Paula Piilonen

Mineralogist (CDN Museum of Nature), Muay Thai, motorcyclist, CWSF, greyhound mom. All opinions are my own.

[The Oatmeal @Oatmeal]

A man walks onstage. The lights dim. The audience falls into excited hushes.

A spotlight hits the man. He speaks. "Imagine, if you will, a future..."

"A future where you can send emails..."

"while wearing ski goggles with a cord running into your pants."

The crowd roars.

[Paula Piilonen @Paula_Piilonen]

@va3ks Great park! We were there 2 years ago.

[Paula Piilonen @Paula_Piilonen]

Wednesday sunset on the bay.

[IFLScience @IFLScience]

The flatulence of dogs is well documented, but are there sneaky parps between cats' purrs?https://t.co/mGhI0I4gtP

[Museum of Nature @MuseumofNature]

Congrats to Graeme Hopkins, from Evan Hardy Collegiate, in #Saskatoon. He received our Beaty Award for best natural-history project at #CWSF2023, based on his three years studying a 12,000 year-old fossil deposit. @StoonPubSchools. #YouthInSTEM Learn more: https://t.co/eRqSv7PZ9i

[Paula Piilonen @Paula_Piilonen]

Yesterday we had the honor of receiving the 2023 Hawley Medal from the @MineralAssocCan at GAC-MAC in Sudbury. The Hawley Medal is for the best paper in the Canadian Mineralogist in 2022 - about zeolites from Cambodia. @MuseumofNature

[Paula Piilonen @Paula_Piilonen]

@alannealottawa so happy to hear you talking to our Canada-Wide Science Fair finalists on @cbcallinaday ! @ysc_sjc Looking forward to more this week! #CWSF2023

[Paula Piilonen @Paula_Piilonen]

Congrats to Graeme Hopkins of Saskatoon, SK for winning the 2023 Beaty Centre for Species Discovery award and a Silver Medal at #CWSF2023 from the @museumofnature You can visit his project here: https://t.co/YS8G18UjjC

[Paula Piilonen @Paula_Piilonen]

Mineralogists think fauna are cool too - the flooding on our street is awful, but seeing hundreds of 3 ft long carp in the ditches across the street is pretty cool! @MuseumofNature

[Paula Piilonen @Paula_Piilonen]

Congrats to Team Canada 2023! Talking to these young scientists today for judging was inspirational. And Annabelle is a @MuseumofNature
Nature Ipiration Award nominee and won the 2022 Beaty Award at CWSF 2022. https://t.co/T7mlSpgLYr

[Paula Piilonen @Paula_Piilonen]

Saturday afternoon fun! @MuseumofNature @OntScienceCtr

[Paula Piilonen @Paula_Piilonen]

Here showing off MSH minerals at the PDAC reception! @MuseumofNature

[The Official PDAC @the_PDAC]

Huge thanks to the @MuseumofNature for loaning us the exquisite Gilles Haineault Mont Saint-Hilaire Mineral Collection for tonight’s PDAC Reception in Ottawa.

We are SUPER excited to be back in person (our first time since 2020)!

#MineralExploration #MSH

[The Official PDAC @the_PDAC]

Huge thanks to the @MuseumofNature for loaning us the exquisite Gilles Haineault Mont Saint-Hilaire Mineral Collection for tonight’s PDAC Reception in Ottawa.

We are SUPER excited to be back in person (our first time since 2020)!

#MineralExploration #MSH

[Paula Piilonen @Paula_Piilonen]

@alannealottawa I was on hold with someone a couple of weeks ago, Bell I think, and I was offered a choice of muzak genres!!

[Paula Piilonen @Paula_Piilonen]

@CBCOntarioToday Many of these social bonding activities are at the employee's personal expense - not everyone can afford that or want to spend their money in that way.

[Paula Piilonen @Paula_Piilonen]

@Oatmeal and another!! LMFAO

[The Oatmeal @Oatmeal]

I built a random comic generator that makes horrible comics about therapy. If you get a good one, post it in the thread below. https://t.co/LKbqzewwAW

[Paula Piilonen @Paula_Piilonen]

@oatmeal I laughed ridiculously loud at this one!

[Paula Piilonen @Paula_Piilonen]

@alannealottawa awesome to hear you speaking geology yesterday! You rock! 🙃🙃

[Paula Piilonen @Paula_Piilonen]

Pok ta pok - the ancient Mayan ball game.