Has anyone ever used a Gallium source FIB to cut trenches + pillars in olivine crystals and if so can I get the details of the energy, the time etc it takes? #geology #thermofisher #zeiss #tescan #desperate 😂

From who has been allowed to conduct science, whom we imbue with the title of expert, what kinds of knowledge we consider valid, why we do science, and how science has been applied (and misapplied) throughout history, it’s a misnomer to assert that science has ever been apolitical.

Excite!!!

Not sure how I feel about "never give up" being our new #Lionesses slogan.....my blood pressure can't take it. Also I'm never going to complain about a running injury ever again 💀 #LucyBronze #UNIT

"the Palestine exception to Academic Freedom" “This sends a dangerous message to scholars globally: that academic publishing contracts are conditional, revocable, and subject to external political calculations.” "we’re watching universities being blown up.” 🇵🇸 This work must be published 🇵🇸

🧪⚒️🌋🇮🇸 ELDGOS ER HAFIÐ It's erupting! Here's a livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXD4...

So many 3D melt inclusions! 😍 loving the new avenues micro-analytical techniques in 3D are providing for interrogating these widely analysed features 🌋 #IAVCEI2025

Got to love a pumice texture compilation slide! The Hunga-Tonga eruption has inspired some great work, so much has been on display already this week. #IAVCEI2025

Loving these "Future of #volcanology" talks at #IACVEI2025 Exploring the art of the sketch and our connection to people of the past through the volcanoes we observe.

And here is Barbara Bonechi showing us her fantastic decompression experiments! #ECR #IAVCEI2025

Some inspiring work already this morning in the #indigenous knowledge and geoheritage co-session! #IAVCEI2025 (and in the only air-conditioned room!)

Bonjour Geneva for #IAVCEI2025 🌋🌋🌋 looking forward to a fantastic week!

We found that AI tools - both general like #ChatGPT and research-specific like #Elicit - lack the reliability, relevancy and accuracy to summarise research for teachers. This is important because we have been sold the idea that AI will make research more accessible.

www.ft.com/content/8778... Kudos to Andrea Sella for taking a stand against @royalsociety.org’s inaction over Elon Musk FRS

Writing is hard because the process of getting something onto the page helps us figure out what we think—about a topic, a problem or an idea. If we turn to AI to do the writing, we’re not going to be doing the thinking either. (Rosenzweig 2023)

FFS

cc: people who are still using "preferred pronouns" also. They are just pronouns, like anyone else's. Sticking "preferred" on communicates additional, confusing information; these aren't suggestions.

I talked about all of the costs in class, ecological and intellectual, and my students were really great and I wish I could teach them again

🚨NEW PAPER ALERT🚨 It is *such a pleasure* to announce the publication of a major portion of my PhD thesis with @volcanojenni.bsky.social, @drgeorgieb.bsky.social @tomchudley.bsky.social, Ricky Herd, and Mel Froude in @geomorphica.bsky.social ! Have a read: journals.psu.edu/geomorphica/...

If you need any sources on AI being shitty, I've been collecting and compiling them: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

🗓️ 28 April 2025 📍The Hague, Netherlands "Starvation is starvation is starvation." 💔🕊️

The British Medical Association Resident Doctors are the backbone of the NHS, they look after us all in hospital. They passed this motion at their conference which pulls the “supreme” court judgement to pieces. They call it “scientifically illiterate” and “biologically nonsensical” 1/3

"...while students, faculty & advocates across the country expressed measured hope..., they noted it was students & faculty who were leading the charge & mounting the pressure that forced university leaders to act." @alicesperi.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Incredible satellite image of the 33 (!!!!) operational fossil fuel combustion engines at the site of Elon Musk's XAI data centre “appalling that xAI would operate more than 30 methane gas turbines without any permits or any public oversight" @selc.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

On the other site, Studio Ghibli-style AI output is going viral and allow me to just say it is profoundly depressing to see that stuff being used to promote OpenAI's latest product. Miyazaki famously called AI-produced art "an insult to life itself"—and this in turn is an insult to him.

