Maitri
@maitri.vatul.net
Geophysicist, computational scientist, multilingual. Thinks a lot about rocks, data, science fiction, pop culture, and the future of earth. Personal account. she/her
Book 5 of 2025: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. Read this bit of dialogue set in the 1980s and now staring at Oregon 2025. #youdiedofdysentery #BookSky💙📚
March 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Book 5 of 2025: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. Read this bit of dialogue set in the 1980s and now staring at Oregon 2025. #youdiedofdysentery #BookSky💙📚
Mardi Gras Day | March 4, 2025 | New Orleans, LA
“The system of patriarchy can function only with the cooperation of women.”
“The system of patriarchy can function only with the cooperation of women.”
March 6, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Mardi Gras Day | March 4, 2025 | New Orleans, LA
“The system of patriarchy can function only with the cooperation of women.”
“The system of patriarchy can function only with the cooperation of women.”
Krewe du Vieux rolls! We march and dance and claim these streets tonight with even more of our sociopolitical satire because this is what we are fighting for. Let’s remember the krewe’s philosophy following Katrina: Preserve our culture and heritage first, and the recovery will follow. #NOLASky
February 16, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Krewe du Vieux rolls! We march and dance and claim these streets tonight with even more of our sociopolitical satire because this is what we are fighting for. Let’s remember the krewe’s philosophy following Katrina: Preserve our culture and heritage first, and the recovery will follow. #NOLASky
Happy Krewe du Vieux Eve! #mardigras
February 15, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Happy Krewe du Vieux Eve! #mardigras
Reported a Google Maps content error: This portion of the Gulf of Mexico is erroneously labeled. The Gulf of America does not extend beyond the southern maritime boundary between the US and Mexico. If you’re going to do it, do it correctly. Higher accuracy generates greater use.
February 11, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Reported a Google Maps content error: This portion of the Gulf of Mexico is erroneously labeled. The Gulf of America does not extend beyond the southern maritime boundary between the US and Mexico. If you’re going to do it, do it correctly. Higher accuracy generates greater use.
From the Andrea Carlson “Shimmer on Horizons” collection at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Oil, acrylic, gouache, ink, colored pencil, and graphite on paper.
Ancestor and Descendant, 2023
Perpetual Care, 2024
Cast a Shadow, 2021
Ancestor and Descendant, 2023
Perpetual Care, 2024
Cast a Shadow, 2021
January 28, 2025 at 2:51 AM
From the Andrea Carlson “Shimmer on Horizons” collection at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Oil, acrylic, gouache, ink, colored pencil, and graphite on paper.
Ancestor and Descendant, 2023
Perpetual Care, 2024
Cast a Shadow, 2021
Ancestor and Descendant, 2023
Perpetual Care, 2024
Cast a Shadow, 2021
Petty is right. Instigating American consumer panic over simply requests for empathy and humanity is more than a comprehension problem. It’s a bullying problem. But that’s a tell.
January 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Petty is right. Instigating American consumer panic over simply requests for empathy and humanity is more than a comprehension problem. It’s a bullying problem. But that’s a tell.
Gulf of Mexico coast, USA | January 21, 2025
Flick says he saw some grizzly bears near Pulaski's candy store!
Flick says he saw some grizzly bears near Pulaski's candy store!
January 21, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Gulf of Mexico coast, USA | January 21, 2025
Flick says he saw some grizzly bears near Pulaski's candy store!
Flick says he saw some grizzly bears near Pulaski's candy store!
And so it begins again. I like working two jobs in January and February. #kreweoftucks
January 18, 2025 at 7:20 PM
And so it begins again. I like working two jobs in January and February. #kreweoftucks
Yeah so … how about something pretty from Wisconsin? Proterozoic Baraboo quartzite clasts in a quartz-rich vein. The pink sparkly thumbnail is a complete coincidence. #geology 🧪⚒️🧀
January 12, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Yeah so … how about something pretty from Wisconsin? Proterozoic Baraboo quartzite clasts in a quartz-rich vein. The pink sparkly thumbnail is a complete coincidence. #geology 🧪⚒️🧀
The Cult of the Rubber Chicken is risen, with a resounding rendition of “The knife stays in the box!”
January 11, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The Cult of the Rubber Chicken is risen, with a resounding rendition of “The knife stays in the box!”
2 down, 2 more Big Ones to go. It’s a long slog of backups and downloads before deletion when you once were an early adopter of social media.
#backintheday #getoffmylawn #bringlonghashtagsback
#backintheday #getoffmylawn #bringlonghashtagsback
January 8, 2025 at 3:35 PM
2 down, 2 more Big Ones to go. It’s a long slog of backups and downloads before deletion when you once were an early adopter of social media.
#backintheday #getoffmylawn #bringlonghashtagsback
#backintheday #getoffmylawn #bringlonghashtagsback
Back in the olden days when DEI was all the rage, at least we women got awards for being Resilient in a male-dominated industry (“nothing will change but keep going on your own steam, atta girl”).
