Thinking about applying for a PhD? In this week’s post, Conor Farrell shares practical tips to help you make informed decisions about going for a PhD and strengthen your application. blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gd... #egugeodynamics #PhD

🌍 Earth’s mantle flow has changed over time. Mineral phase shifts can stall plumes and reshape convection. Read more in today’s EGU Geodynamics blog by Ranpeng Li (GEOMAR, Kiel): blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gd... #EGU #egugeodynamics #mantleplume

⚒️ Interested in the latest machine learning advances for understanding rifts? ⚒️ Join our #RiftAndRiftedMarginsSeminar with Tolulope Olugboji, Eric Beaucé, @gimmi-p.bsky.social Monday, Sept 1st, 4 pm CEST Register uni-potsdam.zoom-x.de/meeting/regi... Past talks www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Interested in how we can use geodynamic simulations for resource exploration? ⚒️ I wrote a blog for @ciggeodynamics.bsky.social, on simulating natural H2 gas resource development in nature 😃 The blog: geodynamics.org/highlight-au... The original Science Advances paper: doi.org/10.1126/scia...

Our colleague Patricia Martinez-Garcon is looking for team mates 🌍 Are you passionate about developing techniques for seismic monitoring & fault imaging in one of the world’s most relevant fault zones? Excited about pushing the boundaries of Distributed Acoustic Sensing? 👇 www.gfz.de/en/career/jo...

🌟OPEN ACCESS🌟Supershear Rupture Along the Sagaing Fault Seismic Gap: The 2025 Myanmar Earthquake #TSR ⚒️ Scientists reconstruct what happened during the recent Myanmar earthquake and explore whether a seismic gap has been filled. pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/tsr/arti...

New ideas published in @geosociety.bsky.social Geology that the Northern Appalachian anomaly beneath the Eastern US is a migrating small-scale convection cell originating from past rifting of the Labrador Sea @gernon.bsky.social @sasbrune.bsky.social pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/...

⚒️ What do the ups and downs of rifts tell us about tectonics, volcanism and fluid flow? ⚒️ Join our #RiftAndRiftedMarginsSeminar with Kyle Murray, Birhan Kebede, Bodo Bookhagen  Monday July 7th, 4 pm CET Register uni-potsdam.zoom-x.de/meeting/regi... Past talks www.youtube.com/@riftandrift...

Interested in the Turkana rift in East Africa? If so have a peak at the latest research by Corti et al. in GRL of the @agu.org @sasbrune.bsky.social agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

⚒️ How, where and when do Critical Minerals and Rare Earth Elements accumulate in Rifts? ⚒️ Join our next #RiftAndRiftedMarginsSeminar with Lukas Klose, Anne Glerum, Holly Elliott Monday June 2nd, 4 pm CET Register uni-potsdam.zoom-x.de/meeting/regi... Past talks www.youtube.com/@riftandrift...

Paper on the evolution of Quaternary volcanism in Afar from new rock dating just out in @commsearth.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s43... @sasbrune.bsky.social @sorcerinsar.bsky.social @rehachandresh.bsky.social

The @talents-dn.bsky.social students enjoy the view of Elba from the Bianchane fumerole field @sasbrune.bsky.social @susannebuiter.bsky.social

@talents-dn.bsky.social network at steam venting from geothermal well at Lardarello @susannebuiter.bsky.social @sasbrune.bsky.social @seismatters.bsky.social

The Google map of the Roman world explained to the @talents-dn.bsky.social @sasbrune.bsky.social @susannebuiter.bsky.social @seismatters.bsky.social

Josef Zens @gfz.bsky.social on science communication. A short course for @talents-dn.bsky.social doctoral candidates. @derekkeir.bsky.social @susannebuiter.bsky.social @rehachandresh.bsky.social

@talents-dn.bsky.social students enjoying the sun at second Talents workshop @rehachandresh.bsky.social @susannebuiter.bsky.social @seismatters.bsky.social

Much enjoying the presentations today by the Doctoral Candidates in the @talents-dn.bsky.social network. So much already achieved in just a year! Check the posts by @derekkeir.bsky.social to see all Doctoral Candidates

Registration for GeoMod 2025 is now open. To check all the relevant info and to submit your abstract, go to geomod2025.com The deadline for Abstract Submission is the 31st of May! If you wish to register now, go to eventbase.pt/EventBase/In... See you soon in Lisbon!

