Kīlauea episode 39 #kilauea

I don't think free speech on campus ought to mean that a young coddled bigot gets to use their ignorance to casually destroy the career of a knowledgeable trans person on a random Wednesday

🚨Extremely short notice: Looking for prospective PhD or postdoc w/ geological engineering or modelling experience, w/ interests in mountain geohazards for project focused on landslide-triggered tsunamis in subarctic w/ me & @geocron.bsky.social 🧵 🧪⚒️ Pls share! nserc-crsng.canada.ca/en/news/laun...

See the thing about Dan is that he's awesome. Go work with him.

📣 We seek to appoint a Chair (with rank of professor) within the School of Earth & Environmental Sciences. The successful candidate will be an outstanding scholar of international standing in the field. 🗓 Closing Date: 23 March 2026 Full details: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...

something I saw in Waterstones that Father Xmas or the Three wise men can bring to our nephews/nieces cc @volcanologist.bsky.social

On the winter solstice, the Sun rises and shines down the length of the 5,100-year-old Newgrange passage tomb in County Meath, Ireland. Remarkable designing and implementation by the Neolithic engineers who built it.

The deployment of “ai” is not a case study in diffusion of innovation or adoption of new technology. It is a case study in coerced implementation, it is social engineering by the elite class and it’s bad for people and bad for the planet

And please also, AGAIN, never forget that they are inherently unethical to use because no one gave permission for their research or writing to be used in it. It is all stolen, and if you're using the plagiarism machine, please keep that in mind.

Six caldera collapses are known to have occurred at basaltic volcanoes on land since the late 1960s, including most recently at Bárðarbunga in Iceland and Kīlauea on Hawaiʻi.

Nominations for the Royal Society's medals and awards are still open. Help us celebrate excellence across the sciences and across the world, with nominations open to both individuals and teams. Find out more: #RSMedals https://royalsociety.org/medals-and-prizes/nominations/

Was really challenging to participate in this, but I think I was able to pen something real, important, and personal to my experience in AI. Remember that GenAI is not *all* of AI nor all of what it should be. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/15/1...

Absolutely shocking. We're offering an overall award of £10k for information that leads to a conviction in these cases. We need to make raptor persecution a thing of the past.

If anyone out there wants to explore this avalanche database and write a blog post about it! Let us know! Our Guidelines for Contributors: niche-canada.org/guidelines-f... #envhist #cdnhist

It's the most wonderful time of the year! When as an academic Mum I'm: *Trying to remember what day Christmas Jumper Day is *Trying to remember what day Christmas Party Day is *See two different Christmas performances *Finish all my work before break *Cope without after school clubs *Be joyful

Here's my free AI for publishing boot camp: Don't fuckin' use it. Be your own damn self. Nobody wants to read your algorithmic slop.

Can universities make giant donations to Wikipedia instead of enabling institutional subscriptions? www.dailygamecock.com/article/2025...

Comment: Unearthing autistic voices in geosciences, an overlooked minority hidden in plain sight [free to access (via a free Nature account) for one month] www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The trouble with all these Sam -I-Am poems about AI slop is that at the end, Sam-I-Am is eventually forced to try it and realises that he really actually loves Green-Eggs-And-Ham and now he's going to eat it all the time.

NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇

Just decline the peer review invitation. What are you people even doing?

I don't even consider AGU anymore. 1) Hostile immigration processes 2) Extortionate cost 3) Size is overwhelming I only get 1 international conference every couple of years, so I need to choose wisely. I get more out of specialist events. And where I feel safer travelling to.

Attendance at US-based science conferences is bouncing around this year but generally down. #AGU25 has ~10k fewer this year! I explored these trends for @nature.com — including solutions to keep conferences local & productive: www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

I expect #Trump has a lot to do with this but the cost of attendance is also surely a factor. Going to #AGU from the #UK costs more than the standard annual Research Training and Support Grant for a #UKRI funded #PhD student - which also has to cover lab costs. AGU is unaffordable for many.

UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme

"I just need to get through this week" she says for the 14th week in a row

It's the most wonderful time of the year! Just a few more working days to go!

Fantastic palaeoart in a traditional Chinese style, used as a figure in a Royal Society publication, describing a false sabre-tooth feline, Taotienimravus songi. I hope this buckles the trend again "stylised" art in publications and press releases. Art by Yuefeng Song 🐈

Before the European Enlightenment, cultures across the world engaged scientifically with the natural history, and showcased it visually with their own unique visual language and perception of the living world. I do not understand the current aversion to different "styles" in scientific visual art.

Any university leadership team thinking of buying into a system should spend some time on academic social media doing some digging. They might be saved an expensive, painful error. 👀👇

I don't do procurement so this could be reasonable(?) but yowza

If you love science and comedy and @robinince.bsky.social, now is a great time to discover @cosmicshambles.com and everything they have to offer. And if you're in the vicinity of London, UK, check out their amazing holiday event, "Nine Lessons and Carols for Curious People"

HiPOD: A Fissure near Cerberus Fossae The linearity of the volcanic vent shown in this HiRISE image, in conjunction with evidence of lava flow from the vent, suggests control by combined volcano-tectonic processes. https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_034716_1875 #Mars #science #NASA

Deeply disappointed to hear that the BBC has pushed out one of the most brilliant presenters in all of science communication for speaking with integrity and honor in support of human rights and dignity.

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

Pro-tip for paper and grant reviewers: your job isn't to be an asshole

Can people organizing academic conferences in the US please get a grip?

Our friends at USGS landslide group have some preliminary results about landslides and rock/ice avalanche that occurred from the M7.0 Hubbard Glacier earthquake on Dec. 6. I remember some people asking about landslides caused by this earthquake. Here you go: www.usgs.gov/programs/lan.... 🪨⚒️🧪

A total solar eclipse. By Earth. Taken from the Moon in March this year.

Have a break this afternoon and transport yourself to Patagonia via our seminar this afternoon. Live vicariously through other people's research.

apparently there's 'falling growth' in the 'scientific research' sector, and yes, that is what will happen if you slash jobs in universities

Call to Participate in IODP³ Expedition 506S: SIGNALS: Stratigraphic InteGration of North Atlantic Legacy Sites iodp3.org/call-to-part...

You can do this right now: Think of a person who wrote a paper you love, whose work influenced or helped you, or has made your professional life better. Search up their email address. Shoot them a quick email of thanks. It means so, so much. This is a rough time of year, share some joy.

Interested in fishing culture, and literature? Fancy doing a PhD? www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

My 5 year old got 'Star of the Week' for "a fantastic letter to Santa". Erm... What did the letter say please? Please? PLEASE? Schools and kids clubs should be banned from this activity for the sanity of parents.

Here's a long shot: a big orphan pebble collection from the USGS, yours if you can take and treasure it. See alt text

For local readers (and geologists who visit the Bay area), I lustily recommend this gift idea. <hint>Take 30 percent off with the promo code HEYDAY30</hint>

Locals and others! Definitely get Andrew's book, it's a great read with a lot of well (might I even say ... deeply) researched info you won't easily find elsewhere. #BookSky #Oakland ⚒️

🧪🏺🦣 Strong case for *oldest fire-starting* 🔥 capacity, before 400 Ka, suggested by multi-stranded analysis: geochem, magnetic, sedimentary evidence of anthropogenic burning, + heated lithics + remains of iron pyrite. Behaviourally heading towards #Neanderthals. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"reward institutions for specialisation by making them a “partner of choice” in specific areas of research" - I dislike this. Sounds like we're going to reduce the diversity of folk tackling research topics and create elitist silos. UKRI chief pledges shift from short-termism in research funding