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Matt B

@matttg.bsky.social
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Cubs fan. 🌋 & magma, mineral resources, tectonics, wilderness, pawpaws, outdoor gear, 🏝⛰🏕, Rectal cancer survivor. Views and opinions expressed are mine. #geology #earthscience #geoscience ⚒️

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The Geological Society of America (GSA) @geosociety.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Today, we're celebrating International Geodiversity Day: geodiversityday.org And next week, we gather in Denver, Colorado, for #GSAConnects2026 to experience some of the most geodiverse landscapes in the world first hand. Join us in Denver: connects.geosociety.org
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authodizer @doktrock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Artist and Scientist Susie J Lee's Biography pieces present people's lives as drill cores through geologic layers. ⚒️ Core Sampling: a Biography of Jake; the other two have the same title, but different names. 2013. Metal oxide, clay, minerals, steel, and mixed media. Fabrication: Jared Bender.
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Chris Widga @widga.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Although I can't be with those of you who are out in the rain advocating for your museum today...I thought I might be a good idea to post some Academy of Natural Sciences fossils to keep you warm and dry on the inside. @savetheacademy.bsky.social
An ammonite scultpure outside the side entrance of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia.
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Matt B @matttg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Doctor Apatite @doctorapatite.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I had an idea for a predatory journal that publishes reviews of paywalled articles with the sole purpose of freeing the trapped data.
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Clay Bennett @claybennett.bsky.social won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, and I think he should earn another for this.
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Chicago Cubs @cubsbot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
As you were, gentlemen.
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DL Whitney @sorosilicate.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Subducted chert with perfect little #garnets scattered in a sea of #quartz, as seen under cross polarized and plane polarized light; FOV ~ 1.5 mm. Laytonville, California US. Garnet has previously won #MineralCup and maybe 2026 is finally the year for #quartz! #MinCup26
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Shoji Nishimoto / 西本昌司 @nishimoto.rocks · 17/09/2026
Columnar joints of andesite that collapsed due to the Noto Peninsula Earthquake.
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Do you know what makes for good undergrad research? SMALL CLASS SIZES WITH A LOW STUDENT TO FACULTY RATIO AND AN INSTITUTIONAL CULTURE SUPPORTING AND REWARDING GOOD MENTORING OF UNDERGRADS.
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 16/09/2026
the hardest thing for the politician-bureaucrats to understand -- but which NSF staff *absolutely do* understand and always have -- is that you actually make scientific progress by giving young people money and promising not to bother them
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A recurrent theme in this excellent story about China’s progress is that people there regard Trump as essential to their success, including his ability to drive scientific talent from the US www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
In Beijing, a think tank at Renmin University recently published an assessment titled
"Thank Trump," which wryly hailed his efforts to hasten the "twilight of an empire," by undermining America's alliances, civil service, scientific institutions, and democratic credibility. In the past two years, the international approval rating of the U.S. has dropped nearly forty points, according to a worldwide survey by the Alliance of Democracies; in multiple polls, China now rates higher than the U.S.
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Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Did you know calcite can look like this? Needle-fiber calcite, pedogenic calcite thought to form in association with fungal hyphae, though the hyphae are presumably long gone in these cases. These are in Bk or BCk horizons of the buried Brady Soil. Dotted lines are scale bars, labeled.
Needle fiber calcite, in the form of masses of small rods bridging between silt to very fine sand grains in a scanning electron microscope image.Close up of some relatively short rods of needle-fiber calcite, showing they form fused pairs. SEM image.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/09/2026
mackenzie scott really seems like the only billionaire to figure out that you can be a literal hero to millions with a relative pittance
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Matt B @matttg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
More than any Chronicle of Higher Education profile of a professor who doesn't like academia, I think this interview is the one I'd recommend to understand where higher education is at in the United States www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
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Architect of Ohio Higher Ed Overhaul on Shared Governance: Garbage
Jerry Cirino, former chair of the Senate Workforce and Higher Education Committee, successfully passed a sweeping, controversial law in his state. He’s an example of state lawmakers getting more invol...
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Jaime Palter @jaimepalter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🌊 I searched the long version of NSF’s letter on “a New Golden Age of Science.“ There is no mention of any of the following words: planet, Earth, ocean, atmosphere, climate, weather, or the stem “geo.”
