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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

#MinCup26 Round 1 Match 16 It's a pair of industrially-vital minerals for the final match of the first round as tin ore #Cassiterite is up against elemental carbon #Graphite. VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

Split photo of cassiterite crystals, silvery to shiny black, in shapes similar to faceted gemstones and a flat, hexagonal graphite crystal jutting up, dark grey with a greasy shine.

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Cas✨// Snap @snapcracklepoppies.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

#MinCup26 Round 1 Match 14 Gotta go with the amphibole group in honor of one of my fav professors from uni; I’m pretty sure he actually used Riebeckite’s chemical composition to trip us up on a test once 😂 Team Na2(Fe2+3Fe3+2)Si8O22(OH)2 for Dr. G ⚒️

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Nick Barber 🌋 @volcannick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I will always be ride or die for my favorite inosilicate family, the ever perplexing amphibole group! The utility of #riebeckite in curling only adds to the alure. Vote riebeckite!! #MinCup26 ⚒️🌋

Sample box with pencil for scale. Label reads “riebeckite.” Two dark great minerals visible. One in back injected with quartz veins, and showing distinctive amphibole cleavage

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Int Assoc for Geoscience Diversity (the IAGD) @accessiblegeo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Just about halfway to this deadline!

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squawky.bsky.social @squawky.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Used to be one award, then added the smaller ones - is just simpler to have several at the same amount. Is getting pretty competitive b/c more students need them. Hoping we can boost planetary at section meetings so there's a more affordable option, but not optimistic.

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squawky.bsky.social @squawky.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

PGD has given 4-5 travel awards of $500 per year (last few years), we ask students who get them to work the booth. Know it's not enough to cover a day at the meeting, but we elected to give less $$ to more students vs. more $$ to only one or two. Wish we could do more.

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squawky.bsky.social @squawky.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Came to read about #pyrrhotite because "bad for concrete" is important for us here in CT (lots of local research). Voting for #pyrrhotite because black smokers, and because it is found in Martian meteorites and may help us in interpreting the magnetic signatures in the ancient Martian crust.

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The Geological Society of America (GSA) @geosociety.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Congress and the president have temporarily blocked OMB’s proposed overhaul of the Uniform Guidance through 11 December. GSA joined 105+ organizations urging action. This is a meaningful step forward—but the work isn’t done. Read the coalition letter: geosociety.co/stop-OMB

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This scraper account posts other people’s stuff without credit. They grudgingly post a separate attribution after the fact, if enough people call them out. Any time an account says “dm me if you own the original,” just put them on the block list. Don’t let these accounts get a foothold here.

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squawky.bsky.social @squawky.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

One of my first “textbooks” from grad school. Still on my shelf as a valuable reference. Sigh.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

If you haven't already, share this with every Philadelphian you know. I want to raise enough hell that Drexel will have no choice but to continue supporting the museum.

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Oooh, a bracket! www.mineralcup.org/2026/bracket

A sports-style elimination bracket of 32 minerals labeled "Mineral Cup 2026". Text below reads, "Daily voting takes place on www.MineralCup.org in September. Campaign on your favourite social media using #MinCup26."

The starting matches are, in chronological order in pairs from top to bottom alternating from left to right each match:
Azurite vs Smithsonite
Erythrite vs Skutterudite
Sphalerite vs Anorthite
Bournonite vs Vesuvianite
Cuprite vs Orpiment
Quartz vs Asagiite
Monazite-(Ce) vs Andalusite
Stichtite vs Talc
Hafnon vs Putnisite
Pyromorphite vs Gypsum
Calcite vs Julienite
Pyrrhotite vs Cylindrite
Arsenopyrite vs Halite
Riebeckite vs Gadolinite-(Y)
Chrysocolla vs Xocolatlite
Cassiterite vs Graphite

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squawky.bsky.social @squawky.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Geo folks planning to attend GSA - this looks to be a fun trip! Dinosaur Ridge is neat (and the views were pretty good, too.)

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Int Assoc for Geoscience Diversity (the IAGD) @accessiblegeo.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Mark your calendars to pull up a chair! The IAGD is having a virtual General Meeting on Tuesday, August 11 at 2 PM Eastern/11 AM Pacific. If interested in attending, please fill out this Google Form and we’ll be in touch with the Zoom link: forms.gle/PwfFmQGjysPS...

Graphic of a stylized camp area with mountains in the background. Two folding chairs are pulled around an unlit fire. The reads: The IAGD General Meeting; August 11 at 2:00–3:00 PM ET on Zoom; all welcome!

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Planetary Crater Consortium @planetarycraters.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Crater Fact Friday ☄️DID YOU KNOW☄️ about peak-ring basins? These craters typically form at sizes larger than complex craters, and have an interior ring of peaks surrounding the crater's center (hence the name). They can be found on Mercury, Venus, the Moon, Earth, and Mars!

