#OreCup Finals: It’s copper ore native #Copper vs molybdenum (& rhenium) ore #Molybdenite. Both are shiny, but only one can be the Ore Mineral of the Year Vote:

We're excited to announce that Professor Helen Johnson was interviewed by Michael Rosen as part of the Hot Poets Ignite campaign! Hot Poets is an award-winning arts organisation working to communicate climate change science and action through spoken word poetry. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytOH...

It has been such fun to work with Martha Keswick and the COPE team on their Disaster Champions project! cope-disaster-champions.com/books/ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Coming up on November 9, Midland Arts Centre, #Birmingham - a staged reading of a new dramatisation of a crisis in 1930's colonial #Montserrat. Is a volcano about to erupt? Part of the 2025 @beinghumanfest.bsky.social @ukri.org #AHRC www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/missi...

Coming up on November 9, Midland Arts Centre, #Birmingham - a staged reading of a new dramatisation of a crisis in 1930's colonial #Montserrat. Is a volcano about to erupt? Part of the 2025 @beinghumanfest.bsky.social @ukri.org #AHRC www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/missi...

Wow! Volcanoes Top Trumps - on i-player; season 1, episode 6 of Leonard and Hungry Paul. 'Wow factor 89. Mount St Helens. Fantastic card' winningmoves.co.uk/products/vol...? #volcanoes

2026 Canadian History & Environment Summer School is going to Prince Edward Island!! The theme of CHESS 2026 is Climate & History. Keynotes by @dagomardegroot.bsky.social & Liza Piper. Apply to attend the PREMIER Canadian #EnvHist Event by 30 November 2025. niche-canada.org/2025/10/20/c...

Up for auction next week in Edinburgh - Scottish mathematician James Stirling’s library; including his copy of James Hutton’s Theory of the Earth.. #HistSci www.lyonandturnbull.com/auctions/boo...

Very sad to hear that Peter Friend has died. Peter was a wonderful teacher and a lovely colleague, and first introduced me to the geology of Almeria in the 1990s for an undergraduate field class. Here's Peter, still running the trip 4 years into retirement.⚒️ www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-pete...

🚨New publication🚨 A new Exp398 study led by @abigaillily.bsky.social showed that caldera volcanism is associated with rifting on the South Aegean Volcanic Arc, Santorini and Kos Volcanoes may be coupled by regional lithospheric stresses... #NSFfunded www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

An unexpected discovery of IODP Exp 398! 200 m of ash from the Kos Plateau Tuff eruption buried in the basins around Santorini, read how it got there in our new paper in Science Advances 🌋 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Great new paper from Abigail Metcalfe and the IODP398 team! @ukiodp.bsky.social #Santorini www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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

#MinCup25 Final: After a month of learning and laughter, we’re at the final match to determine the 2025 Mineral Cup Champion! We have blue blades of #kyanite up against optical magician #tugtupite. Vote: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r5... Results: www.mineralcup.org/2025/results...

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

If anyone is interested, the paper from my postdoc I left (coming up to 3 years now?!) got published: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Just FYI I've forgotten everything and so removed from academia now, so please direct any questions to @volcanojenni.bsky.social @davidmpyle.bsky.social

Congrats 🎉 BVDP project (South Africa) finalized! Final depth: 1877.2 m depth on 23rd August 25. Congratulations to the successful team! 👍 Important goals achieved⚡now preparing for sampling and for publishing exciting new insights into the Bushveld Complex! ℹ️ www.icdp-online.org/projects/by-...

Don’t miss the Kathleen Lonsdale Public Lecture! Commemorating 200 years since Faraday isolated benzene, celebrating Lonsdale's contributions in crystallography, activism & science communication. Free to attend, all welcome. Register: buff.ly/IIDjsC2 #Science #London #Chemistry #WomenInSTEM

Colonial-era yellow firebrick, manufactured by Rufford & Co., Stourbridge, and imported to #StLucia where it was used in the bakery near Fort Rodney, Pigeon Island.

Director of the Montserrat Tourism Authority, Rosetta West Gerald highlighting the #Montserrat Mural Tour; featuring four murals created in 2023 during the Curating Crises project curatingcrises.omeka.net/exhibits/sho...

Closing presentations at #SHV30 on the themes of geoheritage, and imagining new opportunities for volcano tourism and geopark development on the island of #Montserrat.

Subtweet incoming.. an administration that designs a form required for ‘entry’ that contains 74 mandatory questions is an administration that has either forgotten its purpose, or that doesn’t actually want engagement.

Soufriere Hills Volcano, Montserrat, with a haze descending across the buried city of Plymouth. #SHV30

Current Montserrat Premier, Reuben T Meade, with his vision for the future. ‘Montserrat Still Home, Still Nice, Still Paradise’. #SHV30

Frank Savage - Governor in 1995 - and Reuben Meade - Chief Minister in 1995 - with reflections on the start of the eruptive crisis in 1995. #SHV30

Turning magma into momentum - #SHV30 kicks off on the island of Montserrat, marking the 30th anniversary of the start of the Soufriere Hills Volcano eruption. @mvoupdates.bsky.social

Oxford North, the city's new £700m innovation district, has launched Engage, its art, culture and legacy programme focusing on STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts & mathematics). It will be delivered by IF Oxford, in collaboration with Modern Art Oxford, Creation Theatre & Fusion Arts.

