Delighted to see my @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social colleagues Gideon Henderson (CBE) and Tamsin Mather (OBE) recognised in the New Years honours list published this evening. Brilliant news for them and for Earth Sciences more generally.

🚨New Publication where we employed visible to shortwave infrared spectroscopy to identify tephra layers from the background marine sediment present in core sections collected in the Aegean Sea. #NSFFunded publications.iodp.org/proceedings/...

Excited to launch Ex-X! A UKRI NERC Large Grant studying dangerous volcanoes in the Eastern Caribbean. Led by Bristol Uni with @UWI-SRC, @MVO, @IPGP & global collaborators. Goal: advance understanding of eruptive processes, conduit dynamics & coupled models to improve hazard forecasting.

I’m excited to share that my latest research article, “Experimental determination of equilibrium sulfur isotope fractionation factors in the gas–silicate melt–sulfide liquid system,” has just been published in GCA! The article is available here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

If you’re attending #EGU26 and are working on caldera volcanism consider submitting an abstract to GMPV7.5! Looking forward to convening this session! 🌋

Early career researchers or PhD students, could £500 develop your career? Our Researcher Development and Travel Grant can help you organise a scientific meeting and more. Apply by 26 January: https://rsc.li/3YjLkiN #ChemSky

Here's a long shot: a big orphan pebble collection from the USGS, yours if you can take and treasure it. See alt text

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

What to do for the last first-year igneous #petrology practical class of term, late on a Friday, when you have been teaching #magma differentiation? 🌋⚒️

Excited to be participating as a keynote in this conference "What Makes a Geoscience Model Useful?" next year at The Geological Society of London ⚒️ #philsci www.geolsoc.org.uk/events/what-...

Nice little break from transcribing letters: found these doodles of Faraday @rigb.org and Herschel in a letter from novelist Maria Edgeworth (1802-1869) in 1844 @bodleian.ox.ac.uk, writing about Faraday’s Xmas lectures on electricity - pretty solid likenesses to be honest!

Thinking about graduate study? Our department offers an inspiring environment for research and learning 🌏 Hear from current DPhil students Sofia and Brandon in this short video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mnh2...

The @scottpolar.bsky.social are looking for a librarian. This is a rare opportunity! Work with (probably) the world's largest dedicated polar library alongside archive and museum colleagues. The dream 😍 📜

🌋 Hello tephra & volcano fans 🌋 We have some announcements, including THREE tephra sessions at the #EGU2026 and TWO special issues! Check out our flyer below with all the details, and pass it on! @egu.eu @ingvterremoti.bsky.social @iavcei.bsky.social @tephraportal.bsky.social 🧪⚒️

On the behalf of the Organizing Committee, I am thrilled to announce that the 2nd Submarine Volcanism Workshop will be held on 19–22 October 2026 in Santorini, Greece, and online 🌊🌋 📣 Interested in participating? Please sign up here: lnkd.in/e4-nfpAK 🔎 More information provided in the flyer below 👇

Job alert: #postdoc in experimental Petrology/ Geochemistry, University of Innsbruck (AT). Apply by 11 January 2026 or position open until filled. More info: buff.ly/2A7JsJN

Following the #HayliGubbi eruption, our paper on the Erta Ale dike of Jun-Jul is finally out. InSAR, optical data and seismicity showed the temporal evolution of the intrusion and the interaction of magmatic sources, including a sill inflation in Hayli Gubbi. @earth-science.bsky.social #geoscience

The Museum of Natural History is seeking contemporary art work for our upcoming exhibition, with a total budget of £7000. Please note that that this must include all costs including artist time, shipping, fees, production, and travel (if necessary).

#HayliGubbi eruption rate estimates using SEVIRI data @simoncarn.bsky.social @davidmpyle.bsky.social

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

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

Even @eumetsat.int Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) 0 acquired great imagery of the explosive eruption at Hayli Gubbi and ash cloud dispersion. This is the Volvanic Ash RGB product for Nov 23rd 2025 14:00. Image via #Eumetview view.eumetsat.int/productviewe...

An explosive #eruption of Hayli Gubbi #volcano, located SE of Erta'Ale in the Afar Rift (Ethiopia), began at ~08:30 UTC on Nov 23. Eruption onset was fortuitously captured by a @planet.com overpass at 08:31 UTC. Hayli Gubbi has no record of Holocene eruptions. Toulouse VAAC reporting ash to ~15 km.

Report of possible explosive eruption at Hayli Gubbi, Ethiopia. This volcano lies south of Erta Ale, and above the location of a dike intrusion that was detected in late July 2025. No historical eruptions are known from this #volcano. @uk-comet.bsky.social

#OTD in 1825, George Poulett Scrope published ‘Considerations on Volcanos .. their connexion with the present State and past History of the Globe, leading to .. a new Theory of the Earth’. Scrope went on to have a long career as an MP, and wrote prolifically on political economy, and volcanoes.

When the department seminar is interrupted by a fire alarm.. Kurt Konhauser concluding in the rain!

#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