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Pilar Madrigal
@lapilli.bsky.social
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All things lava 🧡 Igneous geochemist and petrologist exploring the world. Biking and baking enthusiast. A 🇨🇷 in 🇩🇪
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“That is why Trumpists are so focused on “ending DEI” in the federal workforce. They see anti-discrimination and inclusion as a ladder of upward mobility for people they do not believe should have one.”
The Great Resegregation
The Trump administration’s attacks on DEI are aimed at reversing the civil-rights movement.
www.theatlantic.com
February 22, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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⚒️ How do magmatic and tectonic processes interact? ⚒️

Find out in our next #RiftAndRiftedMarginsSeminar
with Adina Püsök, @alarosa.bsky.social, Joël Ruch

Monday Dec. 2nd, 4 pm CET

Register: uni-potsdam.zoom-x.de/meeting/regi...

Past talks:
www.youtube.com/@riftandrift...
16:00 Adina Pusok (Uni Oxford, UK) “Inefficient melt transport across a weakened lithosphere led to reduced magmatism in the Turkana Depression” 16:20 Alessandro La Rosa (Uni Pisa, Italy) “Geodetic imaging of lower-crustal magma migration during rifting” 16:40 Joël Ruch (Uni Geneva, Switzerland) “The 2021 onset of the ongoing rifting episode in Reykjanes, SW Iceland”
November 26, 2024 at 7:57 AM
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sophiecarr.bsky.social
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November 20, 2024 at 11:28 PM
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Proterozoic Rocks xkcd.com/3008
November 7, 2024 at 5:41 AM
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ijayas.bsky.social
“There is a cost for success in STEM academia. The few minoritized people who seem to thrive might be doing what psychologists call ‘high-effort coping’”

True words by Jean King, and gosh, do I not feel it.
Why the mental cost of a STEM career can be too high for women and people of colour
Under-represented groups face chronic barriers, creating psychological — and physical — effects. The scientific community must ease this burden. Under-represented groups face chronic barriers, creatin...
www.nature.com
February 25, 2024 at 11:04 AM
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whysharksmatter.bsky.social
Friends, I wrote up a quick guide to getting started on Bluesky for folks who are used to old Science Twitter.

Please share it with your folks who are joining. And please let me know if I missed anything or got anything wrong. 🧪

www.southernfriedscience.com/bluesky-is-n...
Bluesky is now open. Science Twitter, here’s how to use it!
The once-great science twitter is, depending on who you talk to, either dying or dead. Once a vibrant place for many discussions related to my fields of marine biology, ocean conservation, and publ…
www.southernfriedscience.com
February 6, 2024 at 4:12 PM
lapilli.bsky.social
It is nice in here! I feel like I can probably restore the way my feed was in the other place 🤞🏼
February 10, 2024 at 12:18 PM
lapilli.bsky.social
Introduction post! I’m a geologist/geochemist studying #mantle processes with special interest in #seamounts and magmatism during the genesis of oceanic crust.
Love #biking 🚵🏻‍♀️ #hiking 🥾and #baking 🥐
February 10, 2024 at 9:24 AM