🌋NEW JOB POSTING!🌋 We are advertising a 32-month postdoc in volcanic petrology at @bristoluni.bsky.social . This UKRI NERC-funded position will join a large team working on: ‘Ex-X’ Expecting the Unexpected. Understanding ‘dangerous’ volcanic transitions’. More: www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Having an allergy kid in the countryside is being in a cafe with more options on the dog menu than allergy-safe options for the kid* *If any.

I'm looking at UKRI's EDI strategy again this afternoon... in March 2023 UKRI said they would set up a "people, culture and talent change board" to oversee progress on their EDI Strategy. 3 years on, does anyone know if this exists? I can't find evidence that it does... Has it been renamed?

We are looking for a new volcano-petrology postdoc to join the NERC-funded large grant ‘ex-x: understanding dangerous eruptive transitions’ Based at Bristol University! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRA042/s...

#FossilFriday: A Coprolitic Vision, Henry De la Beche's c.1829 take on William Buckland's coprolitic enthusiasms, portraying him in gown and mortarboard surveying a cavernous scene of antediluvial coprolite-production, from the Pleistocene mammals of Kirkdale to the Lias pterodactyls of Lyme Regis.

Enjoyed learning about fossil bumholes this week with Rob and Suzie. Officially my favourite science podcast* (*Technically the only science podcast I listen to).

My first step into the underwater world! This project is my first output from my ongoing work with @kelpiegeo.bsky.social A very cool project - imagine your favourite PDC and pumice fall deposits but at 5080 metres below sea level (15 Eiffel towers!!) How did it get there? Find out below… ⬇️ 🌋

Sharing this 🎯 paper from a few years, for no particular reason, with the apt metaphor that academia is a hostile obstacle course. It’s a paper that seems to become more relevant as time goes on, not just in the US, but also in the far reaches of the academic map.

Check out this awesome new paper by @nemiwalding.bsky.social on direct submersible observations of volcanic rocks on the Tonga trench seafloor! 🧪🌍⚒️👩‍🔬🪨🌋

Just the stone to carve a cheetah 🐆! Anna Maria Massinelli’s new book on the use of the decorative stone Giallo tigrato is available to download at www.academia.edu/165293968/Pa... #decorativestone

An individual or organisation that thinks rubric generation is “low value” is fundamentally ignorant about teaching skills and pedagogy. Very embarrassing if you’re an ed tech company!

If you are giving a presentation sometime soon, I have a little ebook for you! Imaginatively titled, "Presentation Tips"! Sections on: 1. What to say 2. What to show 3. Giving the talk Free PDF (linked) or cheap Kindle version (if that's your thing.) doi.org/10.6084/m9.f... #AcademicChatter

This is utterly jaw-dropping. A school that bans Atwood, Zadie Smith, Terry effing Pratchett and *literal George Orwell* is actively harming its pupils. www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...

🚨HELP NEEDED! The Lyme Regis Museum needs to raise another £5,900 by 26th March to buy a rare letter by Mary Anning. There are so few tangible records of Anning, and NONE in her home town (AFAIK all are elsewhere). Please share (& donate if you can)! www.lymeregismuseum.co.uk/help-to-brin...

‼️ Apparently EM-DAT was financially supported through USAID. There's an open letter you can sign to garner support CRED finding a new sustainable funding source. This is the most critical international disaster dataset we have that underlies both research & practice openletter.earth/the-worlds-c...

I have a lot of respect for Naomi, I think she's fab, but as someone who spent 16 years at the women's equality coalface, I don't believe my generation's women's movement failed so much as powerful men woke up to what was going on and blocked us. And we had not yet gathered the power to stop them.

Amazing trace fossil - Zoophycos - from the mid-Miocene sediments of the Tabernas basin, Almeria. First time to have seen this, in many years of field visits - spotted by eagle-eyed 3rd year @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social students. ⚒️

OCR exam board removes AS and A Level Geology. This leaves only the Eduqas (WJEC) exam board offering this subject. Not sure entirely what the implications are, but, this does not feel good 😩 www.ocr.org.uk/administrati...

#FossilFriday: a fossil sepia ink sac drawn with fossil sepia in 1834 by Lyme Regis fossil collector and friend of #MaryAnning, Elizabeth Philpot. The pencil annotation is by Oxford geologist William Buckland. More on fossil sepia coming in the next issue of @hoggroup.bsky.social's GeoHistories.

JOB CLAXON: Imaging Assistant @nhm-london.bsky.social . Permanent role. Would be good for someone with CT experience! jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Landscape Features xkcd.com/3221/

🌋 UPCOMING WEBINAR 🌋 "Hot Volcaniclastic Sediments as Sources of Pyroclastic Density Currents: Observational and Modelling Constraints" by Federico Di Traglia When: 20 March 2026, 3pm CET Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/97aa6a... See you there!

