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...

31 December 1795: birth of the remarkable Anna Gurney, Old English scholar, philologist, educator, abolitionist, philanthropist, with interests in botany, archaeology and geology. A contemporary of Mary Anning, she collected fossils from the Pleistocene Cromer Forest Bed on the north Norfolk coast.

Festive fountaining! New eruption from Kilauea. www.youtube.com/live/tk0tfYD... link to two other live cameras in feed description.

I’ve reached that slightly rage-y stage of my term. The I-just-spotted-a-typo people. I see you.

Regarding news articles today on a new paper linking the Black Death to post-volcanic cooling in the Mediterranean, our reconstruction shows it was cooler during that time (e.g. 1346 CE, following a 1345 tropical eruption) but not severely so (summer temperature anomalies vs. 1338-1340 CE baseline)

Final Registration for the VMSG Annual Meeting 2026 is fast approaching. Abstract deadline has been extended until Friday 8 Dec. We aim to inform registrants of their presentation type (talk/poster) & time slot by 12 Dec. We look forward to welcoming you all to Southampton!

The second is a 40 month Postdoctoral Research Associate in numerical modelling of volcanic conduit flow, University of Manchester. Closing date – 9 January 2026 Both positions would suit researchers from applied mathematics, physics or fluids/engineering backgrounds #HEJobs

Two PDRA openings in modelling of volcanic flows and fluids, as part of @volcanojenni.bsky.social new NERC Large Grant 'Ex-X Expecting the Unexpected'. The first: 24 month, Senior Research Associate post in Volcanic Plume Modelling, University of Bristol. Closing date – 11 Dec #HEJobs

Looking for a geological present for the Earth lovers around you? You should! My favs this year: 🌋"Volcanoes; 10 things you should know", by Dr Rebecca Williams @volcanologist.bsky.social. 🪨 "The whispers of rock", by @anjanakhatwa.bsky.social Dr Anjana Khatwa. #science #geology #booksky ⚒️🧪📖

“The math is brutal and the juxtaposition stark: millions for OpenAI while pink slips go out to longtime lecturers. The CSU isn’t investing in education—it’s outsourcing it, paying premium prices for a chatbot many students were already using for free.“ www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

You still never know when a random act of internet kindness lights up your rainy day! 😊

Super cool--the role of (even very small) earthquakes in subsurface microbiology!

⚒️🍎🧪🌋 Check out the brand new EPIC TRAILER for Every Rock Has A Story in Hawaii. My son made this trailer all by himself... I hope you enjoy it. Please share with parents, teachers, kids and encourage them to take a peek when these new episodes post starting in December! youtu.be/hcLWkOQsCcU

Oh this is such a glorious watch. Thanks for recommending @cash4questions.bsky.social and oh oh oh @volcanojenni.bsky.social @davidpyle.bsky.social your game appears in episode six. I clapped with glee when I realised it was indeed Volcano Top Trumps 🥰 Go watch.

🔴 ⚠️ 🌋 🛰️ Following the historical eruption of #HayliGubbi in #Ethiopia on Nov.23, changes are evident in the volcano with two new small craters, as seen in this before/after comparison of #Sentinel2 images,with also a large amount of ash covering the old lava field. #copernicus

Kīlauea is erupting! 🌋 Here’s a link to one of the three @USGS live cams - enjoy! www.youtube.com/live/tk0tfYD...

The Hayli Gubbi tephra has been sampled. These are photos from my sampling expedition on 24 Nov with the University of Semera from around 10 km north of Hayli Gubbi @sorcerinsar.bsky.social @alarosa.bsky.social

🔴⚠️🌋🇪🇹After more than 10000 years,the 1st historical #eruption of #HayliGubbi #volcano has occurred in E. #Ethiopia, producing an eruptive column that reached more than 18km of height on Nov.23.⬇️Meteosat12 animation of RGB Ash product of the huge gas & ash plume moving eastward.

Fascinating and timely work on the intrusion that preceded the #HayliGubbi eruption - this will turn out to be a very valuable example for volcanologists!

Here's the GVP page of Hayli Gubbi in Ethiopia: volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?.... Plume from the eruption can be seen in this Aqua/MODIS image cross the Red Sea to the Arabian Peninsula. #eruption #volcano

A very interesting seismology and philosophy of science paper on natural hazard, with seismology side done by @rlacassin.bsky.social

Oh this is a good one! Thanks @flipuk.bsky.social ! 🌋🪨🦖💦

Very good work from Scottish Ballet here (from their Facebook account)

Understanding of Earth Sciences is fundamental to society's sustainability and development. Please support the department at the University of Leicester which is under threat. ⚒️🧪 c.org/jzkHKh9byy

I was in the front room of ‘the British ghetto’ in Berkeley with football-loving pals from around the world having a breakfast watch! #scenes ! It was covered best on Mexican tv with the magnificent gooooooooo… ooooaaall needed for that equaliser!

