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Vergil 🌋
@kleinergeologe.bsky.social
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German geoscience PhD candidate
Looked at the European Cenozoic Volcanic Province:
Petrology of silica undersaturated rocks,
olivine-melilite-nephelinite and other tongue twister
& Geochemistry of (trachy-) basalts to trachytes
Now metamorphic MIs
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Vergil 🌋 @kleinergeologe.bsky.social · Nov 8
kleinergeologe.github.io/Iceland-map/... Map of lava fields produced by the ongoing 2023-2024 Svartsengi eruption series.
Iceland eruption series 2023 - 2024
kleinergeologe.github.io
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astrokatie.com
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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rcolesworthy.bsky.social
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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alarosa.bsky.social
The #HayliGubbi eruption came after a period of unrest that started in June-July 2025 with a large dike intrusion in the southern sector of the Erta Ale rift. Our InSAR study will be out soon but you can have a summary at the link below. @earth-science.bsky.social #geoscience
November 25, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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simoncarn.bsky.social
Thanks Tim. @planet.com imagery from Nov 24 show some subsidence in the southern half of the Erta Ale caldera after the #HayliGubbi eruption (plus widespread ash deposits).
November 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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eumetsat.int
An eruption from the #HayliGubbi volcano in #Ethiopia resulted in a large ash cloud, visible here from space. 🌋

This impressive view was seen 36,000km above Earth by our Meteosat-12 satellite on 23 November at 13:40 UTC.
November 24, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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joschuaknuppe.bsky.social
And here the results from the Solnhofen #paleostream! This image depicts large parts of the terrestrial fauna of the Altmühltal Formation, the best understood part of the litographic limestone formations of Germany. There were several reasons for gong onto land despite...
November 24, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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erikklemetti.bsky.social
Here is a hastily constructed animated gif from different NASA satellites showing the progression of the Hayli Gubbi eruption. Note the tall ash plume spreading NE (right) and a lower, light tan ash flow(?) moving NNW. #eruption #volcano
November 23, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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neuroandbeyond.bsky.social
Seeing Proteins at Nanoscale: ONE Microscopy

🎥 Watch Episode #23 with Dr. Ali Shaib @alishaib.bsky.social to explore how #ONEMicroscopy is revolutionizing the imaging and advancing #diagnostics.

Watch the full episode here: youtu.be/lZry8WV4j3g?...
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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chriso-wiki.bsky.social
In honour of its proponents, I suggest that the Dmitriev-Witkoff proposal should henceforth be called the Dim-Wit Plan
November 23, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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neuroandbeyond.bsky.social
How do femtosecond lasers enable precise imaging in neuroscience?

🎥 Watch Episode #22 with Dr. Lukas Krainer to explore how #TwoPhotonMicroscopy, and #AdvancedImaging are transforming neuroscience #research and clinical #diagnostics.

Watch the full episode on this link:
youtu.be/IlZZowWkOn8?...
November 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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seismo-steve.bsky.social
This figure from a perspective piece on our paper by Virginie Pinel beautifully illustrates our proposed magma-pumping mechanism!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
November 22, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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nataliajagielska.bsky.social
Did you know. That the meme-explosion that was the wooden model of Sacabambaspis (an Ordovician jawless fish) held at a Museum in Helsinki, was created by a pioneering Estonian fish paleontologist and palaeoartist, Elga Mark-Kurik. 🧵
Valentina Karatajute-Talimaa and Elga Mark-Kurik on Kreuzritter lake (Kryzhiuochiu ezheras), under an umbrella, north of Vilnius,Lithuania, 1977 (photo H.-P. Schultze). Model of sacabambaspis helsinki
November 11, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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teoyaomiquu.bsky.social
Yesterday 15,000$ was fundraised for the excavators and trucks for Ukraine, a solid result. But we still are 64,000$ short. please consider donating and liking this message. (today's goal is to raise 8000$ and reach 64,000$)

donation link: www.paypal.com/donate?campa...