Raditladi, a relatively young peak-ring crater on Mercury. Raditladi, first imaged during MESSENGER's first Mercury flyby and named in April 2008, continues to be an intriguing region of study, with its well-preserved features, relatively young age, exterior impact melt ponds, hollows-covered peak ring, and concentric troughs on its floor.

Barton, a peak-ring crater on Venus. Image via Magellan.

Schrödinger, a peak-ring basin on the Moon. Mosaic of photos by Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

The peak-ring basin Lowell, exhibiting frost deposits on its floor. Taken by the Mars Global Surveyor Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC).

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squawky.bsky.social @squawky.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Pittsburgh, PA. Flagstaff (is a city, darn it). Pittsburgh again :).

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Douwe van Hinsbergen @vanhinsbergen.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Two years ago, we made a clip about the Geology of Alpe d'Huez! Enjoy today's climb!

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Gene J. Mikulka @genejm1017.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

57 years ago, at about 4:18 in the afternoon, humans landed on the lunar surface for the very first time. If you want to hear what that moment sounded like, listen along with me on "Apollo in Real Time ." apolloinrealtime.org/11/

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Apollo 11 in Real Time

A real-time interactive journey through the first landing on the Moon. Relive every moment as it occurred in 1969.

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squawky.bsky.social @squawky.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Didn’t they end up building 4 sets of mission hardware (testing purposes)? Vague recall that this is the reason there were 2 sent to Mars - had the spares, might as well send a second.

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squawky.bsky.social @squawky.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Have made copious use of the hints (trying to remember which puzzle I got really stuck on recently; probably a Square Jam) - am finding the Caves and Akaris much more approachable that I used to. And usually the perfect "I need to finish my coffee" length, yes!

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squawky.bsky.social @squawky.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Puzzle folks, if you aren't doing Thinky Dailies then you should check them out. Short* logic puzzle varieties with a story attached. (*YMMV. Sometimes short, sometimes not, sometimes really do need those attached hints...)

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Planetary Crater Consortium @planetarycraters.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Crater Fact Friday ☄️DID YOU KNOW☄️ Layered ejecta craters are hypothesized to form in the presence of subsurface ice, where volatiles are fluidized upon impact. This means these craters can be used as a way to identify subsurface volatiles and resources on other planets!

A beautiful layered ejecta crater on Mars with two distinct layers.

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

58 days 😬 Nominate now because we’ll be setting the lineup sometime very, very soon.

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Int Assoc for Geoscience Diversity (the IAGD) @accessiblegeo.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Our General Meeting is happening tomorrow! It's not too late to sign up if you're interested in attending—we'd love to see you there!

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Int Assoc for Geoscience Diversity (the IAGD) @accessiblegeo.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Mark your calendars to pull up a chair! The IAGD is having a virtual General Meeting on Tuesday, May 19 at 3 PM Eastern/12 noon Pacific. If interested in attending, please fill out this Google Form and we’ll be in touch with the Zoom link: forms.gle/PwfFmQGjysPS...

Graphic of a stylized camp area with mountains in the background. Two folding chairs are pulled up around an unlit fire. The reads: The IAGD General Meeting; Mat 19 at 3:00–4:00 PM ET on Zoom; all welcome!

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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · 04/05/2026

This video from @seislologist.bsky.social provides a great introduction to the Seismology Skill Building Workshop (SSBW), including an interview with former EarthScope Student Career Intern Ellie Meyer! Registration now open ➡️ www.earthscope.org/event/2026-s...

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Adam Pascale @seislologist.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Learn Seismology for FREE! I found out about this skill building workshop that is run by @earthscope.org while at the @seismosocam.bsky.social meeting in April. Registrations open today (1 May) so watch the video to find out more from Ellie Meyer and then search up “SSBW Earthscope” to sign up #stem

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squawky.bsky.social @squawky.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

TNT’s intermission team is the reason I kept my cable subscription. They have so much fun filling that empty space between periods. And Hank’s suits.

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squawky.bsky.social @squawky.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I made a mistake by making most assignments due last day of class. Was hoping they could prioritize the ones relevant for their own term project topic but seems to have been just a giant license to procrastinate. (And ironic, now I have to cancel class due to last minute conflict…)

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squawky.bsky.social @squawky.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Ah, here too. Never had to cancel class because no one showed up before this term. 30% attendance is a good day (and all extra credit is done in class). Expectation that there will be online options for missed work. Prevailing “D is for diploma” and “C’s get degrees” attitudes :(.

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Casey Dreier @caseydreier.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

"If this is to be a true golden age of science and discovery, NASA can’t rely on serendipity; the agency must make active investments in dedicated science projects that address the highest priority questions facing humanity."

