Sounds intriguing, there is more detail here: spaceweekly.com?p=801385.
Although the concept does raise images of large horseshoe magnets and misguided coyotes. Better check that this isn't being sponsored by Acme Corporation...
Perhaps 'Weird lithosphere interactions with the mantle' was too long to fit 😁
Heading into conference abstract / presentation season, I 100% recommend Kathryn Langin's (@kangin.bsky.social) "Tell me a story! A plea for more compelling conference presentations". It's short, sweet, and not just for ornithologists. I can get behind every word!
🔒 academic.oup.com/condor/artic...
This was a fortuitous and intriguing juxtaposition in my feed... layers at all scales!
Hydrogen is a renewable fuel of the future, but how to store it? Is underground an option?
#GeoscienceAustralia ⚒️🧪 has an free online public talk on 27 March about how geological storage of hydrogen works, whether it can work for Australia and how it is working for industry in other countries.
The #GeoscienceAustralia ⚒️🧪 Public Talks are restarting! On 18 March is 'Numerical tectonic reconstruction of the Tasmanides: Integrating Australia, Antarctica and Zealandia into a global tectonic framework (580–250 Ma)' A fascinating region! events.teams.microsoft.com/event/e33ea3...
Know any 🦘🥝 STEM graduates ⚒️🧪💻 interested in making a meaningful contribution to public knowledge at #GeoscienceAustralia? Please encourage them to join in this online public talk next Tuesday, 17 March.
Volcanic asmr
The meaning of precision in geographical degrees.
±100°: You don't know where it is.
±10°: You know it's on a specific continent.
±1°: You know it's within about an hour's drive.
±0.1°: You could bike to it.
±0.01°: You could walk to it.
±0.001°: You could probably see it.
Just submitted the paper on this today. You can find sneak peaks on the models here www.thingiverse.com/GEUSVR/designs
+ other geology 3D-models
Steve Terrill’s photograph of Mount St. Helens erupting on May 18, 1980, viewed from Yale Lake: a massive gray ash column billows above the volcano’s snow-streaked cone, with dark evergreen ridges and the lake in the foreground; the image is shown here as a black-framed print with faint reflections on the plastic cover. Photo of photo by admin.
Steve's photo hung up in my office at my one job. This is from about ten years ago.
Not a great print bought online, but hey, I had my own office for the first time. Had to zhuzh it up.
Work at a science place? Put up some science wall art.
Awesome ⚒️🧪 paper with clever use of soft sediment cores and CT scanning to deduce the location and size of ancient earthquakes to help plan for future events. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Scientists: for a new story, I have one big question—>
What is a “good day” in the lab?
I’m looking for epic examples of the best day ever to general criteria for what constitutes a “good day” compared to a nothing-burger day.
Ping me if you have examples to share!
Re-posts appreciated!
A most sensational inspirational celebrational Muppetational thread...
(And go watch the Muppet Show special if you haven't already. It. Is. Awesome.)
Joan Wiffen, self-taught palaeontologist known for discovering the first dinosaur fossils in New Zealand, was born #OTD, 1922. wp.me/p3ihHu-4YT #WomeninSTEM 🧪⚒️
Technical staff are often overlooked and underrepresented at Scientific meetings...
We hope to address this with our new Technical Staff Meeting Attendance Bursary!
Please visit our website for full details and to apply: geochemistry.group/funding-oppo...
Yes, that seems typical for image creation. And in my experience any attempt to instruct it to make improvements will just make it worse.
Don't say: "There are too many rocks", Say: "Not enough shelves"
Product display showing several pink‑fletched carbon arrows arranged diagonally on a white background. The brand logo ‘ACCMOS’ appears at the top left, with orange Chinese text beside it. Smaller thumbnail images of different arrow styles are shown below, along with the product title ‘Earthquake-resistant 3K pure carbon true feather arrows.’
Didn't realise there was an overlap between 🏹 archery and ⚒️🧪 seismology, but I'll now be looking for earthquake resistance features next time I buy arrows...
"By reading cosmic ray fingerprints in zircon, we now have a new geological clock for measuring ancient processes on our planet's surface" ⚒️
phys.org/news/2026-01...
Some amazing footage (no cloud cover!!!!) from Subantarctic Heard Island captured a few days ago by members of the Australian science expedition.
#volcano #Antarctica #HeardIsland 🧪⚒️🌋
A photo of a calendar page hanging on a whiteboard. The top half features a stylized illustration with the title “Witness the birth of Earth’s Moon!” and “only in the HADEAN.” The artwork shows a red, rocky landscape with a hot air balloon floating above, referencing the Hadean Eon when Earth was young and the Moon had just formed. The lower half displays a monthly calendar grid for January, with dates arranged in rows. There are other posters and colorful stickers partially visible around the calendar.
My calendar is ready to go for the year. It is awesome, thank you!
#OreCup #copper is one of only two coloured metals ⚒️🧪
The iconic reddish color is due to a peculiarity in the transition of electrons between the 3d and 4s orbitals causing absorption of blue and green wavelengths and reflecting red/orange wavelengths. Also makes it a great electrical conductor.
Sunlight spills across a vast stretch of black sand, where scattered footprints lead toward the gentle shimmer of waves meeting the shore. To the left, green hills rise steeply against a horizon brushed with wisps of white cloud, while the deep blue sky arches overhead, streaked with light and warmth.
No flashy specimen pictures, just minerals by the billion - voting for #ilmenite in the ⚒️🧪 Ore Cup because it contributes to the awesome black sand beaches of #NewZealand 🇳🇿 . (PSA from personal experience: *always* bring footwear on a hot summer's day...)
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Always a big ⚒️🧪 fan of #copper. We use it for vacuum gaskets which we then give away to visiting school groups - they find it fascinating because although copper is everywhere it's rare to actually *see* it. There's probably a kilo or so of copper in your immediate vicinity.
It’s almost time!
We’re excited. You excited?
Monday 00:00 GMT. 24 hours a match. This is going to be FAST
Do you often see minerals attached to the fossils, or it just coincidental?
It's only allowed on the list if everyone promises the Tolkien Family Trust to pronounce it correctly.