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Le Ca-ghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
My mentor and dear friend, Bill Haneberg, died unexpectedly yesterday. He was a geologist, a landslide expert, a fierce champion of diversity, equity and inclusion, a transdisciplinary thinker, and when he lived in Seattle, he won REI's campfire cooking competition with a one-pot mushroom risotto.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This Labor Day (and all other days): Thank the workers who serve you. Appreciate the workers who care for you. Respect the workers who pick up your trash. Salute the workers who get you your mail. Honor the workers who teach your children. Pay all workers a living wage.
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J. Brian Balta @drjbbalta.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
When you synthesize monazite with specific cations in a lab, you can make quite the rainbow. Here are La, Nd, Gd, and Yb monazites (technically xenotime for Yb, almost the same structure but different enough that it has its own name). Nd was always my favorite. #mincup26 #mincup #monazite
A sequence of synthetic monazites, each crystal made in a lab from flux growth methods. In order, La, Nd, Gd, and Yb monazites (last is technically xenotime). Two crystals of Nd monazite, tip of tweezers for scale.Multiple crystals of La-monazite, tweezers for scale.
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Erika Anderson @andersonmineral.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I present to you on this Mineral Monday a very fine crystal of monazite, one of today’s Mineral Cup challengers. This one is from Joaquim Felício, Brazil. #MineralMonday #GeoscienceBluesky #MinCup26 ⚒️🧪
Brown crystal of monazite in a tray lined by white foam. At the Canadian Museum of Nature.
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Lil Boo-kens 👻 @paleosol.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
FYI: If you vote for quartz in #MinCup24, it's an admission that your favorite ice cream flavor is vanilla and you think salt is "spicy". (No offense to my friends in Minnesota)
Current standings for MinCup Round 1 Match 11. Quartz is edging out Mercury 399-186, for some bizarre and probably very basic reason.
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Int Assoc for Geoscience Diversity (the IAGD) @accessiblegeo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The IAGD is now accepting applications for our Student Pathways Scholarship for the Fall 2026 cycle with a deadline of October 1. The one-time awards of $750 are meant to support students with disabilities studying any geoscience discipline. Learn more and apply at tinyurl.com/yckdrnpk
A graphic featuring stylized stick figures walking on a red line. Most use mobility aids including crutches, a wheelchair, a walking stick, and a guide dog. One is examining a rock through a magnifying glass. There's an IAGD hand lens logo and a QR code. The text reads:

Spring 2026 Student Pathways Scholarship
Supporting undergraduate and graduate students with disabilities in the geosciences
Two scholarships of $750 each will be awarded
Deadline: October 1
Questions?
Student contacts
Katelyn Frizzell, Arizona State University, krfrizze@asu.edu
Alex Bearden, University of California Berkeley, alex_bearden@berkeley.edu
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Matt B @matttg.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
More reason to be totally fine with small classes vs “efficient” lecture halls filled to the brim 🤷‍♂️
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The national energy efficiency appliance standards, and the comparable #water efficiency standards, have saved consumers billions of $$, huge amounts of #energy, reduced #greenhousegas emissions, & reduced uncertainty for appliances makers. Trump would end them. www.utilitydive.com/news/doe-pro...
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DOE wants to ‘permanently end’ appliance efficiency requirements
A proposed rule would create an “obstacle course of restrictions” bogging down the Department of Energy’s appliance efficiency program, a consumer advocate said.
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GeophotoMarli @marlimiller.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Preparing an Earth Sci or Geog course for fall? Please check out geologypics.com. There, find >5500 searchable captioned photos for free download to promote good instruction. Just uploaded 60 new photos I shot from this year-- coastal to desert, rocks to landforms. Please share! #teaching #geology
six colorful Earth Science photos: melange, cross-bedding, differential erosion, soft-sediment deformation, desert varnish, Oregon Coast
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Matt B @matttg.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
WTF?!? 🧪⚒️
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Steven J. Gibbons @stevenjgibbons.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
In the continuing onslaught of in-your-face AI, it is now almost impossible to open a scientific paper without an AI-summary coming up. Your first instinct may be “Ah that is useful”, but is it really close to the truth or what the author intended? (contd. - full "rant" on lnkd.in/p/euwbwNgY)
Snapshot of how the article “Improvements to Seismic Monitoring of the European Arctic Using Three-Component Array Processing at SPITS“ by S. J. Gibbons et al. (https://doi.org/10.1785/0120110109) appears on line with an AI-generated summary. The author has highlighted each of the highlights listed by the AI with criticism to how useful it is, even to the point of distracting from the true key points.
