TheGingerGeologist 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️☮️

That’s my youngest grands name and, yes, this is one of the reasons her parents chose it. The other is because of Zelda Fitzgerald 😁

A post MinCup geo-snack, like an after dinner mint ⚒️

Just in case you thought the mineral fun was done…

an old building with climbing plants around the door with purple flowers. The sign above the door says school of botany 1907

Come work with us - The School of Natural Sciences at Trinity College Dublin is looking for a tenure track assistant professor in plant biodiversity and conservation 🧪🌏🌾 my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...

Drop me a message if you want to chat about what it's like to work here or live in Ireland.

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Remember, vote blue 😉
Team #kyanite

Too much water can do this too. It’s a bit like too much water makes berry crops taste meh. Too much water for chilies seems to dilute the heat effect.

TUD - University of Excellence sign in front of green trees and a TUD building

PhD position available! Are you fascinated by #sensory #perception and #autism? Then this position might be for you! #cogneurojobs #neurosky #PhDposition #Jobs #career #neuroscience #fMRI

Full description here: tu-dresden.de/vacancy/12400

Please stop doing this to anyone attempting to win this way. It’s not cool, cute, or funny. It’s time consuming to fix and you will be caught. This game is meant to be fun, not cut throat or dirty-dealing. If you can’t win fairly, what is the point?

Photo of librarian Mychal Threets squatting and holding up the American Sign Language for "I Love You." Text on photo reads "Beloved librarian Mychal Threets to host reboot of 'Reading Rainbow'" I Love Libraries and American Library Association logos.

Beloved librarian @mychal3ts.bsky.social will take the helm as host of the reboot of 'Reading Rainbow' when it returns this Saturday, October 4! 🤩🌈

Read more: https://bit.ly/3WelbAT

The Unlikely Union: Podcast Episode · History That Doesn't Suck · 09/29/2025 · Bonus · 11m

This is a short, poignant, very relevant episode. Give it a listen.

📸🔭 October promises to be spectacular for comets:
☄️ C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) will reach magnitude 3–2 and be visible to the naked eye in dark skies.
☄️ C/2025 R2 (SWAN) will shine in binoculars, with long ion tails in photos.
We’ll keep following them day by day on these feeds so you don’t miss the show ✨

If you’ve never been and you are able to go, you should. It’s even more impressive when seen in person.

Fabulous job for a death studies ECR in Manchester.

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Win Cash, Save Science: Share Your SciJourney! — Galactic Polymath Join the 2025 #MySciJourney Challenge! We are looking for scientists at all stages to share their journeys in science! Teachers: You and your students can help decide the winners! #scicomm #SaveNSF

NCSE is proudly co-sponsoring Galactic Polymath's #MySciJourney Challenge, dedicated to #SciComm! The deadline to submit videos has been extended to Oct 12. Kids and adults are invited to enter. Best videos will receive awards and cash prizes. www.galacticpolymath.com/blog/my-scij... #science

Well…

Image description: An image of a volcano. Text reads: EGU Outreach Committee's Series 1 training sessions on communicating science hazards with science journalist Vedrana Simičević. Sessions are scheduled for November 4, 11, and 18, 2025, from 15:30 to 18:00 CET.

#FreeCommTrainings

Series 1: Explaining science and communicating hazards for the public.
🗣️: Science journalist Vedrana Simičević.
📅: 14, 21, and 28 October 2025, 15:00-17:00 CET
👉 Apply by 2 October 2025. 🔗: egu.eu/2V2IH0
⚠️Limited to 35 places only!

📸: Andreas Brotzer on imaggeo.egu.eu

This is a tough one. I like both and have voted for both up to now. So, while 🌧️ 🦌🩸is darn cool, I’m going to have to vote for #dioptase because green is my favorite color 😁

We are hiring 5 new postdocs (for 5 years) to work on our Wellcome project in Edinburgh. Deadline next week. For more info on the jobs & the project, head to our website www.medicinewithoutdoctors.org/blog-posts/j...

Please share widely!

Have to vote for the wee ones. Two reasons- 1) they so tiny, which matches me 🥺 and 2) you should never be afraid if licking rocks 😉😁 #Mannardite

The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List

The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 170 tenure-track positions and 19 teaching positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemjobs #chemsky 🧪⚗️

I suppose if you never really look for it, then it doesn’t actually exist.

Minerals not your thing? Well, setting aside the hurt factor from this earth scientist, how about some chonky bears?

It’s me again telling you to vote #kyanite simply because I said so 🤷🏻‍♀️

This makes me happy. Polite euphemisms are ridiculous in news stories.

#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...

You might have “sphene” one, but you haven’t “sphene” them all 😏 Vote #Titanite

Any geologists or chemists on here who could explain some x-ray diffraction concepts to me?

I am in the midst of my crystal structures unit in my earth materials class, and my students have some very good basic questions about instrumentation/data processing.

Thanks in advance!

As a fellow oddball myself, I can appreciate Carpathite. However, #Tugtupite has my vote. 🦌🩸