This webinar looks awesome. Do join!

The CVS is going to Argentina! 🌋 Join us on our fieldtrip named: “The Miocene unusual volcanic-arc activity at the foot of the Andes, Patagonia, Argentina: how does volcanism affect sediment routing systems? “ (1)

'The length of the path isn't really the point. What makes it so special, says [Neil Constable, who led the project for Natural England], is that you can walk to the coast anywhere in England, turn left or right, and walk beside the sea for as long as you like.' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#AskAGeoscientist! 🪨⚒️🌍🧪👩‍🔬 Ever wanted to ask what it's like to walk on lava? How we know what a volcano plumbing system is like? Do volcanologists actually wear those silver suits? Whatever your burning question, pop it below as Friday I'm recording a podcast with @smitchellscience.bsky.social!

Utterly galling after the community is thriving with involvement in many international missions and collaborative projects...

I'd like to dedicate this post to everyone who said there was no point in fighting this. And to point out most of the value in AI companies is derived from their past scraping and in a just world, we'd be looking at billions in compensation.

If you'd like to support the fundraising campaign of the Friends of Lyme Regis Museum to help acquire this #MaryAnning partial letter for the museum, you can make a donation here: www.lymeregismuseum.co.uk/about-us/fri...

This is an extremely cool project -- if you love morphology, evolution, and rodents* of unusual size, and want to come and work with us... post doc job advert COMING SOON! *not just rodents

We have established a neurodivergent community on Discourse, autistic-academics.discourse.group, and we're still looking for people interesting in helping moderating/administration AS well as being members of the community. Please spread! #chemsky

Chair in Earth Sciences position @uniofstandrews.bsky.social closing soon - Monday 23 March. Very broad remit, so if you’d like to join our lovely school, and get to live in the super beautiful and friendly wee nation of Scotland, please apply! www.st-andrews.ac.uk/earth-scienc... ⚒️🌊🧪

Amazing view of the lava river from the #Piton de la Fournaise #volcano reached the Indian #Ocean. The #Copernicus #Sentinel2 image on March 16 shows the effects of the #eruption. #volcan #vulcano

When you have messed up and forgotten to book accommodation at a race event, and can't find accommodation for miles around. Don't panic, check hotels again the day after transfer deadline day. Suddenly rooms are available! (Sorry to all the runners whose training blocks haven't gone to plan).

Paper acceptance happy dance day.

New article by Meara et al. in #JAV They carefully reconstruct the first night of the 1973 #eruption of Eldfell volcano, #Iceland, and the community response, based on 30 interviews, 55 written personal accounts, 10 books, and 499 news articles. Check it out: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Colossal are experimenting on elephants to make a GM fudge of creatures whose native biome vanished 11 millennia ago. For a measurable climate effect you'd need 1000s of them, across millions of hectares. Is this realistic, viable? If it's not, how is current work ethical? bsky.app/profile/tori...

For the record, this is my comment to the journalist on Colossal’s dire wolf.

Take a break from human folly; watch rocks being born in a fiery red fountain from the very bowels of the earth.

TREAT YOURSELF

Achieving the UK’s net zero target by 2050 will cost less than a *single* oil price shock & will insulate UK against future shocks Meanwhile Reform UK & Tories want to scrap net zero targets on the grounds of 'cost' - so either foolish or doing donors' bidding www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The details in this thread are another deeply undesirable turn in the state of uk academia.

I propose the following names for the planned synthetic biological recreations of various extinct superstars: 🦣 The Lammoth (after Colossal CEO Ben Lamm) 🦤 The DoDon’t (de-exctincted Dodo) 🐅 The Trylacine (marks for good effort) You are welcome.

How do we lose the history of women in academia? Well, start by losing their citations to better networked groups… This makes me think of the citation analyses of ‘who gets taught’ in archaeology that Colleen Morgan at York did (and I tried elsewhere) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Just had a panic that I'd lost my phone while literally holding it scrolling this app. I think I need a nap.

Little (< 0.3 mm) intercumulus crystals of dalyite (bright interference colours) surrounded by alkali feldspar in a peralkaline syenite. #thinsectionthursday #geology #science #minerals #rocks #microscope #microscopy

Spectacular olivine dolerite from Fair Head, County Antrim in XPL for #ThinSectionThursday. Olivine shows particularly vibrant interference colours while the ophitic intergrowth of twinned plagioclase and clinopyroxene is a textbook quality example. 🧪⚒️🌋

Compare and contrast the funding call in Kristy's post below with the EPSRC EDI action plan: "2.15. Ensure no short deadlines to funding opportunities. Thoughtful deadlines to enable a greater diversity of people to apply." www.ukri.org/publications...

I do love a ghost gable like this found near Ancoats in Manchester - but it's rarer still to find the intangible signs of the puff of smoke from the chimney...