Dr Karen Smit

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Apply for funding to help you run a training school, or special conference series in 2026 with the EGU's Topical Events Committee's funding programme! Now open for applications by 16 May 2025.

👉 Find out more details and apply: egu.eu/3M45BA/

An image of a rock in thin section, displaying crystals of various minerals (kyanite, sillimanite, muscovite, chlorite, plagioclase). A schistose texture is observed, with the muscovite being aligned and appearing to 'flow' from top right to bottom left of the image.

A nice schist with muscovite, kyanite/sillimanite, chlorite, and twinned plagioclase.

#thinsectionthursday #geology #science #minerals #rocks

***FOLLOW LINK FOR FULL IMAGE*** "This image, captured with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is the largest and sharpest image ever taken of the Andromeda galaxy — otherwise known as M31. This is a cropped version of the full image and has 1.5 billion pixels. You would need more than 600 HD television screens to display the whole image. It is the biggest Hubble image ever released and shows over 100 million stars and thousands of star clusters embedded in a section of the galaxy’s pancake-shaped disc stretching across over 40 000 light-years."

Do yourself a favor: take a moment to explore the linked 1.5 BILLION pixel image (4.3 GB file) of the Andromeda galaxy, which showcases >100 million stars. And to think its just part of a single galaxy out of 200,000,000,000+ galaxies in the universe.

👇FULL RES HERE👇
esahubble.org/images/heic1...

A black and white photo of Vera Rubin measuring spectra

Vera Rubin has been selected to be featured on the back of a quarter. She is the first astronomer to be honored this way. Read about her research on the Andromeda galaxy and how it led to the discovery of dark matter in this article written by Rubin herself. doi.org/10.1063/1.24...
🔭 #WomenInStem

Associate Professor, Economic Geology The University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) appreciates your interest in employment at our growing institution. We want your application process to go smoothly and quickly. Final applications must be submitt...

The Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology (NBMG) at the University of Nevada Reno is recruiting for an Associate Professor in Economic Geology and the new Director of the Ralph J. Roberts Center for Research in Economic Geology: nshe.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UNR-ex...

Migraine is more than a headache — a radical rethink offers hope to one billion people Drugs that can prevent or relieve migraine attacks are only effective for some people. Research is starting to untangle the reasons why.

Drugs that can prevent or relieve migraine attacks are only effective for some people.

Research is starting to untangle the reasons why

https://go.nature.com/4b3AsLC

Here we are, AGC is open for submission!
Find us here: agcj.org

#DiamondOpenAccess
#AGC

It's been nearly 2 years in the making and here we are. @weareagc.bsky.social is now open for submissions!

Community led and community driven. Free to read and free to publish.

Flashback to freezing outside for hours during Obama’s 2009 inauguration 🇺🇸🥶☕️

Justice Dept. releases Trump special counsel report on Jan. 6 case President-elect Donald Trump had tried to prevent the release of special counsel Jack Smith’s report before taking office next week.

If Donald Trump hadn’t won the presidential election in November, the Justice Department would have had ample evidence to convict him at trial of trying to obstruct the 2020 election results, special counsel Jack Smith said in a report released Tuesday.

Our family buzzard waiting for his lunch 🦅🐁

The best time to start a new hobby is during your writing process... according to scientists who do it 😅

Yup, it's that time of the year again, when reporters need to find a scientist to give them a quote for their article. To save time, I've come up with this.

Beyond imagination!

A zoom out from the sharpest view of the Andromeda Galaxy ever, showing more than 100 million stars!

(Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton, B. F. Williams, L. C. Johnson, the PHAT team, R. Gendler / video by Universal-Sci)

Job alert: #PhD position in Early Silicate Earth Differentiation, Geochemistry & Isotope Geology Department, Goettingen University (DE). Apply by 15 Jan. More info: www.eag.org/jobs/

Academics finishing the semester: FINALLY I can start working on my work!

Only a few days left to apply for 2 PhD scholarships in Experimental geosciences (Experimental petrology/geochemistry, Mineral physics, Isotope cosmochemistry/geochronology or Planetary geophysics/ numerical modelling topics) to join us at #BGI in 2025!
www.bgi.uni-bayreuth.de/exp-geo-daad

Rock sample of a fold, sectioned perpendicular to the fold axis, then ground and polished. It is held in a geologist's left hand. The rock consists of brown and white layers between 1mm and 1cm thick.

#FridayFold: banded iron formation from the Contorted Bed outcrop across the street from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. ⚒️