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Liane G Benning @lianegbenning.bsky.social · Apr 23

So very proud of @forjanes.bsky.social and his 1st @gfz.bsky.social paper

Exquisite data and images of a fabulous geochemical and mineralogical double pseudomorphic reaction

Pablo Forjanes @forjanes.bsky.social · Apr 23

Very excited to share my first 100% @gfz.bsky.social paper on mineral pseudomorphism with my Interface Geochemistry fantastic team! @lianegbenning.bsky.social @jeffperez.bsky.social

EAG @eageo.bsky.social · Apr 23

New in #GPLetters: Pseudomorphism, one of the most prominent features of mineral replacement phenomena, can survive several successive mineral transformations, as experimentally demonstrated for the 1st time by Forjanes et al ➡️ buff.ly/FbNFwXw
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Pablo Forjanes @forjanes.bsky.social · Apr 23

Very excited to share my first 100% @gfz.bsky.social paper on mineral pseudomorphism with my Interface Geochemistry fantastic team! @lianegbenning.bsky.social @jeffperez.bsky.social

EAG @eageo.bsky.social · Apr 23

New in #GPLetters: Pseudomorphism, one of the most prominent features of mineral replacement phenomena, can survive several successive mineral transformations, as experimentally demonstrated for the 1st time by Forjanes et al ➡️ buff.ly/FbNFwXw
@forjanes.bsky.social
@jeffperez.bsky.social

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EAG @eageo.bsky.social · Apr 23

New in #GPLetters: Pseudomorphism, one of the most prominent features of mineral replacement phenomena, can survive several successive mineral transformations, as experimentally demonstrated for the 1st time by Forjanes et al ➡️ buff.ly/FbNFwXw
@forjanes.bsky.social
@jeffperez.bsky.social

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David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · Apr 3

Got to protect the US domestic guano markets, I guess?

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump imposes tariffs on uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands near Antarctica

Australian prime minister surprised after remote external territories – including islands home to penguins – targeted by US president

www.theguardian.com

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Niels de Winter @nielsjdewinter.bsky.social · Mar 31

Probably some of the coolest objects we've ever scanned in our #microXRF @amgc-vub.bsky.social were these Indonesian #Kris daggers. Turns out some of them were likely forged with #meteorite metal! Read all about it in our manuscript in MAPS:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · Mar 23

The 2024 state of the climate report: a report by leading international scientists on recent trends in planetary vital signs.
(Ignore at your peril.)

academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · Mar 22

There is a weird misunderstanding going around that wealth doesn’t matter for happiness. People in richer countries tend to be more satisfied with their lives. Quite a few (albeit not all!) problems can be solved by throwing money at it. Source: buff.ly/v1tlV9H

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Nadine, Haunter of Rocks 👻 @nadwgab.bsky.social · Mar 16

75 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️

Baryte:
- A sulphate mineral
- Forms in many environments e.g. hydrothermal veins, evaporite deposits, volcanism
- Has a high specific gravity of 4.3-5 (quartz is only 2.65)
- Its name comes from the Greek word "βαρύς/barús" (heavy) #minerals

Group of translucent sky-blue tabular baryte crystals shaped like an elongate diamond. From Frizington, Cumbria, England, UK.

Specimen on display in the Natural History Museum, London.

A cut and polished slice of a baryte stalactite. It's a broadly circular cross section and there are concentric lines in varying shades of brown, so it resembles the cross section of a tree trunk. From Newhaven, Derbyshire, England, UK.

Specimen on display in the Natural History Museum, London.

A chicken drumstick shaped aggregate of sharp looking white baryte crystals. From Stonecroft Mine, Northumberland, England, UK. Label text: Club-shaped crystal aggregate, Stonecroft Mine, Northumberland.

Specimen on display in the Natural History Museum, London.

Cockscomb aggregate of white baryte crystals on black sphalerite. From New Glencrieff Mine, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK.

Specimen on display in the Natural History Museum, London.

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María de la Ohlala @menchubasquero.bsky.social · Mar 16

Domingo, buenos días

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Víctor García de la Vega @victorgdlv.bsky.social · Mar 14

Pues esta captura no era un farol: EKOS acaba de publicar una encuesta en su web en la que *amplía* aún más la ventaja liberal.

Le sacarían casi 18 puntos a los Conservadores y rozarían el 50%.

Trump ha roto las encuestas en Canadá.

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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · Mar 14

🧪 The peer review system is truly broken! 😵‍💫

An editor's perspective:
–Ever increasing number of manuscripts submitted for publication
–Authors want quick editorial decisions + fast peer review
–Reviewers are "too busy" to review
–Everyone wants to submit papers but no one wants to review

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Xan López @xanlopez.xyz · Mar 13

Sigo pensando que es imposible hablar seriamente sobre el “rearme europeo” sin tener en mente este gráfico.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · Mar 13

He can’t pretend this is anything he inherited. He totally owns this.

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Nicole Tersigni @nicsigni.bsky.social · Mar 5

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

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ErrantScience @errantscience.com · Mar 6

It's important to try and not be TOO honest when writing research grant applications #FundingHell

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · Feb 19

Language is vague and imprecise - especially when we make predictions.

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Secular Talk @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social · Feb 27

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Julen Bollain @julenbollain.bsky.social · Feb 18

“Da igual quién gobierne, son todos iguales”

No, no da igual. Así es cómo ha evolucionado la renta mediana disponible del 10% más pobre de nuestra sociedad 👇🏼

2008–2017: -22%
2017–2022: +43%

Se puede gobernar para los privilegiados o se puede gobernar para la mayoría.

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Dr. Or M. Bialik |📚|🔬|🌊|⚒️ @obialik.bsky.social · Jan 22

It's a bit involved, and not strightforwards, but if this hold, this new method could make a huge diffrence in how we trace nutriant avilability and limitation back into the geological record. 🧪⚒️
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Secondary-electron (SE) images (A and B) and distributions of P (C) and Ca (D) in a cross-section of one A. beccarii specimen from the culture experiment. All intensity values are expressed in counts per second (cps) as shown in the color bars. Both P and Ca mappings show parts of the epoxy resin outside the foraminiferal calcite.

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Emily McGovern @emilyscartoons.bsky.social · Jan 19

Get thee to a nunnery ✝️

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Antonio Giraldo @giraldeo.es · Dec 15

Existe una calle secreta en Madrid cuya historia es sorprendente. Una vía pública, que da paso a un pequeña plaza-jardín histórica, cerrada a todos los madrileños desde hace casi 200 años.

Esta es la fascinante historia del Pasadizo del Panecillo.
Y una propuesta. ¡Hilo va!🧵

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Kiko Llaneras @kikollan.llaneras.es · Dec 14

🍿¿Cómo se entretiene cada generación?

Aquí van 10 gráficos fascinantes sobre la digitalización de nuestro.

La televisión ha perdido un dominio de décadas. En 2024 el primer entretenimiento son las redes, Netflix compite con la radio y los juegos con los libros👇

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Liane G Benning @lianegbenning.bsky.social · Dec 4

@forjanes.bsky.social welcome to the bluer parts of the planet 🌍

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · Nov 23

Ever wondered why dolomite is common in old rocks? Well if you have you are probably a geologist/geochemist and might be interested in this in the latest issue of Science: www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.....

A photo from the cover of Science Magazine of a mountain in the Italian Dolomites

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