Madison Matthews

NC Teaching Fellow - Secondary Earth & Environmental Science - UNC Chapel Hill - she/her 🏳️‍🌈

[Madison Matthews @madsmatthews]

love hearing students in AP Environmental Science (who have already taken the AP exam, mind you) ask "Wait, why is pollution bad?" 😭

[Langston League @LangstonLeague]

Finally, AP African-American History is available for the children. https://t.co/KNj2MoQvid

[jules 🪱🌾 @pansybeast]

WITH DEATH COMES LIFE
(Cretaceous-Paleogene Extinction Event)
((66.0 MYA))

[Madison Matthews @madsmatthews]

@GeoLexie yay congrats!!!!!

[AWG @AWG_org]

Award Deadline Reminder! AWG's Geoscience IDEA Scholarship (formerly known as the Minority Scholarship) is due on June 30. This supports undergraduate Earth Science students from under-served communities & comes with a $5000 award split between two selected recipients.

[trowelblazers @trowelblazers]

For #BlackInArchaeologyWeek #FieldSiteFriday, here is our post on Irene Mound, which had a huge team of African-American women excavating, but which also reveals the disparity in whose identity is written into and out of the history of archaeology.
https://t.co/Qp4X7Blezu

[The Siberian Times @siberian_times]

A 14,000 year old puppy preserved in permafrost had a slice of a woolly rhino for its last meal. Russian scientist said today that shape of the skin found in its stomach suggests it had been cut from the carcass by a human. Earlier story about the puppy https://t.co/Ec7sq0nZ1d

[BlackInGeoscience @BlkinGeoscience]

As we plan #BlackInGeoscienceWeek & #Back2School, many students will be unable to pay for basic needs like utilities or wifi to stay in school. #BiG folks at the @NABGSocial created a pandemic emergency fund for students. Please share & donate here👇🏾🙏🏿you
https://t.co/lfesCzq5Lm

[Etymology Nerd @etymology_nerd]

Geology etymology!

#etymology #linguistics #rocks #geology #interesting #infographic

[Dr Dean Lomax @Dean_R_Lomax]

I saw these photos doing the rounds across social media and couldn’t help but share. 

What a beautiful fossil. 🌳🌳🌳

A 72-metre-long petrified tree at the Ban Tak Petrified Forest Park, Thailand, which dates from the Early Pleistocene and is about 800,000 years old.