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Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

In 2007, workers in a quarry found the end of a tusk. They dug some more & thought they'd found a mammoth. Although the fossil was offered to the local university, no one was interested. No one, that is, until Peter Houde heard about it. #proboscideans mostlymammoths.wordpress.com/2026/09/14/t...

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This Rare Fossil Was Almost Lost to Science

Those working in a quarry in New Mexico knew what fossils looked like; they’d found them before. So when someone saw the circular white end of a tusk in 2007, they immediately shut off the heavy eq…

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Gawen Jenkin @gawenjenkin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

GREEN SPHALERITE! #MinCup26 geology.com/minerals/sph...

Green translucent sphalerite crystal form Balmat-Edwards Zinc district of New York.
Copied form geology.com original source Arkenstone/irocks.com

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Eos @eos.org · 11/09/2026

Julienite sounds like a nice enough mineral, turning from blue to pink when it dissolves and all. But calcite “can form in 17 different ways.” 17! That’s bonkers. It gets our vote today in #MinCup26. eos.org/articles/sor...

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Sorting Minerals Differently Could Usher a New Era for Mineralogy - Eos

Grouping minerals by how they were formed yields insights into our planet’s evolution across billions of years.

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CatWithGeologists @catwithgeologists.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Today it's #Talc against #Stichtite at #MinCup26 😻 This is easy for us Talc is representating the fluffy end of the Moths scale that measures the hardness of a #mineral 🙀😹 Being fluffy is one of the supaw powers of #cats So #DoesItCat ? YES🐾 #PawForScale #geologywithcats

Micas paw as scale for a tiny piece of Talc

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Arnold de Boer @arnolddeboer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Back in #Amsterdam with Drumband Hallelujah Makkum. Part of the new and exciting #Kronkel Festival and part of #burendag2026 ! The drumband will parade through the #Stadionbuurt around 14:15 and we'll play at the Willem de Zwijgerkerk at 14:45. Get yr tickets at the Amsterdam Alternative website.

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sgrd @selveste.bsky.social · 01/10/2024

På tur med ekte geologer! Første diskusjonstema er hvilken retning som er opp.

En bergvegg med tydelige, skråstilte lag i grå- og bruntoner. To personer nede i venstre billedkant peker på veggen

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Parrot air traffic controller @bobthebird.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A brassy choice for a match-up!

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

#MinCup26 Round 1 Match 1: It's carbonate-vs-carbonate with copper-rich #Azurite against zinc-rich #Smithsonite. Which has your vote? VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

Split photo of bright blue azurite and peach-colored smithsonite crystals.

The azurite forms clusters of round nodules with a matte, almost velvety-looking texture.

The smithsonite crystals are mostly discs with parallelogram faces. There are some black and gold-colores minerals mixed in.

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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This excellent website allows you to scroll down into the deep sea and get a better feeling for how profoundly deep it is. And what lives where. neal.fun/deep-sea/

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The Deep Sea

Scroll down the deep sea in this interactive page.

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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Absolutely incredible reporting from @sallyhayd.bsky.social The details of what happened on the boat trip are deeply harrowing, but everyone should read them and understand the reality of what is happening www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

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‘It was day 13 or 14 when people started dying’: More than 200 set sail for Europe. Only 36 survived

A harrowing story of death and survival on the Atlantic migration route from west Africa, ‘the deadliest in the world’

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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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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

What’s that? For #MinCup26, our 10th year of minerals battling it out for your affections, we drew from ANY year to pick our returning minerals? That’s a lot of joy and heartbreak from one little list! www.mineralcup.org/2026/mineral...

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Mineral List — Mineral Cup & Ore Cup

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N. M. (they/she)⚒️ 🇩🇪 🇳🇱 🇪🇺🏳️‍⚧️🌈 @yirara-bah.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

'Weltkulturerbe' #FotoVorschlag Da das Fagus-Werk oben auftaucht darf auch die Van Nelle Fabriek in Rotterdam nicht fehlen.

Van Nelle Fabriek Rotterdam, A big white building with large windows

Inside views shows the floating window facade and the different floors not connected to it behind.

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History of Geology @historyofgeology.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Good #news by The Onion 🪨

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Mika McKinnon @mikamckinnon.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

It’s Rock Day: Rock Check! Do you have your rock? Do you need a rock? Can you find a rock? I found this lovely porphyritic basalt in my washing machine. I love how the different crystal sizes tell a story of an eruption rudely interrupting cozy subterranean cooling. Photos & stories welcome.

