Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

We’re advertising a PhD studentship for folks with good knowledge of Caribbean culture and society, with background in geography, human geography, humanities or interdisciplinary geosciences as part of our @leverhulme.ac.uk funded ‘volcanic histories’ project

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

🌋 August Compilation of Bulletin of Volcanology! 🌋 3⃣ "Insights into eruption dynamics from TROPOMI/PlumeTraj-derived SO2 emissions during the 2022 eruption of Mauna Loa, Hawaiʻi" Esse et al. link.springer.com/article/10.1... (4/13)

🌋 August Compilation of Bulletin of Volcanology! 🌋 We’re excited to share the latest research articles published in August 2025 on the Bulletin of Volcanology! 🖇 All IAVCEI members enjoy free access to the journal! (1/13)

🚨 This morning we turned the street outside Labour Party Headquarters in London into Jabaliya camp in Gaza. Listen to @ahmedmasoud02.bsky.social talking about what the Israeli army did to his neighourhood and family.

Why? Why??

Absolutely dystopian juxtaposition from the Guardian front page. Difficult to understand how anyone of decency and conscience can defend this government at this point. Just sheer moral degeneracy to arm a state that does this and arrest people for objecting. Wtf are we doing as a country?

🚨 How far are volcanologists from volcanoes? 🌋🚨 Check out our new paper here: link.springer.com/article/10.1.... What started as a conversation about whether we at @exeter.ac.uk (in Cornwall, UK) are further from volcanoes than our global colleagues turned into an exploration of a fruitful data set!

We are thrilled to announce that the next IAVCEI Scientific Assembly will be held in Costa Rica! 🇨🇷 A heartfelt thank you to everyone who joined us in #IAVCEI2025 in Switzerland. We look forward to seeing you all again in #IAVCEI2029. Welcome to Costa Rica!

And here is Barbara Bonechi showing us her fantastic decompression experiments! #ECR #IAVCEI2025

Arrived in Geneva for the @iavcei.bsky.social Scientific Assembly. Already seen the Jet d'Eau and had two ice creams, I'm ready for the 🌋 science #IAVCEI2025

Had a great time visiting @eumetsat.int in Darmstadt for the first time (also my first proper visit to Germany!). There was a good density of satellite models around, and also fish in an inside pond? Why don't more buildings have inside ponds?!?

Discworld QOTD, from Snuff “Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.”

www.ft.com/content/8778... Kudos to Andrea Sella for taking a stand against @royalsociety.org’s inaction over Elon Musk FRS

Each of us is here for a short time. It’s depressing that some choose to use their time grifting and generally making life worse for everyone else, instead of trying to improve the world for those who don’t have a voice, whether people, animals, or other life forms.

Inspired by @jtuttlekeane.bsky.social and @ohdearz.bsky.social, here's what the White House proposed budget cuts to NASA would do to the entirety of the agency's Science Mission Directorate. Bloodbath is right.

🚨 New Paper Alert! 🧵 Excited to share our latest research on the 2021 Tajogaite eruption (La Palma, Spain) 🌋 We used 3D X-ray microtomography to unravel how vesicle textures and pore networks in volcanic clasts relate to eruption style and gas escape efficiency. doi.org/10.1007/s004...

In the these last days of May I'm rapidly beginning to regret the three talks and a poster that I apparently signed up to present next month. Not sure why everyone has decided to organise their meetings in June 🥲 at least it gets all the travel over and done with...

This is one of the main reasons I'm really hesitant to use LLMs day to day. Tweaks to the prompts can suddenly (and silently) change outputs, which can spread dangerous misinformation fast. Is it really worth the few extra seconds to use a normal search engine? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

April Compilation of Bulletin of Volcanology ! 🌋 We’re excited to share the latest research articles published in April 2025 on the Bulletin of Volcanology! 🔥 🖇 All IAVCEI members enjoy free access to the journal Check out the full paper list of this month! 👇🏼

Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching. Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.

Definitely didn't see this one coming... 🙄 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The British Medical Association Resident Doctors are the backbone of the NHS, they look after us all in hospital. They passed this motion at their conference which pulls the “supreme” court judgement to pieces. They call it “scientifically illiterate” and “biologically nonsensical” 1/3

🏳️‍⚧️ NEW 🏳️‍⚧️ We believe the Supreme Court – which disgracefully refused to hear from trans people before its decision last week – has placed the UK in breach of its obligations under the Human Rights Act. So we’re readying a challenge – join us: goodlaw.social/xpme

I'm able to make this animation of how the ocean breathes in and out CO₂ because of data collected by NOAA scientists, data served at NOAA websites, and tools provided by NASA. All are under threat of being dismantled by the Trump administration.

