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Kaleb Rounsevel. @whiteaeros.bsky.social · 16d

#Molybdenite Dioptase looks nice, but don't touch!

Molybdenite's grease is useful, and will live on in your heart, your shirt, the door, the cat and everything else!

Vote Molybdenite today!

Mineral Cup #MinCup25 @mineralcup.bsky.social · 16d

#MinCup25 Round 2 Match 6: It's more exciting versions of familiar favourites as emerald #dioptase is pitted against silvery #molybdenite.

Vote: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r2...
Results: www.mineralcup.org/2025/results...

www.mineralcup.org

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Eos @eos.org · 16d

We’re no fools over at Eos. For today’s #MinCup25 matchup, we’re going with brilliant, green dioptase over "fool’s silver" (molybdenite).

📸: Didier Descouens, CC BY 3.0

A close-up image of green and white mineral formations.

Roberto Mérida Boogher 🌋🟦⬜️🟥👨‍👩‍👧🇵🇸 @robertomboogher.bsky.social · 21d

Meet my puppy, Lila, 6mo, picture taken a couple of weekends ago in a visit to a nice hotel and restaurant at the very base of Fuego volcano in Guatemala.

A puppy with it tongue’s out, laying down on its belly in a patch of grass, with a leash to the neck. To the left and down in the picture, someone’s leg wearing jeans and sneakers.

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 21d

She's raised $925 so far but needs $2000 to leave, please share, Nour is pregnant and needs to leave asap.

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Andy Khouri @andykhouri.bsky.social · 21d

Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.

🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 21d

My rage knows no bounds

Gaza City mosque blown up by Israeli air attack

Israeli forces bombed and destroyed a 13th century mosque in the Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza City on Tuesday.

www.aljazeera.com

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Roberto Mérida Boogher 🌋🟦⬜️🟥👨‍👩‍👧🇵🇸 @robertomboogher.bsky.social · Aug 23

Wrapping up one week of fieldwork at Fuego volcano, flying drones and sampling PDC deposits with @smakris.bsky.social @pdcguy.bsky.social @tyranakisaurus.bsky.social Sylvain Charbonnier, Gustavo Chigna, Fabrizio Ponce, Amilcar Calderas, Edgar Barrios, William Chigna and Mario Ovalle.

A group of volcanologists and disaster risk management technicians out in the open, standing next to a pickup truck and a tripod with an antenna, posing for a picture taken with a drone flying in front of them.

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Nadine, Haunter of Rocks 👻 @nadwgab.bsky.social · Aug 23

235 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️

Clinochlore:
- A magnesium-rich chlorite group mineral
- Forms in contact and regional metamorphism
- Its name comes from the Greek words "κλινειν/klinein" (to incline) and "χλωρο/chloros" (green) because of its inclined optic axes and its green colour #minerals

Crust of thin platy dark bluish-green clinochlore crystals. From Cantua Creek, Fresno County, California, USA.

Specimen on display in the Natural History Museum, London.

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Helmi @helmsinki.bsky.social · Feb 5

The Dept of Education may take down many sites soon including studentaid.gov

Folks should go to the website and download all their loan data (under "my activity" on the "My Aid" page), including docs related to loan consolidation, payment plan apps, FAFSA forms, and PSLF

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · Feb 5

Over a thousand people chanting “Do Your Job” as Democrats speak at a rally defending USAID.

Environment seems as agitated with Democrats as with Trump/Musk’s efforts to seize agencies.

Yells of “What are you gonna do about it?!” in response to Democrats talking about situation.

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Dennis Geist @magmacanteenboy.bsky.social · Feb 1

It seems that Space Karen's (a.k.a. Twitler) team has infiltrated the volcanological corner of the government. FYI, VDAP is a congress-mandated partnership between USAID and USGS:
www.usaid.gov/basic-page/v...

www.usaid.gov

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Natalia Jagielska @nataliajagielska.bsky.social · Dec 11

New pterosaur just dropped!!!

dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · Dec 11

The oldest monofenestratan pterosaur from the Queso Rallado locality (Cañadón Asfalto Formation, Toarcian) of Chubut Province, Patagonia, Argentina

Melkamter pateko gen et sp. nov

Recon by Pedro Andrade
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Henning @geohenning.bsky.social · Dec 9

At the time of the eruption, 47 people were on the island, which was a popular tourist destination back then. Unfortunately, 22 people lost their lives, and 25 others sustained serious injuries. (2/3)

www.bbc.com/news/world-a...