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Arvind Ravikumar @arvindpawan1.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
A geologist and a systems engineer walk in to a bar... ...and start arguing about whether we can actually pump enough CO2 underground to hit net zero. That's more or less how this paper got started with @hdaigle.bsky.social. Read on to find more: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
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Can we sequester carbon fast enough? growing disconnect between models and reality
Can we sequester carbon fast enough? growing disconnect between models and reality, Daigle, Hugh, Ravikumar, Arvind P
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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
But then, the formulas typically were (metal oxides)(silica and oxygen)(carbonate and other stuff). The physicist had read this to mean that the metal oxides were present as metal oxides and therefore would be reactive with CO2. So he was talking about silicates, even if he didn't know it. 5/
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Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
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Documentary celebrating Miami University’s ‘Cradle of Coaches’ coming to Peacock
Some college football programs are known as Linebacker U or Wide Receiver U for consistently producing great players at those positions. When it comes to Miami University RedHawks football, the program is best known for the people who roam the sidelines. Hence, the “Cradle of Coaches” nickname. That nickname and the school’s decorated history of…
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 23/07/2026
9. By supporting universities, they support the human capital development that flows into the commercial sector and generates the growth and innovation that has been a massive boon for US commerce. This plan undercuts that role, with disastrous consequences that will ricochet for years to come.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/07/2026
a dorito optimized for fiber on the other hand would be a massively important public health intervention
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Wai Allen, PhD @nativesedhead.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
After Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Monuments being slashed, public comments are now open on whether the buffer around Chaco Canyon will also be slashed (>300k acres) until July 29. Please submit a public comment thru NEPA Register (click participate now): eplanning.blm.gov/Project-Home...
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BLM Seeks Input on Proposed Withdrawal Revocation Near Chaco Culture National Historical Park | Bureau of Land Management
The BLM is seeking public comments on an environmental assessment for the proposed revocation of Public Land Order No. 7923 affecting public lands surrounding Chaco Culture National Historical Park in...
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Matt B @matttg.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
18 months? lol, not if any kind of detailed, field-based, research is involved
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/07/2026
Wrigley vibes were immaculate tonight for Twins fans
pic of Twins W
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏
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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Okay, nvm - I'm deleting my original post (about China), because this swerved into a different direction, which honestly, I should have expected. Things to do right now: 1. Check your voter registration at iwillvote.com. 2. Text five friends/family to do the same tonight.
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Be a voter. Find everything you need to vote in your state’s next election.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
In all seriousness, Trump and Republicans are setting the stage right now to attack our democracy, steal our elections, and violently crush any dissent. Wake up, America.
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Matt B @matttg.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Ok very cool. 🤷‍♂️⚒️🧪
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Most of the federal agency science budgets goes into the salaries of students and trainees, and the decision to take that money and instead give it to industry and already rich venture capitalists is fundamentally a decision to have many fewer scientists and do far less science in the future.
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Matt B @matttg.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
My favorite outcrop, finally back, after 19 yrs. Austurhorn intrusive complex. #magmamingling
Austurhorn intrusive complex - mingling between mafic & felsic, magmas Austurhorn intrusive complex - mingling between mafic & felsic, magmas Austurhorn intrusive complex - mingling between mafic & felsic, magmas Austurhorn intrusive complex - mingling between mafic & felsic, magmas
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Matt B @matttg.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Which direction did the glacier retreat? ⚒️🧪
Glacial striations in basalt Glacial grooves in basalt, with u-shaped valley & fjord in the background
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Matt B @matttg.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
The OG 🧪⚒️ (Original Geysir)
Geysir
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Mary Feeney @mkfeeney.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
They deeply understand science & the value of US public investments in science. They don't believe in public goods and investing in shared public value for all. They see how much we spend on science and want it for themselves - and don't care if that hurts others (produces less science/scientists)
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Paul Harnik @paulharnik.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
We are pleased to announce that the Dept of Earth & Environmental Geosciences @colgate.edu is hiring a tenure-stream asst professor in paleoclimate! For additional info regarding the position & to apply: apply.interfolio.com/188708 . Please share broadly & contact us with your questions. Thank you!
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Matt B @matttg.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
A whole lot of liberal arts & sciences on this list! 👍🧪⚒️
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