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  1. I'm still struggling to find my footing here on Mastodon. A bit with the platforms and tags, but mostly finding people to follow. I'm a bit all over the place, posting about my #writing, be it academic or fiction (mostly #SciFi), and about cool #Science I ran into, and the more common than it should be - complain about stuff.
    I'm interested in #SFF, #publishing, #MiniaturePainting, science, #queer culture, academia, human sexuality, geekish humor, #comics & #EarthSci.

    Recommend people to me!

  2. I'm still struggling to find my footing here on Mastodon. A bit with the platforms and tags, but mostly finding people to follow. I'm a bit all over the place, posting about my #writing, be it academic or fiction (mostly #SciFi), and about cool #Science I ran into, and the more common than it should be - complain about stuff.
    I'm interested in #SFF, #publishing, #MiniaturePainting, science, #queer culture, academia, human sexuality, geekish humor, #comics & #EarthSci.

    Recommend people to me!

  3. I'm still struggling to find my footing here on Mastodon. A bit with the platforms and tags, but mostly finding people to follow. I'm a bit all over the place, posting about my #writing, be it academic or fiction (mostly #SciFi), and about cool #Science I ran into, and the more common than it should be - complain about stuff.
    I'm interested in #SFF, #publishing, #MiniaturePainting, science, #queer culture, academia, human sexuality, geekish humor, #comics & #EarthSci.

    Recommend people to me!

  4. I'm still struggling to find my footing here on Mastodon. A bit with the platforms and tags, but mostly finding people to follow. I'm a bit all over the place, posting about my #writing, be it academic or fiction (mostly #SciFi), and about cool #Science I ran into, and the more common than it should be - complain about stuff.
    I'm interested in #SFF, #publishing, #MiniaturePainting, science, #queer culture, academia, human sexuality, geekish humor, #comics & #EarthSci.

    Recommend people to me!

  5. I'm still struggling to find my footing here on Mastodon. A bit with the platforms and tags, but mostly finding people to follow. I'm a bit all over the place, posting about my #writing, be it academic or fiction (mostly #SciFi), and about cool #Science I ran into, and the more common than it should be - complain about stuff.
    I'm interested in #SFF, #publishing, #MiniaturePainting, science, #queer culture, academia, human sexuality, geekish humor, #comics & #EarthSci.

    Recommend people to me!

  6. Round 1 Match 4: Lovely peacock ore bornite gets arts points as a source of copper, but so is rare carrollite, which is also a source of cobalt… and cobalt is important for pigments including cobalt violet, cobalt yellow, cobalt titanite green, and of course, cobalt blue.
    #OreCup

    Cobalt blue can be prepared by heating a mixture of cobalt (II)-chloride CoCl2 · 6H2O and aluminum oxide Al2O3.

    Vote here: mineralcup.org/vote-results/re

    #scicomm #minerals #EarthSci #artHist

  7. Round 1 Match 4: Lovely peacock ore bornite gets arts points as a source of copper, but so is rare carrollite, which is also a source of cobalt… and cobalt is important for pigments including cobalt violet, cobalt yellow, cobalt titanite green, and of course, cobalt blue.
    #OreCup

    Cobalt blue can be prepared by heating a mixture of cobalt (II)-chloride CoCl2 · 6H2O and aluminum oxide Al2O3.

    Vote here: mineralcup.org/vote-results/re

    #scicomm #minerals #EarthSci #artHist

  8. Round 1 Match 4: Lovely peacock ore bornite gets arts points as a source of copper, but so is rare carrollite, which is also a source of cobalt… and cobalt is important for pigments including cobalt violet, cobalt yellow, cobalt titanite green, and of course, cobalt blue.
    #OreCup

    Cobalt blue can be prepared by heating a mixture of cobalt (II)-chloride CoCl2 · 6H2O and aluminum oxide Al2O3.

