Alex P. Clarke
@dralexpclarke.bsky.social
Geologist into subduction zone interface mechanics and virtual outcrops. Educator into blended learning and research-led teaching. Photographer into highlighting the beauty of the natural world. Based in Mainz, Germany. She/her/they/them 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏴🦆
Scientists of Bluesky, can anyone recommend a good introductory textbook on fluid flow in porous media? I’m looking for concepts rather than modelling techniques.
April 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Scientists of Bluesky, can anyone recommend a good introductory textbook on fluid flow in porous media? I’m looking for concepts rather than modelling techniques.
March 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Hyacinths at the botanical garden🪻
🗺️ Mainz, Germany
📆 March 2024
📷 Canon 90D | Helios 44-2
#mainz #hyacinths #flowers #floral #naturephotography
🗺️ Mainz, Germany
📆 March 2024
📷 Canon 90D | Helios 44-2
#mainz #hyacinths #flowers #floral #naturephotography
March 24, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Hyacinths at the botanical garden🪻
🗺️ Mainz, Germany
📆 March 2024
📷 Canon 90D | Helios 44-2
#mainz #hyacinths #flowers #floral #naturephotography
🗺️ Mainz, Germany
📆 March 2024
📷 Canon 90D | Helios 44-2
#mainz #hyacinths #flowers #floral #naturephotography
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My OH is a keen walker and getting quite good at photographing interesting geological locations. This has gone to the top of my Spring excursion list.
Pink #Laxfordian granitic intrusions invading #Lewisian gneisses and amphibolites.
Mangersta, #IsleofLewis ⚒️🧪
Pink #Laxfordian granitic intrusions invading #Lewisian gneisses and amphibolites.
Mangersta, #IsleofLewis ⚒️🧪
January 23, 2025 at 12:46 PM
My OH is a keen walker and getting quite good at photographing interesting geological locations. This has gone to the top of my Spring excursion list.
Pink #Laxfordian granitic intrusions invading #Lewisian gneisses and amphibolites.
Mangersta, #IsleofLewis ⚒️🧪
Pink #Laxfordian granitic intrusions invading #Lewisian gneisses and amphibolites.
Mangersta, #IsleofLewis ⚒️🧪
My favourite photos of the Chrystalls Beach mélange from last month’s fieldtrip to New Zealand #mélangemonday
January 20, 2025 at 6:59 PM
My favourite photos of the Chrystalls Beach mélange from last month’s fieldtrip to New Zealand #mélangemonday
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Do you make scientific figures? Then check out this handy little guide that @fabiocrameri.ch and I have put together for our editorial piece in the newest volume of @wearetektonika.bsky.social
✏️ The figure is available from @s-ink.org - download it, share it, use it!
✏️ The figure is available from @s-ink.org - download it, share it, use it!
Graphic design guideline
Supporting guideline for designing a science figure that has a clear purpose from Crameri and Perez-Diaz (2025).
s-ink.org
January 16, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Do you make scientific figures? Then check out this handy little guide that @fabiocrameri.ch and I have put together for our editorial piece in the newest volume of @wearetektonika.bsky.social
✏️ The figure is available from @s-ink.org - download it, share it, use it!
✏️ The figure is available from @s-ink.org - download it, share it, use it!
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⚒️Asked ChatGPT to "draw a picture of a subduction zone".
Some absolutely fantastic stuff in here... the more you look the better it gets. Gonna show this to my intro class and have them list "ten things wrong" with this picture.
HINT: its pretty much all wrong😂
Some absolutely fantastic stuff in here... the more you look the better it gets. Gonna show this to my intro class and have them list "ten things wrong" with this picture.
HINT: its pretty much all wrong😂
January 2, 2025 at 3:18 PM
⚒️Asked ChatGPT to "draw a picture of a subduction zone".
Some absolutely fantastic stuff in here... the more you look the better it gets. Gonna show this to my intro class and have them list "ten things wrong" with this picture.
HINT: its pretty much all wrong😂
Some absolutely fantastic stuff in here... the more you look the better it gets. Gonna show this to my intro class and have them list "ten things wrong" with this picture.
HINT: its pretty much all wrong😂
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I asked once whether beets are more or less purple than turmeric is yellow.
Chemist friend was around and 15 minutes of calculation later we determined turmeric is more than 100x as yellow as beets are purple.
Chemist friend was around and 15 minutes of calculation later we determined turmeric is more than 100x as yellow as beets are purple.
January 1, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I asked once whether beets are more or less purple than turmeric is yellow.
Chemist friend was around and 15 minutes of calculation later we determined turmeric is more than 100x as yellow as beets are purple.
Chemist friend was around and 15 minutes of calculation later we determined turmeric is more than 100x as yellow as beets are purple.
I poke, prod, and occasionally squeeze rocks to see if one bit of rock is slightly stronger than the bit next to it. I will travel great distances to poke just the right rock!
I build time machines, sometimes with computers sometimes with colouring pencils 🌎✏️🦕
January 1, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I poke, prod, and occasionally squeeze rocks to see if one bit of rock is slightly stronger than the bit next to it. I will travel great distances to poke just the right rock!
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This is why one of my 2025 resolutions is to move more of my digital life over to apps like YouTube. More of us should.
We're losing the information wars. Many of us here prefer microblogging & longform content, but across generations, my fam watches visual social media all day every day. I see it.
We're losing the information wars. Many of us here prefer microblogging & longform content, but across generations, my fam watches visual social media all day every day. I see it.
Youtube algorithms pushed Bolsonaro's extremist videos, helping him get elected in Brazil, which is to say that Google helped destroy the Amazon rainforest and indigenous rights there, eyes wide open. Silicon Valley destructiveness takes many forms.
www.nytimes.com/2019/08/11/w...
www.nytimes.com/2019/08/11/w...
December 31, 2024 at 9:10 PM
This is why one of my 2025 resolutions is to move more of my digital life over to apps like YouTube. More of us should.
We're losing the information wars. Many of us here prefer microblogging & longform content, but across generations, my fam watches visual social media all day every day. I see it.
We're losing the information wars. Many of us here prefer microblogging & longform content, but across generations, my fam watches visual social media all day every day. I see it.
Such a fantastic display of fireworks on the Rhein!
Happy New Year everyone! Blwyddyn Newydd Dda pawb! Frohes neues Jahr allen!
#happynewyear2025
Happy New Year everyone! Blwyddyn Newydd Dda pawb! Frohes neues Jahr allen!
#happynewyear2025
January 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Such a fantastic display of fireworks on the Rhein!
Happy New Year everyone! Blwyddyn Newydd Dda pawb! Frohes neues Jahr allen!
#happynewyear2025
Happy New Year everyone! Blwyddyn Newydd Dda pawb! Frohes neues Jahr allen!
#happynewyear2025
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Do you know someone who loves playing Minecraft?! BGS have a range of geological models and environments built in Minecraft which are free to access through our website (Including a volcano!)
Happy building 🌋⚒️😎
www.bgs.ac.uk/discovering-...
Happy building 🌋⚒️😎
www.bgs.ac.uk/discovering-...
December 28, 2024 at 10:20 AM
Do you know someone who loves playing Minecraft?! BGS have a range of geological models and environments built in Minecraft which are free to access through our website (Including a volcano!)
Happy building 🌋⚒️😎
www.bgs.ac.uk/discovering-...
Happy building 🌋⚒️😎
www.bgs.ac.uk/discovering-...