Jon Price
@geotechnogeek.bsky.social
Geology, geochemistry, and petrology with a sprinkle of humor.
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October 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Completed IT-required training on cybersecurity, sensitive information, including (new) AI component. Chat prompt caught my attention in this background slide. Maybe I'm old fashioned, but I'm concerned about disclosing one's fears to a chatbot.
September 29, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Completed IT-required training on cybersecurity, sensitive information, including (new) AI component. Chat prompt caught my attention in this background slide. Maybe I'm old fashioned, but I'm concerned about disclosing one's fears to a chatbot.
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September 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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A website that lets you select a country or state and move it around a Mercator projection map to yield better size comparisons.
thetruesize.com, created by James Talmage and Damon Maneice
thetruesize.com, created by James Talmage and Damon Maneice
August 30, 2025 at 11:34 PM
A website that lets you select a country or state and move it around a Mercator projection map to yield better size comparisons.
thetruesize.com, created by James Talmage and Damon Maneice
thetruesize.com, created by James Talmage and Damon Maneice
For those of us who can't wait to get going...
Who do you think will win #MinCup25?
Earn bragging rights AND help us find glitches in our system before the first match starts by doing a practice vote:
www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/pr...
Earn bragging rights AND help us find glitches in our system before the first match starts by doing a practice vote:
www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/pr...
Practice Voting — Mineral Cup
Let’s test our voting pages! You can practice voting, and we can find out what’s broken before the first match. For our practice vote, pick which mineral you think will win the Cup this year.
www.mineralcup.org
August 31, 2025 at 2:32 PM
For those of us who can't wait to get going...
Just in time for my mineralogy class, the slice of awesomeness that is the Mineral Cup; an annual staple that dials-in a little systematic mineralogy in the early semester. Looking forward to introducing my students to rock-formers, ores, and unique occurrences! #MinCup25
Behold, the #MinCup35 bracket!
Use it to follow along, plan campaigns to support your favs, or make predictions on how voting will shake out. We start at the top left on September 1st, then alternate left and right as we work our way down.
Use it to follow along, plan campaigns to support your favs, or make predictions on how voting will shake out. We start at the top left on September 1st, then alternate left and right as we work our way down.
August 30, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Just in time for my mineralogy class, the slice of awesomeness that is the Mineral Cup; an annual staple that dials-in a little systematic mineralogy in the early semester. Looking forward to introducing my students to rock-formers, ores, and unique occurrences! #MinCup25
Chaotic wins...using that explanation in mineralogy next week.
![4-panel Comic. (1) STUDENT: If the wavefunction only collapses when I observe it, does that mean my consciousness affects the universe? (2) [Bad:] PROFESSOR: Yes, quantum entanglement proves that we all have souls. (3) [Good:] PROFESSOR: No, consciousness plays no role here. It’s just physical measurement. (4) [Chaotic:] PROFESSOR: No. The wavefunction collapses when *I* look at it because I’m a full professor. It won’t collapse for an undergraduate.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreic2mhmdvsftki6qe275hycolgt22msekbwzdyqoujt56qzpcbm3hm@jpeg)
August 28, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Chaotic wins...using that explanation in mineralogy next week.
I spent the last few days in the Texas Big Bend with students pondering this limestone and conglomerate unit contemporaneous with Solitario volcanism and capped by Bofecillos lavas. Mapped as both pre- and post-Chinati eruption. It records quiet evaporative lakes and intense alluvial inputs.
July 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I spent the last few days in the Texas Big Bend with students pondering this limestone and conglomerate unit contemporaneous with Solitario volcanism and capped by Bofecillos lavas. Mapped as both pre- and post-Chinati eruption. It records quiet evaporative lakes and intense alluvial inputs.
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Look! It's a new edition of the Eruptions Newsletter, chock full of all the volcano news. Well, most of the volcano news. A portion of it at least. Don't be left out! eruptions.beehiiv.com/p/eruptions-...
