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We are delighted to announce that Geoscientist was awarded two Highly Commended trophies – for Best Magazine (under 20K circulation) and Best Publication – by Memcom at their 2025 Excellence Awards ceremony!
#geoscience #geology #magazine #award
Mineralogical Society's 150th Anniversary Meeting: Past Discoveries and Future Frontiers. minsoc-150.org 23-25 June 2026, University of Manchester
29.09.2025 14:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1#Minermag some new prepubs - looking at heat treated #chert here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
26.04.2025 11:08 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0#Claymin some new papers ready to read www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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On left is the logo for ICC Dublin 2025. Text on righ of image reads: XVIII ICC Dublin, Oreland 13-18 July 2025.
Graphical abstracts for all pre-conference workshops. Text in centre reads - #ICCDublin25 Pre-Conference Workshops, 13th July 2025.
Collage of all 47 graphical abstracts.
Images representing all three fieldtrips. Text in centre reads - Excursions at #ICCDublin25, A variety of trips is offered during and adjacent to the conference dates. These include field trips and excursions for accompany persons.
Registration deadline for the International Clay Conference, Dublin, 13 - 18 July 2025, is TODAY!
You still have time to register here: icc.aipea.org
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Reminder #minermag special collection on: Mantle Heterogeneity and Evolution
See details:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#GBI meet the new Principal Editor www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...
01.04.2025 12:54 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Nanoscale images of pyrite and other sufides in association with bacteria
#GBI papers now out in the #Microbial #Biomineralization Collection: pyrite and iron sulfides www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
18.03.2025 13:55 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Make that Monday 17th, So still time so get those abstracts in!
13.03.2025 08:04 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Image of a striped rock. Red and yellow stripes.
#minermag - pretty print stone - admired by many - analysed here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
14.03.2025 11:27 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
A promotional graphic for the Young Persons' Lecture Competition (YPLC) National Final 2025. The map of the United Kingdom is depicted with colourful icons representing diverse individuals connected by speech bubbles, symbolising participants across the UK. The YPLC logo and IOM3 SEC logo are displayed at the top. The text reads 'National Final 2025' and '#YPLC2025.' Event details at the bottom: 'Thursday 8 May, The Armourers' Hall, London
The Young Persons' Lecture Competition (YPLC) is back for 2025! 📚
We invite #students and #earlycareer professionals to deliver a short lecture for a chance to compete in the 2025 UK final at The Armourers' Hall in London.
Submit your abstract 👉 bit.ly/3CiQHau
#YPLC2025
Collage of all 47 graphical abstracts for ICC Sessions.
With just under a month left until the abstract & early bird registration deadlines for #ICCDublin25, have you decided which session aligns with your reseach?
Find the full session list here: icc.aipea.org/sessions-list/
18th International Clay Conference, 13-18 July 2025.
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Join us for a free-to-attend pre-conference workshop hosted by Datech Scientific, introducing researchers to Laser Ablation ICP-MS (LA-ICP-MS) and Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS).
This event is open to all researchers, PhD students, and academics!
Visit ggrip2025.co.uk for more info!
Photo of Alessandro Guastoni in a van. The front cover for a memorial issue on pegmatites and related issues for Mineralogical Magazine
#minermag - The Alessandro Guastoni memorial issue is now out. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... The Museum of Nature and Humankind at the University of Padova visitmnu.it/en/ has a special #mineral exhibition
07.03.2025 14:23 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Detailsof sponsorship opportunities. Table of opportunities for each sponsorship level, with what is included in each level indicated by an image of the relevant clay mineral structure. Chlorite - 1000 euros Illite - 1750 euros Kaolin - 3500 euros Smectite - 5000+ euros
If you are interested in sponsoring or exhibiting at the International Clay Conference in Dublin, please get in touch (icc.aipea.org/sponsoring/).
Rather than the traditional metal categories (Bronze, Ag, Au & Pt) we had, of course, to use clays & clay minerals!
