Twin Cities Geek Mar 9, 2025
This week, celebrate #Indigenous art at the Mni Sota Akítho Festival, learn about brains and neuroscience at the #BellMuseum, hang out at the #MinnesotaZoo after hours, and more! #MNZoo #MNastodon
https://twincitiesgeek.com/2025/03/this-week-in-geek-3-10-2025-3-16-2025/
This Week in Geek (3/10/2025–3/16/2025)

Welcome to This Week in Geek, your guide to events of interest to the Minnesota geek community for the week of Monday, March 10, to Sunday, March 16.

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GBIFSep 2, 2024
Occurrence of the week: Northern wild #rice - Zizania palustris f. palustris - collected by Welby R Smith near Malmo, Minnesota, USA. Photo via #BellMuseum, University of #Minnesota.
Twin Cities Geek Oct 8, 2023
This week, prepare for the solar eclipse with the #BellMuseum, watch the original #FridayThe13th on the big screen, and find out the latest from the #NASA OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission, and more! #MNastodon https://twincitiesgeek.com/2023/10/this-week-in-geek-10-9-23-10-15-23/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
This Week in Geek (10/9/23–10/15/23)

Welcome to This Week in Geek, your guide to events of interest to the Minnesota geek community for the week of Monday, October 9, to Sunday, October 15.

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Jeannine Cavender-BaresMay 17, 2023

Please join us for for Spotlight Science: Seeing Plant Biodiversity! This Saturday 10-2

#NSF #ASCEND_BII #spectralbiology #BellMuseum

https://www.bellmuseum.umn.edu/event/spotlight-science-seeing-plant-biodiversity/

https://www.spectralbiology.org

Spotlight Science: Seeing Plant Biodiversity - Bell Museum

Join us May 20 for a day of learning more about how biologists use high-tech tools (like drones and satellites) to study plant biodiversity.

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kregDec 19, 2022
OK, OK so this is a #WoolyMammoth not a #Mastodon but still seemed like a hood place to drop the image. If you get the chance to check out the #BellMuseum, I highly recommend it! https://www.bellmuseum.umn.edu/
Welcome to the Bell Museum - Bell Museum

Minnesota’s official natural history museum and planetarium is now located on the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus in Saint Paul. Take amazing journeys from the far reaches of the cosmos to deep inside the human brain in the Whitney and Elizabeth MacMillan Planetarium. Explore the origins of the universe, the diversity of life on earth, and take a walk through the state of Minnesota, featuring our world famous wildlife dioramas.

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John WilsonDec 11, 2022
Also at the #bellmuseum was this weasel which I took a picture of for @stargirl
James ForesterNov 28, 2022

I heard this on MPR this morning and was just floored by the life and adventures of Margaret Oldenburg. Thanks to her efforts, we have an amazing view into the Arctic floral diversity from the mid 1900's. #BellMuseum #BadassBotany

Work of pioneering Arctic explorer from Minnesota gains new relevance in tracking effects of climate change https://www.mprnews.org/story/2022/11/28/margaret-oldenburg-canadian-arctic-flora-collection-university-minnesota-climate-change via @mprnews

Work of pioneering Arctic explorer from Minnesota gains new relevance in tracking effects of climate change

Canadian researchers have been traveling to Minnesota to view plant specimens gathered in the Arctic decades ago by a boot-clomping, chain-smoking librarian who grew up near Duluth. The work of Margaret Oldenburg is finding new relevance as a way to better understand the effects of climate change.

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Twin Cities Geek Jul 26, 2022

See Earth in a New Light with Gaia at the Bell Museum

#BellMuseum #Gaia #LukeJerram #MuseumoftheMoon #nasa #PlanetEarth #Science

https://twincitiesgeek.com/2022/07/see-earth-in-a-new-light-with-gaia-at-the-bell-museum/

See Earth in a New Light with Gaia at the Bell Museum

At the University of Minnesota's Bell Museum, however, a new exhibit aims to bring us face to face with Earth as we rarely ever see it.

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