Stephen Michalchuk
@stephenmichalchuk.com
🇨🇦 Post Doctoral Research Geologist
#pseudotachylyte #mylonite #shearzone #garnet #plagioclase #geothermal
https://www.stephenmichalchuk.com
IG: @powphotog
#pseudotachylyte #mylonite #shearzone #garnet #plagioclase #geothermal
https://www.stephenmichalchuk.com
IG: @powphotog
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🚨 Hot off the press 🪨 ⚒️ Where do you come from, where do you go 🎶 fluids that is… after an earthquake in the dry lower crust? We look into this and more using SEM-CL, EBSD, EMPA, STEM, and FTIR!
Hit the link below 👇
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Hit the link below 👇
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Reposted by Stephen Michalchuk
Most pixels in cameras detect only red, green or blue light. A sensor made from perovskite materials absorbs all three, improving image brightness and resolution
https://go.nature.com/3T1oKcd
https://go.nature.com/3T1oKcd
Light detectors made from perovskite crystals see in full colour
Most pixels in cameras detect only red, green or blue light. A sensor made from perovskite materials absorbs all three, improving image brightness and resolution.
go.nature.com
June 19, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Most pixels in cameras detect only red, green or blue light. A sensor made from perovskite materials absorbs all three, improving image brightness and resolution
https://go.nature.com/3T1oKcd
https://go.nature.com/3T1oKcd
Reposted by Stephen Michalchuk
Jobs on Friday! ⚠️
2 post-doctoral researcher positions (2 years) to investigate deformation processes that occur before and during earthquakes.
Where: the Njord Centre, a leading research centre in physics and geosciences at the University of Oslo.
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
#geology
2 post-doctoral researcher positions (2 years) to investigate deformation processes that occur before and during earthquakes.
Where: the Njord Centre, a leading research centre in physics and geosciences at the University of Oslo.
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
#geology
June 13, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Jobs on Friday! ⚠️
2 post-doctoral researcher positions (2 years) to investigate deformation processes that occur before and during earthquakes.
Where: the Njord Centre, a leading research centre in physics and geosciences at the University of Oslo.
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
#geology
2 post-doctoral researcher positions (2 years) to investigate deformation processes that occur before and during earthquakes.
Where: the Njord Centre, a leading research centre in physics and geosciences at the University of Oslo.
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
#geology
Reposted by Stephen Michalchuk
Canadian academics are some of the Americas’ top research collaborators and receive funding from US agencies. As a result, they have not been spared from the funding cuts and job losses that are plaguing their US counterparts. #Academicsky 🧪
‘A funeral for our careers’: Trump’s science cuts spill onto Canadian turf
Researchers in Canada prepare for turbulence in the wake of US funding changes — but there’s a silver lining.
go.nature.com
May 31, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Canadian academics are some of the Americas’ top research collaborators and receive funding from US agencies. As a result, they have not been spared from the funding cuts and job losses that are plaguing their US counterparts. #Academicsky 🧪
What a week @egu.eu. Lots of interesting presentations and fantastic sunny hot weather in Vienna! Sadly, not enough schnitzels! Oh well, maybe next year. @sheared-sash.bsky.social
May 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
What a week @egu.eu. Lots of interesting presentations and fantastic sunny hot weather in Vienna! Sadly, not enough schnitzels! Oh well, maybe next year. @sheared-sash.bsky.social
The return of the pre-EGU fieldtrip through the Austrian Bohemian Massif was a fantastic way to kickoff the conference week. Fantastic weather and fantastic organization made it very enjoyable! Thanks Bernhard, Anna, @sheared-sash.bsky.social and Chris. #egu25 @egu.eu @ts.egu.eu 🪨 🧪⚒️ #geology
April 29, 2025 at 8:37 PM
The return of the pre-EGU fieldtrip through the Austrian Bohemian Massif was a fantastic way to kickoff the conference week. Fantastic weather and fantastic organization made it very enjoyable! Thanks Bernhard, Anna, @sheared-sash.bsky.social and Chris. #egu25 @egu.eu @ts.egu.eu 🪨 🧪⚒️ #geology
It’s been a hot minute since my last #thinsectionthursday but here’s some things I’m working on these days… anyone else having issues with how2plot in MTEX 6.0? I’ve seen some solutions online.. think they’re working but it’s just so random how orientations get flipped without explicit scripting ⚒️🧪
April 24, 2025 at 1:25 PM
It’s been a hot minute since my last #thinsectionthursday but here’s some things I’m working on these days… anyone else having issues with how2plot in MTEX 6.0? I’ve seen some solutions online.. think they’re working but it’s just so random how orientations get flipped without explicit scripting ⚒️🧪
💥 hot off the press and 4 years in the making! My PhD thesis in all its glory! 2 published papers, 1 nearly ready for submission, and an exciting project in the making, all find a home in the pages within. Super proud of my work at Njord w/ Luca Menegon, Kristina Dunkel, & @sheared-sash.bsky.social
March 12, 2025 at 8:19 AM
💥 hot off the press and 4 years in the making! My PhD thesis in all its glory! 2 published papers, 1 nearly ready for submission, and an exciting project in the making, all find a home in the pages within. Super proud of my work at Njord w/ Luca Menegon, Kristina Dunkel, & @sheared-sash.bsky.social
Reposted by Stephen Michalchuk
Hello Bluesky! EGU is pleased to be able to activate our account here, and share all the exciting news about the upcoming General Assembly: #EGU25, our #OpenAccess publications and more! Several of our Divisions will be making the move over from Twitter/X too, so keep an eye out for your favourites!