@seismatters.bsky.social holding a short course on Equality, Diversity, Inclusion for @talents-dn.bsky.social doctoral candidates @derekkeir.bsky.social @susannebuiter.bsky.social @rehachandresh.bsky.social

Tina Neumann of the @gfz.bsky.social talking about her research on why rifts fail @talents-dn.bsky.social @susannebuiter.bsky.social @seismatters.bsky.social @sasbrune.bsky.social @rehachandresh.bsky.social

Alan Yu of the @gfz.bsky.social explaining his work to the @talents-dn.bsky.social network about European grabens and geothermal energy @susannebuiter.bsky.social @sasbrune.bsky.social @seismatters.bsky.social @rehachandresh.bsky.social

Chloe Castagne explaining the role of inheritance on continental breakup to the @talents-dn.bsky.social workshop participants @susannebuiter.bsky.social @sasbrune.bsky.social @seismatters.bsky.social @rehachandresh.bsky.social

Conor Farrell presenting about rift segmentation at the @talents-dn.bsky.social workshop in Florence @susannebuiter.bsky.social @sasbrune.bsky.social @rehachandresh.bsky.social

Lawrencia Mensah presenting about controls on deep earthquakes in rifts at the @talents-dn.bsky.social @susannebuiter.bsky.social @sasbrune.bsky.social @seismatters.bsky.social

Wael Nazha talking about fluid geochemistry in rifts at the @talents-dn.bsky.social workshop in Florence @susannebuiter.bsky.social @sasbrune.bsky.social @seismatters.bsky.social @rehachandresh.bsky.social

Student presentations underway in the @talents-dn.bsky.social doctoral network workshop @sasbrune.bsky.social @susannebuiter.bsky.social @seismatters.bsky.social @rehachandresh.bsky.social

Looking forward to the start of the @talents-dn.bsky.social workshop tomorrow in Florence hosted by www.dst.unifi.it and www.igg.cnr.it/organizzazio... @rehachandresh.bsky.social @sasbrune.bsky.social @seismatters.bsky.social

10 more days to apply to this great opportunity at Utrecht University: Come join us as a new Assistant Professor in Seismology! Spread the word :) www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

⚒️ How does fluid flow interact with rift dynamics? ⚒️ Join our next #RiftAndRiftedMarginsSeminar with Jolante van Wijk, Mauro Cacace, Kate Waghorn Monday May 5th, 4 pm CET Register: uni-potsdam.zoom-x.de/meeting/regi... Past talks www.youtube.com/@riftandrift...

Interesting talk by Ameha Muluneh, "Time space evolution of rift propagation in Afar, East Africa", highlighting the use of #InSAR to help unpick rotation of plates amd faulting in the Afar region of East Africa youtu.be/nKNuhqZ5eco?... @uk-comet.bsky.social @timwrightleeds.bsky.social

Interested in geothermal systems in rifts? See this new paper by Wuletawu et al. in JVGR using gravity data to understand the Boku geothermal prospect in the Ethiopian rift @afardalloldrilling.bsky.social @talents-dn.bsky.social @sasbrune.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Did Gomphotheria follow northward flow of mantle plume material when first migrating to Eurasia? Find out in Straume et al, with @thwbecker.bsky.social, @alexislicht.bsky.social, myself @gfz.bsky.social & others, in @natrevearthenv.bsky.social. For 1-minute summary: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDeL...

⚒️ How do rifts propagate in East Africa, South China Sea and in Antarctic ice sheets!? ⚒️ Join our next #RiftAndRiftedMarginsSeminar with Ameha Muluneh, Zhen Sun, Brad Lipovsky Monday April 7th, 4 pm CET Register uni-potsdam.zoom-x.de/meeting/regi... Past talks www.youtube.com/@riftandrift...

Preprint Alert 🚨 It was time for a new tomography covering the entire Mediterranean! 3-D Mantle Flow and Structure from Combined P-wave and Splitting Intensity Anisotropic Tomography (Rappisi et al., 2025 - under review) essopenarchive.org/users/603719...

⚒️ Why are there rifts in mountains like the Apennines, the Cordillera & Tibet? ⚒️ Find out in our next #RiftAndRiftedMarginsSeminar with Simone Lenci, William Holt, Michael Taylor Monday March 3rd, 4 pm CET Register uni-potsdam.zoom-x.de/meeting/regi... Past talks www.youtube.com/@riftandrift...

