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Kerstin Neuhaus
@microtopico.bsky.social
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(she/her) Former mineralogist disguising as materials scientist, specialized in AFM & solid state ionics (zinc batteries), loves 🌋 & planetology, MinCup, Foodie, Mama of two.
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4. Batch: my daughter made chocolate cookies almost without help.

#ChristmasCookies
Chocolate Cookies with sprinkles
November 28, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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The morning started well. First the spectacular sunrise and now a morning rainbow directly above our new HI MS building.
Hopefully, we find the research equivalent of a pot of gold when WE start working there next year @fz-juelich.de! 👩‍🔬🔋🪫
Very faint rainbow in a grey sky above the construction site of the new HI MS building. Rainbow above the chemistry buildings at the Naturwissenschaftlicher Campus of Uni Münster.
November 27, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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Sunrise in our way to work 🥰 Have a nice day 🌞
A photograph taken from the car. There is a long road with a bus . In the background is a very red and pink sunrise.
November 27, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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Collected a #TooGoodToGo bag from our local bakery again. One large bag with about 30 rolls, croissants and one bread for 7,50€! We shared with three other families and had a very nice dinner with antipasti and rolls.

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A Brown paper bag filled with different rolls. Sesame roll with mango aioli and falafel with grilled peppers, grilled mushrooms and lentil salad as sides.
November 26, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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First really frosty morning in #Münsterland and we visited a marble track in #Darup where you can roll wooden spheres down a track in a small wood. The kids loved it.
Sign of the "Hohlweg-Murmelbahn" in Darup and marble dispenser. Start of the marble track Frost on leaves. BTW ice counts as a mineral.
November 23, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Very tasty two-lentil-salad, served with mashed potatoes and store-bought vegetable nuggets. Afterwards, very fluffy mousse au chocolat for dessert 🥰🤤
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A white Bowl with blue flower pattern. The bowl is filled with brown and orange lentils, pieces of red pepper and lots of parsley. A white plate with mashed potatoes, sour cream dip, veggie nuggets and salad. A white bowl with a blue flower pattern filled with with mousse au chocolat.
November 22, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Third Batch was oatmeal and hazelnut cookies with white chocolate chunks.

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#ChristmasCookies
Light brown cookies.
November 17, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Second Batch was cardamom chocolate kisses. They are quite soft and melt slightly in the mouth (the receipt starts with melting 200 g Butter and 200 g chocolate 🥰).

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Brown cookies
November 17, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Started baking cookies early this year because the weather was ugly. I'll make it a thread to keep track of this year's baking activities 🤤🧵

Batch No 1 was vegan Swedish Peppakakor.

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Swedish Peppakrakor decorated by my Kids.
November 17, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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"Plasma am Morgen vertreibt Kummer und Sorgen"... Coating new ceramic samples with Au for impedance spectroscopy measurements. #PIInTheLab 🔋🪫👩‍🔬
A glass chamber with violet Argon Plasma inside
November 17, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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My husband helps to organize our yearly local board game fair. Of course, we had to play at least one volcano-related game 😁🌋
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Game Board of "Lecker Lava" (tasty lava). Small cardboard dragons want to feed on lumps of lava.
November 16, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Doing EDS analysis of the olivines I found for fun. It turns out that it is nearly pure Forsterite with only minor amounts of Fe 🥰
Image of a computer screen during EDS analysis
November 11, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Needed something to pick me up after work so I made some soul food 🥰
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A white plate with coleslaw, jacked potatoes, grilled squash, meat balls and sour cream dip.
November 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Currently performing SEM on zinc anodes 🔬. It looks pretty, but one of the major issues with rechargeable zinc #batteries apart from hydrogen evolution is the formation of dendrites, which lead to capacity loss and ultimately short circuit the cell🪫.
Image shows a computer screen where an SEM image is acquired. The Image is black and white and shows a very rough surface.
November 5, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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I voted for #tetrahedrite this time, because it is a new mineral I did not know and look at these beautiful crystals.

📸Robert Lavinsky

#OreCup25⚒️
Large tetrahedrite crystal
November 4, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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In today's #OreCup25 I vote for #galena because of its historic use as a pigment.

Look at this shiny sample from the Harz Mountains/Germany!

📸 Rob Lavinsky
Shiny galena
November 3, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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I was a witch and my husband was a stick man.
Kerstin in a witch costume with White make-up, red stained lipstick and a big spider on her head A glowing stick man
October 31, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Today: lasagna from the Dutch Oven.
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A black pot filled with lasagna. A slice of lasagna
October 26, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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#Olivine appreciation: The olivine bomb I recently found at Dreiser Weiher is very brittle so apart from several bigger chunks I also have a small glass full of tiny green crystals... Look at that color 😍🍏.

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Small olivine crystals in different light to dark green hues as well as some small black crystals that are probably pyroxene. The crystals are less than 1 mm in diameter.
October 25, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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I am quite pleased: even though the rim of the caldera is pretty overgrown we managed to find a big chunk of olivine-rich rock.
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Pieces of olivine-rich rock. Hammer for scale.
October 21, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Second Stop: the Dreiser Weiher dry Maar. It's the second largest Maar in the Eifel, but other than most of the Maars it does not have a lake, and it's famous for nice olivines. You can see the bowl-shaped #caldera in the photos. We go mineral hunting now 😍💎
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Photo of the Deiser Weiher Photo of the Deiser Weiher with Nürburg-Quelle (Nürburg well) water bottling plant Photo of the Deiser Weiher with Nürburg-Quelle (Nürburg well) water bottling plant. You can see the bowl-shaped depression with steep walls very well
October 21, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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On the hiking path to and from the parking lot to the waterfall you can also find some decent Devonian marine #fossils and very nice #outcrops.
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Fossils, hammer for scale Outcrop at Nohner Mühle Café
October 21, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Again on vacation in the Eifel region and again searching for geologically interesting sites to visit with my family. First Stop: Dreimühlen waterfall, which was formed by human activity in the last century.
⚒️🌋 #Eifel
Wood in fall colors with a small waterfall in the middle
October 21, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Wie läuft's bei Euch so?

#WorkLifeBalance #Fehlermeldung
Screenshot: eine unausgeschlafene Eule als Bildschirmhintergrund. Im Vordergrund eine Fehlermeldung, die sagt "Die Gruppe oder Ressource haben die diesen Vorgang nicht den richtigen Zustand".
October 15, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Drying chillies and assorted herbs.
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A food dryer
October 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM