Geology Johnson
@geologyjohnson.bsky.social
Geologist of Precambrian mud and tiny fossils. Working Class. Northern. ND. He/Him. https://linktr.ee/worksofein
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It's time for #InverteFest, BRING OUT YOUR BUGS!
Go find bugs, draw bugs, have a seance with bugs but most importantly share bugs (all inverts).
We'll have a special announcement soon as well.
Plus, we've got this poster in multiple languages on our website! www.metrofieldguide.com/invertefest/
Go find bugs, draw bugs, have a seance with bugs but most importantly share bugs (all inverts).
We'll have a special announcement soon as well.
Plus, we've got this poster in multiple languages on our website! www.metrofieldguide.com/invertefest/
🎶It's the most invertebrate time of the year🎶 For this August #Invertfest I am take requests for which invert I will paint on my lunch. Leave your requests below.
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I spoke to my deep passion of bogs and peatlands in this TEDx talk. Will you join me in becoming a bog champion? m.youtube.com/watch?v=mWt9...
Bogs are real superheroes, cast as villains | Dr. Merritt Turetsky | TEDxBoulder
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
m.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I spoke to my deep passion of bogs and peatlands in this TEDx talk. Will you join me in becoming a bog champion? m.youtube.com/watch?v=mWt9...
Or rocks
November 26, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Or rocks
NT's will never understand the shame and feelings of helplessness that come from an ND mistake. I've missed an important appointment because my #dyslexia sent me to the wrong building. I missed it again today due to bus strike I didn't know about. Still feels like my fault though. #audhd #autism
November 26, 2025 at 8:59 AM
To some of us, it still is.
I think Pecan Pie is one of those things that is divisive now because it’s just a blob of sugar with nuts on it but to someone 150 years ago who ate shoes it was probably like having 12 orgasms at once
November 26, 2025 at 6:50 AM
To some of us, it still is.
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Hoping if any journalists are doing end-of-year Top 10 Lists of Bluesky Feeds, they’ll consider the SciArt Feed 🐡.
One of the oldest Feeds on Bluesky: a curated list of contributors to keep AI out; and the 4th most popular Feed in both Science and Art.
One of the oldest Feeds on Bluesky: a curated list of contributors to keep AI out; and the 4th most popular Feed in both Science and Art.
November 26, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Hoping if any journalists are doing end-of-year Top 10 Lists of Bluesky Feeds, they’ll consider the SciArt Feed 🐡.
One of the oldest Feeds on Bluesky: a curated list of contributors to keep AI out; and the 4th most popular Feed in both Science and Art.
One of the oldest Feeds on Bluesky: a curated list of contributors to keep AI out; and the 4th most popular Feed in both Science and Art.
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Piece of Decaying Plant Matter I Found In Some Lake Water
November 25, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Piece of Decaying Plant Matter I Found In Some Lake Water
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#TrilobiteTuesday
Here is part of the body of quite a large trilobite known as Paradoxides spinosus. This specimen comes from the Middle Cambrian (Drumian) Jince Formation from the Czech Republic. Paradoxides is one of the largest trilobites known from the Cambrian period.
Here is part of the body of quite a large trilobite known as Paradoxides spinosus. This specimen comes from the Middle Cambrian (Drumian) Jince Formation from the Czech Republic. Paradoxides is one of the largest trilobites known from the Cambrian period.
November 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM
#TrilobiteTuesday
Here is part of the body of quite a large trilobite known as Paradoxides spinosus. This specimen comes from the Middle Cambrian (Drumian) Jince Formation from the Czech Republic. Paradoxides is one of the largest trilobites known from the Cambrian period.
Here is part of the body of quite a large trilobite known as Paradoxides spinosus. This specimen comes from the Middle Cambrian (Drumian) Jince Formation from the Czech Republic. Paradoxides is one of the largest trilobites known from the Cambrian period.
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You're told it'll sabotage your career if you're a vocally politically opinionated, queer, woman. But things sabotaging my career are systemic xenophobia, sexism, and horrible job market. Which are a direct consequences of people not being vocally opinionated in the first place.
November 25, 2025 at 2:27 AM
You're told it'll sabotage your career if you're a vocally politically opinionated, queer, woman. But things sabotaging my career are systemic xenophobia, sexism, and horrible job market. Which are a direct consequences of people not being vocally opinionated in the first place.
