Liam Herringshaw

Visualising the Benefits of Geodiversity International Geodiversity Day 2025 is approaching, and many people worldwide have organised events based on their professional or personal connections with geodiversity; whether these be around under...

🎨 To help promote the benefits of geodiversity, a team from the Open University have worked with artscientist Dr Vicky Bowskill to produce this amazing new image!

🌍 Read more, and download the image on our website: www.geodiversityday.org/post/visuali...

🥳 Happy Geodiversity Day!

⭐ As we celebrate with the theme 'One Earth, Many Stories', read this message from the new UNESCO Chair in Geodiversity and Geoconservation:

🌐 www.geodiversityday.org/post/unesco-...

Specimen of carletonite with prisms of blue and pink all around. There is one large square crystal with a small blue square in the middle with pink on the outside on the upper right side of the specimen. It sits on a black background. At the Canadian Museum of Nature.

It’s Geodiversity Day & Mineral Monday!! So I wanted to show you a rare mineral called carletonite, which is usually bright blue but seen here with a pink zonation. It was discovered here in Canada, at the mineral species rich Mont Saint-Hilaire. #GeodiversityDay #MineralMonday #GeoscienceBluesky ⚒️🧪

🌟 The Geological Survey of Northern Ireland have celebrated #GeodiversityDay with the launch of a new Geodiversity Charter!

🌐 www2.bgs.ac.uk/gsni/Geodive...

Happy Geodiversity Day! Today we celebrate the beauty and importance of our planet’s geological diversity. The Durbuy anticline, first described in 1807 by Jean-Baptiste Julien d’Omalius d’Halloy, is a perfect example of an IUGS Geological Heritage Site inside the UNESCO Geopark Famenne-Ardennes

October 6 was declared International #GeodiversityDay by the UNESCO in 2021. On this day we celebrate the abiotic beauty and diversity of Earth - including rocks, soils, landscapes, rivers, lakes, minerals & fossils ⛰️🪨🐚💎

Geology of Runswick Bay – FossilHub A post for International Geodiversity Day 2025 Runswick Bay is one of the most popular, picturesque places on the Yorkshire Coast, and its appreciation seems to have increased since Covid. It is espec...

Seeing as today is #InternationalGeodiversityDay and as I'm leading a geology walk there later this month, as part of a Charity Day Fossil Hunt, I thought I'd write a blogpost about the geodiversity of Runswick Bay: fossilhub.org/runswick-geo...

There’s an interesting series of 5 free online paleobotany lectures via the Oxford University Botanic Garden this autumn. You can book all 5 lectures here (scroll down webpage to ‘Get your tickets now’ button) www.obga.ox.ac.uk/event/dr-san... #paleobotany

Conceptualization of the citational justice toolkit, organized around the research cycle. In the top right quadrant of the cycle, we start with Planning, which includes the Ideas and Funding stages of research. This section contains two practices: citational politics training module and the Academic Wheel of Privilege, and one tool: the citational transparency browser extension. In the bottom right quadrant of the cycle, we have the Project, which includes Research and Journal Selection stages of research. This section contains one practice: diversify your reading. In the bottom left quadrant of the cycle, we have the Paper, which includes Paper writing and Submission stages of research. This section contains three practices: citing R packages and other tools, annotated citations lists and the citational diversity statement, and nine tools: Genderize, the Gray test, the citation audit survey, Mirya Holman’s pre-submission checklist, GBAT, the citational diversity codebook, a template for citing Indigenous peoples, the inwardness metric and GCBI-alyzer. In the top left quadrant of the cycle, we have Publication, which includes the Peer Review and Publication stages of research. This section contains one practice, the Academic Wheel of Privilege.

Regular reminder to authors to please acknowledge and cite people who have contributed to your work. Yet again I find a paper that I collected data for and I’m not acknowledged. 🧪

Also see our recent paper that provides a toolkit for more just and equitable citation practices👇🏽

🔗 osf.io/qjecy_v3

I tried to find out if the fossil I bought online was real. Then I realized I was asking the wrong question | CNN It’s obvious a 95 million-year-old fossil would have a rich past — but what a CNN writer discovered about a dinosaur tooth he bought for about $100 was more than he anticipated.

Great to see an interrogation of the sources of commercial fossils, especially from Morocco 🦖🇲🇦

But utterly disappointing to see the platforming of people who have repeatedly and openly flouted (inter)national laws. Not a legal (or ethics) expert in sight 🤦‍♀️ [1]

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Here’s a comic I drew when I was 19.

