Stephen Michalchuk @stephenmichalchuk.com · 10/07/2026Multiple copies… I wish citations piled up like this! 27 emails and counting… 020
Reposted by Stephen MichalchukNature @nature.com · 19/06/2025Most pixels in cameras detect only red, green or blue light. A sensor made from perovskite materials absorbs all three, improving image brightness and resolution go.nature.com/3T1oKcdgo.nature.comLight detectors made from perovskite crystals see in full colourMost pixels in cameras detect only red, green or blue light. A sensor made from perovskite materials absorbs all three, improving image brightness and resolution. 0576
Reposted by Stephen MichalchukEGU TS @ts.egu.eu · 13/06/2025Jobs on Friday! ⚠️ 2 post-doctoral researcher positions (2 years) to investigate deformation processes that occur before and during earthquakes. Where: the Njord Centre, a leading research centre in physics and geosciences at the University of Oslo. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... #geology 082
Reposted by Stephen MichalchukNature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 31/05/2025Canadian academics are some of the Americas’ top research collaborators and receive funding from US agencies. As a result, they have not been spared from the funding cuts and job losses that are plaguing their US counterparts. #Academicsky 🧪 go.nature.com‘A funeral for our careers’: Trump’s science cuts spill onto Canadian turfResearchers in Canada prepare for turbulence in the wake of US funding changes — but there’s a silver lining. 05421
Stephen Michalchuk @stephenmichalchuk.com · 03/05/2025What a week @egu.eu. Lots of interesting presentations and fantastic sunny hot weather in Vienna! Sadly, not enough schnitzels! Oh well, maybe next year. @sheared-sash.bsky.social 150
Stephen Michalchuk @stephenmichalchuk.com · 29/04/2025The return of the pre-EGU fieldtrip through the Austrian Bohemian Massif was a fantastic way to kickoff the conference week. Fantastic weather and fantastic organization made it very enjoyable! Thanks Bernhard, Anna, @sheared-sash.bsky.social and Chris. #egu25 @egu.eu @ts.egu.eu 🪨 🧪⚒️ #geology 0173
Stephen Michalchuk @stephenmichalchuk.com · 24/04/2025It’s been a hot minute since my last #thinsectionthursday but here’s some things I’m working on these days… anyone else having issues with how2plot in MTEX 6.0? I’ve seen some solutions online.. think they’re working but it’s just so random how orientations get flipped without explicit scripting ⚒️🧪 030
Stephen Michalchuk @stephenmichalchuk.com · 12/03/2025Thanks! Couldn’t have done 2/3 without you… some might even say 3/3 without you… but we’ll leave that for another debate hahah 100
Stephen Michalchuk @stephenmichalchuk.com · 12/03/2025💥 hot off the press and 4 years in the making! My PhD thesis in all its glory! 2 published papers, 1 nearly ready for submission, and an exciting project in the making, all find a home in the pages within. Super proud of my work at Njord w/ Luca Menegon, Kristina Dunkel, & @sheared-sash.bsky.social 3210
Stephen Michalchuk @stephenmichalchuk.com · 04/03/2025It’s cause of the eggs pricing… #openingthecanofworms 100
Stephen Michalchuk @stephenmichalchuk.com · 04/03/2025So you don’t shake hands with the rector/president in some fancy library and receive the degree all rolled up in a few weeks time? 100
Reposted by Stephen MichalchukEuropean Geosciences Union (EGU) @egu.eu · 03/03/2025Hello Bluesky! EGU is pleased to be able to activate our account here, and share all the exciting news about the upcoming General Assembly: #EGU25, our #OpenAccess publications and more! Several of our Divisions will be making the move over from Twitter/X too, so keep an eye out for your favourites! 19389101
Stephen Michalchuk @stephenmichalchuk.com · 23/02/2025Great GUI. I’ll have to dig around with the plotting options. Lots of settings to sort out on how I want to present my data 110
Stephen Michalchuk @stephenmichalchuk.com · 23/02/2025media.tenor.coma group of men standing next to each other with the words she 's terrible partial to the periwinkle blue boysALT: a group of men standing next to each other with the words she 's terrible partial to the periwinkle blue boys 021
Stephen Michalchuk @stephenmichalchuk.com · 20/02/2025I saw that but it’s now outdated by 6 years 010
Stephen Michalchuk @stephenmichalchuk.com · 20/02/2025Searches come back with R scripts or suggesting to use Web of Science author search, which are all valid of course. This website I came across was quick and easy 010
Stephen Michalchuk @stephenmichalchuk.com · 20/02/2025Hey everyone, Does anyone have a link to a website where you can search for conflict of interests among research collaborators? A few months ago (~Nov 2024), someone shared a link but I haven’t been able to find it or something similar with a google search. 🧪 ⚒️ 261
Stephen Michalchuk @stephenmichalchuk.com · 04/02/2025(3) Repeated fragmentation and comminution in addition to fluid at the grain boundaries are required to facilitate viscous deformation 040
Stephen Michalchuk @stephenmichalchuk.com · 04/02/2025We find that (1) Plagioclase in the damage zone of a lower-crustal pseudotachylyte deformed via pulverization-style fragmentation (2) Liberated H2O as a result of the earthquake remained in grain boundary regions and facilitated neoblast growth and healing of fractures 140
