Hello Shap granite. 🪨 Lake District field trip with our 2nd year students @ueaenv.bsky.social

Looking forward to the visit and to sharing my passion for rock microstructure. 🪨 🔬

Raising the next generation of geologists? This book is for you 😉🪨

The International Fellowships 2026 scheme, run with the @royalsociety.org, supports international early career researchers to undertake a two-year research career with UK partner organisations. Find out more and apply ahead of 11 March deadline: https://bit.ly/3LaMIBC

We are advertising for a Lecturer in Physical Oceanography, closing date 31 March. If you have research interests in the shelf seas, estuarine and coastal oceans then this could be for you! And you could do research using UEA's fleet of ocean gliders vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/20...

‪After a great success from the last year, joins us again in Vienna in April 2026! Our session: "To see a world in a grain of rock: Decoding metamorphic, magmatic, and ore mineralisation processes using rock textures and microstructures" at #EGU26 ⚒️ 🪨 www.egu26.eu/session/56201

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

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

Another PhD project to advertise! target.le.ac.uk/wp-content/u... Supervisory team: William McCarthy (St Andrews), Sandra Piazolo-Trimby (Leeds), Craig Magee (Leeds), myself (UEA) and Viking Cruises! Amazing CASE-funded TARGET Mineral Resources CDT project.

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.

The application window for GeoSPACE 2026 is now open! Join us online or in-person in Arizona for a two-week planetary geology field camp through @ufgeology.bsky.social. Open to geo-gators as well as visitors from other schools. If you are looking for an accessible field camp, check us out! ⚒️

Are you a #ScienceArtist? We're looking for you to join us at #EGU26! Applications are now open for EGU’s #Artist in #Residence programme! 📅 Apply by 27 October 2025. 👉 Learn more about the application details & requirements: egu.eu/63Y1BV 📝 Submit your application here: egu.eu/813683

New paper alert! Oliveira et al. just published in AGC: "A petrological, geochemical, and geochronological study of Ramlat Fasad 532: An Omani addition to the Antarctic `YAMM' lunar meteorite group" Here you can read the full free article: doi.org/10.33063/agc...

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

For a girl who likes “un-erupted” volcanoes more, I am looking forward to my new read!

Welcome to welcome week and the UEA! We're so excited for the year ahead in Environmental Sciences 💚🌳♻️

We are advertising for a 3-year "Senior Research Associate in Volcanic Petrology and Stratigraphy". Part of a Leverhulme-funded interdisciplinary research grant "Volcanic Histories", focused on research in the Eastern Caribbean. Closing: October 15th www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

finally found the right boxes where thin sections fit perfectly! a bit ££ but worth every penny 💙

In her State of the Union, Ursula von der Leyen chose silence on the alarming situation in Serbia. A silence that looks less like prudence and more like embarrassment—because her party family, the EPP, still counts Vučić’s SNS among its members. Is it complicity, indifference, or fear of discomfort?

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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

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

Beautiful olivines and dendritic pyroxenes from the Belingwe komatiites. Pyroxenes nucleating on olivine crystals 🧪⚒️ 🤩

A break from making - looking at the #ThinSectionThursday posts. Here is one of my favourites - a lovely 1.8G old Kunene anorthosite, Angola. 🧪⚒️.

Amidst all terrible news, I am sad that here it is not better. Today the VU Amsterdam announced they'll cut Earth Sciences, and fire 39 staff. 130 students are left to figure out how to finish, and an unknown number of PhDs lose their supervisors. My heart goes out to my colleagues 😳😥

VU University Amsterdam is going to be closing their Earth Sciences bachelor's program and some of the relevant research (some will go to Utrecht University or other departments) as the university shifts more towards "climate and earth". ⚒️ nltimes.nl/2025/04/04/h...

A very sad day for the Dutch Earth Science community… They've closed the entire Earth Sciences Department at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social. In this day and age, I can't understand how this fits into any Net-Zero strategy. I'll never forget my time at VU as a Master's student.