Interested how we can use satellite gas measurements to monitor and potentially forecast the evolution of volcanic eruptions? Then check out our new paper on the 2021 eruption of #Tajogaite! 🌋🛰️

Sharing some light... Today we set up our "source to surface" #volcano activity as part of #BritishScienceWeek at the #ManchesterMuseum 🌋🌋🌋 Plus a united effort from our department at #UniversityOfManchester in the form of stamp-able cards representing the breadth of #EarthScience research 🌍🌌🌿🪨🦖

1/3 Disappointing to read today, not surprising, but disappointing nonetheless. I'd like to hear from the fellows at this meeting & whether there was an opportunity to even discuss the Elon in the room? What was the nature of the unity described? #RoyalSociety www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

When you hear "attention all users, stored beam has been lost" for the second time this weekend...it's time to get the embroidery out 🥲 #Science #Crafts #Sunday

But instead they are - intentionally - making their maps wrong, in a way that fits Trump's idea of what he's done, rather than what he actually did. That's the capitulation. That's the problem: they are willing to give us incorrect information - to curry favour.

A lot of misinformation going around about this 'Gazan's using the Ukraine Scheme' court case. This is an unreported case from the Upper Tribunal available here: tribunalsdecisions.service.gov.uk/utiac/ui-202... 🧵

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

As a UK resident pondering how we respond to what's going on in the US I was expressing just this morning that I would hope our government is making a plan to become less dependent on the US, so we can start to *take a stance* against the alarming progress of Trump v2 I am not optimistic...

'A £285 rise to £9,535 will modestly increase the debts of individual students, while doing little to address the overall problem. A new settlement is desperately needed – one that properly restores a sector that delivers a public good to the public realm' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

An open letter to the President of the @royalsociety.org – time to stand up for your values. occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...

Once more with feeling and a dollop of frustration … Taking our work without permission or payment is theft. thttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/14/british-novelists-criticise-government-over-ai-theft#img-1

Great if somewhat disturbing thread here by @rubenmathisen.bsky.social. Can you imagine thinking that gender *equality* has gone to far...? Boys might be forgiven...but actual grown men...? 😧

@vmsg.bsky.social crowd where are some less touristy places to go in #dublin if one were to stay the weekend after #vmsg2025? We will be staying in Smithfields but can uber or bus etc. Food, drinks, thingsss to do/see other than the many museum etc already on the list! 🌋🍺🍝🥔🦐

Thanks #AardmanAnimations for providing me with a nightmarish example to use next time someone asks me why I'm so reticent to use AI for every minor task.... #Norbot #VengeanceMostFowl

When I look back at the death-driven chaos of 2024, this woman’s is the face I want to see. Merci Gisèle Pelicot. #Courage www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

Incredible work!

When you have one of "those" days in academia but the music at your ballet class is "Let it go" from frozen... 🙃💃 The universe knows 👀

The only way to take on the industrial-grade climate disinformation machine is with a swift, coordinated approach. Glad to learn of the launch of this information integrity initiative and see it join the fight to dismantle fossil fuel-funded lies. www.theverge.com/2024/11/19/2...

It should not escape our attention as to how few FRS are women (11%!), but yet it took a woman to set an example. royalsociety.org/-/media/poli...

New blogpost: deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-...

A little thread of introduction! I am a #volcanologist currently at The University of Manchester imaging melt inclusions trapped in olivine in 3D to investigate inclusion-host relationships that help us interpret records of deep mantle compositions & their impact on eruptive processes!

Generally we think of alt-text as the domain of those with accessibility needs. However alt-text is useful for many reasons, which benefit your viewers, as well as you, the creator!

Looking forward to welcoming you here in Manchester!

Welcome! Welcome! To celebrate all the new blue 🌋things I am sharing something old: volcanojenni.wordpress.com/2013/01/31/t.... My old blog - which I haven’t amended in a while and 1/2