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Thinking about doing a big post with all the first-gen migrants in British palaeontology and palaeoart. Not many of us, but we vibing with crippling stress of being deported from or discriminated in, what has became, our only home.
a cartoon dog is walking on a checkered floor in a dark room
ALT: a cartoon dog is walking on a checkered floor in a dark room
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November 25, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Thinking about doing a big post with all the first-gen migrants in British palaeontology and palaeoart. Not many of us, but we vibing with crippling stress of being deported from or discriminated in, what has became, our only home.
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*Megathura* for #MolluscMonday. Giant keyhole limpets are so wonderfully chonky! #MarineLife 🌊🦑
November 24, 2025 at 7:37 PM
*Megathura* for #MolluscMonday. Giant keyhole limpets are so wonderfully chonky! #MarineLife 🌊🦑
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Report of possible explosive eruption at Hayli Gubbi, Ethiopia. This volcano lies south of Erta Ale, and above the location of a dike intrusion that was detected in late July 2025. No historical eruptions are known from this #volcano. @uk-comet.bsky.social
Volcanic Ash Advisory (#VAAC) for #Hayli_Gubbi #volcano (Ethiopia)
Explosive activity continues. Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (#VAAC) #Toulouse warned about a volcanic ash plume that rose up to estimated 10000 ft (3000 m) altitude or flight level 100 and is moving at 15 kts in NW direction.
Explosive activity continues. Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (#VAAC) #Toulouse warned about a volcanic ash plume that rose up to estimated 10000 ft (3000 m) altitude or flight level 100 and is moving at 15 kts in NW direction.
Hayli Gubbi Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: ERUPTION AT 20251123/0830Z EXPLOSIVE ACTIVITY ONGOING to 10000 ft (3000 m)
www.volcanodiscovery.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Report of possible explosive eruption at Hayli Gubbi, Ethiopia. This volcano lies south of Erta Ale, and above the location of a dike intrusion that was detected in late July 2025. No historical eruptions are known from this #volcano. @uk-comet.bsky.social
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Paleo folks: Please recommend researchers (incl yourselves) interested in phylogenetic reconstruction in deep time, molecular clocks (discord w/ fossil clocks), foundational/methodological issues in phylo/paleo-reconstruction & who'd be interested in hanging w/ historians & philosophers of science ⚒️
November 24, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Paleo folks: Please recommend researchers (incl yourselves) interested in phylogenetic reconstruction in deep time, molecular clocks (discord w/ fossil clocks), foundational/methodological issues in phylo/paleo-reconstruction & who'd be interested in hanging w/ historians & philosophers of science ⚒️
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please look at tubercle burrowing crayfish with me. photo by Jo Khan
November 24, 2025 at 3:05 AM
please look at tubercle burrowing crayfish with me. photo by Jo Khan
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A Decaying Leaf
This was also from the dyed flowers, so maybe there's some dye in here as well. I'm not sure exactly how I got such a strange effect on the usually dark portion in the photo, but I kind of like it.
This was also from the dyed flowers, so maybe there's some dye in here as well. I'm not sure exactly how I got such a strange effect on the usually dark portion in the photo, but I kind of like it.
November 24, 2025 at 6:44 AM
A Decaying Leaf
This was also from the dyed flowers, so maybe there's some dye in here as well. I'm not sure exactly how I got such a strange effect on the usually dark portion in the photo, but I kind of like it.
This was also from the dyed flowers, so maybe there's some dye in here as well. I'm not sure exactly how I got such a strange effect on the usually dark portion in the photo, but I kind of like it.
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On Doctor Who Day I would like to share with you that Thundercracker is one of the Deception Seekers (the Jets like Starscream) who became a Neutral party who has a dog named Buster and wrote an award winning Screenplay.
November 23, 2025 at 6:12 PM
On Doctor Who Day I would like to share with you that Thundercracker is one of the Deception Seekers (the Jets like Starscream) who became a Neutral party who has a dog named Buster and wrote an award winning Screenplay.
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What I’ve been trying to point out for years now is that there is a money maker behind this sentiment, invested in it staying set this way. You can’t have billion dollar industry forcing autistic children to mask without scaring everyone about autism first
I think my biggest problem with the "vaccines cause autism" bullshit is that, even assuming they did (they don't, actually), neurodiversity is...good?
"Oh no, instead of polio and measles, people are cool and have new and different ways of thinking about things" is, uh, a really weird flex
"Oh no, instead of polio and measles, people are cool and have new and different ways of thinking about things" is, uh, a really weird flex
November 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
What I’ve been trying to point out for years now is that there is a money maker behind this sentiment, invested in it staying set this way. You can’t have billion dollar industry forcing autistic children to mask without scaring everyone about autism first
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This is unbelievably exciting for me! I’ve sampled at dusk before, but this is the first time I’ve found krill (Euphausiacea)!!! I’ve identified this individual as Nyctiphanes couchii, which is a coastal species common in the southern North Sea.
