On this #DarwinDay, did you know Darwin was a bit of a volcanologist? 🌋⚒️🌍📖 Enjoy the latest paper published in Volcanica - Charles Darwin on Volcanoes by Dennis Geist and Danny Gibson www.jvolcanica.org/ojs/index.ph...

‘I used to be a mountain’ by Maarten Inghels onboards.be/nl/product/m... 📷 Maarten Inghels/Onboards Biennale #urbangeology

After a long wait it‘s finally available in Australia! #volcano #book Such a pretty and well written book @volcanologist.bsky.social 🌋⚒️🧪

Had a lovely day in York tracing footsteps of Tempest Anderson, ophthalmic surgeon and adventuring volcanologist. Hunting for volcanic rocks in the city with @fossiliam.bsky.social

Calling all UK archaeologists! I am conducting some reasearch on Stratigraphic literacy in the industry. If you work/have worked in archaeology in the UK I would really apprechiate if would fill in this survey! forms.gle/5jZKpcf78gZt...

Good. Keep resisting.

20 January 1814: newspapers report that entrepreneur William Bullock was sending a natural history exhibition to Edinburgh. Amongst the specimens is 'the fossil head of a crocodile, lately found in Dorsetshire', the ichthyosaur found by #MaryAnning & her brother, on perhaps its first public display.

I'd be absolutely stoked to find out that a library was stocking my book. And that people were actually checking it out. 📖🤓

Job alert! We're recruiting for a #lecturer in marine conservation to direct our new #Marine #Conservation MSc and have the ?pleasure of working with me 'cos I run the Wildlife Conservation MSc. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQF022/l... 🧪 We're friendly and you can still buy a house on an academic salary here!

Did anyone see the Northern Lights last night? These incredible shots were taken at Dudmaston ✨

Many fellows of the @royalsociety.org (FRS) are incredibly good scientists with a wide reach. Yet, as the society, & the president of the society, react and engage in public discussions of at least one fellow and their conduct, the "brand" and relevance of the society continues to be at risk. 1/

But there's more As I wrote at the time, NESO said net-zero "Holistic Transition" was the "cheapest option", once you take account of the economic damages from CO2 adding to climate change It said a fossil energy system is only “cheaper” if we “ignore” carbon costs www.carbonbrief.org/... 9/10

The utterly shameless & widely covered "report" out today, claiming net zero will "cost" £9tn is based on: * Assuming free fossil-fuel energy, free petrol cars, free gas boilers, free gas power plants etc AND * Including climate damages in the "cost" of net zero I kid you not, it is that stupid

Following coverage over the weekend of Sir Paul Nurse's comments that suggested that the only reason that a Fellow should be expelled from @royalsociety.org is scientific misconduct, I have written to him to explain the risks such an attitude poses of increasing sexual harassment in STEM.

If you are interested in electron microscopy, registration is still open for the "Electron Microscopy Hands-On Course: sample preparation and imaging of marine environmental samples" at Stazione Zoologica in Naples. WIth great teachers from Naples […] [Original post on biologists.social]

Nice bubbling over at Kīlauea right now. Bigger stuff may follow: www.youtube.com/live/gXKuUyK...

PSA: twitter, X, is doing new terms of service that basically make it so that any comtent you share on there including DMs and photos is theirs and they can use it for "any purpose" including commercial use. So, if you have a page you’ve left up and don’t want them there’s time to act 1/

Did you know most of the volcanic activity on Earth takes place under the waves? 🌋 Submarine volcanoes act as pressure valves for the planet by periodically releasing heat and molten rock from beneath the surface. 📲 Learn more from our Ocean Learning Hub: go.whoi.edu/Uw_Volcano

very disappointing. There is a code of conduct for Royal Society fellows - it's not a value judgement to say that Musk has contravened it! see relevant bits of code and the Royal Society stated values below.

What would a fellow have to do, to be in contravention of the @royalsociety.org Code of Conduct if Musk's behaviour *doesn't* constitute "acting in a personal or professional capacity in such a manner as is likely to bring the Society into disrepute"? royalsociety.org/-/media/abou...

An excellent final @vmsg.bsky.social Annual Meeting Workshop today led by @volcanologist.bsky.social @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social @drnatashadowey.bsky.social on pyroclastic stratigraphies. I learned a lot and there were some great conversations. Thanks to all involved!

The one and only meme I've ever created. Also my most successful research output ever 🤣

This is not a model. This is a "fossilised" taxidermy of a Woolly Rhino, discovered in Starunia mine in Carpathian Poland (now Ukraine) in 1929. Dating to the Pleistocene, its exquisite preservation is owed to a mixture of brine, oil and clays. 🧵

The end of a great @vmsg.bsky.social Annual Meeting hosted by @noc.ac.uk. Two and a half days of high quality science and still one more workshop to look forwards to tomorrow on pyroclastic stratigraphies led by @volcanologist.bsky.social @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social @drnatashadowey.bsky.social

I just re-found the National Geographic episode on volcanoes that I used to watch nearly daily when I was like 6 years old! www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TQN...

Fangirling an autonomous underwater vehicle with @drnatashadowey.bsky.social at @noc.ac.uk hosted @vmsg.bsky.social Annual Meeting!

I did my undergrad geological mapping dissertation near here. Fabulous location.

On my way to a Volcanology conference, so of course there are adverse weather conditions. 🥶🫣 #IYKYK #VMSG26 @vmsg.bsky.social 🌋

Argh, this. And whenever I post about something like this I get a tonne of people suggesting open source alternatives. Yes cool, cool. But on a work-managed laptop or when interacting with work systems, I don't have control over the platform. 😫

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?