How cool is this? 🤩

For as long as I can remember, I’ve always been much more interested in what was above my head than what was below my feet. But this project showed me that looking down and back in time can be an important step toward the future of how we study worlds beyond.

🌍 2025
🗓 13th - 14th November
🕛 12:00Z
🛰 Meteosat-11

Thoughts are with everyone in Jamaica and Cuba right now.

Cuba's second largest city (Santiago de Cuba) looks like it will be close to the eye and on the dirty side at landfall and that bay and low-lying nature of the city is really worrisome, thinking about surge.

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL GEOETHICS DAY 2025!

This year we highlight the ethical responsibility of geoscientists in shaping a sustainable energy future.....

www.geoethics.org/geoethics-day

#geoethicsday2025 #geoethics #geoetica

If you're going to #GSAConnects there's a good chance you'll run into a lot of us @unc-emes.bsky.social folks!

I'll be at poster 174 Monday from 3:30 to 5:30 pm. Come say hi!

Awesome graphic by @drchikitoo.bsky.social

Bracket of MinCup25. For each mineral, the typical appearance is shown with a small image. Of course, some minerals have multiple colours, so snippets from the images on the voting posts or the website were taken. Colored lines connect the different rounds.

And here is the updated color summary for #MinCup25!
Colorless (white-grey-black) minerals were quickly kicked out, unfortunately. Maybe next time, there can be a max color level for participation? Tenebrescent #tugtupite can participate again and take a glorious win after exposure to UV ;-)

Sounds cute to me!🧛🏻‍♀️ I do respect Tugtupite, but can't be unfaithful to #Kyanite ☄️

Tugtupite is cute, but Kyanite will stay with you when things get hard. Last day to vote in #MinCup25 !

Wow! Last day of the Orogenic Systems field trip @unc-emes.bsky.social and @ou.edu Incredible geology, great group, amazing vistas!

Thermo25 was a great conference! Got to soak up the state of the art in thermochronology in one of the prettiest places I've ever seen - Kanazawa, Japan

It's the most wonderful time of the year

Next time we should make it intentional!

That's a wrap on sandstone hunting in the Piceance Basin in Colorado! Less than a month until I officially start my GRFP at @unc-emes.bsky.social 🪨⛰️

More cherry blossoms

Optimism may seem like it’s in short supply these days, but I fervently believe we must give ourselves permission to hope. Whether it’s looking for life in the universe or fighting for a brighter tomorrow here on Earth, optimism alone won’t be the solution to our problems, but it can be a start.

Orogeny xkcd.com/3070

Tephra field data workshop at IAVCEI 2025 sa2025.iavceivolcano.org/workshop-12/

A global biogeographic regionalization for butterflies | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences The partitioning of global biodiversity into biogeographic regions is critical for understanding the impacts of global-scale ecological and evolutionary processes on species assemblages as well as pri...

If we ignore everything else and classify world geography using only butterflies, there would be 19 continents.

New study:

Stromatolites xkcd.com/3046

Diana Ross at the Grammys gesturing to the heavens in white tulle and mirror shards

Diana Ross, being magical and addressing children “who may be frightened” with hope and reassurance. That’s a lot of us, lady

Not sure who needs to hear this, most of the stuff that government does is because a) society has determined those services are valuable and are willing to pay for it, and b) there is no private sector model to do most of those things.

Photo of me getting a sample from rock outcrops from the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum, Spain

Photo of rock outcrops from the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum, Spain

Sunset over hills in Northern Spain

I didn't think I would ever get a reason to feel kinship with Lady Gaga: "The chaos I thought was long gone is fully intact and ready to greet me whenever I’d like."

First field season of 2025 is in the books and I miss it already.

Our team at www.earthchem.org helped thousands of folks share, find, research, teach, and learn about geochemical data.

A universe in motion seen from the International Space Station during a night pass over Earth (view fullscreen).