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“I say, it is becoming increasingly difficult to justify siphoning off the bulk of our research funding to our chums at Oxbridge, IC and UCL” “Try giving ChatGPT a go” "reward institutions for specialisation by making them a “partner of choice” in specific areas of research’” “Trebles all round!”

P-waves from today’s (14:15:11 UTC 2025/12/08) M7.6 Near east coast of Honshu, Japan earthquake recorded on my @raspishake.bsky.social seismometer in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England. ⚒️🧪

P- and S-waves from yesterday’s (23:23:32 UTC 2025/12/03) M3.4 earthquake 3km depth beneath Silverdale Lancashire, UK recorded on my @raspishake.bsky.social in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England (about 130km southsoutheast of the event) ⚒️🧪

That’s a nice ring ditch you have there, it would be a shame if someone dug a powerline to a mobile phone mast through it. ⚒️🧪

So good to be outdoors supervising a GPR survey today, but why do I always get asked to do this stuff in winter rather than summer? Historic landscape with spectacular views across the region. No wonder our forebears venerated this place.

Enough is enough. That’s your lot, you emerald strigiform nemesis. Adiós para siempre, búho.

I note that the university cut-backs haven’t yet extended as far as leaf-blowers 🍃 🍂

P-waves from today’s (20:29:59 UTC 2025/11/02) M6.3 Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan earthquake recorded on my @raspishake.bsky.social seismometer in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England. ⚒️🧪

P-waves from today’s (19:48:29 UTC 2025/10/27) M6.0 Türkiye earthquakes recorded on my @raspishake.bsky.social seismometer in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England. ⚒️🧪

P-waves from today’s (12:38:40 and 12:54:59 UTC 2025/10/27) M6.5 and M6.0 Leeward Islands earthquakes recorded on my @raspishake.bsky.social seismometer in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England. ⚒️🧪

“When we realised these jewels were only stolen to inflate the share price of a company whose entire value relies on the wholesale theft of other people’s art, we had no choice but grant immunity,” Genius from @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/10/20/l...

The time to protect British science from the trashing that US science is currently succumbing to from an ultra-right-wing government is now.

S-tier trolling by the Norwegians, there. Lol

Luton

The GA 2025 Annual Conference at Keele University is finally over after a weekend full of interesting and varied talks, displays and field trips. Thank you to NSGGA - North Staffs Group of the Geologists' Association and everyone involved in organising and delivering such a packed programme!

🥳 Happy Geodiversity Day! ⭐ As we celebrate with the theme 'One Earth, Many Stories', read this message from the new UNESCO Chair in Geodiversity and Geoconservation: 🌐 www.geodiversityday.org/post/unesco-...

Out doing reconnaissance for this Sunday’s Geologists’ Association @geolassoc.bsky.social annual conference field trip to the Staffordshire Moorlands. Near-vertical calc-turbidities with an inverted olistolith of carbonate mudmound reef. Milldale Fm. Tournaisian. Brown End Quarry, Waterhouses. ⚒️

P-waves from today’s (09:59:16 UTC 2025/09/28) M5.4 Türkiye earthquake recorded on my @raspishake.bsky.social seismometer in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England. ⚒️🧪

P-waves from yesterday’s (22:21:55 UTC 2025/09/24) M6.2 Venezuela earthquake recorded on my @raspishake.bsky.social seismometer in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England ⚒️🧪

Start of my thirty-ninth year at Keele University. First in the Department of Geology, then Department of Earth Sciences, then Earth Sciences and Geography, then School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, now School of Life Sciences. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

P-waves from today’s (18:58:13 UTC 2025/09/18) M7.8 near east coast of Kamchatka earthquake recorded on my @raspishake.bsky.social seismometer in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England. ⚒️🧪

Seems like quite a moment. This morning, the UK was powered entirely by low-carbon energy, it seems. Yes it's windy and sunny. But it's still a milestone.

P-waves from today’s (02:37:54UTC 2025/09/13) M7.4 near east coast of Kamchatka earthquake recorded on my @raspishake.bsky.social seismometer in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England. ⚒️🧪

P- and S-waves from today’s (08:49:14 UTC 2025/09/07) M2.6 earthquake 27km depth beneath Pontefract, North Yorkshire, UK recorded on my @raspishake.bsky.social in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England (about 100km southwest of the event) ⚒️🧪

Team Stibnite. Antinomy sulphide. The old Greek name for the mineral “stibi” gave rise to the Latin “Stibium”, the former name of the element antimony (Sb). Sample from Baia Sprie, Romania. Cotton Collection, Keele University.

