Matt Brueseke

Mineral Monday: The Handbook of Mineralogy on MSA’s Website

Where can you find quick and handy information on 5,663 minerals, both common and rare? In the Handbook of Mineralogy of course. It is available as a set of hardcover volumes, or on the MSA website (handbookofmineralogy.org).

lol, yeah me too

This is what I always envision the Burgess Shale critters doing (even a modern hallucigenia look-a-like!) 🧪⚒️

The “deal” that Brown made with the Trump admin is much more extreme than is being reported. It includes government oversight of course evaluations and no barrier to government interference in faculty hiring.

Read it for yourself here:

www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

& why nobody asks him which states?

Kids on a giant stromatolite - Wyoming

Stromatolite

That’s awesome people just went out there to see them! That upper left pic, the big one, is what blew my mind lol

We have some refs in a thesis and manuscript I’m working on right kw actually that kind of deal with a bit of this. Email me & I can send link to thesis

Those things are wild in person… blew my mind how large!!

Yeah! This is annoying lol.

This is a VERY large earthquake, possibly/probably among the 10 largest ever recorded. A clear subduction zone megathrust event. And it is another M>8.5 event with a notable foreshock (the recent M7.4 in same location), like Tohoku in 2011.

USGS reviewed magnitude (8.7) for the Kamchatka earthquake on 7/29/25.

The earthquake off Kamchatka upgraded by the USGS to M8.7. That is a monster temblor: earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Yep this is accurate and the norm

Fluorite! 🧪⚒️

Yessss!!!!! I’m very envious - have a great trip!

Better than 5 days of 100F and humidity !

More of this!

AGC is very proud to announce the first published article!

Congratulations to the authors who believed in AGC in order to publish their study: doi.org/10.33063/agc...

This is only the beginning.
Many other researchers already submitted their work to AGC and we hope you will be the next ones!

Rural PBS stations could bear brunt of public media cuts. Just ask those in Kansas Congress is weighing legislation that enacts a series of cuts to already approved funding, including $1.1 billion for public media.

This week's slashing of money for NPR and PBS will also impact rural areas disproportionately

As a journalist and emerging public historian, I spent much of the past week reading through transcripts of oral histories made and collected by residents of Kerr County, Texas – where flash floods killed more than 100 people this month.

There’s one recording that stood out to me. 🧵

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The Cubs non-tendering Schwarbs in 2020 was so dumb. #baseball

There’s a nonzero chance you will die from a cancer that could have been curable because people who couldn’t pass 7th grade biology and are scared of things like “mRNA” and “riboflavin” and “walkable cities” decided to make their ignorance everybody else’s problem

Volcanic bomb, likely basalt

Look at this basalt bomb!!! 🧪⚒️

FAST COMPANY Article: While retirement typically occurs, after completing a career and saving and investing for it, a new trend is emerging among Gen Z career professionals called "micro-retirement." Micro- retirements involve taking a one to two- week break from work every 12 to 18 months. Gen Z is using micro-retirement to avoid burnout, find greater fulfillment in their work, and enhance their overall well-being. However, it's not just Gen-Z:

'Vacations.'

The word is 'vacations.'

The American people are driven by fairness and decency Everyone who has a heart and conscience needs to rail against indecency if we are to retain any semblance of our American ideals.

My latest piece; spread far and wide!
contrarian.substack.com/p/the-americ...

Was thinking about these terms and lack of consistency last week, while trying to explain the difference between all three to my kids in front of Mt. Baker… lol more consistency is needed & sounds like a great poster!

“ICE gets a bigger budget than the Marine Corps” is a simple fact that should be communicated very widely because it clearly expresses how crazy and radical this is

We won this battle, but no doubt Republicans are going to keep trying to sell off your public lands any chance they get. Our public lands are worth fighting for, and as long as I have the honor of representing Oregon in the Senate that's what I'll be doing.

The energy provisions in the Republicans' One Big Horrible Bill are truly so bad! Who wants this? The country's automakers don't want it. Electric utilities don't want it. Data center developers don't want it. Manufacturers in energy intensive industries don't want it. 🔌💡

Woah… that’s stunning