    Vote here: mineralcup.org/vote-results/re

    #scicomm #minerals #EarthSci #artHist

  9. Round 1 Match 4: Lovely peacock ore bornite gets arts points as a source of copper, but so is rare carrollite, which is also a source of cobalt… and cobalt is important for pigments including cobalt violet, cobalt yellow, cobalt titanite green, and of course, cobalt blue.
    #OreCup

    Cobalt blue can be prepared by heating a mixture of cobalt (II)-chloride CoCl2 · 6H2O and aluminum oxide Al2O3.

    Vote here: mineralcup.org/vote-results/re

    #scicomm #minerals #EarthSci #artHist

  10. Round 1 Match 4: Lovely peacock ore bornite gets arts points as a source of copper, but so is rare carrollite, which is also a source of cobalt… and cobalt is important for pigments including cobalt violet, cobalt yellow, cobalt titanite green, and of course, cobalt blue.
    #OreCup

    Cobalt blue can be prepared by heating a mixture of cobalt (II)-chloride CoCl2 · 6H2O and aluminum oxide Al2O3.

    Vote here: mineralcup.org/vote-results/re

    #scicomm #minerals #EarthSci #artHist

  11. Voting for minerals is back this week with the new #OreCup! I am taking my art and physics applications voting scheme from the #MinCup25, but the #OreCup25 is making it hard pitting 2 strong contenders against each other in the first round! Found worldwide Copper & Galena have been used since antiquity (see the woodcut of early Galena smelting via Agricola here). Both used for pigments (as with the copper-based verdigris used in this Van Eyck).

    🧵1/2
    #scicomm #EarthSci #minerals #arthist

  12. Voting for minerals is back this week with the new #OreCup! I am taking my art and physics applications voting scheme from the #MinCup25, but the #OreCup25 is making it hard pitting 2 strong contenders against each other in the first round! Found worldwide Copper & Galena have been used since antiquity (see the woodcut of early Galena smelting via Agricola here). Both used for pigments (as with the copper-based verdigris used in this Van Eyck).

    🧵1/2
    #scicomm #EarthSci #minerals #arthist

  13. Voting for minerals is back this week with the new #OreCup! I am taking my art and physics applications voting scheme from the #MinCup25, but the #OreCup25 is making it hard pitting 2 strong contenders against each other in the first round! Found worldwide Copper & Galena have been used since antiquity (see the woodcut of early Galena smelting via Agricola here). Both used for pigments (as with the copper-based verdigris used in this Van Eyck).

    🧵1/2
    #scicomm #EarthSci #minerals #arthist

  14. Voting for minerals is back this week with the new #OreCup! I am taking my art and physics applications voting scheme from the #MinCup25, but the #OreCup25 is making it hard pitting 2 strong contenders against each other in the first round! Found worldwide Copper & Galena have been used since antiquity (see the woodcut of early Galena smelting via Agricola here). Both used for pigments (as with the copper-based verdigris used in this Van Eyck).

    🧵1/2
    #scicomm #EarthSci #minerals #arthist

  15. Voting for minerals is back this week with the new #OreCup! I am taking my art and physics applications voting scheme from the #MinCup25, but the #OreCup25 is making it hard pitting 2 strong contenders against each other in the first round! Found worldwide Copper & Galena have been used since antiquity (see the woodcut of early Galena smelting via Agricola here). Both used for pigments (as with the copper-based verdigris used in this Van Eyck).

    🧵1/2
    #scicomm #EarthSci #minerals #arthist

  16. Happy birthday to #mathematician & geodesist Gladys West (née Brown 1930)! Shown with 3 satellites important to her career + tracks: Seasat, GEOS-3 & a GPS satellite. Her work, using math to precisely model the shape of Earth, laid the groundwork for GPS! Born to sharecropper parents in Virginia, she graduated with a Math BSc in ‘52 then MSc at VSU in ‘55. She started her career at 🧵

    #spacetober_challenge Earth
    #linocut #printmaking #womenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #histsci #EarthSci #Math #mastoArt

  17. Happy birthday to #mathematician & geodesist Gladys West (née Brown 1930)! Shown with 3 satellites important to her career + tracks: Seasat, GEOS-3 & a GPS satellite. Her work, using math to precisely model the shape of Earth, laid the groundwork for GPS! Born to sharecropper parents in Virginia, she graduated with a Math BSc in ‘52 then MSc at VSU in ‘55. She started her career at 🧵