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

One of my favourite #MaryAnning facts™️ is that she would discover fossil cephalopod 🐙 fossils with preserved ink sacks, concoct a dangerous chemical slime to turn them back into gloopy ink, and then use her Jurassic ink to draw exquisite illustrations of the vertebrate fossils she found.

Meta.

For #FossilFriday, a cobble from the streets of York with corals, not sure of the precise taxon. Maybe Carboniferous?

I've not seen that one before. It's a beauty! Siphonodendron, I'd imagine; probably Siphonodendron junceum, but I'm not sure how reliable the species classification is.

It’s my book launch on Monday 28th April (5 days) and so I’ll be posting a bit about it for the next week or so!
Nervous, excited, overwhelmed- I’m all of these things plus a few more.
@FairfieldBooks_

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Our cats Jim and Roscoe looking very serious, in our kitchen.

I enjoy the way that in this photo my cats look like a hip-hop duo quite a lot of people quite liked in 1996 who have made a comeback record, done an interview with a broadsheet newspaper and are attempting to prove they are still serious and relevant.

Little egrets fighting. Taken at Spurn Head in East Yorkshire, UK #birds #nature #egrets #littleegrets #sprunhead #eastyorkshire #wildlife

Photo of some rocks layers - interbedded mudstone and sandstone. Under one sandstone layer, three prongs of sandstone push down into the mud later. This is a dinosaur footprint from a three-toed dinosaur. There's is some green text on the image that reads "three-toed dino footprint" and a dinosaur emoji.

Photo of a rock face of layers of sandstone. In the middle is a large depression filled with sand that has squashed the laminated sediments underneath. Text reads "sauropod footprint" with a sauropod emoji.

Photo of layers of sandstone and mudstone. In one later of laminated sediments is a depression structure filled with sand. Text on image reads "here. Sauropod stomp".

Photo of a rock face, at the base is a rucksack placed as scale. The exposure is layers of sandstone and mudstone. About the quarters up is a depression filled with sand. The laminated layers underneath have been squashed.

Saw some dinoturbation in the Jurassic Sandstones, South Cliff, Scarborough today.

First time spotting these here, was very exciting!

I left the hellhole site a while ago and took a break from all this. But hey, I'm back.

Hi everyone—hit me up if you're into anything dusty, chronology, and Quaternary. And here's an image of some lovely sand wedges preserved in loess as a little welcome gift.

I'm Dr Rachel Smedley, Reader in Physical Geography & Director of the LivLumLab for the last 7 years! I love to push the luminescence dating technique to its limits to answer innovative environmental research questions, including dating our hominin ancestors, underneath Antarctica and much more!

You maybe interested to read the information board in the Church on the lifestyle of the Chirotherium, undoubtedly from a little read chapter in the Book of Revelations

Wonderful! And peer-reviewed, I'm sure.

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Pyramids, glaciers, Shane Hargrave and John Barry. And Fletch!

In the Spring 2025 edition of The Nightwatchman, I mark the passing of the York Vale Cricket League after 91 years. Issue 49 also features @anniechave.bsky.social & @camsell59.bsky.social: www.thenightwatchman.net/buy/the-nigh...

I've often heard of this but never seen it - beautiful ichnofabrics!

The interior of the porch of Christ Church. Ignoring the usual church clutter, the pale pink Storeton Stone can be seen. A triangular shaped slab with Chirotherium footprints can be seen at the top of the wall.

A close up of one of the footprints with my hand for scale. The curved thumb can be seen at the left and toes at the right of the print cast

The Footprint Bed of the Helsby Sandstone was well exposed at Storeton. It contains trackways of the early reptile Chirotherium. There is a slab with three prints in the porch of Christ Church - not something one usually sees in a church! #urbangeology

Really sad to report that our friend and colleague Richard Fortey passed away this morning after a short battle with cancer. We’ll all miss his wit and wisdom. Here he is checking out a dino footprint we found while filming together on the Isle of Wight

📢 Job available here at University of Birmingham for a CT scanner experimental officer to run and manage our micro-CT facility! Scanning a range of paleontological, geological and biological samples edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

OH COME ON OOLITH IS A WORD YOU TWERP

It's beyond Obama.

The bigger truth is about Black progress in America in the 20th/ 21st century-- Black advancement helps open the doors for so many other marginalized groups to rise.

They want to kill the path of govt/educational/ career advancement for EVERYONE not white, straight, and male.