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Jesse ‘Πέτρος’ Walters

@thegeojesse.bsky.social
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Assistant Prof @UniGraz in Austria. Subduction, redox, geochron & metamorphism. He/Him/His.

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Dr. Petr Brož @chmee2.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Hey folks! #Geology often gets overlooked in schools Which is crazy, because it explains why the world looks the way it does – from #mountain ranges to the ground beneath your feet So I want to fix that! How? By making a new educational tool for cool experiments in schools <3
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Jesse ‘Πέτρος’ Walters @thegeojesse.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
U-Pb garnet geochronology is a great technique for dating metamorphic and igneous rocks, but garnets have very low U and Pb. Sometimes we might be dating the inclusions instead. It is not always clear what is and is not an inclusion! See the paper here: lnkd.in/gGriU_Fv #geology #geochronology
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Clemens🇪🇺 @alpenwetter.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
The alps have warmed extremely - as can be seen here in the data from #Innsbruck. Warm years are dominant since the 90s, cold years disappear. Massive glacier melting is only one consequence. Weather Obs started very early here, Maria Theresa was still alive. #showyourstripes #climateaction
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Dr. Simon Jowitt @thejow.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Nice to get to talk to the New York Times @nytimes.com about funding challenges around publicly available precompetitive geoscience data acquisitions and geological mapping right when these data are more vital than ever for national and economic security: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/c...
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There Might Not Be a Map for That: Budget Cuts Threaten Geological Surveys
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Jesse ‘Πέτρος’ Walters @thegeojesse.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Announcing MinPlotX, an open-source software for mineral formula recalculation and compositional plotting with an easy-to-use stand-alone graphical user interface. The open-access paper is here: lnkd.in/eB4im8dh MinPlotX can be downloaded here: lnkd.in/eXMHtkkK #geology #petrology #minerals
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Jesse ‘Πέτρος’ Walters @thegeojesse.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
AGC is now open for submissions! I am excited to be a handling editor of this new community-lead diamond open access journal. I look forward to seeing your submissions! Check out the webpage for more information: journals.uu.se/AGC/index
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
The Earth is undergoing rapid unscheduled warming.
Line graph showing global surface temperature records from 1850 to 2024, compared across various datasets: NASA, Hadley/UEA, NOAA, Berkeley, and Copernicus ERA5. The y-axis indicates temperature deviations relative to the 1850-1900 average.
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Jesse ‘Πέτρος’ Walters @thegeojesse.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Finally some #geology on The Late Show. If he can remember that cummingtonite is in the monoclinic crystal system so can you!
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Jesse ‘Πέτρος’ Walters @thegeojesse.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
First lecture of 2025 prepared! How do minerals grow and rocks form? Seems like a very basic question in geology, given how much of the science is build on the prerequisite of rocks existing in nature, but the answer is complex. #petrology #metamorphism #kinetics #thermodynamics
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Jesse ‘Πέτρος’ Walters @thegeojesse.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
New paper alert! Micas and chlorite show progressive recrystallization in a retrograde shear zone, demonstrating that pressure solution is the dominant deformation mechanism (followed by grain boundary sliding). Check it out here lnkd.in/gCqMxaJB #geology #metamorphic #rocks #minerals #science
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 17/11/2024
Mapping changes in temperature every year (1850-2023) Each year has a different pattern of temperature variations but the trends are clear and stark
174 tiny maps showing temperature variations
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Jesse ‘Πέτρος’ Walters @thegeojesse.bsky.social · 22/04/2024
U-Pb garnet geochronology reveals a 400 million year evolution of the lower crust, including multiple periods of ultrahigh temperature metamorphism! Check it out: link.springer.com/article/10.1... ⚒️⚛️🔬🧪
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Michael Anenburg @manenbu.bsky.social · 09/04/2024
Do you have silicates in or around your carbonatites? Maybe you have an antiskarn! New paper with @thegeojesse.bsky.social out in Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, open access at doi.org/10.1007/s004...
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Jesse ‘Πέτρος’ Walters @thegeojesse.bsky.social · 23/03/2024
I will start in July as an Assistant Professor of Petrochronology at the University of Graz, Austria. Looking forward to new research opportunities and the chance to grow as an educator. Keep an eye on this space as I will advertise a PhD position soon. ⚒️🧪🔬⚛️
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NPR @npr.org · 09/03/2024
The lower 48 states just had the warmest winter in 130 years of record-keeping, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Temperatures were more than 5 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than average.
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U.S. has warmest winter on record – and no, that's not a good thing
From lack of snow to wildfires, a record-warm winter had impacts across the country. Scientists say winters are warming faster than any other season in the U.S.
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Jesse ‘Πέτρος’ Walters @thegeojesse.bsky.social · 06/03/2024
Interested in subduction zones and volatiles? Consider submitting to our session at EMC 2024 in Dublin. Abstracts are due on March 22nd: emc-2024.org/abstract-sub... ⚒️
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Jesse ‘Πέτρος’ Walters @thegeojesse.bsky.social · 22/02/2024
Thinking of attending EMC24 in Dublin? Consider submitting an abstract to our session in honor of Ed Grew! Abstracts submission (22 March deadline) & registration here: emc-2024.org/registration/ ⚒️🧪🌎
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Dr. Lucia Perez-Diaz @drlperezdiaz.bsky.social · 20/02/2024
We are LIVE on #Kickstarter. I repeat, we are LIVE! This is not a drill! Support QUARTETnary for as little as €1 and help us bring science to the table! 🦕🌱🌎https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/irisvanzelst/quartetnary/
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QUARTETnary - The card game about the geological time scale
Discover the history of the Earth by collecting mountains, animals, and plants to complete your time scale!
