Volcano Scientist & Hardscrabble Woman w/ AuDHD. Interests include: SciComm, mafic enclaves, lava chemistry, phase-equilibria models & pizza.
Joined June 2016
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5 Feb 2025
The only post to get people who got off Twitter to log back in:
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7 Dec 2024
Attn Early Career Volcanologists headed to #AGU24:
Get to know new colleagues, make connections & talk π science this Wed evening at @busboysandpoets!
And if you see me around AGU this week, come say hi & get a sweet sticker!
ALT CONVERSE Emerging Researchers' Social Event Busboys & Poets Art Cafe, 450 K St NW Wed Dec 11th, from 6:30 - 8:30 pm Meet at 6pm at the south convention center exit!
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Dr. Melissa Scruggs π retweeted
28 Nov 2024
βHey do you want six hard boiled eggs in a row?β
No
βWeβre mixing egg yolk, mayo, mustard and putting it back on top of the eggβ
Midwesterners:
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25 Nov 2024
Friendly annual reminder to only deep-fry your dinosaurs out-of-doors this week!
Not sure what the heck I'm talking about? Check out this great infographic made by the infamous @Paleontologizin that tells you ALLLL about how your turkey is in fact a dinosaur!
How do you show people that their holiday turkey is a *dinosaur* ?
Have I got the tool for you:
A free, printable #Thanksgiving #scicomm #dinosaur skeleton cheat-sheet
ALT Danny Anduza holding a printed copy of the turkey and Velociraptor skeleton diagram
ALT The full turkey / Velociraptor skeleton infographic printout image
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12 Nov 2024
I counter with the unspoken grief of never owning a home
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26 Oct 2024
BREAKING: Michelle Obama just laid into Donald Trump like no one has before. Retweet to make sure all Americans see this takedown.
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5 Oct 2024
TYSM to @NASA, Agnar Hall & Chat for a great #CoffeeWithAScientist event this morning!
Agnar shared his journey from volunteer to cosmologist to Mission Control System Tech Engineer & answered great viewers Qs about life working at NASA - it was inspiring & I learned a ton!
ALT Screenshot from this morningβs episode of coffee with a scientist, featuring Agnar Hall, systems test engineer at NASA.
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5 Oct 2024
Check out the rest of this yearβs CWaS guests here:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLβ¦
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1 Oct 2024
It took out my beloved dioptase, but Iβve still gotta support kyanite to win #MinCup24 - aluminosilicate polymorphs are just so useful (and pretty)!
1 Oct 2024
#MinCup24 Finals: #Rhodochrosite vs. #Kyanite
Rhodochrosite, also known as Rosa del Inca is a carbonate that is a mix of utility and charm. Blue blades of Kyanite are distinctive at first glance, but unmistakable with their directional hardness.
VOTE: mineralcup.org/2024/vote/r5mβ¦
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30 Sep 2024
30 Sep 2024
#MinCup24 R4M2: #Dioptase vs. #Kyanite
This semifinal round is bound to end in heartbreak π. Dioptase, the desert emerald, faces blue metamorphic index mineral Kyanite.
VOTE: mineralcup.org/2024/vote/r4mβ¦
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30 Sep 2024
#CoffeeWithaScientistthat is OUT of this world! Our guest this month is Agnar Hall, System Test Engineer for #MissionControl at @NASA.
Learn about what it's like to work there, keep track of #astronauts, what the heck a Lyman Alpha Blob even IS & more!
twitch.tv/volcanodoc
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23 Sep 2024
Things are slowly getting exciting at the #MinCup24: #Titanite and #Calcite are currently tied. Many of the classics have already been eliminated and will be back next year. Is this an omen for #calcite? Which of the two will take on #Rhodochrosite?
ALT Actual bracket of the MinCup. In round 3, there will be the matches perovskite vs. stibnite, wavellite vs. dioptase, rhodochrosite vs. either titanite or calcite and kyanite vs. either charoite or topaz.
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20 Sep 2024
Itβs been a terribly exciting 1st Round of #MinCup24 - brackets have been ruined, trash has been talked, organic minerals have been learned about & more!!
ALT The Wichita State University Geology Deptβs Mineral Cup Bracket
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31 Aug 2024
My first couple weeks as a professor have been a LOT - so of COURSE I started tearing up when I came back from class to these touching decorations on my office door!
@WichitaStateGeo has such amazing students & it's nice to feel so appreciated! π₯°
ALT the best volcano decor a gal could've asked for
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23 Aug 2024
HIT ME UP.
Email me if Elsevier (surprise, surprise) went back on their acceptance of our orders - ESPECIALLY if you received TWO receipts!!! Not sure what Iβm talking about?
Check out their T&C & letβs lawyer upppp
23 Aug 2024
Can we get 40 people who placed orders, got confirmations, and then got cancellations? I think this is minimum # for a class action lawsuit. One hurdle I see is Elsevier could just be like "sorry, we ran out, had to cancel the rest of the orders." So idk how good of a case we have.
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23 Aug 2024
If you would like to contact @ElsevierConnect, their customer service number is (800)545-2522.
All our orders were cancelled & the ISBN is "under investigation".
$6500 is enough money for me to talk to a lawyer is all I'm saying.
23 Aug 2024
It should be ZERO surprise to anyone that @ElsevierConnect goes back on their word.
So sorry that we scientists purchased an 11-volume set of books that YOUR PUBLISHING COMPANY SET AT TEN CENTS.
GIVE US THE BOOKS WE PAID MONEY FOR. PERIOD.
I assure you, you CAN afford it.
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23 Aug 2024
It should be ZERO surprise to anyone that @ElsevierConnect goes back on their word.
So sorry that we scientists purchased an 11-volume set of books that YOUR PUBLISHING COMPANY SET AT TEN CENTS.
GIVE US THE BOOKS WE PAID MONEY FOR. PERIOD.
I assure you, you CAN afford it.
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23 Aug 2024
The kicker is that two days ago, we all got invoices saying that we were on backorder.
Looks like I'll be taking another gander at my old Torts book. Yall backed out of a contract, son.
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