    #spacetober_challenge Earth
    #linocut #printmaking #womenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #histsci #EarthSci #Math #mastoArt

  18. Happy birthday to #mathematician & geodesist Gladys West (née Brown 1930)! Shown with 3 satellites important to her career + tracks: Seasat, GEOS-3 & a GPS satellite. Her work, using math to precisely model the shape of Earth, laid the groundwork for GPS! Born to sharecropper parents in Virginia, she graduated with a Math BSc in ‘52 then MSc at VSU in ‘55. She started her career at 🧵

    #spacetober_challenge Earth
    #linocut #printmaking #womenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #histsci #EarthSci #Math #mastoArt

  19. Happy birthday to #mathematician & geodesist Gladys West (née Brown 1930)! Shown with 3 satellites important to her career + tracks: Seasat, GEOS-3 & a GPS satellite. Her work, using math to precisely model the shape of Earth, laid the groundwork for GPS! Born to sharecropper parents in Virginia, she graduated with a Math BSc in ‘52 then MSc at VSU in ‘55. She started her career at 🧵

    #spacetober_challenge Earth
    #linocut #printmaking #womenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #histsci #EarthSci #Math #mastoArt

  20. Happy birthday to #mathematician & geodesist Gladys West (née Brown 1930)! Shown with 3 satellites important to her career + tracks: Seasat, GEOS-3 & a GPS satellite. Her work, using math to precisely model the shape of Earth, laid the groundwork for GPS! Born to sharecropper parents in Virginia, she graduated with a Math BSc in ‘52 then MSc at VSU in ‘55. She started her career at 🧵

    #spacetober_challenge Earth
    #linocut #printmaking #womenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #histsci #EarthSci #Math #mastoArt

  21. While blue kyanite is used in jewelry, porcelain & pottery glazes, plus gets physics points as an index mineral, it’s the extraordinary ‘reindeer blood’ tenebrescent, & phosphorescent tugtupite “King of Fluorescent Minerals” which is also a gem, gaining both art and physics points for me. #MinCup25

    Vote tugtupite in the Mineral Cup 2025 finale here:

    mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r5m01

    #scicomm #EarthSci #minerals #tugtupite

  22. While blue kyanite is used in jewelry, porcelain & pottery glazes, plus gets physics points as an index mineral, it’s the extraordinary ‘reindeer blood’ tenebrescent, & phosphorescent tugtupite “King of Fluorescent Minerals” which is also a gem, gaining both art and physics points for me. #MinCup25

    Vote tugtupite in the Mineral Cup 2025 finale here:

    mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r5m01

    #scicomm #EarthSci #minerals #tugtupite

  23. While blue kyanite is used in jewelry, porcelain & pottery glazes, plus gets physics points as an index mineral, it’s the extraordinary ‘reindeer blood’ tenebrescent, & phosphorescent tugtupite “King of Fluorescent Minerals” which is also a gem, gaining both art and physics points for me. #MinCup25

    Vote tugtupite in the Mineral Cup 2025 finale here:

    mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r5m01

    #scicomm #EarthSci #minerals #tugtupite

  24. While blue kyanite is used in jewelry, porcelain & pottery glazes, plus gets physics points as an index mineral, it’s the extraordinary ‘reindeer blood’ tenebrescent, & phosphorescent tugtupite “King of Fluorescent Minerals” which is also a gem, gaining both art and physics points for me. #MinCup25

    Vote tugtupite in the Mineral Cup 2025 finale here:

    mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r5m01

    #scicomm #EarthSci #minerals #tugtupite

  25. While blue kyanite is used in jewelry, porcelain & pottery glazes, plus gets physics points as an index mineral, it’s the extraordinary ‘reindeer blood’ tenebrescent, & phosphorescent tugtupite “King of Fluorescent Minerals” which is also a gem, gaining both art and physics points for me. #MinCup25

    Vote tugtupite in the Mineral Cup 2025 finale here:

    mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r5m01

    #scicomm #EarthSci #minerals #tugtupite

  26. A tough call for the #MinCup25 semi-final but I think I have to give dioptase the arts vote as a pigment since ancient times (i.e. on Neolithic sculpture, Asian murals & Russian icons), though ‘reindeer blood’ tenebrescent, & phosphorescent, tugtupite “King of Fluorescent Minerals” is also a gem, gaining both art and physics points from me.

