Notices by bse (doktrock@toad.social)

Hoar frost the other day #SilentSunday

Perfect day for pond skating! 19F/-7C, no wind. In this case, the artificial Centennial Lakes Park, #Edina, #Minnesota (suburb of #Minneapolis). Interestingly, set in an office complex. 900 m / half a mile long. They do condition the surface, but it's not like rink skating.

Discusses the significant helium discovery in the 1.1 Ga Midcontinent Rift, in northern #Minnesota ⚒️🧪 #geology (h/t Chris Rowan)

https://scicomm.xyz/@allochthonous/115805605535615788

🚨Paper Alert!🚨
Our work on Precambrian basement deep beneath the Williston Basin in #NorthDakota. We looked at two >2900 m drill cores, sampling the W edge of the Superior Craton and E margin of the 1.9 - 1.8 Ga Trans-Hudson Orogeny. ⚒️🧪 (T Nesheim, myself, J Vervoort)
https://doi.org/10.1130/B37440.1
1/5

Helping to judge high school #chemistry projects today! Groups carried out metathesis reactions to create the best nontoxic nail polish. They presented marketing materials for mock companies in addition to explaining the scientific basis. Enjoyed the creativity.
The kids are all right! ⚗️ 🧪 💅

We've had a couple decent snowfalls; now heading into the deep freeze. Forecast low temps this weekend -20F (-29C)

Rimer Cardillo, Uruguayan-American artist exhibition "Deep Ecology" at the Plains Art Museum #Fargo #NorthDakota

Video of pyroclastic flow at Semeru volcano, Indonesia, Nov 19, 2025. #geology (h/t Drsadhbh on bsky)

https://youtu.be/T02pJdKARLo?si=kM20uRb8pGW9qyY7

Aurora north of #Fargo last night, Nov 12 #northdakota

#Chicago

🚨Job Alert!🚨Faculty Position in Low-Temperature #Geochemistry at University of New Mexico ⚒️ #geology

https://unm.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/18/home/requisition/34200?c=unm&sq=req34200

🚨Job Alert!🚨Faculty position in #Geochemistry at University of Delaware. Stable isotopes, environmental, critical #minerals, carbon sequestration. #geosciences ⚒️🧪

https://careers.udel.edu/cw/en-us/job/502466/tenuretrack-assistant-professor-position-in-geochemistry

Doctoral Researcher opening: Assessment of changing trace metal fluxes in the Central and Eastern Arctic Ocean - Technische Universität Braunschweig #geology #geochemistry

https://www.earthworks-jobs.com/jobpost/braunschweig25091?id=11236

Looking out over Lake Superior from #Duluth, #Minnesota. From the archives. #SilentSunday

Ahshiselsaurus wimani - New duck-billed dinosaur species identified in northwest #NewMexico #Paleontology

https://www.krqe.com/news/new-mexico/new-duck-billed-dinosaur-species-identified-in-northwest-new-mexico/

A couple of fossil mammoth skeletons seen at The Mammoth Site in Hot Springs, #SouthDakota. The site was found by chance by a heavy equipment operator preparing a site for construction. #FossilFriday

2025 #NewMexico Mineral Symposium for both professionals and amateurs interested in #mineralogy. Socorro, NM Nov 7 -9

Featured Speaker:
"History and Highlights, including New Mexico specimens, of the Natural History Museum, London, England"
-Mike Rumsey, Principal Curator of Minerals and Planetary Materials for the Natural History Museum in London, England

https://geoinfo.nmt.edu/museum/nmms/home.cfml

@minorusaba "...the 19th consecutive year in which at least one Japanese national has been among the winners selected by the Annals of Improbable Research" !!

#Soil section from Naefurholt,
Rangárvellir, South #Iceland (Jarovegssniò viò Næfurholt
á Rangárvöllum) shows ash layers, mostly from Hekla and Katla, going back to time of settlement. National Museum in Reykjavík. #volcano #geology

🚨Job Alert!🚨 #Geology faculty position #structural geology/#geophysics at Whitman College, Washington State, USA. Review starts Sept. 19.
h/t Julie Elliot @ bsky

https://apply.interfolio.com/171758