Dr. Elisa Bergslien's Avatar

Dr. Elisa Bergslien

@dnapl.bsky.social

Scientist, Associate Prof, environmental science, forensic geoscience & general earth science. XRF & XRD. Opinions my own. she/her @DNAPL on Twitter from March 2009. Author of An Introduction to Forensic Geoscience. Photographs by me unless otherwise noted

774 Followers  |  778 Following  |  784 Posts  |  Joined: 24.07.2023  |  1.9441

Latest posts by dnapl.bsky.social on Bluesky

Do you mean March 25? or ten days from now, February 25?

16.02.2026 01:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Done! I am really excited. The last ring I had that fit was sawed off when I broke my wrist and haven’t found anything that fit since.

14.02.2026 21:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you!

14.02.2026 20:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yay! Dibs. I would like both.

14.02.2026 19:54 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

We have lucked out I love the laboradoite and emerald. Question is can I afford them.

14.02.2026 19:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Anything in the 12 or 13 range femme?

14.02.2026 19:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

12.02.2026 20:38 β€” πŸ‘ 12581    πŸ” 4470    πŸ’¬ 205    πŸ“Œ 113

Walking past a classroom and the phrase that came floating out was "My dog loves disco."

?!?!??

I am in the science and mathematics complex. And unfortunately I was in a hurry and couldn't just lurk in the hallway there to find out what was going on in there.

12.02.2026 15:12 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Video thumbnail

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

10.02.2026 20:18 β€” πŸ‘ 31099    πŸ” 13744    πŸ’¬ 967    πŸ“Œ 1694

Ooooohhhh - that explains the weird vibe I got off that book announcement. I haven’t thought about Templeton in years.

10.02.2026 18:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I could do with some less interesting times.

10.02.2026 14:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sleep training?!?!?!
But perhaps help them learn not to make 3am purchases of things as an adult because they have suddenly become fixated?
Ask me how I know.

08.02.2026 11:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Some of it is on the Internet Archive but it’s missing some of the critical appendices and links are really clunky. I figured I better find other sources our current government can’t easily frell up.

08.02.2026 04:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I have spent all day re-constructing the homework for the upcoming week now that the CIA world factbook has been destroyed.
I have ended up using Our World in Data for some of it, UNESCO, World Bank Data and Gapminder. I am still missing some things but have a whole other homework to redo. ARGH!

08.02.2026 03:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

No! Emphatic bugs bunny No!

05.02.2026 11:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I was going to be using it in class next week!!! Aaaaaaaaaaaaa

05.02.2026 02:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Aaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!

05.02.2026 02:43 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Feels mind melting at the time but now I miss it. One of my adult (eek!) sprouts actually quoted at me "oh this is one of those why things that just is and there isn't a good reason for it" at me a few days ago and blew my mind. It is so important to take them seriously and be careful what you say.

04.02.2026 12:47 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Pretty sure I did lose my mind? I do remember a lot of
Them: No! Me: No?
Them: No! Me: No? (in increasingly funny voices)
&/or I fell down dramatically.
The why? phase was harder because I tried to answer all the questions best I could. Reading Where the Wild Things are 20x in a row was worst.

04.02.2026 12:45 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Had a terrible time sleeping last night, so sleep deprived me decided to download and start listening to Caro's Biography of Robert Moses.

2am me makes some really weird choices.

03.02.2026 15:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot of the OVA website, showing all courses

Screenshot of the OVA website, showing all courses

The Open Visualization Academy (OVA) IS LIVE!
openvisualizationacademy.org

Thread follows #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVisualization

30.01.2026 15:09 β€” πŸ‘ 230    πŸ” 107    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 23

This is a trip. It’s like the mandatory Title IX trainings for work except much, much worse. Good lord.

29.01.2026 11:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

I don't exaggerate when I say that Andrew Wakefield should be tried for mass murder. We'll never know how many people have died or will die as a direct result of his fraudulent study.

28.01.2026 22:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2885    πŸ” 925    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 22

This image, which strongly resembles a photograph, instantly caught my eye because it is a form that I've never seen previously in the Ediacara. Intrigued, I clicked. Very disappointing to see the credit for this image is given to "AI - Science Daily".

*What the hell, Science Daily?*

Garbage. βš’οΈπŸ§ͺ

27.01.2026 19:37 β€” πŸ‘ 72    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 2
Close up photograph of a lemon basque cheesecake fresh out of the oven and still all puffy, surrounded by browned parchment paper.

Close up photograph of a lemon basque cheesecake fresh out of the oven and still all puffy, surrounded by browned parchment paper.

I am already exhausted, classes - which should have started today - start tomorrow. All the admin meetings that were canceled by weather last week will now happen this week and the world is still on fire.

BUT... I managed to make a nice lemon basque cheesecake for my stepfathers birthday tomorrow.

27.01.2026 02:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It is only Monday and I can already tell that I will want hard alcohol by Friday. Unfortunately I am helping run the Science Olympiad on Saturday. This is going to be a very, very long week.

26.01.2026 21:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Accidentally walked outside wearing my new Christmas slippers - they have hard soles and I am not used to switching at the door yet - and have discovered to my horror that my slippers are warmer in the snow than my snowboots. I think everything associated with snow removal by me is ridiculous today.

26.01.2026 17:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I am having a really rough morning emotionally and would like more videos and pictures of your dogs - not just any dogs, but your dogs - in the snow.

26.01.2026 14:16 β€” πŸ‘ 630    πŸ” 93    πŸ’¬ 332    πŸ“Œ 39

Wow do I need new gloves. They were fine for just a quick brush off of the car, but for serious I need to use the shop pushbroom to get the snow off the cars, my fingers are just freezing. So cooollldd!!!

26.01.2026 17:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@dnapl is following 20 prominent accounts