Stephen Michalchuk @stephenmichalchuk.com · 04/02/2025🚨 Hot off the press 🪨 ⚒️ Where do you come from, where do you go 🎶 fluids that is… after an earthquake in the dry lower crust? We look into this and more using SEM-CL, EBSD, EMPA, STEM, and FTIR! Hit the link below 👇 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 1133
Stephen Michalchuk @stephenmichalchuk.com · 18/01/2025 The poll was only open for all of… less than a week. How many answered? Is it even representative? Article date for the poll is January 14th and today is the 18th 021
Reposted by Stephen MichalchukVicky Veritas @vickyveritas.bsky.social · 18/12/2024 Our deep-time emissary, Marcia Bjornerud, takes us on a metamorphic journey. ⚒️🧪 geology GISaeon.coMetamorphic rocks go on deep journeys we never can | Aeon EssaysMetamorphic rocks are our emissaries from the deep, travelling to alien realms and revealing the restless nature of Earth 14419
Stephen Michalchuk @stephenmichalchuk.com · 11/12/2024Charles personally reads each research article generated by his peoples haha 010
Stephen Michalchuk @stephenmichalchuk.com · 06/12/2024The Njord Julebord at Det Norske Videnskaps Akademi An evening of some science and a lot of ribbe🎄 ⚒️🧪🪨🔬 000
Stephen Michalchuk @stephenmichalchuk.com · 05/12/2024🪨⚒️ #thinsectionthursday of a recrystallized quenched frictional melt (pseudotachylyte) from Lofoten, Norway. Plagioclase survivor clast retains deformation twins, reaction between garnet-amphibole. Garnet cores are full of inclusions from rapid quenching growth, then slow growth to form facet GB🧪 🔬 0347
Reposted by Stephen MichalchukSascha Zertani @sheared-sash.bsky.social · 29/11/2024This is a map showing the orientation of diopside in a deformed symplectite. This used to be an omphacite, which tells us that the rock used to be at very high pressure (great depth). ⚒️🧪 If you want to read more about how such symplectites nucleate and deform: link.springer.com/article/10.1... 0174
Stephen Michalchuk @stephenmichalchuk.com · 29/11/2024I’ll take Lipari, Oslo, or Vik anyday over the pukey 🤮 Batlow and Jet! Hahah 000
Stephen Michalchuk @stephenmichalchuk.com · 29/11/2024One of the many perks living and working at the University of Oslo. Winter mornings are just perfect up here. Sunrise at 8:40am this morning. Could use a little bit of snow in the city❄️ 🔬⚒️🪨🧪 1381
Stephen Michalchuk @stephenmichalchuk.com · 28/11/2024⚒️🪨 #thinsectionthursday on a quartz mylonite from… my iPhone camera roll 😂. Could be from the teaching collection or from Australia 🤷🏻♂️ I particularly like the “Hawaiian flower” partially recrystallized grain in the lower ribbon. Aloha! 🧪🔬 05410
Stephen Michalchuk @stephenmichalchuk.com · 28/11/2024This is the highest “mountain” in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 😉 100
Stephen Michalchuk @stephenmichalchuk.com · 24/11/2024Same here. Can clearly see I’ve cracked it open a bunch! 010
Reposted by Stephen MichalchukSascha Zertani @sheared-sash.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Brittle? Ductile? Brittle-ductile? If you are interested in why rocks deform the way they do, consider submitting an abstract to our session at #EGU25! The deadline to apply for travel support is on December 2nd! meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio... 083
Stephen Michalchuk @stephenmichalchuk.com · 22/11/2024Hahah I’ve been on Instagram for far too long to not know how to take a photo of my food, coffee, book, outcrop…. 🙄 020
Stephen Michalchuk @stephenmichalchuk.com · 22/11/2024🪨⚒️ Just received my advanced copy of Haakon’s and Christian’s latest textbook, Plate Tectonics. Will be a nice complementary next to these other beauties #earth-sciences 🔬🧪 #geology 5623
Reposted by Stephen MichalchukKonrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social · 11/11/2024NSF makes you say who you got conflicts (coauthored) with. We (really just Jordan Matelsky) just built you a tool for that. Literally one click: bib.experiments.kordinglab.com/nsf-coabib.experiments.kordinglab.comNSF COA | Jordan Matelsky 84683321
Stephen Michalchuk @stephenmichalchuk.com · 21/11/2024⚒️🪨 #thinsectionthursday of a corona of garnet enveloping (a weird) biotite within an anorthosite from Lofoten, Norway. This sample was drilled in what we thought was relatively undeformed rock, but plagioclase loves to form tapering deformation twins… so how deformed is undeformed? 🧐 #earth-sciences 0182
Stephen Michalchuk @stephenmichalchuk.com · 21/11/2024Hi Samuele, can I be added as well? Thanks! 110
Reposted by Stephen MichalchukSascha Zertani @sheared-sash.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Are you interested in how deformation and metamorphism interact? Consider submitting an abstract to our session at #EGU25 ⚒️🧪 meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio... Deadline to apply for travel support is om the 2nd of december! 1115
Stephen Michalchuk @stephenmichalchuk.com · 17/11/2024I woke up to a bunch of new followers, so I should share some things that we do here at the Njord Centre, University of Oslo. Here is my JGR: Solid Earth paper on porosity in lower crustal faults and ductile shear zones using microCT, EBSD, SEM-CL. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... 3163