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The abstract deadline is fast approaching for GGRiP! Abstract submissions must be in by March 10th. For more information, please see our website ggrip2025.co.uk
05.03.2025 08:22 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0The MinSoc has three journals. 1) Mineralogical Magazine #minermag (IF 2.8) has been publishing mineralogy and petrology since 1876. Most recent accepted 'prepub' papers free to access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
04.03.2025 22:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The MinSoc is a not-for-profit charity. See our variety of special interest groups here: www.minersoc.org
04.03.2025 22:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0#minermag Amazing discovery. Found in #chondrites - now terrestrial #rubinite - a super-reduced garnet www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Photo of a volcanic landscape in blues, white and beige, with a white background a blue text that reads "win free registration to EGU26? Submit your entry to the EGU25 photo competition!" Image credit: Volcano-tectonic interaction by Nicholas Oestreicher.
EGU's annual photo competition is OPEN!
If you are registered for #EGU25, you can submit up to 3 photos & 1 moving image related to Earth, planetary, or space sciences by 31 March.
🏆Winners receive a free registration to EGU26!
Submit your photo today: egu.eu/9VTNXM
One week to go! A reminder that the deadline for early bird registration and abstract submission for GGRiP 2025 is the 10th March. The meeting is being held in Birmingham on the 8th-10th April. Please visit the conference website to register now! ggrip2025.co.uk
03.03.2025 09:12 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Scanning electron microscopy black and white image of nanometre scale clay particles
#claymin new paper published - synthesis of nano-metakaolin #kaolin #clay #nano www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
28.02.2025 15:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Photographic image of sundown over Giants Causeway landscape, North Ireland coast.
Field trip 1 at #ICCDublin25
Geology of the Causeway Coast - 16 July
This fieldtrip will explore North Ireland’s iconic Causeway Coast, with visits to Portrush and the Giant's Causeway.
More info & reg: icc.aipea.org/giants-cause...
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fragment of beautiful coloured, zoned tourmaline - from inner brown to yellow to pink. The pink is the new mineral fluor-rossmanite
#minermag new publications, zoned #tourmaline with new mineral #fluor-rossmanite #pegmatite www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
26.02.2025 15:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Aerial view of the cement works site to be visited.
Inside a storeage facility at the cement works.
Field trip 2 at #ICCDublin25
Irish Cement Site - 16 July
Cement Manufacturers Ireland has invited our delegates to visit one of Europe’s most modern cement factories at Platin, Drogheda, Co. Louth.
More info & reg: icc.aipea.org/cement/
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A reminder to register for our Research in Progress Meeting (GGRiP 2025) which is being held in Birmingham on the 8th-10th April. Please visit the conference website for more information: ggrip2025.co.uk
24.02.2025 09:54 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
JOIN THE GEOSCIENTIST TEAM!
We’re seeking a motivated and detail-oriented Assistant Editor with a passion for Earth science!
Deadline: 6 March 2025.
Full details on the role and how to apply here: www.geolsoc.org.uk/bhrecruitment
#GBI covers four primary spheres of academic interest that intersect with the geo- and biosciences: #biological, #environmental, #geochemical, and #energy and #resources. Submit your paper here:https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/geo-bio-interfaces
21.02.2025 18:15 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Calling all #Mineral Physicists, Experimental Petrologists, Geophysicists, Geodynamicists and Geochemists studying the Deep #Earth and Planetary Interiors! I have created a Starter Pack! Please share, and let me know of other people or organizations on here who should be added! go.bsky.app/TapnEve
26.11.2024 00:16 — 👍 23 🔁 14 💬 5 📌 1
Background image - The Giants Causeway Overlying images - Cement works (top right) and Portrush (bottom centre) Text in overlying bubble on left reads: Excursions at #ICCDublin25 A variety of trips is offered during and adjacent to the conference dates. These include field trips and excursions for accompany persons.
Excursions at #ICCDublin25
A variety of trips are offered during the conference dates, including field trips and excursions for accompany persons.
Find out more here: icc.aipea.org/trips/
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