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Colin Witts
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Biology, Music, Art, NHS
DJ, Events, Production Management. Born at 333ppm
@kidblue_Colin@mastodon.online, @kidbluecolin@projectmushroom.social
@kidblue_Colin (twitter) He/Him
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kidblue.bsky.social
Managed to catch this on my phone earlier!
November 12, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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xkcd.com
Earthquake Prediction Flowchart

xkcd.com/3165/
Comic. Someone is claiming to predict the exact date of a future earthquake. Should you listen? [flowchart: start] → NO (There are big earthquakes constantly, so if anyone ever *does* figure this out, it will be immediately obvious that their method works and then the world’s seismologists will not shut up about it. You won’t need this flowchart.)
November 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Reposted by Colin Witts
rebeccarhelm.bsky.social
There's something that feels a bit dead about the world right now, but tens of thousands of people just came together to help us solve a 100 year old mystery about a little blue jelly, and I find that heartbreakingly hopeful:
November 10, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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vickyveritas.bsky.social
Copper crystals can form beautiful leafy patterns called dendrites from the Greek word dendron meaning tree. Dendrites grow due to mineral-rich fluids moving through cracks or during rapid cooling from a melt or vapor. Vote and more👇🏼

#OreCup ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🍎 🔭🪐
Aerial dendritic growth of elongated Copper crystals, with the dominant dodecahedron. From Ray Mines, Pinal County, Arizona. From: https://www.mindat.org/photo-55571.html
November 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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natureportfolio.nature.com
A paper in Scientific Reports presents the origins of vivid colours within the gemstone ammolite — a rare type of brightly coloured fossilised ammonite shell. go.nature.com/48OT5DX #Paleosky ⚒️ 🧪
The vivid colours of the gemstone ammolite (Placenticeras meeki), perfectly preserved in its original form. Credit: Hiroaki Imai.
November 5, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Reposted by Colin Witts
astrokatie.com
Perimeter Institute is doing a series profiling their researchers; here's mine! Featuring airplanes, of course. You can check out some of the other profiles here: perimeterinstitute.ca/outreach/we-...
perimeterinstitute.ca Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics @perimeterinstitute.ca · 11d
"Humans are curious... We're doing this work because humans want to know, because we are a fundamentally curious species and we have to explore."

Watch Mack's Explorer Profile to learn more about her aviation and physics journey: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXvy...
Katie Mack: Exploring gravity in mind and body
YouTube video by Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
www.youtube.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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xkcd.com
Heart Mountain

xkcd.com/3162/
4-panel comic. (1) PERSON 1: We haven’t checked in on the geology department for a while. I wonder if they’re doing okay. (2) PERSON 2 with ponytail: I’ll go see what they’re up to. (3) [Person 2 opens door to room where a person is gesturing at a projector screen and explaining to two other people] PERSON 3: 49 million years ago, Heart Mountain, Wyoming slid sideways 15 miles like a giant stone hovercraft. (4) PERSON 2 [returning to Person 1]: ...They’re not okay. OFF-PANEL PERSON: Hey, *you* come up with a better explanation!
November 4, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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sanpaku.bsky.social
More soothing coming from retired geologist Myron Cook
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYS3...
Learn how Supervolcanoes caused the World’s Largest Landslide in Wyoming
YouTube video by Myron Cook
www.youtube.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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entomemeology.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 8:20 PM
kidblue.bsky.social
theskylive.com/c2025a6-trac...
Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) Live Position Tracker | TheSkyLive
High precision real time tracking tool for Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) which can be used identify Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) and follow its movements across deep sky stellar fields.
theskylive.com
October 10, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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peterlewis55.bsky.social
This morning's capture of Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon)
The comet will make its closest pass to Earth on October 21, 2025, at a distance of about 55 million miles (89 million kilometres).
#astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 9:14 AM
kidblue.bsky.social
Well i couldn't sleep due to a bout of insomnia but i've managed to completely rewrite my CV. Something i've only been procrastinating over for about 2 years now 😆.....Suppose i'll have a cup of tea now apparently it's morning. 🤷‍♂️
October 10, 2025 at 5:19 AM
kidblue.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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realtomcody.bsky.social
Gonna tell my grandkids this was Madonna
Promo shot of Alex Winter in THE LOST BOYS
October 4, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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the-physics-well.net
Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon showing a big kink in the tail this morning. This is a stack of 5, 60 s exposures with a Takahashi TSA 120 and 0.7x reducer and Sony Alpha 7 III. Will try to get more images tonight and some good flats. #astrophotography
image of a comet with a blue green coma and delicate blue ion tail
October 4, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social
Piglet squids (genus Helicocranchia) are a genus of small cranchiids known for their goofy appearance. They have a rather large siphon that make them look like a pig with a snout.

