Dr Katie Strang

A busy weekend #MiningLandscapes and @palaeokatie.bsky.social
joined the #BridgeofAllan #Stirling WellHouse Restoration team and welcomed around 50 visitors for #DoorsOpen #coppermining #mineralspa

Selfie of Katie wearing an ipecac records T-shirt and sunglasses. The T-shirt is black with “ipecac” in white font. Her hair is dyed black underneath and white blonde on the top. The background is fuzzy and out of focus.

Sample of whitish grey calcite on black sphalerite from Wanlockhead. The calcite crystals are shaped like elongated points aka “dog tooth” (scalenohedral) crystals. The sphalerite is a black mass underneath and doesn’t show obvious crystal structure. Specimen is held in the collections of The Hunterian, University of Glasgow.

Hello my hair is now matching this calcite on sphalerite from Wanlockhead, held in The Hunterian collections 🖤🤍🖤
#DyingMyHairloMatchRocks

Poster for the Scottish Geology Festival 2025, featuring the festival logo and stylised icons representing different facets of geology. The poster reads "Date: 1 Sept to 12 Oct. Programme now live"

🎉 We're LIVE ✨

The Scottish Geology Festival 2025 programme is now live!

We have 70+ exciting events across the country, celebrating Scotland's amazing geology. Check out the full list and find the event for you!

🔗 www.scottishgeologytrust.org/festival

NIN - Manchester. GREETIN’ 🔥

Glassjaw x 2 🔥🖤

Glassjaw x 1 🔥🖤

Photo of the back of Katie’s leg showing a tattoo of count duckula in black and grey. By @kingofbones (instagram) at Momento Mori, Glasgow.

The latest reincarnation did not run according to plan..
Finally got my absolute favourite vegetarian vampire duck tattooed on me 🔥🖤

Drumadoon Sill exposed as a cliff on the Arran shore

Congratulations to Arran Geopark on being awarded
🗻 UNESCO Global Geopark 🏔️status!

It’s fab to see Arran being recognised for its unique geological heritage, rich biodiversity, and commitment to protecting their natural heritage.

Faça a diferença. Assine essa petição. Restituir o fóssil "Irritator" ao Brasil!

🌍 Anyone, from anywhere in the world, can sign our petition to support the repatriation of the Irritator fossil to Brazil. Let’s unite against colonial science. Your support matters! ✊🦖 #IrritatorBelongstoBR #DecolonizeScience
⚒️🧪
chng.it/Jm99Rsrw44

Showing shipping container where the temporary pop up exhibition is being held at Stockingfield. The bridge can be seen in the background.

Image showing the back wall of the container in previous photo, with the text “whits hidden in yir midden?”

Taps aff in Glasgow today! Head along to Stockingfield & visit our free Make It Glasgow pop up exhibition “Fired Up”! Here until 4pm today & 10-4 Monday (31st). Discover Glasgow’s ghost industry & see the shipwreck plate, recently recovered from the bottom of the sea off the coast of Arran! 🖤

Photo taken on the beach south of girvan, looking out towards the sea. An outcrop of cascade folded sediments comprised of interbedded sandstones/wacke, shales and siltstones belonging to the Ardwell Farm Formation, deposited around 450 million years ago can be seen in the foreground. The folding is interpreted as cascade folding due to penecontemporaneous (I.e. soon after deposition) slumping of partly lithified sediments from the NW. Neil in the background for scale.

Had an awesome Saturday looking at some gloriously messy 450 million year old Ordovician sediments around Girvan in preparation for an upcoming Geological Society of Glasgow field trip (Dr Jurassic Clark for scale!)

It’s the fossilised impression of stigmaria, the root system of a Carboniferous lycopod 😊

You’re welcome 😀😀

Photo of two fingers holding a small fragment of black coloured Carboniferous shale. There are small circular dimples on the rock - this is the impression of stigmaria, the root system of a Carboniferous lycopod. One of the kelvinbridge arches can be seen in the background.