Eruptions Newsletter #15 for July 11, 2025
A tribute to Wes Hildreth, big explosion at Lewotobi and let's all get off the "manga disaster prediction" train, shall we?
eruptions.beehiiv.com
July 12, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Look! It's a new edition of the Eruptions Newsletter, chock full of all the volcano news. Well, most of the volcano news. A portion of it at least. Don't be left out! eruptions.beehiiv.com/p/eruptions-...
Aloft today! Richard Marsden took me on a sightseeing run from Wichita Valley Airport. Lakes have water, channels have moved, and land is green...it's been a wet spring and early summer in the Rolling Plains of Texas. Fun to see it from 4,000 feet.
July 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Aloft today! Richard Marsden took me on a sightseeing run from Wichita Valley Airport. Lakes have water, channels have moved, and land is green...it's been a wet spring and early summer in the Rolling Plains of Texas. Fun to see it from 4,000 feet.
Watching Katmai bears camera this morning and thinking about salmon. Realitively new finding: salmon have been a thing since at least the Cretaceous.
Fishes from the Upper Cretaceous... Brinkman - 2025 - Papers in Palaeontology - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Fishes from the Upper Cretaceous... Brinkman - 2025 - Papers in Palaeontology - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Fishes from the Upper Cretaceous Prince Creek Formation, North Slope of Alaska, and their palaeobiogeographical significance
The Upper Cretaceous Prince Creek Formation (PCF) of northern Alaska offers a unique glimpse into northern high-latitude, non-marine vertebrate assemblages, providing critical data on polar ecosystem...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 29, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Watching Katmai bears camera this morning and thinking about salmon. Realitively new finding: salmon have been a thing since at least the Cretaceous.
Fishes from the Upper Cretaceous... Brinkman - 2025 - Papers in Palaeontology - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Fishes from the Upper Cretaceous... Brinkman - 2025 - Papers in Palaeontology - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
A second beautiful day in the Wichita Mountains within a week. Spent some time with the Quanah Granite and its myriad of included rocks near French Lake.
June 1, 2025 at 1:38 PM
A second beautiful day in the Wichita Mountains within a week. Spent some time with the Quanah Granite and its myriad of included rocks near French Lake.
My office for today - once again in the Wichita Mountains, assessing late-stage mineralization in the Quanah Granite. Pleasant weather made for an enjoyable day.
May 29, 2025 at 2:47 AM
My office for today - once again in the Wichita Mountains, assessing late-stage mineralization in the Quanah Granite. Pleasant weather made for an enjoyable day.
As a department chair, I'm always grateful when I've wrapped a semester. But I'm always amazed at the backlog of work that accumulates while I tie up the final grading.
May 24, 2025 at 1:18 PM
As a department chair, I'm always grateful when I've wrapped a semester. But I'm always amazed at the backlog of work that accumulates while I tie up the final grading.
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Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.
Most Americans use federal science information on a weekly basis, a new poll finds
Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.
www.npr.org
May 6, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.
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#MSH45 | April 1980
Heading into the weekend with a trip with the U.S. Geological Survey around a cloudy Mount St. Helens this week in 1980.
#pnw #volcano #pacificnorthwest #washingtonstate #geology #science
Heading into the weekend with a trip with the U.S. Geological Survey around a cloudy Mount St. Helens this week in 1980.
#pnw #volcano #pacificnorthwest #washingtonstate #geology #science
April 5, 2025 at 4:06 AM
#MSH45 | April 1980
Heading into the weekend with a trip with the U.S. Geological Survey around a cloudy Mount St. Helens this week in 1980.
#pnw #volcano #pacificnorthwest #washingtonstate #geology #science
Heading into the weekend with a trip with the U.S. Geological Survey around a cloudy Mount St. Helens this week in 1980.
#pnw #volcano #pacificnorthwest #washingtonstate #geology #science
First post: like many, I'm here because I liked Twitter from a few years back, but dislike the direction it's taken. Also nudged here by @science.org , that mentioned this is an active platform to connect to current research and researchers. Still curating my feed, but not disappointed so far.
February 12, 2025 at 11:58 AM
First post: like many, I'm here because I liked Twitter from a few years back, but dislike the direction it's taken. Also nudged here by @science.org , that mentioned this is an active platform to connect to current research and researchers. Still curating my feed, but not disappointed so far.