    Vote here: mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r4m02

    #scicomm #EarthSci #artHist #minerals

  27. A tough call for the #MinCup25 semi-final but I think I have to give dioptase the arts vote as a pigment since ancient times (i.e. on Neolithic sculpture, Asian murals & Russian icons), though ‘reindeer blood’ tenebrescent, & phosphorescent, tugtupite “King of Fluorescent Minerals” is also a gem, gaining both art and physics points from me.

    Vote here: mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r4m02

    #scicomm #EarthSci #artHist #minerals

  28. A tough call for the #MinCup25 semi-final but I think I have to give dioptase the arts vote as a pigment since ancient times (i.e. on Neolithic sculpture, Asian murals & Russian icons), though ‘reindeer blood’ tenebrescent, & phosphorescent, tugtupite “King of Fluorescent Minerals” is also a gem, gaining both art and physics points from me.

    Vote here: mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r4m02

    #scicomm #EarthSci #artHist #minerals

  29. A tough call for the #MinCup25 semi-final but I think I have to give dioptase the arts vote as a pigment since ancient times (i.e. on Neolithic sculpture, Asian murals & Russian icons), though ‘reindeer blood’ tenebrescent, & phosphorescent, tugtupite “King of Fluorescent Minerals” is also a gem, gaining both art and physics points from me.

    Vote here: mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r4m02

    #scicomm #EarthSci #artHist #minerals

  30. A tough call for the #MinCup25 semi-final but I think I have to give dioptase the arts vote as a pigment since ancient times (i.e. on Neolithic sculpture, Asian murals & Russian icons), though ‘reindeer blood’ tenebrescent, & phosphorescent, tugtupite “King of Fluorescent Minerals” is also a gem, gaining both art and physics points from me.

    Vote here: mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r4m02

    #scicomm #EarthSci #artHist #minerals

  31. Cuprosklodowskite was mistakenly named for sklodowskite, in turn named for Marie Skłodowska-Curie. Dioptase has been used as a pigment since ancient times. You find it on Neolithic sculpture. Asian murals & Russian religious icons. It’s also used in jewellery. Dioptase wins the arts vote!
    #MinCup25

    Vote for #dioptase here: mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r3m04

    #scicomm #EarthSci #artHist

  32. Cuprosklodowskite was mistakenly named for sklodowskite, in turn named for Marie Skłodowska-Curie. Dioptase has been used as a pigment since ancient times. You find it on Neolithic sculpture. Asian murals & Russian religious icons. It’s also used in jewellery. Dioptase wins the arts vote!
    #MinCup25

    Vote for #dioptase here: mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r3m04

    #scicomm #EarthSci #artHist

  33. Cuprosklodowskite was mistakenly named for sklodowskite, in turn named for Marie Skłodowska-Curie. Dioptase has been used as a pigment since ancient times. You find it on Neolithic sculpture. Asian murals & Russian religious icons. It’s also used in jewellery. Dioptase wins the arts vote!
    #MinCup25

    Vote for #dioptase here: mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r3m04

    #scicomm #EarthSci #artHist

  34. Cuprosklodowskite was mistakenly named for sklodowskite, in turn named for Marie Skłodowska-Curie. Dioptase has been used as a pigment since ancient times. You find it on Neolithic sculpture. Asian murals & Russian religious icons. It’s also used in jewellery. Dioptase wins the arts vote!
    #MinCup25

    Vote for #dioptase here: mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r3m04

    #scicomm #EarthSci #artHist

  35. Cuprosklodowskite was mistakenly named for sklodowskite, in turn named for Marie Skłodowska-Curie. Dioptase has been used as a pigment since ancient times. You find it on Neolithic sculpture. Asian murals & Russian religious icons. It’s also used in jewellery. Dioptase wins the arts vote!
    #MinCup25