March 3, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Hello Bluesky! EGU is pleased to be able to activate our account here, and share all the exciting news about the upcoming General Assembly: #EGU25, our #OpenAccess publications and more! Several of our Divisions will be making the move over from Twitter/X too, so keep an eye out for your favourites!
Hey everyone,
Does anyone have a link to a website where you can search for conflict of interests among research collaborators? A few months ago (~Nov 2024), someone shared a link but I haven’t been able to find it or something similar with a google search. 🧪 ⚒️
Does anyone have a link to a website where you can search for conflict of interests among research collaborators? A few months ago (~Nov 2024), someone shared a link but I haven’t been able to find it or something similar with a google search. 🧪 ⚒️
February 20, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Hey everyone,
Does anyone have a link to a website where you can search for conflict of interests among research collaborators? A few months ago (~Nov 2024), someone shared a link but I haven’t been able to find it or something similar with a google search. 🧪 ⚒️
Does anyone have a link to a website where you can search for conflict of interests among research collaborators? A few months ago (~Nov 2024), someone shared a link but I haven’t been able to find it or something similar with a google search. 🧪 ⚒️
🚨 Hot off the press 🪨 ⚒️ Where do you come from, where do you go 🎶 fluids that is… after an earthquake in the dry lower crust? We look into this and more using SEM-CL, EBSD, EMPA, STEM, and FTIR!
Hit the link below 👇
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Hit the link below 👇
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
February 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM
🚨 Hot off the press 🪨 ⚒️ Where do you come from, where do you go 🎶 fluids that is… after an earthquake in the dry lower crust? We look into this and more using SEM-CL, EBSD, EMPA, STEM, and FTIR!
Hit the link below 👇
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Hit the link below 👇
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Reposted by Stephen Michalchuk
Our deep-time emissary, Marcia Bjornerud, takes us on a metamorphic journey.
⚒️🧪 geology GIS
Metamorphic rocks go on deep journeys we never can | Aeon Essays
Metamorphic rocks are our emissaries from the deep, travelling to alien realms and revealing the restless nature of Earth
aeon.co
December 18, 2024 at 12:55 PM
Our deep-time emissary, Marcia Bjornerud, takes us on a metamorphic journey.
⚒️🧪 geology GIS
The Njord Julebord at Det Norske Videnskaps Akademi
An evening of some science and a lot of ribbe🎄 ⚒️🧪🪨🔬
An evening of some science and a lot of ribbe🎄 ⚒️🧪🪨🔬
December 6, 2024 at 5:06 PM
The Njord Julebord at Det Norske Videnskaps Akademi
An evening of some science and a lot of ribbe🎄 ⚒️🧪🪨🔬
An evening of some science and a lot of ribbe🎄 ⚒️🧪🪨🔬
🪨⚒️ #thinsectionthursday of a recrystallized quenched frictional melt (pseudotachylyte) from Lofoten, Norway. Plagioclase survivor clast retains deformation twins, reaction between garnet-amphibole. Garnet cores are full of inclusions from rapid quenching growth, then slow growth to form facet GB🧪 🔬
December 5, 2024 at 6:54 AM
🪨⚒️ #thinsectionthursday of a recrystallized quenched frictional melt (pseudotachylyte) from Lofoten, Norway. Plagioclase survivor clast retains deformation twins, reaction between garnet-amphibole. Garnet cores are full of inclusions from rapid quenching growth, then slow growth to form facet GB🧪 🔬
Reposted by Stephen Michalchuk
This is a map showing the orientation of diopside in a deformed symplectite. This used to be an omphacite, which tells us that the rock used to be at very high pressure (great depth). ⚒️🧪
If you want to read more about how such symplectites nucleate and deform:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
If you want to read more about how such symplectites nucleate and deform:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
November 29, 2024 at 9:34 AM
This is a map showing the orientation of diopside in a deformed symplectite. This used to be an omphacite, which tells us that the rock used to be at very high pressure (great depth). ⚒️🧪
If you want to read more about how such symplectites nucleate and deform:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
If you want to read more about how such symplectites nucleate and deform:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
One of the many perks living and working at the University of Oslo. Winter mornings are just perfect up here. Sunrise at 8:40am this morning. Could use a little bit of snow in the city❄️ 🔬⚒️🪨🧪
November 29, 2024 at 7:41 AM
One of the many perks living and working at the University of Oslo. Winter mornings are just perfect up here. Sunrise at 8:40am this morning. Could use a little bit of snow in the city❄️ 🔬⚒️🪨🧪
⚒️🪨 #thinsectionthursday on a quartz mylonite from… my iPhone camera roll 😂. Could be from the teaching collection or from Australia 🤷🏻♂️ I particularly like the “Hawaiian flower” partially recrystallized grain in the lower ribbon. Aloha! 🧪🔬
November 28, 2024 at 12:02 PM
⚒️🪨 #thinsectionthursday on a quartz mylonite from… my iPhone camera roll 😂. Could be from the teaching collection or from Australia 🤷🏻♂️ I particularly like the “Hawaiian flower” partially recrystallized grain in the lower ribbon. Aloha! 🧪🔬
Reposted by Stephen Michalchuk
Brittle? Ductile? Brittle-ductile? If you are interested in why rocks deform the way they do, consider
submitting an abstract to our session at #EGU25!