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 21/02/2024
In western Canada, the wildfire “season” has become the whole year, as over a hundred fires from 2023 continue to smolder, many of them underground. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Active fire map for western Canada
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Samuele Papeschi サムエレ パペスキ | Geology is the way ⚒️🧪 @calamitaman.bsky.social · 30/01/2024
A tiny wee chloritoid star from the highest-grade rocks in the Northern Apennines (but still low grade), the Massa Unit: home of the very rare chloritoid + kyanite assemblage. ⚒️
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Jesse ‘Πέτρος’ Walters @thegeojesse.bsky.social · 15/01/2024
Fantastic USGS map of all of the natural waterfalls in the USA. How many does your state have? Proud to be from Washington state, which tops the chart with a total of 2907 waterfalls! ⚒️
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Henning @geohenning.bsky.social · 15/01/2024
Iceland's daily paper 'Morgunblaðið' has this incredible front page photo today. 🌋⚒️ #IcelandEruption
Iceland's daily paper front page from 15th January 2024 which shows a photo of the lava flows close to the city Grindavik.
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Jesse ‘Πέτρος’ Walters @thegeojesse.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
These poor garnets have been through a lot! Sliced and sheared to bit on their journey in an ancient subduction zone. Maybe they will tell us about what happened to them? Fingers crossed! ⚒️
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Samuele Papeschi サムエレ パペスキ | Geology is the way ⚒️🧪 @calamitaman.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
Some very sexy folds in flysch deposits (sandstone and shale layers) to let you start your Monday better! ⚒️ ⛏ Macigno sandstone 🕑 Oligocene - Lower Miocene 🧭 Vernazza, Cinque Terre, Italy
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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 29/10/2023
Bluesky tip: post a 🧪to get picked up on science feeds and a ⚒️ for geoscience
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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 26/10/2023
Perpetuated significantly by stark increases in income inequality and elitist oligarchs choosing to spend their money on personal vanity projects rather than on benefiting their larger communities?
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Icevolcanx Ron @jokulhlaup.bsky.social · 26/10/2023
Extinction Mechanisms #geosciences xkcd.com/2845
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Jesse ‘Πέτρος’ Walters @thegeojesse.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
I get a lot of spam emails, but this one offering to help improve my "paper towel production capacity" takes the cake!
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Fabio Crameri @fabiocrameri.ch · 05/10/2023
Scientific colour maps 8.0 · Perceptually uniform · Perceptually ordered · Colour-blind friendly · Readable as B&W print · Widely compatible · Versioned & citable fabiocrameri.ch/colourmaps #useBatlow #Dataviz #SciArt #EduSky #OpenSource 1/n
Entire suite of Scientific colour maps (perceptually uniform and color-blind friendly) by Fabio Crameri, with hand-pickable colours of discrete and categorical colour palettes.
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Jesse ‘Πέτρος’ Walters @thegeojesse.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
About time! Maybe people are sick of hearing about zircon and that is why there is so much anti-zircon hate? As much as I am also sick of zircon, it is one of the most useful minerals there is. U-Pb zircon geochronology is the gold standard of geochronology, whether we like it or not!
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Reenie⁷ @reenieonice.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
Bat poop! Bat poop! Bat poop!
A mineral sample of ammineite and lecontite.
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Jesse ‘Πέτρος’ Walters @thegeojesse.bsky.social · 20/09/2023
I am excited to announce a new PhD position open at the University of Bern. Looking for a student interested in geochemistry and petrology to join a vibrant group researching subduction zone processes. DM me if you want the full advertisement.
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Jesse ‘Πέτρος’ Walters @thegeojesse.bsky.social · 20/09/2023
Emery is a metamorphic rock, also called corundite, occurs when Al-rich laterite soils are metamorphosed at high temps. Here it has been mined for abrasives on the island of Naxos, GR since prehistoric times. Vote corundum, it both looks great and is useful industrially! Can topaz do that?
Entrance to an active emery mine on the island of Naxos, Greeceview of the old mine workings, including the cable car system that used to take emery to the sea port
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Jesse ‘Πέτρος’ Walters @thegeojesse.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
Did you know we don't know who vivianite is named after? Abraham Gottlob Werner named the mineral, but died shortly after. It is named after either John Henry Vivian or Jeffrey G. Vivian, both mineralogists from Great Britain.
Vivianite in a mussel shell. Picture and specimen by Klaus Schäfer at www.mineralienatlas.de
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Jesse ‘Πέτρος’ Walters @thegeojesse.bsky.social · 15/09/2023
I voted for sapphirine, a rare Mg-Al-Si mineral that forms at extremely high-T conditions. For example, this garnet-sapphirine-quartz lower crustal xenolith from S. Africa formed at 1100-1200 degrees celsius. Some of the hottest metamorphic rocks on Earth!
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Jesse ‘Πέτρος’ Walters @thegeojesse.bsky.social · 11/09/2023
I voted for calcite for its fun optical properties, but more important is that it's actually a mineral!
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Jesse ‘Πέτρος’ Walters @thegeojesse.bsky.social · 06/09/2023
I voted for Goethite for the cool pseudomorphs. I swear it's not because I work at Goethe University..... no Faustian temptations here!
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Jesse ‘Πέτρος’ Walters @thegeojesse.bsky.social · 31/08/2023
@earth-science.bsky.social can I be added to the feed?
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Jeff Day @jeffday.bsky.social · 30/08/2023
HOLY SHIT SCHMIDT OCEAN JUST SAW GRIMALDITEUTHIS WE ONLY HAVE LIKE EIGHT OBSERVATIONS OF THIS GUY 🦑 i am not awake enough to do good alt text i will add it later sorry
translucent squid, elongated body plan, two mantle fins, first is circular shaped and second is much smaller, sorry, not awake yet
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