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Wild garlic and trees for banks to lane

Bee landing on wild garlic

here’s a lovely lane from yesterday evening with wild garlic #wildflower; and also wild garlic with a #bee in a lane yesterday afternoon, when was in cornwall

The Dermal Skeleton of Stem‐Actinopterygian Moythomasia durgaringa and Its Implications for the Nature of the Ancestral Osteichthyan The figure presents a model of Moythomasia and a schematic histological model illustrating the internal structure and features of the cranial bones. These include bone (brown), osteocyte spaces (red)...

Our latest: Dermoskeletal histology of Moythomasia and the evolution of the vertebrate dermal skeleton, led by Xianren Shan and Edine Pape, with a little help from Martin Rucklin @evopalaeo.bsky.social and Davide Pisani @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social

American Mineralogist:
(Li,Na)-P substitution in garnet: an indicator of ultrahigh-pressure conditions in subducted continental crust
Martin Racek, et al.
doi.org/10.2138/am-2...
Garnet is an important carrier of Li, with implications for its mantle cycle.

The church service is about to get under way in Waterloo before we head off to the march. #Together @togetheralliance.bsky.social

Huge crowds take part in London march against the far right – live Organisers claim half a million people are marching through central London, protesting against the rise of the far right

It was big, being near the back we hardly moved by 3.30pm just reaching starting line, (was with christian bloc, which had a good service at oasis church waterloo first)
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...

Neues Elektronenstrahl-Mikrosonden-Labor der JGU mit der EPMA-Sonde als Herzstück (Foto/©: Peter Pulkowski / JGU)

Elektronenstrahl-Mikrosonden-Labor an #UniMainz eingeweiht: Extrem hohe Präzision in Elementanalytik eröffnet großes Anwendungsspektrum / Förderung durch DFG & MWG 👉 presse.uni-mainz.de/neues-elektro…

#Forschung #Geowissenschaften #Chemie #Materialwissenschaften #Archäologie #Medizin #CoreFacility

Deadline for submissions for Bastin Thesis Award Tuesday June 30th, 2026

"Bastin PhD Thesis Award to promote and reward the interest in microbeam analysis and related techniques by young people in the early stages of a scientific or technical career"

www.microbeamanalysis.eu/activities/b...

Just reading EMAS news...
If your interested in EBSD, EMAS regional workshop, poster deadline 15th April, early bird registration deadline end of April.
www.microbeamanalysis.eu

Equip FIB/SEM d'última generació. CrossBeam 350 (ZEISS). Finançat pel Ministeri de Ciència i Innovació i els fons Next Generation EU.

🆕 Els #CCiTUB incorporen un nou equip FIB/SEM d'última generació: el CrossBeam 350 @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social

Finançat íntegrament per #FondosdeRecuperación #NextGeneration🇪🇺.

Una inversió estratègica de 1.228.000 €.

👉 tuit.cat/EeZsL

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American Mineralogist:
A Zr-Hf geothermometer for magmatic zircon: New experiments and formulation
Leonid Aranovich, Alexander Borisov
doi.org/10.2138/am-2...
Experimental data on ZrO2 and HfO2 solubility indicate nearly identical dependence of zircon and hafnon solubility on the melt composition.

Coal: USS is still funding the dirtiest polluter! USS says it has divested from those companies that earn more than 25% of their revenue from thermal coal mining [1].  This makes a useful headline but how does it measure up in reality? A rece…

divestuss.org/2026/03/17/c...

Or is it to aid sale of tescan SEMs in Japan?

I see @shimadzuuk.bsky.social have taken over tescan, will this lead to increased marketing and potentially sales of Shimadzu EPMA in Europe and UK? I don't think there is currently any.
www.shimadzu.com/sites/shimad...

How Heat Pumps & Geo-exchange will help Princeton University decarbonize YouTube video by Office of Sustainability at Princeton University

Universities provide an interesting testbed for adopting innovative technologies. Here is Princeton using what appears to be a very large ground source heat pump with 2,000 (!) boreholes.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjdS...

American Mineralogist:
Kimberlite emplacement conditions through experimentally produced reaction rims on ilmenite macrocrysts

Lydia Fairhurst, Yana Fedortchouk, Michael Powell

doi.org/10.2138/am-2...

Lithospheric mantle cooling recorded by zoned diamonds: forward modelling the nitrogen aggregation thermometer Continental growth, buoyancy and stability are key processes in the evolution of the Earth and are governed by temperature. To constrain the thermal h…

Great to hear Matt Wincott talking about his paper and thesis work, looking at calculating with models temperatures and cooling rates from zoned diamonds, which is pretty cool, and involved some nice CL images from SEM and some EPMA
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X2600083X

Statement from RMetS on removal of funding for the FAAM aircraft by NERC, urging continued dialogue between funders, government and the scientific community to reassess the long-term implications of this decision. (1/4)

www.rmets.org/news/stateme...

BBC Radio 4 - Lent Talks, Power and Support A series of personal reflections on power.

Radio Appearance 🎙️

Yesterday, Dr Miro Griffiths appeared on BBC Radio Four Lent Talks, delivering a thoughtful essay exploring power and support.

Curious to hear Miro's insights? Listen here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002s2zj

Here’s the EMAS conference colume published end of January. Includes paper by Ery Hughes on EPMA of glass and a couple of papers looking at reflection zone plate spectromter alternative to JEOL SXES
www.epj-conferences.org/articles/epj...

I’m so touched to be recognised by the @bristoluni.bsky.social with their 2026 Alumni Lifetime Achievement Award.

The picture of me as an undergraduate in the early 1980s presents a vivid reminder of just how long I’ve been involved with this work!

www.bristol.ac.uk/alumni/alumn...

A free, open-source method for automated mapping of quantitative mineralogy from energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy scans of rock thin sections Abstract. Quantitative mapping of minerals in rock thin sections delivers data on mineral abundance, size, and spatial arrangement that are useful for many geoscience and engineering disciplines. Alth...

This looks interesting always nice to use free open source programs where possible and rapid elemental mapping of thin sections is now possible
gi.copernicus.org/articles/14/...

Microanalysis Technician:South Kensington

For people looking for an x-ray microanalysis job
jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Japanese electronics! A new electron microprobe will let us study the chemistry of minerals in micron scale detail.

QGIS and Microanalysis: Combining Multiple Software Packages to Provide a Spatial Record Abstract. QGIS is a well-established free open-source geographical information system that provides the ability to combine microscopic and analytical infor

Here’s an article I wrote hoping to open up discussion and bring it to attention, whilst there are more experienced people doing this.
Unfortunately seems to have lost supplementary data hoping it will be rectified
academic.oup.com/mt/article-a...

With accompanying documentation
hezel2000.github.io/mag4/micropr...

This looks at interesting paper
dx.doi.org/10.2138/am-2...