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Jordan van der Hagen @thejvandy.bsky.social · 9h

The Lake Superior Circle Tour Honeymoon, Part One: A Few Quick Stops on the North Shore and We Were On Our Way.

The North Shore, Minnesota

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bse @doktrock.bsky.social · 53m

Check this out! Seismology education software, free 🧪⚒️ #geosciences

Adam Pascale @seislologist.bsky.social · 1h

It’s #earthscienceweek so I thought I’d go into a bit more detail on how educators can use to our Quick Quake tool to demonstrate how @earthquakes.au seismologists quickly calculate the location and magnitude of an earthquake. It works on macOS machines with Apple Silicon too.

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Adam Pascale @seislologist.bsky.social · 1h

It’s #earthscienceweek so I thought I’d go into a bit more detail on how educators can use to our Quick Quake tool to demonstrate how @earthquakes.au seismologists quickly calculate the location and magnitude of an earthquake. It works on macOS machines with Apple Silicon too.

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Dr. Judith Hubbard @judithgeology.bsky.social · 8h

It was a pleasure to contribute to this article, which talks about how AI contributes to seismology - indeed, we have seen tremendous progress in the use of machine learning to detect small events.

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“Like putting on glasses for the first time”—how AI improves earthquake detection

AI is “comically good” at detecting small earthquakes—here’s why that matters.

arstechnica.com

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bse @doktrock.bsky.social · 5h

Anticline in the Paleoproterozoic Thomson Formation, near Jay Cooke State Park, Northeast #Minnesota. Deformation due to the Penokean Orogeny, ca 1850–1900 Ma. This is a favorite fieldtrip stop; included in the GSA Centennial Guidebook. An October picture from the archives. #geology #FridayFold 🧪⚒️

Outcrop along a riverbank showing a gray fine grained rock. Bedding planes dip in opposite directions on either side. Part of a bridge can be seen crossing the river.

Satellite image with the location of the outcrop shown. The St. Louis River has continuous exposure of the Thomson Fm towards the ESE. Town of Carlton to the west.

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Géosciences ENS @geosciences.bsky.social · 3d

⛰️ Entre Nice et le col de la Bonette (2860 m), nos étudiants du Master 1 #STEPE ENS-PSL mesurent la forme du champ de gravité terrestre à l’aide de stations GNSS 📡 Un stage de terrain au cœur des Alpes pour mieux comprendre les déformations de la croûte terrestre. #geosciences #géodésie #terrain

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Mark Tingay @marktingay.bsky.social · 10h

⚒️🧪 Fiery eruption of Otman-Bozdagh mud volcano in Azerbaijan!

The Otman-Bozdagh mud volcano erupted at ~8:27am local time today (11/10/25).

Three eruption phases of between 4-12 minutes were recorded over an ~40 minute period.

Video source: @_yagha_

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Chris Lowery @chrislowery.bsky.social · 1d

Happy #FossilFriday, the University of Texas is hiring two curators/non-TT professors for our Vertebrate and Non-vertebrate Paleontology Labs: apply.interfolio.com/175702

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Dr. Andrea Dutton @drandreadutton.bsky.social · 23h

🌊🌊JOB ALERT!! Are you an ice sheet modeler looking for a postdoc that does not rely on federal funding? Come join our research team at University of Wisconsin-Madison to study the physical and human dynamics of sea-level rise. www.linkedin.com/posts/andrea...

Job ad for postdoctoral research in ice sheet modeling | Andrea Dutton

🌊 🌊 JOB ALERT!! Looking for a postdoc that does not rely on federal funding?? Looking to live in a city that is routinely ranked as one of the best cities to live in across the entire U.S.? Come jo...

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Dr. Andrea Dutton @drandreadutton.bsky.social · 23h

🌊🌊JOB ALERT!! Are you an ice sheet modeler looking for a postdoc that does not rely on federal funding? Come join our research team at University of Wisconsin-Madison to study the physical and human dynamics of sea-level rise. www.linkedin.com/posts/andrea...

Job ad for postdoctoral research in ice sheet modeling | Andrea Dutton

🌊 🌊 JOB ALERT!! Looking for a postdoc that does not rely on federal funding?? Looking to live in a city that is routinely ranked as one of the best cities to live in across the entire U.S.? Come jo...

www.linkedin.com

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ladies and gentlemen, the weekend 😌 @craigweekends.bsky.social · 22h

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Marcus Brandel @lostbones.bsky.social · 20h

🦥 #FossilFriday P68.40.1 - the rarest Minnesota fossil I’ve ever held in my hand: an ungual phalanx of #Megalonyxjeffersoni (Giant #GroundSloth). Discovered in a pile of excavated peat, this individual toe claw remains the singular specimen of this animal found in the state.
#Pleistocene #Fossil

Discovered in the late 1960s by a City of Minneapolis Park Board Department worker in a pile of excavated peat, this individual toe claw remains the singular specimen of this animal found in the state and is now in the Science Museum of Minnesota’s collection.

