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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Forty percent of American Nobel laureates this century in chemistry, medicine and physics have been immigrants, many arriving as students.

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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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Matt B @matttg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Chuck play calling is not helping anything either

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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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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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Matt B @matttg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The actual vent is not in OK! The lava just flowed east :)

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Matt B @matttg.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Nice, small world! It was something :)

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Matt B @matttg.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Nice to Goggin in that 3rd pic. I was in Wilson Hall, my first-year, so East quad was home.

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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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Matt B @matttg.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Ahh ok that’s what I thought- more recognizable perspective!

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Matt B @matttg.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Ugh… flown in and out of Nabesna a bunch..

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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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Matt B @matttg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I don’t remember. Likely so, it’s over $300 now. We support more locally also - help cover travel, plus other via our unit, the College, and grad school.

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Matt B @matttg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The organization was doing it back then also. Registration for working for sure.

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Matt B @matttg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Did they sign up for working- helping out? GSA will comp the registration.. and divisions will add onto that

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Matt B @matttg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

GSA also subsidizes students almost totally. Plus the recruitment area - like 30-40 schools, vs like 10 of the largest units at AGU who are just there exhibiting. I’m an AGU member and attend meetings- but GSA just does more for student attendees, esp. undergraduates.

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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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Matt B @matttg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

DC based vs Colorado explains some of it.

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Matt B @matttg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Because they actually support student attendance - financially, scientifically, you name it.

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Matt B @matttg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I’ve been living in 90-105 F during the day and 75-80 F at night, so anything cooler sounds great! Totally with you on those temps - that range is truly perfect (& why the greater Yellowstone region is my favorite area in the USA).

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Matt B @matttg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

AGU is so student-unfriendly vs GSA, and that does not even include the sheer number of attendees.

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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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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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Matt B @matttg.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

How thick is the tephra there?

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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

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Matt B @matttg.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Great idea! Thst would be a super fun class to teach also.

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Matt B @matttg.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Yup. It’s so frustrating having to push back re: enrollment numbers

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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

Those exist?! Excellent!

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