A very round dull rock, flecks of white and pale grey rectangular crystals in a darker grey matrix

The same flecked rock in a bowl full of similar-sized volcanic rocks ranging from white quartz and granite to black and rusty red pumice

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Dolf Jansen @dolfjansen.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Nigel Farage is n lul.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

We're keeping focus. Greater Manchester needs a Green Mayor. Join our campaign: Join.greenparty.org.uk

Geraldine and Zack with big crowd of members and supporters

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sgrd @selveste.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

VI ER NEVNT I EN VITENSKAPELIG ARTIKKEL, FOLKENS

Skjermdump av artikkeltekst: "Although Mineral Cup is conducted in English, posts in languages other than English are commonly viewed across social media. Dedicated campaigning in languages other than English also results in greater participation in communities where that language is spoken, such as the spike of votes from Norway supporting thortveitite after its discovery story and local folklore was discussed in several Norwegian-language threads on Bluesky."

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Help? We’re applying for a geoscience outreach award. We need nomination letters. Are you someone working in geoscience education or outreach, think Mineral Cup is worthy, and are willing to write us kind words by May 22? Please drop a note to hastagmincup@gmail.com for details. Thank you!

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Dolf Jansen @dolfjansen.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

W! T! F?! #dontstoptalkingaboutpalestine 🇵🇸

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N. M. (they/she)⚒️ 🇩🇪 🇳🇱 🇪🇺🏳️‍⚧️🌈 @yirara-bah.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Introduce yourself as what almost killed you: Hello, I am drowning, several times and always differently but mostly freak-accidentally. It’s a hobby of sorts. I still love being in water.

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N. M. (they/she)⚒️ 🇩🇪 🇳🇱 🇪🇺🏳️‍⚧️🌈 @yirara-bah.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

I once walked around the corner near my home in Copenhagen, smashed full on into Nick Cave. I said: Ouch, because he was rather bony. He said: Ouch. We walked on. I was thinking: Whut?!? Few steps on a saw a truck unloading concert stuff at the venue nearby. Ok.

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N. M. (they/she)⚒️ 🇩🇪 🇳🇱 🇪🇺🏳️‍⚧️🌈 @yirara-bah.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Christmas eve early afternoon walk around the Stockholm botanical gardens. It was so lovely quiet and pleasant despite the coldness. Merry Christmas everywhere.

A frozen pond with a small island and boulders within the water and along the shore.

An icicle hangs from a very nice rocky outcrop. Water on the other side of the small path.

A flat rock grades into water underneath an overhanging tree. The low sun is shining.

Another photo along the shore. Another bare tree covers the low sun.

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N. M. (they/she)⚒️ 🇩🇪 🇳🇱 🇪🇺🏳️‍⚧️🌈 @yirara-bah.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Random, super interesting piece of rock at Royal Domain of Drottningholm, outside of Stockholm. #Geology ⛏️

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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

'NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir – a US spy-tech firm that... enabled genocide in Gaza. One of Palantir’s founders is also openly against the NHS. Peter Thiel claimed it “makes people sick” ..." notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-tar...

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Say no to Palantir in the NHS

NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 26/11/2025

LIBRARIES MAKE BOOKS ACCESSIBLE TO EVERYONE, she shouts, apparently inaudibly WHY DO THESE "YOU'RE A CLASS TRAITOR" PEOPLE KEEP PRETENDING LIBRARIES DON'T EXIST? ARE THEY CLASS TRAITORS WHO DON'T BELIEVE IN LIBRARIES?

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Tim Dawson @timblor.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

More Greenland photos, featuring some geology. Scoresbysund has some fantastic exposures of columnar basalts, which are ~55 million years old (young for Greenland rocks!) related to flood basalts when the Atlantic was opening up. Fantastical shapes and fall tundra colors

Columnar basalts with some green and red plants.

Cliffs of basalt with snow, a water fall, and an icy fiord

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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

🚨🦜🐧Cover reveal! Thrilled to show off the cover of my upcoming book: The Story of Birds! Coming April 28. The whole history of birds, from their dinosaur origins to colossal extinct penguins & terror birds, to the 10,000+ species today. From @marinerbooks.bsky.social Preorder 👇

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

It’s almost time! We’re excited. You excited? Monday 00:00 GMT. 24 hours a match. This is going to be FAST

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

It's time to make your predictions (and help us test the voting site). Which ore mineral do you think will win? Bracket: www.mineralcup.org/ore-bracket Make your predictions: www.mineralcup.org/vote-results... Competition voting starts on MONDAY NOVEMBER 3!

A stylized trophy filled in with a hand-drawn stratigraphic cross section. The entire image is black and white

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N. M. (they/she)⚒️ 🇩🇪 🇳🇱 🇪🇺🏳️‍⚧️🌈 @yirara-bah.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

@earthquakes.au Yay, my #MegaQuake t-shirt arrived this week all the way from Australia. Fits perfectly. I hope it also rocks me.