White Island: Company found guilty over New Zealand volcano disaster

The judge criticises Whakaari Management for "astonishing failures" after the deaths of 22 people.

www.bbc.com

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Shoji Nishimoto / 西本昌司 @nishimoto.rocks · Dec 7

Dyke of felsic rock "granophyre" cutting pillow lavas, Shionomisaki, Wakayama, Japan.

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Ixchel Project @gcrf-ixchel.bsky.social · Nov 28

Hello @bsky.app ! We are the Ixchel project funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund @ukri.org Expect posts on research activities, including but not limited to volcanology, disaster risk reduction, critical decolonial theory, human rights, and arts-based participative methodologies 🌋

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Chris Brockett @chrisbrockett.bsky.social · Nov 27

Bluesky just passed 23 million subscribers. At this rate of growth, Musk/Zuckerberg/Trump will certainly attempt to shut it down on whatever pretext they can gin up. It is a single point of countervailing power and potential resistance in the infosphere, and as such is a prime target for lawfare.

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Roberto Mérida Boogher 🌋🟦⬜️🟥👨‍👩‍👧🇵🇸 @robertomboogher.bsky.social · Nov 27

Usually seen just as local guides for fieldwork, excluded from the writing process and left out of the authors list, as well as not attending the major conferences.

Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · Nov 25

"Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations"

www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations | PNAS

Disparities continue to pose major challenges in various aspects of science. One such aspect is editorial board composition, which has been shown t...

www.pnas.org

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VMSG @vmsg.bsky.social · Nov 22

We've compiled our annual list of VMSG-related PhD & MSc by Research projects, viewable below & on our website. We continue to keep this list updated, so please get in touch if you have any new UK-base or international opportunities you would like adding: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

VMSG PhD and related projects list 2025

docs.google.com

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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · Nov 25

50 years ago this November—a pair of paleoanthropologists found a skeleton that belonged to a 3.2 million year old hominin, which came to be nicknamed Lucy.

In today’s episode, we discuss what Lucy has taught us in the last 50 years.

Listen here 🎧: pod.link/73329284

A man excavating a skeleton out of sediment. Quote says: “I certainly thought that [Lucy] would be terribly important to the field of paleoanthropology. I had no idea that she would be the most famous skeleton found in the 20th century.”
—Dr. Donald Johanson

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Roberto Mérida Boogher 🌋🟦⬜️🟥👨‍👩‍👧🇵🇸 @robertomboogher.bsky.social · Nov 26

Very late #VolcanoMonday but here you have a picture of Agua volcano, that I took in Antigua Guatemala back in February. This city will host the XV Central American Geological Congress later this week and as much as 200 to 300 geoscientists from the region will be there.

Agua, a large stratovolcano in the back of the scene, standing tall between some thin clouds. To the front, a somewhat luxurious neighborhood in Antigua Guatemala, with a lot of beautiful gardens and colonial style houses.

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · Nov 26

I love this for them.

Merewolf Smith 💀 @evilgalprods.bsky.social · Nov 26

heartwarming story for the holidays ❤️‍🔥

“…the neo-Nazis told police they had never experienced a response like the one they received in Columbus. They said people pulled guns on them and threw cans and vegetables as they marched... One of the officers noted the men were ‘covered in’ pepper spray.”

Body cam footage: Neo-Nazis who marched in Short North claimed to be victims of violence

The neo-Nazis told police they had never received such a violent response as the one they received in Columbus, and claimed people threw cans and veggies.

www.dispatch.com

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Fossillocator @fossillocator.bsky.social · Nov 25

Was at a rock show today and saw a fossil I’ve never seen before, which is a rare event:

A cluster of Triassic belemnites from Timor. Aulacoceras. These are like 5 inches long

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Jean Vandemeulebrouck @jeanvandem.bsky.social · Nov 25

“The potential of satellite data for monitoring andesitic stratovolcanoes, as illustrated by Merapi volcano, Indonesia.” ou Comment surveiller la croissance des stratovolcans par imagerie satellitaire ? Ce sera le sujet de la soutenance/defence de PhD de Shan Gremion ce mercredi 27/11 à ISTerre.

Evolution of Merapi volcano lava dome volume

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · Nov 25

MILF = Manuscript I’d Like to Finish

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