    Vote for #dioptase here: mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r3m04

    #scicomm #EarthSci #artHist

  36. Look “space green” kosmochlor may be of meteorite origin and occasionally carved as it’s associated with jadeite, but blue kyanite definitely gets the arts vote for jewelry and use in porcelain and pottery glazes. Plus is gets physics points as an index mineral. #MinCup25

    Vote for kyanite here: mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r3m03

    #EarthSci
    #scicomm #kyanite #minerals #arthist

  37. Look “space green” kosmochlor may be of meteorite origin and occasionally carved as it’s associated with jadeite, but blue kyanite definitely gets the arts vote for jewelry and use in porcelain and pottery glazes. Plus is gets physics points as an index mineral. #MinCup25

    Vote for kyanite here: mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r3m03

    #EarthSci
    #scicomm #kyanite #minerals #arthist

  38. Look “space green” kosmochlor may be of meteorite origin and occasionally carved as it’s associated with jadeite, but blue kyanite definitely gets the arts vote for jewelry and use in porcelain and pottery glazes. Plus is gets physics points as an index mineral. #MinCup25

    Vote for kyanite here: mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r3m03

    #EarthSci
    #scicomm #kyanite #minerals #arthist

  39. Look “space green” kosmochlor may be of meteorite origin and occasionally carved as it’s associated with jadeite, but blue kyanite definitely gets the arts vote for jewelry and use in porcelain and pottery glazes. Plus is gets physics points as an index mineral. #MinCup25

    Vote for kyanite here: mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r3m03

    #EarthSci
    #scicomm #kyanite #minerals #arthist

  40. Look “space green” kosmochlor may be of meteorite origin and occasionally carved as it’s associated with jadeite, but blue kyanite definitely gets the arts vote for jewelry and use in porcelain and pottery glazes. Plus is gets physics points as an index mineral. #MinCup25

    Vote for kyanite here: mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r3m03

    #EarthSci
    #scicomm #kyanite #minerals #arthist

  41. I’ll grant that it’s cool that “Borg cube” perovskite could be formed in a Brown Dwarf but I’m voting for reindeer blood tugtupite “King of Fluorescent Minerals,” which is tenebrescent (changes colour in UV) & phosphorescent so gains my physics vote plus it’s also a gem on the arts front #MinCup25

    (Also: revenge for stibnite and calcite!)

    Vote here: mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r3m02

    #scicomm #tugtupite #EarthSci

  42. I’ll grant that it’s cool that “Borg cube” perovskite could be formed in a Brown Dwarf but I’m voting for reindeer blood tugtupite “King of Fluorescent Minerals,” which is tenebrescent (changes colour in UV) & phosphorescent so gains my physics vote plus it’s also a gem on the arts front #MinCup25

    (Also: revenge for stibnite and calcite!)

    Vote here: mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r3m02

    #scicomm #tugtupite #EarthSci

  43. I’ll grant that it’s cool that “Borg cube” perovskite could be formed in a Brown Dwarf but I’m voting for reindeer blood tugtupite “King of Fluorescent Minerals,” which is tenebrescent (changes colour in UV) & phosphorescent so gains my physics vote plus it’s also a gem on the arts front #MinCup25

    (Also: revenge for stibnite and calcite!)

    Vote here: mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r3m02

    #scicomm #tugtupite #EarthSci

  44. I’ll grant that it’s cool that “Borg cube” perovskite could be formed in a Brown Dwarf but I’m voting for reindeer blood tugtupite “King of Fluorescent Minerals,” which is tenebrescent (changes colour in UV) & phosphorescent so gains my physics vote plus it’s also a gem on the arts front #MinCup25

    (Also: revenge for stibnite and calcite!)

    Vote here: mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r3m02

    #scicomm #tugtupite #EarthSci

  45. I’ll grant that it’s cool that “Borg cube” perovskite could be formed in a Brown Dwarf but I’m voting for reindeer blood tugtupite “King of Fluorescent Minerals,” which is tenebrescent (changes colour in UV) & phosphorescent so gains my physics vote plus it’s also a gem on the arts front #MinCup25

    (Also: revenge for stibnite and calcite!)

