The Tonight Show mascot: Hashtag the Panda
#ThinSectionThursday is a thing. So is #FridayFold and #MineralMonday. Today I discovered a whole new genre of science communication: geology-themed hashtags on Twitter.
If you are a geologist, or just a fan of earth science, there is literally a hashtag for you every day of the (working) week.
Hashtags are used on Twitter to link conversations and to search by subject. Creating a hashtag is as simple as placing a ‘#’ symbol in front of a word or short phrase.
If you don’t tweet yet and would like to know more, check out my post, Social media basics: Twitter. You can search twitter.com for these hashtags even if you don’t have a Twitter account.
With help from my new friends on Twitter (Thanks @MicroEarthSci and @metageologist) I’ve put together a list of geo-themed hashtags to satisfy geologists everyday of the week.
Monday
- Some stunning mineral specimens can be found at #MineralMonday, and some clever photography too.
Amethyst with iron oxide from Thunder Bay. Ontario’s provincial mineral. Happy #mineralmonday. @ROMtoronto pic.twitter.com/bZdX43GrCa
— ROM Earth & Space (@ROMEarthSci) February 23, 2015
- It’s a shame no day of the week starts with ‘V’ but if you love lava, #VolcanoMonday is for you.
More Kilauea Iki 1959 to finish #VolcanoMonday. Fountains >400m hi, lava lake now fills crater http://t.co/hXe8svNFkF pic.twitter.com/1AEzDbcx6y
— Ken H Rubin (@kenhrubin) February 10, 2015
Tuesday
- Tephra is the name given to the rock fragments and ash blasted out of an erupting volcano. #TephraTuesday is the day to enjoy it on Twitter!
Cool bubble remnant! RT @d_kalteyer: #tephraTuesday. Ash from Oruanui down New Zealand way 🙂 pic.twitter.com/6gOd61l8WT
— Janine Krippner (@janinekrippner) November 18, 2014
— ROM Earth & Space (@ROMEarthSci) February 23, 2015
- There are plenty of great images each #TectonicTuesday too.
Multiple generations of #folding in a #gneiss. #tectonictuesday #ESW14 pic.twitter.com/faKINpmwJi
— Hummingbird Geology (@hummingbirdgeo) October 14, 2014
- And for the palentologists, we have #TrilobiteTuesday. More extinct arthropods than you can poke a stick at!
It’s #TrilobiteTuesday! Trilobites are distant relatives of modern lobsters & horseshoe crabs: http://t.co/9DhppkVDwv pic.twitter.com/t0Krhq6KZx
— AMNH (@AMNH) March 3, 2015
Wednesday
- Humpday was looking a little lean for geotags but the #icephoto hashtag comes to life on Wednesdays and fits the bill with lots of Arctic and Antarctic research images.
Looking forward to more of this in July 2015! So many cryoconites so little time! #icephoto #fieldwork #greenland pic.twitter.com/weN8gCtDWH
— Joseph Cook (@tothepoles) March 3, 2015
- Unfortunately #RockWednesday has nothing to do with geology and everything to do with rock music requests on a radio station.
Thursday
- This is the hashtag that started this search for me: #ThinSectionThursday. If features new images each week showing how light can dance through slivers of rock less than a millimetre thick.
Spherulites and rosettes of Quartz in Ocean Jasper. See details here http://t.co/6aV185e5rh #ThinSectionThursday pic.twitter.com/Y7aGqw5gSD
— Gemma Benevento (@GemmaBenevento) March 5, 2015
Friday
- #FridayFold is for the structural geologists and other fans of beautifully mashed-up rocks. #FoldFriday, on the other hand, covers laundry, yoga and linen.
With all the hype about #TheDress, I thought I'd give you some other gneiss stripes to look at. #geology #FridayFold pic.twitter.com/UOr8zIDF4V
— Stephanie Mills (@MicroEarthSci) February 27, 2015
- #FossilFriday is just plain scary!
Despite it’s claws and sharp-toothed jaws, this ferocious #FossilFriday is not a dinosaur! http://t.co/C1hXUeeaz5pic.twitter.com/KXBJuzpj43
— AMNH (@AMNH) February 27, 2015
- And finally, #FieldPhotoFriday is inspiration to get outside on the weekend. Where we belong!
"After the storm": July/13 near South Fiord, Axel Heiberg Island, #Nunavut. #fieldphotofriday #IsachsenExpedition2013 pic.twitter.com/QZ75scxAYB
— M.-C. Williamson (@mc_north) February 20, 2015