Students from #Serbia (yes, those protesting for months now) just announced that they are going to cycle from Novi Sad to—Strasbourg. Why? To personally deliver news to European institutions of certain important developments in Serbia, since they have been sort of ignoring them. Here's the route 👇

For more insight into the tectonic background of today’s M7.7 #earthquake in Myanmar I’d recommend this blog post and the original article on extrusion tectonics. There is also a video hiding somewhere on YouTube that illustrates this experiment perfectly. 🧪⚒️ blogs.egu.eu/divisions/ts...

Long-term impact and biological recovery in a deep-sea mining track Spoiler....first signs of biological recovery in seabed mining tracks, 44 years after deep-sea trials in the Pacific Ocean www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Exciting news! 🎉 Girls into Geoscience, an award-winning STEM outreach initiative, is back with 2 days of workshops, talks, and a field trip for A-level students interested in geoscience! 🌍🔬 🔗 Free tickets, limited spaces! Sign up via the link in bio or visit our website! #GiG25

Dear academic colleagues around the world: Please consider signing this petition in support of students and academics in #Serbia, who have been made targets of violent incidents during peaceful protests last week.

‘We have failed to prevent genocide’ – Francesca Albanese – Channel 4 News www.channel4.com/news/we-have...

Join the EGU webinar: Careers inside and outside of academia. Panel discussion, scheduled for Tuesday, 11 March 2025 at 16 CET. More information and how to register here: buff.ly/kxJib9j posted on behalf of the GMPV division of @egu.eu

Tensions mount in Serbia as protesters converge on Belgrade

Hi folks - anyone got any good sources or know where we could source or buy samples of zeolites for experimental fluid rock tests?

A short introduction to the Miocene paleogeography of #Almeria and the #Alboran sea by Hannah Fry ‘Geology is cool man..’ youtube.com/shorts/jt9Wv...

🌍 We need more young people (and adults, quite frankly) to learn about climate change, so I was very happy to sign this open letter to the Secretary of State for Education in the UK. ✍🏿 If you feel the same, please read and sign the letter, as well as reading more about this issue here 🔽

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩‍🔬

There's still time to register for #EBSD2025, taking place in #Glasgow (1 - 2 April). Great event for the multidisciplinary EBSD community, sharing the newest developments and applications! Book now: rms.org.uk/rms-event-ca... @rmsearlycareer.bsky.social

💥New: What student vloggers teach us about university rankings ✍️ @jelena3121.bsky.social @askebos.bsky.social & @mortenhansen.bsky.social #AcademicSky #UniversityRankings #HigherEducation

Want to contribute to our initiative? Print out this poster and display it in your departments/schools/faculties🔓 Help us promote the new Diamond Open Access journal, which aims to showcase research in geochemistry and cosmochemistry!

Major anti-corruption protests in Serbia add to pressure on President Vučić

DEI at its’ finest ❤️ #DEI #girlpower youtu.be/8KBbxbx9N6o?...

This is SUCH bullshit - so so frustrating that even factual phrases like "Science is still a male-dominated field" now have to be scrubbed from anything federally funded... 🔭

Here’s a neat summary of evidence why diversity in the workplace is so important. TL:DR better ideas, better productivity, better retention, also just better. www.forbes.com/sites/roncar...

Mass protests in the streets of #Belgrade today as a general strike is taking place all over #Serbia 🇷🇸. For weeks now the country has been gripped by anti #Vucic protests, following the deathly canopy collapse in Novi Sad which killed 15 people.

Abstract deadline (Friday 24 Jan) is *today* for #EBSD2025 - but we will still accept submissions over the weekend! 😃🔬 Don't miss the chance to share your work at this great event! www.rms.org.uk/rms-event-ca... @rmsearlycareer.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social

Okay, how do you make friends here? Illustrators, scientists, nature-obsessed folk – come connect! I create art inspired by the Earth and my favourites are rocks! Here’s a selection of some projects from the past year 🪨