    Vote here: mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r3m02

    #scicomm #tugtupite #EarthSci

  46. Haüyne, formed in magma chambers, is pretty, blue & can fluoresce. But electrically conductive iron-ore hematite is an absolute giant of art history, used as red ochre, going back at least 164,000 years to Pinnacle Point Caves! Also called Venetian, mars or English red.

    Vote hematite! #MinCup25

    Vote here: mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r3m01

    #scicomm #EarthSci #artHist #minerals #hematite

  47. Haüyne, formed in magma chambers, is pretty, blue & can fluoresce. But electrically conductive iron-ore hematite is an absolute giant of art history, used as red ochre, going back at least 164,000 years to Pinnacle Point Caves! Also called Venetian, mars or English red.

    Vote hematite! #MinCup25

    Vote here: mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r3m01

    #scicomm #EarthSci #artHist #minerals #hematite

  48. Haüyne, formed in magma chambers, is pretty, blue & can fluoresce. But electrically conductive iron-ore hematite is an absolute giant of art history, used as red ochre, going back at least 164,000 years to Pinnacle Point Caves! Also called Venetian, mars or English red.

    Vote hematite! #MinCup25

    Vote here: mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r3m01

    #scicomm #EarthSci #artHist #minerals #hematite

  49. Haüyne, formed in magma chambers, is pretty, blue & can fluoresce. But electrically conductive iron-ore hematite is an absolute giant of art history, used as red ochre, going back at least 164,000 years to Pinnacle Point Caves! Also called Venetian, mars or English red.

    Vote hematite! #MinCup25

    Vote here: mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r3m01

    #scicomm #EarthSci #artHist #minerals #hematite

  50. Haüyne, formed in magma chambers, is pretty, blue & can fluoresce. But electrically conductive iron-ore hematite is an absolute giant of art history, used as red ochre, going back at least 164,000 years to Pinnacle Point Caves! Also called Venetian, mars or English red.

    Vote hematite! #MinCup25

    Vote here: mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r3m01

    #scicomm #EarthSci #artHist #minerals #hematite

  51. While iron-nickel alloy taenite gets physics points for its meteorite origin, magnetism & Widmanstätten patterns kyanite gets physics points as an index mineral.

    Plus lovely blue kyanite definitely gets the arts vote for jewelry and use in porcelain and pottery glazes. #MinCup25

    Vote here: mineralcup.org/2025/results/r2

    #scicomm #minerals #EarthSci #artHist

  52. While iron-nickel alloy taenite gets physics points for its meteorite origin, magnetism & Widmanstätten patterns kyanite gets physics points as an index mineral.

    Plus lovely blue kyanite definitely gets the arts vote for jewelry and use in porcelain and pottery glazes. #MinCup25

    Vote here: mineralcup.org/2025/results/r2

    #scicomm #minerals #EarthSci #artHist

  53. While iron-nickel alloy taenite gets physics points for its meteorite origin, magnetism & Widmanstätten patterns kyanite gets physics points as an index mineral.

    Plus lovely blue kyanite definitely gets the arts vote for jewelry and use in porcelain and pottery glazes. #MinCup25

    Vote here: mineralcup.org/2025/results/r2

    #scicomm #minerals #EarthSci #artHist

  54. While iron-nickel alloy taenite gets physics points for its meteorite origin, magnetism & Widmanstätten patterns kyanite gets physics points as an index mineral.

    Plus lovely blue kyanite definitely gets the arts vote for jewelry and use in porcelain and pottery glazes. #MinCup25

    Vote here: mineralcup.org/2025/results/r2

    #scicomm #minerals #EarthSci #artHist

  55. While iron-nickel alloy taenite gets physics points for its meteorite origin, magnetism & Widmanstätten patterns kyanite gets physics points as an index mineral.

    Plus lovely blue kyanite definitely gets the arts vote for jewelry and use in porcelain and pottery glazes. #MinCup25

    Vote here: mineralcup.org/2025/results/r2

    #scicomm #minerals #EarthSci #artHist