A small delivery video⤵️
November 20, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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simoncarn.bsky.social
Some stunning footage of ongoing pyroclastic flow activity at Semeru #volcano (Java, Indonesia). Screen capture shows a lightning strike at ~16:07 UTC. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txgr...
November 19, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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nataliajagielska.bsky.social
*gasp* what is this?!
November 17, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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florianaigner.at
Ein tolles neues Projekt aus Österreich holt CO2 aus der Atmosphäre - und zwar mit deutlich weniger Energiebedarf als bisher. Ein Thread darüber, was daran neu ist und warum das wichtig ist.
www.tuwien.at/tu-wien/aktu...
Neue Technologie holt CO2 aus der Atmosphäre
Durch ein neuartiges Verfahren kann man mit verringertem Energieaufwand CO2 aus der Luft abscheiden.
www.tuwien.at
November 17, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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joschuaknuppe.bsky.social
Here the result of the Seaham Formation #paleostream, maybe the most relaxing formation stream we will ever have! This Carboniferous tundra wasn't chosen because of it's fossils, but because of its setting.
November 16, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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kokogiak.bsky.social
This is an insanely cool (actual) photo taken by photographer Andrew McCarthy of a skydiver buddy seen in silhouette against the distant sun. Full story, videos, and more here: www.instagram.com/p/DRBAaqLkvy...
The silhouette of a skydiver, seen against a very zoomed-in and detailed view of the surface of the sun in the far distance. (Andrew McCarthy - https://www.instagram.com/cosmic_background/ )
November 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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nadwgab.bsky.social
319 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️

Monazite:
- A phosphate mineral series with species rich in cerium, lanthanum, neodymium, samarium or gadolinium
- Radioactive due to thorium and sometimes uranium
- Its name comes from the Greek word "μονάζειν/monázein (to be alone) because of its isolated crystals #minerals
A brown fragment of a prismatic monazite crystal. From Mount Garnet, Queensland, Australia. Specimen on display in the Natural History Museum, London. A test tube containing brown graines of monazite in sand. From South Bukuru, Nigeria. Specimen on display in the Natural History Museum, London.
November 15, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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nataliajagielska.bsky.social
Love this Rhamphorhynchus specimen held in the Natural History Museum Karlsruhe. It's like seeing a pterosaur in flight, stuck in time.
In this specimen, preserved in the fine silt of the Jurassic Solnhofen Lagoon, not only was the complete, sessile skeleton preserved, but also the wing and tail membranes, as well as previously unknown internal structures. The complete preservation of the trailing edge of the wing membrane is exceptional. It was discovered on this fossil that the wing finger is supported on its back by a wedge of connective tissue, which ensures a perfect airfoil profile but renders the wing finger immobile. Furthermore, under filtered UV light, the finest structures can be discerned within the wing membrane: connective tissue that stabilizes the membrane, blood vessels, and remnants of the wing membrane muscles.
November 14, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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joschuaknuppe.bsky.social
Endless forms most beautiful...
November 13, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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nataliajagielska.bsky.social
Got informed about some sad news. Garfield Minott, a prolific dinosaur modeller, special effects and palaeoartist, recognised for contributions to the description of dinosaur binocular vision, passed away at age of 58.
A man with a huge to-scale model of a Carcharodontosaurus head
November 13, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
I haven't yelled that many (overwhelmingly excited) swear words at the sky for a long time. WWOOOOOWWWWW. Reddest auroras I've ever seen!! Usually it takes a long time exposure/CCD camera to see red at all. This is BRIGHT!! You can actually see easily outside […]

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A bright red arc over a bright green arc, with some small trees silhouetted below Looking straight up at red and green pillars Looking straight up at red and green pillars, some are almost white. Bright red auroras peeking through bright green auroras, with some silhouetted trees below
November 12, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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rottnrock.bsky.social
ROTTnROCK postdocs Matías and Ariane exploring how hydrothermal alteration shapes volcanic hazards in Dominica 🇩🇲 🌋
@arianeloisel.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
kleinergeologe.bsky.social
Molybdenite is the reason my piston-cylinder-apparatus experiment go smothly in the literal sense of the word.
So go vote #Moldybdenite
#OreCup
November 8, 2025 at 10:08 PM