Been crawling about the river Kelvin exploring 330 million years of Glasgow's heritage. Looked up and realised I had attracted a group of very confused spectators, so they got treated to an impromptu geology lesson (apologies for ruining your Sunday with my rock patter 😂)

SO GOOD! they played it twice 🔥🖤

Limp Bizkit 🔥🔥🔥

Photo of a hand palm side up holding a sample of bright yellow native sulphur crystals on greyish coloured calcite. Specimen held in the collections of The Hunterian, University of Glasgow.

I'm gonna suffer for the rest of my life
But I will always find a way to survive
I'm not a failure but know what it's like
I can take it or leave it or die

Stay, you don't always know where you stand
'Til you know you won't run away
There's something inside me that feels
LIKE BREATHING IN SULPHUR 🔥

Photo of a hand holding a hand specimen in front of a plain white background. The specimen is a thin leaf like sheet of native copper on a piece of altered basalt from Boyleston Quarry, Renfrew. Held in the collections of The Hunterian.

Head Like A Hole (Copper)

Photo of a hand palm side up holding a selection of opal cabs from Australia which shows vibrant flashes of colour, ranging from green to blue, pink, yellow, peach and orange. Held in collections of The Hunterian, University of Glasgow. Head Like A Hole (Opal) is the name of a Nine Inch Nails remix version of HLAH, included on the uk version of the album.

Head Like A Hole (Opal)

Absolute best times as always 😭🖤 #GothsInUngothlyPlaces

Photo of a hand palm side up holding a specimen of prehnite against a plain white background. The sample shows a mass of pale yellow coloured spherical crystals with a bubbly grape like (botryoidal) texture. Held in the collections of The Hunterian - GLAHM:M6229. The palm has a tattoo of an ammonite in cross section on it.

Tasty looking prehnite from Old Kilpatrick, West Dunbartonshire for #MineralMonday 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Mirror selfie of Katie dressed in black with headphones and sunglasses on

Monday you can fall apart x

Photo of two fingers holding a cut and polished agate half from Montrose against a plain white background. Caption is lyrics from Nine Inch Nails song “please”. The agate displays concentric angular banding which resembles the fortification of a castle viewed from above. The bands show high contrast and range in colour from red to white, orange and brown. Held in the collections of The Hunterian.

Watch the white
Turn to red
It fills up the hole but it grows somewhere else instead
All my life
Yeah yeah yeah yeah, but it just left me dead
The world is over and I realise it was all in my head

Photo showing a close up of a red clay brick from bothwell park brickworks used to build the kelvin hall in Glasgow. On the brick there is a thumb and a fingerprint where the ridges can be made out. Around the brick is a grey coloured repair cement mortar. There’s an index finger at the bottom with a tattooed scale, lines and dots 5mm apart.

Pretty wild how a worker from the Bothwell Park Brickworks put their finger in this brick, which was destined for Kelvin Hall.. and now, almost 100 years later, some wee goth is stood admiring it

Better Lovers 🔥

Baryte and calcite on quartz from Tyndrum 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🖤

I think that’s just a reflection? 😅

Do you mean how far below the surface was it when it formed, or when it was collected? The answer to both is no anyway, there’s no other associated info with the specimen.

Image of a hand holding a large rectanglular shaped specimen of black to dark brown smoky quartz crystals on pale yellow to whitish microcline feldspar. From Glen Rosa, Arran. Held in the collections of The Hunterian, University of Glasgow.

Close up of the sample in previous photo with black to dark brown smoky quartz crystals on pale yellow to whitish microcline feldspar. From Glen Rosa, Arran. Held in the collections of The Hunterian, University of Glasgow.

Dreamy goth smoky quartz from Glen Rosa, Arran 🖤

Photo of a two finger holding a polished agate half against a plain white background. The agate displays angular concentric (fortification) banding around the outer edges, and banding ranges in colour through red, brown, grey, white, orange and pale blue. There’s also an eye on the right hand edge where there’s banding forming in a concentric circle. The centre exhibits a small vug with white to clear/colourless crystalline quartz and small quartz crystals which point inwards. From south of Arbroath, Angus. Held in the Hunterian Collections, University of Glasgow.

Pure stoater of an agate from Angus 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