📢 Brand new paper alert! ⚒️ Are you interested in natural hydrogen gas (H2), a potential green energy source? 😃 Check out our new paper in AAAS' Science Advances, in which we show that natural H2 exploration should focus on mountain ranges. Link: doi.org/10.1126/scia...

Hi Seismo-Bluesky! I decided to test a pipeline with SeisBench, PyOcto, NonLinLoc, and HypoDD on the Santorini sequence. The level of activity (>4,500 events) is truly stunning! There are repeated bursts migrating backwards and forwards, spreading outwards from a narrow, almost linear channel.

How about the role of inherited structures during the formation of the South China Sea from Orogeny to Rifting? Find out in this new study where we used a 2-code coupling between #ASPECT, #FASTSCAPE, Article here: doi.org/10.1029/2024... @sasbrune.bsky.social @gfz.bsky.social

⚒️ What can geochemistry teach us about continental rifts? ⚒️ Find out in our next #RiftAndRiftedMarginsSeminar with Tobias Fischer, Eliot Atekwana, Amdemichael Tadesse Monday Feb. 3rd, 4 pm CET Register uni-potsdam.zoom-x.de/meeting/regi... Past talks www.youtube.com/@riftandrift...

If you are interested in the rift valley in Afar then see updates of the future science drilling projects at @afardalloldrilling.bsky.social www.youtube.com/@ADD-ON-f7z

⚒️🧪🌊 How faults form @ the axis of mid-ocean ridges? Do fault parameters link to spreading rate, magma supply, volcanism? @jie-chen.bsky.social analyses high resolution bathymetry from deep-sea surveys, exploring temporal & spatial scales impacting fault growth: authors.elsevier.com/c/1kFYK_,1tQ...

I'm looking for a PhD student to join me at @utas.edu.au! Fully funded ($33,511/yr + research costs) to study tectonic & climatic controls on sediment-hosted Cu-Co in the Central African Copperbelt. Flexible project—geochem/geochron, structure, tectonics. Details: www.utas.edu.au/research/deg...

⚒️ How to advance plate reconstructions of rifted margins? ⚒️ Find out in the first #RiftAndRiftedMarginsSeminar of 2025 with Peter Haas, @gianlufrasca.bsky.social, Eivind Straume Monday Jan. 6th, 4 pm CET Register uni-potsdam.zoom-x.de/meeting/regi... Past talks www.youtube.com/@riftandrift...

Hier ist der Link zur deutschen Version: www.gfz-potsdam.de/presse/meldu...

OTD twenty years ago the 3rd strongest earthquake ever recorded by seismometers struck offshore the island of Sumatra. A tsunami followed killing more than 200,000 people. In the aftermath we helped develop a tsunami warning system for the region. Read more here: www.gfz-potsdam.de/en/press/new...

Congrats to @gernon.bsky.social and his coauthors for their runner-up Breakthrough of the Year @science.org, showing how waves in the mantle, created by continental rifting, sculpt the interiors of continents. #AGU24 Direct link to their entry: www.science.org/content/arti...

🚨 #fullyfunded PhD Opportunity Alert! 🚨 Join us in modelling slab peeling, & slab-plume interactions in #Afar 🌋 with top-notch teams at the University of Glasgow, SUERC & Durham University! ⏰ Deadline: Jan 3, 2025 📖 Details: iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships... ✍️ Apply now: iapetus2.ac.uk/how-to-apply/

📢Are you working on rifting and will you attend #EGU25? ⚒️ We will do a cool session on rift (evolution) and would much welcome your abstract! Invited talks by: Eleonora Rivalta & @sasbrune.bsky.social Details: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio... @eurogeosciences.bsky.social

☝️ Teaching sparks new research ideas! These weeks, I am teaching a block course #NaturalHazards as a guest lecturer at @univie.ac.at. Students bring fresh perspectives, opening fascinating angles to explore—rarely do I see a class with such active discussions. 🙌 fgga.univie.ac.at/news/news-vi...

Come and join us for a PhD in Leeds! Four projects involving me listed here: earthevolutionmodelling.com/join/ Many others with awesome colleagues here: yes-dtn.ac.uk Application deadline 8th Jan