We have a summer research internship in Manchester looking at SO2 emissions from volcanoes in the Galapágos! Details are below, please share with anyone that might be interested 🙂

Interested how we can use satellite gas measurements to monitor and potentially forecast the evolution of volcanic eruptions? Then check out our new paper on the 2021 eruption of #Tajogaite! 🌋🛰️

🌋✈️Brand new article in the Journal of Applied Volcanology by Debrel et al investigates changes to aircraft flight paths during ash-rich #eruptions. Greater volumes of airspace affected by ash result in greater deviation of flight paths with longer travel time & fuel use⏬⏬⏬ tinyurl.com/55en2f7e

Sharing some light... Today we set up our "source to surface" #volcano activity as part of #BritishScienceWeek at the #ManchesterMuseum 🌋🌋🌋 Plus a united effort from our department at #UniversityOfManchester in the form of stamp-able cards representing the breadth of #EarthScience research 🌍🌌🌿🪨🦖

Happy International Women's Day! Despite the efforts, while much more women enter scientific fields, due to numerous factors, few manage to remain in the field or secure senior positions. Support your coworkers, call out harmful systemic behaviour. 😘

🚨I promised I'd say more on the Royal Society and Elon Musk, so here it is. 🚨 I've resigned my position as Associate Editor at Royal Society's journal Open Science in protest at their lack of action over Elon Musk. My op-ed in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

1/3 Disappointing to read today, not surprising, but disappointing nonetheless. I'd like to hear from the fellows at this meeting & whether there was an opportunity to even discuss the Elon in the room? What was the nature of the unity described? #RoyalSociety www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Today the Royal Society will meet to discuss “Fellows’ behaviour”. Without doubt the fellow they will primarily be discussing is Elon Musk. The behaviour may range from his public dissemination of unfounded conspiracy theories to his attacks on the science 🧵 1/38

🚨 #NOAA is essential for weather forecasting, climate research, and public safety. AGU stands with the scientific community in urging Congress to protect and strengthen NOAA, not dismantle it. Our economy, environment, and safety depend on it.

This includes the USGS Hawaiian and Alaska Volcano Observatories. HVO's Ironworks is a temporary space while a new facility is built to replace the Observatory critically damaged in 2018. Both groups are near their volcanoes. Neither has anywhere to go and both have been forbidden from telework.

The mass firing of both new hires and recently promoted senior staff within #NOAA, including mission-critical and life-saving roles at the National Weather Service (#NWS), is profoundly alarming. 1/11

I just started using The StoryGraph after never being into book tracking apps/platforms and I love it so far! Lots of good reasons to use it over Goodreads outlined in this article #booksky www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

I'm writing an EDI statement for a project proposal, which is hitting pretty hard given the attack on this sort of work in the US. Never has it felt more important to promote EDI and its key part of the science we do...

An open letter to the President of the @royalsociety.org – time to stand up for your values. occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...

Fuck you, Google. Bootlickers.

Kudos to @lisgallant.bsky.social for flagging that the illegal USAID shutdown paying out right now may imperil the 39 year-old Volcano Disaster Assistance Program (VDAP). For folks who don't know VDAP, it's a transformative and vital resource for volcano hazard mitgation across the world. 🧵

DOGE is reportedly threatening NOAA with massive staff and budget cuts. NOAA houses the National Weather Service and National Hurricane Center, which produce forecasts and warn people about storms. This attack on public safety is ripped straight from the pages of Project 2025.

USDA ordered to scrub climate change from websites. The directive could affect information across dozens of programs including climate-smart agriculture initiatives.

A reminder: If you need to know about volcanic activity in the United States and are concerned that you might not be able to reach USGS websites at some point, PLEASE make sure you sign up for our volcano notification Service: volcanoes.usgs.gov/vns3/ It is a straight-to-email messaging system. 🌋🧪⚒️

Before and after 🌋 Had a creative excursion from the usual work today painting a 3D printed volcano for future outreach fun! Bonus points if you can guess the volcano...

It's time for the Royal Society to revoke Elon's fellowship. Surely Nazi salutes are against the Code of Conduct? @deevybee.bsky.social's blogpost from Nov last year is evergreen ⬇️ deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-...