ScienceWrite is a mentoring scheme for aspiring and early-career minoritised and marginalised UK-based STEM writers, supported by @royalsociety.org and co-founded by @hanaayoob.co.uk @romatheengineer.bsky.social. There's just a week to go until this year's deadline >>

Fellow seismologists, we're going to get a lot of mileage out of the latest @xkcd.com

Science is facing *a lot* of obstacles these days. The final episode of BBC's Science in Action looks at where things are heading, with @michaelemann.bsky.social @naomioreskes.bsky.social & @angierasmussen.bsky.social @drdebhoury.bsky.social : www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w... #science #antiscience

Used to take kids on trips their when during summer camps at home! Fond mineral memories!

Last few tickets remaining for London (Nov 15th) www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/missi... And also Birmingham (9th Nov) www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/missi... Missives: A crisis unravelling in letter 1 hour staged-reading re-imagines and responds to archive records (dramatised by )

A fascinating new piece for @sciam.bsky.social by @squigglyvolcano.bsky.social about Hurricane Melissa being picked up by seismographs. Because the seismic record began long before the satellite era, we may be able to use older seismograms to learn more about past storms. 🧪

All of this. @timharford.ft.com spot on. And he doesn't even mention the tracking and funnelling of our data to #BigTech Our devices work for Big Tech, not us - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT

***ALL-TIME RECORD*** #Melissa is now the Strongest landfall ever on record in the Atlantic (and it seems to be getting stronger!) 892mb, winds 185 mph. (Tied with the FL Keys Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 in wind and pressure) #jamaica 1/

I would like to advertise a PhD project on Magma emplacement and its evolution: aries-dtp.ac.uk/studentships... for those who have an interest in petrology, rock microstructure, and fieldwork. Supervising team: Dr William McCarty, Prof Marian Holness, Dr Eduardo Mansur, Dr Gareth Fabbro and me.

Really disappointed to hear about the Loss of Science in Action from the World Service. As Judith says ‘the world needs more accessible conversations about science, not less.

Calling students from 14 - 19! BGS & @bas.ac.uk are offering a 2 week virtual work experience event from 27 to 31 October. We hope this will introduce students to the wonders of Earth sciences & the fascinating & varied careers available. Apply: sites.google.com/view/ctcport...

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

🪐 On this Day of Action to Save #NASA Science, we’re highlighting how space and Earth sciences go hand-in-hand. Scripps Oceanography researchers partner with NASA to study how our planet is changing from sea to space. Here’s an out-of-this-world roundup of some recent projects. 🧵⬇️

Just registered up for @vmsg.bsky.social ‘s Annual meeting at NOC in Southampton 🌋🌋🌋 January 5th-7th 2026 . Check it out! Anyone else coming ? noc-events.co.uk/VMSG-volcani...

Once upon a time, the platform formerly known as Twitter was a vibrant meeting-place where scientists, the public, official orgs and more besides could exchange knowledge. I set out to find out how effective it could be for disseminating geoscience info Skip to the paper ☛ doi.org/10.1038/s432...

Great to see @mikeaclare.bsky.social @noc.ac.uk quoted in this piece in the Guardian today www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se... about the Hunga Volcano eruption and the subsequent telecommunications outage in 2022.

www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/missi... Volcanic crises! Archives! The ‘real story’ between the lines. We’re performing a ‘staged reading’ and exploring two crises on #montserrat - with two wonderful playwrights as part of #beinghumanfestival. Come see us in London and also 1/2

www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/missi... Often, disaster is rooted in the misfiring communication and stalled decision-making when volcanoes 🌋 threaten to erupt. Our staged reading cracks open the closed pages of the archives to find those roots. We are in Birmingham (9th November) and… 1/2

As I was saying…

I strongly second this! 👏🏾 When talking about science communication, I also always stress that *all* forms and forums of communication matter 🔄 Whether it’s a big, factually correct but details-lite TV show or movie…or just chatting to granny or your mates in a pub 🗣️

🎉 Big River Watch starts today! After a summer of challenging weather, it's time to check in on our rivers. 📱Download the Big River Watch app ⏱️Spend just 15 minutes by the river 👀Share what you see in a survey You've got until 25th of September to take part💙 theriverstrust.org/big-river-watch

🎧 Fascinating @throughtimepod.bsky.social on guns in America - history, myth, politics and money. Insightful stuff - as usual - from @sarahchurchwell.bsky.social and @davidolusoga.bsky.social) podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...