🚨Job Alert ‼️🚨 Actually, three (3) openings:
1) Adjunct Prof with industry experience in economic #geology and ore systems science
2) Lecturer, Sr Lecturer, or Assoc Prof, hydrogeology, geometallurgy, etc
3) Computational #geophysics
https://www.wits.ac.za/vacancies/
Univ Witwatersrand, S Africa
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On the possibility of #Minnesota Cu-Ni- PGE mining.
#NorthMet #PolyMet #TwinMetals #geology ⚒️

https://eos.org/articles/one-billion-years-ago-northern-minnesota-nearly-split-apart-now-two-companies-want-to-mine-the-aftermath

Current status

"Die Rechten rasten aus, weil wir nahe dran sein könnten zu beweisen, dass eine egalitäre plurale Demokratie möglich ist. Eine optimistische Interpretation dieses Moments."

Von Thomas Zimmer, 15. Juli 2026

https://steady.page/de/demokratie-americana/posts/3ca0c464-1c7a-4af5-b7eb-e393101bc6d4

If you're interested in the whys and hows of soccer - football analytics, check out this podcast

https://overcast.fm/+AA5AWNcZ8q8

As seen on campus. Should we trust these contractors?

Two North Dakota men allege they were switched at birth in 1988, by a hospital | Fargo Forum #NorthDakota

https://www.inforum.com/news/north-dakota/i-think-i-was-cheated-men-speak-out-after-birth-switch-discovery

On this date in 1979, the tailings dam for the Church Rock #uranium mine in New Mexico burst. Over a thousand tons of uranium waste and millions of gallons of radioactive water were released into Rio Puerco, including into Navajo lands. #mining #NewMexico
(h/t 🧵by Stephen Schwartz on bsky)

Vice News article from 2019:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/church-rock-americas-forgotten-nuclear-disaster-is-still-poisoning-navajo-lands-40-years-later/

#Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) air quality alert
#wildfire #smoke

https://www.pca.state.mn.us/news-and-stories/air-quality-alert-issued-due-to-wildfire-smoke-for-wednesday-july-15-through-friday-july-17-for-east

Re Lindsey Graham's sister Darline Graham Nordone being appointed, another example is Jocelyn Burdick (D-North Dakota).

Senator Quentin Burdick died in office in September 1992. His widow Jocelyn Burdick was appointed to serve out his U.S. Senate seat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Burdick

"Das schönste Gestein der Welt verrät, wie die Alpen entstanden"
(Allalin-Gabbro)

"In dieser Schönheit steckt – tief verborgen – ... in welcher Tiefe sich die Alpendecken übereinander geschoben haben – und wie sie danach... ans Licht gelangten."

Podcast - tectonics, petrology, great storytelling 🧪⚒️

https://astrogeo.de/das-schoenste-gestein-der-welt-verraet-wie-die-alpen-enstanden/