Well I guess with their arms raised up cranchiid style, they look like a pig with a crazy hairdo.

#SQUIDtember
A piglet squid (Helicocranchia sp.) floating in the ocean. Its entire body is translucent and is oriented horizontally. Its limbs being held upwards, making it look like it has crazy hairdo. It has a relatively large siphon that is below its head sticking straight out, making it look like a pig with a snout. The picture is from the side. Two In situ photographs of the same female piglet squid (Helicocranchia sp.), anterolateral views, from an ROV photographed floating in front of oil pumping equipment in the Gulf of Guinea at a depth of 1015 m. Arrow in upper photograph points to stub of tentacle. The squid is a slightly translucent beige pink. Its limbs being held upwards, making it look like it has crazy hairdo. It has a relatively large siphon that is below its head sticking straight out, making it look like a pig with a snout, especially since the opening is closed in a way that resembles nostrils. A piglet squid (Helicocranchia sp.) swimming in the ocean. Its limbs are spread out and pointing up, and its mantle is going back. It has black eyes and its siphon is large and going past its head, making it look like a pig with a snout. A floating piglet squid (Helicocranchia sp.). Its body is completely translucent, except for a single, thin, vertically oriented organ. Its limbs being held upwards, making it look like it has crazy hairdo. It has a relatively large siphon that is below its head sticking straight out, making it look like a pig with a snout
September 11, 2025 at 12:32 AM
kidblue.bsky.social
fundamentalfrequencies.bandcamp.com/album/telepa...
Telepathic Fish: Trawling The Early 90s Ambient Underground, by Various Artists
10 track album
fundamentalfrequencies.bandcamp.com
September 11, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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monicamedhist.bsky.social
Using my new Bluesky BOOKMARK for this one. I will be needing multiple doses of this everyday for some time to come.
September 9, 2025 at 9:51 PM
kidblue.bsky.social
This Peacock (Aglais io) just came and sat on me for a while....both of us contemplating hibernation methinks.
September 9, 2025 at 2:37 PM
kidblue.bsky.social
Going in on Studio Pankow - Linienbusse
September 8, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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astrokatie.com
Best glory I’ve ever seen from a plane! It’s an optical phenomenon that occurs when light interacts in and around tiny droplets of water in the clouds, in the direction opposite the sun. More complex than a rainbow. Here’s a link to some more info: www.zmescience.com/science/phys... #optics #physics
September 7, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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thecelestialzoo.bsky.social
BLACK HOLE OPTICS EXPLAINED
🕳 This infographic illustrates how gravity distorts our view of a black hole, warping its surroundings as if seen in a carnival mirror.
✏️ Poster design by @pablocarlosbudassi

Data from NASA/GSFC

Ultra HD Posters available👇
bit.ly/blackholeoptics (link in bio & story)
September 6, 2025 at 10:24 PM
kidblue.bsky.social
My sunflowers are finally doing their thing!! I was worried the approaching Autumn weather might stall them...
September 6, 2025 at 12:22 PM
kidblue.bsky.social
nice sunset from the other night
August 7, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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volcanologist.bsky.social
Did you know that England's oldest fee paying attraction is geological?

It starts at this unassuming spring, rich in sulphate and carbonate which precipitates tufa.

The spring disappears into the ground and then reappears in a waterfall that turns things to stone. ⚒️🧪🪨🌍🧵
Photograph of a boggy spring. The spring is surrounded by lush vegetation in a wood.
August 3, 2025 at 8:51 PM