of a hindrance than a help.
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Mara Cox @maracox.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I am a penguin with cookies watching Emperor's New Groove. Done writing, editing, fact checking, changing, citing, numbering figures. Happy little penguin.
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Mara Cox @maracox.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Mara Cox @maracox.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
My friend Kira had cookies delivered to celebrate thesis completion!
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Mara Cox @maracox.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Dead behind the eyes mood of these last weeks feeling like an absolute idiot, correcting chunks of my thesis, failing at figure making, and finally submitting a thesisish I guess. I thought this would feel a lot more jubiliant, but all I can think of is wondering if I should even be a geo student.
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Mara Cox @maracox.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Final written thesis submitted.
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Mara Cox @maracox.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Practicing my GSA talk over and and over. Happy to take any volunteer audience. So nervous that chemo brain is just going to forget everything half way through.
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Mara Cox @maracox.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
ADHD his hard this morning. Halfway through getting dressed I remembered coffee. My poor roommate walks out of her room to find me in jeans and and a bra, one sock, and texting while making coffee. "No meds yet?" "Yuuuuuuuup"
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Mara Cox @maracox.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Apparently lots of people think a guy quoting Nietzsche on the first date is a red flag. I just thought it was neat that he knew things I didn't. It seemed like a learning opportunity. Intelligence is sexy but this may have been a misfire. Turns out he knew Nietzsche, but never learned Hume-ility.
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🎃 Spooky Shoshana 🎃 @shoshana.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Miss Taken sounds like the head of a polycule
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Mara Cox @maracox.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
My roommate is making a desert from every country. Tonight is Shwe yin aye from Myanmar.
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Mara Cox @maracox.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
When I was TAing intro, we had five Jakes. On the midterm four didn't put last names. Anyone who didn't have their exam handed back had to go to office hours. The Jakes were shamed.
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Mara Cox @maracox.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I think I'm just going to be one of those people that's married to their job. I'm okay with that. Rocks seem significantly safer than dating!
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Mara Cox @maracox.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Told a guy that I was sorry but I realized I'm not in a space to date right now while I navigate health issues. We went on two dates. I got called many colorful words. DODGED. A. BULLET.
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Mara Cox @maracox.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Livin' on the edge today going out without a cane. Not fast but still going. You win some, you lose some.
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Mara Cox @maracox.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It's wild to remember playing beer pong with the ball in a dozen people's hands, rolling across the dirty floors, and then landing in a cup of beer which we would proceed to drink. Or doing bottle shots and keg stands. I wonder how the pandemic changed partying.
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Mara Cox @maracox.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Oh that's lovely! Was there a zoom recording?
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Mara Cox @maracox.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Good Lord our household is falling apart. I've been miserably sick all day and my roommate got six stitches after losing a battle with a butter knife.
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Mara Cox @maracox.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Heard a red tailed hawk from my bedroom. I couldn't remember what bird that was and had to Google "Sound used for eagles"
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Mara Cox @maracox.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Feeling like I need to prove I deserve to be at this academic point and am not dumb while being so tired that my body hurts is just a lot.
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Mara Cox @maracox.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"If/when you have cancer again you should start a registry. If you get really sick again (please don't) and people want to get you things to help But theyre all sending dry beans again, make like a wedding registry" Not a bad idea. So many dried beans...
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Mara Cox @maracox.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Just one of those days where you're so tired you forget how detrital zircons work. 😵‍💫
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Mara Cox @maracox.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
yup, that's what I'm figuring out. Admittedly, it's nice to have it open sometimes since I am new here and I have met quite a few people because they wander in to say hello!
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Mara Cox @maracox.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Despite deferring, these are a few things I have learned about grad school: 1) There is a secret cabinet of good snacks and coffee that undergrads can't get into. Mwahaha 2) Working with my office door open is only a good idea if I want to make friends. I love people but it's distracting!
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Ruth Siddall @pavementgeology.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Today is #InternationalGeodiversityDay and the theme this year is Geology on Your Doorstep. Just the opportunity to submit a a building stone location to London Pavement Geology! It’s not just London, you can submit a geosites anywhere in the UK www.londonpavementgeology.co.uk/submit-a-loc...
Text reads: INTERNATIONAL GEODIVERSITY DAY 2026: GEODIVERSITY ON OUR DOORSTEP + LONDON PAVEMENT GEOLOGY CHALLENGE!Text reads: INTERNATIONAL GEODIVERSITY DAY 2026 - GEODIVERSITY ON OUR DOORSTEP
Submit a local stone building to our website
1. Take photos of the building and a close up of the stone (~30 × 30 cm field of view)
2. Fill in the form on our website at 'Submit a Location' (www.londonpavementgeology.co.uk/submit-a-location/) and upload your photos. Include the location and postcode but you can leave other fields blank.
3. Click submit and we'll let you know when your location is live!
LONDON PAVEMENT GEOLOGYA photomontage showing different types of buildings and different types of stones used in uk buildings. They are a stately home, a marble tombstone, a Hindu temple, a London pub, a granite paving stone, a war memorial, a shop front, a church and a cafe.
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Mara Cox @maracox.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'm talking to a guy with a degree in philosophy who works as a bar tender. Waking up to a text sent at three AM reading “One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star" is disorienting before coffee but good. Dating someone smarter than you seems like a good rule!
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 06/10/2026
Pennsylvania has more than 1,000 measles cases this year, making it the largest state outbreak in decades.
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Pennsylvania's measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the US
Pennsylvania has more than 1,000 measles cases this year, making it the largest state outbreak in decades.
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: on the set of the Jerry Springer show, a man sits in a chair. Jerry signals off-stage and says, “we have with us: your ancestor who crawled out of the ocean 375 million years ago!” Panel 2: the live studio audience is booing. Panel 3: security attempts to break up a fight between the man on stage, and his ancestor, a tiktaalik.
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Muppet GIF of the Day @gifs-of-puppets.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Today's #TheMuppetShow GIF of the Day is...
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Mara Cox @maracox.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A week before a conference is a good time to decide to get imposter syndrome?
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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Genuinely concerned about what's happening to the space-time continuum in this toilet.
A toilet door with a sign saying "Temporally Out Of Order"
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Mara Cox @maracox.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A friendly little ammonite?
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
DROP. Strong shaking can knock you off your feet. Get down before it knocks you down. COVER. Get under a sturdy table or desk and protect your head and neck. HOLD ON. Your cover can move during strong shaking, so move with it.
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Mara Cox @maracox.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Strawberry tea, strawberry sandwich, and capybara with the roomie!
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Mara Cox @maracox.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Is October the beginning of the Holiday season? Can I put up Christmas decorations?
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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 04/10/2026
Today in, "Correlation does not necessarily imply causation."
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Mara Cox @maracox.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I genuinely believe that Google Earth is part of what kept me alive. I'd scan around until I found something interesting and start researching it and adding things to my bucket list.
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Mara Cox @maracox.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Tonight at dinner one of my roommates asked about my cancer experience. Explaining that is hard. There were a lot of: "Wait. Why would you do that?!" and "The school let you do that?!" The hardest part to explain is the "I was supposed to die but I'm stubborn." part. I have more rocks to see.
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Mara Cox @maracox.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It is still pretty neat to think about how much I've learned despite everything.
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