On this day in 1902, Montagne Pelée (Martinique) unleashed pyroclastic flows that killed over 28,000 people. That tragedy gripped me as a child and led me to volcanology. After more than a decade studying PDCs, I’ve received on this day my permanent faculty post at Edinburgh to continue the journey.

1/2 Amazing video shows a huge eruption column shooting up rapidly, followed by fast-moving pyroclastic flows spreading outward in all directions after a powerful eruption at Mount Sinabung in 2018.

Terrifying 😱 (watch until the end) Myanmar: CCTV footage from Mandalay’s Mahamuni Pagoda shows the giant Buddha shaking during the powerful M7.7 earthquake on March 28. Moments later, part of the shrine collapses as people scramble to escape.

Kanlaon Volcano erupted at 5:51 AM on 8 April 2025, sending a 4,000-meter-high ash plume southwest and triggering pyroclastic flows on its southern slopes. Alert Level 3 remains in effect 1/2 📹 phivolcs_dost

Did you hear BGS' Dr Holly Elliot on BBC Radio 4's Inside Science earlier? Holly was discussing critical minerals, their importance and the 'Goldilocks effect'. Listen in again here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

New exciting study explains how human brain turned into glass after being exposed to high temperature conditions within the 79 AD pyroclastic density currents at #Vesuvius 🌋🧪⚒️ www.nature.com/articles/d41...

From reddit: a letter from a postdoc who survived the Bolsonaro years. This is helpful framing for how to science in this administration. 🧪 www.reddit.com/r/labrats/s/...

📢 #PublicationAlert Happy to share that my paper "Traditions and territories of Maya women in the Peninsula of Yucatan" has just been published in Gender, Place & Culture! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Join us tonight in #Edinburgh for the last event in our #volcano film series in collaboration with @cinemaattic.bsky.social - this evening will feature 5 short films, with Colombian food by Sabor Al Toque. See you there! cinemaattic.com/event/volcan...

Tonight at 4pm we have a special VMSG 60th Anniversary seminar at the Uni of Edinburgh, featuring talks from Amelia Bain (UoE) & Symeon Makris (BGS) reflecting on recent research in volcanic hazard & risk in Guatemala. Zoom: ed-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Just found out that Lavigne et al. published this for Merapi in 2015. Really love the visualisation of different risk and vulnerability data! And I need to dig in on the PDC impacts 🫰🏻 hal.science/hal-04280554/

🌋NERC competition-funded #PhD opportunity 🌋 Interested in understanding pre-eruptive processes and timescales at Merapi volcano, Indonesia? Based at Swansea, with co-supervision from @rgertisser.bsky.social (Keele) and Chiara Petrone (NHM) Full details: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

@smakris.bsky.social and I will present tomorrow as part of the @vmsg.bsky.social 60th Anniversary series. I'll give an overview of the @gcrf-ixchel.bsky.social project and some work at Fuego #volcano, and Symeon will discuss perched tephra piles and granular flows. ed-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...