The deadline to apply for travel support is on December 2nd!
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...
submitting an abstract to our session at #EGU25!
The deadline to apply for travel support is on December 2nd!
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...
November 22, 2024 at 3:33 PM
Brittle? Ductile? Brittle-ductile? If you are interested in why rocks deform the way they do, consider
submitting an abstract to our session at #EGU25!
The deadline to apply for travel support is on December 2nd!
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...
submitting an abstract to our session at #EGU25!
The deadline to apply for travel support is on December 2nd!
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...
🪨⚒️ Just received my advanced copy of Haakon’s and Christian’s latest textbook, Plate Tectonics. Will be a nice complementary next to these other beauties #earth-sciences 🔬🧪 #geology
November 22, 2024 at 7:38 AM
🪨⚒️ Just received my advanced copy of Haakon’s and Christian’s latest textbook, Plate Tectonics. Will be a nice complementary next to these other beauties #earth-sciences 🔬🧪 #geology
Reposted by Stephen Michalchuk
NSF makes you say who you got conflicts (coauthored) with. We (really just Jordan Matelsky) just built you a tool for that. Literally one click: bib.experiments.kordinglab.com/nsf-coa
NSF COA | Jordan Matelsky
bib.experiments.kordinglab.com
November 11, 2024 at 8:11 PM
NSF makes you say who you got conflicts (coauthored) with. We (really just Jordan Matelsky) just built you a tool for that. Literally one click: bib.experiments.kordinglab.com/nsf-coa
⚒️🪨 #thinsectionthursday of a corona of garnet enveloping (a weird) biotite within an anorthosite from Lofoten, Norway. This sample was drilled in what we thought was relatively undeformed rock, but plagioclase loves to form tapering deformation twins… so how deformed is undeformed? 🧐 #earth-sciences
November 21, 2024 at 5:35 AM
⚒️🪨 #thinsectionthursday of a corona of garnet enveloping (a weird) biotite within an anorthosite from Lofoten, Norway. This sample was drilled in what we thought was relatively undeformed rock, but plagioclase loves to form tapering deformation twins… so how deformed is undeformed? 🧐 #earth-sciences
Reposted by Stephen Michalchuk
Are you interested in how deformation and metamorphism interact? Consider submitting an abstract to our session at #EGU25 ⚒️🧪
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...
Deadline to apply for travel support is om the 2nd of december!
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...
Deadline to apply for travel support is om the 2nd of december!
November 19, 2024 at 4:03 PM
Are you interested in how deformation and metamorphism interact? Consider submitting an abstract to our session at #EGU25 ⚒️🧪
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...
Deadline to apply for travel support is om the 2nd of december!
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...
Deadline to apply for travel support is om the 2nd of december!
I woke up to a bunch of new followers, so I should share some things that we do here at the Njord Centre, University of Oslo. Here is my JGR: Solid Earth paper on porosity in lower crustal faults and ductile shear zones using microCT, EBSD, SEM-CL.
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
November 17, 2024 at 12:26 PM
I woke up to a bunch of new followers, so I should share some things that we do here at the Njord Centre, University of Oslo. Here is my JGR: Solid Earth paper on porosity in lower crustal faults and ductile shear zones using microCT, EBSD, SEM-CL.
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
It might not be #thinsectionthursday, but my Saturday morning coffee has inspired me to post some microstructures from pseudotachylyte fault rocks from Lofoten, Norway.
November 16, 2024 at 9:40 AM
It might not be #thinsectionthursday, but my Saturday morning coffee has inspired me to post some microstructures from pseudotachylyte fault rocks from Lofoten, Norway.
Reposted by Stephen Michalchuk
Job available - Postdoc Research Associate in Effects of Stress on High-Pressure Phase Reactions
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www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Research Associate in Effects of Stress on High-Pressure Phase Reactions :Oxford Road
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk
September 18, 2024 at 9:15 AM
Job available - Postdoc Research Associate in Effects of Stress on High-Pressure Phase Reactions
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...