Oxford Earth Sciences is recruiting an Associate Professor (Tutorial Fellow) in Earth Surface Processes (broadly interpreted, including carbon cycle, ancient and modern carbonates, biogeochemistry, geohazards, etc). Please share! Further details: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

The Department of Earth Sciences and St Peter's College are recruiting an Associate Professor (or Professor) in Earth Surface Processes to join our thriving academic community! earth.web.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

Are you a researcher in the field of history of science, technology and medicine? There's still time to submit your paper for the #NotesAndRecords essay award. Submit your research by 28 February 2026: buff.ly/dedMm93 #HistSci #HistSTM #HistMed

My wee book has had its first formal review! A lovely piece in @geoscientistmag.bsky.social. I love how they've picked up on elements of my personality - didn't realise how much this came through. "as if a geology-savvy friend is excitedly sharing something they have just learned."

Delighted to share the origin story of the first #volcano observatory on #Montserrat, established in response to a seismic crisis in the 1930s. The observatory was staffed by Montserratians from 1936 to 1946, including Ian and Cecil Kelsick, and Greta Scotland (1/n) doi.org/10.30909/vol...

Excited to see early copies of ‘The Power of Volcanoes’, written with Tamsin Mather and wonderfully brought to life with illustrations by Daniel Long. Part of the ‘Think Big’ series of science books for children, published by @nosycrow.bsky.social and @cam.ac.uk Publication date - 4 June 2026

Friends, can I ask you to spread the word that we have a THREE-YEAR postdoc in American history at Cambridge up for grabs - ANY field, but applications are due March 1 so don't delay - apply, apply, apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69790/u...

The biggest upheaval in UK science policy since the 1980s is currently underway, with the creation of a much more direct & explicit link between UK government priorities & £9bn/ yr of R&D funded by the agency UKRI My attempt to explain & set in historical context softmachines.org?p=3252

New paper from Adam Morley shows that some vegetation anomalies in multi-spectral satellite data correlate with geophysical data, and can be used to identify buried archaeological structures like tunnels and drains, with examples from Cornwall and Normandy. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Romanticists and Long Eighteenth Centuryists — there’s an Associate Professorship (or Professorship) being advertised, a joint appointment with St Peter’s College. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQK016/a...

🚨Check out our new IODP paper on Kolumbo Volcano in Greece. Despite being one of Europe's most dangerous volcanoes not much is known about its eruptive history. The paper led by @abigaillily.bsky.social adds important insight into the Kolumbo-Santorini system pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/...

Delightful video explainer from @sofiadellasala.bsky.social and @oxfordsparks.bsky.social about a research expedition to the deep sea floor of #Santorini's caldera during the HYDROMOX project led by @isobelyeo.bsky.social and funded by @ukri.org youtu.be/leZ7A1IY6dg?...

I'll be talking about the Hope Botanic Gardens in Jamaica on 27th Jan, using records from the colonial archives at Kew Gardens 🌴 Signup here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/empires-pl...

Munby Fellowship in Bibliography based @theul.bsky.social in Cambridge - closes on 1 February, so still time to apply.

Many congratulations to @seismokoel.bsky.social!

📖 Applications are now open for an exciting geopark-related PhD in storytelling at Loughborough University 🤔 Know anyone who might be interested? 🌐 Read more here: www.charnwoodforest.org/storytelling...

Delighted to have the opportunity to respond to Dr Tim Middleton's important new book on 26 January at Regent's Park, University of Oxford: "Witnessing a Wounded World: A Theology of Ecological Trauma" www.ticketsource.co.uk/witnessing-a...

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