Team chrysotile here. Back in the days of yore before health and safety had been invented, our A-level group used to learn mineral/rock id. at lunchtimes by selecting a random sample from a drawer, tossing it to someone who id’d it and threw it back. I recall chrysotile being one of those samples 😱

BGS has launched the UK Geothermal Platform, which provides national- to local-scale information on geothermal potential. Geothermal technologies have the potential to decarbonise heating and cooling, supporting the energy transition to net zero in the UK. www.bgs.ac.uk/news/new-pla...

P-waves from today’s (16:53:47UTC 2025/08/10) M6.1 western Türkiye earthquake recorded on my @raspishake.bsky.social seismometer in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England. ⚒️🧪

The Times @thetimes.com should have got a geologist to review this diagram before publishing. I think I’m going to get my first year students to discuss all the things wrong with it. From www.thetimes.com/article/9b50...

P-waves from yesterday’s (23:24:50 UTC 2025/07/29) M8.8 Off East Coast Kamchatka earthquake recorded on my Raspberry Shake seismometer in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England plus M6.9 (00:09:53 2025/07/30) and M6.3 (00:16:03) aftershocks ⚒️🧪

P-waves pretty much through the centre of the Earth from today’s (22:10:32UTC 2025/07/28) M6.9 Macquarie Islands region earthquake recorded on my @raspishake.bsky.social seismometer in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England. ⚒️🧪

P-wave from today’s (01:29:02UTC 2025/07/25) M5.2 Azores earthquake recorded on my @raspishake.bsky.social seismometer in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England. ⚒️🧪

P-wave from today’s (06:49:01UTC 2025/07/20) M7.4 Kamchatka earthquake recorded on my @raspishake.bsky.social seismometer in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England. The strong 25Hz line on the spectrogram is the washing machine. ⚒️🧪

P-wave from today’s (20:37:39UTC 2025/07/16) M7.3 Alaskan earthquake recorded on my @raspishake.bsky.social seismometer in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England. ⚒️🧪

Epic victory, England. 🏏

Come to the GA Annual Conference at Keele 3-5th October. Keynote talk on Staffordshire Geology with a slant on geothermal potential and field trips around Keele Campus and to some unusual Staffordshire outcrops by some chancer 😉 ⚒️🧪

I can’t understand the UK Government’s decision to withdraw from the European Plate Observing System (EPOS), a significant blow to UK geoscience. After the trauma of Brexit, I had hoped that rejoining Horizon had signalled re-engagement with European research, but this appears to be a false dawn.

P-wave from today’s (13:08:05UTC 2025/06/08) M6.3 Colombia earthquake recorded on my @raspishake.bsky.social seismometer in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England. ⚒️🧪

P-wave from today’s (03:19:35UTC 2025/05/22) M6.2 Crete earthquake recorded on my @raspishake.bsky.social seismometer in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England. ⚒️🧪

P-wave from today’s (04:15:38UTC 2025/05/14) M6.4 Tonga Islands earthquake recorded on my @raspishake.bsky.social seismometer in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England. ⚒️🧪

Depressing morning. Obvious that the government doesn’t care what happens to universities (major employers and ‘exporters’), even looking at increasing tax on their main income stream. Our vice-chancellor announces 100 extra staff job losses. For a university our size, absolutely devastating.

For more context on today’s M6.2 #earthquake in the Sea of Marmara, a figure from Bohnhoff et al. (2013) shows the major North Anatolian Fault Zone segments with potential future rupture scenarios and their associated magnitudes. Today’s quake is located near the center of the Marmara segment. ⚒️🧪

P-wave from today’s (09:49:10UTC 2025/04/23) M6.2 Türkiye earthquake recorded on my @raspishake.bsky.social seismometer in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England. ⚒️🧪

OTD UK Earthquakes: April 22 1884 09:18 M4.6 Colchester. A lot of damage (up to EMS8) for a relatively low magnitude ‘quake, probably due to shallow (for UK - 3km) depth. Most of Wivenhoe and Abberton flattened. Many local churches damaged. Felt across England, Belgium, N. France ⚒️🧪

The Isle of Arran has officially been announced as a UNESCO Global Geopark! 🎉 UNESCO’s Global Geoparks are areas with internationally important landscapes & bring together other aspects of heritage such as archaeology, history, culture and biodiversity. www.bgs.ac.uk/news/isle-of...

Day 6 of the Keele Geology field course to Pembrokeshire. The Silurian rocks of the magnificent Marloes Sands.

Day five of the Keele Geology Pembrokeshire field course. Coal Measure strata at Broadhaven. Sedimentary logging and structural sections. ⚒️

Day four of the Keele Geology Pembrokeshire field course. The folded and thrust Lower Carboniferous Limestone at West Angle Bay. ⚒️

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