They have appropriately titled this effort “Mind the Gap”. 2 hundred years of handwritten British rainfall records, an excellent local and regional climate record, is sitting around, scanned, but not turned into readable data. If you’re locked indoors, you can help fill in this gap!

There is a geologist at the edge of the woods.

Find her, if you need to enter. You will know her by the hiking boots and large flannel, the features that seem just a bit too unnatural. The exorcist in your linguistics class swears her eyes change with the weather. She cannot be one of them, with that much iron and salt in her studies. She cannot be.

But the rain is always thicker around her.

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Reblog if you’d be okay if your friend came out as transgender

let’s see how many transphobics we can weed out

Ich finke ihr habicht alle Arten gut ausgenutzt.

Wenn ein großer, weißer Vogel wütend auf dich zukommt:

Mir schwant Übles.

IM JUST TRYING TO SPELL POMEGRANATES 

guys they live in an underwater volcano

The mysterious group, called Lokiarchaea, rose to prominence from microbial muck dredged up not far from Loki’s Castle, a sea-floor hydrothermal vent field off the coast of Greenland ... dotted throughout this genome were eukaryotic-like genes, suggesting that this oddball could help to bridge the evolutionary gap between simpler microbes and eukaryotes. The researchers called it Lokiarchaea, after Loki, the trickster of Norse mythology. Soon, other labs found additional Loki-like archaea, and together these formed the Asgard archaea, named after a mythological region inhabited by Norse gods. Although the organisms’ precise place in the tree of life remains contentious, many analyses pair Asgards and eukaryotes together, which could mean that some distant Asgard-like ancestor gave rise to all eukaryotes — everything from panda bears to portabello mushrooms.

I would like to thank both science and the internet for this story, my day is like 30 times better for it

Cambrian gang

EVERYONE STOP AND LOOK AT THIS

Have you ever heard of Shaun Keenan? Probably not, but you have now.

Amazing art of dinosaurs in the wild American West? Yes please!

There’s so many he’s done and they’re all just the best aesthetic.

What I never knew I needed but a void has definitely been filled.

Go to his website and give some support!

http://shaunkeenan.com/

That rabbit/hare post is messing me up. I’d thought they were synonyms. Their development and social behavior are all different. They can’t even interbreed. They don’t have the same number of chromosomes. Dogs, wolves, jackals, and coyotes can mate with each other and have fertile offspring but rabbits and hares cant even make infertile ones bc they just die in the womb. Wack.

I find humanity’s fixation with rocks to be strangely endearing

I have like a thing where like, I gravitate towards random shit and suddenly just, have a big obsession and love for.

Anyways, top ten cool fun facts about my son Armadillosuchus

Little boy roll up into a ball

Huggable dog size

He’s related to the Crocodile family and here’s him next to some other Ancient Crocs

beautiful boy

He digs holes

dig

Anyways I love my son

Me, listing rocks as an interest on a dating app: this is a good and fun idea

Someone, curiously unaware asking me: do you have a favorite rock?

Me, about to write an essay on which rocks I like and why: :)

Them: :0

What the fuck is this nightmare of a country. This is going out to my fellow geologist. Stay save!

Archaeologists be safe

The Trump Administration just ok-ed the use of spring loaded cyanide bombs (aka M-44s) to deal with “wildlife pests.” Wolves, beavers, rats, bears, deer, basically anything can be a “pest”. Something that can kill a bear can definitely kill a person. There are accounts of humans and domesticated animals who have been killed or gravely harmed by these devices.

So all us archaeologists who are going through the woods trying to do survey have another thing to fear: CYANIDE BOMBS.

Stay safe everyone

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Field trip adventure time

I was on a field trip as a TA for the first time in my live! I got to explain hydrogeology in one of my favourite areas in Germany, the Harz. On my own! It was super rainy so we had a few adventures. Like a tree blocking the street. And a surprise in form a thunderstorm. But I also showed a lot and got good data.

22.5 carat Rainbow Lattice Sunstone Harts Range, Northern Territory, Australia. On sites now