RIP volcanologist Wes Hildreth, dead in a Nevada car crash south of Mina. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wes_Hil...

On 25 June 1997, pyroclastic flows from a sudden dome collapse at Soufrière Hills devastated several villages. 19 lives were lost, and 5 others severely injured. We remember them today and reflect on the impact of this tragic event in our shared history. #Montserrat #SHV30

“Geology, it turns out, may have foiled one of the most audacious American air operations in recent memory.”

New paper alert🚨 In this new article in @natgeosci.nature.com we use a multidisciplinary approach (geochemistry, geophysics and mathematically modelling) to see pulsing in the mantle plume beneath Afar and how the flow varies along the rift See the 🧵 below: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Nice article on our new little dino, Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae, named today by @tweetisaurus.bsky.social and me, and to be unveiled in a new permanent display @nhm-london.bsky.social tomorrow: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#SHV30 is bringing the world to #Montserrat! Participants from 15+ countries — including Jamaica, Argentina, Italy, UK, USA, New Zealand & more — will gather to reflect, reconnect & look ahead. 🗓️ July 14–18, 2025 🎟️ Register: www.mvo.ms/shv30

SHV30 Field Trip Feature: Montserrat Community Murals Tour! Explore the north through murals that tell stories of culture, memory & resilience. Art meets volcanic history. Be part of SHV30: www.mvo.ms/shv30 #SHV30

Great to see the first outcomes of a digital archives project led by Martin Mahony @ueaenv.bsky.social, with #Montserrat National Trust, @mvoupdates.bsky.social @dlocaribbean.bsky.social @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy Here is 'SeismiCity News', from 1997 to 1998 dloc.com/title-sets/A...

Marking the 30th anniversary of the start of Soufriere Hills volcanic eruption (July 1995), with a reception in the Speaker’s rooms, Westminster

We are looking for a new researcher @UoBEarthSciences ! (36 months funded) if you like 🌋, are good at analysing. 🪨 and enjoy working in large collaborations. Then come and join us! This post is an important part of a new UK NERC funded Large Grant.. www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Lovely afternoon at the @geolsoc.bsky.social celebrating the annual awards. Congratulations to all the award winners and medalists! Here’s a selection of photos of just a few of the awardees..

Congratulations @allypeccia.bsky.social on your great new paper on sedimentary sulphur inputs to subduction-zones! ⚒️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We (Tim Coulson & Syma Khalid) are launching a new science podcast. We will discuss recently published work of world leading scientists in an accessible and non-technical style. Topics will include, AI, search for alien life, latest treatments for diseases, quantum computers, science of football.

Our latest science explainer is out! Syma chats with world renowned volcanologist, David Pyle, about the latest eruption of Mount [email protected] @davidmpyle.bsky.social @streamingspires.bsky.social @timcoulson.bsky.social @stannescollege.bsky.social youtu.be/4h4ri8NXSy8

IAVCEI Awards 2025 – Thorarinsson Medal We are honored to present the Thorarinsson Medal for 2025 to Prof. Dr. Lionel Wilson. As IAVCEI’s highest distinction, this award acknowledges Professor Wilson’s lifelong, transformative contributions to understanding volcanic processes.

IAVCEI Awards 2025 – George Walker Award We are delighted to award the George Walker Award for 2025 to Dr. Claire Harnett @claireharnett.bsky.social . Dr. Harnett is recognized for her innovative research and significant contributions to the understanding of volcanic hazards and processes.

IAVCEI Awards 2025 – Fisher Medal We are proud to announce that the Fisher Medal for 2025 is awarded to Prof. Dr. Paraskevi Nomikou. This honor recognizes her pioneering contributions to marine volcanology, particularly in seafloor mapping and the study of submarine volcanic processes.

IAVCEI Awards 2025 – Wager Medal We are pleased to announce that the Wager Medal for 2025 is awarded to Dr. Teresa Ubide @teresaubide.bsky.social . Dr. Ubide is recognized for her pioneering work in igneous petrology and for advancing our understanding of crystal-scale magmatic processes.

2 June 1835: #MaryAnning tells geologist John Phillips of King's College, London 'I have sent you all the Belemnites I can collect, but have not time to study their distinctive characters...I cannot charge less than one pound for them'. Phillips later cites these in his 1860s belemnite monograph.

I'm *very* excited to be joining the Department of Earth Sciences and St Hugh's College at the University of Oxford as Associate Professor of Climate Science! I will be setting up the Connected Ocean Lab, focusing on ocean-climate drivers of marine connectivity and past & future ecosystem dynamics.

Challenge accepted ... with apologies to @metallica.com 🤘

I'll be speaking on May 30th at 09:00 UK/01:00 Pacific/22:00 Hawaii (previous day) about coral reef futures under climate change! This livestream is a cool idea, other federally-funded climate scientists could also consider signing up if they're comfortable and able to do so. 🌊🪸

👍 Our Outwoods-Discovering Charnia Geosite recently got an upgrade, and now features a life-size replica of this 565 million year old fossil for you to see and touch! 🌐 Discover more on our website: www.charnwoodforest.org/location/out...