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Dr. Erik Klemetti Gonzalez @eruptions.site · 15/04/2026

I know there are a lot of bad feelings about FIFA and the World Cup but that shouldn't dampen your enthusiasm for the triumphant return of the VOLCANO WORLD CUP. Stay tuned! (I don't even require massive bribes or a World Peace medal).

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 07/04/2026

HOLY SHIT

The Moon! The Sun's corona! A crewed spacecraft! Oh my!

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 07/04/2026

I can't stop staring at these photos. This is what Earthset looks like—our homeworld setting behind the Moon. And compare the dark, cratered surface of the Moon to the blue oceans and swirling clouds on our own planet. If there's a starker illustration of our lifegiving world, I've yet to see it.

The foreground is dominated by the dark, heavily cratered lunar surface. In the distance, a crescent Earth, setting. Behind, the black of deep space.

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squawky.bsky.social @squawky.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Needs to be said again. Ahhh!! We're all in this photo (all of humanity.... eeevvvveeerrryyyyooonnneeee....)

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Planetary Crater Consortium @planetarycraters.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

None of Orientale's rings are the initial crater itself, which would fall somewhere between the two innermost rings. The initial transient crater formed by the impact would have been obliterated by subsequent deformation, which would have included extensive rebounding of material inside the crater.

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Patrick McGovern @planetpatman.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

LOL they have to block out Window 4 because of stray light from A VERY ANNOYING PLANET!! 😅🤣😂 #ArtemisII

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Alejandro Soto @soto.space · 06/04/2026

When the Earth, the whole Earth, is too bright and interrupting your work. #astronautproblems #ArtemisII

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/04/2026

Some lunar vocabulary in case you're following along with the #Artemis II flyby: * albedo: reflectiveness (high albedo=very shiny) * mare/maria(plural): from Latin for "sea," dark regions on the Moon, which are dried lava basins * terminator: the line of the transition between sunlight & darkness

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Del - Martian Observer @martian-observer.net · 29/03/2026

'Is NASA Skyfall mission for real?' Mars Guy Episode 260 / 29th March, 2026

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Is NASA Skyfall mission for real?

YouTube video by Mars Guy

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 26/03/2026

We removed the barriers and created an accessible space because resistance is for everyone, everywhere. The *official* No Kings Accessible Rally will be a virtual event to protect our health, defend our democracy, and say NO KINGS. Details: zurl.co/TXWd7 #NoKings #NoKings3 #Democracy #NK3VR

Graphic with logos for No Kings and STand Up for SCience, and an image of a laptop with protest imagery popping out, like a raised fit and American flag. Text reads: An online and inclusive rally for everyone, everywhere: March 28th, 12:30 - 2PM CT. Stand Up for Science presents the official No Kings 3 Accessible Rally
Also a URL with details: tr.ee/nk3ar

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Attention Science Communicators! We are conducting a survey on the landscape of science communication & need your help gathering experiences. Please send this to #SciComm ppl you know. We want to get as thorough a sense of the state of the field as we can. umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

A block of text that says "Scientists at the University of Miami are carrying out a research study on trends in the field of science communication.

For this survey we are defining science communication as work that is done:

• by a technical subject area expert in some field related to science, technology, engineering, or mathematics,
• outside of classroom settings
• aimed at the public

If you are 18 years of age or older and work or recently worked in this field (full-time, part-time, or as a side project), please click the link below to complete a short survey. If you are interested in learning more about this research study, please e-mail us at Julia.wester@miami.edu. In the body of your email please provide your full name, and if you would prefer to be contacted by phone, your phone number and the best time to reach you. Contacting us for more information does not commit you to participating, and should you decide to participate you may terminate your participation at any time."

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Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️‍⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

And JWST is actually a bad example because it is the expensivest space mission ever. Do this comparison for a smaller mission producing mapping or survey data that’ll be useful for unforeseen studies for decades and decades — Magellan, LRO, Mars Global Surveyor, WISE, SPHEREx…

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ESA Exploration @exploration.esa.int · 14/03/2026

🚀 10 years ago, our largest and most sophisticated martian explorer left Earth behind. To mark the launch anniversary, here are 5 remarkable things @esa.int's Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) was made for 🧵👇

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squawky.bsky.social @squawky.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Is fun when they kinda give up and just play the commentary from some other network (like ‘this sport ain’t getting many views, let’s just air the BBC feed’). Would love some DVD style commentary too (“aw, why did you let me explain the luge relay rules for the tenth time? Some co-analyst you are”)

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squawky.bsky.social @squawky.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Wow… great game (bonus hockey and all). Hope the new neighbors don’t mind the yelling.

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