#marineplankton 🦑
#marineplankton 🦑
November 23, 2025 at 9:49 AM
This is unbelievably exciting for me! I’ve sampled at dusk before, but this is the first time I’ve found krill (Euphausiacea)!!! I’ve identified this individual as Nyctiphanes couchii, which is a coastal species common in the southern North Sea.
#marineplankton 🦑
#marineplankton 🦑
Case in point. The cafe I mentioned that had naked light bulbs at eye level over every table. In fact, every aspect of that cafe was (probs accidentally) antithetical to mine and my partners ND traits. An aesthetic at the cost of comfort and utility.
My problem isn't being autistic. It's having to live in a world that was not designed to accommodate people like me.
There is nothing wrong with autism
November 23, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Case in point. The cafe I mentioned that had naked light bulbs at eye level over every table. In fact, every aspect of that cafe was (probs accidentally) antithetical to mine and my partners ND traits. An aesthetic at the cost of comfort and utility.
What is it with Belgium and the lack of lampshades? I'm in a cafe and there is a naked bulb over the table at eye level. My room in liege is the same. Industrial interior design is great for video game levels but not practical living space. 🫠
November 23, 2025 at 9:36 AM
What is it with Belgium and the lack of lampshades? I'm in a cafe and there is a naked bulb over the table at eye level. My room in liege is the same. Industrial interior design is great for video game levels but not practical living space. 🫠
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South East OUGS latest branch newsletter
All the OUGS branch newsletters, from across the UK and Mainland Europe too, are available to members on our website ougs.org and you can find our Events Diary there too.
All the OUGS branch newsletters, from across the UK and Mainland Europe too, are available to members on our website ougs.org and you can find our Events Diary there too.
November 23, 2025 at 6:05 AM
South East OUGS latest branch newsletter
All the OUGS branch newsletters, from across the UK and Mainland Europe too, are available to members on our website ougs.org and you can find our Events Diary there too.
All the OUGS branch newsletters, from across the UK and Mainland Europe too, are available to members on our website ougs.org and you can find our Events Diary there too.
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Still posting cytoskeleton videos, it seems. Actin this time.
Sample: Lifeact-eGFP in HeLa cells.
Modality: Airyscan confocal
Timestamp is mm:ss and the scale bar is 5 µm.
Sample: Lifeact-eGFP in HeLa cells.
Modality: Airyscan confocal
Timestamp is mm:ss and the scale bar is 5 µm.
November 23, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Still posting cytoskeleton videos, it seems. Actin this time.
Sample: Lifeact-eGFP in HeLa cells.
Modality: Airyscan confocal
Timestamp is mm:ss and the scale bar is 5 µm.
Sample: Lifeact-eGFP in HeLa cells.
Modality: Airyscan confocal
Timestamp is mm:ss and the scale bar is 5 µm.
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Want to know the cost/benefit balance of outing 🏳️🌈 oneself* to your students? Here’s the analysis from 9 instructors, 2045 student surveys, implying mostly positive &/or beneficial to the students.
*I don’t think anyone should feel obliged to, not least bc the study features no trans/nb instructors.
*I don’t think anyone should feel obliged to, not least bc the study features no trans/nb instructors.
Nine Undergraduate Biology Instructors Revealing their LGBTQ+ Identities in Class Resulted in Benefits for their LGBTQ+ Students and Students with Other Marginalized Identities | CBE—Life Sciences Edu...
Few LGBTQ+ biology instructors reveal their identities to undergraduates, often without considering the potential student benefits. Although instructors who have revealed their LGBTQ+ identity perceiv...
www.lifescied.org
November 23, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Want to know the cost/benefit balance of outing 🏳️🌈 oneself* to your students? Here’s the analysis from 9 instructors, 2045 student surveys, implying mostly positive &/or beneficial to the students.
*I don’t think anyone should feel obliged to, not least bc the study features no trans/nb instructors.
*I don’t think anyone should feel obliged to, not least bc the study features no trans/nb instructors.
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here's how to color a worm. since I only draw on one layer, painting directly over the blue and orange creates interesting tints.
November 23, 2025 at 2:34 AM
here's how to color a worm. since I only draw on one layer, painting directly over the blue and orange creates interesting tints.