January 8, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Back in the olden days when DEI was all the rage, at least we women got awards for being Resilient in a male-dominated industry (“nothing will change but keep going on your own steam, atta girl”).
Sample 3: Best guess is zeolite crystals in basalt
December 25, 2024 at 12:00 AM
Sample 3: Best guess is zeolite crystals in basalt
Sample 2: Feldspar porphyry / porphyritic basalt
December 24, 2024 at 11:54 PM
Sample 2: Feldspar porphyry / porphyritic basalt
New-ish Xmas tradition: The relatives bring me rocks to identify and pay me in cheese. Homemade baked brie this year because the rocks are from Copper Harbor at the tip of the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan. Here we go. Sample 1: Copper Harbor Conglomerate, Mesoproterozoic (1.6-1.0 Ga)
December 24, 2024 at 11:47 PM
New-ish Xmas tradition: The relatives bring me rocks to identify and pay me in cheese. Homemade baked brie this year because the rocks are from Copper Harbor at the tip of the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan. Here we go. Sample 1: Copper Harbor Conglomerate, Mesoproterozoic (1.6-1.0 Ga)
Winter solstice sunset over downtown Chicago | 21 December 2024 16:15
December 21, 2024 at 11:17 PM
Winter solstice sunset over downtown Chicago | 21 December 2024 16:15
A GeologyPage meme, but now I am inspired to write this book. Who wants to be my co-author? 🧪⚒️
December 9, 2024 at 4:40 PM
A GeologyPage meme, but now I am inspired to write this book. Who wants to be my co-author? 🧪⚒️
I feel like I’ve reached some kind of high-amplitude nexus in the continuum when my Currently Reading trio was written by three of the best science fiction authors of our time. @charliejane.bsky.social @annleckie.com Kaliane Bradley #scifi 💙📚
December 4, 2024 at 12:35 AM
I feel like I’ve reached some kind of high-amplitude nexus in the continuum when my Currently Reading trio was written by three of the best science fiction authors of our time. @charliejane.bsky.social @annleckie.com Kaliane Bradley #scifi 💙📚
Welp after 2+ years of disuse, the old Xitter account has been completely deactivated and the app deleted. May take down my Mastodon instance, too. I now tend to make these decisions slowly after The Great Flickr Debacle of 2021.
November 26, 2024 at 9:38 PM
Welp after 2+ years of disuse, the old Xitter account has been completely deactivated and the app deleted. May take down my Mastodon instance, too. I now tend to make these decisions slowly after The Great Flickr Debacle of 2021.
Studying this beautiful new hydrologic map of the contiguous USA by @milos-makes-maps.bsky.social. Fluvial hydrologists, is there a resource where one can calculate how long a tracer dropped in, say, the Wisconsin River would take to reach the mouth of the Mississippi? #geology #hydrology
November 17, 2024 at 9:28 PM
Studying this beautiful new hydrologic map of the contiguous USA by @milos-makes-maps.bsky.social. Fluvial hydrologists, is there a resource where one can calculate how long a tracer dropped in, say, the Wisconsin River would take to reach the mouth of the Mississippi? #geology #hydrology
Collected from: Big Maria Mountains in the Mojave Desert, CA
Collected by: Kyrsten Johnston, University of #Wisconsin
Originally interbedded sandstone and limestone of the Supai Formation metasomatized (altered by fluids) to quartzite (dark brown) and wollastonite (white). #geology
Collected by: Kyrsten Johnston, University of #Wisconsin
Originally interbedded sandstone and limestone of the Supai Formation metasomatized (altered by fluids) to quartzite (dark brown) and wollastonite (white). #geology
October 20, 2024 at 12:42 AM
Collected from: Big Maria Mountains in the Mojave Desert, CA
Collected by: Kyrsten Johnston, University of #Wisconsin
Originally interbedded sandstone and limestone of the Supai Formation metasomatized (altered by fluids) to quartzite (dark brown) and wollastonite (white). #geology
Collected by: Kyrsten Johnston, University of #Wisconsin
Originally interbedded sandstone and limestone of the Supai Formation metasomatized (altered by fluids) to quartzite (dark brown) and wollastonite (white). #geology
At the #Wisconsin Geoscience department reunion this weekend. Always fascinating and humbling to remember how much we have contributed to the study of the earth. Van Hise, Chamberlin, Twenhofel, Dott, Pray, Anderson, Bentley, Wang, Bahr, Valley #geology
October 18, 2024 at 9:52 PM
At the #Wisconsin Geoscience department reunion this weekend. Always fascinating and humbling to remember how much we have contributed to the study of the earth. Van Hise, Chamberlin, Twenhofel, Dott, Pray, Anderson, Bentley, Wang, Bahr, Valley #geology