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

10 days until the start of #OreCup and we have a bracket! www.mineralcup.org/ore-bracket

An 8-mineral elimination bracket for Ore Cup 2025. From top to bottom in pairs alternating from left to right, the competitors are Galena vs Copper; Molybdenite vs Tetrahedrite; Ilmenite vs Jadarite; and Carrollite vs Bornite. The bracket for Round 2 onwards is blank. At the bottom of the bracket, a caption reads “Campaign on your favourite social media using #OreCup. Daily voting takes place on www.MineralCup.org the first week of November. Presented by Mineral Cup & International Mineralogical Association's Commission on Ore Mineralogy.”

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

With 5.5 hours remaining to vote, #Tugtupite has the lead by under 40 votes over #Dioptase. Campaign for your fav and recruit new players to pick which mineral will compete in the #MinCup25 finals against #Kyanite!

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GHOULology Johnson @geologyjohnson.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Also I feel like #tugtupite, the pink power stone of the North, is the last, best hope, against #kyanite, the blue demon of depths. Rise Tugtupers! Rise against the Kyanightmare! #MinCup25

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N. M. (they/she)⚒️ 🇩🇪 🇳🇱 🇪🇺🏳️‍⚧️🌈 @yirara-bah.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Oh no, I stopped getting notifications not only here but also elsewhere! I nearly missed the vote. #Stibnite it is, because it looks gorgeous, just like #Okenite but less fluffy and more stable.

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

We’re drafting the bracket next week, so get those nominations in! Voting starts September 1st

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Cory J Godwin @biostrat.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Okay, now I feel better.

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Manon Uphoff @manonuphoff.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Strafbaar maken om mensen te helpen (bed, bad brood, praatje, medische hulp?)... Waarom per se dit land tot een onmenselijk hard gemeen wreed haatdragend agressief dom kil lelijk onaangenaam fascistoïde niet te harden afschuwelijke vreselijke plek willen vormen... waarom waarom waarom waarom waarom?

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

What this means is that we need to invest hundreds of billions of dollars into retrocomputing.

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ChatGPT "Absolutely Wrecked" at Chess by Atari 2600 Console From 1977

Despite all its advances, ChatGPT still, seemingly, is less smart than an Atari simulator on beginner mode.

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💀💀 Guy Le Mort 💀💀 @guylejeune.eurosky.social · 01/06/2025

Happy Pride to all you folk who make the world a better and more colourful place. ❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜

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N. M. (they/she)⚒️ 🇩🇪 🇳🇱 🇪🇺🏳️‍⚧️🌈 @yirara-bah.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

#BlueSkyHealthClub Ran 4km this evening. Not a lot, but I just had to take a 2 week break due to being sick and traveling. Will take a few more days until I'm able to run a bit better again.

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 26/05/2025

Looking at the different seasonality and trends in the magnitude of monthly temperature anomalies since 1940 for the Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, Antarctic and Arctic... Data from doi.org/10.24381/cds...

Line graph time series of monthly mean surface temperature anomalies for the Northern Hemisphere region only. Every month is shown from 1940 to April 2025. There is a long-term warming trend in all months of the year.

Line graph time series of monthly mean surface temperature anomalies for the Southern Hemisphere region only. Every month is shown from 1940 to April 2025. There is a long-term warming trend in all months of the year.

Line graph time series of monthly mean surface temperature anomalies for the Arctic region only. Every month is shown from 1940 to April 2025. There is a long-term warming trend in all months of the year and a strong seasonality in terms of the magnitude of the anomalies.

Line graph time series of monthly mean surface temperature anomalies for the Antarctic region only. Every month is shown from 1940 to April 2025. There is a long-term warming trend in all months of the year, but less obvious than the other regions.

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Small boulder the size of a large boulder on the Icefields Parkway in Banff National Park ⚒️

Pick up truck next to a large flat topped boulder on a mountain highway in Banff national Park

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

The US has pulled out of formal peace talks between Russia and Ukraine. So much for ending the war on day one. Another Trump Fail.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/04/2025

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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N. M. (they/she)⚒️ 🇩🇪 🇳🇱 🇪🇺🏳️‍⚧️🌈 @yirara-bah.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

#playmobil wants me to build a raptor that walks on its arms. Raptor is confused. #geology ⚒️🧪

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Pride in STEM @prideinstem.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Today is International Transgender Day of Visibility. There’s much to do everywhere so that trans and non-binary people can live without fear. Our single point of reflection is this: what’s your organisation doing to support trans+ people?

Digital drawing of The trans flag as painted stripes.

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