Madeline Murchland

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SAGE KELLERMAN. 9.925! 🔥 #GoGreen

Confused why everyone is saying the Super Bowl is tomorrow when it’s next Friday?

Raman Spectroscopy for Mineral Identification: A Practical Guide Developed by Paul R. Bartholomew and Jeffrey E. Post. To access the guide on the MSA website, go to msaweb.org/wp-content/upl…

When it’s my turn to present in lab meetings

BREAKING NEWS: Chellsie Memmel 2008 Olympic Trials Day 2 Floor Exercise just received a 55 minute standing ovation from me in my living room after watching it for the 200th time

January 21,1857, birthday of American geologist Joseph Paxson Iddings. Worked on the petrology of volcanic rocks & mapped the volcanoes of the Cascades. He also published textbooks on mineral formation in lava and magma 🌋🪨

HELEN HU WITH ABSOLUTE PERFECTION ON BEAM 🤩🔟 @espnW | @SECNetwork

The four-time Development Nationals (formerly J.O.) Balance Beam Champion finally gets her first collegiate perfect 10 on Beam! Congratulations, @hu_dat_gymnast! 🥹👏

January 14, 1890, birthday of English geologist Arthur Holmes. He suggested that the radioactive decay of minerals provided an energy and heat source for mantle convection...

This midnight blue platy covellite is to die for!! This is not how geologists normally find it in the field. This specimen is from Leonard Mine, Montana. #MineralMonday #GeoscienceTwitter

We are saddened to hear the news about the passing of Prof Jack Zussman who only recently reached his 100th birthday. Prof. Zussman is best know for his contribution to Crystallography and as author of 'An Introduction to the Rock-Forming Minerals'

This mineral under the electron microscope looks like the corner of a well-loved book. :) Does anyone want to guess what this is? Hint: It’s an ore mineral. Width of the image is ca. 100 µm. #MineralMonday

Everyone talks about the same geniuses like: Einstein, Tesla, or Hawking. But for me, there's one woman who stands head and shoulder above all. Sadly, her legacy was a heartbreaking tragedy. Here's her story... (thread) 🧵

Queens

okay on the real though, the official team name is ✨golden girls✨ (because oldest olympic team) s/o to cecile🥹🤍

I’m obsessed with how Stephen Nedoroscik squints at the apparatus every time he takes his glasses off

@getpseudoed I knew there had to be a reason I took Russian in college…

An interesting takeaway from the weekend is that apparently American science does not give a fuck about crystallogenesis and apparently I’m going to need to learn Russian.

Writing a scientific article: A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners (1/7)

Do you have silicate minerals in your carbonatites? It could be an antiskarn! A paper out today together with @thegeojesse in Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology. Available open access at doi.org/10.1007/s00410…