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The hot in the west was hotter than the cold in the east was cold.
#climatechange

A screenshot from Geosites showing information related to one of the geological sites on the website. In this case, it's of Glasgow's Necropolis and shows a map, a summary of the site and photos, as well as links to other resources such as walking guides.

Geosites is a brilliant resource on the geology of Scotland from @scottishgeology.bsky.social. Navigate using the map to find sites of interest. Entries include summaries, screenshots and sometimes links to other resources such as excursion guides. geosites.scottishgeologytrust.org

An art installation by Maarten Inghels. The photo is a view of paving sets. Mist of these are grey, but the central set in the image is dark brown and engraved with the words ‘I used to be a mountain’.

‘I used to be a mountain’ by Maarten Inghels onboards.be/nl/product/m...
📷 Maarten Inghels/Onboards Biennale
#urbangeology

All of the reasons Colorado's horrible snowpack is so problematic Snow showers in this week’s forecast offer a dose of relief, but they won’t be enough to get the Colorado out of a tough, dry year.

All of the reasons Colorado’s horrible snowpack is so problematic

This is indeed a long thread - and one of the best curated threads, with 💯 relevant links and succinct summaries, that I've seen on any platform.

Esther, thank you.

Hannibal's famous war elephants: Single bone in Spain offers first direct evidence Historical accounts of the Punic Wars—and many other ancient wars—often paint a picture of soldiers riding in on imposing "war elephants." Yet, no skeletal remains of these war elephants had ever been...

#Paleontology 🐘

A Lithospheric Drip Triggered Green and Colorado River Integration River networks in the Uinta Mountains preserve relict topography We suggest the relict topography has been created by an increase in rock uplift rates, caused by a lithospheric drip Deformation ...

A Lithospheric Drip Triggered Green and Colorado River Integration 🧪⚒️

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Wonderful news 🙌🙌🙌 congratulations.

Scottish coastal landmark to undergo tourism facelift A Berwickshire coastal landmark regarded by some as the world’s most important geological site is to undergo a tourism facelift – 300 years…

Scottish Borders Council approval for improvements to the Siccar Point path in Berwickshire. The path will be renamed Siccar Point Deep Time Discovery Trail. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2580185...

Another dinosaur found at Dinosaur National Monument outside Colorado Back in September, as heavy machinery broke the asphalt of a parking lot at Dinosaur National Monument, ReBecca Hunt-Foster carefully watched.  “We knew that there was the possibility of encountering ...

Interview I did today on our parking lot dinosaur.

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Our paper on the mysterious Devonian organism Prototaxites has now finally been published! See the paper here (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) and our explainer thread below!
Prototaxites reconstruction by Matt Humpage

Colorado: Our best bet to see the storm will be just after sunset tonight. Look north around ~5:30-5:45p. Fingers crossed this holds until sunset tonight!

Solar storm is ongoing - fingers crossed this holds until sunset! If so, should be a great show.

#COwx

Here's the data:

I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this

If you were teaching a senior earth science capstone-type course (non-field), what are some extra soft or hard skills you think the students these days need to walk out the door with a firm grasp on?

Trying to add some new projects to ours this semester...

For #writers and writing-curious folks on here, how about a peek behind the curtain on this story? What does it take to bring a #scicomm feature like this one together? Short answer: time, and lots of people. Long answer: keep reading... 1/5

I've watched thousands of videos from the Jan. 6 riot as part of NPR's reporting and archive project on that day.

Here are some of the lesser known videos that have really stuck with me.

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Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest levels of human performance Scientists have long debated the origins of exceptional human achievements. This literature review summarizes recent evidence from multiple domains on the acquisition of world-class performance. We re...

Really interesting research showing that while ultra-specialization in a single discipline might lead to better results early in one’s career, multi-discipline training and practice pays off big time in the long run. This applies to a range of professions from scientists to athletes and more

Holiday Hope for DHA Families This holiday season, many families in Denver Housing Authority (DHA) public housing communities are struggling to make ends meet. For parents balancing rising costs, food insecurity, and limited resou...

Let's buy a holiday gift for EVERY child in Denver's public housing. Even $5 helps. You've raised $30,000 so far. No child should go without a gift this holiday season. Thank you for your generosity! denverhousing.networkforgood.com/projects/262...

A photo taken from Smart Seeds Emporium. It shows the almost violent shades of fluorescent green, red, brown, orange and green that are exposed by the peeling bark of the rainbow eucalyptus.

These trees look like Jimmy Hendrix & Claude Monet did a collab, but this is just what the rainbow eucalyptus (Eucalyptus deglupta) looks like every day: fabulous.

The only 'rainforest' eucalyptus, it's native to the Philippines & Indonesia, but introduced in Hawaii, Florida & California.

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Trying out a new PCP's office, and their "preferred language" dropdown on the intake form is time-traveler inclusive.

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See from above, water covers an off-ramp of highway 101 and a parking lot next to the highway and bikepath.

The Bay took over the highway during this morning's #KingTides in Marin.

Did you know that scientist don’t really use the Richter scale anymore? The most common magnitude scale used these days is called the “Moment Magnitude” scale. Here’s more info 🧪

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I just saw that Brunton is having a 20% off sale from now until Dec 20. (It's a small business and the owner is a friend and former colleague of mine.) Orange and yellow and purple transits! All kinds of gear re-designed to make field geology easier!

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Front range of Colorado is at a historic near low right now.

Charioites?

100 years of changing November sea ice...

Total data set available from 1850 through 2017. Summary of methods: www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-p.... More sea ice reconstructions at zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i....