Plate 2 from: Erickson, Bruce R. (1968). A Claw of Megalonyx (Ground Sloth) from Minnesota. In Volume 1: Paleontology, pp. 1–8.

Plate 1 from: Erickson, Bruce R. (1968). A Claw of Megalonyx (Ground Sloth) from Minnesota. In Volume 1: Paleontology, pp. 1–8.

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Kelly Jelly 🪼 @kellybdevoe.bsky.social · 1d

CHICAGO

UPTOWN is full of ICE agents today, be careful, let people know. They’ve been all over today

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Frederick Melo, Reporter (TwinCities.com, Pioneer Press) @frederickmelo.bsky.social · 1d

What's the future, real and imagined, of the United Village development around Allianz Field? Plans call for a French bakery, Italian pizzeria, acre-sized flower garden, lover's/family-style ice rink, modern art, and maybe a daycare, housing and more twincities.com/2025/10/10/p... via
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Plans for St. Paul’s Allianz Field: A bakery, pizzeria, garden, ice rink

Regardless of what dreams may come, construction equipment is on the ground turning earth for three new structures.

twincities.com

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Dr. Viktor Baranov🧪🦟🐛🪲 @swarmofthoughts.bsky.social · 3d

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Telmatomyia means “fly from standing water.”
It’s the oldest record of non-biting midges from the Southern Hemisphere — from the famous Talbragar Fish Bed, a fossil snapshot of life in a lake that covered parts of New South Wales ~150 million years ago.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 1d

Hey Minnesota: ICE is now on the ground in NE Minneapolis. See thread. Stay alert everyone!

Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 1d

Thread on ICE in holland, Northeast Minneapolis the morning of 10/10/2025.

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Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 1d

Thread on ICE in holland, Northeast Minneapolis the morning of 10/10/2025.

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Adriana Guatame-García @adrianaguatame.bsky.social · 8d

Super excited to get new colleagues in the next year!
Do you want to be one of them? Check these positions to join the Earth, energy and environment department at @ucalgary.bsky.social

I’m also happy to chat if you have questions 🧪⚒️🧑‍🔬👩‍🔬👨🏼‍🔬

Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 8d

🚨FOUR tenure track positions in my dept @ucalgary.bsky.social @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social in applied & computational geophysics, subsurface geochemistry, sedimentary geology, and sustainable soil science. careers.ucalgary.ca/search/jobs?...

(please reskeet widely!) #academicsky 🧪⚒️🇨🇦

Opportunities matching 'earth'

Search 4 Careers available at University of Calgary.

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Dr Suresh Singh @palaeosingh.bsky.social · 1d

A couple snapshots of an ancient apex predator for this #FossilFriday - presenting the fossil teeth & snout of an #Erythrosuchus africanus, the big-headed, hypercarnivorous archosauromorph from the Early-Mid #Triassic of South Africa 🇿🇦

#Paleontology #Science

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Isolated teeth of Erythrosuchus africanus from the collections of the Natural History Museum UK.

The tip of the snout of Erythrosuchus africanus from the collections of the Natural History Museum UK.

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Alan Kafka @alankafka.bsky.social · 1d

Draft of Chapter 2 of my book "Geoscience and Society from Galileo to the 21st Century" is now available for public access, and you can read it here:

Chapter 2: The Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 and the “Age of Science and Reason”

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Draft of Chapter 2 of my book "Geoscience and Society from Galileo to the 21st Century"

Chapter 2: The Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 and the “Age of Science and Reason"

open.substack.com

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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 1d

This link will take you to PHIVOLCS, the Philippines national institution dedicated to providing information on the activities of volcanoes, earthquakes, and tsunamis.

Be sure to use and reference official sources whenever possible.

www.phivolcs.dost.gov.ph/index.php/ea...

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LastQuake @lastquake.emsc.eu · 1d

🔎 What was the faulting motion that caused the #earthquake (#lindol) in #Manay? Moment tensor map from seismological institute(s):

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Andrew Alden @geology.bsky.social · 1d

Poor old Philippines can't get a break: M7.4 just off Mindanao

The Earthquake Event Page application supports most recent browsers, view supported browsers. Or, try our Real-time Notifications, Feeds, and Web Services.

earthquake.usgs.gov

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Geology Johnson @geologyjohnson.bsky.social · 2d

Some 3.8 billion year old rocks from Isua, Greenland. See alt text for details. These are from a friends collection, sadly they are not mine. #Geology

Human hand holding a small ~ 5cm square lump of dark brown metamorphosed basalt that is composed of flowing lumpy shapes and masses of needle like brown crystals

human hand holding a ~2cm long piece of metamorphsed volcanic rock that is made of alternating black bands of magnetite and white-cream bands of feldspar and quartz.

human hand holding a ~2cm mass of grey brown fuchsite crystals which look like layered masses of needles.

human hand holding a ~3cm lump of grey brown metamorphosed basalt that is encrusted with masses of pea sized dark red garnets.

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 2d

What percentage of the benefits of scientific conferences do you think comes from sharing our work with each other vs simply having a deadline we are forced to finish things by? Could be 50/50

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