New paper klaxon: what risk do volcanoes pose to the maritime industry? A review we've put together to frame the scale of the issues and and highlight some steps forward. @smitchellscience.bsky.social @bristolvolcanology.bsky.social www.jvolcanica.org/ojs/index.ph...

Introduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you've seen live! 1. The Levellers 2. Skunk Anansie 3. Heilung 4. Lamb 5. Public Service Broadcasting 6. Ozric tentacles 7. Therapy? 8. Foo Fighters 9. Smashing Pumpkins 10. Green Day

You have finished work now human.

Well, well, well. Who could possibly have seen this coming...

After what has been a 5 year process of rural fibre contracts closing, reopening, closing again and then restarting a lovely gentleman named Sam is putting a FTTP connection in today. Online lecturing during Covid on a 0.4Mbps exchange line was torture. (1/2)

Driving into Bristol today I saw signs for the "Funderworld" theme park. I immediately had this image of a load of low-rent coconut-shy type stalls, with NERC and EPSRC labels, where underpayed overworked staff unenthusiastically attend to queues of people...

Just rescued this little one out of a bucket of water

🌋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...

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... "Results show that corporate bullshit receptivity is ... negatively associated with measures of analytic thinking. Importantly, corporate bullshit receptivity is ... a robust negative predictor of work-related decision-making."

New Masters by Research project available with myself and @jessicairving.bsky.social trying to pick apart what MERMAID hydroacoustic sensors can tell us about submarine volcanoes www.bristol.ac.uk/earthscience...

Arrived to work in something approaching twilight/daylight for the first time in 3 or 4 months. Also, the starling that lives near us each summer is back, recogniseable because it has a song surprisingly similar to the tune for "I'm a Barbie Girl". It wears thin by about April.

While on the topic of sexism and the Nobels, let us recall how the rightwing British newspapers reported Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin's 1964 prize. Daily Telegraph: "£18,750 Award to Mother of Three" Daily Mail: Hold my beer - "Oxford Housewife Wins Nobel."

40 years since 6 year-old me watched the Challenger disaster live on TV in a classroom in a small UK Fenland town. It is a core memory that subtly but foundationally shifted my perception of how how the wider world works. Watching something so anticipated go so badly wrong so quickly.

A few months ago I was curious to know how much Anna's Archive was charging AI developers for access to their massive library of pirated works for training - so I emailed them saying I was interested in buying access. Here is their reply. 🧵 1/n

Been rewatching the Expanse. It really is a fabulous attempt at capturing the book series. By far the best hard sci-fi that has made it to screen.

This is literally one of the funniest threads I have ever seen. Brilliant.

Cosupervising x2 🇬🇧 PhD projects advertising now: 'The effects of climate cooling on evolution of Antarctic Eocene benthic communities' (BAS/Bristol) shorturl.at/MiWqJ 'Testing novel archives of seawater chemistry in biogenic carbonate' (Leeds): share.google/dbojTRZme92R... Deadlines early Jan '26

Some pyritised ammonites from Charmouth last weekend

One of the fluoro strips in my office has been going for the last month. Estates came in and replaced it today but they only have LED versions now. My office has gone from flickering Stasi-like interrogation room to making me wonder if I'm Mike TV

Come do an exciting new PhD project with fieldwork in the Caribbean and S Pacific working on understanding what happens when powerful lahars enter the ocean - with me, @isobelyeo.bsky.social at @noc.ac.uk www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Office hours just now: Student: "will this notebook be OK? I'm concerned that ring bindings might not be hardy enough" Me: "This ringbound notebook is fine. I've been using it since..." *checks first page* ".... 2006" Student: That was the year I was born.

This paper by Meredith et al. (2025) examines global city exposure to volcanic hazards, using metrics such as population and distance to GVP Holocene volcanoes to quantify and rank cities at risk. This data has also been visualised through a web app. nhess.copernicus.org/articles/25/...

Looking for recommendations! I went an online storage for our research group and their data. So we can archive video data, image data etc., from a long line of projects. Files downloadable, but secure/backed up. Where people can deposit easily for our own purposes (made open by other means).

We tried compiling a global database of deposit descriptions of pyroclastic density current deposits. The aim was to help us do big data analysis, look for common trends, and to support modelling. We got some interesting results but also, found some really significant issues and gaps #IAVCEI2025

My challenge for this weekend is to work out the delay on the BBC Glastonbury coverage based on what I can hear in the back garden and the speed of sound.

If cats are liquid this must be some kind of pitch-drop experiment

Diane Morgan's episodee of Who Do You think You are is a wonderful genre crossover / 4th wall experience.

Delighted that this paper has hit p[ublication. Nemi did a truly amazing job on all of this, and together with 3 other papers (1 published 2023, the others winging their way to print soon) has really moved forward our understanding of moisture in pyroclastic sediments.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Great to see this research covered by the BBC - looking forward to seeing what we discover from all the data that were collected last month! Nice work by @isobelyeo.bsky.social on radio and TV interviews!

Gneiss geology up here.

Hollibobs!

Whale (?) breaching in the Clyde this afternoon. Think it might be a Minke? Blew a water spout first then breached about a dozen times around the same place.

This is just plain dangerous. Thoughts are with friends and colleagues impacted by this. I guess there's no reasoning with uninformed zealots.

8.30 pm. This is a trap. Any attempt to stroke floof will result in teeth and 4 sets claws being embedded in your hand. This is not to be confused with 7 am floof which must be stroked immediately to avoid loud meowing.

🧪 Frustrated by the actions (or inactions) of some of our professional and learned societies during this ongoing attack on #science and scholarship more generally? If so, this letter to the @royalsociety.org from my mate, @scurry.bsky.social, is worth a read and I hope, signing ✍🏻

Me: Wifi in my office is incredibly slow and keeps dropping out" IT: Please install this 140MB diagnostic software Me: Download attempt 3 and counting before it times out.

Months of knocking shit off the mantle piece finally clears enough ground to just lie there and absorb heat from the fire

Start of teaching, school and faculty exam boards, NERC deadlines and PhD application shortlisting all landing in the same 7 day window.

Had a walk out at Stockholm woods near Priddy. Plenty of ice and snow still on the ground and some particularly pretty light through the trees

Actually snowed in. Couple of inches of snow with more falling and there doesn't appear to have been a gritter or plough even on the main roads.

Went to see the starlings at Ham Wall this evening. Always impressive (as long as you luck out and go to the right place...)

December 30th 2024. Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle. Marcus Aurelius

Hoomans, stop going out. Demand strokes now.

Flipping between the first two frames you get a real sense for the speed of that first surge of material coming down the flanks. Remarkable set of images.

So many congratulations to the brand new DOCTOR @nemiwalding.bsky.social! Nemi passed her viva today on what happens when you add in moisture to pyroclastic density currents and their deposits. Amazing work 🤩 So proud of this one ❤️

Deadline for GW4+ PhDs with us at @bristolvolcanology.bsky.social is less than a month away. If you're interested in applying please reach out to the project supervisors ASAP. www.bristol.ac.uk/earthscience...

Piles the Christmas penguin is out for his 20th birthday. Stanley is apparently delighted.

18 years in Academia and my mum was astonished yet again yesterday that we don't get school holidays.

Folks, if you're applying for PhDs, MSc(R)'s etc make sure you reach out to the project supervisors before sending your applications in. We can help you formulate them to make the strongest application you can, which is to our benefit too! Don't just fire in an application without speaking to anyone